Because bad people make bad things happen, by making people think that they are a good person doing the right thing. Heck mostly the bad people think they're the good people. Truth gets distorted enough as it is.
The concept of rule by the people requires that the citizens are able to have some clue as to what is going on. We should be a people where we aren't relying on a "beneficial dictator" to make the value judgments for us. To relinquish our perception of reality is a huge leap toward being controlled. While I see the current state of America as problematic, I would not look to shy from the truth as an answer.
Education controlled by anti-religious fundies... not even close. They leave it out mostly, but it's far from anti-religious.
Markedly superior when controlled by fundies.. No it wasnt... I'm calling -attribution needed-
It wasn't good then, it isn't good now.
What business is it of mine? The education of those people is vital to my standard of living, I don't live disconnected from these people. They pay and use insurance, if they're dumb and OD on OTC meds, it raises my rates. If they fail to grasp drivers ed it endangers me on the road. If they don't grasp arithmetic I get weird looks when I pull out a penny when I'm due $1.74 in change.
I don't mind a responsive school district, but that shouldn't allow parents to hijack the education system.
Besides would you want your kids subjected to whatever religious nonsense I believe in?
The purpose of the big name school for undergrad is the contacts. Because either these people have money, or have skills in a greater degree than that of your state school counterparts (on an average, there are brains from state schools too). If your a brain, you can impress the people who will have money, if you've got money, you can shop for underfunded brains. And in some cases the students are also looking to get their MrS, of which its nice to snag someone of funds, all things being equal.
Contacts can make a whole world of difference.
It was pretty. But it was missing on too many spots. The writing was bad, poor plot, poor dialogue, and they didn't connect the audience to the characters. The Sci-fi parts didn't have solid thinking parts. The enemies were boring and just kinda there. It seemed that ammo was super abundant.
The characters didn't develop, with the exception of Greer. And given the alien infestation and lost baby I would have expected some depth of character to start coming out.
Compare it with Firefly or BSG.. Most of the principle characters have some depth, the dialogue worked. And enemies were everywhere and complex. SG1 managed some solid character development.
I liked the FX, the acting was good, and I'd still probably keep watching, because there isn't jack out there to watch in space based sci-fi genera . But they can do better.
The problem is simply going to get worse. The real problem is that your result doesn't cost anything to build after it's designed, so there is little incentive to produce it exactly right the first time. And given the flexibility of code people expect that awful beginning design decisions should be easy to overcome. Whereas people just sigh when they see the road flooding because the drainage wasn't properly considered under a bridge.
But I think that most software engineering isn't engineering. Though I love the way the word gets thrown around sanitation engineer, domestic engineer, network engineer, petroleum engineer. it just cheapens the whole field.
Storm
p.s. yes petroleum engineers have an engineering degree, but it's still fun to tease them.
I wish you weren't right.
But were just being conditioned to behave and accept that the government is in control. Somehow the government gets some undeserved awe. I remember having it, where the government and the laws were something greater, and noble.
Now I see it as a home owners association that has gotten too large and is full of itself. This is a problem, it is putting people through screening that is unnecessary and ineffectual. The right to balk at being screened has been removed. While I understand the rational, I find it to be reprehensible. We are not subjects, we are citizens, and we need to act accordingly. That our liberties are more important than the convenience of the government.
We are trained to behave as if the law is something crafted by masters of philosophy and reason. That the enforcers are going to be in the right and behave with proper restraint. uncorrupted by their authority. That the jurors will weigh that the defendant broke both the letter of law, and will ensure that the the law itself is appropriate. This is clearly not the case, laws are often made for the personal gain of those with access to power. Police misconduct videos are released at a rate that is truly alarming, a couple police ruining the name of the bunch is still the cry I see over and over. However the number of times this has been caught on video leads me to believe that this is something that is seriously undermining their credibility. After cases like Genarlow Wilson, it appears that the jury has been trained to disregard their primary purpose- determining if the defendant committed a crime that warrants the punishment being let out.
I'm getting tired of all the training, it needs to stop
People complain about the things they want fixed first, so the cross-walk button takes a back seat to the monster potholes. The elevator button takes a back seat to the building doors not locking. The thermostat takes a back seat to firing the incompetent guys who cant get the furnace to work right.
