Or maybe its because when asked by their children to take them to see a 3d film in the theaters most adults, the ones with the money, release a groan of apathy and annoyance?
I have a cell phone that will run a java web server that can serve an java server-side calculator application with arbitrary precision math library that will do almost as much as that calculator, color never being a question, which I could serve to anyone in the room with a wap browser. Graphing? Ha, not an issue. The same phone has a fine native-code multi-notation (including scientific) calculator. I have a calculator application on my pcs, two running linux and two running windows 7. I have two fine scientific ti calculators sitting in drawers somewhere around the house.
I probably won't be looking to make this purchase in this lifetime.
"Isn't that how it's supposed to work? If everybody had to do as he said, we'd call the position Dictator instead of President. The president has very limited power, which is a good thing."
That's fine, in the proper scope. For instance; suppose your philosophy towards governance were extended to the military. A completely democratically run military would be at best horribly ineffective in defending the country. The federal bureaucracy, if I understand, is in fact mandated directly under the auspices of the executive branch of the government. Of course the reality is that that power is moderated by layers of bureaucratic red tape, regulations, labor unions (such as the horrendous SEIU), etc. But in fact the president is supposed to be in direct control of certain aspects of governance. There is some power there, he's not exactly a straw man.
I liked the iPod as a music player but the lack of audio bluetooth was always a source of confusion and a deal breaker for me. I swore off wired headphones when bluetooth came out. Why didn't Apple include built-in audio bt? Then I figured out that consumer convenience took a back seat to the lucrative license fees third parties paid Apple to make add-ons for the platform including plug-in bluetooth modules. I`ve been able to get exactly what I want and give nothing to Apple.
Yep. Right over the ol' cranium. But on the non-irony side he makes a valid point. I thought the reason solid state was so great because no moving parts.
...should be able to see this for what it is; disallowing a particular licensing on music can't be a good thing for consumers no matter how the criminals paint it or how stupid consumers can be.
"I'm willing to bet that the fungus and the virus were in separate regions at one point."
Would have only prolonged the wait, not prevented the combination. Also- shipping the bees around would expose them to more variety of flowers, not less. Your hypothesis on that part seems incorrect to me.
"I'd also like to see more stringent pesticide regulations."
We already have some of the strongest pesticide regulations in the world. Its not clear to me how pesticides play a role in this scenario.In an unrelated pesticide story larger US cities are currently reporting much higher incidences of bedbug infestation, largely blamed on the banning of DDT in 1972.
"Dell didn't drop Ubuntu. You can still buy Dell computers preloaded with Ubuntu."
But would you want to? After several recent stories in the media about defective components and sub-standard (even for the industry) support, looking to fill reqs with Dell hardware would be a foolish endeavor.
"Unfortunately, it seems to be harder and harder to find non-wide-format monitors."
I don't see how this is an issue. Monitors appear to be getting wider, but not smaller height-wise. I'd have included a link but its not hard to google "computer monitors" and see a huge selection, many with dimensions, that show this.
Billing the man later simply wasn't an option? Some consequences. For $75? Sure, the guy should have paid, but the right thing would have been to put the fire out and send the guy a bill later. That's how its done with Ambulance services. Or does your county do things differently? Do the EMTs fish around a heart attack victim's pockets for loose change before loading him into the vehicle????
And ANOTHER THING; I first saw this story on MSNBC's web site, with Olbermann himself anchoring. The first phrase out of his stupid mouth was some crap about a world run by Republicans or something. THIS IS WHY I DON'T WATCH MSNBC. The stupid fucks.
Two words: Plausible deniability. Its built into TrueCrypt, and some of the other major file system encryption offerings. If they can't find it without an hours-long intrusive search, they're going to wave you on.
"The idea is novel, but the output is algorithmic with a bit of randomness thrown in."
Agreed, these are as creative as filling in blank spots in your data with the result of dice rolls. As a robotics project its fine, but it'd be the least efficient use of my loo time. I'd rather go use the wc, come back, and then watch the apparatus draw things.
"One little mistake in the script and you fuck up the whole organization."
