"back at their home bases, perhaps thousands of miles away, countless more engineers work (with the help of gobs of computing power) to give each team that extra edge."
Maybe they could use some of that computing power to count the engineers, if only for payroll purposes.
Bloodhound-SSC isn't trying to break the land speed record, it's trying to break 1,000mph (which will, incidentally, give it the land speed record). Clearly Eagle needs to beat Bloodhound to achieve their goal, but it doesn't really matter for what Bloodhound is doing whether Eagle succeeds or fails. Hence they're not really in the same race.
Not having a plan to do something doesn't mean you're not going to do it; I don't have a plan to go on holiday next year, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to, it just means I'm not yet working on it.
I had thought Netflix was a US only service. 400+ reviews for a film that's only been released overseas seems quite a lot - I guess Governor Palin has reignited the legendary American love of travel and curiosity about foreign countries.
My dishwasher freed me from the need to wash up by hand. At no time was I a slave to washing up. If you are in some way tied to something, then you can be freed from it, without implications of slavery. Hence it is entirely valid to say that "Linux is used to free people from Microsoft", because many people are tied to it because they think it's the only option.
I agree with your overall point, but I think you are mistaken when you said 'I don't think Linux was designed to "free people from Microsoft."', because that's not what the article claimed
From the article: "Linux is a free as-in-cost and free as-in-license operating system. It was designed specifically for those purposes." A true statement - one could argue about the relative emphasis, and I'm sure RMS would heavily favor the latter, but both aspects are true.
The following sentence: "Linux is used to free people from Microsoft" Also true; only conflating these two quotes would get you to the point you made.
Interesting that the fall in sperm count goes along with the increasing availability of porn - as the 'spilling of seed' increases the number of sperm left per, um, 'dose' goes down. Now that we have the internet I suspect the figure will slip below double digits within a decade.
Without wishing to sound like a libertarian, this is true for a great many things that are regulated - from the outside those regulations either a) are totally uninteresting, or b) seem pretty reasonable. But when you're on the inside of whatever activity is being regulated it's often the case that you can see how stupid/harmful regulation is.
It's not unlike watching a news report on TV about something you're familiar with. You see how badly they butcher the subject, and then start wondering what they do to subjects you don't know about...
No, but you could dial back the rhetoric about being "a shining city upon a hill". That you're 5% better than average is a good thing, but it doesn't make you {god}'s chosen people.
Russert was probably the best news interviewer on US TV. Unfortunately in all the interviews I saw him conduct he didn't push the interviewee as well as an average UK one, for candidates from any party. His great virtue, I think, was his evenhandedness, but that came at the expense of pushing for the truth. A sad event, even so.
Although these cycles average at 11 years (actually 11.1), they vary markedly between approximately 9 and 14 years. So while this one is running longer than average it's going to be another 18 months or so before it's really unusual.
On a related note the period of 'no sunspots' is referred to as the Maunder Minimum, though it should be noted that there were still sunspots, and the cycles did continue, just at a greatly reduced intensity.
Note: I do not look at the sun directly, nor do I play someone who does so on TV.
Think bigger, think RIAA big - calculate damages based on how many copies of the book *could* have been sold. Until I found out about this dishonesty I was set to buy a dozen copies at least, as was everyone I've ever met.
One of the stumbling blocks to having iPlayer on other OS's is the DRM required to 'protect' the content being distributed. By choosing DRM that is linked to a particular OS the BBC makes it very difficult to transfer the player to Mac, Linux etc. It can, therefore, reasonably claim that it's going as fast as it can at every 6-monthly review, without ever actually achieving anything.
Technically speaking it's not difficult to have something working on pretty much every OS by the end of today, so long as you don't have to impose DRM on it. Hence any further clarification from the government is just a bunch of Charley Says
There was a 'bug' in the design of the body around the doors in Toyota's Carina E cars in the 90s - they weren't the shape they were supposed to be according to the spec. The reason this was a feature was that the doors were also the wrong shape, so everything fit. This was only discovered when they switched to the new Avensis, which in its first incarnation used the same doors as the Carina E. It took a while to work out why they wouldn't fit the Avensis, which had a door opening that was 'right', and therefore 'wrong'.
That's why I think Paul is such an interesting character - it's possible (though I doubt it) that he 'founded' the religion in the same way that Hubbard or Smith did, and that Jesus is an invention. More likely, I agree, is that there was a Jesus, but how much of a part he took in founding 'his' religion is open to debate. Thanks for the discussion!
True, but if Paul (or whoever) invented the son of God bit, and the miracles bit, and the resurrection bit, then inventing the actual person seems trivial. If I tell you that I took my penknife and chopped down 4 trees, whittled them into a huge ladder, and climbed up to the clouds to take a ride, I doubt it's wise to assume that I really did have a penknife just because that part of my story is plausible.
But neither Hubbard nor Smith claimed to be the central figure in their own religion (though clearly they were important, and knew it). This comparison is more like saying that for Christianity there was Paul, who seems to have defined much of what we consider to be Christianity. Now that doesn't mean that he invented Jesus (I happen to think not, though I'm not a Christian), but it also doesn't make the existence of Jesus a given. In fact, assuming that elevates Christianity - the 'simplest' way to explain Scientology is to assume Xenu by that reasoning; we don't because Xenu is inherently an unsimple answer, as is a man who is the offspring of God, performs miracles and can't truly die.
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"back at their home bases, perhaps thousands of miles away, countless more engineers work (with the help of gobs of computing power) to give each team that extra edge."
Maybe they could use some of that computing power to count the engineers, if only for payroll purposes.
