In fact your very own logic argues for the use of a JS framework. Anything you write that relies on Prototype is going to be far more mature and reusable than something you cobbled together on your own. When I say "mature", I mean it in the holistic sense. It's very, very unlikely that you are you going find some trivial error in the core Prototype library. It's virtually certain that you would do so if you write your own. Maybe you will get them worked out by deployment time, maybe not. Second, Prototype has a rich and consistent API, and anyone who has experience writing applications on top of it could easily pick up your code and reuse it. Finally, you make no mention of cross-browser compatibility, which makes me wonder how much experience developing these sorts of applications you really have. Words cannot describe how much time you save when your starting point is something that works out of the box in IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera. You could sink literally hundreds of hours into testing your application on various platforms. Fortunately, you don't have to, because someone already did. Why reinvent the wheel?
You must have gone on an off year. Let's just say the cocksucking was at the tamer end of the spectrum. Analingus under the stars, anyone? (Yes, really.)
When i ask any "pot-haters" if they know somebody that smokes pot, it turns out none of them does (surprise, surprise). But the funniest part is they do! Whether they know it or not. Because everybody knows someone who smokes pot. Because everybody smokes pot. Seriously. The amount of people who use or used has gotta be over 70%.
Ask followers of Pastor Ted whether they knew any coke-snorting gay whore lovers, and they probably would have said no too.
You know, this is not the first time I have heard someone say something to the effect of, "do whatever you want in your bedroom, but you'd better not suck someone's cock on my lawn/porch/dinner table/cul-de-sac." Who are these gay suburban exhibitionists you people are so afraid of? The only time I ever saw open air fellatio was at the Folsom Street Fair, and that's, well, not a typical setting. I have a bunch of gay friends, and they are all a lot more conservative than, say, the 200 sorority whores I dormed with freshmen year. So just come off it.
As for the pot thing, maybe it's because I lot of people like to smoke pot? (I do.) Consider yourself in the boring, prudish minority on this one, bro. "Do dope and cook your brain" sounds like something my grandfather would say. Not the one who's still alive. The one who died 20 years ago. When he was 90. What is your hangup? It's not as if the smoke is coming through the monitor screen or something.
Your sig interests me. I think it can be phrased a little stronger: "the US government admits it is holding innocents at Guantanamo Bay." Google "nlec guantanamo" and see what comes up.
I had owned that macbook for almost three years before I gave up on it and bought the PC laptop. That's interesting since the MacBook came out in May of last year.
I agree with what you are saying (I used my last computer until it literally would not start, which unfortunately was only 3 years) but man are you in the wrong place. You will not find another sympathetic ear for that kind of argument around here. Prepare to be flamed by about a gazillion self-righteous geeks who use phrases like "digital lifestyle", "my work is my play" and/or "beast rig." May the force be with you.
That doesn't really come as a surprise considering they're absolutely minting money with their current-gen MMO. The question is, will it be Starcraft?
Starcraft was the last computer game I played regularly before school and life got in the way. Now that I'm a little older and have some disposable income, I'd be seriously tempted to throw down in an Alienware or something or WoS came out.
First, this whole matter sounds tremendously overblown since we're merely talking about the loss of some settings on your home page. I mean come on--"frantic"? Try again.
Second, Google has an applications suite aimed at businesses. It costs $$ and for that you get things like guaranteed uptime and 24/7 phone-in tech support. If you are conducting vital business over the free Google happens, whatever chaos ensues is your own fault.
No, I'm guessing they don't do any backups in the sense you're talking about, like with tapes. Something tells me they just have too much data spread over a huge number of disparate fiefdoms (YouTube, Gmail, Groups, Blogger, PicasaWeb, to name a few) to make it feasible. Probably everything is mirrored across two or more geographically distinct locations and that's it. As with any mirroring solution (RAID1), this protects you against hardware failure but not accidental deletion.
My point was, we spent the last couple centuries pumping a bunch of shit into the air and water, and now everyone is shocked, shocked, to find out how much harm we've done. Iron fertilization just sounds like another attempt to remake nature through science, and given our dismal track record in this area, I'm inclined to think we should just let well enough alone.
I don't follow you. The "hell" we would be unleashing would simply be the climate we had one or two hundred years ago, i.e. fewer floods, droughts, hurricanes, wildfires and other extreme weather events.
