It's the applications and restoring the user data that's the horrific time sink. If you just wipe and reinstall, you're in a race to the bottom with Best Buy.
The really big sticking point for me is the formation of fossil fuel deposits on Earth - so many things in both biochemical and geological evolution had to go just right that it might be exceedingly rare, and necessary for bootstrapping things like solar- and nuclear-derived energy.
So while lots of planets may harbor life, and some tiny percentage but substantial number may harbor bronze age-level civilizations, I think it's possible that we could be the only place in the Milky Way with a technological civilization. Sad, but how do you account for Fermi's Paradox?
Ah, yes, the joy of puzzled phone calls from mechanics who you forgot to tell (or who didn't remember) that the car won't start without the rear defroster turned on.
I dare you to do a week of first-line desktop support *anywhere* and come out with that belief intact.
Lots of people set their thermostat above the temperature they want just so they can turn it down when it gets too hot, even when they fully understand how a heater works.
And how many billable hours is that rebuild, when the customer has actual applications installed that Ninite won't load up (say, a full Autodesk Suite, 10 years of Quickbooks versions side-by-side, originally purchased through downloading, or some horrible niche vertical business management app)?
When a new perfectly serviceable desktop runs $400, you end up incentivizing people to throw infected PCs in the trash or simply not repair infected machines. That's crazy.
Native plants are by definition adapted to the local climate, and once they're established, generally don't need to be watered. And you may want to think not only about what you would like to eat, but what the birds and bugs that eat the bugs who like to eat the things you like to eat like to eat.
No concern over India and Pakistan? Since, you know, they're both nuclear-armed states that share a border and have been in a state of not-as-cold-as-you-might-like war for the past 60 or so years?
But the atmosphere is basically saturated with water, and its greenhouse contribution (something on the order of 20C IIRC) is part of the baseline climate with or without humans. In other words water vapor's contribution to climate change is zero, since the amount hasn't (can't have) risen or decreased meaningfully since the dawn of civilization.
Can you suggest a good book by Will Self? I read Great Apes on the advice of my friend and was completely put off. It felt like a giant, depressing shaggy-dog story with very little payoff. I'd be willing to try him again if there's something better, though.
But the language of the Harry Potter books is targeted at young readers - in fact each book in the series is written at one higher grade level of comprehension, so that a second or third grader who read the first book at publication would find each new installment written at their current reading level.
Comparing that to Tolkien is ridiculous, except for the part where he also wrote The Hobbit to a younger reading level, while he wrote whatever way he wanted for Lord of the Rings
Nah, you wanna do that, you need to read Two Years Before the Mast.
If I hadn't read the book for a college class with a fantastic professor, I probably would have thought the same thing.
As I learned, though, Moby Dick isn't about the story of the Pequod - it's about the inadequacy of language to convey the awe and terror that [the whale|nature|god|death] embody. Melville tries to examine the whale from every angle - biological descriptions, literary narrative, discussion of the economic system whaling sits within, etc. and they all fall short. The only glimmer of hope he holds forth is in the human companionship and camaraderie seen in the chapter "The Squeeze of the Hand," and more narrowly, in Queequeg's cheerful [defiance of death|acceptance of fate] in the business with the floating coffin at the end.
When Hamas uses sugar as fuel for the rockets they lob at civilian areas over the border, what are the Israelis supposed to do?
It's a totally honest question - what would you do to end the cycle of violence and repression in the region while guaranteeing that everyone who was born in Israel/Palestine gets to continue living there?
Um, how about the USS Cole? A thousand Zodiacs with suicide bombers is bloody and low-tech, but the Iranians have proved more than willing to throw huge amounts of cannon fodder at a military objective.
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It's the applications and restoring the user data that's the horrific time sink. If you just wipe and reinstall, you're in a race to the bottom with Best Buy.
The really big sticking point for me is the formation of fossil fuel deposits on Earth - so many things in both biochemical and geological evolution had to go just right that it might be exceedingly rare, and necessary for bootstrapping things like solar- and nuclear-derived energy.
