1) PC Pro readers probably don't represent the general population.
2) There's always a difference between what people say they want, and what they actually end up buying when given the choice. They may actually want matte screens, but purchase based on different criteria such as "oh, shiney!" once they're actually on the spot.
3) I'm pretty sure device manufacturers are doing more robust consumer research than PC Pro.
Except Einstein isn't usually correct. E.g., he didn't believe Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and his first four proofs of E=mc^2 were flawed. It's just that his successes outshine his mistakes, so the latter are forgotten, as so far, usual.
Uh, no, Doctor Disorthogonality, you broke it. When I cat a PNG I want to see the bytes
Uh, no, when you cat a PNG you're seeing an ASCII (or maybe UNICODE) representation of the bytes. What you've done is to confuse the rendering of the data for the data itself. All this guy has done is gone back in and said "you know, we can render things intelligently instead always as text." And it's pretty brilliant IMO.
When you want to see the bytes represented as ASCII, then either use the appropriate syntax in TermKit, or don't use TermKit at all. Or re-alias the commands. It's sad when people poo-poo an idea simply because it's different, as if different == wrong.
These days, if it's cold enough, they'll close school specifically because kids walk. Apparently expecting parents to bundle up their kids such that they don't get frostbite is asking too much.
I think crediting our brains for evolving specifically to process religion is going a bit far. I believe it's more plausible that religion evolved to exploit this area of the brain rather than the other way around, especially since behavior is more plastic than anatomy.
That said, Apple does call their PR people "evangelists," and Objective C is as conflicting, superfluous, and self important as any religious text I've ever read, so it's hard to dispute these findings.
You're not citing any specific incidents, and neither was I, so nothing is disproved by your claim of visual targeting even if it that claim were bulletproof, which is being generous.
Aside from that, I addressed both radar and visual UFOs.
Visual: "people weren't used to seeing *anything* in the sky, especially from the sky" Radar: "And radar, introduced only in the latter half of the second world war, was prone to both false positives and false negatives."
So that throws your not-so-witty riposte out with the bath water. Whatever that's supposed to mean.
That's one theory anyway. It's not as if we have a written record as to why beer was invented. It *may* have been explicitly used for this purpose at some point, but that certainly doesn't imply that it was invented for that reason. And to me it seems highly unlikely that someone allowed their honeywater to ferment deliberately with the express purpose of trying to create "safe water."
Besides, beer doesn't quench thirst and alcohol dehydrates over the long term. Plus natural water sources were *much* cleaner back then than they are today. Sure, there may have been some bacterial blooms now and again, but a little dysentery never killed anyone.;)
I've aways felt laws, government programs and things of this sort should all have a time limit associated with them. Once they expire, they have to be debated and voted in again as if they never existed in the first place. This will also keep congress from passing too many pointless new laws, as they will be too busy maintaining the old ones.
Ha! You give them far to little credit. All they'd do is wrap up all of the old laws up into a single bill that only took a few seconds to vote on (with plenty of earmarks and new laws hidden throughout). Case in point, the Patriot Act expires every year, and yet somehow it persists...
Nice try, but the only irony is that all of those are indeed aptly named:
French Fries For also in the 1840s, pomme frites ("fried potatoes") first appeared in Paris. Sadly, we don't know the name of the ingenious chef who first sliced the potato into long slender pieces and fried them. But they were immediately popular, and were sold on the streets of Paris by push-cart vendors.
Frites spread to America where they were called French fried potatoes. You asked how they got their name--pretty obvious, I'd say: they came from France, and they were fried potatoes, so they were called "French fried potatoes." The name was shortened to "french fries" in the 1930s. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2033/whats-the-origin-of-french-fries
Even the name Hamburger has its origin in Hamburg, Germany: Hamburgers In the late 18th century, the largest ports in Europe were in Germany. Sailors who had visited the ports of Hamburg, Germany and New York, brought this food and term "Hamburg steak" into popular usage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#18th_and_19th_centuries
I agree that there will always be a new enemy, but I think it's less inherently about control and more about perception. When there's another superpower, that superpower is the greatest threat. But when that's gone, gradually the previously lesser threat is (rightly) perceived as the greatest threat. Its absolute magnitude hasn't necessarily changed significantly, but its relative magnitude certainly has. People don't think in absolutes very well. Their perceptions, and thus their responses, are almost always relative (Libraries of Congress, anyone?), and therefore they fear/fight terrorism as strongly as they fought communism, or the savages, or whatever the next threat is.
