...We would not even need the PATRIOT Act if we were willing to profile people on the basis of nationality. Allow me to explain.
The problem of terrorism is due to almost exclusively people who are not American citizens. Increasing surveillance and intruding on the privacy of foreigners is the right way to go and does not violation the Constitution. The Constitution is, after all, only for American citizens...
Normally I usually leave the trolls alone to the mods, but sometimes I see posts like this and it absolutely amazes me this dude could possibly be genuine about his POV. Checking his posting history, this troll is pretty good at spreading FUD. Karma be damned, people like this really need to start thinking.
You know, as fellow geeks, it is understood that we have (or try to maintain) a certain level of critical thinking in our discussion in order to facilitate growth - whether the factors be scientific, political, social or whatever. One of the touchy subjects we geeks (or people in general) have a tough time agreeing on is in our moral code as individuals and how to integrate our individual character into society.
As a son of an first generation immigrant, my immediate reaction to this post would have been to mod this down, as the parent post absolutely reeks of racial intolerance - and has all the earmarks of extremist belief. In fact, how is parent's stance any different from another point of view, such as, I daresay, Muslim extremists?
And look dude, I'm not trying to lay out parallels to portray Muslims in a bad light. I've known plenty of Muslims as friends and fellow colleagues. The difference between you and them, is that they are TOLERANT of my relgious stance, they are TOLERANT of my ethnic background, and are only intolerant if/when my ignorant actions infringe on their civil liberties and rights. And likewise, I to them.
Swifting deporting foreigners would eliminate the need to violate the civil rights of citizens in the war on terrorism.
We need to have the guts to treat citizens and non-citizens differently.
Oh this is just classic. So tell me genius, what constitutes a FOREIGNER? Someone not born of this country? Someone who looks different from YOU? Someone who can't speak english as well as you can? So how do you profile a foreigner? Do you determine within a few seconds whether that guy sitting next to you on the bus is a citizen or non-citizen? My parents were immigrants, but became citizens (and voted today) - where does that place them in your instant profiling? Or do they not really count as 'American' citizens?
And after what you just said, you are telling me that the PATRIOT ACT is a violation of civil rights and an invasion of privacy?
Depending on whose numbers you use, there are more Linux Desktops than Macs. Even the conservative numbers put Linux about equal with Macs.
Do you have a link to back up this statement? All the site I've googled up (aside from the fact that most of the figures were 2-3 years old) showed that the overall percentage of linux desktop usage was about 1/2 of mac desktop usage. And a lot of these figures were pre-osx.
OK let's back away from this 'Linux vs. OSX' thread before it's too late. Whoops, too late.
I'm not surprised to see that Rutgers isn't even listed in the rankings. That school always was cheap when it came to technology spending. Even now the liabraries still have computer running Pentium I processors. For shame...
I would say that's a little exaggerated. Most of the high end computer are in the computer labs, which on average have around 300-500 computers per lab. There are tons of smaller labs (holding 25-75 computers) all over the place as well. According to this the higher end PCs run at 2.4 Ghz, while the lower end is 1.8 Ghz. Not exactly cheap spending.
I don't know what libraries you were going to, but the last time I was at one (2 years ago), they all had G3s and P3's.
The higher end desktops are most likely located in the Digital Media Lab as they always have the largest funding (with the lab at the art school at a pretty close second) - probably littered with G5's, and if not, they will by the time next year rolls around. Rutgers burns through computers like crazy. During my college career there I saw the labs get refitted with brand spanking new computers 3 times.
The number of computers are generally split to 50% PCs, 25% macs (may be higher, I dunno), and 25% those little terminal computers that must CS students use.
What I'm suprised about is according to the chart, Rutgers New Brunswick is listed with 36,000 computers. That number's gotta be bloated. But then, Dartmouth has 12000 computers for it's 4000 students...
One nifty thing about the split screen is that it gives the DS a similar aspect to the old Nintendo dual-screen arcade games, like the original Punch-out!! and Playchoice 10. I wonder if that's where they got the idea?
Actaully the ds reminds me of these a lot. I remember owning one of these - they were fun.
