They switched to ADC so you'd have to buy THEIR monitor.
Or so you'd have to spend twenty dollars on an adaptor cable. Or so you'd have only one cable to worry about, instead of three. Bad Apple! I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.
Warning: the above paragraph may contain "sarcasm", a rhetorical device known to the State of California to confuse some people.
Check both your links, and find that the first contradicts what you say about the second - alcohol consumption prior to 1840 was more than double (nearly treble) what it is today.
While the Screen Actors' Guild has had great success, in the past, in getting multi-millionaires to strike for more money
Let's not forget the other 95% of the SAG that is far from wealthy. The guy who plays "Bank Teller #2" and has maybe three lines is a member also, and there's a whole lot of those folks.
I haven't tried this myself, but here goes. It should work for liquid air (mostly nitrogen), but the principle should hold for hydrogen as well. Take a pressure-safe vessel and put it in the creek. Take a paddle wheel and put it in the creek. Use the wheel to compress your gas-state hydrogen into the pressure vessel. This heats the hydrogen, but the heat is lost into the running water. When the vessel is full of high-pressure room temperature hydrogen, bleed the hydrogen out through a small valve. Hydrogen expands, cooling as it does. Liquid hydrogen then drips from your valve, with extensive loss to the air.
Pretty crappy, eh? But for liquid air, the loss doesn't matter much, and all you had to do was go down to the creek.
Feel free to tell me why this won't work, if anybody knows a reason.
What about solar panels? You can run a current through water, from solar panels, and get H and 0. This is a pollution free, allbeit ineffecient, method of getting hydrogen.
Unfortunately, this method produces gas-state hydrogen. The liquifying process requires energy also. I know a slick way to do this with water power, but it's not very efficient...
What? You mean to say that Leftists are operating in a *MORE* 'sum-game' mind set? WTF are you thinking? People on the left are *ALWAYS* more interested in consensus, sharing and community. This is the practically the opposite of the right who are generally selfish, self-obsessed and greedy.
You are trolling, but I'm hooked. The 'zero-sum-ness' of a game is not determined by consensus, sharing, or community. The positive-sum-ness of capitalist thinking might be related by the idea that if I have two blenders, and you have two icemakers, we can trade one blender for one icemaker, and now we can both make pina colada. Nobody lost. "Money" and "Markets" are simply tools that facilitate this exchange. The most efficient markets are those that are kept carefully isolated from manipulation by anyone. The conservative lassaiz-faire concept is the idea that government manipulation of markets is what prevents everyone from trading with near-perfect efficiency, keeping some people from making pina colada. I would go a bit further, and say that corporate and private interference in markets is just as bad for you and I. That is why insider trading needs to be restricted, among other things.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed - its just changes form.. When a GreedyRightWingBastard(TM) has a gain he must be taking it from somewhere.. the public, his friends, family, nature - somewhere. He does not simply create wealth from thin air.
Wealth is not energy, and is easily created and destroyed. If I take fruit, flour, and other ingredients, and make a pie, I can sell that pie for more than the cost of my ingredients. The difference between what I paid for the ingredients and what I get for the finished pie is, roughly, the value of the time I spent making it. If you and I both make pies and sell them, but your pie is better and you sell it for more, where did that value come from? What if we make our pies, and nobody is hungry, so we can't sell them? Where did that value go?
You should learn sufficient economics to understand that there are trades that are advantageous to both sides. Nobody is ripping anybody off in these - it's just that value is relative.
People that 'believe in' property rights and private ownership are nuts.
The rest of us trade what little time we've got left to Mr. Lucky in return for scraps off his table; how does he decide what our lives are worth? Looks around for someone who'll cut his neighbor's throat cheaper, and there's no shortage.
Damn, man, I've never felt that way about wealth. My boss is well-off, and that money is paying the salary of everyone I work with. That money is paying for my house, my car, and everything I buy. That money is paying the wages of the folks at the corner market, the farmers who grow the food, the barber who cuts my hair. Nobody is cutting anybody's throat for anything. Your rhetoric is unneccesarily harsh, and hides your point.
Try making a 30-screen database app in Visual Basic. Actually no; don't ever try that. Just beleive me when I say that it's damn near impossible to produce a good product that way!
I've done it repeatedly. It's not nigh-impossible - it's just not like writing in C. You have to bring the same professional attitude toward it, though. Design well, profile before optimizing, refactor, test, test, test.
