And yet, with CCTV footage we've caught the people who tried to blow up more trains on July 21, and probably gained more intelligence about the whole operation because of that.
After the fact. The fact that the second attack failed was purely a result of the bombers' ineptitude, and had nothing to do with interception by the police.
Modern slaughterhouses run their line speeds at rates that are too fast for the meat packers to assure that they aren't cutting into the intestines of the cows. Every time they do so, more bacteria enters our beef supply.
This is why I hunt and butcher my own meat. No added hormones, either!
Yes, it was moving and wonderful an all, but I was pretty disappointed about the lack of useful factual information. I thought that the movie excessively anthropomorphized the penguins and that it didn't present the information in scientific terms.
For example, in the movie they show the consequences of the penguins dropping their eggs and losing track of chicks, but nowhere in the film do they state what the survival rate of the chicks is. They show an albatross catching and killing a penguin chick while adult penguins stand around and do nothing, and fail to explain the lack of a response. They also say nothing about the ongoing environmental changes in the antarctic and how these may affect the penguins.
I went in to the documentary hoping to see some science, but it turned out to be mostly pretty pictures and emotionally loaded nonsense.
Except for the fact that I cannot find a cable provider who will allow me to have static IP addresses upon which I can run my own servers. If this change goes through, I'm screwed.
Qwest's "business DSL" package that allows static IPs costs about double what Speakeasy offers, and their techs are idiots. Speakeasy has the best service and most competent techs I've ever worked with.
I feel your pain. I went through an excellent gifted/talented schooling program for the first few years of my education, but when my family was forced to move due to my dad's job being relocated, there was no accelerated education to be found in the new place.
It took two years for the school system to catch up to where I had been, and my parents wouldn't let me advance because they were concerned about my "social development." As it was, I never fit in with my peers anyway because the stuff they were learning was dull and old to me.
One of the most useful things about a GUI is the visual cues that it gives to jog the memory. CLI is often more powerful, but it is lacking in visual cues and so takes longer to master because you have to remember everything.
So, what about creating some sort of sonic scheme for locating the user in 2d or greater sonic "space" that's equivalent to a sighted user's peripheral vision giving information about the GUI environment. I'm thinking perhaps musical chords could represent different parts of the "sonic desktop" and that chorded input could provide navigation for sightless users. Perhaps the keyboard could even be completely replaced by something like a stenographer's keyboard, where chorded input is the norm.
I have noticed an interesting phenomenon in my front yard that supports his hypothesis: The strip of lawn that my water pipe runs beneath is usually a shade greener than the surrounding area. While it's possible that the pipe could be leaking, it's unlikely that it would leak along its entire length, so the most reasonable hypothesis is that the cooling of the ground reduces the amount of evaporation and drying.
1) Adobe will have much less chance of making money on the Linux market, because the Gimp is preinstalled on so many machines. This breaks the 3rd party market on Linux machines. This also has the implication that 3rd party developers (e.g. Adobe/MacroMedia, discreet, etc) have less reasons to support free OSs and more and more reasons to support MS only and eventually Apple.
Who gives a shit if Adobe can't make money this way? If people want such products on free OSs, they can either pay for them or build the apps themselves using open standards.
2) MS will never be able to compete with that just because (rightly) it cannot bundle applications in the OS.
Who gives a shit if MS can't compete? They can go ahead and die. The world would not long mourn their passing.
Seriously, I have a couple of friends who have two small children and have a fabulous lifestyle on a single 45k salary. They just realized that they don't need all of the toys - but they have a nice house in an inexpensive part of town and everything that they really need. They're doing well enough, even, that the sole breadwinner is voluntarily leaving his job to go back to school to pursue a career that he's more interested in than his current position.
It's all about quality of life - and you don't need to be making much money at all to have that.
This makes me wonder: since oil and water are immiscible, wouldn't it be possible to put some mounting brackets in the tank for all of the electronics about halfway up the tank, then fill the tank to below that level with water, little plastic castles, and fish, and then with oil to the top?
