Now it's just a matter of sub-dividing and delivering.
You mean like what pretty much every importer already does? To be fair though, clearly it's a workable business model because there's plenty of example in the wild.
The United States has or had a tax on completed light trucks imported from Japan. The solution for the Isuzu Trooper in the eighties and early nineties was to basically leave the rear seat out such that "final assembly" was completed at the dealership. I don't know how extensive the final assembly step was over standard new-car prep (where they're supposed to basically verify that the factory torqued key fasteners down etc) but I imagine that they shipped the rear seat assembly and other parts necessary for final assembly inside of the vehicle itself, since it has a fairly voluminous interior when that rear seat isn't bolted-down and configured for passenger use.
Almost right; From wikipedia: "From 1978–1987 the Subaru BRAT carried two rear-facing seats (with seatbelts and carpeting) in its rear bed to meet classification as a "passenger vehicle" and not a light truck." This was in direct respons to a so-called "Chicken tax" from the early '60s. Look up Chicken Tax on wikipedia - it's an interesting read how a tax intended to protect a certain market had ramifications for a completely different industry for many decades to come.
Yeah, agreed. I have some old proprietary IRIX software I'd really like to be able to run, and don't want to have to fire up (read: make work) any of the old SGI hardware I have lying around. Would be better if I could just emulate it...
I don't think openscad is "important" in the sense of the summary, but I'd never heard of it before and it certainly looks interesting. Especially for someone like me whose brain works better dealing with text than images.
I would donate money to an organization that freely distributed birth control devices. Overpopulation strains the supply of natural resources like water, strains the food supply (farms being bought to put in housing), increases pollution, etc. And parents that don't have huge numbers of children can better care for their children. Lessen overpopulation -> help with many other problems.
That's putting the cart before the horse. If you listen to Hans Rosling he will tell you that when there are abundant resources, low child mortality follows, and then the birth rate naturally goes down. This has happened many, many times. So what I am basically saying is you will get the same effect by supplying clean water and health care to the third world, along with of course the life expectancy benefits that go along with those.
Reminds me of the football (soccer) star who said when asked what he did with his fortune:
"I spent a lot on fast cars, booze and women, The rest i just wasted."
That, to me, is being rich - it means being free to go anywhere and do anything. I don't need a lavish life of luxury; I just want to be free of the shackles that keep me from seeing the world.
Yep, agreed. I'd buy a 4x4 camper and do the pacific rim. Australia through South East Asia, China, Mongolia, Russia, Alaska, Canada, USA, Mexico, all the way down to Chile. Adventure!
I have no mod points (and I've already posted in this thread anyway); but I find your post interesting and informative. Does the premise of your last paragraph depend on US tax law?
I didn't post merely to blow smoke up your ass though - I am genuinely interested in your sig line; can you explain it?
I've often thought about this; you know, dreaming of winning the lottery and all.
I often think, if I won the lottery, I could spend all my life finishing all those projects I have to do. But then, most of those projects are in place because I don't have a lot of money, so the impetus to do them is gone. Also, part (a lot?) of the fun in the projects is because it's a challenge to complete on a limited budget. If I had a lot of money, not only would the project be useless, but the fun part would be removed because suddenly there is no budget constraint.
I wonder if my life would be empty if I had a lot of money? At least I could travel more, which would be great. But all those electronics and programming projects I have and enjoy doing - well, would i enjoy them as much if I weren't constrained by money?
Part way through the article, there's a big quote that says, "Without Windows 95 there would be no Steam or XBox and we would still be playing Pong." That's just nonsense.
Absolutely. Doom predated Windows 95, which was in turn predated by wolfenstein 3D which was arguably the most influential game of all time. How many FPS games owe their look and feel to those two games?
Continuity is something that only popped up very recently when viewers started to want such a thing. And it's still a rather small (but very vocal) minority that cares about such things, at least in shows where it simply does not matter.
Is that a function of the way we consume our media these days? Back in the 50s-90s people watched shows on broadcast; the series-binge is only a recent phenomenon corresponding with torrents and then streaming services.
