Wait...so you don't want the government to run things....or business. So what are you suggesting? Everyone running their own little plot of land?? A business at its root is just a bunch of people working together for a (relatively) common goal. As is the government, for that matter.
Which means....*gasp*...PEOPLE have power! PEOPLE can change things! PEOPLE can get promoted, and elected, and through HARD WORK can change their world into something they like better.
If any guy pulled some chick-flick movie stunt on me, I'd barf. Unless, of course, that stunt involved you standing outside of my window with a boombox a la Cusack, but you'd probably still end up with a restraining order.
Touche. What's hilarious is that I had to force my just now ex-girlfriend to watch Say Anything a few months ago, because her and her friends didn't think John Cusack was hot!
I'm not talking about the big stunts, though. Just getting used to the way girls talk, and the things they talk about. Perhaps it's also because I had older sisters. I had one girl (who was, ironically, putting the moves on me at the time) tell me she could tell I had sisters because I was capable of having a platonic conversation with a girl. Which is defintitely necessary for getting from the "Uhh...I like your shoes" to the "Wanna, y'know, do stuff?" stage successfully.
Except he doesn't have to pay for the majority of his health-care. And he doesn't have the DMCA. And smoking pot isn't a felony. Nor does he have Bush/Ashcroft/Rumsfeld, and NONE of his $54 000 CDN is going to support the War in Iraq.
That's why it's far more important to focus on inches lost and total percentage of body fat.
I totally agree....except that my bicycling-centric work out plan has made my thighs and ass huge (although firmer), so the jockeys aren't necessarily getting looser overall.:)
It seems my lack of social skills (relationship wise) continually hinders me. One question is where can I meet people with the goal of a relationship? Also, what skills can I improve or develop?
My suggestion would be to read some novels (preferably ones written by females, but not necessarily) that actually depict normal social interaction. And relationships. You know why they call them 'chick flicks' (and/or books)?? Becuase girls watch them! And that's where they get their expectations of how relationships work. So that's where you should learn, to, if you want to speak their language.
(disclaimer - I am a male, but one who is good once in the relationship. I just have the occasional problem getting into one:)).
Are you serious? Your company really mandates what browser is used!?
What generally happens is they don't give most people admin or power user access so they can't install anything. So if you want a new browser installed, you have to request it. And unless it's on an approved list or its something you can prove you need for your job, IT will tell you to fuck off.
I suspect the reasone is more the opposite. Personally, I used firefox at work for browsing (where we used Outlook), and the suite at home because I wanted the web to integrate closely with my e-mail. Thunderbird/Firefox now play very nice on windows, but are still a pain on Linux.
MathML should also be enabled by default and the required fonts should (maybe) come with Mozilla. I absolutely hate sites/browsers that tell me I need to download extra crap to view them.
Then why don't you use IE and have it automatically download all kinds of extra crap?? The reason that these things are choices is because not everyone wants them, and people would get pissed off if the choice was made behind their back.
I think she meant specifically the button in the upper-right of a browser window which animates as you wait for the page to download.
No...what Gerv meant was that CCS (i.e., rendering specifications for webPAGES), requires that you be able to do certain things with the standard form widgets (like buttons, drop-down lists, text entry boxes, and the like), which require a custom widget set. And if you need a custom widget set for webforms anyway, you may as well use it for the rest of the browser.
That's infeasible. In today's world with software patents, you expect every developer to do a patent search whenever they submit code? That's essentially what you're proposing you know. Requiring that everyone perform a $5k-50k search is going to cause a bit of a drop in kernel development I suspect.
If you're a halfway competent developer I'd hope that you'd be able to tell the difference between code you write that is new and potentially unique, versus run of the mill bugfixes and driver updates. And new, good ideas will probably have been discussed on the list, or in other literature, and you should have an idea which ones are or are not encumbered.
I recently attended a talk on 'dirty bombs', and what I found incredibly interesting is that the people who get the highest on-the-job dosage of radiation is not any sort of nuclear plant workers, but flight crews.
Just being closer to space that often increases the dosage much more than being near a nuclear plant, but its still well within safe levels. We're getting dosed all the time, from both space and the earth.
So this is not all that much of a surprising suggestion.
First off, if they're sending full results, they're probably close to the maximum message size.
Secondly, as everyone else has pointed out, there's huge overhead in all the many, many layers that the message passes through. And this is actually much WORSE - percentage wise - with small payloads.
I still agree that the throughput isn't that amazing. BUT, the fact that the system didn't crash still is.