How many placebo buttons did you code into your last application?
Did Microsoft designers have to take this to heart. I wonder if this is in their cubicles as a little pick me up. "Add dummy controls to make it seem like they have some control". I'm pretty sure the refresh button for wireless is a dummy button.
Yup, it does, but we can do fusion. If we just cared about fusing atoms together, that was doable by ZETA (primitive tokamak) in the 1950's. But making a reactor that can generate net energy gain is a trick.
They're going after the kids parents homeowners insurance. To go after the parents would require showing negligence of the parents, which probably isn't going to be a provable thing.
The judge decided that this was an appropriate lawsuit that might have some merit, as the kid did crash into the woman, and there is insurance money to be had as considerable damage was done.
My gut reaction was "this is nuts", however I figure that a judge could see that valid arguments could be made for liability. Which was his job.
I'm supposing that since the HM brain has a defect in forming long term memories that it makes for a nice contrast to a normal memory forming brain. Perhaps it may provide a new minimum (floor) for amount of brain trauma required to stop memory formation. If the damage is small and neat, it may provide some clues as how memories are written.
If they ask why, then they brought up the conversation.
And it's just at the edge of being passive aggressive.
Though I find that treating people with equality garners more respect.
126 microseconds is the time light can travel about 38 kilometers. So NO, packets are not traveling far in that time.
it's near the latency of standard Gig-E, so traders use Infiniband. And get closer to the exchange, as every 30 meters is a microsecond of advantage.
Hard drives are slow.. not in bandwidth but latency. They aren't keeping up with SSD bandwidth increases. While they might not have the space, a HDD can't compare when a drive is doing heavy IO. For the most part I don't see a whole lot of people using the copious space on HDD's for much more than their movie collection.
And if it's for all of your word files, and presentations, then backing them up is going to take forever, as even 80 gigs of smalish word documents would take hours to back up on an hdd.
So yes the SSD's are a bad choice for movies, and big files. but the people who want SSD's aren't all that interested in loading a movie 50ms faster, they want to be able to:
_ Do a virus scan in a reasonable time. _ Copy lots of files in a short amount of time, without having some guy spending time zipping them all up for the transfer. _ Look through all their files for the mention of "nuclear chicken repellent"
You cant do this with an HDD, unless your version of lots and reasonable become much more forgiving than mine.
ok, I do some CUDA code. So watching ATI make Nvidia up their pace rocks... I like crysis for the exact same reason, I find the gameplay a bit dull, but it sure makes people buy primo video..
While I might not be a fan of the Mac. That is one part that they don't screw up every time.
I remember supporting Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 back in 1995. The control panel was different between the two, but no big deal. As the years went on I was still supporting windows boxes on a semi-regular basis. But they kept moving the damn controls around--- EIGHT versions later and they haven't found a spot to let things settle. So I would need to look around a windows box to find some obscure controls that were not in the same place as before. Or have some new "friendly" system asking me questions blocking my access to just changing a setting somewhere.
Then there is Linux I remember using the command "pump" to renew my ip address, not a big thing rarely used it, then one day I needed it, and poof it was gone (still on redhat at the time). Anyway I was looking for the some reference to pump and noooo, it was like I was a crazy person. Ahhh but I could find the replacement online you say.. NO because PUMP was gone and I couldn't renew the IP address. Pulling a tool and not mentioning that it's functionality has been usurped really cranks me.
Apple bugs me, but I do like that they don't change the UI every release.
I cant wait to buy ligaments and tendons at wholesale prices. Though spider-meniscus might be a while in making it through FDA trials.
But it's Wyoming, so the real goal was to make something super expensive in the fly-fishing isle, because tourists love to equip with the expensive stuff.
Spectra cable is right on par strengthwise, but it's a chemical nightmare to make compared to silk. You don't have to truck away thousands of gallons of spent sulfuric acid. Silk isn't rejected by the body. And if it can be made in the right organisms it can be pretty cheap. Goats or plants would make the fiber at a very reasonable price point, silkworms are still orders of magnitude better than spiders. As spiders eat the silk and each other.
