Mr Perry, a Republican, is running for re-election in November.
I'm sure that has absolutely nothing to do with the grandstanding^W pandering^W honest effort to do what's best.
Besides, once someone identifies people crossing the border and "notifies the authorities", then what?
Windmills along the PA Turnpike
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Tilting At Windmills
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· Score: 4, Insightful
There is a bank of windmills visible from the PA Turnpike, somewhere in the western half of the state. I would suggest that such areas - those adjacent to major traffic arteries - would be excellent locations for wind-based power generation. Quite often the land surrounding the turnpikes and interstates isn't exactly prime residential land, so the NIMBYism might be kept to a minimum.
From The Fine Article: They are right to note that wind will not soon replace coal or gas, that wind isn't always as effective as supporters claim
I find this viewpoint frustrating: "it won't solve all of our problems at once so it is not worth pursuing". We might actually need a combination of solutions to the energy problem - imagine that.
They should have waited a few weeks, then they could have called it the MayBerry. They could have launched the product as an homage to the town's peacekeeper.
(I would have linked to his official site but the site blurb still mentions "upcoming performances". Whoops.)
My take on golf is rather similar to Winston Churchill's:
"Golf - the best way to spoil a good walk":-)
I see golf as a game. Using carts is faster, but that spoils the walk even further. Not using carts (and carrying one's own bag) is more like exercise but I still would not consider it a sport.
"That's what makes it a sport," says Mr. Sepso. "It's not chance. It's really based on skill."
No, that's what makes it a game, though he did narrow the definition a bit by stating that Halo, et al are not games of chance.
game n.
1. An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime: party games; word games.
2.
1. A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules: the game of basketball; the game of gin rummy.
Yes, 2.1 mentioned the word 'sport'. However, compare this inclusion with the definition of sport:
sport n.
1.
1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
2. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.
No, it isn't; it would be silly to lump them together.
TFA was about sales. There are commercial Unix variants that cost money; Linux by itself does not. (There may be costs, e.g. when the Linux vendor includes N months of support, but this is not the same as paying for the OS.) Lumping 'non-free' and 'free' [as in beer] together would be like putting two dissimilar things in the same category.
doesn't seem nearly as funny as seeing John Cleese go bananas and start shouting "DON'T MENTION THE WAR!"
That wasn't a Python (Monty) sketch: that was Python cast member John Cleese in another series called 'Fawlty Towers'. Cleese plays Basil Fawlty, a right awful (and funny) b*st*rd of a hotel owner manager.
German Guest: "Will you stop talking about the war??!?"
Basil Fawlty: "You started it!"
German guest: "We did not!"
Basil Fawlty: "Yes, you did - you invaded Poland!"
When I couldn't answer him (20,000 line+ source), he gave me straight 2's (highest being 6, lowest being 0), which knocked me out of competing at state.
If you did write the code, you should have been able to grok your location [within the source] and within a few steps point out where the line fit into the bigger picture.
Even if you didn't do that, you should have been able to describe it in a generic this-$LANGUAGE-function-does-$ACTION. It sounds like you didn't do that either, so he probably concluded you didn't write and/or didn't understand the code, hence the low scores.
Not flaming, btw - just trying to shed a little light on the judge's [likely] thought process.
It should read, "Oracle to layoff 2000 people" Not jobs, people. People are losing their jobs. Its a sad thing.
Yes, it is a sad thing (no sarcasm). However, I would like to point the grammar finger back at you and mention that "layoff" is a noun; the headline should read Oracle to Lay Off 2000 People
It is also a verb: go read this. Of course you won't do that, so here is an excerpt:
gift Audio pronunciation of "gift" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (gft)
n.
1. Something that is bestowed voluntarily and without compensation. 2. The act, right, or power of giving.
3. A talent, endowment, aptitude, or inclination.
tr.v. gifted, gifting, gifts
1. To present something as a gift to.
2. To endow with.
There is a recent article - mentioned on/., I believe - that mentioned "bit torrent" [sic] software. The author of the article appeared to have equated BitTorrent with P2P in general, much like people say "I need a Band-Aid" when they actually need "an adhesive bandage" (or a "sticking plaster", depending on geography).
A secondary aspect of the current BitTorrent legal efforts might be to prevent BT from falling into the realm of Xerox, Hoover, and Kleenex: brand names that have been co-opted into common/generic usage.