Open bids can be skipped when there's a sole source justification. Whether the justification holds up or not is a matter of opinion, but when there's only one provider, it's usually not much of a debate.
AUWYHSTOT (Acronyms are Useless When You Have to Spell Them Out Too)
Only when you don't use them again. If your post happened to contain that phrase in multiple places, then it would (ironically) be useful to replace them all with AUWYHSTOT.
There are hundreds of reports of UFOs from pilots who flew during WWI and WWII.
Not coincidentally at a point when both aviation and radar were in their infancy. In other words, people weren't used to seeing *anything* in the sky, especially from the sky, let alone resolving and identifying it accurately. And radar, introduced only in the latter half of the second world war, was prone to both false positives and false negatives.
Extra-terrestrial theories about UFOs are the modern-day equivalent of sea monsters -- people see something they can't explain and so they invent an explanation. Naturally these explanations are never mundane, because extra-ordinary events like eclipses can never have mundane causes, like planetary bodies naturally aligning. No, sir, these events are evidence of an angry god. And likewise, UFOs = aliens.
Technology doesn't refuse to be regulated; people refuse to be regulated. But that's only true right now. Most people *accept* authority, if begrudgingly, and many of those that don't quickly change their minds once presented with actual consequences. This is true in everything from technology (no CFW has been released since GeoHot lawsuit) to government ("popular" rebellions can quickly become unpopular when people start dying).
That, and the speed of sound decreases with altitude (density), so Mach would increase even if velocity remained constant. I haven't done the math, but at some altitude, presumably even a 100MPH fastball could travel at Mach 25!
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1) PC Pro readers probably don't represent the general population.
2) There's always a difference between what people say they want, and what they actually end up buying when given the choice. They may actually want matte screens, but purchase based on different criteria such as "oh, shiney!" once they're actually on the spot.
3) I'm pretty sure device manufacturers are doing more robust consumer research than PC Pro.
Who is Jonathan Coulton?
Except Einstein isn't usually correct. E.g., he didn't believe Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and his first four proofs of E=mc^2 were flawed. It's just that his successes outshine his mistakes, so the latter are forgotten, as so far, usual.
Uh, no, when you cat a PNG you're seeing an ASCII (or maybe UNICODE) representation of the bytes. What you've done is to confuse the rendering of the data for the data itself. All this guy has done is gone back in and said "you know, we can render things intelligently instead always as text." And it's pretty brilliant IMO.
When you want to see the bytes represented as ASCII, then either use the appropriate syntax in TermKit, or don't use TermKit at all. Or re-alias the commands. It's sad when people poo-poo an idea simply because it's different, as if different == wrong.
These days, if it's cold enough, they'll close school specifically because kids walk. Apparently expecting parents to bundle up their kids such that they don't get frostbite is asking too much.
I think crediting our brains for evolving specifically to process religion is going a bit far. I believe it's more plausible that religion evolved to exploit this area of the brain rather than the other way around, especially since behavior is more plastic than anatomy.
That said, Apple does call their PR people "evangelists," and Objective C is as conflicting, superfluous, and self important as any religious text I've ever read, so it's hard to dispute these findings.
What do you think a DC power supply is?
Not just for national security.
Presume I have 50 bulbs in my house. At 10mW, we're talking 2.5W of always-on baseload draw.
Uh, no, 50 bulbs * 10 mW/bulb = 500 mW, or 0.5 Watts for the SI challenged.
You're not citing any specific incidents, and neither was I, so nothing is disproved by your claim of visual targeting even if it that claim were bulletproof, which is being generous.
Aside from that, I addressed both radar and visual UFOs.
Visual: "people weren't used to seeing *anything* in the sky, especially from the sky"
Radar: "And radar, introduced only in the latter half of the second world war, was prone to both false positives and false negatives."
So that throws your not-so-witty riposte out with the bath water. Whatever that's supposed to mean.
That's one theory anyway. It's not as if we have a written record as to why beer was invented. It *may* have been explicitly used for this purpose at some point, but that certainly doesn't imply that it was invented for that reason. And to me it seems highly unlikely that someone allowed their honeywater to ferment deliberately with the express purpose of trying to create "safe water."