I'm glad they are coming back, 2000 style. Perhaps I can have my children have the same kind of fun I used to.:-)
"Kiss of Death" causes "cervical cancer"? Nerds, that's just an excuse not to please your girlfriend
Nah, it's more like a cover up attempt to reason out why we don't have girlfriends. I mean... why we would rather not have girlfriends, not because we can't get girlfriends.. nope, not us! We have good legitimage reasons.
If Sony isn't worrying about it, then they definately have long term goals in mind. Besides, with that price point almost no parent is going to shell that kind of money for their 10 year old, and even the DS is somewhat getting close to the edge at $150. Everybody knows that the magic number is less than 3 digits. Perhaps sony is waiting untill manufacturing costs are low enough (in addition to all the other red tape issues, that is)?
I think the current targets sony is looking at is mostly the ipod demographic. Nice highend gear that people will not mind having. When the new revision comes out, last years model starts to trickle down to the lower end, affordable types. The trick is, if Sony is able to maintain momentum, then Nintendo is doomed forever.
Nintendo of course, will have to go with the blitz and take as much of Sony's thunder away from them before it strikes. Plus, Nintendo can also play the new revision model game as well and come out with an even cheaper DS, which will definately dominate. I'm curious how this will play out. I'm a huge nintendo fanboy (on a waitlist for the DS at a local store), but Sony's got as much of a chance as Nintendo, especially with the bankroll to back it up. We'll just have to see as it rolls out.
It does 0-70 in 3.8 seconds via linear induction motors.
Not to be a downer on rollercoasters, but man! acceleration like that just can't be good for you.
One of my friends got on a ride that did something similar, like 0-70 in 4 or something. The entire ride was about 10 seconds long (seriously). She doesn't remember any of it, because she BLACKED OUT due to the acceleration. Man was she pissed! Waiting in line for 3 1/2 hours just to ride something for 10 seconds AND HAVE NO MEMORY OF IT AT ALL.
Plus about 5 mins after the ride she said she had the worst headache.
What ever happened to big rolling hills and loops? Those are always good.
I've been to Six Flags New Jersey many, many times. Probably more then most people that live in New Jersey. And nobody called it "Great Adventure." Everyone calls it "Six Flags."
That's strange, because when I was at Rutgers (about an hour away from Jacksonville where the park is), everybody I know of called it nothing but Great Adventure. Plus it a number of students just called it GA (as in 'Gee Ay') for short and everybody knew what they were talking about.
Of course, every summer a number of students would buy a season pass and go everyday untill they were bored to tears of it.
It looks like GA is getting some new rides, which is good, especially since rides like Robin was kind of short (as in 10 seconds!! WTF). Too bad longer rides are not able to justify the price it costs to build for profit. *sigh*
It's been a number of years since I've been to GA, but I seem to recall they had a little paintball field nearby (which a number of us geeks also used to frequent), but that's getting offtopic.:-)
Not memory leaks as such, but "memory leaks" for all practical purposes. How? Well, if you forget to nullify references to objects you no longer use, the garbage collector obviously cannot reclaim that memory..
Hrm, if this is a problem that hurts performance then I would have to attribute it to either:
1: Poor preplanning/coding or
2: Not enough ram
I would have to side with the first choice. Besides, this kind of problem can be seen in almost every programming language, not just java.
I beleive Java 5 is Java 1.5. They've decided to go with the name change because of marketing reasons only, just like how Java 1.4 is marketed as Java2. Especially now that people would think that java 2 > java 1.5, who would waste their time downloading it? Of course, now that it's up to 'version' 5, it's new and shiny and bug free~
It's okay, even slackware does it (hence no slackware 4, or 5, or 6).:-)
I wonder if this is get something to do with tv considerations on what is and is not considered 'appropriate mainstream television.' I suppose the directors (or writers) can have a lot more creative control if they went over to cable television, but then the risk if the show hitting it big would be too scary for producers to think about.
Too bad. It looks like all the good star wars stories will be regulated to areas where there is less 'upper managment creative control,' like books and Knights of the Old Republic.
I'm gonna guess that most of the improvements are going to be over the picture and sound quality(the whole 5.1 sound thing, which VHS didn't carry too well - yeah yeah, laserdisk has the same).
