Regardless, just because you listen to 100 different "kinds" of music, you still have to answer me why you need the capacity for 3000 tunes on a fucking iPod! i think it's a mistake to think of the iPOD (or other digital portable players) solely as a tool to carry music with you as you travel. Instead, think of the iPOD as the source of all music for your stereo system. Instead of plowing thru 200 LPs, 100 cassette tapes, and 500 CDs (roughly my collection), everything is in one physical item, easily cross-cataloged so you can find a given type, performer, composer, etc.
And, back in my college days, ask me whether I'd have preferred to carry an iPOD or 6 crates of LPs up three stories to my dorm room!
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963) Given Lewis' position on religions and the rather obvious interpretation of that statement as a description of an all-powerful God Is My Shepherd figure, I'd be interested in knowing what Lewis actually intended (as opposed to this out of context use in/.)
This is probably redundant but Ihaven't read all the way down. Temperature is a measure (the logarithm of, in fact) of the number of available energy states that the particles in question can populate. Absolute zero simply means the ensemble has only one available energy state. This in no way means there is zero energy or zero motion. Atoms will still exist at absolute zero -- unless there's some newfangle theory I missed that claims cold electrons will just fall from their P-zero orbitals.
Right now I should lose about 30 Lbs, yet I don't eat significantly less than people who should lose 300 Lbs.
Yes, you do. You either overestimate what you eat, or underestimate what the morbidly obese eat.
The relationship between excess body fat and the calorie intake/exercise is at best fuzzy.
Fat is the body storing excess energy. A relationship doesn't get much clearer than that. If only it were that simple a story. A rather exhaustive set of studies, by qualified scientists and medical researchers,has shown pretty clearly that people have a "set point" weight. If they go below that weight, their body drops the metabolic rate (and various other things), making it even harder to reduce fat content. How or why the set point is determined is not as clear, but it is the case for nearly all obese people that simply reducing intake will not directly lead to weight loss.
Saved at least $100 in installation costs; install was pretty much without hassle just by reading and following the instructions.
Unless you completed the job in under 2 hours, you lost money on the deal. It's an error to think your time is free just because you did it in the evening or the weekend.
What everybody forgets is that Asimov undercut his own psycho history by introducing a random event, the Mule. And further, what few ever knew is that one of Asimov's last books..
SPOILER ALERT
it turns out that a lot of the 2nd Foundation work, and general evolution of the Galactic Empire was invisibly organized by Daneel Olivaw. So much for mass chaotic destiny.
I can't remember the author; but he posessed a little more wisdom than the parent poster. Yeah, right. The obvious counter-quote is the old "feed a man a fish....teach a man to fish...." homily. Treating the need but not the cause is like draining pustules on smallpox victims. (well, not exactly, but it's equally useless)
Please, dear new OpenOffice developer, add the equivalent of Normal View (OO.o issue 4914 IIRC) to Writer. I've been waiting years for this, and it's clear from the comments at that issue that many others recognize the need for this view option.
Yes, there is no personal privacy for junk on corporate computers. The more interesting issue is when IT accesses machines that are limited-access. For example, take the Personnel Dept (I refuse to use the insulting term HR) and its database of employees' salaries, home addresses, background checks, etc. That info clearly is not for view by IT members, regardless of their root privs. The difference here is that an employee gives info to Personnel with the understanding that it is not for general dissemination, as opposed to the company's right to look at anything that is on the employee's desktop machine.
Apple's web page says 10.4.8 for the iPodClassic and 10.4.10 for the iPodTouch. I'm still very happy w/ 10.3.9 on my old iMac G4 at home, and would rather not have to shell out $$ for 10.4.x . Can anyone point me to some info as to what functionality I'll lose if I don't upgrade my OS (not to mention upgrading iTunes itself)? Funny how WindowsXP+SP2 is sufficient for all the new iPods but on Apple's own OS I would have to buy an upgrade. Grrrr....
If you have sex with your own clone, is that still incest? Masturbation perhaps? This exact set of jokes about clones showed up in a SciFi short story in the mid-60s (I believe). I can't recall the author or title for the life of me, but the story concerned a large number of clones (magically turned into both sexes) who worked as a team, mining something out of some remote planet. The two non-clone supervisors found it very difficult to understand the social interactions, etc etc.