...Or even Ctrl-Alt-Del and Enter (chooses the first item, which is lock screen, at least on Win Xp Pro and 7 Enterprise, the only ones I have experience with).
I use an old IBM Model M keyboard with no windows key; under OSX I remap the caps-lock key to command; under windows I don't miss not having the windows key.
Many of those shortcuts you have listed have alternate shortcuts; the ones that don't could be useful to me if I had a windows key, but I'd rather type on my model M than some mushy newfangled piece of crap.
Under Linux, ctrl-alt serves the purpose of the windows key, and the linux desktop is much more flexible than windows for using the keyboard anyway.
Yeah, no big deal I guess. Except that this bash script generated a keystroke file that was input to a DOS-based key injector program to automate some proprietary conversion software to convert thousands of files that were being done manually (keystroke, enter, enter filename, choose option, press go, wait for return, lather rinse repeat - you know the drill).
Actually, the real question is not "what is your backup strategy", but "what is your restore strategy". Backups are all well and good, but it's at the point of restoration that they really show their value.
In some wild life parks the "good guys" cut the horns from rhinoceros as a way to protect them from the "bad guys", so a "prosthetic horn" is dangerous idea actually.
...Unless the prosthetic horn looks nothing like the original horn, be it by colour or whatever.
I've written Python for years and have never used any special editor. The one problem I've had is when commenting out several lines of Python code -- you need to add a # character to the beginning of each line. It's a minor inconvenience.
What about using the """ triple-quote format? That works for multi-line comments, but may be "special" in that it's interpreted by other tools.
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So put an md5sum of the bios on the CD, and check it against the running bios on boot. If different, flag an error.
Now it's just a matter of sub-dividing and delivering.
You mean like what pretty much every importer already does? To be fair though, clearly it's a workable business model because there's plenty of example in the wild.
The United States has or had a tax on completed light trucks imported from Japan. The solution for the Isuzu Trooper in the eighties and early nineties was to basically leave the rear seat out such that "final assembly" was completed at the dealership. I don't know how extensive the final assembly step was over standard new-car prep (where they're supposed to basically verify that the factory torqued key fasteners down etc) but I imagine that they shipped the rear seat assembly and other parts necessary for final assembly inside of the vehicle itself, since it has a fairly voluminous interior when that rear seat isn't bolted-down and configured for passenger use.
Almost right; From wikipedia: "From 1978–1987 the Subaru BRAT carried two rear-facing seats (with seatbelts and carpeting) in its rear bed to meet classification as a "passenger vehicle" and not a light truck." This was in direct respons to a so-called "Chicken tax" from the early '60s. Look up Chicken Tax on wikipedia - it's an interesting read how a tax intended to protect a certain market had ramifications for a completely different industry for many decades to come.
You get what you pay for.
I have a saying which is pertinent here (and summarises your post quite nicely I think): "Poor man pays twice"
This. Exactly the same thing jumped out at me - if you're not using ipython notebooks for data analysis, you're (probably) not doing it right.
It is as if the laws of physics don't exist in those towns because the pedestrian has the right of way.
I don't understand it - even if you have the right of way, you're still dead.
Yeah, agreed. I have some old proprietary IRIX software I'd really like to be able to run, and don't want to have to fire up (read: make work) any of the old SGI hardware I have lying around. Would be better if I could just emulate it...
Reply to remove my incorrect modding.
I don't think openscad is "important" in the sense of the summary, but I'd never heard of it before and it certainly looks interesting. Especially for someone like me whose brain works better dealing with text than images.
I would donate money to an organization that freely distributed birth control devices. Overpopulation strains the supply of natural resources like water, strains the food supply (farms being bought to put in housing), increases pollution, etc. And parents that don't have huge numbers of children can better care for their children. Lessen overpopulation -> help with many other problems.
