If I could change the resolution on good old StarCraft, I'd be very happy.
I don't want a 3d look. It seems to make things harder to see and it's a waste of processor power. I just want to be able to see more of the map on the StarCraft I have.
Howabout making a StarCraft 1.9? Blizzard could do that for almost nothing, compared to this new release, and people like me would mail in the checks to get it.
I'm left asking, "What's the windows processor for, once I have a low power, light Linux system which boots in a flash?" I know I'm not currently the norm, but I think I'm more and more the norm. You don't have to add much to the system they're describing to make it everything I want in a laptop. (Not a desktop replacement laptop, but an ultra-portable take-with-me device.)
David Ogilvy (of Ogilvy and Mather) once said that when times were lean, companies cut advertising. This, he said, was foolish. It is advertising that brings in the money that is coming in.
IT is the same. IT increases worker productivity, making every dollar you spend on headcount outside of IT worth more. IT decreases costs and increases customer satisfaction (with things like order turnaround). In some companies, it's the IT department which makes new products possible. It is your operational IT staff which keeps disaster from striking.
When times are lean, it's a good time to look at your IT and figure out how to make it more effective. That might mean some cutting, but it more likely means project changes and staffing UP.
A badly-run, sprawling, over-staffed IT department is a prime space to cut, but I've seen few of those. Even in those, cutting needs to be done very carefully and needs to be accompanied by money injected on projects which will make cutting safe. Those projects take time must be nurtured well before cuts are made.
IT operations can be very expensive, in particular because it sometimes is lumped in with the desktop budget. But IT development is what makes IT operations cheaper, and just a few people can work miracles in IT development.
If you're cut from an IT department during lean times, and you weren't clearly dead weight, you have the very small satisfaction of knowing that your layoff proves that your company wasn't particularly clever.
You can stick another part in my car and change its behavior. Adding a square wheel will make it bounce up and down, for instance.
That shows my car is alive!
Wow. No wonder it drives all over the road and too fast, makes sudden stops, takes the wrong turns... oh, wait, no, that's only when something alive is controlling it. That's right. Now I remember.
Before you dump a document processor for wysiwig (not meaning math, but rather the whole thing) -- understand that it's at least possible that your productivity will go down the toilet.
With wysiwyg, you spend a lot of time making things look nice. With a document processing system like LaTeX, you spend a lot of time on writing.
It takes real discipline to use a wysiwyg word processor and not waste half your time trying to make it look good.
Yes, the language of the parents could effect the language of the children. That's why the study was done across multiple cultures/languages/continents. Though the parents used different syntaxes, the kids all arrived at the same core syntax. They didn't get it from their parents or immediate culture. It came from someone else, and one good assumption is that a small portion of gestural language (as we can clearly hear for vocal language) is innate.
Not ridiculous, but beyond testability, and you'd expect (but you don't always get what you'd expect) that the mouth-stuff comes in the same package as the manual-language stuff. Losing one or the other says it's not a language center that got hit.
I'd be interesting to see AS-positive deaf children. Language and gesticulation are different. They're different parts of your brain (though perhaps VERY close). It's possible that a deaf aspie could use sign language well, but still show little manual emotive expression.
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Old NTFS stuff used to be really, really slow. Is ntfs-3g as fast as other filesystems on Linux, now?
Negus wrote a long fairly boring analysis of the larynx which makes such statements painful. (Lots of cross-sagittal sections. Gross but cool.)
Not because they're wrong, but rather because they are just so OBVIOUS.
The position of the tongue in the back of the throat and the movement of the epiglottis upward, away from the larynx are not beneficial -- they're compromises to benefit something else -- a vast increase in phonemes. Language comes right behind (or even ahead of) the upright posture and the migration of the tongue down into the throat.
Furthermore, all this ignores gestural languages. Susan Goldin-Meadow's studies showed that deaf children across many languages and continents, when deprived of sign-language education (yes some families decide to do this), all come up with their own home-grown sign language with key syntactic elements (notably word order) which are exactly the same. Even when the language that their parents speak have different word orders. There's some hard-coded syntax for at least gestural language.
It's possible that gesture is just taking advantage of hard-coded speech language brain-systems. It's likewise possible that language predates speech, and that the migration of the tongue allowed the new upright primates to use their virtuoso noises with their already established language -- which would have been primarily gestural.
Language goes back a LONG, LONG way. It might have been crappy until half a million years ago, but it's way older than that.
This extremely good advice. The impact of having your name on a well-known open source project to many people cannot be overestimated. Won't work on everyone, but to many, you'll acquire a slight glow.
The way it's SUPPOSED to work is that the candidates are supposed to campaign hard, build supporters, negotiate concessions from the primary parties, then pledge their supporters to the candidate that agrees to support their interests.
