There was a some uncertainty with this particular type of volcano, though, because ice explodes when it's hit with lava, throwing the ash into the air.
The bay is about the size of a coffin, which makes it too small to bring back spy satellites. Hard for me to imagine what they're going to do with it beyond use it as a test bed to develop something bigger.
It's funny, I recall the very same people who are rending their garments today were back then telling me things were just hunky-dory in the Soviet Union.
I don't have as much problem with pictures as I have with text. I'm not saying people should design different versions of web sites based on the screen resolution. What I *am* saying is don't make a site that's rendered in such a way that the text is too small to read on a monitor with a lot of DPI. Any reasonably well written HTML can be adjusted on my end - I'm used to hitting to increase the text size.
But to make a website that can only be read without a magnifying glass on the wrong monoitor... yeah, that makes you a moron.
Okay, I'm no web developer, being more on the back end, but some of the websites I go to do scale to the browser width and some don't. Even the images. I don't know exactly why that's true - all I'm saying is I wish the non-scalers would do whatever it is the scalers are doing so I don't have to buy reading glasses.
This is a combination of bad UI in operating systems and programs, and user cluelessness about how to make use of high resolution displays.
This is something that drives me crazy. I bought a screen with a relatively high DPI, and on half the websites I visit now the content is provided on some kind of fixed size (in pixels) flash thingee. It sits in the upper left corner of my monitor and I need a magnifying glass to read it. A higher DPI makes for some ultra-smooth fonts and allows for detailed images, but only if the moron creating content didn't decide to do everything in pixels.
On the other hand, this will likely produce a whole stream of deliberately inaccurate analyses with ulterior motives behind them.
I think they're a lot more worried about accurate analyses than inaccurate ones. FUD will be much easier to deal with if it's really FUD because it can be criticized by more people than just the keepers of the sacred data.
I doubt, at this point, Ebert is going to go out and play a bunch of videogames and have a change of heart.
In any event, I always sort of suspected he didn't watch some of the movies he critiqued, so the fact that he's knocking games from a position of ignorance doesn't surprise me.
It's not that Mexico has "zero interest" in destroying the drug cartels. They do have such an interest - no society wants to see part of its territory revert to lawlessness. They just aren't willing to sacrifice everything.
The Mexicans have lost quite a bit recently, from judges to police to soldiers (and their families). They can't be expected to do more to address a problem which is impossible for them to solve because it's financed by people in another country.
My friend, you have no idea what you're talking about. An application run under Java Webstart is very much like an applet - it runs in the sandbox unless you specifically, deliberately give it more access.
More likely they'll just eliminate the position entirely. We've never had unpaid interns, but even without pay the interns we've had would have been a net loss for the company. They take far more effort to manage than ordinary employees, they're a distraction on your top performers, and much of what they do has to be reworked anyway.
In our case we brought in interns because during the boom it was difficult to find people, so if you could get someone in, say, between their junior and senior year in college, you'd get to see if they were worth picking up a year later, and they would already be familiar with the company. About half the people who have a job lined up after graduation don't bother looking around, so we had pretty good success picking up the people we wanted. But if the internship didn't turn into a normal, full-time, productive employee it was a large net loss.
With the economy the way it is now I can put out a job req and get more resumes than I can read from people with the right skills. So we're not doing internships now. For internships to actually make sense at this point the intern would have to pay us. Might be worth it, too, for new college grads.
This is true. Sun never did figure out how to monetize their most popular product - the java language. Maybe Oracle is going to have another go at "database appliances". They've only tried and failed about five times now.
True, extramarital sex is also frowned upon by Catholicism, but I didn't see anything about that at all in his post.
Yes, and that was my point.
What happens in the real world is that it's awfully easy to be a "good Catholic" by not wearing a condom, but really hard to do it by not having sex. Hey, might as well not piss off God ALL the way, right?
No, that's not what happens at all in the real world. I was raised Catholic. I went to a Catholic high school. You know what they told us? "Don't have sex before you're married, but if you do, use a condom." People aren't as simple or stupid as you make them out to be.
Again, in the real world the anti-condom stance means that kids may not be taught how to use condoms properly, not taught how important it is to use one if you're going to have sex, or a not-so-good Catholic might just not have them around.
