Weren't you clowns working in 1985? Even if I wanted to, I couldn't restore anything I put on cd's from the 90's, because the dyes in the recording surfaces have deteriorated. But wottheheck, information entropy is a kind of built-in statute of limitations on stupidity, so rah say I. Rah. Rah.
I was 50 wpm at my peak, without rushing. I considered myself a low-grade moron compared to some Windows programmers I knew because of their skill queueing up shortcut keys faster than the box could keep up. They knew the Windows menu structure cold (every programmer I ever met was like this on their own boxen), and could drill deep into arcana without a second thought. It used to be considered a mark of advanced skills, as observed by HR and MMgt types who couldn't tell the difference.
I've always liked Truecrypt because of their keyfile support, which addresses this argument. The secret bits are vulnerable to rubber hose attacks, off course, but not if you drop your thumb drive in a convenient crucible of molten gold.
Some Shakespeare can't be translated into Klingon, considering cultural differences. For example, Shylock would be dead in Act I, and Desdemona would be wearing Iago's guts for garters by Act III. Othello would be proud of her, and incredibly turned on, but her head-butting might accidentally kill him.
>Whack u upsida hed! Short version, please. Demonstrate how the abstract pin head in question can support that many dancing angels. Try to imagine your audience is U. S. Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of HELP, and the upshot will be your cut of guvmint grants for 2012.
Mormons have a powerful religious incentive to discover the complete family trees of everyone, because, IIRC, Mormons believe in baptising the dead so they can also go to Heaven. Makes no difference to me (I'm not especially interested in either LDS or genealogy), but they have amassed a great deal of archival information, and also have some pretty fair software for free.
Job satisfaction among workers chained to their oars is notoriously low, especially when middle-management has to unchain a whole ROW just to let ONE GUY IN THE MIDDLE exercise his or her alleged God-given right to a potty break. Fortunately, there's Feegleman's Law: Cubicles get smaller until all you have left is big brains in small jars.
Bayer was a suspect in Europe right from the beginning of colony collapse disorder. Not news. And even if guilty as charged, unlikely to be the sole culprit in a complex Orient Express style murder mystery.
I'll admit, the tactics she unleashed on the company infostructures were somewhat unimaginative. It's possible to cause havoc simply by encrypting everything you're supposed to encrypt as a matter of company policy, giving your supervisor a copy of each of your passwords, leaving under a stormcloud -- and forgetting what all those passwords actually were when they call you weeks later to find out what your password was.
I love information entropy. It's like arson, only the only accelerant you need is your boss' inability to conceive why it might be important to keep those little scraps of note paper. The neat thing is, I always chose SECURE 32 byte passwords, so forgetting was just a matter of non remembering on a daily basis.
What do you mean "civilization"? Are there cities down there? Art? Ocarinas? What? Without artifacts, without context, without methodology, just discovering YA Alleged Antediluvian pile of flint chips (75,000 ybp corresponds to the human bottleneck, while 8,000 ybp is twice as old as the oldest Egyptian civilization. The time scales in TFA are preposterous. Not out of realm of possibility. Out of realm of provability.
mehitabel remarked just the other day what am going to do with all these dam caps lock keys but i must be forgiven in this instance because i thought she said cops lock which says i puffing on a jeweled hookah seems like a good idea to me, boss as always archie
Military service brings money and political power, near as I can tell. Julia Child may have had extreme culinary skills, but she got in front of a camera based on her OSS war experience. Life is not fair.
Hawkeye's Criterion seems more like the sort of thing I want (works well in close, but....) XP? Where did that come from? Thanks, no.
To recapitulate in polysyllabic tones, less emphasis on "new features," please. I have no glee whatsoever for untangling a new plate of platinum spaghetti every six months, just because it's the bomb a la mode. If just once, anybody would release a product without a ten pound list of bugs that didn't need to be fixed before shipping them on an unsuspecting public, I would be happy.
Ergo, I have no loyalty whatever for Linux, Apple or Microsoft, although Microsoft has my grudging admiration for some things done well.
