In the first year, it blocks growth where you don't put it. You punch a big hole, and put in a seed, I suppose, or better, yuo gorw a seedling, then thread the seedling through, crushing the rest.
But what do you do in the second year? Is it mush by then? Will it affect the growth of that original seedling? Do you till it in before starting? Do you scrape it up and put it on a compost heap? Does it just sit there and work for 2+ years?
Can you lay down a long a mat of these with big holes, and let that work for years, only placing a fresh small circle over the hole?
In Korea, I know the usual method is to use garbage bag material for the same function, which seems like an ecodisaster. The hair seems like a much better system, but it might wind up more labor, depending on how long the garbage bag stuff lasts.
Yes it is an no it's not. This is a semantics thing. You hear "free" and assume it's structured to be a level playing field. They hear "free" and assume it means that they are free to bribe, cheat, steal and pass laws to screw others without prosecution.
The difficulty here is that we associate the word "free" with good things. This lead to terms like "pro-life" and "pro-choice" instead of "anti-choice" and "pro-death" -- the terms used by the controllers of the message about the other guys.
There's no point in having "free" market discussions, therefore. You'll never agree until you abandon the term to the guy who controls the terms (ie. has more money to influence the media).
Which means you're screwed from the outset: You're bringing a well-reasoned argument to a knife fight.
Absolutely. A company most of don't hate was purchased by a company most of us do. The hardware will be killed. The semi-free products will get forked to non-free and unsupported. The bastards will screw us even more now, and certainly screw what was still good at Sun.
I'm a little surprised by the keyboard and mouse port and the two USB ports. If it uses USB, why not just use that for the keyboard and mouse? And why the second USB port? I suspect the second port doesn't consume extra energy directly, but it causes air resistance where they'd like to clear path to drag air across the RAM and CPUs.
And why the slots which will never get used? In quantities like Google buys, you'd think those would be left off.
Maybe they don't make any demands on Gigabyte (the manufacturer) and just buy a commodity board? When they're buying this many, you'd think Gigabyte would be happy to make a simpler board for them. On a trivial search, I don't see the ga-9ivdp for sale anywhere, but maybe it's just old.
If you can start at a community college and TRANSFER to Yale or Harvard or Stanford, you'll be better off. A big name helps a lot on paychecks. At 35, you'd think he'd be better off going to a doctoral program (assuming he has SOME degree and an interest) where he'd pay little for it and could wash out after a year and a half to two years with a master's degree and little to no debt.
But is it age that causes new grads to not know anything, or the education? If it's the education, then he'll come out at 35 with the same mindset as those other terrible new grads.
But there's already a glut of lawyers, and have you talked to anyone who dropped out of law school? Did you ask them why? Will you want the same experience? (I'm not going to go into this. If you've dated someone in law school and watched the effect it had on him or her, you already know about this. Some people like it, some hate it.)
Secondly, many people go into law school because they're avoiding the working world and don't take the time to look at other areas of study.
Do yourself a favor and consider study something else. Are you sure you're not more interested in studying alternative power systems? Or studying to be a statistician? What about pursing a masters in economics? How about linguistics? The average lawyer (thanks to the lawyer glut) makes something like $35k. A lot of them wind up paralegals for their entire career, which is often very short.
The above post is great except for this one line: "If you're not currently in a computer-related field and you're asking if you should get the degree and go into it in an entry-level position, that's your call. You'll probably need that degree to break in, even at 35. If it's worth starting over from scratch, go for it."
If you're already programming, but are not employed, getting a degree to reinforce what you know is a good idea and will help you with salary.
On the other hand, if you're not already programming, you're wasting your time. Programmers are (mostly) like writers or artists. You can't help it. You get sucked into it even if you fight it. If you didn't get sucked into it, you'll be a crappy programmer when you get out of college no matter how good an education you get, because you've already proven that you're not, at core, a programmer. You were handed the test and you failed. LUCKY YOU, REALLY.
Furthermore, 35 year olds usually have a life. 20 year olds don't. You really need to do something for 10,000 hours before you get fantastic at it. 20 year olds can accomplish that in three years. A 35 year old with a wife and a family won't accomplish that in a decade.
What DID you get sucked into? What did you spend your 20's on? Dig through that time and figure out what you loved. Do THAT. You'll be good at that. If you weren't a programmer, you won't get hired as a 35 year old programmer not because you're old, but because you're BAD. If you don't fail the first fizz-buzz question you get, you'll fail the second follow-up.
It looked great. It's just that it was crap. Yes the original was great, but you just cannot argue that the new, crappy, preachy, god heavy, mamby-pamby new one didn't look good. It looked great. It's just that it was a complete waste of time.