Aeration might be a bit of a problem, but one could put a divider in the tank and have the bubbler on one side and the electronics on the other in case the bubbling action caused mixing between the oil and the water. If it was designed properly, it wouldn't even be necessary to have oil on both sides of the divider, just on the side with the electronics, although this would definitely make changing the water a delicate process.
You're absolutely right, and I don't mean to criticize you, by the way, merely the idea of these new "rights" these rich people have recently purchased. If the U.S. manages to inflict this new idea of property on the world, its all over for freedom as we know it. Copyright and licenses and property rights will be used, ARE being used, to silence dissent in the U.S. and abroad. Petty dictators are a horror, but they eventually die and become dust. This new regime is corporate, immortal, and unkillable.
Not unkillable. It will always be within the power of the people to kill these behemoths by starvation if they become too onerous. The consumer can simply go on strike against the media.
Some would say that this process has already begun. I know that I personally spend less than $150 a year on mass-produced media (I don't watch TV ever, go to at most 6 movies a year, rent maybe 2 DVDs a month, and only buy music directly from the bands at their concerts.)
Hollywood and the music industry can just go fuck themselves. I have better things to do with my time and money.
I definitely concur about having to find a killer app for the Palm to make it worthwhile. For me, it was storing passwords securely for a large collection of accounts (using Keyring for PalmOS.)
Once I started using Keyring, it meant that my Palm was always with me and it became the planner/notebook/toy that I use constantly. I use it to store my recipes, to record my games when I play Go, lists of ideas for gifts (since I regularly have good ideas for what to get people, except for when I actually need to get them a gift), music want lists... it's indispensable.
Of course, my cellphone is something of an antique, so that could have something to do with it as well...
build.xml files tend to get crufty. Maven builds are sleek, particularly if you write your own plugins to handle the odd bits. And the mevenide integration with both Eclipse and Netbeans is almost flawless.
Freezing hydrogen would not break the containment vessel. Water is one of a relatively small number of chemicals that increases in volume as it freezes - the vast majority of chemicals (and, I believe, all elemental substances) decrease in volume as they freeze.
I get the same effect from playing go. After a couple of hours of studying tesuji, or especially working out go problems, I find myself seeing all sorts of different patterns as go stones.
The worst part about this is that a lot of the time, the patterns I see are insoluble losing positions. The effect is particularly bad when I'm trying to go to sleep and can't get the problems out of my head. Back in college a few friends and I even had a name for the effect - "go brain."
My strategy for using the spent grain is to bake a coarse whole-grain bread with it. I usually make a new batch at the same time as I'm re-racking an old batch, so I use the spent yeast from the first batch as well (although I usually need to add some bread yeast as well to get enough activity.)
Rye breads are particularly good this way since the caraway seeds offset some of the bitterness of the spent grain. I also like to substitute some of the partially fermented beer from the first racking for water in the bread recipe, which gives some additional flavor and nice sweetness from the unfermented malt.
If you license your source code to the publisher so that they can compile and link it with the GPL'ed code, they cannot legally distribute the finished binary without agreeing to the terms of both your license and to the terms of the GPL.
The distinction between copyrighted and public domain works is utterly clear. Your work is copyrighted, and the GPL code is copyrighted. The authors of the GPL'ed code did not contribute their code to the public domain in any fashion - they have provided a license at no cost for any other individual or group to use their code, subject to the restrictions of the license. Just because you can download the source code from the web doesn't mean that you have any legal right to use it except under the conditions that they specified.
By analogy, the fact that you can go to a library and check out a book and read it without cost does not in any way imply that you have the right to start printing copies.
For some people, school is only about learning how to learn and finding direction. For others, like myself, school, and specifically the lecture environment, is the best way to learn domain-specific material. It all has to do with whether or not you're an auditory learner.
The ability to succeed outside of the school environment depends heavily upon how easily one can learn from a textbook. For me, texts are excellent reference materials but are almost useless for learning; instead, I learn by listening. In college I almost never missed a class, because my recall ability for things I hear is much greater than for things I read. If I'm trying to learn a new concept from manuals or texts, I have to read the material numerous times before I'm able to apply it. On the other hand, if I have the material explained out loud, I can grasp the concept immediately. This doesn't just extend to technical subjects, either - for example I can remember the lyrics of just about every song I've ever heard, even if I've only heard it a single time.
