It must be absolutely hilarious to you that someone has the balls to challenge arbitrary gender segregation traditions.
Yes, and thanks to the kilt, those balls are clearly visible at all times.
Seriously, I don't give a damn what people wear, gender stereotypes or not. I'm all for people who want to break with convention. However, if you're going to redefine social mores and modern fashion all at the same time, you should be prepared for--at the very least--some gentle ribbing. If you can't, well... maybe you're not cut out to be a pioneer.
In other words, lighten up, my kilt-wearing, hairy-legged friend.
I'll tell you what: I'll consider you a "man of science" when you demonstrate that you can understand the difference between "two" and "to".
And actually, yes: they ARE mutually exclusive. One relies on empirical, demonstrable fact. The other relies on an untestable belief in an invisible man who lives in the sky.
Science is science because you don't have to believe in it to make it work.
Wouldn't it make sence to have the images posted here be the same size, what happens if I want to print out all the images when it's done and put the book together, the cover is far too large for that.
Yeah, cause that means you would have to scale the cover image. Oh, Discordia! All is lost!
China, as of this moment, seems to be a gentle giant. It would take something drastic, like a huge plague or a huge famine or a military coup d'etat, to change that.
Any or all of which could happen in the space of a few months, weeks, or days. Meanwhile, it takes years to a get a system of this complexity working reliably.
The question isn't, do we need this system right now, it's will we need this system in less than 20 years. Personally, I would rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
The other argument I am seeing here is along the lines of "no one would ever attack the US, because they would be destroyed instantly!." This is true for most nations... but there are always miscalculations. In 1941, the leaders of Japan thought that one devastating attack would cause us to withdraw from the Pacific theatre, and stay out of their way while they established a little empire of their own. They weren't stupid, but they greatly miscalculated, and the cost was millions of lives, on both sides.
The real question is, do we believe that that those with the power to destroy (or horribly injure) us will always behave in a rational fashion? What are we willing to bet on that? All of our lives? Our children's lives? Grandchildren? The whole human race?
I personally believe that this system will never be used. I certainly hope that. When the consequences are this great--potentially the future of the species (this world is a tinderbox, have no doubt)--then the caution taken should be equivalent. Unlikely? Yes. Impossible? No.
This is going to be said by a lot of people here...
There's nothing Linux (or any other OS, for that matter) can do to allow you to get a good-quality image out of a half-assed trans adapter on a flatbed scanner.
I have seen ok images come out of a trans adapter... but those were large-format negatives, and they were still only really good for comps.
Repeat after me: There's no replacement for a slide scanner. There's no replacement for a slide scanner. There's no replacement for a slide scanner.
I bought a dimage slide scanner, and I haven't looked back. If you're serious, $250 is not expensive.
I'm sure there are people who consider GIMP to be completely usable, better than photoshop, etc etc. I can't really speak to that. I use photoshop about 5 hours a day, and on those occasions where I have tried GIMP, I was not favorably impressed. It struck me as being a program designed by people who have never actually had to use that sort of software. I'm not denigrating the project, but I won't sacrifice speed, flexibility, quality and my own sanity in order to make some point about open source....but like I said, photoshop pays my mortgage. I'm not unbiased.
However, in reality, very few people teach themselves calculus, computer theory, materials science, economics (and don't forget ettiquite) with the level of rigor demanded by these positions.
My bet is that 95% of consumers will not go with the expensive Apple option while there are much cheaper options that will do almost everything the apple option will do.
Yeah, exactly... Like, remember that iPod thing a few years back? LOL! What a failure! What ever happened with that, anyway?
Oh, and the name... the best translation I found seems to be "Clump of Souls"
I mean, how cool is that? "Gonna go roll up a Clump of Souls, catch you later." Also, to paraphrase Dave Barry, Clump of Souls would be a cool name for a band.
Hell, there's probably a christian rock name with that name already... nevermind about the cool bit.
When I was a little kid, we went to Astoria and climbed the spiral staircase inside of the Candlestick. I'm not sure how high it was, but it was probably only 80 feet - give or take. At the top, you only had a small ledge (perhaps two people-wide at best) and a rickety steel gaurdrail that seemed like it would give if you leaned on it.
Yeah, I went there when i was 8 or so... my parents wouldn't come inside, so i was left to go up by myself. I made it about 3/4 of the way up, and had to come back down because the staircase was freaking me out so much. Really narrow, steep steps, constantly shaking.
I haven't thought about that in years. A few years back I went to Chichen-Itza, near Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula (my honeymoon). they were still letting people climb to the top at that time (not sure if they still are). It's about a 45 degree angle, and I tell you... the most vertigo-inducing experience of my life....but this time I made it to the top.:-)
Actually, I'm just wishing there was a mod for "-1, Full of Crap".