The Cylons in the old series looked like teamsters, which they probably were, complete with metallic pot-belly. The lumbered around and couldn't shoot straight and fell over comically when they exploded. It was silly how low-tech it was. It looks horribly unmodern compared to the annoying, preachy, ultimately vapid new one.
The characters in the old one were simple, the dialog trivial, the ideas tidy. Who can possibly argue that the new version, with its complex dialog and story, deep characters, no clear good guy or bad, was not much more modern and splashy? Who cared if it made for a pointless series that left us feeling unsatisfied at every turn?
In the old one, Starbuck wound up stranded on a planet with a Cylon and they came to depend on each other. How naive of them to think that that was one simple show which could have a beginning and an end, some conflict and some resolution. The new series showed us that that little episode was really the whole series!
Incompetent old Galactic makers. They didn't realize that it's not good enough to make an episodic badguy vs. goodguy show. There are no good guys, after all. Thank goodness the new BSG showed us that.
The contrast between the theme music kinda summarized the whole difference. The original BSG got you roused up for some adventure. The new one prepped you for a long, LONG nap. At least it's now over.
"As much as I hate Microsoft's operating system, their office suite is pretty decent."
I agree with a modified version of that sentence:
"As much as I hate Microsoft's operating system, their office suite USED TO BE pretty decent."
The latest one is a painfully bad idea. The menus are awful. Logic left the building on the whole suite.
Excel hasn't been good for years, which is a shame, because it was an AMAZINGLY good spreadsheet in it's early days -- intuitive, fast, light and intelligent.
Furthermore, most of the older Office versions weren't pleasant when they were released. Machine had to Moore's Law up to them for about one doubling before they were snappy enough to like.
Using Office 97, I was happy with Word. I was already favoring other, simpler spreadsheets over Excel.
I've been using the latest Office for at least six months, now. My company upgraded. Sigh. It's enough to drive you to OpenOffice.
Word's insane, Excel's so loaded with crap you can't do the simple things you used to be able to do trivially and quickly, and Visio's a COMPLETE DOG.
Outlook seems like it would be good enough if it weren't bound to Exchange, but I think that's a whole 'nother topic.
I know what you're saying, but I just don't see it. They've had years to work on finding their way home to their power supply and still don't reliably do it.
As for coins, you know, if the darn thing knew where it was, it could tell you it passed over a bump on a map of crap to pick up. I realize that that's manual, but it's would be nice to know that there's a new object under the couch when you're looking for your keys.
I know it's all about price. But wouldn't it make sense for a company that built its fortune on this sort of thing to have a higher-end that actually worked?
No. They're overpriced. The older nanos did everything one would want, until you decide you want a radio or a mike or have it play ogg files.
Why make that assumption?
Floor cleaning robots don't work, unless you're a lucky person without furniture that confuses them. iPod's do work. They get you to buy new pieces of plastic. But the first needs improvement and the second doesn't.
The reason you have help desks is to keep your workers working efficiently. Making them answer their own questions causes two problems:
1. You're now paying them to chat on topics they might not be qualified to be useful on.
2. You're risking having people wait forever for an answer and get less done, or get a wrong answer and waste more time.
A couple of experts with a ticket system that lets them cut and paste responses is the right approach from a financial perspective. If a single user keeps having trouble, keeps asking the same questions, etc, a ticket system will reveal that and help HR make an adjustment.
I have seen so many people screaming "Lamarckism! Lamarck was right!" Because they want to imply "Darwin wrong!" or "Genetics wrong!" to generate a headline. While this stuff is interesting, it's not Lamarck. It's an interesting genetically controlled chemical phenomenon. It should have been expected. You evolve to deal with issues. You have chemical controls on DNA replication and interpretation. In shorter life span animals than humans, this can be a great advantage.
It ain't Lamarck. Lamarck says that if you cut off a tail of an animal, in generation after generation, after a while, the animal won't have a tail. Lamarck says that if a giraffe needs a longer neck to reach leaves, it will stretch upward and that act of stretching will make its children taller. And that change will go forth, generation after generation.
This stuff is vaguely like Lamarck, but it ain't Lamarck. People bring him into the conversation to get the uneducated excited. And at base, what they really want to say is "Darwin was wrong" because that gets dumb people really excited, which in turn sells newspapers -- now Darwin didn't say anything about mechanisms, so he's not wrong. And this new stuff doesn't tell us that anything about how we generally understand mechanisms is wrong. It's just that there's more. Well, that's fine. Go study that. Yes, we'll fund you. Shut up with the Lamarck crap.
