I can tell in two seconds if it's an ad I've already seen, and in that case, forcing me to watch it again is just annoying me and wasting your bandwidth.
After all, if people aren't going to follow the rules anyway, what makes them think banning PDFs will prevent government agencies from using PDFs? If the rules will actually be enforced, why not simply add a rule that the PDF in question be accessible?
Then how do I get the IP for Slashdot in the first place?
And how would a static IPv6 address solve anything, anyway? The same organization that's ultimately responsible for DNS is also ultimately responsible for assigning IP addresses.
The other point, and one that is commonly lost, is that fragile stickers imply self-importance. The shipper assumes their package is more important than any other package in the system.
Not "more important", but more fragile than most. I doubt anyone puts "fragile" on something just because they feel important, and I doubt anyone assumes there are no other "fragile" packages.
To extend the common car analogy, it would be like taking your car in to the mechanic with strict guidelines on how he sits in the car, starts the car, turns the wheel, or any other commonplace operation he would need to perform.
More like, "The seats are imported leather/sheepskin/whatever, please be careful." Not detailed instructions on what to do and what not to do, just don't be a dick and get mud or grease on the seats.
I suppose your point is that they wouldn't be doing that anyway, so since they aren't needed, it's annoying to see them.
I get that. I do. People package stuff wrong -- under-packaged, over-packaged, or just stupidly packaged. If I want it to get there safely, I shouldn't count on "fragile", I should package properly.
What I don't get is why you'd warn against labeling that way, or why you'd treat a potentially-poorly-packaged "fragile" package worse than a normal one, other than bitterness.
Neither of which has anything to do with these guys treating stuff marked "Fragile" even worse, to the point where the OP would actually warn against using "Fragile".
Are you saying they don't have time to give a shit, but they do have time to be deliberately rougher with fragile stuff than with non-fragile stuff?
I don't watch the six o'clock news much. When I do watch any sort of news, I do see news of events happening outside the US -- and what I don't see is "Americans" or "US Citizens" every other sentence just to make sure I know we're important.
I mean, I can pick up US News and World Report, which is going to be news from all over from a decidedly American perspective, and it's still not likely to happen.
I don't even see this kind of stuff on Fox News, let alone legitimate news sources. In fact, about the only place I do see it is from the kind of people who watch Fox News, insisting that this is the greatest country on earth, not because they have any coherent argument, but because they place nationalism into roughly the same mental category as religion -- God and country -- without a rational basis for either.
I certainly don't have a problem with Canada, nor would I ask for an article to avoid mentioning Canada, but even if I were a Canadian, I'd probably find this a bit ridiculous.
And I get so sick and tired of people defending companies for doing things of questionable ethics, or which are downright unethical, because "They're a business, they have to make money!"
I'd like very much to have sex. In fact, I could even make a case that as an organism, I don't exist for philanthropic reasons, I exist to procreate. If people don't procreate, they can't exist.
That doesn't justify rape. Is criticizing rapists a sign that you don't understand basic evolution?
"Striking" evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians...
"People have been searching for evidence of this for decades," Canadian physicist Richard Teuscher said Friday...
The results of the experiment... were accepted Friday morning for publication in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, less than 24 hours after it was submitted, said Teuscher, a research scientist at the Canadian Institute for Particle Physics and a physics professor at the University of Toronto....
Peter Krieger, an associate professor of physics at the University of Toronto, said a detected called the forward calorimeter built in Canada...
Plus a nice little sidebar called "Canadian content," which says:
Canadians make up more than 150 of the researchers involved in ATLAS. They have mainly been involved with designing, building, and operating detectors called liquid argon calorimeters...
Basically, what I got from reading TFA is that man, Canada has a serious ego problem. And yes, it's a groundbreaking discovery, but damn that's distracting.
And if the article wanted to make the point that the Canadians are the ones who are "committed" and "actually doing any work", it could've said so, though I doubt they can back it up.
Without that, I still don't see the point of saying "including Canadians" unless Canada has a serious ego problem.
It's worse in TFA, actually. I don't know about other countries, but in the American and British stuff I read, you just don't see this kind of bullshit. Seriously, four separate mentions of Canada in that tiny article, plus a sidebar about what Canada has been working on.
I mean, really? Does Canada really have that small an ego? When was the last time an American publication had to remind us that they were talking to Americans who work on the LHC, that Americans helped build it, etc?
I suppose it's the same people, but the word is trademark. And proper nouns are what trademarks are for -- the word you're looking for is "common noun."
Last big announcement about an AMD code drop, there was still something missing, though I don't remember what. Features, performance, whatever, there was still something not there that was either present in proprietary AMD drivers or nVidia drivers.
Are we past that yet? Is it finally time to dump nVidia for AMD?
Instead they believe that most of what they are learning is fluff, and that the grade itself is far more important than the knowledge. Whether they are right or not is a different issue,
But it's a relevant one, especially to the question of whether the professor is to blame for the cheating.
