Maybe you should try looking at a motorbike which isn't designed like an SUV, and you'll get more impressive gas mileage.:)
Giving a Toyota Corolla credit for the ability to haul its own weight around may be a testament to its mechanical engineering (and aerodynamic advantage over a motorcycle), but tells you nothing about the efficiency with which it transports its cargo: typically about 200 lbs of person. A motorcycle does that much more efficiently.
I can say that. My family know, most of my friends know (if they're paying attention), I've even been on local TV talking about it. I don't have much legal protection, but I'm probably not going to get fired for it (again). I live in a community where people probably won't beat me for it (any more), and my government pretty much just treats me with neglect, not persecution.
But not everyone is so lucky.
One of my earliest forays into what's now called "social networking" was on CompuServ, back in late 1980s, where there was one section of one forum where people could talk openly about their experiences as gay/lesbian/bi people. That particular forum offered a level of anonymity: no full names. It would not have worked otherwise. And I might not have made it here without it.
Yeah, it's a quarter century later now, but there are parts of the world (even parts of my own country) that are further behind than that. And not everyone has a quarter century of practice at dealing with self-disclosure. So yes: people like me in places like that need pseudonymous social networking. Obvious answer. Full stop. Next question?
It's a Genuine Scooter Co. Buddy (manufactured in Taiwan for a Chicago company). I'd buy a domestic-made scooter, but there's no such thing. 10K miles on it so far, and less trouble than any other vehicle I've ever owned. Mine's red. Red ones go fastest.:)
The difference between 54.5mph and 60mpg really was not worth fighting over. The Obama Administration would've been idiots to go to the mat over that. Sure, when you're talking about badly designed tanks that get 20mpg, another 5.5mpg is a substantial difference, but once you start getting up to actually efficient numbers like these standards are talking about, that difference doesn't make that big a deal.
As my main vehicle, I ride a motorbike that gets 90mpg. I started fretting about it when it wasn't running quite so well and it was getting 80mpg or less, but then I did the math and realized how little difference that meant. I still got it fixed (some basic maintenance was all it needed), but that was because I also wasn't getting the speed I wanted.
Might I suggest nursing school? The hours are often weird, but that's not always bad (e.g. three 12-hour days on, four days off). And demand will only go up, no matter how fixed-up or fucked-up the health care system gets. Not a great choice if you can't handle body fluids or you got into tech because you hate dealing with people, but for some people it's the perfect career if they need to get out of one they hate.
"It's not like it matters what sock puppet sits on the throne."
The thing is... it actually does. Maybe not as much as it should, but in ways that are still important, it does.
I don't know what would have happened afterward if it had been Al Gore listening to kids read a book about a goat on the morning of 9/11, but I'm sure the world would be a recognizably different place today. Possibly for the worse, probably for the better. But definitely different. I don't know who Dukakis would've nominated to the Supreme Court when Thurgood Marshall retired, but it sure as hell wouldn't have been Clarence Thomas. On a more personal level, I don't know what John McCain would've done last year if his staff told him about a campaign of online videos assuring gay teens that "it gets better", but I'm sure it wouldn't have been this.
His answer was meaningful; you just don't understand it. It's "curiosity": wanting to know things regardless of whether they'll be immediately useful. It's a sign of intelligence, and you probably exhibit it in other areas (though perhaps not, some people just lack curiosity altogether). You don't seem particularly "interested in knowing" what the use of this is (as you assert); you're pretty sure you already know the answer, and you're challenging someone else to "admit" that it doesn't qualify as something you consider worth knowing about. You're perfectly welcome to not be curious about astronomy, or particle physics, or 16th century French literature, or pre-Colombian cultures of North America, or birdsongs of the Mesozoic. But to say that there is no benefit to this knowledge to those who are thirsty with curiosity for it... seems to miss the point that other people have needs and wants and questions of their own, and they don't have to justify them to you.
There is only one ocean on Earth. The existence of several large landmasses isolating parts of that ocean from each other make it convenient to refer to the various part of the ocean by different names (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, etc), but it's all one intermingling body of water.