Remember that we use browsers for a LOT these days. A small slowdown on an hourly basis multiplied by the number of workers using it turns into real scratch.
It is in our best interest to make sure the most used software is as fast as it possibly can be.
The stuff that's used just now and then, we shouldn't care so much about.
Paper mills are designed for heavy machines and heavy rolls of paper. That means that they have strong floors which don't flex, and they don't collapse when you put in a few tons of batteries.
Because of this, telcos (which are largely DC operations and have huge battery backups) love defunct printing buildings and use them for switches.
It makes perfect sense that Google would want such a stable, heavy building.
1. They have the luxury of editing to find the best looking trials. I'm sure these don't work as well as they seem. But as a person with a background in psychology, I suspect that after a few hundred hours of using them, these people would have excellent control over them.
2. Picking up the cracker... How do wash these fingers? They're going to need food gloves for them.
3. Is there a nice break between the arm and the pickups on the body? Is there a radio link between that stub and the arm? There needs to be, because any shock to the arm could hurt those connections. Accidental bumping, firm handshakes, etc. Though if there is a radio-based break, and jarring doesn't stop the arm, then the arm can be firmly attached to a brace around the whole body with a counterweight, and the next step is cyborg kung foo.
It's great that MS was able to tune the Vista kernel to avoid locks which reduce performance on multiple cores, but I'd rather see the same work done for XP, giving us something MUCH faster on a high number of cores, rather than a pig we can compensate for with many cores.
The show dragged out a whole bunch of interesting concepts which were interesting when you looked at one. They took everything they could get their hands on and spent a fortune making a show with lots of big questions and no real insights.
I liked the original. It had a sense of self.
The new one is the kitchen sink of science fiction/religion/political now (with no insight into political tomorrow).
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In the first year, it blocks growth where you don't put it. You punch a big hole, and put in a seed, I suppose, or better, yuo gorw a seedling, then thread the seedling through, crushing the rest.
But what do you do in the second year? Is it mush by then? Will it affect the growth of that original seedling? Do you till it in before starting? Do you scrape it up and put it on a compost heap? Does it just sit there and work for 2+ years?
Can you lay down a long a mat of these with big holes, and let that work for years, only placing a fresh small circle over the hole?
In Korea, I know the usual method is to use garbage bag material for the same function, which seems like an ecodisaster. The hair seems like a much better system, but it might wind up more labor, depending on how long the garbage bag stuff lasts.
Does anybody know the details of the i7 running at 8.22ghz on overclocking record database?
http://www.ripping.org/index.php
And how fast have people gotten these things going using water-based systems?
Yes it is an no it's not. This is a semantics thing. You hear "free" and assume it's structured to be a level playing field. They hear "free" and assume it means that they are free to bribe, cheat, steal and pass laws to screw others without prosecution.
The difficulty here is that we associate the word "free" with good things. This lead to terms like "pro-life" and "pro-choice" instead of "anti-choice" and "pro-death" -- the terms used by the controllers of the message about the other guys.
There's no point in having "free" market discussions, therefore. You'll never agree until you abandon the term to the guy who controls the terms (ie. has more money to influence the media).
Which means you're screwed from the outset: You're bringing a well-reasoned argument to a knife fight.
Absolutely. A company most of don't hate was purchased by a company most of us do. The hardware will be killed. The semi-free products will get forked to non-free and unsupported. The bastards will screw us even more now, and certainly screw what was still good at Sun.
I'm a little surprised by the keyboard and mouse port and the two USB ports. If it uses USB, why not just use that for the keyboard and mouse? And why the second USB port? I suspect the second port doesn't consume extra energy directly, but it causes air resistance where they'd like to clear path to drag air across the RAM and CPUs.
And why the slots which will never get used? In quantities like Google buys, you'd think those would be left off.
Maybe they don't make any demands on Gigabyte (the manufacturer) and just buy a commodity board? When they're buying this many, you'd think Gigabyte would be happy to make a simpler board for them. On a trivial search, I don't see the ga-9ivdp for sale anywhere, but maybe it's just old.
TunerFreeMCE couldn't scrape the data. Mission accomplished. Oh, wait... Tada:
"Update- version 2.6.7 is now available to download to work round this new tactic."
And now, I supposed, there will be a DMCA attack as phase two.
If you can start at a community college and TRANSFER to Yale or Harvard or Stanford, you'll be better off. A big name helps a lot on paychecks. At 35, you'd think he'd be better off going to a doctoral program (assuming he has SOME degree and an interest) where he'd pay little for it and could wash out after a year and a half to two years with a master's degree and little to no debt.
