Can you at least post some pics of what you call 'art' ? I've been playing with cellular automata ever since I wrote a game of life in assembly in 1981, but I'm not going to try that one yet because those things usually suck the work out of me.
In Europe it's very easy to get cell phones with the additional frequencies you mention. They are sold as tri/quad-bands and advertised to people who travel to the US. I had one like that in 2000, but now I don't need it anymore.
His suggestion is that Aborigines may have learned to recognise craters from more recent impacts and then deduced the origin of the Palm Valley
I would like to point to a similar story. In France the town of Rochechouart sits on a meteor crater. The name of the town, dating back centuries, literally means 'Fallen rock'. But the crater is 200e6 years old and is hardly recognizable from the ground (it's 21km in diameter, yes, it was a big hit). So who and how did they name the city ?
According to Amazon's best seller list the top *17* music players are made by Apple
I know it's way late to ask that, but why ?!? I've listened to mp3s since before the Napster area and used mp3 players since the Rio and I don't see anything better about the iPods compared to the competition. Quite the opposite (no card reading ability for instance). So, I repeat, why are they so successful ? I find that the best mp3 player is simply my cell phone (no needless duplication of devices).
Half way up Mount Fuji, after a long hike and when the air was starting to become noticeably thin and air canisters were being sold, I saw a Japanese person in well used hiking gear pull out a cigarette...
Mt Fuji ? Bah... you know what the first frenchman on top of Everest did ? Right, he lit one up while waiting for the rest of the team. Prompting him to answer: "This is the fucking life, no ?" when the others commented on it.
Blio has color, support for proper typography and layout
OK, for the color, but it remains to be seen if a colored text stays readable on a passive screen with only 4 or 8 grey levels. As for the typography, DO NOT WANT ! When you read text on a small screen you want it to use the ONE optimized font that is most readable on that screen, not some heavily aliased serif font that looks completely out of focus (my pet peeve my OSX when it came out a decade ago). As for layout support, only if it can be reflowed easily. I hate PDFs for this very reason: if your screen is narrower than the pdf, you end up moving left and right on each line you read; very convenient, heh ?
All that is is a reinvention of the dreaded PDF. This is just one more half-baked idea from a futurist who's still way short of a full bakery. I still remember in the 80s when he was predicting that everything would be voice operated in the near future. Hasn't improved since.
Yes, I was talking about antibiotics as food additives.
He would also be under legal obligation to report those farms in question to the authorities.
Hence the problem, which means losing his biggest customers... Farms are going out of business left and right in France already, so no need to push them over the edge. He lives very close to Switzerland where it's apparently easy to go and purchase those additives.
If by data you mean a family member who is a veterinarian who regularly sees drums of antibiotics laying outside large farms, with stickers on them stating that they were purchased in Switzerland, yes, why, I do have data.
That the complete ban of antibiotic use in animal agriculture in the EU almost a decade ago hasn't resulted in any changes in the prevalence of antibiotic resistance
That's simply because it continues to be used illegally in large quantities.
Yeah, and I wonder about the consequences of this high male to female birth ratio due to single child policy and preference for male (hence lots of abortions of females). What are they gonna do with all those extra males if they can't keep them happy with an extra serving of porn ? Send them off to war ?!?
I'm also in Europe and seldom use checks, but there are still many instances when you need them. Go to a store and buy something relatively expensive: a kitchen, a load of wood, a 2nd hand car... You can't use a credit card without maxing it. Granted, above a certain value you need to arrange for bank transfers.
Mountains tend to be the highest point in the area so you get bonus distance due to a clear line of sight.
Yeah, I was impressed 13 years ago when I managed to get a GSM connection from some summit in the far north of Sweden, about 50km from the nearest tiny village. I'd built a custom parabola but didn't even need it.
requiring all the banks and credit card companies to jump through more identity verification hoops before they give someone your money or a line of credit in your name
Particularly when I see some of the info that's being spread far and wide. A few weeks ago, I get a facebook invitation to a genealogy app. Since it's something I'd meant to do for a long time and the Internet certainly makes it easier now and FB now has a critical mass that may actually make it work, I think, sure, why not.
First question from the app: mother's maiden name. Part of my bank identity verification scheme: check.
2nd question from the app: Street you grew up on. Part of my bank identity verification scheme: check.
I blame this kind of error messages on programmers who use exceptions. Instead of doing error checking within the routine that has the problem and crafting an error message in there, you just throw an exception, hoping for the caller to take care of it. If the caller doesn't then the exception keeps floating up until nobody has a clue to what the condition was, hence "unexpected error". I hate exceptions.
Yeah, this law came out when I was a teen, over, hmmm, 3 decades ago at the time of the democratization of Walkmen. I have one thing to say about this: I often share my music / phone videos with my wife with a jack splitter. But then the volume drops by half and is hardly enough even in a quiet place. I wish I could raise it.