But with a script its a one shot deal; the all systems screwed over the by the script and how they were screwed are recorded. And admins who don't test their scripts in a sandbox are destined to be unemployed admins. With GUI tools you are handed the opportunity to fuck up the installation a thousand twisty little ways, all different, and none of them recorded in any way.
"I think it's safe to assume that it's an aesthetically pleasing bit of random binary to symbolically carry the message that he's in with technology..."
"The US produces and consumes way too much meat anyway; you could drastically reduce meat production in the US with the only major effect being a healthier population."
Perhaps, but we still practice a free market, to the extent that the democratic party will let us, and place a value on free choice. A large portion of our populace still places value on freedom, some of us have a problem with people who tell us "You will do this." And you can shake your finger and be frustrated all you want, but for now, as long as there is a market for it, people are going to buy meat. I don't believe in taking away people's choices whether or not you believe its better for them. If I want to buy meat, I think I should be able to buy it.
Buying organic isn't going to help anyone now, the genie is out of the bottle. If organic farming had been practiced from the beginning, maybe; of course that would have come at the cost of the enormous yields we now enjoy, nay, need, to sustain the population. Livestock farmers used the antibiotics to produce higher yields, not necessarily make the livestock more disease resistant. Your only hope now is to totally cut yourself off from other people and stay out of hospitals and public places were the unwashed masses leave their grimy fingerprints and bodily fluids/wastes. Look for a massive, plague-proportioned epidemic to come along and level the playing field once again as nature always does, probably within the next 10 years. Dec. 2012, anyone?
I can see a great new UI paradigm that couples Surface with 2nd Life, maybe. Maybe Microsoft (finally) has a new trick up their sleeve. Or they are simply illustrating yet again how cutting edge they are ten years ago. I dunno...
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Or maybe its because when asked by their children to take them to see a 3d film in the theaters most adults, the ones with the money, release a groan of apathy and annoyance?
I have a cell phone that will run a java web server that can serve an java server-side calculator application with arbitrary precision math library that will do almost as much as that calculator, color never being a question, which I could serve to anyone in the room with a wap browser. Graphing? Ha, not an issue. The same phone has a fine native-code multi-notation (including scientific) calculator. I have a calculator application on my pcs, two running linux and two running windows 7. I have two fine scientific ti calculators sitting in drawers somewhere around the house.
I probably won't be looking to make this purchase in this lifetime.
"Isn't that how it's supposed to work? If everybody had to do as he said, we'd call the position Dictator instead of President. The president has very limited power, which is a good thing."
That's fine, in the proper scope. For instance; suppose your philosophy towards governance were extended to the military. A completely democratically run military would be at best horribly ineffective in defending the country. The federal bureaucracy, if I understand, is in fact mandated directly under the auspices of the executive branch of the government. Of course the reality is that that power is moderated by layers of bureaucratic red tape, regulations, labor unions (such as the horrendous SEIU), etc. But in fact the president is supposed to be in direct control of certain aspects of governance. There is some power there, he's not exactly a straw man.
...wellllll, I feel safe.
I liked the iPod as a music player but the lack of audio bluetooth was always a source of confusion and a deal breaker for me. I swore off wired headphones when bluetooth came out. Why didn't Apple include built-in audio bt? Then I figured out that consumer convenience took a back seat to the lucrative license fees third parties paid Apple to make add-ons for the platform including plug-in bluetooth modules. I`ve been able to get exactly what I want and give nothing to Apple.
"You say that after eight years of Bush executive expansions and abuses..."
You knuckleheads on th left will continue to beat the Bush horse long after Obama's given all our money to the Chinese, huh?
Yep. Right over the ol' cranium. But on the non-irony side he makes a valid point. I thought the reason solid state was so great because no moving parts.
...should be able to see this for what it is; disallowing a particular licensing on music can't be a good thing for consumers no matter how the criminals paint it or how stupid consumers can be.
"I'm willing to bet that the fungus and the virus were in separate regions at one point."
Would have only prolonged the wait, not prevented the combination. Also- shipping the bees around would expose them to more variety of flowers, not less. Your hypothesis on that part seems incorrect to me.
"I'd also like to see more stringent pesticide regulations."