Even with it's current capability, I'd suppose various image disgrognification algorythms could discern something that isn't pressed to the screen. No it couldn't, any more than a blank sheet of photographic paper could produce an image (all by itself). Simply put: unless there is a lens, or a pinhole (Google for things like "pinhole camera"), or as someone mentioned, each detector element has a drastically limited field of view, like a dragonfly eye, you won't get an image. Each element in this case just collects the light that hits it. Just like a proximity scanner. If you project an image, using an external lens, then you'll get a picture. Otherwise not.
Speaking of varying the length of a piece, is that John Cage organ piece still going on in? IIRC the composer wrote "as slow as possible," so some gang of fools come in and move a couple sandbags every few days (onto different organ keys), and the piece will finish on the 100th anniversary of Cage's birth or some such. like at this story
And in case the PP didn't get it, the iphone ends up as toxic dust because it is made of toxic dry materials. If you just put a piece of wood in, you'd end up with ordinary (not toxic) dust, Bzzt! In fact, lots and lots of nontoxic dry things (to the touch) are toxic when pulverized and inhaled. That's why woodworkers wear masks and use dust collection systems. Or a grossly over-used example: look at the difference between a fully assembled skyscraper and the dust cloud it generates when it collapses.
Only partly joking: this vertical mouse is at best marginally different from many other mice out there. I'm a long-time trackball lover, but here's the question I want to ask: how long until we get a track/point/click glove? We've all seen those MediaLab demos of one open-air motion interpreting device or another, so how long until a reasonably affordable (presumably BlueTooth) glove-like device comes along?
I love Scrubs, too. But let's not go redesigning our medical qualifications system based on that one episode we saw that one time.:)
I can only suppose that there are times when doing nothing beats doing something. Remember one of the primary Rules of The House of God : THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE.
Last time I looked, nowhere in the USA is it legal to park nose-in when you're in a parallel parking zone. Further, it's generally illegal to "create" parking spots out of nothing, so anywhere there are painted slots or meters, forget about squeezing in. This isn't to say that an influx of microcars might not lead to a change in the laws, but it ain't that way yet.
The ringwraiths were on a mission of stealth. Revealing them clearly would urge everyone on the sidelines to prepare, and a trail of dead bodies kind of makes it hard to tail the ringbearer all quiet-like.
Well, the ringwraiths should have brought along a nailgun and dumped the bodies in abandoned row houses.
They have a program called Sleeping with the Sharks that schools and other groups can participate in, allowing them to sleep in the tunnel underneath the sharks. Oh, so is THAT what The Godfather meant when he said someone was sleeping with the fish?
Using Social Security Numbers for everything isn't such a bad idea. It is a convenient way to identify someone, since it is guaranteed to be unique. It may be unique, but it is most definitely NOT an identifier. Everyone over the age of about 45 (I forget the exact year) got a SSN by asking for it. The original intent of the Social Security Card was to let you and your employer (and Uncle Sam) track your earnings and taxes on said earnings. There was no proof of identity involved. I could have created a SSN for Lrac W. (instead of Carl, get it:-)) and nobody would have cared. Personally I think it was a disastrously stupid move to make SSNs legal identification. The bloody things don't have fingerprints, photos, DNA, or anything at all that prove who you are.
Grow up already, will you? To be exact, learn a little history before reciting neocon rants. Here's the way it was, not only in MA but in all states: drunk driving leading to death was not considered a major crime. It wasn't until the mid-70's that a certain pinko lefty state (hint, the mayor of its port city is called "Mumbles") started pushing for jail time for drunk drivers who caused a death. It took rather longer for the South to catch on. Even now you're likely to get more jail time for threatening a Store24 clerk with a knife than for killing 5 people while driving drunk.
So: what media have survived for centuries or more, not this puny 5 to 10 years' worth for digital tapes or discs? You got it: etch in stone. So it will be a little bulkier than the 10 Commandments (the original ones, not the movie:-) ) but it'll last thru everything except a major volcano.
