Re:Great, so engineers are Masons now?
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The knowledge cults are already here, the divide between those with knowledge and those without is huge.
I think the point was that there's nothing stopping you from learning those things on your own. You won't have a degree to show for it afterwards, but you can buy all the books and other learning materials that you want, or check them out from the library if you don't want to spend money.
In America, if someone doesn't have knowledge about a field it's because they have chosen not to study it.
Visual voicemail is a major change to the carrier's voicemail system, to get a network to agree to make the change Apple has to agree to the lock-in.
How is it a major change, unless the carrier's voicemail system is a pile of crap? All it should involve is making some basic information available to the phone instead of the back-end voicemail system and responding to the phone's navigation commands instead of having a tone-controlled back-end system that the user calls up from their phone. IE moving the UI from a server at AT&T to the phone. Again, unless the existing voicemail system was a poorly-designed relic of the 80s, it should already be at least halfway there so that the back-end UI layer (that you call up from your phone) and the back-end data layer can be on separate machines.
People want things that work 100% and aren't going to like it much when the spend lots of money and can only be told that 98% of what they bought will work. And absolutely nothing can be done about it.
The cell carriers and phone manufacturers could... I don't know... agree on a standard network and phone API.
The way Microsoft ended Vb6 with no easy upgrade path to.net both irritated developers here and stranded some of them in vb6 with no path to.net.
What would you have wanted them to do differently? VB6 and prior was a terrible language. MS included a conversion utility in VS 2003 that does a credible job of converting decrepit VB6 code into VB.NET in case you want to retain the ugliness of the old program. I'm not sure what more they could have provided.
If performing miracle operations at costs of millions of dollars means that the insurance company doesn't have the funds to pay for preventative drugs for tens of thousands of their other clients then you might be killing hundreds for every one you save with the surgery.
This argument would have more weight if US insurance companies weren't fat with profits. Even in states like mine where they're legally required to operate as non-profit organizations.
companies realize that by charging the fewer high risk customers more they can charge the rest of their customers less.
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
More like "companies realize they can increase the charges to their high risk customers more per year than they increase the charges to the rest of their customers per year, while lowering the quality of service to both groups."
Professional car theft is ALL about the used-parts markets - stolen cars invariable end up in chop shops and sold for parts.
I think it depends on the area. My car was stolen for a joyride. The guys who stole it ditched *another* Honda that they had been driving around before that in the same parking lot when they took mine. My previous manager at work had her Honda stolen something like three times by joyriders.
Sure it does. It happened to my 2000 Honda Civic seven months ago.
The steering column has a lock that you have to somehow break.
The guys who stole my car tore the whole bottom part of the steering column off. Maybe with a crowbar? I only saw the results, not the execution.
Also, what wires do you cross? Are you expecting to open a panel to find two neatly stripped ends of wire laying about ready for you to touch them and override the ignition system?
Once the bottom of the steering column was gone, they had easy access to the key-based part of the ignition system. What they did was snap off the part that's turned by the key, then turn it with a screwdriver or similar tool. It was very dangerous and they could have electrocuted themselves while driving with it in that condition, but it did work.
Depending on the year/make/model, it might be even easier. When I was in high school I figured out how to hotwire my crappy Datsun pickup using some spare wire and two lightswitches (one which was left on while the truck was running and another for the momentary ignition). On that one, the contacts on the back of the ignition key assembly were exposed and I just taped everything together.
There are 41 processes and 512 threads in use on my system right now, and all I have open in terms of interactive applications are two Firefox windows and CDex.
Microsoft has really good food in their cafeterias. I've never been to Google, so I can't make a comparison, but I've been to several at MS when I was in a class or visiting friends who work there and it was always tasty. It's much cheaper than going out to lunch, too. It's not like MS charges the full price that a restaurant/fast food place would.
B5 has a very rich universe and there is absolutely no need to keep rehashing those same old (some of them I really like) characters over and over again like they could create a story by themselves.
I wouldn't mind seeing a B5 TV movie with the old cast*, except that I *knew* JMS was not going to be able to resist throwing in his stupid technomages and was sadly proven right once I managed to find the trailer.
The technomages were an annoyance the first time around, but at least they were only in one episode. Then he had to bring them into Crusade, and it was made even more awful by their presence (an amazing feat).