Slightly offtopic, after we got a 5.1 stereo set for the living room TV, watching dvds haven't been the same since. Those two little speakers from the TV just don't cut it (watch Master and Commander on both and you'll hear the difference). I'm pretty sure this dvd set will have some great audio.
I used to work at a wine shop, and one of the new periodicals we used to receive was nutritional/chemical breakdown of about 100 or so different wines from all over the world. They had all different kinds of ratings, from what kinds had the most carbs (yes carbs), calories, and a whole slew of antioxidants with long Organic Chemistry-like words that I don't bother to remember. From that list, I've sorted a few things out (note, these are just based on rough estimates from the graphs, and off the top of my head from roughly 2 years ago):
White wines generally has fewer calories than red wines, but also has less antioxidant content than reds as well. The exception to the calorie count will be dessert wines, which have so much sugar in them it's pointless compare them to reds anyway. Also, not to put a damper toward white wine drinkers, but almost all 'light' whites are on the bottom of the list. These include Sauvignon Blanc and Rieslings (from almost any region, but veering towards colder regions like Alsace and Germany). Of the whites, the only wines that seem to rank well in antioxidant count(among other whites - none rank well against reds) are alcoholic, tannic chardonnays(from wood barrels) from very sunny regions, like Chile and Australia. I guess the sugar content helps there in the fermentation process.
Red wines with more tannins were generally ranked higher on the antioxidant list. I haven't really checked whether the tannin count is from the barrels they aged in, or the grape skin itself, but the highest ranking 'healthy' red wines listed were from chile and some parts of australia. But there were plenty from france and California as well.
Of the reds, small sized grape varietals seems to have more 'good stuff' in them; Most of the wines up on the list were Cabernet Sauvignon, some Cabernet Franc, and the occasional Shiraz/Syrah. Absent from the list (or I just don't remember seeing any) was primitivo/zinfandel, along with pinot noir. Most of the merlots were on the bottom of the list.
In terms of alcohol content, the 'healthiest' wines had the highest amount of alcohol in them, generally all above 14-15 percent. I'm guessing this is due to the length of time the wines are allowed to stay in the barrels(forgive my lack of winespeak, it's been a while). Also, very very few steel barrel wines ranked high in terms of antioxidant content and 'other stuff.'
I guess that's about it atm. If you want to drink healthy, make sure to aim for heavy, tannic wines made from the small grape varietals that have been aged in wood, which happens to have lots of calories, and lots of alcohol(disclaimer:there is no scientific basis on anything I've just said, this is all based off of my experience).:-) I haven't RTFA as of yet, but I'm curious of the types of beer high up on the list of 'goodness' reflect the wine criteria for 'goodness.' In particular the 'aged, high calorie, alcoholic' portion of it.
One thing about heavy tannic wines: in my experience I've gotten the worst hangovers from them. I'm guessing it's from the tannins themselves, as light reds and whites don't affect me nearly as much.
and not to be a downer on your post, but if I was looking to get a quick hit, my suggestion would be to aim straight for the vodka (not that I'm advocating that or anything). Vodka has some of the highest alcohol/dollar ratio making it super cheap, plus (if you buy good vodka) is has very little impurities so you don't have to worry too much about hangovers. And, it's pretty low on the calorie count compared to wine and beer. The problem with vodka is that because it's so clean, people have a hard time judging whether or not they have had enough.
I used to drink wine very heavily, so I've built quite a tolerance to alchohol. I don't drink as often as I used to, but every once in a while I enjoy having a beer or a glass of wine, and I notice that I get a nice little buzz, even with my heavy tolerance. Man, work must be more stressful than I thought.:-P
Not too sure if you already read it or not, but here's a quick passage:
The real ulterior motive of the quiz was to test the theory that people who are incompetent in a given field are also lousy at estimating their own competence. I wanted to see whether the respondents who gave the poorest answers to the estimation questions were also likely to give unreasonably narrow uncertainties.
It turns out that they don't. The uncertainties given tended to be more-or-less reasonable estimates of uncertainties.
I don't know, I took a quick scan and the estimate questions looked pretty random. The obvious reaction I got was: "People who know of the subject matter will estimate better depending on their grokness of said matter." Well, duh.