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Regardless, just because you listen to 100 different "kinds" of music, you still have to answer me why you need the capacity for 3000 tunes on a fucking iPod!
i think it's a mistake to think of the iPOD (or other digital portable players) solely as a tool to carry music with you as you travel. Instead, think of the iPOD as the source of all music for your stereo system. Instead of plowing thru 200 LPs, 100 cassette tapes, and 500 CDs (roughly my collection), everything is in one physical item, easily cross-cataloged so you can find a given type, performer, composer, etc.
And, back in my college days, ask me whether I'd have preferred to carry an iPOD or 6 crates of LPs up three stories to my dorm room!
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. /.)
C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Given Lewis' position on religions and the rather obvious interpretation of that statement as a description of an all-powerful God Is My Shepherd figure, I'd be interested in knowing what Lewis actually intended (as opposed to this out of context use in
This is probably redundant but Ihaven't read all the way down.
Temperature is a measure (the logarithm of, in fact) of the number of available energy states that the particles in question can populate. Absolute zero simply means the ensemble has only one available energy state. This in no way means there is zero energy or zero motion. Atoms will still exist at absolute zero -- unless there's some newfangle theory I missed that claims cold electrons will just fall from their P-zero orbitals.
Right now I should lose about 30 Lbs, yet I don't eat significantly less than people who should lose 300 Lbs.
Yes, you do. You either overestimate what you eat, or underestimate what the morbidly obese eat.
The relationship between excess body fat and the calorie intake/exercise is at best fuzzy.
Fat is the body storing excess energy. A relationship doesn't get much clearer than that.
If only it were that simple a story. A rather exhaustive set of studies, by qualified scientists and medical researchers,has shown pretty clearly that people have a "set point" weight. If they go below that weight, their body drops the metabolic rate (and various other things), making it even harder to reduce fat content. How or why the set point is determined is not as clear, but it is the case for nearly all obese people that simply reducing intake will not directly lead to weight loss.
disclaimer: I just installed my own water heater.
Saved at least $100 in installation costs; install was pretty much without hassle just by reading and following the instructions.
Unless you completed the job in under 2 hours, you lost money on the deal. It's an error to think your time is free just because you did it in the evening or the weekend.
What everybody forgets is that Asimov undercut his own psycho history by introducing a random event, the Mule. ..
And further, what few ever knew is that one of Asimov's last books
SPOILER ALERT
it turns out that a lot of the 2nd Foundation work, and general evolution of the Galactic Empire was invisibly organized by Daneel Olivaw. So much for mass chaotic destiny.
AI is a disaster through-and-through. It never works well. Ever.
How is that different from natural intelligence?
Charity sees the need, not the cause."
I can't remember the author; but he posessed a little more wisdom than the parent poster.
Yeah, right.
The obvious counter-quote is the old "feed a man a fish....teach a man to fish...." homily.
Treating the need but not the cause is like draining pustules on smallpox victims. (well, not exactly, but it's equally useless)
Please, dear new OpenOffice developer, add the equivalent of Normal View (OO.o issue 4914 IIRC) to Writer. I've been waiting years for this, and it's clear from the comments at that issue that many others recognize the need for this view option.
Yes, there is no personal privacy for junk on corporate computers. The more interesting issue is when IT accesses machines that are limited-access. For example, take the Personnel Dept (I refuse to use the insulting term HR) and its database of employees' salaries, home addresses, background checks, etc. That info clearly is not for view by IT members, regardless of their root privs. The difference here is that an employee gives info to Personnel with the understanding that it is not for general dissemination, as opposed to the company's right to look at anything that is on the employee's desktop machine.
Apple's web page says 10.4.8 for the iPodClassic and 10.4.10 for the iPodTouch. I'm still very happy w/ 10.3.9 on my old iMac G4 at home, and would rather not have to shell out $$ for 10.4.x .
Can anyone point me to some info as to what functionality I'll lose if I don't upgrade my OS (not to mention upgrading iTunes itself)?
Funny how WindowsXP+SP2 is sufficient for all the new iPods but on Apple's own OS I would have to buy an upgrade. Grrrr....
If you have sex with your own clone, is that still incest?
Masturbation perhaps?
This exact set of jokes about clones showed up in a SciFi short story in the mid-60s (I believe). I can't recall the author or title for the life of me, but the story concerned a large number of clones (magically turned into both sexes) who worked as a team, mining something out of some remote planet. The two non-clone supervisors found it very difficult to understand the social interactions, etc etc.