People seem to forget that without workers, the value of a company is nothing.
I was wondering if it's ever happened that the full workforce of a company just quits at once. Not just threatened or gone on strike, but really quit. And what happened in that case.
Note that every green position given serious consideration in congress involves giving the State massive new powers such as Cap & Trade[1]. Socialism has failed every time it has been tried, bringing economic and social decline at a minimum (Western Europe) and mass graves if the road is traveled too far. Every time. So why would I want to see the US fall into ruin?
Well, I fail to see how Cap & trade relates to socialism, but maybe that's just me. And there are plenty of countries in Europe who live or have lived with socialist govs pretty well. Maybe you are referring to the disaster of communism which even less relevant here.
Here is where I detect a whiff of fascism and lack of faith in the free market from you.
Absolutely in the 2nd case. But you don't need to be all insulting in the 1st case. Particularly since fascism is pretty close to what you have currently in the states: complete control of the gov by large corporations(why do many corps give the same amount of money to both sides ?)
First off fsck GM. In a free market they would be dead already.
Grin
If we put a tax on gas sufficient to communicate to car shoppers that gas is going to be expensive longterm and not keep jumping up and down they will buy accordingly.
Yes, and there are people who claim that this is socialism. Others claim that Cap & Trade (another form of tax) is socialism. Oh, sorry, that was you a couple lines above. To me it's just another tax meant at curbing the behavior of big corps (directly) more than consumers (indirectly). It's not going to change things all that much.
Put not thy faith in Governments, the Invisible Hand exists, and unless the State meddles it always does the right thing in the end
I completely disagree with that. I think that no matter what set of rules you set, you always have assholes (CEOs/lawyers/psychopaths/...) who find the weak point in the system and abuse it. If the state doesn't stomp on them regularly by changing the rules, they end up in control. So many examples.
There is a reason Obama & his cronies are waiting for the Carbon exchange in Chicago they are all invested in to get up and running, it is expected to make its investors rich. The Goracle has already made over.1B in the "Green" game and will make a lot more if his policy preferences are implemented.
I don't know anything about that, but what do you care that one set of filthy rich assholes is replaced by another set of filthy rich assholes ?!? Honestly ? It's not like you and me are going to get a piece of the cake. But in one case they've shown their complete disregard at taking care of environmental issues _and_ completely failed at ensuring a healthy economy (in which you seem to put so much faith). On the other hand at least for now they are giving lip service to environmental issues. Now whether the solutions proposed will work, if they'll be enough and if they'll be in time is not something we can tell for now.
As for partisanship, it makes me puke like the flag-waving jerks with their "support the troops" no matter what, even if they torture prisoners for months on end, 20 hours a day. There are some people who vote or support others like the 'greens' you so seem to loathe, in order to simply push for some issues (same thing as the people voting for the Pirate party). They have no change of winning (nor would I want them to), but they need to throw feces at the identical 2 parties on top otherwise nothing ever changes.
Fined? So what should we do to climate researchers who make up data, behead them?
Scientists who make up data are very rare, usually gets caught and loose everything (reputation, tenure, job...). It's happened a few times but not about climate research, so why do you bring it up ?
And I stand by my remark about pundits lying on radios/TVs: they are using public airwaves where you can't show a tit without a huge fine, so why can they lie shamelessly without fear ? The latter seems a lot worse than the former: half the population has tits, the other half wants to have some handy but nobody likes being lied to, so, I repeat, why is it OK ?
So once again striking a balance between shareholder interest (increasing profits) and global economic / ecological interest (decreasing emissions and oil reliance both by better fuel efficiency and better combustion of cleaner, more varied fuel) is an impossible mission.
Why should it be the state's interest to ensure shareholder value for private companies ?!? And honestly, if the state mandates fuel economy on new cars and forces a change in production lines, I have no fear the companies would adapt their lines to make sure their bottom line does not drop. Destroying the economy my ass.
The Soviets needed more warm-water ports, and Vietnam was willing to provide this.
So, whatever became of it ? Did they build it and only have a few minor vessels in it ? Did they fall from grace after the vietcong victory ? Did all the traffic lanes cease shipping in fear ?
FAT looks like someone's half-baked science project.
Quite so. I remember writing an experimental filesystem for 3" (not 3 1/2") floppies on the Oric in 1982, making up my own concepts as I had no experience in the matter. It didn't really work but it wsa good learning. Then a couple years later I looked at the details of FAT and was surprised by how simple, similar and limited it actually was.
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I cannot believe that the female population of the UK is somehow less attractive than that of the eastern US.
You've never been to the UK now, have you ?!?
YouTube: look up the term "aspect ratio"
Which is why I love Media Player Classic on Windows where it's very easy to adjust the aspect ratio.