That being said, I have a lot of envy for people who can learn quickly from reference materials. With the decline of mentorships and apprenticeships, school is just about the only way I can effectively advance my learning, and a lot of the things taught in school are not directly applicable to the workplace.
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I think I've just found my new sig.
And yet, with CCTV footage we've caught the people who tried to blow up more trains on July 21, and probably gained more intelligence about the whole operation because of that.
After the fact. The fact that the second attack failed was purely a result of the bombers' ineptitude, and had nothing to do with interception by the police.
Modern slaughterhouses run their line speeds at rates that are too fast for the meat packers to assure that they aren't cutting into the intestines of the cows. Every time they do so, more bacteria enters our beef supply.
This is why I hunt and butcher my own meat. No added hormones, either!
Please show me how you can express an 5-deep nested array in any other language
Please show me why you would ever, ever want to do such a horrible thing.
Yes, it was moving and wonderful an all, but I was pretty disappointed about the lack of useful factual information. I thought that the movie excessively anthropomorphized the penguins and that it didn't present the information in scientific terms.
For example, in the movie they show the consequences of the penguins dropping their eggs and losing track of chicks, but nowhere in the film do they state what the survival rate of the chicks is. They show an albatross catching and killing a penguin chick while adult penguins stand around and do nothing, and fail to explain the lack of a response. They also say nothing about the ongoing environmental changes in the antarctic and how these may affect the penguins.
I went in to the documentary hoping to see some science, but it turned out to be mostly pretty pictures and emotionally loaded nonsense.
Except for the fact that I cannot find a cable provider who will allow me to have static IP addresses upon which I can run my own servers. If this change goes through, I'm screwed.
Qwest's "business DSL" package that allows static IPs costs about double what Speakeasy offers, and their techs are idiots. Speakeasy has the best service and most competent techs I've ever worked with.
I feel your pain. I went through an excellent gifted/talented schooling program for the first few years of my education, but when my family was forced to move due to my dad's job being relocated, there was no accelerated education to be found in the new place.
It took two years for the school system to catch up to where I had been, and my parents wouldn't let me advance because they were concerned about my "social development." As it was, I never fit in with my peers anyway because the stuff they were learning was dull and old to me.
Satire can be insightful, you know.
One of the most useful things about a GUI is the visual cues that it gives to jog the memory. CLI is often more powerful, but it is lacking in visual cues and so takes longer to master because you have to remember everything.
So, what about creating some sort of sonic scheme for locating the user in 2d or greater sonic "space" that's equivalent to a sighted user's peripheral vision giving information about the GUI environment. I'm thinking perhaps musical chords could represent different parts of the "sonic desktop" and that chorded input could provide navigation for sightless users. Perhaps the keyboard could even be completely replaced by something like a stenographer's keyboard, where chorded input is the norm.
I'll be able to spend a year dead for tax reasons!
I have noticed an interesting phenomenon in my front yard that supports his hypothesis: The strip of lawn that my water pipe runs beneath is usually a shade greener than the surrounding area. While it's possible that the pipe could be leaking, it's unlikely that it would leak along its entire length, so the most reasonable hypothesis is that the cooling of the ground reduces the amount of evaporation and drying.
Who gives a shit if Adobe can't make money this way? If people want such products on free OSs, they can either pay for them or build the apps themselves using open standards.
2) MS will never be able to compete with that just because (rightly) it cannot bundle applications in the OS.
Who gives a shit if MS can't compete? They can go ahead and die. The world would not long mourn their passing.
Seriously, I have a couple of friends who have two small children and have a fabulous lifestyle on a single 45k salary. They just realized that they don't need all of the toys - but they have a nice house in an inexpensive part of town and everything that they really need. They're doing well enough, even, that the sole breadwinner is voluntarily leaving his job to go back to school to pursue a career that he's more interested in than his current position.
It's all about quality of life - and you don't need to be making much money at all to have that.
Ummm... and why would one do such a thing?
This makes me wonder: since oil and water are immiscible, wouldn't it be possible to put some mounting brackets in the tank for all of the electronics about halfway up the tank, then fill the tank to below that level with water, little plastic castles, and fish, and then with oil to the top?