Even with it's current capability, I'd suppose various image disgrognification algorythms could discern something that isn't pressed to the screen.
No it couldn't, any more than a blank sheet of photographic paper could produce an image (all by itself). Simply put: unless there is a lens, or a pinhole (Google for things like "pinhole camera"), or as someone mentioned, each detector element has a drastically limited field of view, like a dragonfly eye, you won't get an image. Each element in this case just collects the light that hits it. Just like a proximity scanner.
If you project an image, using an external lens, then you'll get a picture. Otherwise not.
Speaking of varying the length of a piece, is that John Cage organ piece still going on in?
IIRC the composer wrote "as slow as possible," so some gang of fools come in and move a couple sandbags every few days (onto different organ keys), and the piece will finish on the 100th anniversary of Cage's birth or some such.
like at this story
And in case the PP didn't get it, the iphone ends up as toxic dust because it is made of toxic dry materials. If you just put a piece of wood in, you'd end up with ordinary (not toxic) dust,
Bzzt!
In fact, lots and lots of nontoxic dry things (to the touch) are toxic when pulverized and inhaled. That's why woodworkers wear masks and use dust collection systems.
Or a grossly over-used example: look at the difference between a fully assembled skyscraper and the dust cloud it generates when it collapses.
Only partly joking: this vertical mouse is at best marginally different from many other mice out there. I'm a long-time trackball lover, but here's the question I want to ask: how long until we get a track/point/click glove? We've all seen those MediaLab demos of one open-air motion interpreting device or another, so how long until a reasonably affordable (presumably BlueTooth) glove-like device comes along?
I love Scrubs, too. But let's not go redesigning our medical qualifications system based on that one episode we saw that one time. :)
I can only suppose that there are times when doing nothing beats doing something.
Remember one of the primary Rules of The House of God : THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE.
Last time I looked, nowhere in the USA is it legal to park nose-in when you're in a parallel parking zone. Further, it's generally illegal to "create" parking spots out of nothing, so anywhere there are painted slots or meters, forget about squeezing in.
This isn't to say that an influx of microcars might not lead to a change in the laws, but it ain't that way yet.
The ringwraiths were on a mission of stealth. Revealing them clearly would urge everyone on the sidelines to prepare, and a trail of dead bodies kind of makes it hard to tail the ringbearer all quiet-like.
Well, the ringwraiths should have brought along a nailgun and dumped the bodies in abandoned row houses.
They have a program called Sleeping with the Sharks that schools and other groups can participate in, allowing them to sleep in the tunnel underneath the sharks.
Oh, so is THAT what The Godfather meant when he said someone was sleeping with the fish?
But people don't use their noses to communicate emotions.
Let's see...
"He wrinkled up his nose in distaste."
"She walked around with her nose in the air."
"The boy snorted with disgust."
Using Social Security Numbers for everything isn't such a bad idea. It is a convenient way to identify someone, since it is guaranteed to be unique. :-)) and nobody would have cared.
It may be unique, but it is most definitely NOT an identifier. Everyone over the age of about 45 (I forget the exact year) got a SSN by asking for it. The original intent of the Social Security Card was to let you and your employer (and Uncle Sam) track your earnings and taxes on said earnings. There was no proof of identity involved. I could have created a SSN for Lrac W. (instead of Carl, get it
Personally I think it was a disastrously stupid move to make SSNs legal identification. The bloody things don't have fingerprints, photos, DNA, or anything at all that prove who you are.
Will the Jesuits be the first to get there?
Grow up already, will you? To be exact, learn a little history before reciting neocon rants.
Here's the way it was, not only in MA but in all states: drunk driving leading to death was not considered a major crime. It wasn't until the mid-70's that a certain pinko lefty state (hint, the mayor of its port city is called "Mumbles") started pushing for jail time for drunk drivers who caused a death. It took rather longer for the South to catch on.
Even now you're likely to get more jail time for threatening a Store24 clerk with a knife than for killing 5 people while driving drunk.
So: what media have survived for centuries or more, not this puny 5 to 10 years' worth for digital tapes or discs? You got it: etch in stone. So it will be a little bulkier than the 10 Commandments (the original ones, not the movie :-) ) but it'll last thru everything except a major volcano.