Frankly, if you can't figure out how to search for a discrete phrase by the astounding technique of putting quotes around it, you don't deserve to get any useful results.
Make an eye patch out of it that has video of an eye, programmed to follow the motions of your other eye.
uh, yeah. cause that wouldn't be like, creepy or anything.
Yeah, i'm sure the one-eyed would get stared at a whole lot less if they had a CREEPY CYBER EYE PATCH looking around at things, moving just a bit slower than the other eye.
Losing someone's life is what constitutes "mission critical". If someone loses their life, you have screwed the pooch. If someone loses their job, they can get another one.
Like I said, that's a bastardization of the term.
What constitutes "mission critical" depends on your mission. Obviously. My job doesn't have anything to do with stealth bombers. It's not my mission.
Sorry, your misunderstanding of the phrase doesn't change reality.
Hardware and software where people's lives are on the line are mission critical. Think Apollo missions and nuclear power plants, folks. Anything else, isn't.
That's an extremely poor definition.
"Mission critical" is a concept that very much relies on the nature of your "mission" (obviously). Not everyone has life-or-death issues hinging on our projects. Usually, it just means that you'll lose some customers, lose some sales, lose a few million dollars, lose your job, etc. However, just because no one's dying, doesn't mean that it isn't important. Obviously.
For example, I used to work for a company that supplied printing plates to a cardboard box manufacturer (the agricultural industry). Our mission was getting these plates to the customer fast enough so that they could keep their multi-million presses running 24/7.
The economics were as such: every hour the press wasn't running (waiting for plates to arrive, whatever), cost the company $55k. Plus overtime for the press operators. Plus not getting the boxes to their customer before their product started to wilt in the field. Plus delaying the schedule of the truck drivers who had to haul this stuff cross country. Plus my company getting a rep for not being able to come through in the clutch.
Essentially, one "little" mistake (or delay, same thing) ends up affecting hundreds if not thousands of people, and their livelihoods.
Boxes for spinach are very distinctive, because they have a TON of holes in them to allow cooling systems to be more efficient when they're stacked on a pallet in a refrigerated truck etc. (most boxes for leafy greens-lettuce, etc. have a few holes but nothing like on the scale of spinach boxes) When I asked about this, I was told that the spinach is so biologically active--even after being picked--that it generated enough heat inside the boxes to require extra cooling--otherwise the shelf life would plummet.
Hint: keep your greens at EXACTLY 34F / 1C (no lower than that, and not much more than a couple of degrees higher). They'll last far, far longer in your refrigerator!
So, I guess that's why they picked spinach for this project. That dark, dark green is there for a reason.
I suppose the thing that amuses me about this discussion is, so many Americans think they understand the rest of the World because they see American films, or American tv, or watch Fox News or something. The World is an incredibly diverse place. Those of us in Europe are really nothing like Asians, much less someone from the Middle East. There is no way in hell you've experienced a realistic crosssection of our various cultures through the media pinhole you have available to you. And yet, making these broad, stereotypical generalizations of World citizens is perfectly socially acceptable. I swear to god, you see an Fox News broadcast or two and you think you know everything about this wonderful planet.
The thing is, there are plenty of us here who aren't like that. That's my point....or are you being willfully dense? Is this just flamebait, or are you trying to engage in an actual productive exchange of ideas?
Like I said, ignorance abounds everywhere. The US certainly has its share, but no more than everywhere else.
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It must be absolutely hilarious to you that someone has the balls to challenge arbitrary gender segregation traditions.
Yes, and thanks to the kilt, those balls are clearly visible at all times.
Seriously, I don't give a damn what people wear, gender stereotypes or not. I'm all for people who want to break with convention. However, if you're going to redefine social mores and modern fashion all at the same time, you should be prepared for--at the very least--some gentle ribbing. If you can't, well... maybe you're not cut out to be a pioneer.
In other words, lighten up, my kilt-wearing, hairy-legged friend.
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...that the phrase "self-taught biologist" gives me the willies, I just can't get over the beard.
Like the guy who came in to fix my copier last week wearing a--I kid you not--Utilikilt.
Yes, I know I'm being shallow. However, I do tend to wonder about people who cultivate their hygiene in an apparent attempt to LOOK LIKE RASPUTIN.
Slightly OT, I suppose.
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I'll tell you what: I'll consider you a "man of science" when you demonstrate that you can understand the difference between "two" and "to".
And actually, yes: they ARE mutually exclusive. One relies on empirical, demonstrable fact.
The other relies on an untestable belief in an invisible man who lives in the sky.
Science is science because you don't have to believe in it to make it work.
