Survey the speed people are driving on the road. Select the 85 percentile of that for the speed limit. Enter politics, so write down 55 or 65 no matter how safe the road is.
15 percentile of the drivers unable to go the speed limit? Please don't ever design trafic laws, the roads will be a mess.
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I sure as hell hope you don't think.doc is a typesetting format.
If so, I then hope you don't actually have anything to do with any PhD students files.
I've never understood why people want annoying as hell ring tones. I've never had a pocket communication device (cell phone/pager) that wasn't in vibrate mode 24/7. If it's in my pocket I'll answer, if it's not that's too bad. If I'm on call I make a point to keep them in my pocket.
Well I agree with most of what you are saying, but I'd just like to chime in my counter view which shouldn't really be taken as a rebute of what you posted.
I have no doubt that there are generic window cleaning solutions that do an equal or better job of cleaning windows as Windex, yet I continue to buy Windex every 6 months or so when the old bottle runs out.
I know Windex has the properties that I desire at a price I'm willing to pay. I do not know what the quality of any generic brand is before I try it, and it could easily take me 2-3 tries to find a generic brand I like, which would probably save me about $2-20 a year after the inital investment. Even at the worst case, the years where I clean all windows inside and out, the savings are less than a single hour of works pay. This would come at the cost of at least an hour of trying various brands, and a wasted investment in any brands that I end up not liking. So the cost difference is insubstantial to me, the only reason I would go out of my way to switch would be if Windex changed it's formula in a dissatisfactory way. This is the definition of brand loyalty to me; when a product consistently meets my needs without charging me an ungodly price for the service. So long as they keep the price gauging to a minimum, I am more than willing to purchase reliable high quality brand names. The instant I feel slightly ripped off, I will switch to generic brands.
Yeah that was incoherent, I wrote it over about twenty minutes of switching back and forth between typing and programming. Sorry:).
Clearly you don't work with professional adults. The average worker where I work uses proper spelling/grammar/capitilization/punctuation in all communications.
I've found windex is less likely to streak than vinegar. Are you supposed to add something to the vinegar to make it not do this?
I always figured there was some fairly complex oil additive that they used to make Windex not streak, so I purchased it for convenience (not to mention the markup is nominal to me).
Paper was very expensive when he wanted to publish the book due to a shortage, so he divided it into three parts so it was affordable for both the publisher to print and reader to purchase.
I actually agree with them on everything except for the Elfs at Helms Deep. It's very clear they are trying to justify this in the extended documentary (they spend like 15 minutes on it), but I just don't buy it.
It would have been a different movie without that scene, much much darker. But the movie was supposed to be that dark.
Well this is interesting, since I have a very clear memory of a black being interviewed on NPR saying they were turned away from their place of polling before closing time.
Since I am recalling a very specific fact, I would like for you to refute me with your "studies".
I seem to remember interviews from blacks on NPR around election time saying they were turned away from their place of pulling.
I seem to remember reports that said several polling places in predominately black neighborhoods were shut down early.
So this leads me to the question, if you repeat a lie [The "disenfranchised blacks" story turns out to be one of those urban legends.] enough does it become fact?
The marxist-leftists? They are the ones who slaughtered more people in a few short years of the 20th century than every other ideology combined in all of recorded history... and a small war in Iraq is suddenly a big deal.
What the hell are you talking about?
Heard of the Aztecs? Yeah, go hit the books thanks.
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Survey the speed people are driving on the road.
Select the 85 percentile of that for the speed limit.
Enter politics, so write down 55 or 65 no matter how safe the road is.
15 percentile of the drivers unable to go the speed limit? Please don't ever design trafic laws, the roads will be a mess.
I sure as hell hope you don't think .doc is a typesetting format.
If so, I then hope you don't actually have anything to do with any PhD students files.
Why did we know nothing about this until after we took over the country? Oh because it's an abuse of inaccurate statistical data you say? Exactly.
What specifically are you used to? I use a lot of UNIX at work, and I prefer Linux in many ways over anything I use there.
I've never understood why people want annoying as hell ring tones. I've never had a pocket communication device (cell phone/pager) that wasn't in vibrate mode 24/7. If it's in my pocket I'll answer, if it's not that's too bad. If I'm on call I make a point to keep them in my pocket.
It's really not that complex.
Yes it happened, it doesn't happen any more.