That's putting the cart before the horse. If you listen to Hans Rosling he will tell you that when there are abundant resources, low child mortality follows, and then the birth rate naturally goes down. This has happened many, many times. So what I am basically saying is you will get the same effect by supplying clean water and health care to the third world, along with of course the life expectancy benefits that go along with those.
Good, can you submit it please? Randall has been too long in putting up his next instalment after "Jupiter Descending".
Reminds me of the football (soccer) star who said when asked what he did with his fortune: "I spent a lot on fast cars, booze and women, The rest i just wasted."
That, to me, is being rich - it means being free to go anywhere and do anything. I don't need a lavish life of luxury; I just want to be free of the shackles that keep me from seeing the world.
Yep, agreed. I'd buy a 4x4 camper and do the pacific rim. Australia through South East Asia, China, Mongolia, Russia, Alaska, Canada, USA, Mexico, all the way down to Chile. Adventure!
I have no mod points (and I've already posted in this thread anyway); but I find your post interesting and informative. Does the premise of your last paragraph depend on US tax law?
I didn't post merely to blow smoke up your ass though - I am genuinely interested in your sig line; can you explain it?
I've often thought about this; you know, dreaming of winning the lottery and all. I often think, if I won the lottery, I could spend all my life finishing all those projects I have to do. But then, most of those projects are in place because I don't have a lot of money, so the impetus to do them is gone. Also, part (a lot?) of the fun in the projects is because it's a challenge to complete on a limited budget. If I had a lot of money, not only would the project be useless, but the fun part would be removed because suddenly there is no budget constraint. I wonder if my life would be empty if I had a lot of money? At least I could travel more, which would be great. But all those electronics and programming projects I have and enjoy doing - well, would i enjoy them as much if I weren't constrained by money?
Part way through the article, there's a big quote that says, "Without Windows 95 there would be no Steam or XBox and we would still be playing Pong." That's just nonsense.
Absolutely. Doom predated Windows 95, which was in turn predated by wolfenstein 3D which was arguably the most influential game of all time. How many FPS games owe their look and feel to those two games?
Continuity is something that only popped up very recently when viewers started to want such a thing. And it's still a rather small (but very vocal) minority that cares about such things, at least in shows where it simply does not matter.
Is that a function of the way we consume our media these days? Back in the 50s-90s people watched shows on broadcast; the series-binge is only a recent phenomenon corresponding with torrents and then streaming services.
Have you tried Scrivener?
...Or even Ctrl-Alt-Del and Enter (chooses the first item, which is lock screen, at least on Win Xp Pro and 7 Enterprise, the only ones I have experience with).
I use an old IBM Model M keyboard with no windows key; under OSX I remap the caps-lock key to command; under windows I don't miss not having the windows key. Many of those shortcuts you have listed have alternate shortcuts; the ones that don't could be useful to me if I had a windows key, but I'd rather type on my model M than some mushy newfangled piece of crap. Under Linux, ctrl-alt serves the purpose of the windows key, and the linux desktop is much more flexible than windows for using the keyboard anyway.
...Or return the motor to Siemens. In the aircraft. By flying it to them, (not-)coincidentally over the Channel.
Yeah, no big deal I guess. Except that this bash script generated a keystroke file that was input to a DOS-based key injector program to automate some proprietary conversion software to convert thousands of files that were being done manually (keystroke, enter, enter filename, choose option, press go, wait for return, lather rinse repeat - you know the drill).
Actually, the real question is not "what is your backup strategy", but "what is your restore strategy". Backups are all well and good, but it's at the point of restoration that they really show their value.
In some wild life parks the "good guys" cut the horns from rhinoceros as a way to protect them from the "bad guys", so a "prosthetic horn" is dangerous idea actually.
...Unless the prosthetic horn looks nothing like the original horn, be it by colour or whatever.
I've written Python for years and have never used any special editor. The one problem I've had is when commenting out several lines of Python code -- you need to add a # character to the beginning of each line. It's a minor inconvenience.
What about using the """ triple-quote format? That works for multi-line comments, but may be "special" in that it's interpreted by other tools.