How about using some aerogel for robot footwear protection? Hrm, doing a google it appears that melted rock has a temperature of 1200 degrees C, which is the same as aerogel. Perhaps a combination of ceramic and aerogel?
Actaully, I can't say that for sure. My cousin has a powerbook and he hooks it up to the tv all the time, so I'm assuming the powerbook can do the same. Anyone can verify?
Hrm nevermind I seemed to have answered myself. At the applestore they have an AV cable for 19 dollars. Says the caption:
Need to display to a TV through your iBook's AV port? This cable will allow you to connect your iBook to a large screen television.
Disclaimer: I'm not much of a notebook guy, so I don't know whether or not this is a common feature in most notebooks nowadays. If so, my apologies.
or whatever is coming out in the future. I'm sure it will cost you a lot less then $300. In fact, you could get one for each kid, and still save money. Plus you don't have to worry too much when (and not if) your kid drops it.:-)
Actaully, I used to do just that. During the spring season, I would get a pretty bad case of hay fever, and it drove me nuts. I noticed that I would get some temporary releif when I had a cigarette. At times I would exhale out my nostrils, to 'burn out' any sense of smell that I would detect from my nose. Eventually I would keep on smoking just to keep the allergies away. It got so bad I would chain smoke untill I started registering pain.
Then I quit smoking 8 months ago (yeah - new years resolution, and a wager). The first thing I realized is that I didn't get any serious sneezing fits this past spring! Makes me wonder if I actaully got relief from nicotine than from the smoke itself, and that the smoke itself was the culprit of my hay fever. Or perhaps my nostrils just 'toughened up' while trying to recouperate from all the abuse I've put my nose and lungs through, since I'm no longer smoking.
In any case, I'll just have to find out next spring. Who knew quitting was so damn hard?
All jocking aside, I beleive when grandparent says high moral road he's referring to is adware applications that don't hijack your computer, putting on excess bloat eventually rendering your computer useless on order to force their ads upon you.
Personally I've enjoyed using google's ads, as they offer me more or less the most relevant stuff I'm looking for during my surfing session. If this thing even gets popular, perhaps there will be less and less browser spamming, less pop-ups, less harassment over all. Ok I'll stop dreaming now.
In any case, I find google's ads very non-intrusive, and very relevant - those are the kind of ads I like to see.
How much regular drinking did you do? I only say this because when I was in college, mostly the drinking I did was large amounts in short spurts, so while my tolerance DID go up, it didn't go up that much.
After college I couldn't find work so I ended up working at a wine boutique. I was pretty serious in studying wine, and also went to a LOT of tastings. After about a year of working there, my tolerance shot up to levels that I couldn't beleive; I could drink a bottle of wine by myself without realizing it. All of my wine drinking was done in small amounts over a long period of time, almost daily.
It's been about a year since I've found a job in this industry, so I haven't really touched any alcohol since. However I do notice that my tolerance has gone down a bit when I go to a bar to hang with some friends, but it seems like it'll never be as weak as it was when I was back in college.
Interestingly, with the amount of alcohol I consumed, I'm suprised I haven't developed a serious addicition to it. I was actually worse off while drinking in college because of the binging. But then again, I don't drink wine to get drunk.
I know it's meant to be a joke, but Koreans can pronounce their L's fine. Actually, they can have more trouble pronouncing R's. Which means that Lycos would be preferred over Rycos. Don't confuse Japanese with Korean.
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The problem of terrorism is due to almost exclusively people who are not American citizens. Increasing surveillance and intruding on the privacy of foreigners is the right way to go and does not violation the Constitution. The Constitution is, after all, only for American citizens...
Normally I usually leave the trolls alone to the mods, but sometimes I see posts like this and it absolutely amazes me this dude could possibly be genuine about his POV. Checking his posting history, this troll is pretty good at spreading FUD. Karma be damned, people like this really need to start thinking.
You know, as fellow geeks, it is understood that we have (or try to maintain) a certain level of critical thinking in our discussion in order to facilitate growth - whether the factors be scientific, political, social or whatever. One of the touchy subjects we geeks (or people in general) have a tough time agreeing on is in our moral code as individuals and how to integrate our individual character into society.
