"Oh, you hate your job?... Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." ~ Drew Carey, The Drew Carey Show
Hey man, I'm going fight the "cracker" vs. "hacker" battle until my last, dying breath. Don't expect me to let this one slide so easily. As George Carlin once wrote "Fuck common usage".
Ugh, I hate it when people describe dial-up as "narrowband" in an attempt to sound more technical. The term "broadband" is used to describe the signal encoding, not bandwidth. Therefore the converse of "broadband is "baseband," not narrowband. The opposite of narrowband is "wideband", and refers to something else. Um, k? Glad we have that all cleared up.
Execution by shooting a single bullet into the back a person's head is a pretty efficient process. I would bet money that it's pretty close to 100% efficient in the countries that use that method. As the GP says, a process can be 100% efficient, depending on how you define efficiency.
You're assuming that the costs scales linearly, which is pretty unlikely given the huge fixed costs associated with any type of energy production/distribution network on this scale.
I've always been confused by the term. I don't understand why black Americans qualify themselves with "African-" during everyday conversation. Something "blue-green" would be something not quite blue and not quite green. How is a black American anything other than simply "American?" I'm of Irish descent, but to identify myself "Irish-American" would be very odd. I've never been to Ireland, don't speak Gaelic, and didn't know what a shillelagh is until earlier today--I am 100% culturally American. Even if I studied up on Irish history, learned to play the bagpipes, and donned Celtic garb, I'd still simply be an American with an interest in my familial roots.
Sorry, but "African-American" is just a made-up, bullshit term that is carryover from Malcom X's philosophy. It intentionally creates a devise, separatist mindset and I refuse to use it. The descriptive words "white" and "black", while woefully binary, suit me just fine on the rare occasion that I need to further classify a particular person by race.
I work across the street from Comerica Park. Not everyone from Detroit is still deluded into believing that a life-long career in manufacturing is still viable. If fact, I would say that the bulk of the people here have learned that first hand. My father was a tool and die maker and while he really enjoyed his trade and made decent money, he warned me as a young child not to follow in his footsteps. Every year he watched CNC machines take over more of what he used to do by hand. He quit after 25 years and went into real estate. Shortly thereafter, even the CNC machines disappeared as his former employer folded as the work moved to Mexico.
It hurts, but thus is the way of progress.
Not to mention there's another, significantly well-funded organization who's sole purpose is to defend Second Amendment rights. Why would the ACLU devote their resources to fighting the same battles when there are other huge fish to fry?
Yeah right... The fact that it's a two-year old, highly-classified spy satellite has nothing to do with it. The *real* reason that they're spending $60M is to make sure that some fuel doesn't contaminate an acre or so of land.
WEP isn't useless. It will keep 99.99% of freeloaders off a wifi network. And 99.99% of people trying to connect to a wifi network that isn't theirs is just a freeloader. Path of least resistance, man... WEP will continue to be at least marginally useful until Windows ships with Clippy that pops up with "The network you're trying to connect to is WEP-enabled. Would you like to crack it?"
Not to mention that $1.00 is the cost to the producer (as mentioned downthread), not the consumer. According to the State or Oregon, it currently costs $1.10 to make a gallon of corn-based ethanol. Suddenly I am underwhelmed.:-\
Drag that old PII out of the closet and install Linux and Samba on it, maybe upgrading the HDD a bit first. I also use my primary home server a firewall, caching DNS server, transparent web proxy (Squid), voice-over-ip/ultra-advanced answering machine (Asterisk), and for experimenting with various web projects.
I can't quite figure out if you're a subtle troll or not? However, one of the biggest complaints about PHP programmers is that they're oblivious to a lot of important aspects of programing. Security being one of the biggies. Not being aware of the general criticisms of their chosen tools is another. (Which, if you're not a troll, you've proven my point.) I happen love Python, but I'm also aware of why many people don't like it.
