You would need google, so I'll just tell you. Early in my career, I worked for Casino Software Corporation of America, which had a contract with Great Canadian Casinos (GCC). GCC had this rather odd licensing scheme from local British Columbia government: the license wasn't granted to the company, but to local charities for no more than 48 hours, and charity volunteers had to do certain jobs in the Casino, such as the count room. When I did my month of on site tech support in Vancouver, they would quite often be local PTAs and individual classroom teachers, trying to make up for the money that the taxpayers were NOT providing the schools. Was a bit of a gamble though- one good jackpot could wipe out the entire night's earnings. They never lost money on the deal, but many of them would have to reapply for a new license.
Sorry to be obtuse. I was just expressing my impression that most public school teachers, especially in Cascadia where libertarian attitudes about taxes abound, can't afford enterprise grade kit. Thus, an enterprise grade switch is not an affordable solution to this problem.
Why would you presume that a schoolteacher has either access to or budget for enterprise grade kit? Let alone a public school teacher in Vancouver where they have to have a casino night with GCC just to fund field trips?
I voted for Dennis Kucinich in the democratic primary against Obama, and then switched parties to vote for Rick Santorum against Mitt Romney. In both general elections, I switched again to vote Constitution Party against the front runners.
If I was in Oklahoma, Rebecca Hamilton would be my heroine. She's a pro-life Democrat, very strong in her faith. She keeps the Republicans busy voting down pro-life, pro-personhood bills that she supports in the State Legislature.
Sounds to me like as good a reason as any to abandon the metric system- the increase in complexity will create jobs in a world where labor is in surplus.
I'm with you on that. No limitations. I'm a data guy, and I don't see why we shouldn't have a federal civil unions law, that allows registration of full households online without any other human intervention, with self defined term limits and no limits on number, gender, species, or genus of participants. What do I care if somebody wants to invent a religion where they can marry a building? Or if a commune of 47 people, 5 dogs, and 2 cats want to have a registered civil union household under tax law?
It does not need a law as much as a process, you are correct- and also, I don't think it needs active enforcement. Make it drop dead easy to run the check at the same time you do payment processing, and with similar information (name and zip code) for the lookup. The dealer doesn't even need to put his life in danger "Sorry, your form of payment was rejected" is good enough.
Oh, sure, cash would still likely be under the table, but like I said, you ain't gonna stop a determined criminal no matter what you do. At the very least, this would be a red flag for the honest dealers.
I think you would find a fair number of conservatives who have no problem with civil union, and who wonder why civil unions are not sufficient to meet the complaints of legal inequities gay couples experience.
I resemble that remark, but support civil unions for heterosexuals as well. The thing that used to be civil marriage bears no resemblance to traditional sacramental pre-Henry VIII marriage anyway, so why pretend that it does? And banding together households for tax purposes makes a lot of sense, be the household monogamous, polygamous, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, incestous, or even pseudosexual (though this business of marrying buildings to keep them from being torn down is somewhat suspect).
But nobody seems to be for the one change in the law that would make a difference: A nationwide instant background check database that includes not only law enforcement but also mental health records, released through a web service API that only gives "ok" and "denied" feedback with no detail.
Package it with a Paypal or Square credit card reader for use at gun shows, and you will have taken care of 50% of the worst gun violence with one fell swoop.
The other 50% depends on stolen weapons for input and there is NO law that can fix that.
If you're pro-life, or a homophobe, tax-cuts-for-the-rich,
One of these things is not like the others.
pro-choice and pro marriage equality, and want a progressive tax system
One of these things is not the same.
What bugs me the most about being a Catholic American (as opposed to the far more common American Catholic who is willing to vote for whomever in their cafeteria-religion mind is the lesser of two evils) is that the American two party system simply doesn't line up with my values. Give me a politician who is pro-life, pro-heterosexual, who will give us a separation of Church and State on marriage (civil unions for EVERYBODY, based on the non-moral morality of consent, then if you want a Church wedding, you do that separately) and who will use regulation, taxes, welfare, unions and even protectionist tariffs to protect the poor and working class, and that's my man.
You can't find that man *at all* in the current Republican or Democratic parties at the federal level, and he's mighty rare at even the state, city, county, and school board levels.
I agree with all of that except the last part. My wife's G1 and my G2 both had microSD slots. OTOH, when I upgraded, she went with a Mytouch, and I went with a Samsung- both of which have microSD slots.