No, the way it's supposed to work is that we elect people we respect as electors to the college, and they decide who should be president. "All politics is local." Instead, we have something completely different.
You can argue that the electoral college isn't a good idea. You can argue it in a number of ways.
But what we've been shoved into by the parties is not what we're supposed to do. The whole system is gerrymandered to benefit various folk -- the parties -- and has been since roughly the 3rd election of our republic.
To miss the Aslan/Jesus stuff and say it's just you putting the overtones in is to admit to some very fast skimming or some significant lack of inspection into the Christian culture around you.
Sadly, it may be easier to move a mountain than to produce this kind of change in the energy sector (at least in the U.S.)
I have to say that this is a bad comparison. Moving a mountain is a trivial, solved problem. You get a bunch of trucks and spend a lot of time, and you move it. (Yes, it looks like ass afterward, but nonetheless.)
Better yet, you can simply tell a power company there's coal in the mountain, and let them do whatever they want to without any oversight. Then they'll move it for you.
This is interesting. Note that the industry (or parts of it, anyhow) is salivating about a move in precisely the opposite direction. VMware in specific and virtualization in general promises software manufacturers the ability to ship VMs with their software on it. Allowing them to write for only ONE, non-existent machine.
If this tech you're thinking about came to pass, the pendulum would have to swing mighty far back.
The SANDisk part which had a lower theoretical wattage even in activity than the idle of the HDD shows that there's a missing factor, and this seems like a pretty good guess at what it is.
And this brings us back to the need for a battery life benchmark which has wait states in it, so that the performance of the machine using HDD and SSD is forced to be equal.
We desperately need good manufacturing techniques for carbon fibre. With good techniques, just about everything we move around could be made with it, and energy costs would go down.
This ought to be as X-prize-worthy a topic as good solar or good batteries.
But how does it hold up to seawater? Will we need to coat the boats every year with something in short supply?
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I wonder if those are the most common phones, or the easiest to mess with via the port?
Tattoo the wedding ring on.
I'm so sorry, Mezoth. I just moderated this redundant, when I meant to moderate it interesting.
Please, someone compensate for my mouse-slip.
If I could change the resolution on good old StarCraft, I'd be very happy.
I don't want a 3d look. It seems to make things harder to see and it's a waste of processor power. I just want to be able to see more of the map on the StarCraft I have.
Howabout making a StarCraft 1.9? Blizzard could do that for almost nothing, compared to this new release, and people like me would mail in the checks to get it.
I got lucky on a page which showed an amazing command of very simple sentences.
I suspect that this bad review will get him more sales today than he's had in total since the day he put it on Amazon.
I'm left asking, "What's the windows processor for, once I have a low power, light Linux system which boots in a flash?" I know I'm not currently the norm, but I think I'm more and more the norm. You don't have to add much to the system they're describing to make it everything I want in a laptop. (Not a desktop replacement laptop, but an ultra-portable take-with-me device.)
Well, that's just cause the technology isn't high enough...
David Ogilvy (of Ogilvy and Mather) once said that when times were lean, companies cut advertising. This, he said, was foolish. It is advertising that brings in the money that is coming in.
IT is the same. IT increases worker productivity, making every dollar you spend on headcount outside of IT worth more. IT decreases costs and increases customer satisfaction (with things like order turnaround). In some companies, it's the IT department which makes new products possible. It is your operational IT staff which keeps disaster from striking.
When times are lean, it's a good time to look at your IT and figure out how to make it more effective. That might mean some cutting, but it more likely means project changes and staffing UP.
A badly-run, sprawling, over-staffed IT department is a prime space to cut, but I've seen few of those. Even in those, cutting needs to be done very carefully and needs to be accompanied by money injected on projects which will make cutting safe. Those projects take time must be nurtured well before cuts are made.
IT operations can be very expensive, in particular because it sometimes is lumped in with the desktop budget. But IT development is what makes IT operations cheaper, and just a few people can work miracles in IT development.
If you're cut from an IT department during lean times, and you weren't clearly dead weight, you have the very small satisfaction of knowing that your layoff proves that your company wasn't particularly clever.
You can stick another part in my car and change its behavior. Adding a square wheel will make it bounce up and down, for instance.
That shows my car is alive!
Wow. No wonder it drives all over the road and too fast, makes sudden stops, takes the wrong turns ... oh, wait, no, that's only when something alive is controlling it. That's right. Now I remember.
What if the microbes on Mars have been confused for a long time that there's no mention of them in Genesis?
You think on that whole darn planet there isn't ONE Gideon bible?
Before you dump a document processor for wysiwig (not meaning math, but rather the whole thing) -- understand that it's at least possible that your productivity will go down the toilet.
With wysiwyg, you spend a lot of time making things look nice. With a document processing system like LaTeX, you spend a lot of time on writing.
It takes real discipline to use a wysiwyg word processor and not waste half your time trying to make it look good.