I think it's interesting that in our extremely nascent explorations outside the solar system, we've already managed to locate practically a clone of earth. As other articles I read about this point out, this has major implications for how many other planets must exist that have conditions that would support life, i.e. if you sample.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000001% percent of the population and are already finding things, there must be a whole lotta more places out there just like it. Which is fascinating, because it essentially presents you with the following dichotomy: either you believe in creationism, or you believe in aliens. There's really no in between. Either we occupy a special, god-given place in the universe, or life as we know it began through the random agglomeration of organic compounds billions of years ago, in which case it would be practically a mathematical certainty that the same thing happened elsewhere.
There are 300 million Americans, and probably 80% of them live in single family dwellings. Figure 3 persons/household. That's 80 million roofs. It costs about $20,000 for a residential PV installation. So $1.6 trillion.
Current estimates say we will have spent $1 trillion invading Iraq when it's all said and done. We spend an additional $500 billion every year on off^H^H^Hdefense. I'm not some hippy saying we should abolish the military, but it definitely makes you think. We really could afford to do something as outlandish as blanket the entire country with solar panels, while still having enough $$ left over to pay for all the other things we like. It's crazy. We're that loaded. It's just a question of priorities.
Never is a long time. CNN:
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: A lot of the news out of Iraq is not good. But it's not all bad, either. Every Saturday on Weekend Morning we try to take a look at some of the things that are going right in Iraq. This morning, CNN's Jason Bellini takes us to the Iran-Iraq border. Washington Post:
"Everyone here is excited. The mood and busyness are so much better than before when we just waited to see what would happen," said B.B. Abdul Qadir. [concerning elections] New York Times
In the wave of lawlessness and frantic self-interest that has washed over this war-weary nation, small acts of pure altruism often go unnoticed.
Like the tiny track suits and dresses that Najat al-Saiedi takes to children of displaced families in the dusty, desperate Shiite slum of Shoala. Or the shelter that Suad al-Khafaji gives to, among others, the five children she found living in a garage in northern Baghdad last year.
But the Iraqi government has been taking note of such good works, and now, more than three years after the American invasion, the outlines of a nascent civil society are taking shape. If there's not a lot of good news coming out of Iraq, maybe that's because there aren't a lot of good things happening in Iraq? (I find it telling that the Good News in Iraq blog has been updated twice in the last year.) Rather than floating the tired old liberal media conspiracy canard, maybe it's just a sense of proportionality that keeps the bad news on the front page? Viz: for every one of those 15 Iraqi children who had their sight restored, probably five times that number has died as a direct on indirect consequence of our occupation of Iraq. Such is the scale of the disaster we have visited on that country.
Hear, hear. One of the kazillion things the 85% of Americans who do not leave this crappy country miss out on is copious amounts of dirt-cheap Coca Cola, glass bottled and made with real cane sugar. Many a day have I whiled away in some far-off tropical locale with a good book and a clutch of those.
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A lot can happen in the several months between the alleged date of infringement and they day the subpoena arrives. Old hard drives crash and get tossed, spares get pulled from a box you've had sitting in your closet all those years... and everyone here knows it's trivial to back-date the system clock in the BIOS, at which point looking to timestamps on a fresh install is pointless.
I think this is a new idea. It sounds like they want to construct a radionavigation system that doesn't require any new hardware outlay, based instead on the known locations of various cell towers and TV transmitters. When you consider that the investment in equipment and maintenance in GPS runs into the tens of billions of dollars, this approach is nothing short of revolutionary.
Second, there's really no issue with acquiring a GPS lock in an airplane, since you have unobstructed access to no less than 10 signals at any one time. Where GPS fails is in cities, forest, indoors, etc. But those are absolutely swimming in radio, TV and cell signals. If this system really works, it would be a boon to hikers and drivers who are plagued by spotty GPS reception.
Try, convict, and punish? No, that's what the authorities in question tried to do. Writing someone a letter expressing your disapproval at their actions is well--well--within everybody's constitutional rights. A flawed analogy if I ever saw one.
Divide those 12 days by the multi-six-figure lawsuit this kid is going to successfully bring against the school district, principle, police department, etc. and you figure the kid probably got paid at least $1,000 an hour to sit on his ass.
No, actually they aren't. You're talking about a single observation on a small segment of the overall population, and somehow extrapolating this into a commentary about the status of the entire species. (Odd how one data point can establish a trend arguing against the effects of global warming, but 200 years' worth of data demonstrating its presence are roundly dismissed as insufficient.) It's telling that the article you linked to doesn't even try to establish a mechanism through which warming would help the polar bears. The ways in which it might hurt them, though, are well-documented and plausible, and they are already being seen in action in the well-studied Hudson Bay colony.