Yup. The problem is having a point source for information. What we really need is a kind of SETI project where you've got a very-low-impact virtual storage medium. It could work like Amway pyramid schemes, except nobody gets stuck waiting for the millions of packets to show up. Just above this distributed layer, what you see is Wikileaks.ch, which you can use as before. The distributed storage level (a "cloud," by any chance?) could be embedded in everyone's Linux kernel... Hmmm... Sort of like a... like a... (*caff*) virus...
Maybe the point is, Ubuntu has abandoned "works out of the box" -- not that that ever happened. Most of us who want to use Ubuntu really want to use Windows 7, when it works, or Mac OS, when it works. It's a pity to trade on the reputation of Torvald's kernel, when we'll have to skip 11.04 and 11.10 on the recommendation of Canonical, and 12.04 on the principle that it's probably just another beta. Is that two years before Ubuntu is Ubuntu Again? I pity the support community, who is growing up and has to get on with its careers.
The swastika is not only used, it's pink, in the Third Reich Decadent Coffee Shop segment of "Beautiful Dreamer." I have no idea what the intention was, because the anime was not pitched for non-Japanese when it first came out.
I turned 66 last Saturday, and I'm still addicted to small games from years ago. Any Zelda older than Minish Cap was fine with me, especially OoT, and I went on a Castlevania tear for while. My favorite is still Star Ocean: Blue Sphere, which requires a modicum of Japanese and a GBC. I confess to playing the Professor Layton series more than once -- lost mojo is an advantage here, because I don't remember the solutions to some of the harder puzzles from two years ago and have to work them out again the hard way. I'm not a fan of most of the Final Fantasy franchise, but still replay 1, 2, 9 and 12. FF13 was an excrutiating disappointment, but in the last chapter there are only three bosses -- the first is easy, the second is either beyond my frayed reflexes or requires more levelling up (a colossal bore at this stage). My current game of choice is GTA Chinatown Wars, which is kind of a mini-mayhem doodle machine (you don't have to follow the main story line), and sort of fun if you rinse out your abused sense of morals once in a while. I don't know about "good" games -- seems a bit subjective to me. But I have no doubt one of the big franchises will uncork a great game again sometime soon. We seem to be living in a magical moment in the development of the Arts -- like Toulouse Lautrec, or Van Gogh, when the great souls are among us, unnoticed by the mainstream.
Oxonian males seem obsessed by the volume of zombie Jello between their ears, but ignore the bone bucket it's stored in. Oxonian females are presumably well aware of the evolutionary cost -- either shorter gestation periods or flexible pelvic arches -- which may explain the perennial catperson vs. dogperson trolling. Simple evolution in action.
Nurture not only makes a queen out of the common female lava (that would have become a female worker) but also the drones that are MALE.
So, as suggested, the DNA of a female worker and the DNA of a queen may be the same but royal jelly 'triggers' the DNA to make a bigger queen; then what about making the drone? The DNA of a female, be it worker or queen, can't possibly be the same as a male, the drone, can it?
Haploid drones, contributing genes to the queens of other hives, also contribute to the code/data pool because they are the members of the hive which sample the local environment most often. Queens are exposed to the environment on one maiden flight during which they mate with drones which run the environmental gauntlet all Spring and Summer until the hive shuts down for Winter. In other words, drones have a huge metaphorical thumb on the evolutionary scales compared to every other member of the hive, including queens.
Seeds? Really? Seeds? Germination rates on most plant genomes drops near zero over time, because the issues involved in seed storage are not well understood. That makes this idea little more than a decent science experiment.
...that one (or any) of those planets contains a richly diverse ecosystem and at least one race of highly intelligent sentient creatures who view the prospect of human visitation with calm and mild disdain, secure in the knowledge that nothing made of meat can make a journey of even 4 lightyears inside a tin can without eating itself alive.