The man didn't refuse, he forgot. Now I've managed to forget many a bill, especially a small one like $75. Though I really think that the FD should be able to put out the fire, and bill the man accordingly. They can use last years fire budget/number of fires extinguished as an appropriate number. Which should prove to be quite expensive.
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Because bad people make bad things happen, by making people think that they are a good person doing the right thing. Heck mostly the bad people think they're the good people. Truth gets distorted enough as it is.
The concept of rule by the people requires that the citizens are able to have some clue as to what is going on. We should be a people where we aren't relying on a "beneficial dictator" to make the value judgments for us. To relinquish our perception of reality is a huge leap toward being controlled. While I see the current state of America as problematic, I would not look to shy from the truth as an answer.
Education controlled by anti-religious fundies... not even close. They leave it out mostly, but it's far from anti-religious.
Markedly superior when controlled by fundies.. No it wasnt... I'm calling -attribution needed-
It wasn't good then, it isn't good now.
What business is it of mine? The education of those people is vital to my standard of living, I don't live disconnected from these people. They pay and use insurance, if they're dumb and OD on OTC meds, it raises my rates. If they fail to grasp drivers ed it endangers me on the road. If they don't grasp arithmetic I get weird looks when I pull out a penny when I'm due $1.74 in change.
I don't mind a responsive school district, but that shouldn't allow parents to hijack the education system.
Besides would you want your kids subjected to whatever religious nonsense I believe in?
The purpose of the big name school for undergrad is the contacts. Because either these people have money, or have skills in a greater degree than that of your state school counterparts (on an average, there are brains from state schools too). If your a brain, you can impress the people who will have money, if you've got money, you can shop for underfunded brains. And in some cases the students are also looking to get their MrS, of which its nice to snag someone of funds, all things being equal.
Contacts can make a whole world of difference.
It was pretty. But it was missing on too many spots. The writing was bad, poor plot, poor dialogue, and they didn't connect the audience to the characters. The Sci-fi parts didn't have solid thinking parts. The enemies were boring and just kinda there. It seemed that ammo was super abundant.
The characters didn't develop, with the exception of Greer. And given the alien infestation and lost baby I would have expected some depth of character to start coming out.
Compare it with Firefly or BSG.. Most of the principle characters have some depth, the dialogue worked. And enemies were everywhere and complex. SG1 managed some solid character development.
I liked the FX, the acting was good, and I'd still probably keep watching, because there isn't jack out there to watch in space based sci-fi genera . But they can do better.
But I think that most software engineering isn't engineering. Though I love the way the word gets thrown around sanitation engineer, domestic engineer, network engineer, petroleum engineer. it just cheapens the whole field.
Storm
p.s. yes petroleum engineers have an engineering degree, but it's still fun to tease them.
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I meant rationale... doh' I trust the spell check to think for me a little too often.
I wish you weren't right.
But were just being conditioned to behave and accept that the government is in control. Somehow the government gets some undeserved awe. I remember having it, where the government and the laws were something greater, and noble.
Now I see it as a home owners association that has gotten too large and is full of itself. This is a problem, it is putting people through screening that is unnecessary and ineffectual. The right to balk at being screened has been removed. While I understand the rational, I find it to be reprehensible. We are not subjects, we are citizens, and we need to act accordingly. That our liberties are more important than the convenience of the government.
We are trained to behave as if the law is something crafted by masters of philosophy and reason. That the enforcers are going to be in the right and behave with proper restraint. uncorrupted by their authority. That the jurors will weigh that the defendant broke both the letter of law, and will ensure that the the law itself is appropriate. This is clearly not the case, laws are often made for the personal gain of those with access to power. Police misconduct videos are released at a rate that is truly alarming, a couple police ruining the name of the bunch is still the cry I see over and over. However the number of times this has been caught on video leads me to believe that this is something that is seriously undermining their credibility. After cases like Genarlow Wilson, it appears that the jury has been trained to disregard their primary purpose- determining if the defendant committed a crime that warrants the punishment being let out.