This is not an IT-specific problem: all functional areas in large organizations are vulnerable to this sort of bureaucratic barbed wire.
Even a simple task, like installing more memory in a non-production server, can take nine months and massive mountains of paperwork (no exaggeration), thus costing many times more than it should. The lack of agility is maddening, because I know we are missing significant business opportunities.
If you know that there are real costs associated with the lack of agility, you should a) document in detail the actual losses, b) present these figures calmly and respectfully, and c) gauge the reaction from senior management.
"Oh yes, we spent the evening in a most delightful tauntaun... The neighborhood was just beastly, though - I don't know how we survived."
I suppose the viability of the tauntaun-as-pita approach (smell not withstanding) would depend in large part on the [overall] specific heat of tauntaun innards. (I'm assuming here that the insulatory qualities of the fur would be pretty good.) The light sabre would be necessary to cauterize the incision, lest [even more] unpleasant leakage occur.
Basically, if something isn't said, it doesn't exist to them. That is a crippling disadvantage in social situations.
It's not always a problem. I have been in several situations with my wife where another female - e.g. a waitress, a cashier, a friend's sister - flirted with me and I had zero clue re: the flirtation. My better half explained it to me later (with some amusement). Had I recognized what was happening I could have been rather uncomfortable, but since everything went right over my head I was as happy as a happy thing. Sometimes (ignorance == bliss).
For you single/.ers - yeah, that could be an issue.:-)
We don't care if you think it's unethical or not. It's against both Wikipedia's rules as well as the government's rules.
Copyright infringement is against both RIAA/MPAA rules as well as the Federal government's rules (laws), yet breaking these rules is espoused as a crusade against the "tyranny" of *AA and against "unfair" copyright infringement laws.
The next time there is a copyright infringement fracas on/. I expect you to march right in and ask "So now it's OK not to follow rules just because you don't agree with them?". What's good for Wikipedia is good everywhere else, right? Right?
But there are some places where they can't live, such as nursing homes. So can a robot pet provoke the same reactions?
Not to nitpick, but this is not always true. I have an elderly relative in a nursing home, and the home itself has a canine companion. (However, I can see how it would be difficult/impossible for individual residents to have pets.)
Second, the effects of Animal Assisted Therapy are well known. It makes sense that a replicant (like the Aibo) that offers a subset of relevant canine functionality could offer a subset of the health benefits as well.
The Sockets API lets you develop client and server applications that can communicate across a local network or across the world via the Internet. Like any API, you can use the Sockets API in ways that promote high performance -- or inhibit it. This article explores four ways to use the Sockets API to squeeze the greatest performance out your application and to tune the GNU/Linux® environment to achieve the best results.
Here is the first paragraph of the article:
The Sockets API lets you develop client and server applications that can communicate across a local network or across the world via the Internet. Like any API, you can use the Sockets API in ways that promote high performance -- or inhibit it. This article explores four ways to use the Sockets API to squeeze the greatest performance out your application and to tune the GNU/Linux® environment to achieve the best results.
Unless Cop (the submitter) is actually M. Tim Jones (the article author), Cop didn't write a darn thing.
Didn't we just have this discussion on/. a few days ago?
Here in Georgia, USA, at least, you can make one phone call and have all underground gas, cable, phone, sewer, and electric lines located for you. For free. People come from the various services and stick little flags in the ground over the lines.
A couple years ago the water line from the street [into our basement] decided to start leaking on the street side of the water meter. (The house is 80+ years old.) We had the water line insurance, so the water company arranged for a utility representative to come on-site and mark everything. The sidewalk and street were marked in what appeared to be great detail re: the locations of all feeds.
The backhoe guy still managed to hit - and crack - the natural gas line.
The upside of all this is that the H2O company insurance paid for the water line, the contractor had to eat the cost of installing a new gas line and meter ($$$$!), and we got two new feeds for about 30$ (or six months of insurance premiums). PSA - get that insurance!
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From the BBC article:
Mr Perry, a Republican, is running for re-election in November.
I'm sure that has absolutely nothing to do with the grandstanding^W pandering^W honest effort to do what's best.
Besides, once someone identifies people crossing the border and "notifies the authorities", then what?
There is a bank of windmills visible from the PA Turnpike, somewhere in the western half of the state. I would suggest that such areas - those adjacent to major traffic arteries - would be excellent locations for wind-based power generation. Quite often the land surrounding the turnpikes and interstates isn't exactly prime residential land, so the NIMBYism might be kept to a minimum.
