Ummm I don't remember kilo EVER meaning 1024. Nor do I ever remember mega meaning 1048576. I certainly never remember Giga meaning "times 2 to the 30."
Kilo, Mega, Giga: these have always been base 10, they are now base 10, and they will always be base 10.
The fact that people stopped giving a shit about learning this in grade school doesn't mean they are suddenly right and the scientific establishment is wrong.
The First Dog could take a dump on the sidewalk and the White House Secretary of Dog Poop could forget to pick it up and the collective of slashbots would be calling for an impeachment.
Give it a rest, already. There are far worse crimes than hiring the low bidding, incompetent IT contractor. God only knows there is no shortage of incompetent IT people out there.
On the tracker, I see four DVD ISOs each for x86 and x64 with the same name and different hashes, and slightly different sizes. Anyone know what gives?
"I don't know your definition of a "business relationship", but there is most certainly a conflict of interest, and 401k's/mutual funds count in that regard (legally, ethically, and otherwise.)"
Of course, I know that if I ask you to provide a citation or reference to substantiate this claim, you will disappear quietly into the night...
I recall them counting the votes several times in Florida and Bush had more each time.
If there are 100 marbles in the jar, and you count them 100 times, there are still 100 marbles in the jar. Suing the people who put the marbles in the jar isn't going to change that.
What really sucked about that whole process is that now any time a Democrat comes close to winning, they feel justified in suing claiming, "I should have won!" even if in fact they did not.
It is not surprising that the fire-breathing liberal 9th circuit judicial activism court ruled against Microsoft. They usually find some reasoning by which to rule against a corporate entity. They also usually get overturned on appeal because of their often specious reasoning and circular logic.
The 9th Circuit Court has the highest rate of review by the SCOTUS, being twice as likely to have a decision appealed to such as any other federal appellate court. Also, of all the cases the SCOTUS reviews from the 9th, fully 75% of them are overturned.
So, before the mass of slashpuppies declares "Mission Accomplished," let's see what the appeal says.
... and owning stock in a company does not constitute a "business relationship," either by direct ownership or proxy ownership through a mutual fund or 401(k).
Also, being in the military does not mean you own stock in military contractors, as you seem to be saying. Last I checked, they don't give you a bunch of shares of LMCO for re-enlisting...
I technically work for a diversified manufacturer and military contractor, even though my job is not even close to that division. My opinions of our progress on the war are not shaped by the fact that my 401(k) has a bunch of our company stock in it. They are shaped by my moral convictions and things that I have heard from people who have actually BEEN in Iraq serving tour after tour after tour. My friends who are in the military (Army, Marines) certainly have no reservations about going back to Iraq, and not one person I have talked to who has been there has said that the media is projecting an accurate picture of what is going on there. It's not even close.
If anything, these guys are doing a piss-poor job of conveying that, as well. Everyone likes to armchair-quarterback the Iraq war, but the reality is that if you're not on the ground over there, you have no clue what it's really like. That includes you and me. Some of us have more information than others by virtue of the fact we actually have ties to people on the ground and therefore get firsthand information. But, in the end, we're not there. Neither are the talking heads on TV that the salivating left seems to place so much stock in.
Why do you think I am a republican? I was just pointing out the numerous factual errors in your absurd diatribe. Now you have only further made an ass of yourself.
Spare us this insanity from the New York Times, already. They have a pretty good record of outright fabrication..
Here's how I bet they came to these conclusions... these guys have 401(k) or some kind of retirement plans that have mutual funds that own stock in these defense contractors. Therefore, they have some vague "business relationship" that somehow influences their public opinions...
First of all, this will NEVER be 100% efficient - not even close. There will be other waste products, possibly a LOT of other waste products. What I want to know is, what are those other waste products and in what quantity are they produced in proportion to ethanol? What does it take to separate the ethanol from these waste products? How toxic and/or disposable are these waste products?
I don't know where you get your facts from, but there were two surpluses, of 1.9 Billion and 86.4 Billion in 1999 and 2000, respectively. I don't know where you get your plurality of "hundreds of billions" from. The only year (since 1968) there was an actual, real surplus compared to GDP was 2000, at a paltry 0.9%.