Bloodhound-SSC isn't trying to break the land speed record, it's trying to break 1,000mph (which will, incidentally, give it the land speed record). Clearly Eagle needs to beat Bloodhound to achieve their goal, but it doesn't really matter for what Bloodhound is doing whether Eagle succeeds or fails. Hence they're not really in the same race.
Not having a plan to do something doesn't mean you're not going to do it; I don't have a plan to go on holiday next year, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to, it just means I'm not yet working on it.
Presumably in Seattle it could tell you where your nearest 100 Starbucks are...
Don't know, but it looks quite nice:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/minneosta/
They have summer in London now?
No, but ask me again on June 21st.
And then, of course, there's the final stage - "Well it's too late to do anything about it now, if only scientists had warned us sooner".
I had thought Netflix was a US only service. 400+ reviews for a film that's only been released overseas seems quite a lot - I guess Governor Palin has reignited the legendary American love of travel and curiosity about foreign countries.
My dishwasher freed me from the need to wash up by hand. At no time was I a slave to washing up. If you are in some way tied to something, then you can be freed from it, without implications of slavery. Hence it is entirely valid to say that "Linux is used to free people from Microsoft", because many people are tied to it because they think it's the only option.
I agree with your overall point, but I think you are mistaken when you said 'I don't think Linux was designed to "free people from Microsoft."', because that's not what the article claimed
From the article: "Linux is a free as-in-cost and free as-in-license operating system. It was designed specifically for those purposes."
A true statement - one could argue about the relative emphasis, and I'm sure RMS would heavily favor the latter, but both aspects are true.
The following sentence: "Linux is used to free people from Microsoft"
Also true; only conflating these two quotes would get you to the point you made.
Interesting that the fall in sperm count goes along with the increasing availability of porn - as the 'spilling of seed' increases the number of sperm left per, um, 'dose' goes down. Now that we have the internet I suspect the figure will slip below double digits within a decade.
Without wishing to sound like a libertarian, this is true for a great many things that are regulated - from the outside those regulations either a) are totally uninteresting, or b) seem pretty reasonable. But when you're on the inside of whatever activity is being regulated it's often the case that you can see how stupid/harmful regulation is.
It's not unlike watching a news report on TV about something you're familiar with. You see how badly they butcher the subject, and then start wondering what they do to subjects you don't know about...
No, but you could dial back the rhetoric about being "a shining city upon a hill". That you're 5% better than average is a good thing, but it doesn't make you {god}'s chosen people.
Russert was probably the best news interviewer on US TV. Unfortunately in all the interviews I saw him conduct he didn't push the interviewee as well as an average UK one, for candidates from any party. His great virtue, I think, was his evenhandedness, but that came at the expense of pushing for the truth. A sad event, even so.
Although these cycles average at 11 years (actually 11.1), they vary markedly between approximately 9 and 14 years. So while this one is running longer than average it's going to be another 18 months or so before it's really unusual.
On a related note the period of 'no sunspots' is referred to as the Maunder Minimum, though it should be noted that there were still sunspots, and the cycles did continue, just at a greatly reduced intensity.
Note: I do not look at the sun directly, nor do I play someone who does so on TV.
Think bigger, think RIAA big - calculate damages based on how many copies of the book *could* have been sold. Until I found out about this dishonesty I was set to buy a dozen copies at least, as was everyone I've ever met.
"This experiment shows that there isn't always much conscious thought going on"
I would have said 'is hardly ever' rather than 'isn't always', but the idea is there.
"It comes down to cost per person"
Actually it comes down to cost per license payer - that's a big difference.
One of the stumbling blocks to having iPlayer on other OS's is the DRM required to 'protect' the content being distributed. By choosing DRM that is linked to a particular OS the BBC makes it very difficult to transfer the player to Mac, Linux etc. It can, therefore, reasonably claim that it's going as fast as it can at every 6-monthly review, without ever actually achieving anything.
Technically speaking it's not difficult to have something working on pretty much every OS by the end of today, so long as you don't have to impose DRM on it. Hence any further clarification from the government is just a bunch of Charley Says
There was a 'bug' in the design of the body around the doors in Toyota's Carina E cars in the 90s - they weren't the shape they were supposed to be according to the spec. The reason this was a feature was that the doors were also the wrong shape, so everything fit. This was only discovered when they switched to the new Avensis, which in its first incarnation used the same doors as the Carina E. It took a while to work out why they wouldn't fit the Avensis, which had a door opening that was 'right', and therefore 'wrong'.
Damn, you got me. There goes my secret identity as superwhittlerman
That's why I think Paul is such an interesting character - it's possible (though I doubt it) that he 'founded' the religion in the same way that Hubbard or Smith did, and that Jesus is an invention. More likely, I agree, is that there was a Jesus, but how much of a part he took in founding 'his' religion is open to debate. Thanks for the discussion!
True, but if Paul (or whoever) invented the son of God bit, and the miracles bit, and the resurrection bit, then inventing the actual person seems trivial. If I tell you that I took my penknife and chopped down 4 trees, whittled them into a huge ladder, and climbed up to the clouds to take a ride, I doubt it's wise to assume that I really did have a penknife just because that part of my story is plausible.
But neither Hubbard nor Smith claimed to be the central figure in their own religion (though clearly they were important, and knew it). This comparison is more like saying that for Christianity there was Paul, who seems to have defined much of what we consider to be Christianity. Now that doesn't mean that he invented Jesus (I happen to think not, though I'm not a Christian), but it also doesn't make the existence of Jesus a given. In fact, assuming that elevates Christianity - the 'simplest' way to explain Scientology is to assume Xenu by that reasoning; we don't because Xenu is inherently an unsimple answer, as is a man who is the offspring of God, performs miracles and can't truly die.
Sorry, that's not quite enough detail (working from memory). Here's the full thing: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 508000838365&query=menubar%2Bdate