Dorky concept, gratingly overwrought acting, no redeeming qualities whatsoever. He's already blown *three* projects (A Call to Arms, Crusade, and Legend of the Rangers) thanks in no small part to incorporating things like the technomages (oh, and the spooky haunted spaceship!). I can't believe he hasn't learned by now that he should look at what made the original series strong and every followup weak.
* partly because he has yet to come up with a new character that I like even as much as the original ones.
he proved once he could write a very good story.
He did some great writing for Captain Power, too. He managed to turn what would otherwise have been a forgettable toy tie-in into a memorable story.
Maybe he can do it again.
That's what I keep hoping, but he honestly seems to be moving in exactly the opposite direction. At least this time it looks like he's gone back to Christopher Franke for the score instead of Schoenberg in Space.
As for iTunes, many people have it installed already, there's really no need for IT to do so.
There is if the end users don't have admin rights on their machines.
Furthermore, I found out just a few weeks ago that using the Windows version of iTunes on a business computer requires purchasing a license. So yes, I think IT (or at least the purchasing department) *does* need to be involved even if the user has local admin rights.
It sounds like you are basing your argument (and the other one earlier in the thread) on the "What the (bleep) do we know?" movies. You would be doing yourself a favour to read critiques of them and see that while there is a bit of actual science present, for the most part they're very inaccurate and heavily padded with wacky cult nonsense.
Everything you've written is in Java/.NET and takes 2 seconds just to bring up a window on a modern CPU? Then maybe it's time to stop dissing lower level languages.
Uh, what?.NET is not Java. GUI apps written in.NET run very fast, unless they're written by bad coders.
It is also very easy to implement multithreaded apps in. By design, instead of using some hokey automated quasi-multithreading.
If the sensor (for example here) was more sensitive to red, then this would skew the picture results significantly, especially if it picked up and added infrared light to the picture's data which isn't visible to the human eye.
I would flip that around and say that that behaviour might actually be advantageous. If you're in a low (visible) light situation, maybe you could use an IR flash to get luminance values and merge that with the dim visible colour data to get a halfway-decent colour image with no visible flash.
I was willing to sort of forgive Apple for not supporting NTLM authentication on the Mac version of Safari (meaning that proxy logins and access to non-SSL IIS-based websites has to be done using passwords sent in the clear), but the Windows port does the same thing? Totally unacceptable.
Hey Apple, you're writing a Windows app. How about following the Windows UI guidelines, like putting your preferences menu option under Tools where it belongs on this platform? How about using the built-in Windows forms elements so your app fits in instead of sticking out like someone pasted screenshots of an OS X app onto my desktop? How about allowing me to resize the window from any part of the frame instead of the little spot in the lower right? How about letting me change the proxy settings?
But there is a show-stopping ethical question of whether these experiments are any more acceptable on this neuron net than they would be on a whole, live, natural organism of the species.
Why wouldn't they be ethical? Unless it's such a complete functioning brain that it has the capability for self-awareness, I don't see a problem. It's the same as any experiment on a cadaver or amputated body part.
My understanding is that it used to be, but the loophole he operated under was closed. So in this case I assume he suckered the new distributor into believing they will actually manage to turn a profit?
This should really be a priority to look into, because if there's any chance that at some point something in our solar system was able to make a hole through an entire planet, it would be rad beyond words.
There you go, NASA, I just wrote your business case.
It's the new exchange rate. The US pound has been greatly devalued in relation to the European kilogram.
Anyway, I see a lot of skepticism about this design, but I think it's great. TFS makes it sound like the robot is designed with a furry brown teddy bear head, but it's more just a friendly robot face. Having been rescued from death (although not the battlefield kind) before, I would say that it's a great idea to have something like that when the people it will be picking up are not thinking clearly.
Most. Melodramatic. Videogame. Evar. But is still the only PC RPG to my knowledge that lets you end up with a party of vampires in trenchcoats armed with miniguns.
Another reason to be skeptical: UV and X-ray don't penetrate the atmosphere, never mind the ground or ocean.
X-rays and short-wave UV don't. Longer-wave UV does.
IR penetrates less than visible light -- ie, not very far.
Near IR penetrates the atmosphere better and with less scattering than visible light. What you say is true for *some* of the IR band, but it's also got a lot of room in it.
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The knowledge cults are already here, the divide between those with knowledge and those without is huge.
I think the point was that there's nothing stopping you from learning those things on your own. You won't have a degree to show for it afterwards, but you can buy all the books and other learning materials that you want, or check them out from the library if you don't want to spend money.
