Those blogs have not made me feel any different about Apple, especially Macs.
If I wanted a metro-sexual, hip, computer that would effectively cut me off from the rest of the PC Universe, I'd buy one. I don't want one. Stop posting all these Apple fan boy, blogs.
Using a PC or purchasing a Microsoft product is not going to give me cancer, promote communism, or make me less creative than a Prius-driving, goatee-wearing, artist living in the Village.
Zune didn't make the cut and the iPod did. How many ways do you need to analyze this, fan-boys? (That is not directed at the parent poster, BTW)
I like my computers under my desk where I don't see them to begin with. Modding cases is cute but not worth my time. I could glue sequins and glitter to my chair but it doesn't add to its utility one iota.
Now I purely develop software. I'm happier now than I've been in 8 years. I only work 40hrs/wk
I am a developer. Got a regular work week for me?
Seriously, a 40-hr work week is just a fantasy where I work. The only people that DO work 40 hours is our IT staff. The developers get hammered. It's funny how different our situations are. Only...I can't bring myself to laugh at the moment.
I am most impressed with the tools today's students have at their disposal. Yes, these are awesome research triumphs but many of these would not have been accessible to students even 5 years ago.
And no, I'm taking nothing away from these kids or trivializing them. But these projects kinda "fit the times", if you will. They have powerful computers, mature math and stats packages, and most of all...they are in many cases extending research topics available through the free exchange of information on the Internet, which extends the pathetic libraries available to me when I was in school.
For me, it was gym class that began the polarization of my class into jocks and everyone else. Until formal gym classes in Jr High, most of us got along pretty well. In their quest to derive some kind of extra revenue (ticket sales), the school districts unwittingly help further socially stratify young children.
Well children burn calories like mad even at rest. If for nothing else, they're always growing and that takes significant energy.
While I have not read all the/. comments yet, I hope we do not damn the study simply because the results were not what we expected. That's the whole reason we're supposed to be doing studies in the first place. Rubber stamping desired outcomes is what corporate sponsored studies are for.
I do have a chip on my shoulder. I apologize for coming on strong. It began after returning home from war to find out everybody thought I was stupid for participating in a war that most people do not like or care about.
I grow tired of hearing "experts" nail the typical Marine and soldier with their erudite observations from TV.
I would hazard to say less French might have died if they had decided to fight from the beginning and not just after the occupation in a clandestine manner.
I personally find it amazing that America bailed them out of both World Wars and yet France continues to be a tacit enemy of the United States. They should have put more of that anti-American sentiment to good use against the Germans. I do have to admit the French farmers are remarkable adept at blockading Euro-Disney. They're the countries best tactical minds.
Your post sounds like a slur on the military. I spent 20-years in the Marine Corps and am a combat veteran, am not fat, nor religious, and have an advanced degree. If you think you're better than me, pony up and defend all the freedom you're obviously reveling in now by joining the armed forces. If that is somehow beneath you, then kindly live with your superiority complex in private.
Being in the military does not make you a puppet. BTW do you really think you are any less a pawn to big oil? I have a big problem with individuals making asinine remarks about how dying for America and Americans is pathetic and worthy only of the dregs of society. The military makes NO policy nor endorses any political party or corporations. Saying anything else is either a cheap shot or profound ignorance. What a fortunate thing that our society did not have to depend on you for support.
The Big Oil companies should be strongly censured for tampering with the output of the Sun in an effort to derail political arguments for man-made, global warming. I'm not certain how they did it but we should at least have a congressional hearing into this matter. Further, investigation into alternative explanations for global warming should cease until Congress publishes guidelines for future study and interpretation of the results.
"The fact is, climate modeling is not that bad if you don't push its predictions past a century or so"
It's been a daily observation of mine that climate modeling is not very good for even a week, if you follow the weather on the news. I would say there is a lot of room left for climate models to mature.
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Okay, Okay...I give up!
Let's all retreat from making jokes about the French surrendering.
Those blogs have not made me feel any different about Apple, especially Macs.
If I wanted a metro-sexual, hip, computer that would effectively cut me off from the rest of the PC Universe, I'd buy one. I don't want one. Stop posting all these Apple fan boy, blogs.
Using a PC or purchasing a Microsoft product is not going to give me cancer, promote communism, or make me less creative than a Prius-driving, goatee-wearing, artist living in the Village.
Zune didn't make the cut and the iPod did. How many ways do you need to analyze this, fan-boys? (That is not directed at the parent poster, BTW)
I like my computers under my desk where I don't see them to begin with. Modding cases is cute but not worth my time. I could glue sequins and glitter to my chair but it doesn't add to its utility one iota.