As most cell providers are in business to make money, they're not going to provide for the maximum possible worst-case usage at every single link in the chain. Check out erlang.com for some info on blocking probability and resource assignment. So if there's all of a sudden a huge spike in traffic that wasn't anticipated when the system was last upgraded, there should be some blockages. I'd expect more in the centres that handle the message switching than in actual over the air bandwidth.
Also, there is probably only once or twice a year where the school system has to deal with this sort of think, and its the first time they're doing it this way. I think the most impressive part of the whole thing is that their database stood up to it. Electronic registration/grade checking systems are still pretty shit, in my experience with a few Canadian Universities. I even had the extreme displeasure of trying to interface a program to one of the beasts *shudder*.
After a while most math classes get to the point where answer tends to be 1, 0, or sqrt(2), so no, you don't really need a calculator.
On the other hand, to do most physics or engineering problems, you definitely need a calculator. Although usually they want you to arrange the problem symbolically first before plugging in the numbers, so you can get almost full marks even if you mess up the calculation.
On my last midterm of University (Telecom Engineering) I forgot my calculator, and had to do factorials and long division by hand. And it still wasn't that hard...probably because I hadn't relied on it in the past.
I wonder if NiN was the reason for the "nailgun" in Quake. People who knew of the band could hardly miss their logo on the ammo boxes.
Trent Reznor (i.e. Nine Inch Nails) composed the entiriety of the Quake soundtrack. And you even got it by buying the shareware version which was awesome. It was even funnier because the shareware was like $9, but indie record stores were selling the illegal Italian import of the soundtrack for like $23.
IGN was pretty horrible too in the past, but I genuinely forgot why so it couldn't have been that big a deal...
I just tried reading the interview with the id guy on IGN, and WHILE I WAS READING the screen refreshed to full-page ads, with no click-outs, for about a minute. That's beyond annoying, to the point of offensive. I was MID FUCKING SENTENCE.
Time = resource #2. Free? Not really. Time wasted looking for trailers and downloading them at shitty speeds after finding them is time a) I could be charging to a client or b) I could be spending enjoying said trailer, demo, patch for a game or with my loved ones.
How is time you're downloading not time you could be doing something else? Unless you're that transfixed by the download progress bar?
To be fair I watched the whole of the Rumsfeld hearings when I was at home with my parents, and since coming back to Ottawa have only read one Time magazine about 'the issue.'
It's all simply a smear job on the whole war effort. "Tonight on 'Face the Pressline': seven soldiers made Iraqi soldiers strip and form a human pyramid. Is it time that we disband our military and start polka-dancing for world peace?"
The point was the whole war effort was a crock in the first place. But no one knew how to say it. The pictures have provided an avenue to speak about it. Read "Culture of Fear" for a very, very good chapter on how media displaces complex fears onto simple scapegoats.
'The Pictures' do not indict the whole war effort, but they're the first things that really offer up the whole thing in black and white, sound bite sized, modern American reality.
No, he's not. He edits clips out of context, he distorts people's message.
Oh...heaven forbid! Have you ever read a book? A newspaper?? Watched the news???
The whole definition of a 'clip' is that its an edit. And Moore is obviously putting an agenda, the very point you're trying to make. So any person with half a brain (read - not only you) realizes he's only showing the bits relevant to his point, because he only has 2 damn hours.
Weren't read receipts 'invented' by Netscape 4.x?? That's the first time I remember seeing them. And the functionality is still in Mozilla, one of my friends requests them, and I get a box asking if I want to send it or not.
From what i read and hear, however, it does seem that criticism against Bush is generally regarded as not a wise move, and is to be avoided
Which you disagreed with. My point was Moore was booed by a bunch of fellow artists and entertainment industry people (generally considered 'left leaning') for criticizing Bush in public, and he was somewhat cut off by the producers/network.
As for the Dixie Chicks, Clear Channel owns the majority of the stations in the US, and if even a band with their kind of sales can be pulled by them, don't you think you should be alarmed? There's some major markets where CC controls ALL the commercial stations, if I'm not mistaken.
The point is not that they're being censored, but that it's being made inadvisable to criticize Bush, for fear of your product being pulled or people not wanting to be associated with you. That IS a chilling climate, censorship notwithstanding.
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Wait...so you don't want the government to run things....or business. So what are you suggesting? Everyone running their own little plot of land?? A business at its root is just a bunch of people working together for a (relatively) common goal. As is the government, for that matter.
Which means....*gasp*...PEOPLE have power! PEOPLE can change things! PEOPLE can get promoted, and elected, and through HARD WORK can change their world into something they like better.