But is it age that causes new grads to not know anything, or the education? If it's the education, then he'll come out at 35 with the same mindset as those other terrible new grads.
Yes, it's a great place to hide out.
But there's already a glut of lawyers, and have you talked to anyone who dropped out of law school? Did you ask them why? Will you want the same experience? (I'm not going to go into this. If you've dated someone in law school and watched the effect it had on him or her, you already know about this. Some people like it, some hate it.)
Secondly, many people go into law school because they're avoiding the working world and don't take the time to look at other areas of study.
Do yourself a favor and consider study something else. Are you sure you're not more interested in studying alternative power systems? Or studying to be a statistician? What about pursing a masters in economics? How about linguistics? The average lawyer (thanks to the lawyer glut) makes something like $35k. A lot of them wind up paralegals for their entire career, which is often very short.
The above post is great except for this one line: "If you're not currently in a computer-related field and you're asking if you should get the degree and go into it in an entry-level position, that's your call. You'll probably need that degree to break in, even at 35. If it's worth starting over from scratch, go for it."
If you're already programming, but are not employed, getting a degree to reinforce what you know is a good idea and will help you with salary.
On the other hand, if you're not already programming, you're wasting your time. Programmers are (mostly) like writers or artists. You can't help it. You get sucked into it even if you fight it. If you didn't get sucked into it, you'll be a crappy programmer when you get out of college no matter how good an education you get, because you've already proven that you're not, at core, a programmer. You were handed the test and you failed. LUCKY YOU, REALLY.
Furthermore, 35 year olds usually have a life. 20 year olds don't. You really need to do something for 10,000 hours before you get fantastic at it. 20 year olds can accomplish that in three years. A 35 year old with a wife and a family won't accomplish that in a decade.
What DID you get sucked into? What did you spend your 20's on? Dig through that time and figure out what you loved. Do THAT. You'll be good at that. If you weren't a programmer, you won't get hired as a 35 year old programmer not because you're old, but because you're BAD. If you don't fail the first fizz-buzz question you get, you'll fail the second follow-up.
Set yourself up to succeed, not fail.
It looked great. It's just that it was crap. Yes the original was great, but you just cannot argue that the new, crappy, preachy, god heavy, mamby-pamby new one didn't look good. It looked great. It's just that it was a complete waste of time.
The Cylons in the old series looked like teamsters, which they probably were, complete with metallic pot-belly. The lumbered around and couldn't shoot straight and fell over comically when they exploded. It was silly how low-tech it was. It looks horribly unmodern compared to the annoying, preachy, ultimately vapid new one.
The characters in the old one were simple, the dialog trivial, the ideas tidy. Who can possibly argue that the new version, with its complex dialog and story, deep characters, no clear good guy or bad, was not much more modern and splashy? Who cared if it made for a pointless series that left us feeling unsatisfied at every turn?
In the old one, Starbuck wound up stranded on a planet with a Cylon and they came to depend on each other. How naive of them to think that that was one simple show which could have a beginning and an end, some conflict and some resolution. The new series showed us that that little episode was really the whole series!
Incompetent old Galactic makers. They didn't realize that it's not good enough to make an episodic badguy vs. goodguy show. There are no good guys, after all. Thank goodness the new BSG showed us that.
The contrast between the theme music kinda summarized the whole difference. The original BSG got you roused up for some adventure. The new one prepped you for a long, LONG nap. At least it's now over.
"As much as I hate Microsoft's operating system, their office suite is pretty decent."
I agree with a modified version of that sentence:
"As much as I hate Microsoft's operating system, their office suite USED TO BE pretty decent."
The latest one is a painfully bad idea. The menus are awful. Logic left the building on the whole suite.
Excel hasn't been good for years, which is a shame, because it was an AMAZINGLY good spreadsheet in it's early days -- intuitive, fast, light and intelligent.
Furthermore, most of the older Office versions weren't pleasant when they were released. Machine had to Moore's Law up to them for about one doubling before they were snappy enough to like.
Using Office 97, I was happy with Word. I was already favoring other, simpler spreadsheets over Excel.
I've been using the latest Office for at least six months, now. My company upgraded. Sigh. It's enough to drive you to OpenOffice.
Word's insane, Excel's so loaded with crap you can't do the simple things you used to be able to do trivially and quickly, and Visio's a COMPLETE DOG.
Outlook seems like it would be good enough if it weren't bound to Exchange, but I think that's a whole 'nother topic.
I know what you're saying, but I just don't see it. They've had years to work on finding their way home to their power supply and still don't reliably do it.
