As if someone would try to dig a tunnel under my basement. First the cost would be prohibitive (you think the last mile in fiber is hard?). Second, I'd like to know how they propose to keep it dry. I can hardly keep my basement dry, I'd hate to see another few feet down.
Fortunately, taking out the trash is one of your chores in exchange for still living with your mom, so you should still be able to go retrieve it. Next time you might try thinking to resolve your failures.
A quote I love from RotK: "Those who live not by the sword can still die by the sword". Unfortunately, sometimes the only solution is to fight. Sure, in hindsight, you may come up with a plan of how to change it, but in realtime, throughout all humanity? Good luck with that. Only God is omniscient and omnipresent, and I don't think "God" is in your name.
NASA has several grants for COTS technologies planned in this area. The one discussed in the article is the least specific, or the "General Grant". There is another payload specific version ("Carry Grant"), the supporting technologies version ("Foster Grant"), a southwestern cuisine delivery version ("Flay Grant"), a version to improve color definition in delivery vehicle cameras ("Hue Grant"), and probably many others.
Okay, I'll stop for now. That was very punny, I'll grant you that...
As I've said before on slashdot, burning carbon that we produce is no different than burning what we dig up. If the current plant life cannot scrub the air, we are not carbon neutral.
The only interesting point in this is just the fact that ethanol is *worse* than oil, since it produces far more carbon in the manufacturing process.
It's like stopping a leak in a major artery by poking lots of holes before the artery - sure, no blood is coming out of the artery, but you're still dead.
What I really don't understand though is why Postgres doesn't own more of the database market. This may sound silly, but for me the biggest hangup has been getting a database started - the default install iirc uses unix users to authenticate into their own databases, whereas mysql has its own internal user database - mysql I can set set up pretty quickly, but postgresql I always have to hunt for the right config file to set up a user that I can connect from the network with. I know, it would probably get easier if I used it more.
But that brings me to the second problem - While the documentation for postgresql is pretty good, it is written in a way that just doesn't march in step with my thinking - I can never find what I'm looking for. I don't know how to describe that better - if I did, I'd submit patches to the docs.
And lastly, when I ask questions about something is documented (but I can't find it), the responses often sound like they're putting my picture up on one of those "You're doing it wrong" pictures.
That said, I'll give the new version a spin sometime. Maybe it'll click.
As George Carlin noted (albeit a hyperbole): "The middle class pays all the taxes, and does all the work. And the poor are just there to scare the shit out of the middle class". I know the author of this link may not be popular in the crowd, but this Rush Limbaugh article disputes the claim that the middle class pay all the taxes. He has several other years' figures on the site too, with attributions. Got any proof otherwise? I'd love to know otherwise. The numbers seem to indicate that it's not the middle class that pays all the taxes, but the "rich".
Unless you know any graphic designers who use command line photoshop?
> photoshop -select 50,101,40,50 -addtextlayer font:helvetica size:17pt antialiasing:crisp text:"Hello" -addlayerstyle styletype:bevel Wait a minute... can you do that?! That would be awesome!
Thats true, you do generally have to pick it up yourself. The cost comes in the form of lost productivity from all the time you spend trying to figure out how to do new stuff or why something doesnt work the way you think it should. Which is quite a high TCO for MS Office, IMHO. Getting Word or Access to do what I want is like witchcraft sometimes.;)
Not only that, but it seems like there should be something along the lines of "There are more air molecules in a high pressure area than in a low pressure area to collect heat". Given an adequate intake, you can push more air into a space, but you can only suck so much out. (and certainly one side of a CPU fan has a more restricted flow!)
One thing that kind of upsets me is that all the cpu fan designs blow towards the cpu, instead of up and away from.. For lack of better terminology, I thought fans work better at creating higher pressure than at creating a vacuum.
Friend, the only magical thing that happens is that the fetus goes from being completely within the mother's body, with every single one of the fetus's biological processes regulated and supplied by the mother, to being outside the mother's body, breathing on it's own, an "individual", a "person" for the first time. And it's totally self sufficient then? NOT.
As someone who watched his daughter being born, I can tell you it's a very important moment. Oh, it's wonderful to see that ultrasound, but is it a person? Nunh-uh. I simply cannot understand that. I saw the ultrasounds of my two boys... I saw the first one kick the ultrasound technician. His behaviour in the womb was in the same personality he has now. He most certainly WAS a person.
In my view, the state of being completely within, enveloped by, the mother's body is very much a state of "belonging" to the mother. For that reason, I give the mother, the vessel, the owner of that fetus the right to decide its disposition. No one else. In my view, the state of being completely within, enveloped by, the mother's body is very much a state of "belonging" to the child. For that reason, I give the baby, the precious contents, the owner of that womb the right to decide its disposition. No one else. (fixed that for you)
So the answer to "when does a fetus become a person?" is: "When the mother says it does." As a father of a beloved child, 19 now, sleeping about 30 feet away from me, upstairs, right now, I can tell you just how insignificant the act of fatherhood is until the baby emerges from the mother's body. 20 seconds of frantic (though pleasurable) exertion, and then 9 months of bewilderment. I wouldn't have dared try to exert any dominion over that fetus. And, as someone who is pretty fond of women, especially since my mom, my wife, my sister and my daughter all happen to be women, I don't want the government, state or federal, or some self-proclaimed religious leader, to try to exert dominion over a woman's fetus, either. Do you get that? It's a woman's fetus. I think it's a fetus's mom. So during that 9 months of bewilderment, it was my role as a father to prepare the outside world for the time when my baby boy would no longer have its cozy womb. I don't want anyone exerting dominion over my baby boy.