As a son of an first generation immigrant, my immediate reaction to this post would have been to mod this down, as the parent post absolutely reeks of racial intolerance - and has all the earmarks of extremist belief. In fact, how is parent's stance any different from another point of view, such as, I daresay, Muslim extremists?
And look dude, I'm not trying to lay out parallels to portray Muslims in a bad light. I've known plenty of Muslims as friends and fellow colleagues. The difference between you and them, is that they are TOLERANT of my relgious stance, they are TOLERANT of my ethnic background, and are only intolerant if/when my ignorant actions infringe on their civil liberties and rights. And likewise, I to them.
Swifting deporting foreigners would eliminate the need to violate the civil rights of citizens in the war on terrorism.
We need to have the guts to treat citizens and non-citizens differently.
Oh this is just classic. So tell me genius, what constitutes a FOREIGNER? Someone not born of this country? Someone who looks different from YOU? Someone who can't speak english as well as you can? So how do you profile a foreigner? Do you determine within a few seconds whether that guy sitting next to you on the bus is a citizen or non-citizen? My parents were immigrants, but became citizens (and voted today) - where does that place them in your instant profiling? Or do they not really count as 'American' citizens?
And after what you just said, you are telling me that the PATRIOT ACT is a violation of civil rights and an invasion of privacy?
So did he do it in order to work up some potential customers for his new firm?
Do you have a link to back up this statement? All the site I've googled up (aside from the fact that most of the figures were 2-3 years old) showed that the overall percentage of linux desktop usage was about 1/2 of mac desktop usage. And a lot of these figures were pre-osx.
OK let's back away from this 'Linux vs. OSX' thread before it's too late. Whoops, too late.
I would say that's a little exaggerated. Most of the high end computer are in the computer labs, which on average have around 300-500 computers per lab. There are tons of smaller labs (holding 25-75 computers) all over the place as well. According to this the higher end PCs run at 2.4 Ghz, while the lower end is 1.8 Ghz. Not exactly cheap spending.
I don't know what libraries you were going to, but the last time I was at one (2 years ago), they all had G3s and P3's.
The higher end desktops are most likely located in the Digital Media Lab as they always have the largest funding (with the lab at the art school at a pretty close second) - probably littered with G5's, and if not, they will by the time next year rolls around. Rutgers burns through computers like crazy. During my college career there I saw the labs get refitted with brand spanking new computers 3 times.
The number of computers are generally split to 50% PCs, 25% macs (may be higher, I dunno), and 25% those little terminal computers that must CS students use.
What I'm suprised about is according to the chart, Rutgers New Brunswick is listed with 36,000 computers. That number's gotta be bloated. But then, Dartmouth has 12000 computers for it's 4000 students...
Actaully the ds reminds me of these a lot. I remember owning one of these - they were fun.
I'm glad they are coming back, 2000 style. Perhaps I can have my children have the same kind of fun I used to. :-)
Nah, it's more like a cover up attempt to reason out why we don't have girlfriends. I mean... why we would rather not have girlfriends, not because we can't get girlfriends.. nope, not us! We have good legitimage reasons.
Runs over to the corner and cries
I think the current targets sony is looking at is mostly the ipod demographic. Nice highend gear that people will not mind having. When the new revision comes out, last years model starts to trickle down to the lower end, affordable types. The trick is, if Sony is able to maintain momentum, then Nintendo is doomed forever.
Nintendo of course, will have to go with the blitz and take as much of Sony's thunder away from them before it strikes. Plus, Nintendo can also play the new revision model game as well and come out with an even cheaper DS, which will definately dominate. I'm curious how this will play out. I'm a huge nintendo fanboy (on a waitlist for the DS at a local store), but Sony's got as much of a chance as Nintendo, especially with the bankroll to back it up. We'll just have to see as it rolls out.
Not to be a downer on rollercoasters, but man! acceleration like that just can't be good for you.
One of my friends got on a ride that did something similar, like 0-70 in 4 or something. The entire ride was about 10 seconds long (seriously). She doesn't remember any of it, because she BLACKED OUT due to the acceleration. Man was she pissed! Waiting in line for 3 1/2 hours just to ride something for 10 seconds AND HAVE NO MEMORY OF IT AT ALL.
