Better not let him near any pure mathematics then. Mathematciains have determined that there are, in fact non-measurable sets - that is, sets that you can't actually measure. Sure, they're also non-computable and highly pathological, but their existence can be proved.
His rule sounds like he thinks like a pure mathematician, though, stating something exists but not providing any method for actually finding such a method.
A lot of projects on SourceForge are like bands conceived by teenagers that never get past the 'designing the first album cover' stage.
SourceForge is a great tool with meaningful projects there, but you kind of have to take the info you get from looking at overall numbers there with a grain of salt.
Sometimes making a problem known helps; somebody with the brains/connections/money to solve the problem can step in and do something, whereas if the 'whiner' hadn't 'just complained', they wouldn't have known there was a problem to solve.
Actually I have sent emails to 419's saying, wrap it up please, I'm a busy man, and they are usually pretty defensive in the response: 'Are you stupid? Can I not make it any plainer...'
What I dislike about liveJournal is the general shallowness and that every other entry is a 'I took this Quiz, and I'm Mr. Orange from Reservoir Dogs' bit of idiocy.
I hadn't made it past that to the stuff you describe, which is even worse...
They aren't all overpaid, you're overgeneralizing.
There are a few local/community stations that have managed to get on the air somehow in the current Clear Channel environment. Draconian crap like this isn't going to help them.
Well, in the case of small, volunteer run radio stations, this is just one more cumbersome government requirement to comply with. Often these stations have a 'core' staff of a handful of highly dedicated, woefully underpaid paid staff who have plenty to do as it is.
Even setting aside questions of censorship and freedom of speech, the 'pain in the ass' factor here is enough to make this a bad idea. Small stations have a hard enough time getting and staying on the air as it is. Now they have to set up a system to ensure everything gets recorded, and take a dent out of their budget to pay for the equipment and media to make that happen? It's just a bad idea. The only possible change it will make is more stations getting knocked out of business by fines b/c some volunteer played a song not even realizing it had a dirty word on it, and the station had the recording to hang themselves with.
So much for Government statistics is right. These are the same people who keep saying: remember when we said we created 100,000 jobs last month? Actually it was 16,000. And the month before, when we said 200,000 new jobs? Actually it was 300,000.
They revise their already dubious numbers so often, and by so much, they need to outsource those jobs to a dartboard in Indonesia.
Actually I think there may be a whole thriving subcategory of quackery revolving around how shoes are responsible for all our health woes, from obesity to the nightmare of psoriasis. Somebody attempted to post a story along those lines on kuro5hin not too long ago, and unsurprisingly it got voted down.
Goofy indeed. I guess people look for answers to the big questions of life in all sorts of places you'd never expect.
Thanks for the info. The guy I mentioned is really old school. The rare times I heard it mentioned had to do with embedded systems, and once a robot was involved.
I'll have to tell him about OpenBIOS, but I bet he knows.
You win, that's way funnier than what I said. The whole assertion that somebody would give a shit about a low ID - that has been comedy gold on Slashdot since the 3-digit IDs.
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His rule sounds like he thinks like a pure mathematician, though, stating something exists but not providing any method for actually finding such a method.
SourceForge is a great tool with meaningful projects there, but you kind of have to take the info you get from looking at overall numbers there with a grain of salt.
Sometimes making a problem known helps; somebody with the brains/connections/money to solve the problem can step in and do something, whereas if the 'whiner' hadn't 'just complained', they wouldn't have known there was a problem to solve.
Maybe Al et al should have talked to Stevie's people and bypassed Coolio.
It sounds kind of cruel to me. I wonder how it affects the health of the plants. Maybe I'll read the article to find out.
No, Yes.
When they were called Pavement.
...ditto!
Actually I have sent emails to 419's saying, wrap it up please, I'm a busy man, and they are usually pretty defensive in the response: 'Are you stupid? Can I not make it any plainer...'
I hadn't made it past that to the stuff you describe, which is even worse...
That and you can usually find some project some where that does more or less what you were trying to do...
There are a few local/community stations that have managed to get on the air somehow in the current Clear Channel environment. Draconian crap like this isn't going to help them.
Even setting aside questions of censorship and freedom of speech, the 'pain in the ass' factor here is enough to make this a bad idea. Small stations have a hard enough time getting and staying on the air as it is. Now they have to set up a system to ensure everything gets recorded, and take a dent out of their budget to pay for the equipment and media to make that happen? It's just a bad idea. The only possible change it will make is more stations getting knocked out of business by fines b/c some volunteer played a song not even realizing it had a dirty word on it, and the station had the recording to hang themselves with.
And don't forget SimGasMask.
Yeah, that's a side effect of pair programming, picking up your partner's illnesses and vice versa.
They revise their already dubious numbers so often, and by so much, they need to outsource those jobs to a dartboard in Indonesia.
Well, as long as it's only them...
So you'd have 10 Senators, instead of just 2?
What would the 5 states be called, I wonder?
I don't know. I asked Bonzi Buddy, but he just keeps telling stupid jokes.
Goofy indeed. I guess people look for answers to the big questions of life in all sorts of places you'd never expect.
Wonder if he got a check from AHSI, too? How can I get on the gravy train myself?
Thanks for the info. The guy I mentioned is really old school. The rare times I heard it mentioned had to do with embedded systems, and once a robot was involved. I'll have to tell him about OpenBIOS, but I bet he knows.
Not giving you a hard time here. I have a friend who swears Forth is the greatest thing ever, but I rarely hear of people using it.
You win, that's way funnier than what I said. The whole assertion that somebody would give a shit about a low ID - that has been comedy gold on Slashdot since the 3-digit IDs.