I spec'd out a external RAID solution for backups the other week. Several two-drive setups with eSATA are available for less than $200 on Newegg (no drives included). So for $500 dollars I could put together 1.5 Terabytes of mirrored storage (3 Terabytes striped). There are cheaper JBOD setups, but they aren't what I'm looking for.
I wound up buying a simple 1 Terabyte drive + enclosure instead for $100.
The to-hit thing sounds like an interesting point. I used Google to find this forum discussion of it.
Some people claim that hit rates aren't really that low (people are always trying to optimize, so few people really have "average" characters) and that team cooperation can more than make up for it.
I have no idea. The only contact I have with 4e has been the Penny Arcade podcasts.
The article is talking about IE8, which is much more compliant.
Besides, I don't see how your comment can apply to an end user. IE7 is the standard that the web is coded to. Sure, I complain about it, but only when I'm doing web development. For surfing the web, IE7 is fine because everything is made to work with it.
In the case of the U.S., most people agree that personhood begins at birth (I follow that personhood begins when an individual becomes useful to society, but I'm in a very outspoken minority here).
No, you aren't just in an outspoken minority, you are an individual with a non-functioning moral apparatus. That your morality does not preclude you from mistreating young children makes you a monster, nothing less.
The law here is even stricter: the Supreme Court in Roe v Wade effectively declared personhood to begin at the point a fetus becomes viable (i.e., able to exist outside the mother). This seems fair, and I'm willing to live with it, even if I don't agree.
Why should I care about the legal opinions of a moral defective?
Establishment of religion? Hardly. The principle that life begins at conception is not necessarily any more religious than the principle that human life is generated by movement through the birth canal. And my position is somewhat easier to defend. No, no, you are confused on that point.
Your "inconsistent" statement is simply strange. You say I am "arguing that it's also evil to try to derive some good from something you consider evil and thus work against the evilness of it"? (Hard to parse!) Well here the New England Journal of Medicine happens to agree with me. They refuse to publish results based on unethical research (the decision having to do with Nazi experiments in WWII, I believe). And that was inconsistent? Where is the inconsistency? My post only had two sentences, you will have to search hard to find one.
The difference is between taking part in evil (destroyed embryos due to fertility treatments) versus having no part in it. There are some things that the government should have nothing to do with.
The biggest problem with the awesome bar is that 5 or 6 sites show up all of the time, and nothing else does. Typing in 'w' or 'c' will pull up your most used "www." site or ".com" site, etc.
There are some great features with the new bar. I like some of them. But those 5 or 6 sites that always pop up are already in my link bar at the top. I'd like to be able to type in 'm' and see all the sites I visit that begin with the letter 'm' instead of "The New York Times."
eInk screens are not LCD panels. Having owned several ebook readers, I have to say that what tends to matter for a reader is screen refresh rate, contrast, and weight. Other than that, ebook reading is the same process with any of them.
Now, instead of contradicting me based on your important navel-gazing, why don't you go out and buy a reader, then get back to me?
Why don't you look up eInk on Wikipedia? Sony and Amazon are buying the same screens from the same company. Yes, these are two completely different readers in other aspects, but the core display technology is exactly the same.
And by "better," I mean better. I've owned a lot of ebook readers over the years, so my opinion may actually count for something here.
Amazon's Kindle 2 is the same as a Sony PRS-700 (out for a while now) without a reading light, without a touch screen, and with Amazon DRM lock-in.
The only good thing going for the Kindle 2 is Amazon's marketing and their exclusive Kindle store.
I think that the Presidential transportation should be a garbage truck. He'd have to ride in the back, of course. And we'd have it make pickups as it carts him around. That would give everybody the right idea.
Why shouldn't geoengineering climate (dumping Fe in the India ocean, for example) be a substitute for cutting CO2? If it's cheaper and more effective, then only very stupid people would argue for...sorry, I think I answered my own question.
