How is this insightful? Suggesting console manufacturers implement power-saving features isn't like asking Ferrari or Hummer to make their vehicles as efficient as a Corolla or a Civic. It's like asking them to make their vehicles more efficient than they currently are, an entirely reasonable thing to do. Inefficiency is never a feature and so decreasing wasted energy is always a good thing to do where possible.
Also, your reason why power-saving features on consoles doesn't make sense is equally nonsensical. There is no reason why CPU throttling and other such power-saving features couldn't be implemented without any change in gameplay. Do you really need the system running full speed while paused or otherwise idle?
Yeah, it occurred to me that's probably why he was still voted for. If he was forced out of office in disgrace he would be replaced by another less obviously disgraceful Republican. At least I hope that's what happened, although after seeing who they elected Governor I could be giving Alaskan's too much credit.
Who is and is not a bad guy is extremely subjective, that's the problem with your usage. Some, for instance, might consider a "bad guy" someone who blows up a room of enemies without giving them a chance to surrender. Some might consider a "bad guy" someone who detains people without trial and subjects them to torture.
The number of decimal points is extremely important in determining the validity of your point. The reality is that civilian deaths are far more common than you would have us believe.
Just because the immigrant students don't have perfect English skills doesn't mean they don't have excellent verbal skills. How they would do on a test in their native language would be more relevant.
Secondly, their description as "highly-regarded outside-the-Beltway experts" who have "both been pretty harsh critics of the Bush administration's telecom policies in the past year" was written by the reporter, not the people who made the selection. For all we know neither of those are related to the official selection criteria.
Hell I saw a ratio of 4-1 Obama ads to McCain ads on TV. Even on FOX.
Completely irrelevant to the discussion, ads go to whoever has the money to run them. This is not an example of media bias, but do feel free to bring it up next time campaign financing is the topic.
It's also not clear that candidates *should* get "equal time" in terms of news articles. The news reporting should go wherever the news is.
That's right. There were more than 2 candidates in the race, but we don't expect them all to get equal coverage. If McCain made himself irrelevant at times with silly tricks like "suspending" his campaign so he can rush to Washington do nothing, the media can hardly be blamed for not giving him equal coverage.
All I'm saying is that right or wrong, that clause of the constitution hasn't been followed since the convening of the 1st Congress. No sense getting all indignant about it now.
Saying mandatory community service isn't good for anyone is like saying mandatory education isn't good for anyone. I'd wager that an early exposure to community service will have some real benefits for the individual.
The Republican party should welcome any attempt by the Obama administration to force community service on students. It could very well make their ranks swell quite a bit.
Are you kidding? Not if this work is in exchange for tuition assistance. Education is one of the biggest enemies of the Republican party.
It's this part: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
How quaint. The 1700's called and want their notions of the role of the federal government back.
The sound of the name has nothing to do with it. As ChameleonDave points out, it is usually considered a feminine name in Mandarin because it can mean flower.
A Chinese name would have the family name first as you obviously know, and so I was making the assumption that the proper name order was being used. In that case the name would have to be either a family name of Xie and a given name Hua, or it could be a two character given name "Xie Hua". Either way the rather feminine Hua would be in the given name.
Of course if the the poster was using western name order and Hua was the family name then yeah, I wouldn't attempt to guess the gender of the person. Xie seems fairly neutral to me and your examples seem to back that up.
Disclaimer, I'm not Chinese and my Mandarin sucks;)
Slashdot Mirror
How is this insightful? Suggesting console manufacturers implement power-saving features isn't like asking Ferrari or Hummer to make their vehicles as efficient as a Corolla or a Civic. It's like asking them to make their vehicles more efficient than they currently are, an entirely reasonable thing to do. Inefficiency is never a feature and so decreasing wasted energy is always a good thing to do where possible.
Also, your reason why power-saving features on consoles doesn't make sense is equally nonsensical. There is no reason why CPU throttling and other such power-saving features couldn't be implemented without any change in gameplay. Do you really need the system running full speed while paused or otherwise idle?