Again, in the real world people outside the church don't give a damn what the church teaches. People in the church teach their kids not to have sex before marriage, and to use condoms if they do.
And if the people are listening to a religious restriction, saying condom use is against their faith, now we're back to the Darwin angle.
I wish people would stop peddling this ignorant crap. The Catholic church is against condoms, yes, but it's also against extramarital sex. If you're really an observant Catholic the lack of condoms isn't going to increase your risk of contracting STDs.
Catholics having extramarital sex aren't acting within the tenants of their faith, and if they don't wear condoms it's because nobody likes to wear condoms, not because of any church teaching.
It depends on what you're considering a UAV. By far the most common UAV is a glorified toy RC airplane. The RQ-11B Raven, for example, of which 13,000 have been built, costs about $35,000 including camera and data link. The ground station is a laptop.
Of the big, expensive UAVs you see on the news, Global Hawk and Predator/Reaper, less than 250 have been produced. I doubt even half of the original MQ-1 Predators remain - according to wikipedia we'd lost 70 of them by March 2009. UAVs aren't as reliable as human-piloted aircraft, especially while landing. Also, engine wear is a function of flight hours, and these things can stay in the air for up to 48 hours, depending on the loadout.
Maybe, just maybe, Healthcare reform is something that needs to be implemented over the objections of a majority?
So. Implemented over the objections of the majority, using powers not granted to the federal government in its charter. So what government act can't be justified under this logic?
I'd rather live in a banana republic, where the people in charge are busy enriching themselves, than have to deal with a government that thinks it knows what's best for its citizens despite their wishes.
It's partly, at least, a realization on the part of the Russians that much of their arsenal isn't functional. They don't have the money to bring everything back to working order, so why not take the missiles that are rusting in place and trade them away in an arms control agreement.
They'll still have a more than credible deterrent with just the newer rockets like Topol-M, and this deal will free up desperately needed money for new submarines.
For the same reason governments have a hard time dealing with offshoring - companies will leave if you make things too uncomfortable. Microsoft provides far more benefit to the state of Washington and its people than Washington provides to Microsoft. In the end this is just a recognition of that fact.
You can bleed companies (like GM) with large fixed facilities, but it's pretty easy to move software development. If not to Oregon or California, then to India or the Philippines.
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There was a some uncertainty with this particular type of volcano, though, because ice explodes when it's hit with lava, throwing the ash into the air.
It's a pretty normal thing for businesses to upgrade only when they have to. Time value of money and all that.
The bay is about the size of a coffin, which makes it too small to bring back spy satellites. Hard for me to imagine what they're going to do with it beyond use it as a test bed to develop something bigger.
The legal tools are certainly there to punish the officers involved. The question is really whether or not it will actually happen.
It's funny, I recall the very same people who are rending their garments today were back then telling me things were just hunky-dory in the Soviet Union.
I don't have as much problem with pictures as I have with text. I'm not saying people should design different versions of web sites based on the screen resolution. What I *am* saying is don't make a site that's rendered in such a way that the text is too small to read on a monitor with a lot of DPI. Any reasonably well written HTML can be adjusted on my end - I'm used to hitting to increase the text size.
But to make a website that can only be read without a magnifying glass on the wrong monoitor... yeah, that makes you a moron.
Okay, I'm no web developer, being more on the back end, but some of the websites I go to do scale to the browser width and some don't. Even the images. I don't know exactly why that's true - all I'm saying is I wish the non-scalers would do whatever it is the scalers are doing so I don't have to buy reading glasses.
This is something that drives me crazy. I bought a screen with a relatively high DPI, and on half the websites I visit now the content is provided on some kind of fixed size (in pixels) flash thingee. It sits in the upper left corner of my monitor and I need a magnifying glass to read it. A higher DPI makes for some ultra-smooth fonts and allows for detailed images, but only if the moron creating content didn't decide to do everything in pixels.
I doubt, at this point, Ebert is going to go out and play a bunch of videogames and have a change of heart.
In any event, I always sort of suspected he didn't watch some of the movies he critiqued, so the fact that he's knocking games from a position of ignorance doesn't surprise me.