You're right, I'm sorry. Google is telling users to upgrade to IE 7, Firefox, or Chrome.
Oh shit, I lied.
Google is telling users to upgrade from IE 6 to Firefox or Chrome. I was right. You, and the rest of the 4 or 5 Slashdotters who piled on to say the same thing are wrong.
But you're all still beautiful people and I value your comments anyway.
There is one very big reason for Google to do this, and it's not what many Slashdotters think.
Anybody using Firefox or Chrome has Google as their default home. Anybody using IE has MSN as their default home.
This is a war over who gets to propagandize you with their ads and collect your personal information. There is no good/evil dichotomy here if that's what you're looking for.
Further, I'll end with a categorical statement in order to offend people: Anybody with strong feelings about which web browser is the best is probably spending too much time surfing the web, and is in fact suffering from an internet addiction. IE 7, Opera, and Firefox are all pretty similar from a normal end-user perspective.
Works for me. Except the connectors are on the bottom of the Zune, not the top. And don't just pop out the cables. They're using ZIF connectors. Pop up the brown plastic tabs first and then the cables slide right out. When you put the cover back on, make sure to align the lock switch at the top or it will stop working.
Well, you've certainly had a different experience regarding the character of women than I have in my life. My experiences have led me to have profoundly less respect for them than I had when I was a boy. Put on a show and they'll sleep with you. Play the nice guy and they'll string you along. Be respectful and they'll sleep around behind your back. Be demanding and they'll work hard to please you. There are exceptions here and there, but I haven't run across very many.
Now, about calling a man you've never met a "superficial idiot." Don't you think that you're a little confused about who exactly is behaving like an asshole in this discussion? I am trying really hard to extract something valuable from your rant, but I'm coming up dry here.
Right, you're the typical burly Alpha Male geek -- who spends his weekend posting on Slashdot. Seems like SUV safety isn't the only thing you're delusional about.
I hate to single you out, because a lot of the the people replying to me have said something similar. But this has got to be one of the stupidest things about white male geek culture that I know of. There are plenty of geeks out there who are successful with women. But the crowd, the community, takes it as an article of faith that this is impossible. Instead of learning from the haves, the have-nots project their own inadequacies on the haves, and say stupid, untruthful, things like "I belong to a community that precludes me from being attractive to females." This is called setting yourself up for failure. It cripples you before you even leave the gate.
Attraction is a different calculus for men than it is for women. A women is either attractive or not. There isn't much she can do about it except get fat. Not so with a man. A man's attractiveness is based on what he does, who he is in the community, and how he behaves towards women. And there is nothing a woman wants more than confidence in a man, not money, not beauty, not status. Supreme self-confidence is the most important quality a man can have in the attraction game.
Okay, back to SUVs. Drive whatever you want. My biggest point is that it's always stupid to bow down to what women tell you they want. Drive something characteristic. Quality helps, expensive helps, flashy helps. Just remember that the vehicle that you drive is a statement about your status, and one that women will always pick up on.
I own an SUV. Given my driving needs (2 or 3 thousand miles a year), I don't save much money by going with a car. SUVs are safer so long as they don't roll. Not drinking and driving, always wearing seatbelts, and not being a teenager, tends to plunge rollover fatalities to background noise levels. At that point, the added weight of an SUV makes them a lot safer.
Also, my SUV looks cool and attracts females. Women may spend a lot of time talking about how attracted they are to men with smartcars, but they spend more time having sex with men who drive SUVs. (Women also talk about loving sensitive guys, quiche eaters, etc. On the other hand, they tend to have sex with meat-eating cads. This is part of the reason that women perennially complain about guys who won't commit, when 80% of the male population would like nothing better than to commit. Women don't want the beta.)
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What, does this mean that he isn't the Messiah after all? As usual, the Onion gets it right: The Media having trouble finding Right Angle on Obama's Double-Homicide
No, that's not a lot of heat. Solar energy counts for 174,000 TW a year. All of the human-generated heat disappears in a rounding error.