Can you at least post some pics of what you call 'art' ? I've been playing with cellular automata ever since I wrote a game of life in assembly in 1981, but I'm not going to try that one yet because those things usually suck the work out of me.
In Europe it's very easy to get cell phones with the additional frequencies you mention. They are sold as tri/quad-bands and advertised to people who travel to the US. I had one like that in 2000, but now I don't need it anymore.
His suggestion is that Aborigines may have learned to recognise craters from more recent impacts and then deduced the origin of the Palm Valley
I would like to point to a similar story. In France the town of Rochechouart sits on a meteor crater. The name of the town, dating back centuries, literally means 'Fallen rock'. But the crater is 200e6 years old and is hardly recognizable from the ground (it's 21km in diameter, yes, it was a big hit). So who and how did they name the city ?
According to Amazon's best seller list the top *17* music players are made by Apple
I know it's way late to ask that, but why ?!? I've listened to mp3s since before the Napster area and used mp3 players since the Rio and I don't see anything better about the iPods compared to the competition. Quite the opposite (no card reading ability for instance). So, I repeat, why are they so successful ? I find that the best mp3 player is simply my cell phone (no needless duplication of devices).
Half way up Mount Fuji, after a long hike and when the air was starting to become noticeably thin and air canisters were being sold, I saw a Japanese person in well used hiking gear pull out a cigarette...
Mt Fuji ? Bah... you know what the first frenchman on top of Everest did ? Right, he lit one up while waiting for the rest of the team. Prompting him to answer: "This is the fucking life, no ?" when the others commented on it.
No, it means that fewer people own their homes: they just rent them.
Blio has color, support for proper typography and layout
OK, for the color, but it remains to be seen if a colored text stays readable on a passive screen with only 4 or 8 grey levels. As for the typography, DO NOT WANT ! When you read text on a small screen you want it to use the ONE optimized font that is most readable on that screen, not some heavily aliased serif font that looks completely out of focus (my pet peeve my OSX when it came out a decade ago). As for layout support, only if it can be reflowed easily. I hate PDFs for this very reason: if your screen is narrower than the pdf, you end up moving left and right on each line you read; very convenient, heh ?
All that is is a reinvention of the dreaded PDF. This is just one more half-baked idea from a futurist who's still way short of a full bakery. I still remember in the 80s when he was predicting that everything would be voice operated in the near future. Hasn't improved since.
He would also be under legal obligation to report those farms in question to the authorities.
Hence the problem, which means losing his biggest customers... Farms are going out of business left and right in France already, so no need to push them over the edge. He lives very close to Switzerland where it's apparently easy to go and purchase those additives.
If by data you mean a family member who is a veterinarian who regularly sees drums of antibiotics laying outside large farms, with stickers on them stating that they were purchased in Switzerland, yes, why, I do have data.
That the complete ban of antibiotic use in animal agriculture in the EU almost a decade ago hasn't resulted in any changes in the prevalence of antibiotic resistance
That's simply because it continues to be used illegally in large quantities.
How's that working out for the women in China?
Yeah, and I wonder about the consequences of this high male to female birth ratio due to single child policy and preference for male (hence lots of abortions of females). What are they gonna do with all those extra males if they can't keep them happy with an extra serving of porn ? Send them off to war ?!?
I'm also in Europe and seldom use checks, but there are still many instances when you need them. Go to a store and buy something relatively expensive: a kitchen, a load of wood, a 2nd hand car... You can't use a credit card without maxing it. Granted, above a certain value you need to arrange for bank transfers.
Mountains tend to be the highest point in the area so you get bonus distance due to a clear line of sight.
Yeah, I was impressed 13 years ago when I managed to get a GSM connection from some summit in the far north of Sweden, about 50km from the nearest tiny village. I'd built a custom parabola but didn't even need it.
requiring all the banks and credit card companies to jump through more identity verification hoops before they give someone your money or a line of credit in your name
Particularly when I see some of the info that's being spread far and wide. A few weeks ago, I get a facebook invitation to a genealogy app. Since it's something I'd meant to do for a long time and the Internet certainly makes it easier now and FB now has a critical mass that may actually make it work, I think, sure, why not.
First question from the app: mother's maiden name. Part of my bank identity verification scheme: check.
2nd question from the app: Street you grew up on. Part of my bank identity verification scheme: check.
Etc, etc... No, but no thanks.
I blame this kind of error messages on programmers who use exceptions. Instead of doing error checking within the routine that has the problem and crafting an error message in there, you just throw an exception, hoping for the caller to take care of it. If the caller doesn't then the exception keeps floating up until nobody has a clue to what the condition was, hence "unexpected error". I hate exceptions.