Which "useful language constructs" are missing? Even in VB 3, which lacked even rudimentary object orientation, we (less than 4 full-time-equivalent employees) managed to write a 90+ screen casino accounting package. Performance was excellent even on the 486-100s of the time. Modern VB is far, far better, and VB.NET better still.
I use other languages as needed. Perl is fine for anything that won't leave my own machine. Occasionally I'll find something I can do much much better in C than in VB - in which case I write a DLL and call it from VB.
I agree with your point that experience is critical. Please consider that language bigotry is the enemy of experience.
Your arguments are so absurd as to not require detailed response, but for some of these I simply can't resist. See what you've made me do?
2. You are still concerned about Communism for some reason. Perhaps you stopped following politics after Reagan lost.
When, exactly, did Reagan lose? Not at all after 1980, in my timeline. Perhaps you mean the fall of the Soviet Union. If you think that was the last we've seen of Communism, friend, you are sadly mistaken. There's still Robert Mugabe in Rhodesia, Castro, the North Koreans, Western Europe, and Canada, not to mention Maoist Senators from California and New York.
3. You think larger wheel diameter improves handling.
Watch much rally? Wherever road conditions permit, larger wheels with lower-profile tires are used. Shorter sidewalls are a handling win. To maintain total diameter, the wheel size is increased.
5. You think that foreign countries do not have mountains. Actually, the largest mountains in the world are not in the USA. They are in southern Asia.
And what car, exactly, is most commonly driven by the Sherpas up and over the Himalayas? I'm sure that if they are in common use yet, they have large, high-torque engines - very different from the little econoboxen used in Quebec and London.
6. You are physically challenged to the point of exhaustion when operating a motor vehicle.
Or perhaps I routinely drive longer distances than Europeans, or even Americans of the Eastern persuasion.
7. You may be going deaf, as you seem to prefer keeping your bitchy, nagging hausfrau(s) close to your right ear.
Or perhaps I have a wife worth snuggling.
BONUS: You seem to have forgotten about the following -- Ferrari F40, F50, 355, 360, 550.
Low production, high priced toys for would-be Andrettis, every one. In zero-population-growth countries where nobody has any kids, perhaps two-seat coupes are acceptable. In my country, however, life is good enough that we would like to perpetuate the species, hence the need for four doors and ample seating.
Enough. The moderators have spoken. I am funnier than you are, sir. Good day, and if I see you on the street I shall kick you.
SUVs have been shown to have a much higher rollover rate than a normal sized car. Rollovers are very bad.
Indeed, as Sho Funaki might say. It is necessary to drive SUVs with proper respect for their center of gravity. It's like the Corvair - it handled beautifully, but it didn't have the understeer common to front-engined cars of the time, so people who didn't have a good feel for what their car will do when driven hard found themselves swapping ends and rolling. That's not at all the car's fault, though.
Also, I take your point regarding misuse of SUVs (not ever getting them muddy). It bugs me to see the lady down the block drive all of 1/4 mile in her shiny black Explorer to pick up her kids at the bus stop. I walk down there for mine, and save the big iron for going way up in the hills. The right tool for the job, sort of thing.
Wow thinking like this is the reason SUVs are popular and there is a gas shortage.
SUVs are safer than smaller cars. You can drive them over bad / nonexistant roads more easily. They fill the role formerly taken by station wagons (or "estate" wagons, if you speak British), and can also be used for some country work. Some of the advantages of the pickup, and all of the advantages of a station wagon.
As for the gas shortage, I haven't been turned away at the pump yet. BP's market manipulation has had just as much to do with the price going up lately.
I cant think of a well designed american car. American cars are either designed to show how small their owners brains are or how short their dicks are.
Let's see. Great American cars that could not possibly represent evidence of Genital Compensation or Stupidity. The Neon, Valiant, and Corvair (whatever that Commie Nader thinks) spring immediately to mind. Given more reasonable standards, this list would include dozens of full-size, V8 cars. They are more than reliable enough, easy to fix, and amply powerful.
The engineering on foreign cars is sometimes great, but very few of them have that engineering along with adequate size, performance, features, handling, and price. The larger Volvo, Mercedes, and BMW models come closest - but I can get most of those features in a $750 '83 Buick, and I can fix it myself.
This car would sell great in the US. Here's a list of the strong points:
Big doors - to allow people who weren't malnourished as children to get in and out.
Lots of headroom for tall people unstunted by Communist ideas of proper nutrition
Great big wheels for improved handling
Styling - this looks like a car, as opposed to, say, a bar of wet soap
Gigantic engine, because in America, we have geographical features such as "mountains".