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Weren't you clowns working in 1985? Even if I wanted to, I couldn't restore anything I put on cd's from the 90's, because the dyes in the recording surfaces have deteriorated. But wottheheck, information entropy is a kind of built-in statute of limitations on stupidity, so rah say I. Rah. Rah.
I was 50 wpm at my peak, without rushing. I considered myself a low-grade moron compared to some Windows programmers I knew because of their skill queueing up shortcut keys faster than the box could keep up. They knew the Windows menu structure cold (every programmer I ever met was like this on their own boxen), and could drill deep into arcana without a second thought. It used to be considered a mark of advanced skills, as observed by HR and MMgt types who couldn't tell the difference.
I've always liked Truecrypt because of their keyfile support, which addresses this argument. The secret bits are vulnerable to rubber hose attacks, off course, but not if you drop your thumb drive in a convenient crucible of molten gold.
Some Shakespeare can't be translated into Klingon, considering cultural differences. For example, Shylock would be dead in Act I, and Desdemona would be wearing Iago's guts for garters by Act III. Othello would be proud of her, and incredibly turned on, but her head-butting might accidentally kill him.
>Whack u upsida hed! Short version, please. Demonstrate how the abstract pin head in question can support that many dancing angels. Try to imagine your audience is U. S. Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of HELP, and the upshot will be your cut of guvmint grants for 2012.
Mormons have a powerful religious incentive to discover the complete family trees of everyone, because, IIRC, Mormons believe in baptising the dead so they can also go to Heaven. Makes no difference to me (I'm not especially interested in either LDS or genealogy), but they have amassed a great deal of archival information, and also have some pretty fair software for free.
Job satisfaction among workers chained to their oars is notoriously low, especially when middle-management has to unchain a whole ROW just to let ONE GUY IN THE MIDDLE exercise his or her alleged God-given right to a potty break. Fortunately, there's Feegleman's Law: Cubicles get smaller until all you have left is big brains in small jars.
Bayer was a suspect in Europe right from the beginning of colony collapse disorder. Not news. And even if guilty as charged, unlikely to be the sole culprit in a complex Orient Express style murder mystery.
I'll admit, the tactics she unleashed on the company infostructures were somewhat unimaginative. It's possible to cause havoc simply by encrypting everything you're supposed to encrypt as a matter of company policy, giving your supervisor a copy of each of your passwords, leaving under a stormcloud -- and forgetting what all those passwords actually were when they call you weeks later to find out what your password was.
I love information entropy. It's like arson, only the only accelerant you need is your boss' inability to conceive why it might be important to keep those little scraps of note paper. The neat thing is, I always chose SECURE 32 byte passwords, so forgetting was just a matter of non remembering on a daily basis.
I'll put my zorkmids on human fallability, tyvm.
What do you mean "civilization"? Are there cities down there? Art? Ocarinas? What? Without artifacts, without context, without methodology, just discovering YA Alleged Antediluvian pile of flint chips (75,000 ybp corresponds to the human bottleneck, while 8,000 ybp is twice as old as the oldest Egyptian civilization. The time scales in TFA are preposterous. Not out of realm of possibility. Out of realm of provability.
mehitabel remarked
just the other day
what am going to do
with all these dam
caps lock keys
but i must be forgiven
in this instance because
i thought she said cops
lock
which says i puffing on a
jeweled hookah seems
like a good idea
to me, boss
as always
archie
Mod +6 (where are my points??!)
Military service brings money and political power, near as I can tell. Julia Child may have had extreme culinary skills, but she got in front of a camera based on her OSS war experience. Life is not fair.
Hawkeye's Criterion seems more like the sort of thing I want (works well in close, but....) XP? Where did that come from? Thanks, no.
To recapitulate in polysyllabic tones, less emphasis on "new features," please. I have no glee whatsoever for untangling a new plate of platinum spaghetti every six months, just because it's the bomb a la mode. If just once, anybody would release a product without a ten pound list of bugs that didn't need to be fixed before shipping them on an unsuspecting public, I would be happy.
Ergo, I have no loyalty whatever for Linux, Apple or Microsoft, although Microsoft has my grudging admiration for some things done well.