The person to call if I'm locked out of the building?
Yes, there are some numbers that I'd remember. There are several times as many that I use occasionally, but still often enough for this to be annoying.
Both of those fit the "elderly people" or "technophobe" description. Both of them more than convince me that it's not really sane to want a paper address book if you can lean to use an electronic one.
Son, back in the day, people used this thing called ``memory,'' which was in their heads. They would ``recall'' the number of the party they wanted to call.
I still remember a good number of, well, numbers. I know I still remember my parent's home phone number, and their old cell phone numbers, and the old area code we used to have...
Here's the thing:
I have seventy or eighty numbers in this phone now.
Mother, father, brother. Roommate, then actual friends. Grandparents, aunts, cousins. Classmates from a group project. ISP. The IRS. About ten or fifteen numbers of various departments and things within my university. A few numbers of people from past jobs, including the office numbers from when people had those. Local emergency contacts, including who to call if I'm locked out of my room.
It's certainly possible for a human to memorize that many numbers. I also still remember a number of IP addresses that have been useful from time to time, though most of those are on private networks and were deliberately picked out to be memorizable.
It's just an incredible waste of time and mental resources. If I have to memorize something, maybe it should be something useful, like physics formulas or integrals. There's actually no way around memorizing at least a few of these -- in physics, if you don't know E=K+U or delta K = delta U, you probably don't really understand conservation of energy, and you'll very likely have trouble applying it. And in calculus, integrating is mostly a matter of seeing patterns, which means you actually have to know the patterns.
If you get caught cheating in his class, he immediately fails you, reports you to Academic Honesty, and does everything in his power to make sure you do NOT work in Computer Science.
By contrast, in the "comp sci for non comp sci majors" (how to use MS Office) in which the professor refuses to fail anyone. Catch the same ring of cheaters several times in a row, they just get 60% on each of the assignments they cheated on.
You're seriously trying to blame the professor for cheating? Seems to me that if it's "massive amount of materials," that's all the more motivation for you to actually learn the material.
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I can tell in two seconds if it's an ad I've already seen, and in that case, forcing me to watch it again is just annoying me and wasting your bandwidth.
Which is not at all a reason to not allow PDFs.
After all, if people aren't going to follow the rules anyway, what makes them think banning PDFs will prevent government agencies from using PDFs? If the rules will actually be enforced, why not simply add a rule that the PDF in question be accessible?
No, that would be analogous to allowing PDF, but requiring the text portions actually be text.
And that would actually be reasonable.
According to TFA, one claims she told him to stop when the condom broke.
Then how do I get the IP for Slashdot in the first place?
And how would a static IPv6 address solve anything, anyway? The same organization that's ultimately responsible for DNS is also ultimately responsible for assigning IP addresses.
The problem is coming up with a better solution.
Indeed.
And I really can't think of a better solution which lets me type slashdot.org and have a reasonable expectation of actually getting to slashdot.
Not an excuse, just insight.
That's exactly what I'm looking for.
The other point, and one that is commonly lost, is that fragile stickers imply self-importance. The shipper assumes their package is more important than any other package in the system.
Not "more important", but more fragile than most. I doubt anyone puts "fragile" on something just because they feel important, and I doubt anyone assumes there are no other "fragile" packages.
To extend the common car analogy, it would be like taking your car in to the mechanic with strict guidelines on how he sits in the car, starts the car, turns the wheel, or any other commonplace operation he would need to perform.
More like, "The seats are imported leather/sheepskin/whatever, please be careful." Not detailed instructions on what to do and what not to do, just don't be a dick and get mud or grease on the seats.
I suppose your point is that they wouldn't be doing that anyway, so since they aren't needed, it's annoying to see them.
Know your IP address like you know your phone number.
You mean like how I don't know it at all? That's what address books are for, and DNS is a gigantic global address book.
I get that. I do. People package stuff wrong -- under-packaged, over-packaged, or just stupidly packaged. If I want it to get there safely, I shouldn't count on "fragile", I should package properly.
What I don't get is why you'd warn against labeling that way, or why you'd treat a potentially-poorly-packaged "fragile" package worse than a normal one, other than bitterness.
Neither of which has anything to do with these guys treating stuff marked "Fragile" even worse, to the point where the OP would actually warn against using "Fragile".
Are you saying they don't have time to give a shit, but they do have time to be deliberately rougher with fragile stuff than with non-fragile stuff?
Are people who work in such places just spiteful?
I don't watch the six o'clock news much. When I do watch any sort of news, I do see news of events happening outside the US -- and what I don't see is "Americans" or "US Citizens" every other sentence just to make sure I know we're important.
I mean, I can pick up US News and World Report, which is going to be news from all over from a decidedly American perspective, and it's still not likely to happen.