The employer has no control over the time you spend commuting. Time spent on site booting company computers is different.
Yeah, it occurred to me that's probably why he was still voted for. If he was forced out of office in disgrace he would be replaced by another less obviously disgraceful Republican. At least I hope that's what happened, although after seeing who they elected Governor I could be giving Alaskan's too much credit.
Who is and is not a bad guy is extremely subjective, that's the problem with your usage. Some, for instance, might consider a "bad guy" someone who blows up a room of enemies without giving them a chance to surrender. Some might consider a "bad guy" someone who detains people without trial and subjects them to torture.
The number of decimal points is extremely important in determining the validity of your point. The reality is that civilian deaths are far more common than you would have us believe.
Not to mention that whole field of philosophy called "logic". There has always been a strong connection between math and philosophy.
Just because the immigrant students don't have perfect English skills doesn't mean they don't have excellent verbal skills. How they would do on a test in their native language would be more relevant.
First of all, no.
Secondly, their description as "highly-regarded outside-the-Beltway experts" who have "both been pretty harsh critics of the Bush administration's telecom policies in the past year" was written by the reporter, not the people who made the selection. For all we know neither of those are related to the official selection criteria.
No ridiculed politicians for comparing the Internet to a "series of tubes". We ridicule Ted Stevens for comparing the Internet to a "series of tubes".
And it looks like Ted Stevens isn't going to win his bid for re-election, so there goes your theory about people trusting him.
Not a problem, this was god's pre-earth space temple and he created Turkey so he would have a place to put it.
Completely irrelevant to the discussion, ads go to whoever has the money to run them. This is not an example of media bias, but do feel free to bring it up next time campaign financing is the topic.
That's right. There were more than 2 candidates in the race, but we don't expect them all to get equal coverage. If McCain made himself irrelevant at times with silly tricks like "suspending" his campaign so he can rush to Washington do nothing, the media can hardly be blamed for not giving him equal coverage.
You drink tequila by the pint? That's badass.
All I'm saying is that right or wrong, that clause of the constitution hasn't been followed since the convening of the 1st Congress. No sense getting all indignant about it now.
Well, Unix admins for one.
That's true. I wrote a little script to deal with that. It assumes that the files to compare are in the same location on both machines
#!/bin/ksh
RHOST="$1"
RTMP="/tmp/sdiff_$$"
if [ "`echo $2 | cut -b 1`" = / ]; then
FILE="$2"
else
FILE="`pwd`/$2"
fi
scp "$RHOST:$FILE" "$RTMP" 2>/dev/null
diff $FILE $RTMP; rm $RTMP
Please. Don't make light of slavery by comparing it to this.
Saying mandatory community service isn't good for anyone is like saying mandatory education isn't good for anyone. I'd wager that an early exposure to community service will have some real benefits for the individual.
A link to Michelle Malkin for supposed insight on what Obama represents? Very funny. For a minute I though you were being serious.
Are you kidding? Not if this work is in exchange for tuition assistance. Education is one of the biggest enemies of the Republican party.
How quaint. The 1700's called and want their notions of the role of the federal government back.
The sound of the name has nothing to do with it. As ChameleonDave points out, it is usually considered a feminine name in Mandarin because it can mean flower.
Heh, I just noticed you were the original poster, so I guess we can assume that the western name order was intended.
A Chinese name would have the family name first as you obviously know, and so I was making the assumption that the proper name order was being used. In that case the name would have to be either a family name of Xie and a given name Hua, or it could be a two character given name "Xie Hua". Either way the rather feminine Hua would be in the given name.
Of course if the the poster was using western name order and Hua was the family name then yeah, I wouldn't attempt to guess the gender of the person. Xie seems fairly neutral to me and your examples seem to back that up.
Disclaimer, I'm not Chinese and my Mandarin sucks ;)
Xie would be the last name. Unless you mean is Xie Hua male or female. Either way, Hua sounds feminine to me.