You got semi-whooshed there: the quote is from one of the all-time greatest pinball machines: Attack From Mars. Which, BTW, is available as a sim via PinballArcade.
Really -- someone suggests a computer program could identify when to laugh at a sitcom? When humans are likely to disagree rather strongly about which parts are the funniest? Heck, even Mycroft's first jokes were on the weak side of humor. It took a lot of coaching from the humans to get (his) jokes classy.
I've been waiting since, well, forever, for staropenlibre office's word processor to have a Draft or Galley mode (called "Normal" in Microsoft Word, or at least it was). Why in the world people think they should see the header, footer, and margins while writing and editing a document is beyond me.
That's one reason I would love to switch to LaTex all the way: the IDEs out there have one panel where you do your writing and editing, and a separate panel for viewing the fully rendered result when or if you want to.
And you still got the song wrong. It goes "to know, know, know you, is to love, love, love you..." See? Ya gotta repeat twice (yeah I'm a grammar pedant: say it 3 times is repeating twice:-) ) .
100,000 hours = 273 years. Does anyone believe that?
Oddly enough, it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. What matters is whether that's the same predictive model used for estimating lifetimes of RAID arrays, or a single drive for that matter. Since you want to compare the proposed new config directly with current paradigms, you have to use the same set of underlying assumptions.
Yeah, I have to agree (sadly) with that conclusion. I wanted to come up with a semi-magical coupling system that would "hand off" one counterweight&pulley system to another every 100 floors or so, and do so without requiring the car itself to stop, but I rather suspect the cost and safety requirements would make this well-nigh impossible.
Heck, we might just as well go for a vertical version of the Hyperloop .
Dunno if you were joking or not, but that's exactly what it is. There are all sorts of principles of complementary apertures in optics; this one is perhaps the best known.
Now, in general use you do have to play some games to eliminate background light (as opposed to a pinhole camera, where light from elsewhere is blocked out), but in (dare I say it) Spaaaaaaace!! it'll be easier to set up the phase blocking stuff at the camera itself.
Sadly, Dogma is just as much present in Scientists as it is with Priests.
That's really sad. Not the implication of your statement, but that you might believe it in the slightest. In an attempt to head off further comments in this subthread: you might as well be Hitler.
Not to mention good old politics in the bid-award process. A certain other corporation based in a certain town in upstate NY had build plenty of telescopes, same size, for orbit-based use, but because Security dammit!! and some cronyism on the side Hughes Optical got the contract. And screwed it up in an attempt to save cost.
You've combined possible sensible behavior with completely ignorant behavior.
Yes, your MD is an asshole (and a lazy shit) for prescribing antibiotics without doing a culture. -- unless you just happened to leave out the part where he had a positive finding.
No, he was exactly right for requiring that the entire scrip be taken. It's morons who "feel better after 3 days" and stop the scrip who thus allow partially resistant bacteria to survive and go on to breed (so to speak) more fully resistant bacteria. "All or nothing" is absolutely the rule here.
Well, *I* think that 64k different languages should be enough for anyone.//rim shot
So, anyway, anyone who claims that any particular language is the right one to start with (and will lead to fame, fortune, and everything that goes with it) is a fool. I can see some justification for avoiding heavily obfuscated languages like APL or perl in favor of any language that actually uses, you know, words, to identify the functions and operations you want to do. If a high-school kid can't understand that "for," "do," "while," etc. are performing mostly the same operation, then he's screwed regardless of the actual language in question.
Then again, why not just set up dual-boot or dump either Linux or OSX into a VM inside the opposite OS?
I will note that Apple went competitive by making Yosemite a free upgrade. But if you don't mind figuring out how to make a startup script run to load your trackpad config options and similar stuff that works automagically under OSX, and don't mind not being able to use MsoftOffice (skip the flame wars, please-- we all have to be able to exchange files with the noncognoscenti), it really comes down to which desktop environment you like.
> I'm spending about $5,000 on a vacation now. Because my kids are only kids for a very short period of time.
Did you save up $5,000, so you are now able to do that without worrying about?
The fallacy here is that a $5k vacation is five times better than a $1k vacation -- or that it's even close to five separate $1k vacations. One of the best family vacas I ever had as a kid involved staying at cheapo motels along the midAtlantic coast, getting up early to check out the local birding scene, dining at local indie establishments, etc. No Plastic Kingdom or Floating FoodOrgy can compare.
It's always seemed to me that it is critical that the judge be, if not expert, at least well-educated in areas of science, philosophy, religion, etc. which are pertinent to the case. How can a judge properly rule on admissibility of evidence (e.g. all those cases involving data sent through an open home router) or validity of objections if he doesn't comprehend the technological or cultural situation?
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The Martians are straightening the Tower of Pisa!
Hail to our Martian Overlords !
You got semi-whooshed there: the quote is from one of the all-time greatest pinball machines: Attack From Mars. Which, BTW, is available as a sim via PinballArcade.
damn.
Sleepyhead am I
So, in the limit as T.S. Eliot --> ee cummings, please .
sorry
Ahhh, c'mon: the post you refer to most likely came from t.s.eliot.
Really -- someone suggests a computer program could identify when to laugh at a sitcom? When humans are likely to disagree rather strongly about which parts are the funniest? Heck, even Mycroft's first jokes were on the weak side of humor. It took a lot of coaching from the humans to get (his) jokes classy.
Yeah, fuck the Super Bowl, wake me when the Hyper Bowl is on!
Make sure to wear your hyper-visor during the game!