It hasn't happened since IE4.
People regularly claim that it is still happening, as you just did. That has been disproved. I did it with my own eyes.
erm no I'm so full of shit it's not funny.
y=1/9t+inital, t is in months.
What smot are you poking?
2^x is exponential growth.
y=mx+b is the equation for a line, or linear growth. In this setting the equation would be y=2x+(intital transistor count) where x is 18 months.
This is a linear function.
Well I agree with most of what you are saying, but I'd just like to chime in my counter view which shouldn't really be taken as a rebute of what you posted.
:).
I have no doubt that there are generic window cleaning solutions that do an equal or better job of cleaning windows as Windex, yet I continue to buy Windex every 6 months or so when the old bottle runs out.
I know Windex has the properties that I desire at a price I'm willing to pay. I do not know what the quality of any generic brand is before I try it, and it could easily take me 2-3 tries to find a generic brand I like, which would probably save me about $2-20 a year after the inital investment. Even at the worst case, the years where I clean all windows inside and out, the savings are less than a single hour of works pay. This would come at the cost of at least an hour of trying various brands, and a wasted investment in any brands that I end up not liking. So the cost difference is insubstantial to me, the only reason I would go out of my way to switch would be if Windex changed it's formula in a dissatisfactory way. This is the definition of brand loyalty to me; when a product consistently meets my needs without charging me an ungodly price for the service. So long as they keep the price gauging to a minimum, I am more than willing to purchase reliable high quality brand names. The instant I feel slightly ripped off, I will switch to generic brands.
Yeah that was incoherent, I wrote it over about twenty minutes of switching back and forth between typing and programming. Sorry
Clearly you don't work with professional adults. The average worker where I work uses proper spelling/grammar/capitilization/punctuation in all communications.
I've found windex is less likely to streak than vinegar. Are you supposed to add something to the vinegar to make it not do this?
I always figured there was some fairly complex oil additive that they used to make Windex not streak, so I purchased it for convenience (not to mention the markup is nominal to me).
Saying a movie sucks isn't a matter of opinion.
The fact I was able to predict over half of the dialog in the movie before it was spoken was a strong reason to support it's suckage.
Would you argue with the "fact" that Tomb Raider sucked? No? Why?
3.5 hours is still far too short. I'm willing to bet the extended breaks 4 hours and it will just touch the surface of what could be done.
What sources do you get your information from by the way?
Is there any real supporting evidence out there? A bunch of scanned documents are great, but I'm still a bit sceptical that they are even real.
Paper was very expensive when he wanted to publish the book due to a shortage, so he divided it into three parts so it was affordable for both the publisher to print and reader to purchase.
On a positive note I've noticed a gradual increase of vocabulary over the past five years, perhaps the trend is reversing?
I actually agree with them on everything except for the Elfs at Helms Deep. It's very clear they are trying to justify this in the extended documentary (they spend like 15 minutes on it), but I just don't buy it.
It would have been a different movie without that scene, much much darker. But the movie was supposed to be that dark.
Well this is interesting, since I have a very clear memory of a black being interviewed on NPR saying they were turned away from their place of polling before closing time.
Since I am recalling a very specific fact, I would like for you to refute me with your "studies".
Thanks!
I seem to remember interviews from blacks on NPR around election time saying they were turned away from their place of pulling.
I seem to remember reports that said several polling places in predominately black neighborhoods were shut down early.
So this leads me to the question, if you repeat a lie [The "disenfranchised blacks" story turns out to be one of those urban legends.] enough does it become fact?
You work in the real world??
Jebus, some of the stuff on here scares me...
Um no, the Aztecs were the ones doing the slaughtering.
In a single weekend.
Please read history, thanks.
Dialup connections are around $7/mo now.
The marxist-leftists? They are the ones who slaughtered more people in a few short years of the 20th century than every other ideology combined in all of recorded history... and a small war in Iraq is suddenly a big deal.
What the hell are you talking about?
Heard of the Aztecs? Yeah, go hit the books thanks.
Yeah um, the rest of the country isn't getting those speeds.
Consider yourself lucky, until they start capping your rate to hell.
Then again it could be like Mediacom and have the service die for 10-20 mins at least daily for everyone I know.
If your spending >5M on a cluster, I'm sure you can allocate a few dozen hours to porting it....