Yeah here in Galt's Gulch we've actually just put snow out of business. People said it was "inevitable" but it turns out that without government subsidies, snow just couldn't even keep frozen anymore. Things finally working right.
Wifi operates in bands that the ITU has designated "ISM bands", which are basically unregulated. They were bands originally designated for non-telecom equipment, such as microwaves, to be able to operate in without worrying about the RF interference they emit. However telecom equipment is allowed to also operate in the band so long as it can tolerate more or less arbitrary interference. Wifi is nowadays one of the more common uses of the ISM bands, but since they're explicitly "interfere all you want" bands from the ITU's perspective, they don't have much to say about wifi interference.
Corn syrup is a complex chemical mixture of sugars, including maltose, fructose, and various oligosaccharides.
That's true, with varying proportions, of just about any natural plant syrup, whether processed from sugar beets, corn, sugar cane, grapes, pears, whatever. If you want a chemically "pure" sugar, such as only fructose, or only glucose, and you don't want other impurities such as colors and such, you need to separate and purify it, which produces what's known as "refined sugar".
They don't seem particularly comparable to Kristallnacht to me, either. Kristallnacht was a widespread pogrom, in which an entire population's stores, homes, etc. were smashed, urged on and assisted by the state. A comparable event would be if the San Francisco city government collected a list of which Mission and SoMa apartments were occupied by tech employees, which office buildings housed tech offices, etc., quietly distributed this list to its armed followers in preparation, and then called for an all-out attack on all these places of residence and business. I would say that, so far, this has... not happened.
The word "Bolshevik" is directly translated as "ones belong to the majority". In other words, "the 99%".
You might want to check a history book? The word doesn't have anything to do with "the 99%" or population groups at all. The Bolshevik, or "majority" faction was a split with the Menshevik, or "minority" faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party primarily over issues of tactics. Both sides of the split were Marxists. You have probably also heard of some Mensheviks, such as Leon Trotsky.
No, Debian unstable is equivalent to a nightly build. At times it is usable, but many times it is broken so bad that you cannot even install it.
No, breaking changes are tested in experimental first. Unstable is usable by an end-user absent some really rare breakage. I've been using it as a regular user who isn't any kind of Debian developer as my desktop system for 10 years.
Considering the salaries Google employees get, you might have to put more than 0.01 BTC (at current exchange rates, $9.25) on a USB stick before they get too excited about it.
Debian unstable is the rolling release. Debian testing is a slightly more conservative rolling release, with updates screened mostly automatically. Stable is for people who want a manually "release-managed" approach with multi-year support lifetime.
Yeah but you could already do that if you wanted to. Meal-replacement liquid diets aren't exactly a new thing; your local supermarket or CVS probably sells Ensure.
One issue in urban (and suburban) areas is that, to save pickup costs, cities are increasingly using automated pickup systems so they can run 1-man-crew garbage trucks, and those don't work with locking lids, at least at present.
That's generally my approach also, but it's possible for the response to be worse than the illness in some cases. For example the response to a cold could develop into bronchitis if you get a lot of post-nasal drip into the lungs, which is probably worse than the cold lingering an extra day or two.
Afaik whether raising the body temperature in humans is effective at fighting infection by killing temperature-sensitive bacteria still isn't well established, but there's an interesting example in bees that is pretty well established, at least if you treat the bee colony as a whole as a macroorganism capable of developing a "fever": pdf link.
The histamine response has an actual infection-fighting purpose, so even though it also produces inconvenient/unpleasant side effects (runny nose, sneezing, etc.), it seems like it might not always be a good idea to suppress it.
Here's a map showing the vicinity of the city in which they're located (Winthrop, Iowa). I'll let you guess how many options there are for broadband internet there...
Ah yeah, the SEO-style Web 3.0 URLs, where you guess which part is actually significant.:) On Amazon, the/dp/00000000 part is the real URL, and the/Seo-Friendly-Title-Inserted-Here/ part is SEO-bait garbage that's completely ignored from a technical perspective. So you can leave it out if you want, and http://www.amazon.com/dp/1782167021/ works. But including only the SEO-bait part of the URL doesn't work, because it doesn't successfully locate resources.
It's difficult as a regular Steam user to get that distinction right, though, because the interface is completely non-transparent about which games have DRM and which don't. You cannot filter the list of available games by "DRM-free only" and choose to vote with your dollars for those. And the majority of games do have DRM (either third-party or Steamworks), so buying blindly is unlikely to get you a DRM-free title. That's a difference with GOG, because there you can know what you're buying is DRM-free.
There are some third-party sites that are attempting to compile the consumer information that Steam doesn't want to give you, but it's a bit hit-or-miss, and most Steam users don't know about such lists.