Yeah, this law came out when I was a teen, over, hmmm, 3 decades ago at the time of the democratization of Walkmen. I have one thing to say about this: I often share my music / phone videos with my wife with a jack splitter. But then the volume drops by half and is hardly enough even in a quiet place. I wish I could raise it.
People seem to forget that without workers, the value of a company is nothing.
I was wondering if it's ever happened that the full workforce of a company just quits at once. Not just threatened or gone on strike, but really quit. And what happened in that case.
Note that every green position given serious consideration in congress involves giving the State massive new powers such as Cap & Trade[1]. Socialism has failed every time it has been tried, bringing economic and social decline at a minimum (Western Europe) and mass graves if the road is traveled too far. Every time. So why would I want to see the US fall into ruin?
Well, I fail to see how Cap & trade relates to socialism, but maybe that's just me. And there are plenty of countries in Europe who live or have lived with socialist govs pretty well. Maybe you are referring to the disaster of communism which even less relevant here.
Here is where I detect a whiff of fascism and lack of faith in the free market from you.
Absolutely in the 2nd case. But you don't need to be all insulting in the 1st case. Particularly since fascism is pretty close to what you have currently in the states: complete control of the gov by large corporations(why do many corps give the same amount of money to both sides ?)
First off fsck GM. In a free market they would be dead already.
Grin
If we put a tax on gas sufficient to communicate to car shoppers that gas is going to be expensive longterm and not keep jumping up and down they will buy accordingly.
Yes, and there are people who claim that this is socialism. Others claim that Cap & Trade (another form of tax) is socialism. Oh, sorry, that was you a couple lines above. To me it's just another tax meant at curbing the behavior of big corps (directly) more than consumers (indirectly). It's not going to change things all that much.
Put not thy faith in Governments, the Invisible Hand exists, and unless the State meddles it always does the right thing in the end
I completely disagree with that. I think that no matter what set of rules you set, you always have assholes (CEOs/lawyers/psychopaths/...) who find the weak point in the system and abuse it. If the state doesn't stomp on them regularly by changing the rules, they end up in control. So many examples.
There is a reason Obama & his cronies are waiting for the Carbon exchange in Chicago they are all invested in to get up and running, it is expected to make its investors rich. The Goracle has already made over .1B in the "Green" game and will make a lot more if his policy preferences are implemented.
I don't know anything about that, but what do you care that one set of filthy rich assholes is replaced by another set of filthy rich assholes ?!? Honestly ? It's not like you and me are going to get a piece of the cake. But in one case they've shown their complete disregard at taking care of environmental issues _and_ completely failed at ensuring a healthy economy (in which you seem to put so much faith). On the other hand at least for now they are giving lip service to environmental issues. Now whether the solutions proposed will work, if they'll be enough and if they'll be in time is not something we can tell for now.
As for partisanship, it makes me puke like the flag-waving jerks with their "support the troops" no matter what, even if they torture prisoners for months on end, 20 hours a day. There are some people who vote or support others like the 'greens' you so seem to loathe, in order to simply push for some issues (same thing as the people voting for the Pirate party). They have no change of winning (nor would I want them to), but they need to throw feces at the identical 2 parties on top otherwise nothing ever changes.
Fined? So what should we do to climate researchers who make up data, behead them?
Scientists who make up data are very rare, usually gets caught and loose everything (reputation, tenure, job...). It's happened a few times but not about climate research, so why do you bring it up ?
And I stand by my remark about pundits lying on radios/TVs: they are using public airwaves where you can't show a tit without a huge fine, so why can they lie shamelessly without fear ? The latter seems a lot worse than the former: half the population has tits, the other half wants to have some handy but nobody likes being lied to, so, I repeat, why is it OK ?
So why aren't turbines used in hybrid cars ? They look perfect to recharge batteries at their peak efficiency.
So once again striking a balance between shareholder interest (increasing profits) and global economic / ecological interest (decreasing emissions and oil reliance both by better fuel efficiency and better combustion of cleaner, more varied fuel) is an impossible mission.
Why should it be the state's interest to ensure shareholder value for private companies ?!? And honestly, if the state mandates fuel economy on new cars and forces a change in production lines, I have no fear the companies would adapt their lines to make sure their bottom line does not drop. Destroying the economy my ass.
The Soviets needed more warm-water ports, and Vietnam was willing to provide this.
So, whatever became of it ? Did they build it and only have a few minor vessels in it ? Did they fall from grace after the vietcong victory ? Did all the traffic lanes cease shipping in fear ?
FAT looks like someone's half-baked science project.
Quite so. I remember writing an experimental filesystem for 3" (not 3 1/2") floppies on the Oric in 1982, making up my own concepts as I had no experience in the matter. It didn't really work but it wsa good learning. Then a couple years later I looked at the details of FAT and was surprised by how simple, similar and limited it actually was.