Well, presumably if you could get them to do active things they'd be too tired to stay up all night.
It's not that Mexico has "zero interest" in destroying the drug cartels. They do have such an interest - no society wants to see part of its territory revert to lawlessness. They just aren't willing to sacrifice everything.
The Mexicans have lost quite a bit recently, from judges to police to soldiers (and their families). They can't be expected to do more to address a problem which is impossible for them to solve because it's financed by people in another country.
My friend, you have no idea what you're talking about. An application run under Java Webstart is very much like an applet - it runs in the sandbox unless you specifically, deliberately give it more access.
You're showing your age with that joke.
And I'm showing mine by getting it.
It'll also probably be the end of the human race.
More likely they'll just eliminate the position entirely. We've never had unpaid interns, but even without pay the interns we've had would have been a net loss for the company. They take far more effort to manage than ordinary employees, they're a distraction on your top performers, and much of what they do has to be reworked anyway.
In our case we brought in interns because during the boom it was difficult to find people, so if you could get someone in, say, between their junior and senior year in college, you'd get to see if they were worth picking up a year later, and they would already be familiar with the company. About half the people who have a job lined up after graduation don't bother looking around, so we had pretty good success picking up the people we wanted. But if the internship didn't turn into a normal, full-time, productive employee it was a large net loss.
With the economy the way it is now I can put out a job req and get more resumes than I can read from people with the right skills. So we're not doing internships now. For internships to actually make sense at this point the intern would have to pay us. Might be worth it, too, for new college grads.
This is true. Sun never did figure out how to monetize their most popular product - the java language. Maybe Oracle is going to have another go at "database appliances". They've only tried and failed about five times now.
Yes, and that was my point.
No, that's not what happens at all in the real world. I was raised Catholic. I went to a Catholic high school. You know what they told us? "Don't have sex before you're married, but if you do, use a condom." People aren't as simple or stupid as you make them out to be.
Again, in the real world people outside the church don't give a damn what the church teaches. People in the church teach their kids not to have sex before marriage, and to use condoms if they do.
I wish people would stop peddling this ignorant crap. The Catholic church is against condoms, yes, but it's also against extramarital sex. If you're really an observant Catholic the lack of condoms isn't going to increase your risk of contracting STDs.
Catholics having extramarital sex aren't acting within the tenants of their faith, and if they don't wear condoms it's because nobody likes to wear condoms, not because of any church teaching.
I wouldn't say there's nothing wrong with Canada's laws. Taxes are way too high on beer and cigarettes.
How do you say "fuck off" in Canadian?
It depends on what you're considering a UAV. By far the most common UAV is a glorified toy RC airplane. The RQ-11B Raven, for example, of which 13,000 have been built, costs about $35,000 including camera and data link. The ground station is a laptop.
Of the big, expensive UAVs you see on the news, Global Hawk and Predator/Reaper, less than 250 have been produced. I doubt even half of the original MQ-1 Predators remain - according to wikipedia we'd lost 70 of them by March 2009. UAVs aren't as reliable as human-piloted aircraft, especially while landing. Also, engine wear is a function of flight hours, and these things can stay in the air for up to 48 hours, depending on the loadout.
So. Implemented over the objections of the majority, using powers not granted to the federal government in its charter. So what government act can't be justified under this logic?
I'd rather live in a banana republic, where the people in charge are busy enriching themselves, than have to deal with a government that thinks it knows what's best for its citizens despite their wishes.
It's partly, at least, a realization on the part of the Russians that much of their arsenal isn't functional. They don't have the money to bring everything back to working order, so why not take the missiles that are rusting in place and trade them away in an arms control agreement.
They'll still have a more than credible deterrent with just the newer rockets like Topol-M, and this deal will free up desperately needed money for new submarines.
For the same reason governments have a hard time dealing with offshoring - companies will leave if you make things too uncomfortable. Microsoft provides far more benefit to the state of Washington and its people than Washington provides to Microsoft. In the end this is just a recognition of that fact.
You can bleed companies (like GM) with large fixed facilities, but it's pretty easy to move software development. If not to Oregon or California, then to India or the Philippines.