What do you say when you refer to a person and you don't know the person's gender? Do you avoid using pronouns entirely? Assume it's he or she and stick with that? Or say "their". I say their. It's pretty natural. Certainly better than "it". And it's accepted usage and less awkward than saying "he/she" "her/his" all the time.
I prefer Condorcet voting. I remember hearing about it back in 2004 and it really sounded like the best method to me.
From wikipedia:
Summary
Rank the candidates in order (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) of preference. Tie rankings are allowed, which express no preference between the tied candidates.
Comparing each candidate on the ballot to every other, one at a time (pairwise), tally a "win" for the victor in each match.
Sum these wins for all ballots cast. The candidate with the greatest total wins is the one who is the most preferred, and hence the winner of the election.
In the event of a tie, use a resolution method described below.
A particular point of interest is that it is possible for a candidate to be the most preferred overall without being the first preference of any voter. In a sense, the Condorcet method yields the "best compromise" candidate, the one that the largest majority will find to be least disagreeable, even if not their favorite.
A local vegan restaurant here in Phoenix was selling soy soft serve "blizzards" kind of like Dairy Queen and I noticed they had a Nerds one. I asked if it was the Wonka Nerds candy and they said yep and I told them it's not vegan, because it has cochineal/carmine. The girl at the front had no idea what I was saying but another guy in back overheard me and knew what it was. I wonder if they've removed that one now.
I use the TonicPoint Viewer for Mac instead of OpenOffice or Powerpoint... it has way fewer troubles with fonts. If I open a Windows PowerPoint presentation in Mac PowerPoint, I usually end up seeing weird characters instead of bullets in lists... and equations with greek letters, etc. are almost always messed up.
So at least now I believe Google Presently will be a decent product.
Your sig: "If your car is going at the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?"
You can not travel *at* the speed of light. And speed is relative.
I don't feel like doing the math, but as I recall from modern physics class... if you're standing still (i.e. you are the frame of reference) and you see a space ship traveling at 0.8*c, and then a ship undocks from that ship and travels forward (from *that* ships frame of reference) at 0.8*c... then from *your* frame of reference, the new ship is traveling at something like 0.95*c... not at 0.8*c + 0.8*c = 1.6*c. The relativistic effects don't work by simple addition.
Even if your car were going really near the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights... from your frame of reference the light still shoots forward at the speed of light. The speed of light limit is a speed limit for two things relative to each other... you always need some frame of reference.
I've been told that people who come from hand+water cultures don't feel clean when using just toilet paper because they feel like they're just smearing it around as opposed to washing it off completely.
I made do in India for a month with hand+water (+antibacterial soap to wash hands with afterwards) and it suprisingly only took me about a day or two to get used to it.
I don't even think that. If you look at Netscape versus, say, NCSA Mosaic... it didn't (as far as I recall) offer some huge paradigm shift or some huge extra features. It was just what happened to be the most in use at the time when the web really took off.
But Visicalc was first, wasn't it? It sort of opened the door to Lotus. I don't get why Netscape got top spot instead of, say, Tim Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb browser for NextStep (or even NCSA Mosaic, for that matter).
"Simple fact is that millions of so-called blacks are in fact the result of interbreeding between different genetic races. If one parent is black and the other white why is their offspring called black? Is one gene superior to the other or something? In theory, since a popular racist theory is that "blacks" are strong and "whites" are smart, then at least some "greys" should be the combination of the best qualities of both and be superior to either."
The kid of a black/white mixed-race couple (even if the black parent is him/herself the product of a black/white mixed-race couple) is called black because black is a cultural term generally. There's a difference between being culturally black and genetically black. If you appear black, you're black. You will face the discrimination that blacks face in America, you will identify with the culture, you will be excluded from other cultures until the day everyone is the same skin color due to extensive mixing. That's just sort of the reality that's going on.
Although I did see Debra Dickerson on Thursday (I think) on The Colbert Report who was making the case that although Barack Obama is black, he's not actually "black" because he grew up outside of American black culture and doesn't share a lot in the things most black Americans identify with... she (herself black) called him an "African African-American"... Dickerson has written the book "The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners".