In America, if someone doesn't have knowledge about a field it's because they have chosen not to study it.
Visual voicemail is a major change to the carrier's voicemail system, to get a network to agree to make the change Apple has to agree to the lock-in.
How is it a major change, unless the carrier's voicemail system is a pile of crap? All it should involve is making some basic information available to the phone instead of the back-end voicemail system and responding to the phone's navigation commands instead of having a tone-controlled back-end system that the user calls up from their phone. IE moving the UI from a server at AT&T to the phone.
Again, unless the existing voicemail system was a poorly-designed relic of the 80s, it should already be at least halfway there so that the back-end UI layer (that you call up from your phone) and the back-end data layer can be on separate machines.
People want things that work 100% and aren't going to like it much when the spend lots of money and can only be told that 98% of what they bought will work. And absolutely nothing can be done about it.
The cell carriers and phone manufacturers could... I don't know... agree on a standard network and phone API.
The way Microsoft ended Vb6 with no easy upgrade path to .net both irritated developers here and stranded some of them in vb6 with no path to .net.
What would you have wanted them to do differently? VB6 and prior was a terrible language. MS included a conversion utility in VS 2003 that does a credible job of converting decrepit VB6 code into VB.NET in case you want to retain the ugliness of the old program. I'm not sure what more they could have provided.
If performing miracle operations at costs of millions of dollars means that the insurance company doesn't have the funds to pay for preventative drugs for tens of thousands of their other clients then you might be killing hundreds for every one you save with the surgery.
This argument would have more weight if US insurance companies weren't fat with profits. Even in states like mine where they're legally required to operate as non-profit organizations.
companies realize that by charging the fewer high risk customers more they can charge the rest of their customers less.
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
More like "companies realize they can increase the charges to their high risk customers more per year than they increase the charges to the rest of their customers per year, while lowering the quality of service to both groups."
Professional car theft is ALL about the used-parts markets - stolen cars invariable end up in chop shops and sold for parts.
I think it depends on the area. My car was stolen for a joyride. The guys who stole it ditched *another* Honda that they had been driving around before that in the same parking lot when they took mine. My previous manager at work had her Honda stolen something like three times by joyriders.
That doesn't work.
Sure it does. It happened to my 2000 Honda Civic seven months ago.
The steering column has a lock that you have to somehow break.
The guys who stole my car tore the whole bottom part of the steering column off. Maybe with a crowbar? I only saw the results, not the execution.
Also, what wires do you cross? Are you expecting to open a panel to find two neatly stripped ends of wire laying about ready for you to touch them and override the ignition system?
Once the bottom of the steering column was gone, they had easy access to the key-based part of the ignition system. What they did was snap off the part that's turned by the key, then turn it with a screwdriver or similar tool. It was very dangerous and they could have electrocuted themselves while driving with it in that condition, but it did work.
Depending on the year/make/model, it might be even easier. When I was in high school I figured out how to hotwire my crappy Datsun pickup using some spare wire and two lightswitches (one which was left on while the truck was running and another for the momentary ignition). On that one, the contacts on the back of the ignition key assembly were exposed and I just taped everything together.
All told that's thirty-two threads
There are 41 processes and 512 threads in use on my system right now, and all I have open in terms of interactive applications are two Firefox windows and CDex.
Be that as it may, there's nothing particularly speculative about his assertion that there are agencies that we are not allowed to know about.
A concrete example would be the NRO, which was kept secret for 32 years.
He was talking about microsoft.
Microsoft has really good food in their cafeterias. I've never been to Google, so I can't make a comparison, but I've been to several at MS when I was in a class or visiting friends who work there and it was always tasty. It's much cheaper than going out to lunch, too. It's not like MS charges the full price that a restaurant/fast food place would.
B5 has a very rich universe and there is absolutely no need to keep rehashing those same old (some of them I really like) characters over and over again like they could create a story by themselves.
I wouldn't mind seeing a B5 TV movie with the old cast*, except that I *knew* JMS was not going to be able to resist throwing in his stupid technomages and was sadly proven right once I managed to find the trailer.
The technomages were an annoyance the first time around, but at least they were only in one episode. Then he had to bring them into Crusade, and it was made even more awful by their presence (an amazing feat).