I agree with that last point. Ironically I have found that the best way to "rest" my hands after a long bout of piano is to play guitar. I don't know why or how but this just works for me.
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In fact your very own logic argues for the use of a JS framework. Anything you write that relies on Prototype is going to be far more mature and reusable than something you cobbled together on your own. When I say "mature", I mean it in the holistic sense. It's very, very unlikely that you are you going find some trivial error in the core Prototype library. It's virtually certain that you would do so if you write your own. Maybe you will get them worked out by deployment time, maybe not. Second, Prototype has a rich and consistent API, and anyone who has experience writing applications on top of it could easily pick up your code and reuse it. Finally, you make no mention of cross-browser compatibility, which makes me wonder how much experience developing these sorts of applications you really have. Words cannot describe how much time you save when your starting point is something that works out of the box in IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera. You could sink literally hundreds of hours into testing your application on various platforms. Fortunately, you don't have to, because someone already did. Why reinvent the wheel?
You must have gone on an off year. Let's just say the cocksucking was at the tamer end of the spectrum. Analingus under the stars, anyone? (Yes, really.)
Ask followers of Pastor Ted whether they knew any coke-snorting gay whore lovers, and they probably would have said no too.
You know, this is not the first time I have heard someone say something to the effect of, "do whatever you want in your bedroom, but you'd better not suck someone's cock on my lawn/porch/dinner table/cul-de-sac." Who are these gay suburban exhibitionists you people are so afraid of? The only time I ever saw open air fellatio was at the Folsom Street Fair, and that's, well, not a typical setting. I have a bunch of gay friends, and they are all a lot more conservative than, say, the 200 sorority whores I dormed with freshmen year. So just come off it.
As for the pot thing, maybe it's because I lot of people like to smoke pot? (I do.) Consider yourself in the boring, prudish minority on this one, bro. "Do dope and cook your brain" sounds like something my grandfather would say. Not the one who's still alive. The one who died 20 years ago. When he was 90. What is your hangup? It's not as if the smoke is coming through the monitor screen or something.
Your sig interests me. I think it can be phrased a little stronger: "the US government admits it is holding innocents at Guantanamo Bay." Google "nlec guantanamo" and see what comes up.
I agree with what you are saying (I used my last computer until it literally would not start, which unfortunately was only 3 years) but man are you in the wrong place. You will not find another sympathetic ear for that kind of argument around here. Prepare to be flamed by about a gazillion self-righteous geeks who use phrases like "digital lifestyle", "my work is my play" and/or "beast rig." May the force be with you.
That doesn't really come as a surprise considering they're absolutely minting money with their current-gen MMO. The question is, will it be Starcraft?
Starcraft was the last computer game I played regularly before school and life got in the way. Now that I'm a little older and have some disposable income, I'd be seriously tempted to throw down in an Alienware or something or WoS came out.
First, this whole matter sounds tremendously overblown since we're merely talking about the loss of some settings on your home page. I mean come on--"frantic"? Try again.
Second, Google has an applications suite aimed at businesses. It costs $$ and for that you get things like guaranteed uptime and 24/7 phone-in tech support. If you are conducting vital business over the free Google happens, whatever chaos ensues is your own fault.
No, I'm guessing they don't do any backups in the sense you're talking about, like with tapes. Something tells me they just have too much data spread over a huge number of disparate fiefdoms (YouTube, Gmail, Groups, Blogger, PicasaWeb, to name a few) to make it feasible. Probably everything is mirrored across two or more geographically distinct locations and that's it. As with any mirroring solution (RAID1), this protects you against hardware failure but not accidental deletion.
My point was, we spent the last couple centuries pumping a bunch of shit into the air and water, and now everyone is shocked, shocked, to find out how much harm we've done. Iron fertilization just sounds like another attempt to remake nature through science, and given our dismal track record in this area, I'm inclined to think we should just let well enough alone.
I don't follow you. The "hell" we would be unleashing would simply be the climate we had one or two hundred years ago, i.e. fewer floods, droughts, hurricanes, wildfires and other extreme weather events.
Gee, I dunno. Maybe because things live in the ocean? How would you like it if someone dropped a bunch of iron on your house?
Raise your hand if you feel you were born about 100 years too early.