Now I purely develop software. I'm happier now than I've been in 8 years. I only work 40hrs/wk
I am a developer. Got a regular work week for me?
Seriously, a 40-hr work week is just a fantasy where I work. The only people that DO work 40 hours is our IT staff. The developers get hammered. It's funny how different our situations are. Only...I can't bring myself to laugh at the moment.
Thanks, I am well aware of that.
The GP was asking about scores of the "present" design of Mars rovers.
It's a lot colder on those distant Jovian and Saturnian moons and the amount of sunlight would not be enough to charge the alreay too cold batteries.
We would need a new design.
I am most impressed with the tools today's students have at their disposal. Yes, these are awesome research triumphs but many of these would not have been accessible to students even 5 years ago.
And no, I'm taking nothing away from these kids or trivializing them. But these projects kinda "fit the times", if you will. They have powerful computers, mature math and stats packages, and most of all...they are in many cases extending research topics available through the free exchange of information on the Internet, which extends the pathetic libraries available to me when I was in school.
Amen,
For me, it was gym class that began the polarization of my class into jocks and everyone else. Until formal gym classes in Jr High, most of us got along pretty well. In their quest to derive some kind of extra revenue (ticket sales), the school districts unwittingly help further socially stratify young children.
Well children burn calories like mad even at rest. If for nothing else, they're always growing and that takes significant energy.
/. comments yet, I hope we do not damn the study simply because the results were not what we expected. That's the whole reason we're supposed to be doing studies in the first place. Rubber stamping desired outcomes is what corporate sponsored studies are for.
While I have not read all the
Irvine might be a little different (all their roads twist and turn to much),
Which, thankfully, puts an upper-limit to the size of their SUV's.
Technically, all electrical consumers in your car do indeed require more fuel, as the load on the alternator is a load on the engine.
It is not too much more of a load but it is there.
It's clear the GP did not ....wait for it....T E S T
Shame on him.
And just what the hell does an African tribe have to do with time synchronization, anyway? :)
...And showing newspaper headlines through time back to the depression-era. Oh, but you need to use stone knives and bearskins, too.
Mod -5 "Not a Mac Fanboy"
Do not be alarmed; we will re-educate you. Hold still...Nurse!?
These aren't the droids you're looking for...
Move along...
Yes,
I do have a chip on my shoulder. I apologize for coming on strong. It began after returning home from war to find out everybody thought I was stupid for participating in a war that most people do not like or care about.
I grow tired of hearing "experts" nail the typical Marine and soldier with their erudite observations from TV.
Cheers....
Well, let's see...
I would hazard to say less French might have died if they had decided to fight from the beginning and not just after the occupation in a clandestine manner.
I personally find it amazing that America bailed them out of both World Wars and yet France continues to be a tacit enemy of the United States. They should have put more of that anti-American sentiment to good use against the Germans. I do have to admit the French farmers are remarkable adept at blockading Euro-Disney. They're the countries best tactical minds.
I call BS!
Your post sounds like a slur on the military. I spent 20-years in the Marine Corps and am a combat veteran, am not fat, nor religious, and have an advanced degree. If you think you're better than me, pony up and defend all the freedom you're obviously reveling in now by joining the armed forces. If that is somehow beneath you, then kindly live with your superiority complex in private.
Being in the military does not make you a puppet. BTW do you really think you are any less a pawn to big oil? I have a big problem with individuals making asinine remarks about how dying for America and Americans is pathetic and worthy only of the dregs of society. The military makes NO policy nor endorses any political party or corporations. Saying anything else is either a cheap shot or profound ignorance. What a fortunate thing that our society did not have to depend on you for support.
The Big Oil companies should be strongly censured for tampering with the output of the Sun in an effort to derail political arguments for man-made, global warming. I'm not certain how they did it but we should at least have a congressional hearing into this matter. Further, investigation into alternative explanations for global warming should cease until Congress publishes guidelines for future study and interpretation of the results.
"The fact is, climate modeling is not that bad if you don't push its predictions past a century or so"
It's been a daily observation of mine that climate modeling is not very good for even a week, if you follow the weather on the news. I would say there is a lot of room left for climate models to mature.
Did you actually read the link? It had nothing to do with Global Warming. Instead, it was another example of logical fallacy.
"I hereby nominate this nanocoating material for 'employee of the month'! (everyone has to win at least once)"
Then why have I been skipped twice?
And don't forget the Therac-25 incident:
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http://www.netcomp.monash.edu.au/cpe9001/assets/r
Yes, Virginia. Software bugs can and do kill.
I hope you're not French....