(ok, that wasn't as funny as I'd hoped before i wrote it)
I've been waiting since, well, forever, for staropenlibre office's word processor to have a Draft or Galley mode (called "Normal" in Microsoft Word, or at least it was). Why in the world people think they should see the header, footer, and margins while writing and editing a document is beyond me.
That's one reason I would love to switch to LaTex all the way: the IDEs out there have one panel where you do your writing and editing, and a separate panel for viewing the fully rendered result when or if you want to.
They seem to have confused hours with days.
Captain! They've broken our secret Starfleet code!
Actually it does matter. If you believe 100,000 hours = 273 years you lack basic arithmetic skills.
+1 sardonic
But doesn't address my serious point about application of statistical methods.
And you still got the song wrong. It goes "to know, know, know you, is to love, love, love you..." See? Ya gotta repeat twice (yeah I'm a grammar pedant: say it 3 times is repeating twice :-) ) .
100,000 hours = 273 years. Does anyone believe that?
Oddly enough, it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. What matters is whether that's the same predictive model used for estimating lifetimes of RAID arrays, or a single drive for that matter. Since you want to compare the proposed new config directly with current paradigms, you have to use the same set of underlying assumptions.
Yeah, I have to agree (sadly) with that conclusion. I wanted to come up with a semi-magical coupling system that would "hand off" one counterweight&pulley system to another every 100 floors or so, and do so without requiring the car itself to stop, but I rather suspect the cost and safety requirements would make this well-nigh impossible.
Heck, we might just as well go for a vertical version of the Hyperloop .
There's a misconception going on here. Many satellites are "visible" in that they reflect a bunch of sunlight and we can see a bright point source.
At the same time, these satellites are not resolvable with the naked eye, meaning you cannot observe and structure or shape.
Looks like the opposite of a pinhole camera
Dunno if you were joking or not, but that's exactly what it is. There are all sorts of principles of complementary apertures in optics; this one is perhaps the best known.
Now, in general use you do have to play some games to eliminate background light (as opposed to a pinhole camera, where light from elsewhere is blocked out), but in (dare I say it) Spaaaaaaace!! it'll be easier to set up the phase blocking stuff at the camera itself.
Sadly, Dogma is just as much present in Scientists as it is with Priests.
That's really sad. Not the implication of your statement, but that you might believe it in the slightest.
In an attempt to head off further comments in this subthread: you might as well be Hitler.
Not to mention good old politics in the bid-award process. A certain other corporation based in a certain town in upstate NY had build plenty of telescopes, same size, for orbit-based use, but because Security dammit!! and some cronyism on the side Hughes Optical got the contract. And screwed it up in an attempt to save cost.
Personally, I think voting is a great way to determine truth. When that doesn't work, generally a wrestling match does.
Or better yet, each side chooses a champion. The Mountain vs. The Viper. Which one do you vote for?
You've combined possible sensible behavior with completely ignorant behavior.
Yes, your MD is an asshole (and a lazy shit) for prescribing antibiotics without doing a culture. -- unless you just happened to leave out the part where he had a positive finding.
No, he was exactly right for requiring that the entire scrip be taken. It's morons who "feel better after 3 days" and stop the scrip who thus allow partially resistant bacteria to survive and go on to breed (so to speak) more fully resistant bacteria. "All or nothing" is absolutely the rule here.
What's wrong, actual english too hard for you?
What's wrong, actual capitalisation of proper nouns too hard for you?
What's wrong: understanding the difference between "," and ":" too hard for you?
so there. hahahaHAAAAAAha
Well, *I* think that 64k different languages should be enough for anyone. //rim shot
So, anyway, anyone who claims that any particular language is the right one to start with (and will lead to fame, fortune, and everything that goes with it) is a fool. I can see some justification for avoiding heavily obfuscated languages like APL or perl in favor of any language that actually uses, you know, words, to identify the functions and operations you want to do. If a high-school kid can't understand that "for," "do," "while," etc. are performing mostly the same operation, then he's screwed regardless of the actual language in question.
I just had this feeling all along that the results would turn out this way.
Well, there is precedent -- wasn't the title "The Dirty Dozen"? Convicts just have to Save The Free World to earn their freedom, plus explosions.
`because it's there'
Or more accurately, " because we can."
Then again, why not just set up dual-boot or dump either Linux or OSX into a VM inside the opposite OS?
I will note that Apple went competitive by making Yosemite a free upgrade. But if you don't mind figuring out how to make a startup script run to load your trackpad config options and similar stuff that works automagically under OSX, and don't mind not being able to use MsoftOffice (skip the flame wars, please-- we all have to be able to exchange files with the noncognoscenti), it really comes down to which desktop environment you like.
If you stay in ONION yes. But the feds own or control a vast many exit nodes to consider it a 'safe' route anywhere outside of onion space.
That works for me. I always stay in TheOnion
> I'm spending about $5,000 on a vacation now. Because my kids are only kids for a very short period of time.
Did you save up $5,000, so you are now able to do that without worrying about?
The fallacy here is that a $5k vacation is five times better than a $1k vacation -- or that it's even close to five separate $1k vacations. One of the best family vacas I ever had as a kid involved staying at cheapo motels along the midAtlantic coast, getting up early to check out the local birding scene, dining at local indie establishments, etc. No Plastic Kingdom or Floating FoodOrgy can compare.
It's always seemed to me that it is critical that the judge be, if not expert, at least well-educated in areas of science, philosophy, religion, etc. which are pertinent to the case. How can a judge properly rule on admissibility of evidence (e.g. all those cases involving data sent through an open home router) or validity of objections if he doesn't comprehend the technological or cultural situation?