Ample cupholders, because drivin's powerful thirsty work
Bench seats so your girl (or girls) can sit right up next to ya!
22 inch wheels, because everything's bigger in America
Pushrod engine technology - proved effective, even before we saved Europe's ass in Doubya Doubya Two
Remember that car that was so great, and came from some other country? Me neither.
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Easy to say 'move on'.. best of luck to anybody out there who can actually thinks they can find a professional IT job with less than 60 hour weeks.
Not just easy to say - it's easy to do. I make it clear from my first contact with a prospective employer that, barring crisis, I do not work more than 40 hours in a week. I also make it clear that I know how to work such that those crises do not arise often - and that it's not how many hours one works, but the results one achieves that matters.
The most productive programmer I ever met worked exactly 40 hours each week. He easily outcoded any other two people in the building. He showed up well-rested, took regular breaks, didn't socialize while in the building, and produced line after line of bug-free code. If you can work even half that well, you'll find all the work you can stand.
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Excuse me folks, but isn't every worker, black and white, working in the IT field
(and especially larger companies like, oh, say, Microsoft) treated like a slave?
60+ hour work weeks, oppressive management structure, morons getting promoted
over vastly more skilled and competent co-workers... like, welcome to the real world!
Nobody here feels like a slave. None of the MSFT people I've talked to feels like a slave - especially not those who have made millions there.
If you are forced to work a 60 hour week, you should go seek employment elsewhere. If you are oppressed by your manager, passed over for promotion, etc, move on. If you aren't happy, take your skills elsewhere. There are lots and lots of places that need competent people, will treat them right, and pay them well.
This is a joke, right ? Just pokin' fun at some stereotypes, right ? How was this not moderated as flamebait ?
Ever watch a big marathon? Or any of the longer Olympic footraces? East Africans tend to dominate. Racism in action, or tall people with long legs? You be the judge.
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Thanks for the quotage, but, uhhh... Why should I or my company care?
Seriously. Not flaming or trolling. Sounds great and all, but what we have is a description of the means, not the ends. (An all too common situation in technology.)
The end user gets applications written faster, that do more, install easier, and have fewer bugs. That's about it - the same benefits the end user gets with every big improvement in developer tools and back-end tech.
... PACs and special interest groups control out legislature by first aligning thousands of votes...
... from having lots of members, perhaps? A PAC does not have its own agenda - it has the agenda of its members. If they didn't agree, they wouldn't be members, would they? From the NRA to the Million Mom March, from the Eagle Forum to NOW, we are talking about voluntary groups that really can't do anything more than suggest that somebody vote.
Of course there are PACs that simply represent the interests of an industry, which have an agenda of their own - but they have no votes to offer, just money. Grassroots activism counts for a lot more than money.
... SF is so removed from reality that impressionable children can become wrapped up in it, and will turn their backs on the joys of socialising and clean honest school fun & sports. It seems to me dangerous to let children read such removed works as much as they would like. I have no problem when they want to read older, traditional fiction, which may just equip them with life skills and insights.
I think you're trolling, but I'll respond anyhow. SF can be superior at providing "life skills and insights", compared with "traditional" fiction, in much the same way that a metaphor can be better at conveying a message than an anecdote. Your children are missing out on a wealth of experience simply not available in non-speculative fiction. There's not a single sentance in all of Hal Clement or Robert Heinlein that could harm a child, and much that made me who I am today.
I don't ban SF entirely though - I just let them read it for a couple of hours a week. I decided on this action after reading about the Dungeons & Dragons teenagers in America, and all the reality-removed mischief they got up to, thanks to the influence of SF.
There are some weird hooks into Outlook from some other MS products (DevStudio, for example) that can be replicated pretty easily with CVS and a shell script.
Please post the CVS / shell script you speak of... and the hooks from DevStudio, also, as I can't figure out what you are speaking of.
The way to deal with Tip Inflation is to opt out of it. I tip 10%-20% at restaurants depending on service, and for service that was actively bad, I leave an insulting trifle.
I tip for every personal service that I receive. Cab rides, pizza deliveries, restaurant service, lap dances, and full-service fueling. Failure to do so would feel rude - unless my server was incompetent.
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Or so you'd have to spend twenty dollars on an adaptor cable. Or so you'd have only one cable to worry about, instead of three. Bad Apple! I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.
Warning: the above paragraph may contain "sarcasm", a rhetorical device known to the State of California to confuse some people.