I think it's interesting that in our extremely nascent explorations outside the solar system, we've already managed to locate practically a clone of earth. As other articles I read about this point out, this has major implications for how many other planets must exist that have conditions that would support life, i.e. if you sample .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000001% percent of the population and are already finding things, there must be a whole lotta more places out there just like it. Which is fascinating, because it essentially presents you with the following dichotomy: either you believe in creationism, or you believe in aliens. There's really no in between. Either we occupy a special, god-given place in the universe, or life as we know it began through the random agglomeration of organic compounds billions of years ago, in which case it would be practically a mathematical certainty that the same thing happened elsewhere.
There are 300 million Americans, and probably 80% of them live in single family dwellings. Figure 3 persons/household. That's 80 million roofs. It costs about $20,000 for a residential PV installation. So $1.6 trillion.
Current estimates say we will have spent $1 trillion invading Iraq when it's all said and done. We spend an additional $500 billion every year on off^H^H^Hdefense. I'm not some hippy saying we should abolish the military, but it definitely makes you think. We really could afford to do something as outlandish as blanket the entire country with solar panels, while still having enough $$ left over to pay for all the other things we like. It's crazy. We're that loaded. It's just a question of priorities.
This morning, CNN's Jason Bellini takes us to the Iran-Iraq border. Washington Post: "Everyone here is excited. The mood and busyness are so much better than before when we just waited to see what would happen," said B.B. Abdul Qadir. [concerning elections] New York Times In the wave of lawlessness and frantic self-interest that has washed over this war-weary nation, small acts of pure altruism often go unnoticed.
Like the tiny track suits and dresses that Najat al-Saiedi takes to children of displaced families in the dusty, desperate Shiite slum of Shoala. Or the shelter that Suad al-Khafaji gives to, among others, the five children she found living in a garage in northern Baghdad last year.
But the Iraqi government has been taking note of such good works, and now, more than three years after the American invasion, the outlines of a nascent civil society are taking shape. If there's not a lot of good news coming out of Iraq, maybe that's because there aren't a lot of good things happening in Iraq? (I find it telling that the Good News in Iraq blog has been updated twice in the last year.) Rather than floating the tired old liberal media conspiracy canard, maybe it's just a sense of proportionality that keeps the bad news on the front page? Viz: for every one of those 15 Iraqi children who had their sight restored, probably five times that number has died as a direct on indirect consequence of our occupation of Iraq. Such is the scale of the disaster we have visited on that country.
Hear, hear. One of the kazillion things the 85% of Americans who do not leave this crappy country miss out on is copious amounts of dirt-cheap Coca Cola, glass bottled and made with real cane sugar. Many a day have I whiled away in some far-off tropical locale with a good book and a clutch of those.
Well, you're in luck.
A lot can happen in the several months between the alleged date of infringement and they day the subpoena arrives. Old hard drives crash and get tossed, spares get pulled from a box you've had sitting in your closet all those years ... and everyone here knows it's trivial to back-date the system clock in the BIOS, at which point looking to timestamps on a fresh install is pointless.
I think this is a new idea. It sounds like they want to construct a radionavigation system that doesn't require any new hardware outlay, based instead on the known locations of various cell towers and TV transmitters. When you consider that the investment in equipment and maintenance in GPS runs into the tens of billions of dollars, this approach is nothing short of revolutionary.
Second, there's really no issue with acquiring a GPS lock in an airplane, since you have unobstructed access to no less than 10 signals at any one time. Where GPS fails is in cities, forest, indoors, etc. But those are absolutely swimming in radio, TV and cell signals. If this system really works, it would be a boon to hikers and drivers who are plagued by spotty GPS reception.
Try, convict, and punish? No, that's what the authorities in question tried to do. Writing someone a letter expressing your disapproval at their actions is well--well--within everybody's constitutional rights. A flawed analogy if I ever saw one.
Divide those 12 days by the multi-six-figure lawsuit this kid is going to successfully bring against the school district, principle, police department, etc. and you figure the kid probably got paid at least $1,000 an hour to sit on his ass.
No, actually they aren't. You're talking about a single observation on a small segment of the overall population, and somehow extrapolating this into a commentary about the status of the entire species. (Odd how one data point can establish a trend arguing against the effects of global warming, but 200 years' worth of data demonstrating its presence are roundly dismissed as insufficient.) It's telling that the article you linked to doesn't even try to establish a mechanism through which warming would help the polar bears. The ways in which it might hurt them, though, are well-documented and plausible, and they are already being seen in action in the well-studied Hudson Bay colony.
I agree with that last point. Ironically I have found that the best way to "rest" my hands after a long bout of piano is to play guitar. I don't know why or how but this just works for me.