I spec'd out a external RAID solution for backups the other week. Several two-drive setups with eSATA are available for less than $200 on Newegg (no drives included). So for $500 dollars I could put together 1.5 Terabytes of mirrored storage (3 Terabytes striped). There are cheaper JBOD setups, but they aren't what I'm looking for.
I wound up buying a simple 1 Terabyte drive + enclosure instead for $100.
But what if the broken bone is a symptom of a deeper problem? There may be a man with a baseball bat swinging at the patient when he sees blood.
Also, what if the patient has no arms? What exactly are you sewing up then, huh?
The to-hit thing sounds like an interesting point. I used Google to find this forum discussion of it.
Some people claim that hit rates aren't really that low (people are always trying to optimize, so few people really have "average" characters) and that team cooperation can more than make up for it.
I have no idea. The only contact I have with 4e has been the Penny Arcade podcasts.
The article is talking about IE8, which is much more compliant.
Besides, I don't see how your comment can apply to an end user. IE7 is the standard that the web is coded to. Sure, I complain about it, but only when I'm doing web development. For surfing the web, IE7 is fine because everything is made to work with it.
No, you aren't just in an outspoken minority, you are an individual with a non-functioning moral apparatus. That your morality does not preclude you from mistreating young children makes you a monster, nothing less.
Why should I care about the legal opinions of a moral defective?
No, the ban was on government funding of the research. It wasn't ever illegal to do the research.
This means that the government is now going to pay for it.
You think that Asia is the paradigm of abortion ethics? And you have a problem with my morality?
All I can say is that I'm glad that you're arguing for the other side.
Establishment of religion? Hardly. The principle that life begins at conception is not necessarily any more religious than the principle that human life is generated by movement through the birth canal. And my position is somewhat easier to defend. No, no, you are confused on that point.
Your "inconsistent" statement is simply strange. You say I am "arguing that it's also evil to try to derive some good from something you consider evil and thus work against the evilness of it"? (Hard to parse!) Well here the New England Journal of Medicine happens to agree with me. They refuse to publish results based on unethical research (the decision having to do with Nazi experiments in WWII, I believe). And that was inconsistent? Where is the inconsistency? My post only had two sentences, you will have to search hard to find one.
The difference is between taking part in evil (destroyed embryos due to fertility treatments) versus having no part in it. There are some things that the government should have nothing to do with.
The biggest problem with the awesome bar is that 5 or 6 sites show up all of the time, and nothing else does. Typing in 'w' or 'c' will pull up your most used "www." site or ".com" site, etc.
There are some great features with the new bar. I like some of them. But those 5 or 6 sites that always pop up are already in my link bar at the top. I'd like to be able to type in 'm' and see all the sites I visit that begin with the letter 'm' instead of "The New York Times."
But extreme prejudice was what started all of this!
eInk screens are not LCD panels. Having owned several ebook readers, I have to say that what tends to matter for a reader is screen refresh rate, contrast, and weight. Other than that, ebook reading is the same process with any of them.
Now, instead of contradicting me based on your important navel-gazing, why don't you go out and buy a reader, then get back to me?
Why don't you look up eInk on Wikipedia? Sony and Amazon are buying the same screens from the same company. Yes, these are two completely different readers in other aspects, but the core display technology is exactly the same.
And by "better," I mean better. I've owned a lot of ebook readers over the years, so my opinion may actually count for something here.
Amazon's Kindle 2 is the same as a Sony PRS-700 (out for a while now) without a reading light, without a touch screen, and with Amazon DRM lock-in. The only good thing going for the Kindle 2 is Amazon's marketing and their exclusive Kindle store.
Why don't you just do whatever you did to stream the inauguration 4 years ago? Oh, wait.
