and the sprinkler idiot) is troubling. Not just because these cops are stupid, but because it reflects a general failure of critical thinking across our society.
Drawing such a broad conclusion from two anecdotes reflects a failure in your critical thinking.
More agreeable to what you are saying, I couldn't be. They are sleazeballs and unethical. If they are breaking the terms of their agreement people can and should take them to court. But I'm shared they're prepared for that and have taken it into account.
As far as the fact they are a private enterprise making money hand over fist on top of an infrastructure paid for by taxpayers . . . man, don't get me started, my blood pressure is high enough as it is.
. . . I'm going to guess it's much more fair by using the electric utility model and much more profitable by using the "heads-I-win_tails_you_lose" model of cell phone companies.
I wasn't suggesting that--if anything they can make their operation more profitable by increasing the margin on the amount they charge for the bandwidth that actually is used.
The only people who logically wouldn't support a tiered system like this, are those who use far more bandwidth than the "average" person--and who therefore, are currently NOT paying for it. As a comparatively low bandwidth person myself, I prefer a tiered solution, where I just pay for what I use.
Now if only we could buy our cable channels the same way, where you only pay for what you want and not for the bazillion shopping channels too . . .
I use Sed and awk for tons of text parsing tasks. The best thing--they can handle enormous text files almost as easily and quickly as little ones. My boss is trying to get me to use PERL exclusively, but I'm just too lazy. And typically it's quicker to break the task down into a few lines of sed or/and awk and pipe into into a little script, than it is to write a proper PERL script.
Whisky ages by evaporating bad alcohols while retaining tasty ones.
This statement is nonsensical. Whisky, and any other alcoholic drink for that matter, has one and only one alcohol, ethanol, C2H5OH. At least, it better, since any other form of alcohol is quite poisonous.
Actually, it does have other alcohol types besides ethanol, BUT only in trace amounts. It's pretty near impossible to distill your mash and have 100% ethanol. Here are the boiling points of some of the other alcohols :
I've heard the term "gremlin" used as well, particularly in regard to aircraft.
Nevertheless, Capt. Lawson referred to the process of discovering and rectifying early problems with the aircraft (when he wrote the book in 1942/43) as "shaking out the bugs".
to indicate some sort of mechanical defect or malfunction.
In his great 1943 book Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Ted Lawson described his first experience with the--at the time--cutting edge
B-25 bomber aircraft: "I saw a lot of B-25's after that. I flew a succession of them as they went through their growing pains. Maybe I helped shake a few 'bugs' out of their first model."
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Umm . . . just a century or two ago, cholera was common, as was drinking beer in place of water since it had been boiled and made sterile.
and the sprinkler idiot) is troubling. Not just because these cops are stupid, but because it reflects a general failure of critical thinking across our society.
Drawing such a broad conclusion from two anecdotes reflects a failure in your critical thinking.
More agreeable to what you are saying, I couldn't be.
They are sleazeballs and unethical. If they are breaking the terms of their agreement people can and should take them to court. But I'm shared they're prepared for that and have taken it into account.
As far as the fact they are a private enterprise making money hand over fist on top of an infrastructure paid for by taxpayers . . . man, don't get me started, my blood pressure is high enough as it is.
. . . I'm going to guess it's much more fair by using the electric utility model and much more profitable by using the "heads-I-win_tails_you_lose" model of cell phone companies.
Guess which model they're going with?
I wasn't suggesting that--if anything they can make their operation more profitable by increasing the margin on the amount they charge for the bandwidth that actually is used.
The only people who logically wouldn't support a tiered system like this, are those who use far more bandwidth than the "average" person--and who therefore, are currently NOT paying for it. As a comparatively low bandwidth person myself, I prefer a tiered solution, where I just pay for what I use.
Now if only we could buy our cable channels the same way, where you only pay for what you want and not for the bazillion shopping channels too . . .
Word.
I use Sed and awk for tons of text parsing tasks. The best thing--they can handle enormous text files almost as easily and quickly as little ones.
My boss is trying to get me to use PERL exclusively, but I'm just too lazy. And typically it's quicker to break the task down into a few lines of sed or/and awk and pipe into into a little script, than it is to write a proper PERL script.
This statement is nonsensical. Whisky, and any other alcoholic drink for that matter, has one and only one alcohol, ethanol, C2H5OH. At least, it better, since any other form of alcohol is quite poisonous.
Actually, it does have other alcohol types besides ethanol, BUT only in trace amounts. It's pretty near impossible to distill your mash and have 100% ethanol. Here are the boiling points of some of the other alcohols :
Alcohol - ethyl 172.4
Alcohol - allyl 207
Alcohol - butyl-n 243
Alcohol - methyl (wood, methanol) 151
Alcohol - propyl 207
As you can see it's easy to get rid of the methyl alcohol since it's at 151, but you can't get rid of alyl, butyl or propyl without losing the ethyl.
I've heard the term "gremlin" used as well, particularly in regard to aircraft.
Nevertheless, Capt. Lawson referred to the process of discovering and rectifying early problems with the aircraft (when he wrote the book in 1942/43) as "shaking out the bugs".
to indicate some sort of mechanical defect or malfunction. In his great 1943 book Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Ted Lawson described his first experience with the--at the time--cutting edge B-25 bomber aircraft: "I saw a lot of B-25's after that. I flew a succession of them as they went through their growing pains. Maybe I helped shake a few 'bugs' out of their first model."
Here is another PostgreSQL book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761524444/ o/qid=966295863/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/ 104-8321286-0883151
Too bad the site is so out of date . . .
>Every one seems to love the idea that Apple dropped the ball with this new chip but hey, where is Intel's new chip? Delayed again.
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Who cares about crApple OR Intel, when there's
an 800 MHZ ATHLON to be had ! (or built actually)
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/99q3/990826/ind
:-)
Not to mention the charmed and the strange.
What is the "cross talk issue in packing"
Could you elaborate a bit?
thanks,
I think the _obvious_ to all of this
is NT is faster than Linux.