OpenGL's documentation is poorly written where it's needed most and most of the examples you find online are really old, targeted at hardware that was successfully phased out several years ago.
Huge problem with books, too. Most OpenGL books are still about the old fixed-function, immediate-mode pipeline, and if they introduce "modern OpenGL" at all, it's somewhere later in the book as an advanced feature. Partly this is because many of them serve sort of double-duty, as intro-to-graphics and intro-to-OpenGL textbooks, and immediate mode with fixed-function pipeline actually is easier to use pedagogically if your goal is to introduce people to graphics and the OpenGL code is just an example, not intended for production. But retained mode and shaders is not an "advanced feature" anymore from a coding perspective, just the way things are done.
This is even true in new editions of textbooks, because publishers are lazy and often don't really update the textbook. Therefore a (c) 2012 book might still be >85% full of early-2000s content, depending on the book. The only two OpenGL books I know of, besides giant reference tomes, that take a "modern OpenGL" approach through-and-through, are the sixth edition of Interactive Computer Graphics (which is actually revised), and Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming, a work-in-progress textbook that's been slowly appearing online over the past two years (sections I-IV are now complete, V and VI still being written).
Atlas Shrugged is interesting because it imagines the opposite scenario: all the businessmen, vice presidents, shareholders, owners of capital, management, etc., decide to check out and head off to form their own town, without bringing any workers with them. The town nonetheless prospers, despite a lack of even basic staff like garbage pickup, because a bunch of great technology that does all the work was invented at just the right moment. So in Galt's Gulch, wondrous machines do everything and the management class lives prosperously and happily ever after, since they no longer are stuck paying workers (the wondrous inventions don't demand a paycheck).
The infidels shifted Scandinavian keyboards' parentheses one key over, so they're on 8 and 9 instead of 9 and 0, might deserve bankruptcy and worse, but somehow their countries are prospering anyway.
Many Europeans are already used to using different keyboards at different times. As we speak I'm typing on a Danish-layout keyboard remapped to US-English. Which is... almost like US-English, except that the Enter key is vertical rather than horizontal, so \| is located to the left of enter rather than above it (can't remap the physical shape of the keys...). Oh, and `~ is to the left of Z. Sometimes I use a UK keyboard, which is somewhat different yet again.
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Yeah here in Galt's Gulch we've actually just put snow out of business. People said it was "inevitable" but it turns out that without government subsidies, snow just couldn't even keep frozen anymore. Things finally working right.
Well, sort of, anyway.
Wifi operates in bands that the ITU has designated "ISM bands", which are basically unregulated. They were bands originally designated for non-telecom equipment, such as microwaves, to be able to operate in without worrying about the RF interference they emit. However telecom equipment is allowed to also operate in the band so long as it can tolerate more or less arbitrary interference. Wifi is nowadays one of the more common uses of the ISM bands, but since they're explicitly "interfere all you want" bands from the ITU's perspective, they don't have much to say about wifi interference.
Corn syrup is a complex chemical mixture of sugars, including maltose, fructose, and various oligosaccharides.
That's true, with varying proportions, of just about any natural plant syrup, whether processed from sugar beets, corn, sugar cane, grapes, pears, whatever. If you want a chemically "pure" sugar, such as only fructose, or only glucose, and you don't want other impurities such as colors and such, you need to separate and purify it, which produces what's known as "refined sugar".
They don't seem particularly comparable to Kristallnacht to me, either. Kristallnacht was a widespread pogrom, in which an entire population's stores, homes, etc. were smashed, urged on and assisted by the state. A comparable event would be if the San Francisco city government collected a list of which Mission and SoMa apartments were occupied by tech employees, which office buildings housed tech offices, etc., quietly distributed this list to its armed followers in preparation, and then called for an all-out attack on all these places of residence and business. I would say that, so far, this has... not happened.
So who is being starved by a siege? Can we help bring them canned goods?
The word "Bolshevik" is directly translated as "ones belong to the majority". In other words, "the 99%".
You might want to check a history book? The word doesn't have anything to do with "the 99%" or population groups at all. The Bolshevik, or "majority" faction was a split with the Menshevik, or "minority" faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party primarily over issues of tactics. Both sides of the split were Marxists. You have probably also heard of some Mensheviks, such as Leon Trotsky.
No, Debian unstable is equivalent to a nightly build. At times it is usable, but many times it is broken so bad that you cannot even install it.
No, breaking changes are tested in experimental first. Unstable is usable by an end-user absent some really rare breakage. I've been using it as a regular user who isn't any kind of Debian developer as my desktop system for 10 years.
Considering the salaries Google employees get, you might have to put more than 0.01 BTC (at current exchange rates, $9.25) on a USB stick before they get too excited about it.