I'm getting tired of all the training, it needs to stop
Storm
Btw, Thank you for your remittance, soon the Iranian shaw will be able to access his funds and reward your help handsomly.
People complain about the things they want fixed first, so the cross-walk button takes a back seat to the monster potholes. The elevator button takes a back seat to the building doors not locking. The thermostat takes a back seat to firing the incompetent guys who cant get the furnace to work right.
How many placebo buttons did you code into your last application?
Did Microsoft designers have to take this to heart. I wonder if this is in their cubicles as a little pick me up. "Add dummy controls to make it seem like they have some control". I'm pretty sure the refresh button for wireless is a dummy button.
Yup, it does, but we can do fusion. If we just cared about fusing atoms together, that was doable by ZETA (primitive tokamak) in the 1950's. But making a reactor that can generate net energy gain is a trick.
No then it would be (n+1) at which point the OP would have the first "infinite post". Two was a good call
I would if I could
They're going after the kids parents homeowners insurance. To go after the parents would require showing negligence of the parents, which probably isn't going to be a provable thing. The judge decided that this was an appropriate lawsuit that might have some merit, as the kid did crash into the woman, and there is insurance money to be had as considerable damage was done.
My gut reaction was "this is nuts", however I figure that a judge could see that valid arguments could be made for liability. Which was his job.
It's cheaper. And the people making the decision don't have to sit in them.
I'm supposing that since the HM brain has a defect in forming long term memories that it makes for a nice contrast to a normal memory forming brain. Perhaps it may provide a new minimum (floor) for amount of brain trauma required to stop memory formation. If the damage is small and neat, it may provide some clues as how memories are written.
If they ask why, then they brought up the conversation.
And it's just at the edge of being passive aggressive.
Though I find that treating people with equality garners more respect.
Storm
126 microseconds is the time light can travel about 38 kilometers. So NO, packets are not traveling far in that time. it's near the latency of standard Gig-E, so traders use Infiniband. And get closer to the exchange, as every 30 meters is a microsecond of advantage.
And if it's for all of your word files, and presentations, then backing them up is going to take forever, as even 80 gigs of smalish word documents would take hours to back up on an hdd.
So yes the SSD's are a bad choice for movies, and big files. but the people who want SSD's aren't all that interested in loading a movie 50ms faster, they want to be able to:
_ Do a virus scan in a reasonable time.
_ Copy lots of files in a short amount of time, without having some guy spending time zipping them all up for the transfer.
_ Look through all their files for the mention of "nuclear chicken repellent"
You cant do this with an HDD, unless your version of lots and reasonable become much more forgiving than mine.
Storm
ok, I do some CUDA code. So watching ATI make Nvidia up their pace rocks... I like crysis for the exact same reason, I find the gameplay a bit dull, but it sure makes people buy primo video..
Then there is Linux I remember using the command "pump" to renew my ip address, not a big thing rarely used it, then one day I needed it, and poof it was gone (still on redhat at the time). Anyway I was looking for the some reference to pump and noooo, it was like I was a crazy person. Ahhh but I could find the replacement online you say.. NO because PUMP was gone and I couldn't renew the IP address. Pulling a tool and not mentioning that it's functionality has been usurped really cranks me.
Apple bugs me, but I do like that they don't change the UI every release.
Storm
I cant wait to buy ligaments and tendons at wholesale prices. Though spider-meniscus might be a while in making it through FDA trials.
But it's Wyoming, so the real goal was to make something super expensive in the fly-fishing isle, because tourists love to equip with the expensive stuff.
Spectra cable is right on par strengthwise, but it's a chemical nightmare to make compared to silk. You don't have to truck away thousands of gallons of spent sulfuric acid. Silk isn't rejected by the body. And if it can be made in the right organisms it can be pretty cheap. Goats or plants would make the fiber at a very reasonable price point, silkworms are still orders of magnitude better than spiders. As spiders eat the silk and each other.
The man didn't refuse, he forgot. Now I've managed to forget many a bill, especially a small one like $75. Though I really think that the FD should be able to put out the fire, and bill the man accordingly. They can use last years fire budget/number of fires extinguished as an appropriate number. Which should prove to be quite expensive.