Plus about 5 mins after the ride she said she had the worst headache.
What ever happened to big rolling hills and loops? Those are always good.
That's strange, because when I was at Rutgers (about an hour away from Jacksonville where the park is), everybody I know of called it nothing but Great Adventure. Plus it a number of students just called it GA (as in 'Gee Ay') for short and everybody knew what they were talking about.
Of course, every summer a number of students would buy a season pass and go everyday untill they were bored to tears of it.
It looks like GA is getting some new rides, which is good, especially since rides like Robin was kind of short (as in 10 seconds!! WTF). Too bad longer rides are not able to justify the price it costs to build for profit. *sigh*
It's been a number of years since I've been to GA, but I seem to recall they had a little paintball field nearby (which a number of us geeks also used to frequent), but that's getting offtopic. :-)
Hrm, if this is a problem that hurts performance then I would have to attribute it to either:
1: Poor preplanning/coding or
2: Not enough ram
I would have to side with the first choice. Besides, this kind of problem can be seen in almost every programming language, not just java.
It's okay, even slackware does it (hence no slackware 4, or 5, or 6). :-)
Too bad. It looks like all the good star wars stories will be regulated to areas where there is less 'upper managment creative control,' like books and Knights of the Old Republic.
I'm getting one
The kids will get one too
Here's to wireless multiplayer gaming with your kids. And you call yourself a geek?? For shame!! Where are your roots?
Whoops, nevermind the sound quality :-)
Slightly offtopic, after we got a 5.1 stereo set for the living room TV, watching dvds haven't been the same since. Those two little speakers from the TV just don't cut it (watch Master and Commander on both and you'll hear the difference). I'm pretty sure this dvd set will have some great audio.
White wines generally has fewer calories than red wines, but also has less antioxidant content than reds as well. The exception to the calorie count will be dessert wines, which have so much sugar in them it's pointless compare them to reds anyway. Also, not to put a damper toward white wine drinkers, but almost all 'light' whites are on the bottom of the list. These include Sauvignon Blanc and Rieslings (from almost any region, but veering towards colder regions like Alsace and Germany). Of the whites, the only wines that seem to rank well in antioxidant count(among other whites - none rank well against reds) are alcoholic, tannic chardonnays(from wood barrels) from very sunny regions, like Chile and Australia. I guess the sugar content helps there in the fermentation process.
Red wines with more tannins were generally ranked higher on the antioxidant list. I haven't really checked whether the tannin count is from the barrels they aged in, or the grape skin itself, but the highest ranking 'healthy' red wines listed were from chile and some parts of australia. But there were plenty from france and California as well.
Of the reds, small sized grape varietals seems to have more 'good stuff' in them; Most of the wines up on the list were Cabernet Sauvignon, some Cabernet Franc, and the occasional Shiraz/Syrah. Absent from the list (or I just don't remember seeing any) was primitivo/zinfandel, along with pinot noir. Most of the merlots were on the bottom of the list.
In terms of alcohol content, the 'healthiest' wines had the highest amount of alcohol in them, generally all above 14-15 percent. I'm guessing this is due to the length of time the wines are allowed to stay in the barrels(forgive my lack of winespeak, it's been a while). Also, very very few steel barrel wines ranked high in terms of antioxidant content and 'other stuff.'
I guess that's about it atm. If you want to drink healthy, make sure to aim for heavy, tannic wines made from the small grape varietals that have been aged in wood, which happens to have lots of calories, and lots of alcohol(disclaimer:there is no scientific basis on anything I've just said, this is all based off of my experience). :-) I haven't RTFA as of yet, but I'm curious of the types of beer high up on the list of 'goodness' reflect the wine criteria for 'goodness.' In particular the 'aged, high calorie, alcoholic' portion of it.
One thing about heavy tannic wines: in my experience I've gotten the worst hangovers from them. I'm guessing it's from the tannins themselves, as light reds and whites don't affect me nearly as much.
and not to be a downer on your post, but if I was looking to get a quick hit, my suggestion would be to aim straight for the vodka (not that I'm advocating that or anything). Vodka has some of the highest alcohol/dollar ratio making it super cheap, plus (if you buy good vodka) is has very little impurities so you don't have to worry too much about hangovers. And, it's pretty low on the calorie count compared to wine and beer. The problem with vodka is that because it's so clean, people have a hard time judging whether or not they have had enough.