"Now" = the time it would be 12 billion light-years from here if we could relocate objects without pushing them around through the intervening space. There are other frameworks conceivable for looking at the universe besides spacetime.:)
You forfeit pretty much all of your geek credit with this post. Never mind that the iMac Rev.A (as the Bondi Blue model is more formally known) revolutionized the industrial design of desktop computers, and put Apple back on the map in terms of market awareness. It was a technologically important machine both in terms of what it abandoned (floppy drive, traditional serial port, SCSI) and what it included as standard equipment (USB, CD-ROM, modem and ethernet ports). It wasn't the first machine to make any one of these changes (Apple had put the same PPC G3 processor in a few beige boxes previously), but it was the first to make them all. Aside from the subsequent death of the analog modem, and replacement of the other technologies with the-same-thing-but-better, the hardware feature set offered by the iMac Rev.A is still standard on almost every desktop computer still sold today.
As much as I wish it were otherwise, the only thing Amiga killed was the Amiga.
It wasn't so much that Apple "killed" the floppy, but that they demonstrated that it was no longer needed. And they were proven right. The Windows-PC manufacturers got the message several years later, and finally killed it.
If this follows the pattern of Microsoft Windows, this means that Linux has finally reached the point of offering what Linux kernel 1.0 promised, and has become usable as a day-to-day operating system. When Linux kernel 3.1 comes out, it'll finally have the features it needs to become widely used, and application developers will start treating it as their primary business-critical platform, instead of just a necessary kludge for certain kinds of apps!
Which may mean that version numbers don't really mean as much as some people think.
Need I point out that correlation does not equal causation?
Also: the "systematic repression of any and all religious expression in schools" is not happening. That's another item from "Lies My Preacher Told Me".
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You're missing the perspective. When we're talking about roughly doubling efficiency, a few percent either way really isn't much of a difference.
Maybe you should try looking at a motorbike which isn't designed like an SUV, and you'll get more impressive gas mileage. :)
Giving a Toyota Corolla credit for the ability to haul its own weight around may be a testament to its mechanical engineering (and aerodynamic advantage over a motorcycle), but tells you nothing about the efficiency with which it transports its cargo: typically about 200 lbs of person. A motorcycle does that much more efficiently.
Hi, my name is Todd VerBeek, and I'm gay.
I can say that. My family know, most of my friends know (if they're paying attention), I've even been on local TV talking about it. I don't have much legal protection, but I'm probably not going to get fired for it (again). I live in a community where people probably won't beat me for it (any more), and my government pretty much just treats me with neglect, not persecution.
But not everyone is so lucky.
One of my earliest forays into what's now called "social networking" was on CompuServ, back in late 1980s, where there was one section of one forum where people could talk openly about their experiences as gay/lesbian/bi people. That particular forum offered a level of anonymity: no full names. It would not have worked otherwise. And I might not have made it here without it.
Yeah, it's a quarter century later now, but there are parts of the world (even parts of my own country) that are further behind than that. And not everyone has a quarter century of practice at dealing with self-disclosure. So yes: people like me in places like that need pseudonymous social networking. Obvious answer. Full stop. Next question?
It's a Genuine Scooter Co. Buddy (manufactured in Taiwan for a Chicago company). I'd buy a domestic-made scooter, but there's no such thing. 10K miles on it so far, and less trouble than any other vehicle I've ever owned. Mine's red. Red ones go fastest. :)
The difference between 54.5mph and 60mpg really was not worth fighting over. The Obama Administration would've been idiots to go to the mat over that. Sure, when you're talking about badly designed tanks that get 20mpg, another 5.5mpg is a substantial difference, but once you start getting up to actually efficient numbers like these standards are talking about, that difference doesn't make that big a deal.
As my main vehicle, I ride a motorbike that gets 90mpg. I started fretting about it when it wasn't running quite so well and it was getting 80mpg or less, but then I did the math and realized how little difference that meant. I still got it fixed (some basic maintenance was all it needed), but that was because I also wasn't getting the speed I wanted.
Do you know how to interact with people without lecturing them?
In this context, some coarse language is socially appropriate.
Might I suggest nursing school? The hours are often weird, but that's not always bad (e.g. three 12-hour days on, four days off). And demand will only go up, no matter how fixed-up or fucked-up the health care system gets. Not a great choice if you can't handle body fluids or you got into tech because you hate dealing with people, but for some people it's the perfect career if they need to get out of one they hate.