Also, corporate income tax revenue under Bush's first year in office was 150 Billion. By 2007, it grew to over 370 Billion, so corporate tax revenue more than doubled during Bush's tenure in office. Personal income tax revenue grew from 994 Billion to over 1160 Billion since Bush took office, so people are paying more in taxes now than they did before the tax cuts. That's a pretty big tax hike.
During Clinton, Personal income tax revenue doubled, from about 500 Billion to over a Trillion (that's an even BIGGER tax hike), while corporate income tax revenue went from 117 Billion to 207 Billion.
So, if what you are implying is true and the President is somehow responsible for budgets and spending, then Bush has increased taxes on corporations more than Clinton, and increased taxes less on individuals while Clinton DOUBLED them.
While that may be true, the lack of caffeine can be compensated for by drinking more of the coffee, which is self-reinforcing because the coffee is tasty. However, if the coffee is less tasty, it is a disincentive to getting any caffeine at all.
A fat person can lose weight. An ugly person cannot gain pretty.
I'm not writing these to be a troll. I am just being realistic having intimate knowledge of the life of a PhD/PostDoc/etc research lab, and knowing that, at least where I was, every "high school outreach" project we ever attempted turned out to be a complete and utter disaster resulting in the loss of thousands of dollars worth of research at the hands of over-eager high school grads and freshmen who had no clue what they were doing yet thought they knew everything.
1) Learn to make coffee, really good coffee. Get a burr-mill grinder, and only get either city or dark roast beans, and only from the Santos region of Brazil or from Kenya, or possibly Ethiopia. Colombian Supremo is out of favor. For God's sake, don't fuck it up.
2) Learn Word, Excel, and PowerPoint frontwards, backwards, and inside out. You'll likely be using these to do data entry and make graphs and write reports for the scientists.
3) Absolutely positively forget about laying your hands on ANY lab equipment or participating in any way in performing experiments.
4) Go into it knowing that you don't know squat, even if you think you do. Even if you got that pretty blue ribbon in your 11th grade science fair, you still don't know squat. The researchers will not be interested at all in your opinion or what you think you know. They don't have time to demonstrate to you why you don't know squat, and will only get annoyed if you incessantly ask questions about why what you thought you knew was bullshit.
5) Listen to everything they say and tell you, and pay attention to everything they do, and have a good time being a gopher. You are there to observe, listen, and learn. You are not there to help run experiments, offer your pseudo-theories, or participate in any meaningful way.
There is no case to win. No lawsuit has been filed. The only thing that has happened is that a letter was sent from a Monster attorney to the owner of the company asking that they stop selling a supposedly infringing product. The owner replied with, in very many more words, "Screw you."
You make it sound like we are a bunch of heartless bastards. Of course losing a loved one sucks, but in the end, yes, that would be about the size of it.
"There has to be an incredible purpose to doing this. An example might be getting rid of Dengue Fever, or the elimination of Malaria, etc."
What, you mean removing nature's ability to remove weak members of the human species from the gene pool, thereby making the human race genetically weaker as a whole, is an incredible purpose? I see that as a direct affront to the strengthening of the human race, and ultimately a contributor to ending it altogether.
São Paulo is the only place in all of Brazil where people actually stop at red lights. I was in Americana, Campinas, Nova Odessa, Ubatuba, Parati, and a few other places, and man, we didn't stop at a single red light the whole time. You'd be crazy to in some of those places.
Because the left wing elitists in the US, while complaining about energy independence out of one side of their mouths, won't allow us to drill it for 'environmental' reasons. Remember ANWR?
All they really want is for the US to go back to the stone age as payback for two centuries of oppressing minorities and stealing their land.
At 30 bucks? I don't think so... When prices are like DVDs, they will sell like DVDs. I personally don't buy anything more than about $15... and I've been tightening due to the economy and the fact that movies suck lately...
That's all well and good, but I could get to some sites, just not the ones I wanted. I could get to slashdot, the Mazda forums, AOPA, and a few others I frequent..
Overall, I could get to about 20% of the sites I wanted to get to..
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Ummm I don't remember kilo EVER meaning 1024. Nor do I ever remember mega meaning 1048576. I certainly never remember Giga meaning "times 2 to the 30."
Kilo, Mega, Giga: these have always been base 10, they are now base 10, and they will always be base 10.
The fact that people stopped giving a shit about learning this in grade school doesn't mean they are suddenly right and the scientific establishment is wrong.