Everyone always seems to think that the RIAA/major labels are dumb as a box of rocks. I highly doubt that. They know the rug has been pulled out from under them and they'll have to change. I'll even go as far to say that they aren't fighting that fact that they have to change. All this legal and legislative shell game is about one thing: buying time.
These companies are very old and very large. With the speed at which Internet technologies have evolved, they've been forced to slalom with a battleship. The labels are trying to buy themselves time while they work to change the very core of their business. Don't confuse me for an apologist, but believing your competition to be stupid when their not is pretty dangerous. The RIAA aren't going to wake up one day and finally "get it"--they already got it. If you want to successfully challenge their dominance, the only thing you can do is to remain one step ahead of them. And be prepared for a very long dance because they have a lot of interia (and resources) behind them.
Companies exist to make money. If being more open allows them to make more money, then then they "truly" believe in it. QED.
Corporations are amoral amalgamations of many different kinds of people with different goals; they are not the single-minded overlords that so many working folk like to paint them to be. The only thing they agree on is making a profit.
I (supposedly) have digital cable. Many of the channels have horrible compression artifacts; it's especially noticeable with scenes containing fast-moving water. Any idea who's fault this might be? Is the cable company just being extra cheap?
Ever use a credit card, debit card, or check with that card? Anything other than cash; even just once? If so, odds are they've already "corrected" the information you wrote on the initial application.
Hypocrisy is lashing out accusations while being willfully ignorant of the actual facts. The ACLU takes no position on gun control. Why should they? Their already exists a massively influential and well-funded organization to protect that particular constitutional right.
I recently met a person who works for the American Cancer Society and we got to talking about her job. They are explicitly prohibited from smoking on or off the job. They even sign a contract consenting to occasional searches of their personal effects for cigarettes (she didn't say if/how often that occurs though). I also remember reading about a private sector employer who enacted similar measures about a year ago. In Ohio I think? I'm sure a bit of googling would turn something up; it made quite a bit of press.
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I find that plausible, but care to cite a source?
"Oh, you hate your job?... Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." ~ Drew Carey, The Drew Carey Show
Hey man, I'm going fight the "cracker" vs. "hacker" battle until my last, dying breath. Don't expect me to let this one slide so easily. As George Carlin once wrote "Fuck common usage".
Ugh, I hate it when people describe dial-up as "narrowband" in an attempt to sound more technical. The term "broadband" is used to describe the signal encoding, not bandwidth. Therefore the converse of "broadband is "baseband," not narrowband. The opposite of narrowband is "wideband", and refers to something else. Um, k? Glad we have that all cleared up.
Execution by shooting a single bullet into the back a person's head is a pretty efficient process. I would bet money that it's pretty close to 100% efficient in the countries that use that method. As the GP says, a process can be 100% efficient, depending on how you define efficiency.
You're assuming that the costs scales linearly, which is pretty unlikely given the huge fixed costs associated with any type of energy production/distribution network on this scale.
I've always been confused by the term. I don't understand why black Americans qualify themselves with "African-" during everyday conversation. Something "blue-green" would be something not quite blue and not quite green. How is a black American anything other than simply "American?" I'm of Irish descent, but to identify myself "Irish-American" would be very odd. I've never been to Ireland, don't speak Gaelic, and didn't know what a shillelagh is until earlier today--I am 100% culturally American. Even if I studied up on Irish history, learned to play the bagpipes, and donned Celtic garb, I'd still simply be an American with an interest in my familial roots.
Sorry, but "African-American" is just a made-up, bullshit term that is carryover from Malcom X's philosophy. It intentionally creates a devise, separatist mindset and I refuse to use it. The descriptive words "white" and "black", while woefully binary, suit me just fine on the rare occasion that I need to further classify a particular person by race.
I work across the street from Comerica Park. Not everyone from Detroit is still deluded into believing that a life-long career in manufacturing is still viable. If fact, I would say that the bulk of the people here have learned that first hand. My father was a tool and die maker and while he really enjoyed his trade and made decent money, he warned me as a young child not to follow in his footsteps. Every year he watched CNC machines take over more of what he used to do by hand. He quit after 25 years and went into real estate. Shortly thereafter, even the CNC machines disappeared as his former employer folded as the work moved to Mexico. It hurts, but thus is the way of progress.