I think that the Presidential transportation should be a garbage truck. He'd have to ride in the back, of course. And we'd have it make pickups as it carts him around. That would give everybody the right idea.
Why shouldn't geoengineering climate (dumping Fe in the India ocean, for example) be a substitute for cutting CO2? If it's cheaper and more effective, then only very stupid people would argue for...sorry, I think I answered my own question.
You're right, I'm sorry. Google is telling users to upgrade to IE 7, Firefox, or Chrome.
Oh shit, I lied.
Google is telling users to upgrade from IE 6 to Firefox or Chrome. I was right. You, and the rest of the 4 or 5 Slashdotters who piled on to say the same thing are wrong.
But you're all still beautiful people and I value your comments anyway.
Oh shit, I lied again.
There is one very big reason for Google to do this, and it's not what many Slashdotters think.
Anybody using Firefox or Chrome has Google as their default home. Anybody using IE has MSN as their default home.
This is a war over who gets to propagandize you with their ads and collect your personal information. There is no good/evil dichotomy here if that's what you're looking for.
Further, I'll end with a categorical statement in order to offend people: Anybody with strong feelings about which web browser is the best is probably spending too much time surfing the web, and is in fact suffering from an internet addiction. IE 7, Opera, and Firefox are all pretty similar from a normal end-user perspective.
Works for me. Except the connectors are on the bottom of the Zune, not the top. And don't just pop out the cables. They're using ZIF connectors. Pop up the brown plastic tabs first and then the cables slide right out. When you put the cover back on, make sure to align the lock switch at the top or it will stop working.
Well, you've certainly had a different experience regarding the character of women than I have in my life. My experiences have led me to have profoundly less respect for them than I had when I was a boy. Put on a show and they'll sleep with you. Play the nice guy and they'll string you along. Be respectful and they'll sleep around behind your back. Be demanding and they'll work hard to please you. There are exceptions here and there, but I haven't run across very many.
Now, about calling a man you've never met a "superficial idiot." Don't you think that you're a little confused about who exactly is behaving like an asshole in this discussion? I am trying really hard to extract something valuable from your rant, but I'm coming up dry here.
I hate to single you out, because a lot of the the people replying to me have said something similar. But this has got to be one of the stupidest things about white male geek culture that I know of. There are plenty of geeks out there who are successful with women. But the crowd, the community, takes it as an article of faith that this is impossible. Instead of learning from the haves, the have-nots project their own inadequacies on the haves, and say stupid, untruthful, things like "I belong to a community that precludes me from being attractive to females." This is called setting yourself up for failure. It cripples you before you even leave the gate.
Attraction is a different calculus for men than it is for women. A women is either attractive or not. There isn't much she can do about it except get fat. Not so with a man. A man's attractiveness is based on what he does, who he is in the community, and how he behaves towards women. And there is nothing a woman wants more than confidence in a man, not money, not beauty, not status. Supreme self-confidence is the most important quality a man can have in the attraction game.
Okay, back to SUVs. Drive whatever you want. My biggest point is that it's always stupid to bow down to what women tell you they want. Drive something characteristic. Quality helps, expensive helps, flashy helps. Just remember that the vehicle that you drive is a statement about your status, and one that women will always pick up on.
I own an SUV. Given my driving needs (2 or 3 thousand miles a year), I don't save much money by going with a car. SUVs are safer so long as they don't roll. Not drinking and driving, always wearing seatbelts, and not being a teenager, tends to plunge rollover fatalities to background noise levels. At that point, the added weight of an SUV makes them a lot safer.
Also, my SUV looks cool and attracts females. Women may spend a lot of time talking about how attracted they are to men with smartcars, but they spend more time having sex with men who drive SUVs. (Women also talk about loving sensitive guys, quiche eaters, etc. On the other hand, they tend to have sex with meat-eating cads. This is part of the reason that women perennially complain about guys who won't commit, when 80% of the male population would like nothing better than to commit. Women don't want the beta.)