The First Dog could take a dump on the sidewalk and the White House Secretary of Dog Poop could forget to pick it up and the collective of slashbots would be calling for an impeachment.
Give it a rest, already. There are far worse crimes than hiring the low bidding, incompetent IT contractor. God only knows there is no shortage of incompetent IT people out there.
You've obviously never been divorced...
On the tracker, I see four DVD ISOs each for x86 and x64 with the same name and different hashes, and slightly different sizes. Anyone know what gives?
"I don't know your definition of a "business relationship", but there is most certainly a conflict of interest, and 401k's/mutual funds count in that regard (legally, ethically, and otherwise.)"
Of course, I know that if I ask you to provide a citation or reference to substantiate this claim, you will disappear quietly into the night...
What a good laugh I got out of your reasoning. Not much else is useful if you do not have that which is necessary for survival.
I recall them counting the votes several times in Florida and Bush had more each time.
If there are 100 marbles in the jar, and you count them 100 times, there are still 100 marbles in the jar. Suing the people who put the marbles in the jar isn't going to change that.
What really sucked about that whole process is that now any time a Democrat comes close to winning, they feel justified in suing claiming, "I should have won!" even if in fact they did not.
It's sad and despicable.
I suppose that once they're done, every child will be able to surf the net and get trolled on MySpace even though they can't eat...
What good is a laptop to you when you can't even say where your next meal will come from?
It is not surprising that the fire-breathing liberal 9th circuit judicial activism court ruled against Microsoft. They usually find some reasoning by which to rule against a corporate entity. They also usually get overturned on appeal because of their often specious reasoning and circular logic.
The 9th Circuit Court has the highest rate of review by the SCOTUS, being twice as likely to have a decision appealed to such as any other federal appellate court. Also, of all the cases the SCOTUS reviews from the 9th, fully 75% of them are overturned.
So, before the mass of slashpuppies declares "Mission Accomplished," let's see what the appeal says.
... and owning stock in a company does not constitute a "business relationship," either by direct ownership or proxy ownership through a mutual fund or 401(k).
Also, being in the military does not mean you own stock in military contractors, as you seem to be saying. Last I checked, they don't give you a bunch of shares of LMCO for re-enlisting...
I technically work for a diversified manufacturer and military contractor, even though my job is not even close to that division. My opinions of our progress on the war are not shaped by the fact that my 401(k) has a bunch of our company stock in it. They are shaped by my moral convictions and things that I have heard from people who have actually BEEN in Iraq serving tour after tour after tour. My friends who are in the military (Army, Marines) certainly have no reservations about going back to Iraq, and not one person I have talked to who has been there has said that the media is projecting an accurate picture of what is going on there. It's not even close.
If anything, these guys are doing a piss-poor job of conveying that, as well. Everyone likes to armchair-quarterback the Iraq war, but the reality is that if you're not on the ground over there, you have no clue what it's really like. That includes you and me. Some of us have more information than others by virtue of the fact we actually have ties to people on the ground and therefore get firsthand information. But, in the end, we're not there. Neither are the talking heads on TV that the salivating left seems to place so much stock in.
Why do you think I am a republican? I was just pointing out the numerous factual errors in your absurd diatribe. Now you have only further made an ass of yourself.
The problem arises when you THINK you are law-abiding when in fact you are not.
Spare us this insanity from the New York Times, already. They have a pretty good record of outright fabrication..
Here's how I bet they came to these conclusions... these guys have 401(k) or some kind of retirement plans that have mutual funds that own stock in these defense contractors. Therefore, they have some vague "business relationship" that somehow influences their public opinions...
First of all, this will NEVER be 100% efficient - not even close. There will be other waste products, possibly a LOT of other waste products. What I want to know is, what are those other waste products and in what quantity are they produced in proportion to ethanol? What does it take to separate the ethanol from these waste products? How toxic and/or disposable are these waste products?
Long on promises, short on details.
I don't know where you get your facts from, but there were two surpluses, of 1.9 Billion and 86.4 Billion in 1999 and 2000, respectively. I don't know where you get your plurality of "hundreds of billions" from. The only year (since 1968) there was an actual, real surplus compared to GDP was 2000, at a paltry 0.9%.