So while lots of planets may harbor life, and some tiny percentage but substantial number may harbor bronze age-level civilizations, I think it's possible that we could be the only place in the Milky Way with a technological civilization. Sad, but how do you account for Fermi's Paradox?
Ah, yes, the joy of puzzled phone calls from mechanics who you forgot to tell (or who didn't remember) that the car won't start without the rear defroster turned on.
Why are banks willing to write 30-year mortgage notes at under 4% if hyperinflation is just around the corner?
*most* people can program
I dare you to do a week of first-line desktop support *anywhere* and come out with that belief intact.
Lots of people set their thermostat above the temperature they want just so they can turn it down when it gets too hot, even when they fully understand how a heater works.
And how many billable hours is that rebuild, when the customer has actual applications installed that Ninite won't load up (say, a full Autodesk Suite, 10 years of Quickbooks versions side-by-side, originally purchased through downloading, or some horrible niche vertical business management app)?
When a new perfectly serviceable desktop runs $400, you end up incentivizing people to throw infected PCs in the trash or simply not repair infected machines. That's crazy.
How long can you hold a tablet out in front of your face without tiring your arm?
Native plants are by definition adapted to the local climate, and once they're established, generally don't need to be watered. And you may want to think not only about what you would like to eat, but what the birds and bugs that eat the bugs who like to eat the things you like to eat like to eat.
No concern over India and Pakistan? Since, you know, they're both nuclear-armed states that share a border and have been in a state of not-as-cold-as-you-might-like war for the past 60 or so years?
I always throw a bucket of sleeping children on my kitchen fires.
But the atmosphere is basically saturated with water, and its greenhouse contribution (something on the order of 20C IIRC) is part of the baseline climate with or without humans. In other words water vapor's contribution to climate change is zero, since the amount hasn't (can't have) risen or decreased meaningfully since the dawn of civilization.
Mulberry? Try something native.
How abut the expansion, where the Pandaren brewmaster was one of the playable heroes?
That's as may be, but One Hundred Years of Solitude, by another Nobel winner, is a hell of a ride even in translation.
Can you suggest a good book by Will Self? I read Great Apes on the advice of my friend and was completely put off. It felt like a giant, depressing shaggy-dog story with very little payoff. I'd be willing to try him again if there's something better, though.
No sex, either. Like, not even alluded to offstage.
Yes, Rowling is a bit of a hack.
But the language of the Harry Potter books is targeted at young readers - in fact each book in the series is written at one higher grade level of comprehension, so that a second or third grader who read the first book at publication would find each new installment written at their current reading level.
Comparing that to Tolkien is ridiculous, except for the part where he also wrote The Hobbit to a younger reading level, while he wrote whatever way he wanted for Lord of the Rings
Nah, you wanna do that, you need to read Two Years Before the Mast.
If I hadn't read the book for a college class with a fantastic professor, I probably would have thought the same thing.
As I learned, though, Moby Dick isn't about the story of the Pequod - it's about the inadequacy of language to convey the awe and terror that [the whale|nature|god|death] embody. Melville tries to examine the whale from every angle - biological descriptions, literary narrative, discussion of the economic system whaling sits within, etc. and they all fall short. The only glimmer of hope he holds forth is in the human companionship and camaraderie seen in the chapter "The Squeeze of the Hand," and more narrowly, in Queequeg's cheerful [defiance of death|acceptance of fate] in the business with the floating coffin at the end.
I don't think Medicare or Medicaid would come close to providing the amount of skilled nursing care Dr. Hawking requires.
What are you talking about? All the information needed is public record. Totally doable as an open source project.
The Bloomberg Terminal isn't mega-popular in its market?
When Hamas uses sugar as fuel for the rockets they lob at civilian areas over the border, what are the Israelis supposed to do?
It's a totally honest question - what would you do to end the cycle of violence and repression in the region while guaranteeing that everyone who was born in Israel/Palestine gets to continue living there?
Well that's easy for you to say.
Um, how about the USS Cole? A thousand Zodiacs with suicide bombers is bloody and low-tech, but the Iranians have proved more than willing to throw huge amounts of cannon fodder at a military objective.