Aeration might be a bit of a problem, but one could put a divider in the tank and have the bubbler on one side and the electronics on the other in case the bubbling action caused mixing between the oil and the water. If it was designed properly, it wouldn't even be necessary to have oil on both sides of the divider, just on the side with the electronics, although this would definitely make changing the water a delicate process.
Not unkillable. It will always be within the power of the people to kill these behemoths by starvation if they become too onerous. The consumer can simply go on strike against the media.
Some would say that this process has already begun. I know that I personally spend less than $150 a year on mass-produced media (I don't watch TV ever, go to at most 6 movies a year, rent maybe 2 DVDs a month, and only buy music directly from the bands at their concerts.)
Hollywood and the music industry can just go fuck themselves. I have better things to do with my time and money.
I definitely concur about having to find a killer app for the Palm to make it worthwhile. For me, it was storing passwords securely for a large collection of accounts (using Keyring for PalmOS.)
Once I started using Keyring, it meant that my Palm was always with me and it became the planner/notebook/toy that I use constantly. I use it to store my recipes, to record my games when I play Go, lists of ideas for gifts (since I regularly have good ideas for what to get people, except for when I actually need to get them a gift), music want lists... it's indispensable.
Of course, my cellphone is something of an antique, so that could have something to do with it as well...
Lucky you. Last week, I got 10,000 in one day.
Ever try Maven?
build.xml files tend to get crufty. Maven builds are sleek, particularly if you write your own plugins to handle the odd bits. And the mevenide integration with both Eclipse and Netbeans is almost flawless.
Freezing hydrogen would not break the containment vessel. Water is one of a relatively small number of chemicals that increases in volume as it freezes - the vast majority of chemicals (and, I believe, all elemental substances) decrease in volume as they freeze.
I get the same effect from playing go. After a couple of hours of studying tesuji, or especially working out go problems, I find myself seeing all sorts of different patterns as go stones.
The worst part about this is that a lot of the time, the patterns I see are insoluble losing positions. The effect is particularly bad when I'm trying to go to sleep and can't get the problems out of my head. Back in college a few friends and I even had a name for the effect - "go brain."
That looks like my webserver. Except, of course, that mine's running Linux.
My strategy for using the spent grain is to bake a coarse whole-grain bread with it. I usually make a new batch at the same time as I'm re-racking an old batch, so I use the spent yeast from the first batch as well (although I usually need to add some bread yeast as well to get enough activity.)
Rye breads are particularly good this way since the caraway seeds offset some of the bitterness of the spent grain. I also like to substitute some of the partially fermented beer from the first racking for water in the bread recipe, which gives some additional flavor and nice sweetness from the unfermented malt.
If you license your source code to the publisher so that they can compile and link it with the GPL'ed code, they cannot legally distribute the finished binary without agreeing to the terms of both your license and to the terms of the GPL. The distinction between copyrighted and public domain works is utterly clear. Your work is copyrighted, and the GPL code is copyrighted. The authors of the GPL'ed code did not contribute their code to the public domain in any fashion - they have provided a license at no cost for any other individual or group to use their code, subject to the restrictions of the license. Just because you can download the source code from the web doesn't mean that you have any legal right to use it except under the conditions that they specified. By analogy, the fact that you can go to a library and check out a book and read it without cost does not in any way imply that you have the right to start printing copies.
The ability to succeed outside of the school environment depends heavily upon how easily one can learn from a textbook. For me, texts are excellent reference materials but are almost useless for learning; instead, I learn by listening. In college I almost never missed a class, because my recall ability for things I hear is much greater than for things I read. If I'm trying to learn a new concept from manuals or texts, I have to read the material numerous times before I'm able to apply it. On the other hand, if I have the material explained out loud, I can grasp the concept immediately. This doesn't just extend to technical subjects, either - for example I can remember the lyrics of just about every song I've ever heard, even if I've only heard it a single time.
That being said, I have a lot of envy for people who can learn quickly from reference materials. With the decline of mentorships and apprenticeships, school is just about the only way I can effectively advance my learning, and a lot of the things taught in school are not directly applicable to the workplace.