Besides, beer doesn't quench thirst and alcohol dehydrates over the long term. Plus natural water sources were *much* cleaner back then than they are today. Sure, there may have been some bacterial blooms now and again, but a little dysentery never killed anyone. ;)
True, though many cheese snobs would take issue with referring to cheddar as a cheese.
I've aways felt laws, government programs and things of this sort should all have a time limit associated with them. Once they expire, they have to be debated and voted in again as if they never existed in the first place. This will also keep congress from passing too many pointless new laws, as they will be too busy maintaining the old ones.
Ha! You give them far to little credit. All they'd do is wrap up all of the old laws up into a single bill that only took a few seconds to vote on (with plenty of earmarks and new laws hidden throughout). Case in point, the Patriot Act expires every year, and yet somehow it persists...
Nice try, but the only irony is that all of those are indeed aptly named:
French Fries
For also in the 1840s, pomme frites ("fried potatoes") first appeared in Paris. Sadly, we don't know the name of the ingenious chef who first sliced the potato into long slender pieces and fried them. But they were immediately popular, and were sold on the streets of Paris by push-cart vendors.
Frites spread to America where they were called French fried potatoes. You asked how they got their name--pretty obvious, I'd say: they came from France, and they were fried potatoes, so they were called "French fried potatoes." The name was shortened to "french fries" in the 1930s. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2033/whats-the-origin-of-french-fries
Salisbury Steak
Pizza
Pizza is a type of bread and dish that has existed since time immemorial in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza
And for good measure:
Belgian Waffles
Vermersch started making waffles from a recipe of his wife's when living in Belgium before the outbreak of World War II. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_history_behind_the_belgian_waffle
Even the name Hamburger has its origin in Hamburg, Germany:
Hamburgers
In the late 18th century, the largest ports in Europe were in Germany. Sailors who had visited the ports of Hamburg, Germany and New York, brought this food and term "Hamburg steak" into popular usage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#18th_and_19th_centuries
I agree that there will always be a new enemy, but I think it's less inherently about control and more about perception. When there's another superpower, that superpower is the greatest threat. But when that's gone, gradually the previously lesser threat is (rightly) perceived as the greatest threat. Its absolute magnitude hasn't necessarily changed significantly, but its relative magnitude certainly has. People don't think in absolutes very well. Their perceptions, and thus their responses, are almost always relative (Libraries of Congress, anyone?), and therefore they fear/fight terrorism as strongly as they fought communism, or the savages, or whatever the next threat is.
Open bids can be skipped when there's a sole source justification. Whether the justification holds up or not is a matter of opinion, but when there's only one provider, it's usually not much of a debate.
Because they don't have a guaranteed salary and 100% medical?
AUWYHSTOT (Acronyms are Useless When You Have to Spell Them Out Too)
Only when you don't use them again. If your post happened to contain that phrase in multiple places, then it would (ironically) be useful to replace them all with AUWYHSTOT.
I believe you mean penes.
Right, that's what I trying to say -- that there's not much advantage in bartering over using cash. And yours is yet another reason why.
HA!! Gust gos 2 show dem aliens no whats what. And u thaut kolledge foke wer thu smart wuns!
There are hundreds of reports of UFOs from pilots who flew during WWI and WWII.
Not coincidentally at a point when both aviation and radar were in their infancy. In other words, people weren't used to seeing *anything* in the sky, especially from the sky, let alone resolving and identifying it accurately. And radar, introduced only in the latter half of the second world war, was prone to both false positives and false negatives.
Extra-terrestrial theories about UFOs are the modern-day equivalent of sea monsters -- people see something they can't explain and so they invent an explanation. Naturally these explanations are never mundane, because extra-ordinary events like eclipses can never have mundane causes, like planetary bodies naturally aligning. No, sir, these events are evidence of an angry god. And likewise, UFOs = aliens.
Technology doesn't refuse to be regulated; people refuse to be regulated. But that's only true right now. Most people *accept* authority, if begrudgingly, and many of those that don't quickly change their minds once presented with actual consequences. This is true in everything from technology (no CFW has been released since GeoHot lawsuit) to government ("popular" rebellions can quickly become unpopular when people start dying).
everything's negotiable anyway, so there's not much advantage over bartering.
Sorry, that should have read "not much advantage over using legal tender."
That, and the speed of sound decreases with altitude (density), so Mach would increase even if velocity remained constant. I haven't done the math, but at some altitude, presumably even a 100MPH fastball could travel at Mach 25!