On the Samsung, you can even change the SD card without removing the battery- which was somthing that *really* bothered me about the G2 (the G1 was even strange- had to open the keyboard to access the SD slot).
It is now "SciScanner" and the interface vaguely resembles LCARS, but isn't. It also has had much of its original functionality removed, unfortunately.
It is called caching, and is already possible. My phone has all the KNOWN DATA that I want, in less than 16GB (well, almost- it is time for a new SD card)
LCARS any version will never be open sourced because Paramount/CBS will never release their rights to the design.
Now the original 23rd century design, which was all voice interface and blinky lights, would be neat, but pretty damn hard to implement until we can get a computer to "recognize speech" instead of "wreck a nice beach".
Better yet- nothing teaches programming as well as debugging somebody else's code. Make a deal with your local community college- hire minimum wage work-study students to deal with 1st and 2nd tier tech support. Then, true bugs- which are usually enhancements not originally spec'd or differences in opinion on how to interpret the specification in my experience- can be billed as new sub projects to the original developer.
Exactly. I'm on the west coast- the Pacific Coast Starlight goes over 1500 miles with NO wifi access at all. And I can drive to Seattle faster in a Prius than on either the PCS or the Cascades.
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I'm on the West Coast, you insenstive clod. The rolling stock of the Pacific Coast Starlight hasn't been upgraded in over 30 years.
This isn't for Developers to receive funds. This is for developers to make products they sell through the market to retailers in farmer's markets, who sell goods to take funds through paypal.
Hmmm....An idea. Tie this SDK to an SDK for instant background checks, and make an app that allows dealers at gun shows to become compliant with firearms background check laws.....
480 comments, and nobody mentioned the Calapuya of the Pacific Northwest, who used to use field burning to get their top delicacy- roasted grasshopper.
Boredom proves that human brains are not deterministic. If they were deterministic, any human being would be able to stay on task indefinitely without rest.
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" destroying the stuff that tasted bad or made people sick"
And still failed due to the advent of gluten allergies....
Not to mention the history Oregon has with other genetic engineering companies releasing invasive species into the wild.
You would need google, so I'll just tell you. Early in my career, I worked for Casino Software Corporation of America, which had a contract with Great Canadian Casinos (GCC). GCC had this rather odd licensing scheme from local British Columbia government: the license wasn't granted to the company, but to local charities for no more than 48 hours, and charity volunteers had to do certain jobs in the Casino, such as the count room. When I did my month of on site tech support in Vancouver, they would quite often be local PTAs and individual classroom teachers, trying to make up for the money that the taxpayers were NOT providing the schools. Was a bit of a gamble though- one good jackpot could wipe out the entire night's earnings. They never lost money on the deal, but many of them would have to reapply for a new license.
Sorry to be obtuse. I was just expressing my impression that most public school teachers, especially in Cascadia where libertarian attitudes about taxes abound, can't afford enterprise grade kit. Thus, an enterprise grade switch is not an affordable solution to this problem.
Why would you presume that a schoolteacher has either access to or budget for enterprise grade kit? Let alone a public school teacher in Vancouver where they have to have a casino night with GCC just to fund field trips?
Why not, when liberals in Oregon and Washington euthanize their old people, would PETA *not* be for preventing suffering in animals?
I voted for Dennis Kucinich in the democratic primary against Obama, and then switched parties to vote for Rick Santorum against Mitt Romney. In both general elections, I switched again to vote Constitution Party against the front runners.
If I was in Oklahoma, Rebecca Hamilton would be my heroine. She's a pro-life Democrat, very strong in her faith. She keeps the Republicans busy voting down pro-life, pro-personhood bills that she supports in the State Legislature.
Sounds to me like as good a reason as any to abandon the metric system- the increase in complexity will create jobs in a world where labor is in surplus.
I'm with you on that. No limitations. I'm a data guy, and I don't see why we shouldn't have a federal civil unions law, that allows registration of full households online without any other human intervention, with self defined term limits and no limits on number, gender, species, or genus of participants. What do I care if somebody wants to invent a religion where they can marry a building? Or if a commune of 47 people, 5 dogs, and 2 cats want to have a registered civil union household under tax law?
I could have sworn everybody laughed at me when I predicted this oh, 15 years ago.
It does not need a law as much as a process, you are correct- and also, I don't think it needs active enforcement. Make it drop dead easy to run the check at the same time you do payment processing, and with similar information (name and zip code) for the lookup. The dealer doesn't even need to put his life in danger "Sorry, your form of payment was rejected" is good enough.