I used to drink wine very heavily, so I've built quite a tolerance to alchohol. I don't drink as often as I used to, but every once in a while I enjoy having a beer or a glass of wine, and I notice that I get a nice little buzz, even with my heavy tolerance. Man, work must be more stressful than I thought. :-P
Well, if that's the case, could it also have been a volcano explosion?
The real ulterior motive of the quiz was to test the theory that people who are incompetent in a given field are also lousy at estimating their own competence. I wanted to see whether the respondents who gave the poorest answers to the estimation questions were also likely to give unreasonably narrow uncertainties.
It turns out that they don't. The uncertainties given tended to be more-or-less reasonable estimates of uncertainties.
I don't know, I took a quick scan and the estimate questions looked pretty random. The obvious reaction I got was: "People who know of the subject matter will estimate better depending on their grokness of said matter." Well, duh.
What am I missing?
How about using some aerogel for robot footwear protection? Hrm, doing a google it appears that melted rock has a temperature of 1200 degrees C, which is the same as aerogel. Perhaps a combination of ceramic and aerogel?
Actaully, I can't say that for sure. My cousin has a powerbook and he hooks it up to the tv all the time, so I'm assuming the powerbook can do the same. Anyone can verify?
Hrm nevermind I seemed to have answered myself. At the applestore they have an AV cable for 19 dollars. Says the caption:
Need to display to a TV through your iBook's AV port? This cable will allow you to connect your iBook to a large screen television.
Disclaimer: I'm not much of a notebook guy, so I don't know whether or not this is a common feature in most notebooks nowadays. If so, my apologies.
or whatever is coming out in the future. I'm sure it will cost you a lot less then $300. In fact, you could get one for each kid, and still save money. Plus you don't have to worry too much when (and not if) your kid drops it. :-)
Then I quit smoking 8 months ago (yeah - new years resolution, and a wager). The first thing I realized is that I didn't get any serious sneezing fits this past spring! Makes me wonder if I actaully got relief from nicotine than from the smoke itself, and that the smoke itself was the culprit of my hay fever. Or perhaps my nostrils just 'toughened up' while trying to recouperate from all the abuse I've put my nose and lungs through, since I'm no longer smoking.
In any case, I'll just have to find out next spring. Who knew quitting was so damn hard?
All jocking aside, I beleive when grandparent says high moral road he's referring to is adware applications that don't hijack your computer, putting on excess bloat eventually rendering your computer useless on order to force their ads upon you.
Personally I've enjoyed using google's ads, as they offer me more or less the most relevant stuff I'm looking for during my surfing session. If this thing even gets popular, perhaps there will be less and less browser spamming, less pop-ups, less harassment over all. Ok I'll stop dreaming now.
In any case, I find google's ads very non-intrusive, and very relevant - those are the kind of ads I like to see.
After college I couldn't find work so I ended up working at a wine boutique. I was pretty serious in studying wine, and also went to a LOT of tastings. After about a year of working there, my tolerance shot up to levels that I couldn't beleive; I could drink a bottle of wine by myself without realizing it. All of my wine drinking was done in small amounts over a long period of time, almost daily.
It's been about a year since I've found a job in this industry, so I haven't really touched any alcohol since. However I do notice that my tolerance has gone down a bit when I go to a bar to hang with some friends, but it seems like it'll never be as weak as it was when I was back in college.
Interestingly, with the amount of alcohol I consumed, I'm suprised I haven't developed a serious addicition to it. I was actually worse off while drinking in college because of the binging. But then again, I don't drink wine to get drunk.
I know it's meant to be a joke, but Koreans can pronounce their L's fine. Actually, they can have more trouble pronouncing R's. Which means that Lycos would be preferred over Rycos. Don't confuse Japanese with Korean.
* Does the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL have a low-noise fan?
Yes, the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL runs very quiet.
I think this was the only question he was capable of answering.