We already have some of the strongest pesticide regulations in the world. Its not clear to me how pesticides play a role in this scenario.In an unrelated pesticide story larger US cities are currently reporting much higher incidences of bedbug infestation, largely blamed on the banning of DDT in 1972.
"I have a simpler pc health idea, stop installing the disease that is windows."
Seconded.
"Dell didn't drop Ubuntu. You can still buy Dell computers preloaded with Ubuntu."
But would you want to? After several recent stories in the media about defective components and sub-standard (even for the industry) support, looking to fill reqs with Dell hardware would be a foolish endeavor.
"Unfortunately, it seems to be harder and harder to find non-wide-format monitors."
I don't see how this is an issue. Monitors appear to be getting wider, but not smaller height-wise. I'd have included a link but its not hard to google "computer monitors" and see a huge selection, many with dimensions, that show this.
Billing the man later simply wasn't an option? Some consequences. For $75? Sure, the guy should have paid, but the right thing would have been to put the fire out and send the guy a bill later. That's how its done with Ambulance services. Or does your county do things differently? Do the EMTs fish around a heart attack victim's pockets for loose change before loading him into the vehicle????
And ANOTHER THING; I first saw this story on MSNBC's web site, with Olbermann himself anchoring. The first phrase out of his stupid mouth was some crap about a world run by Republicans or something. THIS IS WHY I DON'T WATCH MSNBC. The stupid fucks.
Two words: Plausible deniability. Its built into TrueCrypt, and some of the other major file system encryption offerings. If they can't find it without an hours-long intrusive search, they're going to wave you on.
"The idea is novel, but the output is algorithmic with a bit of randomness thrown in."
Agreed, these are as creative as filling in blank spots in your data with the result of dice rolls. As a robotics project its fine, but it'd be the least efficient use of my loo time. I'd rather go use the wc, come back, and then watch the apparatus draw things.
"One little mistake in the script and you fuck up the whole organization."
But with a script its a one shot deal; the all systems screwed over the by the script and how they were screwed are recorded. And admins who don't test their scripts in a sandbox are destined to be unemployed admins. With GUI tools you are handed the opportunity to fuck up the installation a thousand twisty little ways, all different, and none of them recorded in any way.
Sounds like a lost opportunity for extreme cleverness to me.
"I think it's safe to assume that it's an aesthetically pleasing bit of random binary to symbolically carry the message that he's in with technology..."
Then why make it palindromic?
"The EU eliminated antibiotics from animal feeds and they aren't starving."
Oh, by the way, how much food is imported from the US to Europe?
"The US produces and consumes way too much meat anyway; you could drastically reduce meat production in the US with the only major effect being a healthier population."
Perhaps, but we still practice a free market, to the extent that the democratic party will let us, and place a value on free choice. A large portion of our populace still places value on freedom, some of us have a problem with people who tell us "You will do this." And you can shake your finger and be frustrated all you want, but for now, as long as there is a market for it, people are going to buy meat. I don't believe in taking away people's choices whether or not you believe its better for them. If I want to buy meat, I think I should be able to buy it.
Buying organic isn't going to help anyone now, the genie is out of the bottle. If organic farming had been practiced from the beginning, maybe; of course that would have come at the cost of the enormous yields we now enjoy, nay, need, to sustain the population. Livestock farmers used the antibiotics to produce higher yields, not necessarily make the livestock more disease resistant. Your only hope now is to totally cut yourself off from other people and stay out of hospitals and public places were the unwashed masses leave their grimy fingerprints and bodily fluids/wastes. Look for a massive, plague-proportioned epidemic to come along and level the playing field once again as nature always does, probably within the next 10 years. Dec. 2012, anyone?
AVERAGE volume, please, AVERAGE.
I can see a great new UI paradigm that couples Surface with 2nd Life, maybe. Maybe Microsoft (finally) has a new trick up their sleeve. Or they are simply illustrating yet again how cutting edge they are ten years ago. I dunno...
"Hawking a smart guy, but he by no means knows everything."
And surely all wisdom is contained within one of the dizzying array of Star Trek Universe scripts.
Oh yeah, I live my life based on what's happening with the buran. Miscreant.