My mother told me that good servers don't go down.
We didn't use that high-fructose corn syrup garbage. We made ours with real cane sugar. Or honey.
The end of the 2008 election gave us two good things: Obama in the White House, and McCain saying things that make sense again from time to time.
"It's not like it matters what sock puppet sits on the throne."
The thing is... it actually does. Maybe not as much as it should, but in ways that are still important, it does.
I don't know what would have happened afterward if it had been Al Gore listening to kids read a book about a goat on the morning of 9/11, but I'm sure the world would be a recognizably different place today. Possibly for the worse, probably for the better. But definitely different. I don't know who Dukakis would've nominated to the Supreme Court when Thurgood Marshall retired, but it sure as hell wouldn't have been Clarence Thomas. On a more personal level, I don't know what John McCain would've done last year if his staff told him about a campaign of online videos assuring gay teens that "it gets better", but I'm sure it wouldn't have been this.
So yeah: it matters.
"...may unlock the door to ...life itself"
Well, it's about time! The universe has been sitting lifeless for so long, and here we sit, unable to make any!
His answer was meaningful; you just don't understand it. It's "curiosity": wanting to know things regardless of whether they'll be immediately useful. It's a sign of intelligence, and you probably exhibit it in other areas (though perhaps not, some people just lack curiosity altogether). You don't seem particularly "interested in knowing" what the use of this is (as you assert); you're pretty sure you already know the answer, and you're challenging someone else to "admit" that it doesn't qualify as something you consider worth knowing about. You're perfectly welcome to not be curious about astronomy, or particle physics, or 16th century French literature, or pre-Colombian cultures of North America, or birdsongs of the Mesozoic. But to say that there is no benefit to this knowledge to those who are thirsty with curiosity for it... seems to miss the point that other people have needs and wants and questions of their own, and they don't have to justify them to you.
There is only one ocean on Earth. The existence of several large landmasses isolating parts of that ocean from each other make it convenient to refer to the various part of the ocean by different names (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, etc), but it's all one intermingling body of water.
Well, it won't be water by that point, just a bunch of smushed-together quarks of various flavors.
No.
Next question?
It's not really "in the middle of space". Off to one side a bit, actually.
"Now" = the time it would be 12 billion light-years from here if we could relocate objects without pushing them around through the intervening space. There are other frameworks conceivable for looking at the universe besides spacetime. :)
With added benefit of not having to pee.
You forfeit pretty much all of your geek credit with this post. Never mind that the iMac Rev.A (as the Bondi Blue model is more formally known) revolutionized the industrial design of desktop computers, and put Apple back on the map in terms of market awareness. It was a technologically important machine both in terms of what it abandoned (floppy drive, traditional serial port, SCSI) and what it included as standard equipment (USB, CD-ROM, modem and ethernet ports). It wasn't the first machine to make any one of these changes (Apple had put the same PPC G3 processor in a few beige boxes previously), but it was the first to make them all. Aside from the subsequent death of the analog modem, and replacement of the other technologies with the-same-thing-but-better, the hardware feature set offered by the iMac Rev.A is still standard on almost every desktop computer still sold today.
As much as I wish it were otherwise, the only thing Amiga killed was the Amiga.
It wasn't so much that Apple "killed" the floppy, but that they demonstrated that it was no longer needed. And they were proven right.
The Windows-PC manufacturers got the message several years later, and finally killed it.
For the record, the iMac that debuted without a floppy drive came in only one color: Bondi Blue. The Blueberry iMac was part of a later generation.
If this follows the pattern of Microsoft Windows, this means that Linux has finally reached the point of offering what Linux kernel 1.0 promised, and has become usable as a day-to-day operating system. When Linux kernel 3.1 comes out, it'll finally have the features it needs to become widely used, and application developers will start treating it as their primary business-critical platform, instead of just a necessary kludge for certain kinds of apps!
Which may mean that version numbers don't really mean as much as some people think.
Need I point out that correlation does not equal causation?
Also: the "systematic repression of any and all religious expression in schools" is not happening. That's another item from "Lies My Preacher Told Me".
Although written years earlier, Billy Bragg's "The Space Race is Over" seems appropriate.