Not to mention there's another, significantly well-funded organization who's sole purpose is to defend Second Amendment rights. Why would the ACLU devote their resources to fighting the same battles when there are other huge fish to fry?
Yeah right... The fact that it's a two-year old, highly-classified spy satellite has nothing to do with it. The *real* reason that they're spending $60M is to make sure that some fuel doesn't contaminate an acre or so of land.
WEP isn't useless. It will keep 99.99% of freeloaders off a wifi network. And 99.99% of people trying to connect to a wifi network that isn't theirs is just a freeloader. Path of least resistance, man... WEP will continue to be at least marginally useful until Windows ships with Clippy that pops up with "The network you're trying to connect to is WEP-enabled. Would you like to crack it?"
Not to mention that $1.00 is the cost to the producer (as mentioned downthread), not the consumer. According to the State or Oregon, it currently costs $1.10 to make a gallon of corn-based ethanol. Suddenly I am underwhelmed. :-\
I think you mean essence, not karma. That'll be a 10 yard penalty...
Drag that old PII out of the closet and install Linux and Samba on it, maybe upgrading the HDD a bit first. I also use my primary home server a firewall, caching DNS server, transparent web proxy (Squid), voice-over-ip/ultra-advanced answering machine (Asterisk), and for experimenting with various web projects.
I can't quite figure out if you're a subtle troll or not? However, one of the biggest complaints about PHP programmers is that they're oblivious to a lot of important aspects of programing. Security being one of the biggies. Not being aware of the general criticisms of their chosen tools is another. (Which, if you're not a troll, you've proven my point.) I happen love Python, but I'm also aware of why many people don't like it.
App-level firewall != standard SPI firewall. Take a moment to read up on the OSI model.
Everyone always seems to think that the RIAA/major labels are dumb as a box of rocks. I highly doubt that. They know the rug has been pulled out from under them and they'll have to change. I'll even go as far to say that they aren't fighting that fact that they have to change. All this legal and legislative shell game is about one thing: buying time.
These companies are very old and very large. With the speed at which Internet technologies have evolved, they've been forced to slalom with a battleship. The labels are trying to buy themselves time while they work to change the very core of their business. Don't confuse me for an apologist, but believing your competition to be stupid when their not is pretty dangerous. The RIAA aren't going to wake up one day and finally "get it"--they already got it. If you want to successfully challenge their dominance, the only thing you can do is to remain one step ahead of them. And be prepared for a very long dance because they have a lot of interia (and resources) behind them.
Companies exist to make money. If being more open allows them to make more money, then then they "truly" believe in it. QED.
Corporations are amoral amalgamations of many different kinds of people with different goals; they are not the single-minded overlords that so many working folk like to paint them to be. The only thing they agree on is making a profit.
Where would one put the panels though? A 40 m^2 roof is pretty darn huge. The typical American home has a roof roughly half that size.
I (supposedly) have digital cable. Many of the channels have horrible compression artifacts; it's especially noticeable with scenes containing fast-moving water. Any idea who's fault this might be? Is the cable company just being extra cheap?
Ever use a credit card, debit card, or check with that card? Anything other than cash; even just once? If so, odds are they've already "corrected" the information you wrote on the initial application.
How does everyone else pronounce it?
Hypocrisy is lashing out accusations while being willfully ignorant of the actual facts. The ACLU takes no position on gun control. Why should they? Their already exists a massively influential and well-funded organization to protect that particular constitutional right.
I recently met a person who works for the American Cancer Society and we got to talking about her job. They are explicitly prohibited from smoking on or off the job. They even sign a contract consenting to occasional searches of their personal effects for cigarettes (she didn't say if/how often that occurs though). I also remember reading about a private sector employer who enacted similar measures about a year ago. In Ohio I think? I'm sure a bit of googling would turn something up; it made quite a bit of press.