From The Fine Article: They are right to note that wind will not soon replace coal or gas, that wind isn't always as effective as supporters claim
I find this viewpoint frustrating: "it won't solve all of our problems at once so it is not worth pursuing". We might actually need a combination of solutions to the energy problem - imagine that.
They should have waited a few weeks, then they could have called it the MayBerry. They could have launched the product as an homage to the town's peacekeeper.
(I would have linked to his official site but the site blurb still mentions "upcoming performances". Whoops.)
How can it work better when its off than when its on. Its either on or off, it can't be on and off at the same time!
Schroedinger + Heisenberg == Schroedenberg's Uncertain Cat Principle
So what's your take on Golf?
My take on golf is rather similar to Winston Churchill's:
"Golf - the best way to spoil a good walk"
I see golf as a game. Using carts is faster, but that spoils the walk even further. Not using carts (and carrying one's own bag) is more like exercise but I still would not consider it a sport.
"That's what makes it a sport," says Mr. Sepso. "It's not chance. It's really based on skill."
No, that's what makes it a game, though he did narrow the definition a bit by stating that Halo, et al are not games of chance.
game n.
1. An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime: party games; word games.
2. 1. A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules: the game of basketball; the game of gin rummy.
Yes, 2.1 mentioned the word 'sport'. However, compare this inclusion with the definition of sport:
sport n.
1.
1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
2. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.
To sum up: (video game) != (sport).
(All definitions supplied by http://www.dictionary.com./
"Misto"?
I would like to point out that 'mist' is the German word for 'manure'. Hmmm.
Pretty silly to count Unix and Linux separately.
No, it isn't; it would be silly to lump them together.
TFA was about sales. There are commercial Unix variants that cost money; Linux by itself does not. (There may be costs, e.g. when the Linux vendor includes N months of support, but this is not the same as paying for the OS.) Lumping 'non-free' and 'free' [as in beer] together would be like putting two dissimilar things in the same category.
doesn't seem nearly as funny as seeing John Cleese go bananas and start shouting "DON'T MENTION THE WAR!"
That wasn't a Python (Monty) sketch: that was Python cast member John Cleese in another series called 'Fawlty Towers'. Cleese plays Basil Fawlty, a right awful (and funny) b*st*rd of a hotel owner manager.
German Guest: "Will you stop talking about the war??!?"
Basil Fawlty: "You started it!"
German guest: "We did not!"
Basil Fawlty: "Yes, you did - you invaded Poland!"
When I couldn't answer him (20,000 line+ source), he gave me straight 2's (highest being 6, lowest being 0), which knocked me out of competing at state.
If you did write the code, you should have been able to grok your location [within the source] and within a few steps point out where the line fit into the bigger picture.
Even if you didn't do that, you should have been able to describe it in a generic this-$LANGUAGE-function-does-$ACTION. It sounds like you didn't do that either, so he probably concluded you didn't write and/or didn't understand the code, hence the low scores.
Not flaming, btw - just trying to shed a little light on the judge's [likely] thought process.
Its [sic] People!
I though Soylent Green was people?? Dang it.
It should read, "Oracle to layoff 2000 people" Not jobs, people. People are losing their jobs. Its a sad thing.
Yes, it is a sad thing (no sarcasm). However, I would like to point the grammar finger back at you and mention that "layoff" is a noun; the headline should read Oracle to Lay Off 2000 People
Gift is a f*cking NOUN
It is also a verb: go read this. Of course you won't do that, so here is an excerpt:
gift Audio pronunciation of "gift" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (gft) n.
1. Something that is bestowed voluntarily and without compensation.
2. The act, right, or power of giving.
3. A talent, endowment, aptitude, or inclination.
tr.v. gifted, gifting, gifts
1. To present something as a gift to.
2. To endow with.
There is a recent article - mentioned on
A secondary aspect of the current BitTorrent legal efforts might be to prevent BT from falling into the realm of Xerox, Hoover, and Kleenex: brand names that have been co-opted into common/generic usage.
I suspect that some of the first batch of weapons will include the rocket launcher, the plasma rifle and the BFG2000.
If you were going for the Doom joke, you missed: that would be the BFG-9000.
Yes, I did neatly sidestep the entire ethical issue of weapons development to make a snarky point about a video game. So there.