I don't even see this kind of stuff on Fox News, let alone legitimate news sources. In fact, about the only place I do see it is from the kind of people who watch Fox News, insisting that this is the greatest country on earth, not because they have any coherent argument, but because they place nationalism into roughly the same mental category as religion -- God and country -- without a rational basis for either.
I certainly don't have a problem with Canada, nor would I ask for an article to avoid mentioning Canada, but even if I were a Canadian, I'd probably find this a bit ridiculous.
And I get so sick and tired of people defending companies for doing things of questionable ethics, or which are downright unethical, because "They're a business, they have to make money!"
I'd like very much to have sex. In fact, I could even make a case that as an organism, I don't exist for philanthropic reasons, I exist to procreate. If people don't procreate, they can't exist.
That doesn't justify rape. Is criticizing rapists a sign that you don't understand basic evolution?
I did read TFA. It didn't really help...
"Striking" evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians...
"People have been searching for evidence of this for decades," Canadian physicist Richard Teuscher said Friday...
The results of the experiment... were accepted Friday morning for publication in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, less than 24 hours after it was submitted, said Teuscher, a research scientist at the Canadian Institute for Particle Physics and a physics professor at the University of Toronto....
Peter Krieger, an associate professor of physics at the University of Toronto, said a detected called the forward calorimeter built in Canada...
Plus a nice little sidebar called "Canadian content," which says:
Canadians make up more than 150 of the researchers involved in ATLAS. They have mainly been involved with designing, building, and operating detectors called liquid argon calorimeters...
Basically, what I got from reading TFA is that man, Canada has a serious ego problem. And yes, it's a groundbreaking discovery, but damn that's distracting.
And if the article wanted to make the point that the Canadians are the ones who are "committed" and "actually doing any work", it could've said so, though I doubt they can back it up.
Without that, I still don't see the point of saying "including Canadians" unless Canada has a serious ego problem.
It's worse in TFA, actually. I don't know about other countries, but in the American and British stuff I read, you just don't see this kind of bullshit. Seriously, four separate mentions of Canada in that tiny article, plus a sidebar about what Canada has been working on.
I mean, really? Does Canada really have that small an ego? When was the last time an American publication had to remind us that they were talking to Americans who work on the LHC, that Americans helped build it, etc?
I suppose it's the same people, but the word is trademark. And proper nouns are what trademarks are for -- the word you're looking for is "common noun."
Even here, there are better deals. I'm in a small town in Iowa where $70/mo gets you 100 mbit up and down.
Last big announcement about an AMD code drop, there was still something missing, though I don't remember what. Features, performance, whatever, there was still something not there that was either present in proprietary AMD drivers or nVidia drivers.
Are we past that yet? Is it finally time to dump nVidia for AMD?
Instead they believe that most of what they are learning is fluff, and that the grade itself is far more important than the knowledge. Whether they are right or not is a different issue,
But it's a relevant one, especially to the question of whether the professor is to blame for the cheating.
Which one?
My university's financial aid office?
The IRS?
My grandmother's number?
Old high school friends?
The person to call if I'm locked out of the building?
Yes, there are some numbers that I'd remember. There are several times as many that I use occasionally, but still often enough for this to be annoying.
Yeah...
Both of those fit the "elderly people" or "technophobe" description. Both of them more than convince me that it's not really sane to want a paper address book if you can lean to use an electronic one.
Son, back in the day, people used this thing called ``memory,'' which was in their heads. They would ``recall'' the number of the party they wanted to call.
I still remember a good number of, well, numbers. I know I still remember my parent's home phone number, and their old cell phone numbers, and the old area code we used to have...
Here's the thing:
I have seventy or eighty numbers in this phone now.
Mother, father, brother. Roommate, then actual friends. Grandparents, aunts, cousins. Classmates from a group project. ISP. The IRS. About ten or fifteen numbers of various departments and things within my university. A few numbers of people from past jobs, including the office numbers from when people had those. Local emergency contacts, including who to call if I'm locked out of my room.
It's certainly possible for a human to memorize that many numbers. I also still remember a number of IP addresses that have been useful from time to time, though most of those are on private networks and were deliberately picked out to be memorizable.
It's just an incredible waste of time and mental resources. If I have to memorize something, maybe it should be something useful, like physics formulas or integrals. There's actually no way around memorizing at least a few of these -- in physics, if you don't know E=K+U or delta K = delta U, you probably don't really understand conservation of energy, and you'll very likely have trouble applying it. And in calculus, integrating is mostly a matter of seeing patterns, which means you actually have to know the patterns.
If you get caught cheating in his class, he immediately fails you, reports you to Academic Honesty, and does everything in his power to make sure you do NOT work in Computer Science.
By contrast, in the "comp sci for non comp sci majors" (how to use MS Office) in which the professor refuses to fail anyone. Catch the same ring of cheaters several times in a row, they just get 60% on each of the assignments they cheated on.
Wait...
You're seriously trying to blame the professor for cheating? Seems to me that if it's "massive amount of materials," that's all the more motivation for you to actually learn the material.