I'm trying to determine whether human emotional states have a measurable effect on the psychomagnetheric energy field. It's a theory Ray and I were working on when we had to dissolve Ghostbusters.
They think they're here for marriage counseling. We've kept them waiting for two hours and we've been gradually increasing the temperature in the room.
It's up to 95 degrees at the moment. Now my assistant is going to enter and ask them if they'd mind waiting another half-hour.
Ok... in America "Spaghetti" usually means either spaghetti marinara or spaghetti bolognese. In fact it's rare to see spaghetti any other way here. And my travels to other countries are limited but that's also the kind of sauce I've seen this noodle served with in other countries.
"In addition to the fact that European spaghetti dates to 300 BC"
It's worth pointing out that European spaghetti refers here to the noodle itself and not what we think of now as prepared "spaghetti" since the tomato didn't find it's way to Italy until the 1700s.
Really the only way these sites that allow user uploads to not ever violate any copyrights is to just shut down completely.
Of course that sucks and the alternative sites suck even more.
But if YouTube shut down that would also be the end of a lot of cool non-copyrighted stuff... there's lots of things I think to find, so I search on YouTube and lo and behold, there it is.
I think the major corporations should just shut up, for the good of the people.
Got tired of wasting gas living above the planet Mister, show me the way to earth The boys of Quadrant 44 with their vicious metal hounds Never come around here no more Sometimes I wonder if I'm still alive Six feet down at age 25 Maxwell Leather Demon rock hand jive
I came down like water For the age of solar Hail to the father Kiss your sons and daughters Goodbye goodbye Steam steady roller Lady tongue controller Ten feet tall, better walk it back down
Despite the great duress, always get off 'cause damn it! It's the only sure-fire way to win Your poison doesn't hurt me, no Tender wine disguised in a milk-fat fair kiddie show I'm here to celebrate the one below At last I've heard from good God above As the slap on my ass by a lipstick-kissed elbow glove
I came down like water For the age of solar Hail to the father Kiss your sons and daughters Goodbye goodbye Steam steady roller Lady tongue controller Ten feet tall, better walk it back down I came down like water For the age of solar I came down like water Kiss your sons and daughters
My free copy of WindowsXP that I've installed on my Mac Mini is valid (msdn academic alliance), but I've intentionally avoided installing anything with WGA because I have problems with that kind of tactic.
I managed to find a crack so I could download IE7 without WGA (I never use IE, I use Mozilla products, but it's the kind of thing you install just because you figure something Microsoft is probably going to require it sooner or later). And some other WGA-only updates are available in places as WGA-less downloads. You can also use Microsoft's Orca to disable the WGA check in some.msi packages.
Maybe someone will reply and complain about how I'm not using an official super-approved install of IE7, but WGA was created to stop people from illegally using stolen software (the stuff they charge actual money for, and you didn't pay for), and IE7 is a free download. I just preferred to get around their #$*!@% WGA stuff.
"What do I hate about Slashdot? What's its problem? People keep asking questions that they already know the answers to, just so they can answer them on the next line."
I don't see why this is a surprise. Snowflake formations are realistically independent of each other, so if it's possible for one it should be possible for any other. The odds of randomly selecting two that are exactly the same may be very small, but...
What possible argument could even exist as to how no two could EVER be the same, ever?
Magical snowflake factory in heaven that molds each flake, and after each flake they break the mold, never to use it again? Or what?
The ONE Mac OS X feature I can't live without now is Expose. I have it set to show all windows if I move my mouse to the corner. It happens now that when I use a WindowsXP machine, I usually find myself instinctively bumping my mouse to the corner, thinking I'll swiftly be able to get to the window I need.
I also really appreciate how easy it is to type certain characters on a Mac like umlauts and accents over letters. And Terminal.app... I love having a bash shell as part of the actual system, and being able to then use scp or ssh or wget or whatever. I don't really like Cygwin on Windows, and I can't install Windows Services for Unix because I made my WindowsXP install on my Mac Mini a FAT32 install and not NTFS... so that I can fully access my Windows files when I'm booted into Mac OS X. (Again, blame Microsoft for their proprietary NTFS support missing on Mac OS X, not Apple.)
I actually remapped the Win-key on my keyboard to be another Ctrl key, since I'm used to using it for copy/paste and jumping to the address bar or opening a new tab in Firefox, etc...