Also, corporate income tax revenue under Bush's first year in office was 150 Billion. By 2007, it grew to over 370 Billion, so corporate tax revenue more than doubled during Bush's tenure in office. Personal income tax revenue grew from 994 Billion to over 1160 Billion since Bush took office, so people are paying more in taxes now than they did before the tax cuts. That's a pretty big tax hike.
During Clinton, Personal income tax revenue doubled, from about 500 Billion to over a Trillion (that's an even BIGGER tax hike), while corporate income tax revenue went from 117 Billion to 207 Billion.
So, if what you are implying is true and the President is somehow responsible for budgets and spending, then Bush has increased taxes on corporations more than Clinton, and increased taxes less on individuals while Clinton DOUBLED them.
Those are the facts. Deal with it.
While that may be true, the lack of caffeine can be compensated for by drinking more of the coffee, which is self-reinforcing because the coffee is tasty. However, if the coffee is less tasty, it is a disincentive to getting any caffeine at all.
A fat person can lose weight. An ugly person cannot gain pretty.
I'm not writing these to be a troll. I am just being realistic having intimate knowledge of the life of a PhD/PostDoc/etc research lab, and knowing that, at least where I was, every "high school outreach" project we ever attempted turned out to be a complete and utter disaster resulting in the loss of thousands of dollars worth of research at the hands of over-eager high school grads and freshmen who had no clue what they were doing yet thought they knew everything.
1) Learn to make coffee, really good coffee. Get a burr-mill grinder, and only get either city or dark roast beans, and only from the Santos region of Brazil or from Kenya, or possibly Ethiopia. Colombian Supremo is out of favor. For God's sake, don't fuck it up.
2) Learn Word, Excel, and PowerPoint frontwards, backwards, and inside out. You'll likely be using these to do data entry and make graphs and write reports for the scientists.
3) Absolutely positively forget about laying your hands on ANY lab equipment or participating in any way in performing experiments.
4) Go into it knowing that you don't know squat, even if you think you do. Even if you got that pretty blue ribbon in your 11th grade science fair, you still don't know squat. The researchers will not be interested at all in your opinion or what you think you know. They don't have time to demonstrate to you why you don't know squat, and will only get annoyed if you incessantly ask questions about why what you thought you knew was bullshit.
5) Listen to everything they say and tell you, and pay attention to everything they do, and have a good time being a gopher. You are there to observe, listen, and learn. You are not there to help run experiments, offer your pseudo-theories, or participate in any meaningful way.
There is no case to win. No lawsuit has been filed. The only thing that has happened is that a letter was sent from a Monster attorney to the owner of the company asking that they stop selling a supposedly infringing product. The owner replied with, in very many more words, "Screw you."
You make it sound like we are a bunch of heartless bastards. Of course losing a loved one sucks, but in the end, yes, that would be about the size of it.
"There has to be an incredible purpose to doing this. An example might be getting rid of Dengue Fever, or the elimination of Malaria, etc."
What, you mean removing nature's ability to remove weak members of the human species from the gene pool, thereby making the human race genetically weaker as a whole, is an incredible purpose? I see that as a direct affront to the strengthening of the human race, and ultimately a contributor to ending it altogether.
São Paulo is the only place in all of Brazil where people actually stop at red lights. I was in Americana, Campinas, Nova Odessa, Ubatuba, Parati, and a few other places, and man, we didn't stop at a single red light the whole time. You'd be crazy to in some of those places.
Because the left wing elitists in the US, while complaining about energy independence out of one side of their mouths, won't allow us to drill it for 'environmental' reasons. Remember ANWR?
All they really want is for the US to go back to the stone age as payback for two centuries of oppressing minorities and stealing their land.
Yay liberalism..
At 30 bucks? I don't think so... When prices are like DVDs, they will sell like DVDs. I personally don't buy anything more than about $15... and I've been tightening due to the economy and the fact that movies suck lately...
anyway... tag: nowayat30bucks
Sorry, that has FIVE different chords, so is therefore beyond the scope of my music comprehension :)
Hah, sorry, can't name it.. not near my piano or guitar.
That's all well and good, but I could get to some sites, just not the ones I wanted. I could get to slashdot, the Mazda forums, AOPA, and a few others I frequent..
Overall, I could get to about 20% of the sites I wanted to get to..