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Wouldn't it make sence to have the images posted here be the same size, what happens if I want to print out all the images when it's done and put the book together, the cover is far too large for that.
Yeah, cause that means you would have to scale the cover image. Oh, Discordia! All is lost!
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China, as of this moment, seems to be a gentle giant. It would take something drastic, like a huge plague or a huge famine or a military coup d'etat, to change that.
Any or all of which could happen in the space of a few months, weeks, or days. Meanwhile, it takes years to a get a system of this complexity working reliably.
The question isn't, do we need this system right now, it's will we need this system in less than 20 years. Personally, I would rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
The other argument I am seeing here is along the lines of "no one would ever attack the US, because they would be destroyed instantly!." This is true for most nations... but there are always miscalculations. In 1941, the leaders of Japan thought that one devastating attack would cause us to withdraw from the Pacific theatre, and stay out of their way while they established a little empire of their own. They weren't stupid, but they greatly miscalculated, and the cost was millions of lives, on both sides.
The real question is, do we believe that that those with the power to destroy (or horribly injure) us will always behave in a rational fashion? What are we willing to bet on that? All of our lives? Our children's lives? Grandchildren? The whole human race?
I personally believe that this system will never be used. I certainly hope that. When the consequences are this great--potentially the future of the species (this world is a tinderbox, have no doubt)--then the caution taken should be equivalent. Unlikely? Yes. Impossible? No.
Of course, this is just my opinion.
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This is going to be said by a lot of people here...
...but like I said, photoshop pays my mortgage. I'm not unbiased.
There's nothing Linux (or any other OS, for that matter) can do to allow you to get a good-quality image out of a half-assed trans adapter on a flatbed scanner.
I have seen ok images come out of a trans adapter... but those were large-format negatives, and they were still only really good for comps.
Repeat after me:
There's no replacement for a slide scanner.
There's no replacement for a slide scanner.
There's no replacement for a slide scanner.
I bought a dimage slide scanner, and I haven't looked back. If you're serious, $250 is not expensive.
I'm sure there are people who consider GIMP to be completely usable, better than photoshop, etc etc. I can't really speak to that. I use photoshop about 5 hours a day, and on those occasions where I have tried GIMP, I was not favorably impressed. It struck me as being a program designed by people who have never actually had to use that sort of software. I'm not denigrating the project, but I won't sacrifice speed, flexibility, quality and my own sanity in order to make some point about open source.
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In Korea, online photo services are only for old people.
However, in reality, very few people teach themselves calculus, computer theory, materials science, economics (and don't forget ettiquite) with the level of rigor demanded by these positions.
Yeah, don't forget spelling...
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My bet is that 95% of consumers will not go with the expensive Apple option while there are much cheaper options that will do almost everything the apple option will do.
Yeah, exactly... Like, remember that iPod thing a few years back? LOL! What a failure! What ever happened with that, anyway?
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Oh, and the name... the best translation I found seems to be "Clump of Souls"
I mean, how cool is that? "Gonna go roll up a Clump of Souls, catch you later." Also, to paraphrase Dave Barry, Clump of Souls would be a cool name for a band.
Hell, there's probably a christian rock name with that name already... nevermind about the cool bit.
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I love this game so much, I bought a PS2 just to play it.
Seriously. (EB refurb, but still.)
In fact, it's still the only PS2 game I own. The other games I like are all on the xbox or mac/pc, but I couldn't pass this one up.
I mean, it's... well. Hard to explain. And now a new one? I just hope the dialog is as silly, and the music is as cool.
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When I was a little kid, we went to Astoria and climbed the spiral staircase inside of the Candlestick. I'm not sure how high it was, but it was probably only 80 feet - give or take. At the top, you only had a small ledge (perhaps two people-wide at best) and a rickety steel gaurdrail that seemed like it would give if you leaned on it.
...but this time I made it to the top. :-)
Yeah, I went there when i was 8 or so... my parents wouldn't come inside, so i was left to go up by myself. I made it about 3/4 of the way up, and had to come back down because the staircase was freaking me out so much. Really narrow, steep steps, constantly shaking.
I haven't thought about that in years. A few years back I went to Chichen-Itza, near Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula (my honeymoon). they were still letting people climb to the top at that time (not sure if they still are). It's about a 45 degree angle, and I tell you... the most vertigo-inducing experience of my life.
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It is also clearly wrong.
Why is it that when someone uses the word clearly in this context, it often means just the opposite?
As much as some want to deny it, that which is virtual is not real, by very definition. It is a symbol.
The symbol is NOT the actuality. The map is NOT the city.
I am not claiming that symbols must lack value. However, value in regards to symbolic objects is almost completely arbitrary.