I was about to bitch about your comment, Mr Coward, on the basis that it wasn't a troll... but then I realized you were trolling for me.
I bow to the master.
Check both your links, and find that the first contradicts what you say about the second - alcohol consumption prior to 1840 was more than double (nearly treble) what it is today.
Run, don't walk. These guys rule. So the games aren't all perfect - who cares? They're cheap and huge amounts of fun fun for a while.
Let's not forget the other 95% of the SAG that is far from wealthy. The guy who plays "Bank Teller #2" and has maybe three lines is a member also, and there's a whole lot of those folks.
I haven't tried this myself, but here goes. It should work for liquid air (mostly nitrogen), but the principle should hold for hydrogen as well. Take a pressure-safe vessel and put it in the creek. Take a paddle wheel and put it in the creek. Use the wheel to compress your gas-state hydrogen into the pressure vessel. This heats the hydrogen, but the heat is lost into the running water. When the vessel is full of high-pressure room temperature hydrogen, bleed the hydrogen out through a small valve. Hydrogen expands, cooling as it does. Liquid hydrogen then drips from your valve, with extensive loss to the air.
Pretty crappy, eh? But for liquid air, the loss doesn't matter much, and all you had to do was go down to the creek.
Feel free to tell me why this won't work, if anybody knows a reason.
Unfortunately, this method produces gas-state hydrogen. The liquifying process requires energy also. I know a slick way to do this with water power, but it's not very efficient...
wow, I got a thoughtful and useful response from /. !! thanks, man, you have improved my day.
You are trolling, but I'm hooked. The 'zero-sum-ness' of a game is not determined by consensus, sharing, or community. The positive-sum-ness of capitalist thinking might be related by the idea that if I have two blenders, and you have two icemakers, we can trade one blender for one icemaker, and now we can both make pina colada. Nobody lost. "Money" and "Markets" are simply tools that facilitate this exchange. The most efficient markets are those that are kept carefully isolated from manipulation by anyone. The conservative lassaiz-faire concept is the idea that government manipulation of markets is what prevents everyone from trading with near-perfect efficiency, keeping some people from making pina colada. I would go a bit further, and say that corporate and private interference in markets is just as bad for you and I. That is why insider trading needs to be restricted, among other things.
Wealth is not energy, and is easily created and destroyed. If I take fruit, flour, and other ingredients, and make a pie, I can sell that pie for more than the cost of my ingredients. The difference between what I paid for the ingredients and what I get for the finished pie is, roughly, the value of the time I spent making it. If you and I both make pies and sell them, but your pie is better and you sell it for more, where did that value come from? What if we make our pies, and nobody is hungry, so we can't sell them? Where did that value go?
You should learn sufficient economics to understand that there are trades that are advantageous to both sides. Nobody is ripping anybody off in these - it's just that value is relative.
And people who say things like this are trolls..
Damn, man, I've never felt that way about wealth. My boss is well-off, and that money is paying the salary of everyone I work with. That money is paying for my house, my car, and everything I buy. That money is paying the wages of the folks at the corner market, the farmers who grow the food, the barber who cuts my hair. Nobody is cutting anybody's throat for anything. Your rhetoric is unneccesarily harsh, and hides your point.
I've done it repeatedly. It's not nigh-impossible - it's just not like writing in C. You have to bring the same professional attitude toward it, though. Design well, profile before optimizing, refactor, test, test, test.
Which "useful language constructs" are missing? Even in VB 3, which lacked even rudimentary object orientation, we (less than 4 full-time-equivalent employees) managed to write a 90+ screen casino accounting package. Performance was excellent even on the 486-100s of the time. Modern VB is far, far better, and VB.NET better still.
I use other languages as needed. Perl is fine for anything that won't leave my own machine. Occasionally I'll find something I can do much much better in C than in VB - in which case I write a DLL and call it from VB.
I agree with your point that experience is critical. Please consider that language bigotry is the enemy of experience.
could you give the parent of this post a +1 funny?
Your arguments are so absurd as to not require detailed response, but for some of these I simply can't resist. See what you've made me do?
When, exactly, did Reagan lose? Not at all after 1980, in my timeline. Perhaps you mean the fall of the Soviet Union. If you think that was the last we've seen of Communism, friend, you are sadly mistaken. There's still Robert Mugabe in Rhodesia, Castro, the North Koreans, Western Europe, and Canada, not to mention Maoist Senators from California and New York.
Watch much rally? Wherever road conditions permit, larger wheels with lower-profile tires are used. Shorter sidewalls are a handling win. To maintain total diameter, the wheel size is increased.