Debian unstable is the rolling release. Debian testing is a slightly more conservative rolling release, with updates screened mostly automatically. Stable is for people who want a manually "release-managed" approach with multi-year support lifetime.
This is going to wreak havok with the GNU/Hurd development schedule.
Yeah but you could already do that if you wanted to. Meal-replacement liquid diets aren't exactly a new thing; your local supermarket or CVS probably sells Ensure.
One issue in urban (and suburban) areas is that, to save pickup costs, cities are increasingly using automated pickup systems so they can run 1-man-crew garbage trucks, and those don't work with locking lids, at least at present.
That's generally my approach also, but it's possible for the response to be worse than the illness in some cases. For example the response to a cold could develop into bronchitis if you get a lot of post-nasal drip into the lungs, which is probably worse than the cold lingering an extra day or two.
Afaik whether raising the body temperature in humans is effective at fighting infection by killing temperature-sensitive bacteria still isn't well established, but there's an interesting example in bees that is pretty well established, at least if you treat the bee colony as a whole as a macroorganism capable of developing a "fever": pdf link.
The histamine response has an actual infection-fighting purpose, so even though it also produces inconvenient/unpleasant side effects (runny nose, sneezing, etc.), it seems like it might not always be a good idea to suppress it.
That's about 875 micro-library-of-congresses per second, assuming 600 dpi LOC digitization. Getting close to breaking the coveted milli-LOC/s barrier!
Here's a map showing the vicinity of the city in which they're located (Winthrop, Iowa). I'll let you guess how many options there are for broadband internet there...
Ah yeah, the SEO-style Web 3.0 URLs, where you guess which part is actually significant. :) On Amazon, the /dp/00000000 part is the real URL, and the /Seo-Friendly-Title-Inserted-Here/ part is SEO-bait garbage that's completely ignored from a technical perspective. So you can leave it out if you want, and http://www.amazon.com/dp/1782167021/ works. But including only the SEO-bait part of the URL doesn't work, because it doesn't successfully locate resources.
The \ key should be between left-shift and Z on a standard UK keyboard (except Apple UK keyboards).
It's difficult as a regular Steam user to get that distinction right, though, because the interface is completely non-transparent about which games have DRM and which don't. You cannot filter the list of available games by "DRM-free only" and choose to vote with your dollars for those. And the majority of games do have DRM (either third-party or Steamworks), so buying blindly is unlikely to get you a DRM-free title. That's a difference with GOG, because there you can know what you're buying is DRM-free.
There are some third-party sites that are attempting to compile the consumer information that Steam doesn't want to give you, but it's a bit hit-or-miss, and most Steam users don't know about such lists.
Huge problem with books, too. Most OpenGL books are still about the old fixed-function, immediate-mode pipeline, and if they introduce "modern OpenGL" at all, it's somewhere later in the book as an advanced feature. Partly this is because many of them serve sort of double-duty, as intro-to-graphics and intro-to-OpenGL textbooks, and immediate mode with fixed-function pipeline actually is easier to use pedagogically if your goal is to introduce people to graphics and the OpenGL code is just an example, not intended for production. But retained mode and shaders is not an "advanced feature" anymore from a coding perspective, just the way things are done.
This is even true in new editions of textbooks, because publishers are lazy and often don't really update the textbook. Therefore a (c) 2012 book might still be >85% full of early-2000s content, depending on the book. The only two OpenGL books I know of, besides giant reference tomes, that take a "modern OpenGL" approach through-and-through, are the sixth edition of Interactive Computer Graphics (which is actually revised), and Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming , a work-in-progress textbook that's been slowly appearing online over the past two years (sections I-IV are now complete, V and VI still being written).
Atlas Shrugged is interesting because it imagines the opposite scenario: all the businessmen, vice presidents, shareholders, owners of capital, management, etc., decide to check out and head off to form their own town, without bringing any workers with them. The town nonetheless prospers, despite a lack of even basic staff like garbage pickup, because a bunch of great technology that does all the work was invented at just the right moment. So in Galt's Gulch, wondrous machines do everything and the management class lives prosperously and happily ever after, since they no longer are stuck paying workers (the wondrous inventions don't demand a paycheck).
The infidels shifted Scandinavian keyboards' parentheses one key over, so they're on 8 and 9 instead of 9 and 0, might deserve bankruptcy and worse, but somehow their countries are prospering anyway.
Many Europeans are already used to using different keyboards at different times. As we speak I'm typing on a Danish-layout keyboard remapped to US-English. Which is... almost like US-English, except that the Enter key is vertical rather than horizontal, so \| is located to the left of enter rather than above it (can't remap the physical shape of the keys...). Oh, and `~ is to the left of Z. Sometimes I use a UK keyboard, which is somewhat different yet again.