Oh, sure, cash would still likely be under the table, but like I said, you ain't gonna stop a determined criminal no matter what you do. At the very least, this would be a red flag for the honest dealers.
I think you would find a fair number of conservatives who have no problem with civil union, and who wonder why civil unions are not sufficient to meet the complaints of legal inequities gay couples experience.
I resemble that remark, but support civil unions for heterosexuals as well. The thing that used to be civil marriage bears no resemblance to traditional sacramental pre-Henry VIII marriage anyway, so why pretend that it does? And banding together households for tax purposes makes a lot of sense, be the household monogamous, polygamous, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, incestous, or even pseudosexual (though this business of marrying buildings to keep them from being torn down is somewhat suspect).
But nobody seems to be for the one change in the law that would make a difference: A nationwide instant background check database that includes not only law enforcement but also mental health records, released through a web service API that only gives "ok" and "denied" feedback with no detail.
Package it with a Paypal or Square credit card reader for use at gun shows, and you will have taken care of 50% of the worst gun violence with one fell swoop.
The other 50% depends on stolen weapons for input and there is NO law that can fix that.
If you're pro-life, or a homophobe, tax-cuts-for-the-rich,
One of these things is not like the others.
pro-choice and pro marriage equality, and want a progressive tax system
One of these things is not the same.
What bugs me the most about being a Catholic American (as opposed to the far more common American Catholic who is willing to vote for whomever in their cafeteria-religion mind is the lesser of two evils) is that the American two party system simply doesn't line up with my values. Give me a politician who is pro-life, pro-heterosexual, who will give us a separation of Church and State on marriage (civil unions for EVERYBODY, based on the non-moral morality of consent, then if you want a Church wedding, you do that separately) and who will use regulation, taxes, welfare, unions and even protectionist tariffs to protect the poor and working class, and that's my man.
You can't find that man *at all* in the current Republican or Democratic parties at the federal level, and he's mighty rare at even the state, city, county, and school board levels.
I agree with all of that except the last part. My wife's G1 and my G2 both had microSD slots. OTOH, when I upgraded, she went with a Mytouch, and I went with a Samsung- both of which have microSD slots.
On the Samsung, you can even change the SD card without removing the battery- which was somthing that *really* bothered me about the G2 (the G1 was even strange- had to open the keyboard to access the SD slot).
It is now "SciScanner" and the interface vaguely resembles LCARS, but isn't. It also has had much of its original functionality removed, unfortunately.
It is called caching, and is already possible. My phone has all the KNOWN DATA that I want, in less than 16GB (well, almost- it is time for a new SD card)
A truly competent programmer could do this in CP/M.
LCARS any version will never be open sourced because Paramount/CBS will never release their rights to the design.
Now the original 23rd century design, which was all voice interface and blinky lights, would be neat, but pretty damn hard to implement until we can get a computer to "recognize speech" instead of "wreck a nice beach".
Better yet- nothing teaches programming as well as debugging somebody else's code. Make a deal with your local community college- hire minimum wage work-study students to deal with 1st and 2nd tier tech support. Then, true bugs- which are usually enhancements not originally spec'd or differences in opinion on how to interpret the specification in my experience- can be billed as new sub projects to the original developer.
Exactly. I'm on the west coast- the Pacific Coast Starlight goes over 1500 miles with NO wifi access at all. And I can drive to Seattle faster in a Prius than on either the PCS or the Cascades.
I'm on the West Coast, you insenstive clod. The rolling stock of the Pacific Coast Starlight hasn't been upgraded in over 30 years.
This isn't for Developers to receive funds. This is for developers to make products they sell through the market to retailers in farmer's markets, who sell goods to take funds through paypal.
Hmmm....An idea. Tie this SDK to an SDK for instant background checks, and make an app that allows dealers at gun shows to become compliant with firearms background check laws.....
480 comments, and nobody mentioned the Calapuya of the Pacific Northwest, who used to use field burning to get their top delicacy- roasted grasshopper.
If the brain is deterministic, it should be resetting to start state every time you wake up.
And for simple tasks, should be able to go into an infinite loop quite nicely without *ever* getting bored.
So no, internal states do not make something deterministic or non-deterministic. The question is, can it do the same output with the same input?
Boredom proves that human brains are not deterministic. If they were deterministic, any human being would be able to stay on task indefinitely without rest.