Yup. The problem is having a point source for information. What we really need is a kind of SETI project where you've got a very-low-impact virtual storage medium. It could work like Amway pyramid schemes, except nobody gets stuck waiting for the millions of packets to show up. Just above this distributed layer, what you see is Wikileaks.ch, which you can use as before. The distributed storage level (a "cloud," by any chance?) could be embedded in everyone's Linux kernel... Hmmm... Sort of like a... like a... (*caff*) virus...
Maybe the point is, Ubuntu has abandoned "works out of the box" -- not that that ever happened. Most of us who want to use Ubuntu really want to use Windows 7, when it works, or Mac OS, when it works. It's a pity to trade on the reputation of Torvald's kernel, when we'll have to skip 11.04 and 11.10 on the recommendation of Canonical, and 12.04 on the principle that it's probably just another beta. Is that two years before Ubuntu is Ubuntu Again? I pity the support community, who is growing up and has to get on with its careers.
The swastika is not only used, it's pink, in the Third Reich Decadent Coffee Shop segment of "Beautiful Dreamer." I have no idea what the intention was, because the anime was not pitched for non-Japanese when it first came out.
I turned 66 last Saturday, and I'm still addicted to small games from years ago. Any Zelda older than Minish Cap was fine with me, especially OoT, and I went on a Castlevania tear for while. My favorite is still Star Ocean: Blue Sphere, which requires a modicum of Japanese and a GBC. I confess to playing the Professor Layton series more than once -- lost mojo is an advantage here, because I don't remember the solutions to some of the harder puzzles from two years ago and have to work them out again the hard way. I'm not a fan of most of the Final Fantasy franchise, but still replay 1, 2, 9 and 12. FF13 was an excrutiating disappointment, but in the last chapter there are only three bosses -- the first is easy, the second is either beyond my frayed reflexes or requires more levelling up (a colossal bore at this stage). My current game of choice is GTA Chinatown Wars, which is kind of a mini-mayhem doodle machine (you don't have to follow the main story line), and sort of fun if you rinse out your abused sense of morals once in a while. I don't know about "good" games -- seems a bit subjective to me. But I have no doubt one of the big franchises will uncork a great game again sometime soon. We seem to be living in a magical moment in the development of the Arts -- like Toulouse Lautrec, or Van Gogh, when the great souls are among us, unnoticed by the mainstream.
Real men... like Yukari Umezawa or Rui Neiwei? That's two women driving off the men's tees.
Oxonian males seem obsessed by the volume of zombie Jello between their ears, but ignore the bone bucket it's stored in. Oxonian females are presumably well aware of the evolutionary cost -- either shorter gestation periods or flexible pelvic arches -- which may explain the perennial catperson vs. dogperson trolling. Simple evolution in action.
Of course.
Nurture not only makes a queen out of the common female lava (that would have become a female worker) but also the drones that are MALE. So, as suggested, the DNA of a female worker and the DNA of a queen may be the same but royal jelly 'triggers' the DNA to make a bigger queen; then what about making the drone? The DNA of a female, be it worker or queen, can't possibly be the same as a male, the drone, can it?
Haploid drones, contributing genes to the queens of other hives, also contribute to the code/data pool because they are the members of the hive which sample the local environment most often. Queens are exposed to the environment on one maiden flight during which they mate with drones which run the environmental gauntlet all Spring and Summer until the hive shuts down for Winter. In other words, drones have a huge metaphorical thumb on the evolutionary scales compared to every other member of the hive, including queens.
Seeds? Really? Seeds? Germination rates on most plant genomes drops near zero over time, because the issues involved in seed storage are not well understood. That makes this idea little more than a decent science experiment.
...that one (or any) of those planets contains a richly diverse ecosystem and at least one race of highly intelligent sentient creatures who view the prospect of human visitation with calm and mild disdain, secure in the knowledge that nothing made of meat can make a journey of even 4 lightyears inside a tin can without eating itself alive.