Slashdot Mirror
They've already tricked you into thinking you've purchased a license, and not a copy of the recording.
I grind up a 50/50 mix of dark roast and light roast... and mix in some ground cinnamon and cloves... and let it drip. Tastes really good.
What do you say when you refer to a person and you don't know the person's gender? Do you avoid using pronouns entirely? Assume it's he or she and stick with that? Or say "their". I say their. It's pretty natural. Certainly better than "it". And it's accepted usage and less awkward than saying "he/she" "her/his" all the time.
From wikipedia:
A local vegan restaurant here in Phoenix was selling soy soft serve "blizzards" kind of like Dairy Queen and I noticed they had a Nerds one. I asked if it was the Wonka Nerds candy and they said yep and I told them it's not vegan, because it has cochineal/carmine. The girl at the front had no idea what I was saying but another guy in back overheard me and knew what it was. I wonder if they've removed that one now.
I use the TonicPoint Viewer for Mac instead of OpenOffice or Powerpoint... it has way fewer troubles with fonts. If I open a Windows PowerPoint presentation in Mac PowerPoint, I usually end up seeing weird characters instead of bullets in lists... and equations with greek letters, etc. are almost always messed up.
So at least now I believe Google Presently will be a decent product.
Your sig: "If your car is going at the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?"
You can not travel *at* the speed of light. And speed is relative.
I don't feel like doing the math, but as I recall from modern physics class... if you're standing still (i.e. you are the frame of reference) and you see a space ship traveling at 0.8*c, and then a ship undocks from that ship and travels forward (from *that* ships frame of reference) at 0.8*c... then from *your* frame of reference, the new ship is traveling at something like 0.95*c... not at 0.8*c + 0.8*c = 1.6*c. The relativistic effects don't work by simple addition.
Even if your car were going really near the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights... from your frame of reference the light still shoots forward at the speed of light. The speed of light limit is a speed limit for two things relative to each other... you always need some frame of reference.
I've been told that people who come from hand+water cultures don't feel clean when using just toilet paper because they feel like they're just smearing it around as opposed to washing it off completely.
I made do in India for a month with hand+water (+antibacterial soap to wash hands with afterwards) and it suprisingly only took me about a day or two to get used to it.
I don't even think that. If you look at Netscape versus, say, NCSA Mosaic... it didn't (as far as I recall) offer some huge paradigm shift or some huge extra features. It was just what happened to be the most in use at the time when the web really took off.
But Visicalc was first, wasn't it? It sort of opened the door to Lotus. I don't get why Netscape got top spot instead of, say, Tim Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb browser for NextStep (or even NCSA Mosaic, for that matter).
Back around 1997 or 1998 they had CD's (usually by the check-outs) for Best Buy's ISP which was called expresslane or theonramp.net, as I recall.
Then one day the company just disappeared without any warning and we had no connection.
...the Baby Bells?
The kid of a black/white mixed-race couple (even if the black parent is him/herself the product of a black/white mixed-race couple) is called black because black is a cultural term generally. There's a difference between being culturally black and genetically black. If you appear black, you're black. You will face the discrimination that blacks face in America, you will identify with the culture, you will be excluded from other cultures until the day everyone is the same skin color due to extensive mixing. That's just sort of the reality that's going on.
Although I did see Debra Dickerson on Thursday (I think) on The Colbert Report who was making the case that although Barack Obama is black, he's not actually "black" because he grew up outside of American black culture and doesn't share a lot in the things most black Americans identify with... she (herself black) called him an "African African-American"... Dickerson has written the book "The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners".
I'm trying to determine whether human emotional states have a measurable effect on the psychomagnetheric energy field. It's a theory Ray and I were working on when we had to dissolve Ghostbusters.
They think they're here for marriage counseling. We've kept them waiting for two
hours and we've been gradually increasing the temperature in the room.
It's up to 95 degrees at the moment. Now my assistant is going to enter and ask them if they'd mind waiting another half-hour.
As I recall such discs stray from the standard for CD's and as such can't use the "Compact Disc" logo on their packaging.