Yes, the language of the parents could effect the language of the children. That's why the study was done across multiple cultures/languages/continents. Though the parents used different syntaxes, the kids all arrived at the same core syntax. They didn't get it from their parents or immediate culture. It came from someone else, and one good assumption is that a small portion of gestural language (as we can clearly hear for vocal language) is innate.
Not ridiculous, but beyond testability, and you'd expect (but you don't always get what you'd expect) that the mouth-stuff comes in the same package as the manual-language stuff. Losing one or the other says it's not a language center that got hit.
I'd be interesting to see AS-positive deaf children. Language and gesticulation are different. They're different parts of your brain (though perhaps VERY close). It's possible that a deaf aspie could use sign language well, but still show little manual emotive expression.
Old NTFS stuff used to be really, really slow. Is ntfs-3g as fast as other filesystems on Linux, now?
Negus wrote a long fairly boring analysis of the larynx which makes such statements painful. (Lots of cross-sagittal sections. Gross but cool.)
Not because they're wrong, but rather because they are just so OBVIOUS.
The position of the tongue in the back of the throat and the movement of the epiglottis upward, away from the larynx are not beneficial -- they're compromises to benefit something else -- a vast increase in phonemes. Language comes right behind (or even ahead of) the upright posture and the migration of the tongue down into the throat.
Furthermore, all this ignores gestural languages. Susan Goldin-Meadow's studies showed that deaf children across many languages and continents, when deprived of sign-language education (yes some families decide to do this), all come up with their own home-grown sign language with key syntactic elements (notably word order) which are exactly the same. Even when the language that their parents speak have different word orders. There's some hard-coded syntax for at least gestural language.
It's possible that gesture is just taking advantage of hard-coded speech language brain-systems. It's likewise possible that language predates speech, and that the migration of the tongue allowed the new upright primates to use their virtuoso noises with their already established language -- which would have been primarily gestural.
Language goes back a LONG, LONG way. It might have been crappy until half a million years ago, but it's way older than that.
This extremely good advice. The impact of having your name on a well-known open source project to many people cannot be overestimated. Won't work on everyone, but to many, you'll acquire a slight glow.
And yes, you can show your code.
He said he would because he wanted a cheap political edge.
He took a cowardly and stupid position which sold out his country when he should have just been cowardly and clever by shutting the Hell up.
He couldn't change his position again after he realized what he'd stepped in because it would make him look like a tool of the progressives.
Instead he just looks like a tool.
The way it's SUPPOSED to work is that the candidates are supposed to campaign hard, build supporters, negotiate concessions from the primary parties, then pledge their supporters to the candidate that agrees to support their interests.
No, the way it's supposed to work is that we elect people we respect as electors to the college, and they decide who should be president. "All politics is local." Instead, we have something completely different.
You can argue that the electoral college isn't a good idea. You can argue it in a number of ways.
But what we've been shoved into by the parties is not what we're supposed to do. The whole system is gerrymandered to benefit various folk -- the parties -- and has been since roughly the 3rd election of our republic.
To miss the Aslan/Jesus stuff and say it's just you putting the overtones in is to admit to some very fast skimming or some significant lack of inspection into the Christian culture around you.
Sadly, it may be easier to move a mountain than to produce this kind of change in the energy sector (at least in the U.S.)
I have to say that this is a bad comparison. Moving a mountain is a trivial, solved problem. You get a bunch of trucks and spend a lot of time, and you move it. (Yes, it looks like ass afterward, but nonetheless.)
Better yet, you can simply tell a power company there's coal in the mountain, and let them do whatever they want to without any oversight. Then they'll move it for you.
This is interesting. Note that the industry (or parts of it, anyhow) is salivating about a move in precisely the opposite direction. VMware in specific and virtualization in general promises software manufacturers the ability to ship VMs with their software on it. Allowing them to write for only ONE, non-existent machine.
If this tech you're thinking about came to pass, the pendulum would have to swing mighty far back.
Yes, that seems to make a lot of sense.
The SANDisk part which had a lower theoretical wattage even in activity than the idle of the HDD shows that there's a missing factor, and this seems like a pretty good guess at what it is.
And this brings us back to the need for a battery life benchmark which has wait states in it, so that the performance of the machine using HDD and SSD is forced to be equal.
We desperately need good manufacturing techniques for carbon fibre. With good techniques, just about everything we move around could be made with it, and energy costs would go down.
This ought to be as X-prize-worthy a topic as good solar or good batteries.
But how does it hold up to seawater? Will we need to coat the boats every year with something in short supply?
I presume that a plastic (or other synthetic material) is right out because...?
Sounds like we could stop the zinc aspect of this right away, by just doing a more permanent coating over the ships.
I don't think clutter's so bad, but a responsive stop button which always kills what's happening in a timely manner would be EXCELLENT.