This is not an IT-specific problem: all functional areas in large organizations are vulnerable to this sort of bureaucratic barbed wire.
Even a simple task, like installing more memory in a non-production server, can take nine months and massive mountains of paperwork (no exaggeration), thus costing many times more than it should. The lack of agility is maddening, because I know we are missing significant business opportunities.
If you know that there are real costs associated with the lack of agility, you should a) document in detail the actual losses, b) present these figures calmly and respectfully, and c) gauge the reaction from senior management.
"Oh yes, we spent the evening in a most delightful tauntaun... The neighborhood was just beastly, though - I don't know how we survived."
I suppose the viability of the tauntaun-as-pita approach (smell not withstanding) would depend in large part on the [overall] specific heat of tauntaun innards. (I'm assuming here that the insulatory qualities of the fur would be pretty good.) The light sabre would be necessary to cauterize the incision, lest [even more] unpleasant leakage occur.
To sum up: eewww.
I was going to suggest a funny name for it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
May I suggest the 'putitovatron'? It would be named of course for the noted Russian physicist Vladly Putitov.
This reminds me of grade school, where an adult against tooth decay or something would try to "speak our language."
Flossing is stupid ill! 23 Skidoo!
Was he wearing an onion on his belt?
A quick search of IBM's site reveals the links to download DB Express-C. (Registration is required.)
Since no one
Basically, if something isn't said, it doesn't exist to them. That is a crippling disadvantage in social situations.
It's not always a problem. I have been in several situations with my wife where another female - e.g. a waitress, a cashier, a friend's sister - flirted with me and I had zero clue re: the flirtation. My better half explained it to me later (with some amusement). Had I recognized what was happening I could have been rather uncomfortable, but since everything went right over my head I was as happy as a happy thing. Sometimes (ignorance == bliss).
For you single
We don't care if you think it's unethical or not. It's against both Wikipedia's rules as well as the government's rules.
Copyright infringement is against both RIAA/MPAA rules as well as the Federal government's rules (laws), yet breaking these rules is espoused as a crusade against the "tyranny" of *AA and against "unfair" copyright infringement laws.
The next time there is a copyright infringement fracas on
this marks one of the first times that Intel released a processor with known bugs
No: either it is the first time or it is not. There can be only one... first time.
and some of the bugs are of higher severity then in the past
then != than
But there are some places where they can't live, such as nursing homes. So can a robot pet provoke the same reactions?
Not to nitpick, but this is not always true. I have an elderly relative in a nursing home, and the home itself has a canine companion. (However, I can see how it would be difficult/impossible for individual residents to have pets.)
Second, the effects of Animal Assisted Therapy are well known. It makes sense that a replicant (like the Aibo) that offers a subset of relevant canine functionality could offer a subset of the health benefits as well.
Here is the summary:
The Sockets API lets you develop client and server applications that can communicate across a local network or across the world via the Internet. Like any API, you can use the Sockets API in ways that promote high performance -- or inhibit it. This article explores four ways to use the Sockets API to squeeze the greatest performance out your application and to tune the GNU/Linux® environment to achieve the best results.
Here is the first paragraph of the article:
The Sockets API lets you develop client and server applications that can communicate across a local network or across the world via the Internet. Like any API, you can use the Sockets API in ways that promote high performance -- or inhibit it. This article explores four ways to use the Sockets API to squeeze the greatest performance out your application and to tune the GNU/Linux® environment to achieve the best results.
Unless Cop (the submitter) is actually M. Tim Jones (the article author), Cop didn't write a darn thing.
Didn't we just have this discussion on
Here in Georgia, USA, at least, you can make one phone call and have all underground gas, cable, phone, sewer, and electric lines located for you. For free. People come from the various services and stick little flags in the ground over the lines.
A couple years ago the water line from the street [into our basement] decided to start leaking on the street side of the water meter. (The house is 80+ years old.) We had the water line insurance, so the water company arranged for a utility representative to come on-site and mark everything. The sidewalk and street were marked in what appeared to be great detail re: the locations of all feeds.
The backhoe guy still managed to hit - and crack - the natural gas line.
The upside of all this is that the H2O company insurance paid for the water line, the contractor had to eat the cost of installing a new gas line and meter ($$$$!), and we got two new feeds for about 30$ (or six months of insurance premiums). PSA - get that insurance!