Ok... in America "Spaghetti" usually means either spaghetti marinara or spaghetti bolognese. In fact it's rare to see spaghetti any other way here. And my travels to other countries are limited but that's also the kind of sauce I've seen this noodle served with in other countries.
"In addition to the fact that European spaghetti dates to 300 BC"
It's worth pointing out that European spaghetti refers here to the noodle itself and not what we think of now as prepared "spaghetti" since the tomato didn't find it's way to Italy until the 1700s.
Really the only way these sites that allow user uploads to not ever violate any copyrights is to just shut down completely.
Of course that sucks and the alternative sites suck even more.
But if YouTube shut down that would also be the end of a lot of cool non-copyrighted stuff... there's lots of things I think to find, so I search on YouTube and lo and behold, there it is.
I think the major corporations should just shut up, for the good of the people.
Got tired of wasting gas living above the planet
Mister, show me the way to earth
The boys of Quadrant 44 with their vicious metal hounds
Never come around here no more
Sometimes I wonder if I'm still alive
Six feet down at age 25
Maxwell Leather Demon rock hand jive
I came down like water
For the age of solar
Hail to the father
Kiss your sons and daughters
Goodbye goodbye
Steam steady roller
Lady tongue controller
Ten feet tall, better walk it back down
Despite the great duress, always get off 'cause damn it!
It's the only sure-fire way to win
Your poison doesn't hurt me, no
Tender wine disguised in a milk-fat fair kiddie show
I'm here to celebrate the one below
At last I've heard from good God above
As the slap on my ass by a lipstick-kissed elbow glove
I came down like water
For the age of solar
Hail to the father
Kiss your sons and daughters
Goodbye goodbye
Steam steady roller
Lady tongue controller
Ten feet tall, better walk it back down
I came down like water
For the age of solar
I came down like water
Kiss your sons and daughters
Ten feet tall, better walk it back down
My free copy of WindowsXP that I've installed on my Mac Mini is valid (msdn academic alliance), but I've intentionally avoided installing anything with WGA because I have problems with that kind of tactic.
.msi packages.
I managed to find a crack so I could download IE7 without WGA (I never use IE, I use Mozilla products, but it's the kind of thing you install just because you figure something Microsoft is probably going to require it sooner or later). And some other WGA-only updates are available in places as WGA-less downloads. You can also use Microsoft's Orca to disable the WGA check in some
Maybe someone will reply and complain about how I'm not using an official super-approved install of IE7, but WGA was created to stop people from illegally using stolen software (the stuff they charge actual money for, and you didn't pay for), and IE7 is a free download. I just preferred to get around their #$*!@% WGA stuff.
You phrased your post all wrong !!
Let me fix it for you:
"What do I hate about Slashdot? What's its problem?
People keep asking questions that they already know the answers to, just so they can answer them on the next line."
I don't see why this is a surprise. Snowflake formations are realistically independent of each other, so if it's possible for one it should be possible for any other. The odds of randomly selecting two that are exactly the same may be very small, but...
What possible argument could even exist as to how no two could EVER be the same, ever?
Magical snowflake factory in heaven that molds each flake, and after each flake they break the mold, never to use it again? Or what?
The ONE Mac OS X feature I can't live without now is Expose. I have it set to show all windows if I move my mouse to the corner. It happens now that when I use a WindowsXP machine, I usually find myself instinctively bumping my mouse to the corner, thinking I'll swiftly be able to get to the window I need.
I also really appreciate how easy it is to type certain characters on a Mac like umlauts and accents over letters. And Terminal.app... I love having a bash shell as part of the actual system, and being able to then use scp or ssh or wget or whatever. I don't really like Cygwin on Windows, and I can't install Windows Services for Unix because I made my WindowsXP install on my Mac Mini a FAT32 install and not NTFS... so that I can fully access my Windows files when I'm booted into Mac OS X. (Again, blame Microsoft for their proprietary NTFS support missing on Mac OS X, not Apple.)
I actually remapped the Win-key on my keyboard to be another Ctrl key, since I'm used to using it for copy/paste and jumping to the address bar or opening a new tab in Firefox, etc...
Too bad you're an Anonymous Coward... I spot an IT guy who shouldn't have the job he was given.
If you haven't seen it, you should. It's a classic, funny, quotable movie.