If any guy pulled some chick-flick movie stunt on me, I'd barf. Unless, of course, that stunt involved you standing outside of my window with a boombox a la Cusack, but you'd probably still end up with a restraining order.
Touche. What's hilarious is that I had to force my just now ex-girlfriend to watch Say Anything a few months ago, because her and her friends didn't think John Cusack was hot!
I'm not talking about the big stunts, though. Just getting used to the way girls talk, and the things they talk about. Perhaps it's also because I had older sisters. I had one girl (who was, ironically, putting the moves on me at the time) tell me she could tell I had sisters because I was capable of having a platonic conversation with a girl. Which is defintitely necessary for getting from the "Uhh...I like your shoes" to the "Wanna, y'know, do stuff?" stage successfully.
Except he doesn't have to pay for the majority of his health-care. And he doesn't have the DMCA. And smoking pot isn't a felony. Nor does he have Bush/Ashcroft/Rumsfeld, and NONE of his $54 000 CDN is going to support the War in Iraq.
That's why it's far more important to focus on inches lost and total percentage of body fat.
:)
I totally agree....except that my bicycling-centric work out plan has made my thighs and ass huge (although firmer), so the jockeys aren't necessarily getting looser overall.
It seems my lack of social skills (relationship wise) continually hinders me. One question is where can I meet people with the goal of a relationship? Also, what skills can I improve or develop?
:)).
My suggestion would be to read some novels (preferably ones written by females, but not necessarily) that actually depict normal social interaction. And relationships. You know why they call them 'chick flicks' (and/or books)?? Becuase girls watch them! And that's where they get their expectations of how relationships work. So that's where you should learn, to, if you want to speak their language.
(disclaimer - I am a male, but one who is good once in the relationship. I just have the occasional problem getting into one
My mistake. Although the patents that I have seen defended successfully, are those that have been written by experts.
As in, only experts would come up with something non-obvious to a person of ordinary skill?? Isn't that the defintion of expert?
I think what you're saying is that you've only seen non-obvious patents be defended as non-obvious. Imagine that.
So they've patented being *faster* than already existing processes?
No, they've patented the system that does it. Although this patent is obviously bullshit, it's not quite a fully evil process patent.
Are you serious? Your company really mandates what browser is used!?
What generally happens is they don't give most people admin or power user access so they can't install anything. So if you want a new browser installed, you have to request it. And unless it's on an approved list or its something you can prove you need for your job, IT will tell you to fuck off.
I suspect the reasone is more the opposite. Personally, I used firefox at work for browsing (where we used Outlook), and the suite at home because I wanted the web to integrate closely with my e-mail. Thunderbird/Firefox now play very nice on windows, but are still a pain on Linux.
MathML should also be enabled by default and the required fonts should (maybe) come with Mozilla. I absolutely hate sites/browsers that tell me I need to download extra crap to view them.
Then why don't you use IE and have it automatically download all kinds of extra crap?? The reason that these things are choices is because not everyone wants them, and people would get pissed off if the choice was made behind their back.
I think she meant specifically the button in the upper-right of a browser window which animates as you wait for the page to download.
No...what Gerv meant was that CCS (i.e., rendering specifications for webPAGES), requires that you be able to do certain things with the standard form widgets (like buttons, drop-down lists, text entry boxes, and the like), which require a custom widget set. And if you need a custom widget set for webforms anyway, you may as well use it for the rest of the browser.
That's infeasible. In today's world with software patents, you expect every developer to do a patent search whenever they submit code? That's essentially what you're proposing you know. Requiring that everyone perform a $5k-50k search is going to cause a bit of a drop in kernel development I suspect.
If you're a halfway competent developer I'd hope that you'd be able to tell the difference between code you write that is new and potentially unique, versus run of the mill bugfixes and driver updates. And new, good ideas will probably have been discussed on the list, or in other literature, and you should have an idea which ones are or are not encumbered.
I recently attended a talk on 'dirty bombs', and what I found incredibly interesting is that the people who get the highest on-the-job dosage of radiation is not any sort of nuclear plant workers, but flight crews.
Just being closer to space that often increases the dosage much more than being near a nuclear plant, but its still well within safe levels. We're getting dosed all the time, from both space and the earth.
So this is not all that much of a surprising suggestion.
First off, if they're sending full results, they're probably close to the maximum message size.
Secondly, as everyone else has pointed out, there's huge overhead in all the many, many layers that the message passes through. And this is actually much WORSE - percentage wise - with small payloads.
I still agree that the throughput isn't that amazing. BUT, the fact that the system didn't crash still is.