When does a fetus become a person? Well, that debate could go on for years... but my take on it is that when a fetus attaches to the uterus and begins drawing nourishment from her mother, the fetus is a viable life. Before that, the fetus cannot survive.
So long as any of the carbon in the cycle is coming from sources currently in the ground or oceans (e.g. coal, oil, natural gas, or methane clathrates). I.e. we are harvesting energy by oxidizing previously reduced carbon -- it is NOT RENEWABLE or SUSTAINABLE! Quite right. As I said elsewhere, it seems a lot of people get caught in some sort of logical error wrt "carbon neutrality".
I understand that we may need to use chemical storage to move energy around and make it useful, but ultimately, we need to reduce our emmissions to less that what the planet can scrub. It makes no difference where it comes from - just that it is less.
This idea seems to defer it a little, but really makes no long term difference, unless the created material is converted into plastic or something. If it eventually gets burned, it only slowed down the process a little. Not an entirely bad idea, but I'm not convinced that it's not just a drop in the ocean.
On Linux, all of that stuff is an absolute pain - you can't just open files off shares, you have to copy them locally, because the Linux kernel doesn't (as far as I know) yet support easy and convenient plugins of that type.
I assume OSX has taken the Windows route, which is the right solution. Linux has some catching up to do here IMHO. So it would seem. While I'm editing an image on the remote server in gimp, I can type df in the shell and see that the remote server is mounted to/Volumes/pictures. Isn't that basically smbmount? Why doesn't Gnome do that in Ubuntu?
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As if someone would try to dig a tunnel under my basement. First the cost would be prohibitive (you think the last mile in fiber is hard?). Second, I'd like to know how they propose to keep it dry. I can hardly keep my basement dry, I'd hate to see another few feet down.
I never liked auto-hide in MS Windows, but it work great on my Mac. Maybe it's due to having larger icons.
Fortunately, taking out the trash is one of your chores in exchange for still living with your mom, so you should still be able to go retrieve it. Next time you might try thinking to resolve your failures.
A quote I love from RotK: "Those who live not by the sword can still die by the sword". Unfortunately, sometimes the only solution is to fight. Sure, in hindsight, you may come up with a plan of how to change it, but in realtime, throughout all humanity? Good luck with that. Only God is omniscient and omnipresent, and I don't think "God" is in your name.
Okay, I'll stop for now. That was very punny, I'll grant you that...
I wish I had mod points. The supposed disparity of taxes paid by the "poor" is a political FUD machine.
As I've said before on slashdot, burning carbon that we produce is no different than burning what we dig up. If the current plant life cannot scrub the air, we are not carbon neutral.
The only interesting point in this is just the fact that ethanol is *worse* than oil, since it produces far more carbon in the manufacturing process.
It's like stopping a leak in a major artery by poking lots of holes before the artery - sure, no blood is coming out of the artery, but you're still dead.
But that brings me to the second problem - While the documentation for postgresql is pretty good, it is written in a way that just doesn't march in step with my thinking - I can never find what I'm looking for. I don't know how to describe that better - if I did, I'd submit patches to the docs.
And lastly, when I ask questions about something is documented (but I can't find it), the responses often sound like they're putting my picture up on one of those "You're doing it wrong" pictures.
That said, I'll give the new version a spin sometime. Maybe it'll click.
Oooh, yeah let's regulate it. What would be the mechanism to open it up?
The Cabal!Oh, my bad. There is no Cabal
Sorry. I'm showing my age.
The humor around here is kinda wooden.
I agree - The Wii is a whole new paradigm in play. And the access to old games is awesome - I've been replaing the original Zelda.
you too... ;)
On windows, you should at least be using notepad++.
> photoshop -select 50,101,40,50 -addtextlayer font:helvetica size:17pt antialiasing:crisp text:"Hello" -addlayerstyle styletype:bevel Wait a minute... can you do that?! That would be awesome!
Or, could that be what ImageMagick is for???
Would it be bad to call their lawyers a bunch of Hungry Hippos?
I've had the same land line number for 10 years now. I still get phone calls for roommates I had back then, whom I kicked out when I got married.
Not only that, but it seems like there should be something along the lines of "There are more air molecules in a high pressure area than in a low pressure area to collect heat". Given an adequate intake, you can push more air into a space, but you can only suck so much out. (and certainly one side of a CPU fan has a more restricted flow!)
When does a fetus become a person? Well, that debate could go on for years... but my take on it is that when a fetus attaches to the uterus and begins drawing nourishment from her mother, the fetus is a viable life. Before that, the fetus cannot survive.
I understand that we may need to use chemical storage to move energy around and make it useful, but ultimately, we need to reduce our emmissions to less that what the planet can scrub. It makes no difference where it comes from - just that it is less.
This idea seems to defer it a little, but really makes no long term difference, unless the created material is converted into plastic or something. If it eventually gets burned, it only slowed down the process a little. Not an entirely bad idea, but I'm not convinced that it's not just a drop in the ocean.
I assume OSX has taken the Windows route, which is the right solution. Linux has some catching up to do here IMHO. So it would seem. While I'm editing an image on the remote server in gimp, I can type df in the shell and see that the remote server is mounted to