As for coins, you know, if the darn thing knew where it was, it could tell you it passed over a bump on a map of crap to pick up. I realize that that's manual, but it's would be nice to know that there's a new object under the couch when you're looking for your keys.
I know it's all about price. But wouldn't it make sense for a company that built its fortune on this sort of thing to have a higher-end that actually worked?
No. They're overpriced. The older nanos did everything one would want, until you decide you want a radio or a mike or have it play ogg files.
Why make that assumption?
Floor cleaning robots don't work, unless you're a lucky person without furniture that confuses them. iPod's do work. They get you to buy new pieces of plastic. But the first needs improvement and the second doesn't.
Years ago, they came out with a device that was good for its time. It was a dust-buster doing a random walk.
Now they're on their 5th generation model. And it's a slightly better dust-buster which does a random walk. But it talks.
Were there some smart people there at first and they all left?
Why have they produced so little in all this time?
The reason you have help desks is to keep your workers working efficiently. Making them answer their own questions causes two problems:
1. You're now paying them to chat on topics they might not be qualified to be useful on.
2. You're risking having people wait forever for an answer and get less done, or get a wrong answer and waste more time.
A couple of experts with a ticket system that lets them cut and paste responses is the right approach from a financial perspective. If a single user keeps having trouble, keeps asking the same questions, etc, a ticket system will reveal that and help HR make an adjustment.
I have seen so many people screaming "Lamarckism! Lamarck was right!" Because they want to imply "Darwin wrong!" or "Genetics wrong!" to generate a headline. While this stuff is interesting, it's not Lamarck. It's an interesting genetically controlled chemical phenomenon. It should have been expected. You evolve to deal with issues. You have chemical controls on DNA replication and interpretation. In shorter life span animals than humans, this can be a great advantage.
It ain't Lamarck. Lamarck says that if you cut off a tail of an animal, in generation after generation, after a while, the animal won't have a tail. Lamarck says that if a giraffe needs a longer neck to reach leaves, it will stretch upward and that act of stretching will make its children taller. And that change will go forth, generation after generation.
This stuff is vaguely like Lamarck, but it ain't Lamarck. People bring him into the conversation to get the uneducated excited. And at base, what they really want to say is "Darwin was wrong" because that gets dumb people really excited, which in turn sells newspapers -- now Darwin didn't say anything about mechanisms, so he's not wrong. And this new stuff doesn't tell us that anything about how we generally understand mechanisms is wrong. It's just that there's more. Well, that's fine. Go study that. Yes, we'll fund you. Shut up with the Lamarck crap.
Remember that we use browsers for a LOT these days. A small slowdown on an hourly basis multiplied by the number of workers using it turns into real scratch.
It is in our best interest to make sure the most used software is as fast as it possibly can be.
The stuff that's used just now and then, we shouldn't care so much about.
Paper mills are designed for heavy machines and heavy rolls of paper. That means that they have strong floors which don't flex, and they don't collapse when you put in a few tons of batteries.
Because of this, telcos (which are largely DC operations and have huge battery backups) love defunct printing buildings and use them for switches.
It makes perfect sense that Google would want such a stable, heavy building.
1. They have the luxury of editing to find the best looking trials. I'm sure these don't work as well as they seem. But as a person with a background in psychology, I suspect that after a few hundred hours of using them, these people would have excellent control over them.
2. Picking up the cracker... How do wash these fingers? They're going to need food gloves for them.
3. Is there a nice break between the arm and the pickups on the body? Is there a radio link between that stub and the arm? There needs to be, because any shock to the arm could hurt those connections. Accidental bumping, firm handshakes, etc. Though if there is a radio-based break, and jarring doesn't stop the arm, then the arm can be firmly attached to a brace around the whole body with a counterweight, and the next step is cyborg kung foo.
Frankly, yeah. I like the features of the Kindle2, but this looks like a much better reading interface.
No, it's still missing a touchscreen and user voice/scribble annotation on books.
But it looks SO much better than the first.
Way.
It's great that MS was able to tune the Vista kernel to avoid locks which reduce performance on multiple cores, but I'd rather see the same work done for XP, giving us something MUCH faster on a high number of cores, rather than a pig we can compensate for with many cores.
The show dragged out a whole bunch of interesting concepts which were interesting when you looked at one. They took everything they could get their hands on and spent a fortune making a show with lots of big questions and no real insights.
I liked the original. It had a sense of self.
The new one is the kitchen sink of science fiction/religion/political now (with no insight into political tomorrow).
Bored now. CLICK.