As most cell providers are in business to make money, they're not going to provide for the maximum possible worst-case usage at every single link in the chain. Check out erlang.com for some info on blocking probability and resource assignment. So if there's all of a sudden a huge spike in traffic that wasn't anticipated when the system was last upgraded, there should be some blockages. I'd expect more in the centres that handle the message switching than in actual over the air bandwidth.
Also, there is probably only once or twice a year where the school system has to deal with this sort of think, and its the first time they're doing it this way. I think the most impressive part of the whole thing is that their database stood up to it. Electronic registration/grade checking systems are still pretty shit, in my experience with a few Canadian Universities. I even had the extreme displeasure of trying to interface a program to one of the beasts *shudder*.
After a while most math classes get to the point where answer tends to be 1, 0, or sqrt(2), so no, you don't really need a calculator.
On the other hand, to do most physics or engineering problems, you definitely need a calculator. Although usually they want you to arrange the problem symbolically first before plugging in the numbers, so you can get almost full marks even if you mess up the calculation.
On my last midterm of University (Telecom Engineering) I forgot my calculator, and had to do factorials and long division by hand. And it still wasn't that hard...probably because I hadn't relied on it in the past.
I wonder if NiN was the reason for the "nailgun" in Quake. People who knew of the band could hardly miss their logo on the ammo boxes.
Trent Reznor (i.e. Nine Inch Nails) composed the entiriety of the Quake soundtrack. And you even got it by buying the shareware version which was awesome. It was even funnier because the shareware was like $9, but indie record stores were selling the illegal Italian import of the soundtrack for like $23.
IGN was pretty horrible too in the past, but I genuinely forgot why so it couldn't have been that big a deal...
I just tried reading the interview with the id guy on IGN, and WHILE I WAS READING the screen refreshed to full-page ads, with no click-outs, for about a minute. That's beyond annoying, to the point of offensive. I was MID FUCKING SENTENCE.
Time = resource #2. Free? Not really. Time wasted looking for trailers and downloading them at shitty speeds after finding them is time a) I could be charging to a client or b) I could be spending enjoying said trailer, demo, patch for a game or with my loved ones.
How is time you're downloading not time you could be doing something else? Unless you're that transfixed by the download progress bar?
To be fair I watched the whole of the Rumsfeld hearings when I was at home with my parents, and since coming back to Ottawa have only read one Time magazine about 'the issue.'
It's all simply a smear job on the whole war effort. "Tonight on 'Face the Pressline': seven soldiers made Iraqi soldiers strip and form a human pyramid. Is it time that we disband our military and start polka-dancing for world peace?"
The point was the whole war effort was a crock in the first place. But no one knew how to say it. The pictures have provided an avenue to speak about it. Read "Culture of Fear" for a very, very good chapter on how media displaces complex fears onto simple scapegoats.
'The Pictures' do not indict the whole war effort, but they're the first things that really offer up the whole thing in black and white, sound bite sized, modern American reality.
No, he's not. He edits clips out of context, he distorts people's message.
Oh...heaven forbid! Have you ever read a book? A newspaper?? Watched the news???
The whole definition of a 'clip' is that its an edit. And Moore is obviously putting an agenda, the very point you're trying to make. So any person with half a brain (read - not only you) realizes he's only showing the bits relevant to his point, because he only has 2 damn hours.
Weren't read receipts 'invented' by Netscape 4.x?? That's the first time I remember seeing them. And the functionality is still in Mozilla, one of my friends requests them, and I get a box asking if I want to send it or not.
In other words, 'big entertainment'. And we all know which direction they lean.
Was Moore not booed at the Oscar's?
The judges may not have been mostly French, but there is still the matter of the 20 minute standing ovation that Moore's film recieved.
I'd also question what percentage of the audience was French. It was probably mostly people in the industry, from all over the world.
That page made at least SOME sense, until he got to the toaster part. That was just ridiculous.
The original was NOT censorship, it was:
From what i read and hear, however, it does seem that criticism against Bush is generally regarded as not a wise move, and is to be avoided
Which you disagreed with. My point was Moore was booed by a bunch of fellow artists and entertainment industry people (generally considered 'left leaning') for criticizing Bush in public, and he was somewhat cut off by the producers/network.
As for the Dixie Chicks, Clear Channel owns the majority of the stations in the US, and if even a band with their kind of sales can be pulled by them, don't you think you should be alarmed? There's some major markets where CC controls ALL the commercial stations, if I'm not mistaken.
The point is not that they're being censored, but that it's being made inadvisable to criticize Bush, for fear of your product being pulled or people not wanting to be associated with you. That IS a chilling climate, censorship notwithstanding.