Dorky concept, gratingly overwrought acting, no redeeming qualities whatsoever. He's already blown *three* projects (A Call to Arms, Crusade, and Legend of the Rangers) thanks in no small part to incorporating things like the technomages (oh, and the spooky haunted spaceship!). I can't believe he hasn't learned by now that he should look at what made the original series strong and every followup weak.
* partly because he has yet to come up with a new character that I like even as much as the original ones.
he proved once he could write a very good story.
He did some great writing for Captain Power, too. He managed to turn what would otherwise have been a forgettable toy tie-in into a memorable story.
Maybe he can do it again.
That's what I keep hoping, but he honestly seems to be moving in exactly the opposite direction. At least this time it looks like he's gone back to Christopher Franke for the score instead of Schoenberg in Space.
As for iTunes, many people have it installed already, there's really no need for IT to do so.
There is if the end users don't have admin rights on their machines.
Furthermore, I found out just a few weeks ago that using the Windows version of iTunes on a business computer requires purchasing a license. So yes, I think IT (or at least the purchasing department) *does* need to be involved even if the user has local admin rights.
It sounds like you are basing your argument (and the other one earlier in the thread) on the "What the (bleep) do we know?" movies. You would be doing yourself a favour to read critiques of them and see that while there is a bit of actual science present, for the most part they're very inaccurate and heavily padded with wacky cult nonsense.
So does Heim's theory predict the existence and mass of this particle with the same accuracy as the others in the Standard Model?
Everything you've written is in Java/.NET and takes 2 seconds just to bring up a window on a modern CPU? Then maybe it's time to stop dissing lower level languages.
.NET is not Java. GUI apps written in .NET run very fast, unless they're written by bad coders.
Uh, what?
It is also very easy to implement multithreaded apps in. By design, instead of using some hokey automated quasi-multithreading.
If the sensor (for example here) was more sensitive to red, then this would skew the picture results significantly, especially if it picked up and added infrared light to the picture's data which isn't visible to the human eye.
I would flip that around and say that that behaviour might actually be advantageous. If you're in a low (visible) light situation, maybe you could use an IR flash to get luminance values and merge that with the dim visible colour data to get a halfway-decent colour image with no visible flash.
I was willing to sort of forgive Apple for not supporting NTLM authentication on the Mac version of Safari (meaning that proxy logins and access to non-SSL IIS-based websites has to be done using passwords sent in the clear), but the Windows port does the same thing? Totally unacceptable.
Hey Apple, you're writing a Windows app. How about following the Windows UI guidelines, like putting your preferences menu option under Tools where it belongs on this platform? How about using the built-in Windows forms elements so your app fits in instead of sticking out like someone pasted screenshots of an OS X app onto my desktop? How about allowing me to resize the window from any part of the frame instead of the little spot in the lower right? How about letting me change the proxy settings?
But there is a show-stopping ethical question of whether these experiments are any more acceptable on this neuron net than they would be on a whole, live, natural organism of the species.
Why wouldn't they be ethical? Unless it's such a complete functioning brain that it has the capability for self-awareness, I don't see a problem. It's the same as any experiment on a cadaver or amputated body part.
Zonk's word, never heard the term wetware before
Kids today. Don't you read the classics in school anymore?
It's all about tax write-offs.
My understanding is that it used to be, but the loophole he operated under was closed. So in this case I assume he suckered the new distributor into believing they will actually manage to turn a profit?
This should really be a priority to look into, because if there's any chance that at some point something in our solar system was able to make a hole through an entire planet, it would be rad beyond words.
There you go, NASA, I just wrote your business case.
It's the new exchange rate. The US pound has been greatly devalued in relation to the European kilogram.
Anyway, I see a lot of skepticism about this design, but I think it's great. TFS makes it sound like the robot is designed with a furry brown teddy bear head, but it's more just a friendly robot face. Having been rescued from death (although not the battlefield kind) before, I would say that it's a great idea to have something like that when the people it will be picking up are not thinking clearly.
Most. Melodramatic. Videogame. Evar. But is still the only PC RPG to my knowledge that lets you end up with a party of vampires in trenchcoats armed with miniguns.
Another reason to be skeptical: UV and X-ray don't penetrate the atmosphere, never mind the ground or ocean.
X-rays and short-wave UV don't. Longer-wave UV does.
IR penetrates less than visible light -- ie, not very far.
Near IR penetrates the atmosphere better and with less scattering than visible light. What you say is true for *some* of the IR band, but it's also got a lot of room in it.