And what car, exactly, is most commonly driven by the Sherpas up and over the Himalayas? I'm sure that if they are in common use yet, they have large, high-torque engines - very different from the little econoboxen used in Quebec and London.
Or perhaps I routinely drive longer distances than Europeans, or even Americans of the Eastern persuasion.
Or perhaps I have a wife worth snuggling.
Low production, high priced toys for would-be Andrettis, every one. In zero-population-growth countries where nobody has any kids, perhaps two-seat coupes are acceptable. In my country, however, life is good enough that we would like to perpetuate the species, hence the need for four doors and ample seating.
Enough. The moderators have spoken. I am funnier than you are, sir. Good day, and if I see you on the street I shall kick you.
Indeed, as Sho Funaki might say. It is necessary to drive SUVs with proper respect for their center of gravity. It's like the Corvair - it handled beautifully, but it didn't have the understeer common to front-engined cars of the time, so people who didn't have a good feel for what their car will do when driven hard found themselves swapping ends and rolling. That's not at all the car's fault, though.
Also, I take your point regarding misuse of SUVs (not ever getting them muddy). It bugs me to see the lady down the block drive all of 1/4 mile in her shiny black Explorer to pick up her kids at the bus stop. I walk down there for mine, and save the big iron for going way up in the hills. The right tool for the job, sort of thing.
Don't go to many car shows, do you?
SUVs are safer than smaller cars. You can drive them over bad / nonexistant roads more easily. They fill the role formerly taken by station wagons (or "estate" wagons, if you speak British), and can also be used for some country work. Some of the advantages of the pickup, and all of the advantages of a station wagon.
As for the gas shortage, I haven't been turned away at the pump yet. BP's market manipulation has had just as much to do with the price going up lately.
Let's see. Great American cars that could not possibly represent evidence of Genital Compensation or Stupidity. The Neon, Valiant, and Corvair (whatever that Commie Nader thinks) spring immediately to mind. Given more reasonable standards, this list would include dozens of full-size, V8 cars. They are more than reliable enough, easy to fix, and amply powerful.
The engineering on foreign cars is sometimes great, but very few of them have that engineering along with adequate size, performance, features, handling, and price. The larger Volvo, Mercedes, and BMW models come closest - but I can get most of those features in a $750 '83 Buick, and I can fix it myself.
So is this, comrade.
Remember that car that was so great, and came from some other country? Me neither.
Not just easy to say - it's easy to do. I make it clear from my first contact with a prospective employer that, barring crisis, I do not work more than 40 hours in a week. I also make it clear that I know how to work such that those crises do not arise often - and that it's not how many hours one works, but the results one achieves that matters.
The most productive programmer I ever met worked exactly 40 hours each week. He easily outcoded any other two people in the building. He showed up well-rested, took regular breaks, didn't socialize while in the building, and produced line after line of bug-free code. If you can work even half that well, you'll find all the work you can stand.
Nobody here feels like a slave. None of the MSFT people I've talked to feels like a slave - especially not those who have made millions there.
If you are forced to work a 60 hour week, you should go seek employment elsewhere. If you are oppressed by your manager, passed over for promotion, etc, move on. If you aren't happy, take your skills elsewhere. There are lots and lots of places that need competent people, will treat them right, and pay them well.
The end user gets applications written faster, that do more, install easier, and have fewer bugs. That's about it - the same benefits the end user gets with every big improvement in developer tools and back-end tech.
Of course there are PACs that simply represent the interests of an industry, which have an agenda of their own - but they have no votes to offer, just money. Grassroots activism counts for a lot more than money.
I think you're trolling, but I'll respond anyhow. SF can be superior at providing "life skills and insights", compared with "traditional" fiction, in much the same way that a metaphor can be better at conveying a message than an anecdote. Your children are missing out on a wealth of experience simply not available in non-speculative fiction. There's not a single sentance in all of Hal Clement or Robert Heinlein that could harm a child, and much that made me who I am today.
Two points:
Please post the CVS / shell script you speak of... and the hooks from DevStudio, also, as I can't figure out what you are speaking of.
The way to deal with Tip Inflation is to opt out of it. I tip 10%-20% at restaurants depending on service, and for service that was actively bad, I leave an insulting trifle.
I tip for every personal service that I receive. Cab rides, pizza deliveries, restaurant service, lap dances, and full-service fueling. Failure to do so would feel rude - unless my server was incompetent.