Confusion arises when money is involved, as money itself is symbolic by its very nature.
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If it makes you feel any better, you can consider this payback for the EU nixing the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger just to give Airbus a leg up.
That was dirty pool.
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An insightful first post, from someone who actually read the article.
If anybody wants me, I'll be outside watching fire rain from the sky and the seas turn to blood...
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What do you expect from an Insensitive Claude?
j/k
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Actually, I'm just wishing there was a mod for "-1, Full of Crap".
Frankly, if you can't figure out how to search for a discrete phrase by the astounding technique of putting quotes around it, you don't deserve to get any useful results.
Shoo, troll, shoo.
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Make an eye patch out of it that has video of an eye, programmed to follow the motions of your other eye.
uh, yeah. cause that wouldn't be like, creepy or anything.
Yeah, i'm sure the one-eyed would get stared at a whole lot less if they had a CREEPY CYBER EYE PATCH looking around at things, moving just a bit slower than the other eye.
Good idea though.... (?!?)
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I'd prefer if France was run by a Gentoo-Running Sadist, but it doesn't mean I get a say in the matter.
Don't you mean masochist? And if so, isn't that a bit redundant?
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Losing someone's life is what constitutes "mission critical". If someone loses their life, you have screwed the pooch. If someone loses their job, they can get another one.
Like I said, that's a bastardization of the term.
What constitutes "mission critical" depends on your mission. Obviously. My job doesn't have anything to do with stealth bombers. It's not my mission.
Sorry, your misunderstanding of the phrase doesn't change reality.
Look it up.
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Hardware and software where people's lives are on the line are mission critical. Think Apollo missions and nuclear power plants, folks. Anything else, isn't.
That's an extremely poor definition.
"Mission critical" is a concept that very much relies on the nature of your "mission" (obviously). Not everyone has life-or-death issues hinging on our projects. Usually, it just means that you'll lose some customers, lose some sales, lose a few million dollars, lose your job, etc. However, just because no one's dying, doesn't mean that it isn't important. Obviously.
For example, I used to work for a company that supplied printing plates to a cardboard box manufacturer (the agricultural industry). Our mission was getting these plates to the customer fast enough so that they could keep their multi-million presses running 24/7.
The economics were as such: every hour the press wasn't running (waiting for plates to arrive, whatever), cost the company $55k.
Plus overtime for the press operators.
Plus not getting the boxes to their customer before their product started to wilt in the field.
Plus delaying the schedule of the truck drivers who had to haul this stuff cross country.
Plus my company getting a rep for not being able to come through in the clutch.
Essentially, one "little" mistake (or delay, same thing) ends up affecting hundreds if not thousands of people, and their livelihoods.
In my case, that's what "mission critical" meant.
What's your mission?
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I used to work in the ag-packaging industry.
Boxes for spinach are very distinctive, because they have a TON of holes in them to allow cooling systems to be more efficient when they're stacked on a pallet in a refrigerated truck etc.
(most boxes for leafy greens-lettuce, etc. have a few holes but nothing like on the scale of spinach boxes)
When I asked about this, I was told that the spinach is so biologically active--even after being picked--that it generated enough heat inside the boxes to require extra cooling--otherwise the shelf life would plummet.
Hint: keep your greens at EXACTLY 34F / 1C (no lower than that, and not much more than a couple of degrees higher). They'll last far, far longer in your refrigerator!
So, I guess that's why they picked spinach for this project. That dark, dark green is there for a reason.
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Realistically, though, you must know that your odds of defeated one of the two major parties are (sadly) quite low.
On the contrary, I would submit that his chances of being defeated are really quite excellent.
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I know some people who I would like to volunteer for this project... ...so, if I drop them off in a few gunny sacks on launch day, will that work?
If they make any noise or anything, just ignore them. Bunch of kidders... hehe.
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I suppose the thing that amuses me about this discussion is, so many Americans think they understand the rest of the World because they see American films, or American tv, or watch Fox News or something. The World is an incredibly diverse place. Those of us in Europe are really nothing like Asians, much less someone from the Middle East. There is no way in hell you've experienced a realistic crosssection of our various cultures through the media pinhole you have available to you. And yet, making these broad, stereotypical generalizations of World citizens is perfectly socially acceptable. I swear to god, you see an Fox News broadcast or two and you think you know everything about this wonderful planet.
...or are you being willfully dense? Is this just flamebait, or are you trying to engage in an actual productive exchange of ideas?
The thing is, there are plenty of us here who aren't like that. That's my point.
Like I said, ignorance abounds everywhere. The US certainly has its share, but no more than everywhere else.
Please, there's been enough hyperbole.
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