According to the Libertarian presidental candidate for 2004's website, he wanted to privatize police forces. Is that not insane?
Personally I think that we need to do away with a party system, because political parties only divide the country, and real men should be able to clearly deliniate whom they stand with on any issue without neccessarily standing with said person on all issues.
Also, the two main political parties are money-whores.
Shazam. You're right. It goes from 131.xxxxx feet, to 130 feet because you have to round anything that isnt significant in an inter-system conversion. And actually, the article probably didnt do sig-figs, otherwise they would've landed a value of ~100, because trailing zeroes are insiginificant unless there is a decimal *somewhere* in the answer.
With my brother's, my mom's, and my own computers all running 24/7 w/o any common household appliances(AC, Heat, etc.) being run daily, we were up to around 1.8 to 2.1kWh a month. That's a lot of power. We live on the west coast, so our power company likes to charge for electricity like the IRS likes to charge taxes. We were in probably the upper-quartile in terms of power consumption, with three computers running. The only place I can think of where that wouldnt be a problem is if you didnt own your own home, and even then, the landlord would probably raise the rent when he found out how much of a draw we were.
I agree that it's a wonderful thing to build up information-exchange infrastructure in third-world countries, but I think a lot of people in this discussion forget that said countries dont need computers, they need access to information. Computers are a good vehicle for this, yes.
Some browsers(Opera that I know of) can be set up to authenticate as other browsers when a website pokes it for auth. I have Opera set up to authenticate as MSIE 6 because otherwise my bank website wont let me in because my browser apparently doesnt support SSE. It's funny that Opera has SSE options, and that I can get in by authenticating as MSIE instead of Opera.
You've got to be joking. Please tell me you're being sarcastically patriotic and that you're not serious about giving up America's ideals to preserve America? Honestly, if you're going to fight for freedom of speech, you have to fight for everyone's freedom to speak, and not just your own. I agree that it would be acceptable to use them to bring down the terrorist infrastructure, but when you start talking about their public websites, that's when you cross the line. Where does the line between angry semi-militant Blogger and anti-government terrorist start then? --rant-- And another thing. Why do people insist that America's more idealistically based rights, like that of due process or freedom of speech, are only rights that belong to Americans, and that it's perfectly acceptable to deny them to anyone who does not share this soil? The entire concept of INTRINSIC HUMAN RIGHTS being denied to everyone but those in your country is preposterous. --/rant--
No, very little offends me. Besides, I was more posting that comment in support of releasing the video via BT, as you're more likely to reach an intelligent audience. Also, it kinda turned into a rant against the way mainstream music has sunk in focus from originality to sales. Sorry if you misunderstood me.
The thing most people dont realise which is a contributing factor to this success is that a music video is basically an advertisement for a band. By distributing your ad to people who are intelligent enough to comprehend BT, and not the near-illiterate common denominator of MTV, you might actually succeed in reaching people who are not only jaded enough to know when something is bad, but jaded enough to realise that something is good.
(Disclaimer: Note that if you disagree with anything I just said, you're probably right. I'm really not one to argue. I'm more one to ramble.)
Oh, that and MTV just plain sucks. Those of us interested in something new/original frequently avoid MTV stuff, because most of it lacks originality. Hell, everything I hear on the radio is just a rehash of everything I heard a year ago on the same station. Different name, same sound.
I agree with the quoted post, specifically as it pertains to the internet. I would also add a margin of about 4% to his statisitic. About 95% of everything you read or find on the web via search engines is crap. I also disagree with your comment about the NY Times. Are you saying they're crappy because they disagree with you?
Umm... on the physical discomfort bit: My mother mentioned once that when you're dehydrated you tend to mistake the need for water for a need for food and act accordingly. Also, I've noticed that when I'm dehydrated I sleep less as I feel like I need to drink more fluids. Maybe obesity isnt caused by a lack of sleep, but actually a lack of water? Maybe I should drink more water so that I'm not such an enormous fat ass. There's gotta be some ancient subconscious reaction in The Foraging Creature which requires you to get out of bed and drink water.
In a side note, have you ever noticed how few water fountains there are in the world, and how many soda machines there are? Notice how so few of those take plastic or bills larger than a dollar? Maybe we just need to replace the soda and snack machines with free water vending machines. That might solve a lot of the country's issues.
Yeah... it's bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit that Bill Gates was a success without a degree. He dropped out of Harvard. He had help from his parents. I completely understand why someone with a degree in something nearly useless like polisci gets a job programming databases while someone who has studied computer science since they were potty trained gets denied a job. It's not because the employer is looking for a degree, it's because in a large project, you work with many people. You can communicate fine with yourself, which is why anyone can produce software alone on the net. Documenting that software is completely and utterly different from writing it. If you cant communicate how you wrote one object to your project manager or teammates, how are they going to use it in their sections of the project? The entire purpose of OOP and XP partly involves teamwork in design and programming. If you cant communicate, you cant work with a teammate. Most degrees that I've heard of require you to at least have basic english skills, at a C- level or higher in order to recieve them. That sort of thing is what an employer is looking for. Didnt anyone read the article suggesting that companies were looking for good communicators, not neccissarily someone who is a Wizard? If you're a wizard, and just wrote a really fancy procedure in two lines, can anyone read that? Can you explain why those two lines do what they do in plain english, without any jargon? That's the real merit of a college degree. It's not about a GPA, though the GPA implies consistent levels of competence. A degree makes several implications about your ability to communicate competently, and also that you can think and not just code.
Actually... a spedometer which tells me a speed after passing a certain 5mi increment would be *verY* useful to eliminate the distraction of looking at a dial for a few seconds and contemplating the little hairy bits. And a control system which combines tactile interface with voice commands like "Defroster active." "Floor Louvers active." would be really useful too, because then I wouldnt have to take my eyes off the road. It's just another extension of the chime that tells you to turn your lights off.
Mod this offtopic if you want. I think what the sig was getting at was that she "uses" Linux. Not that she "has" Linux. You're entirely correct in saying, though, that it's the same as saying she already "uses" a nuclear power plant. It's just not in her home.
Because in killing the convicted killer, you imply that there is no humanity left in him. Also, by killing him you do not respect *his* life. Yes, he committed a grievous wrong, but what seperates us from animals is that we have the capacity not only for reason, but for compassion and forgiveness. You dont have to agree with a person, but it would be nice if you attempted to love them enough to forgive them their transgression and admit that everyone has a chance to be reformed. I'm not saying that we should release all the violent killers on the streets. I'm only saying that we should forgive them as best we can, and not commit the same grievous wrong that they have. The entire purpose of the justice system is to punish a criminal in the hope of reformation. Also, note that though I am pro-choice, the odds of me having a g/f get an abortion are low. Pro-choice does not imply that a person is willing to have an abortion. Pro-choice only implies that the person believes that others should be allowed to dictate within their mores whether or not an unborn fetus should be removed from them.
I think one of the reasons the writer thinks doing this is such a good idea is one of the fundamental concepts behind the macintosh marketing scheme: Sell a working, out of the box solution where the hardware is so standardized that the user doesnt need to worry about whether something works with his system, or even some basic maintenance. He can pull the iMac out of the box, plug it in, turn it on, and it runs. Right out of the box. Hell, Mac OS is pretty easy to get accustomed to. Perhaps the company creating this plug and pray Linux solution would be able to also create a new GUI which is also very simple to use and caters to the SOHO user.
Or, like on my Rio Chiba, they could put a hold switch on the player so that even if you managed to get something pressing the power button for any length of time, it simply powers on the LCD for a few seconds to show a giant picture of a padlock, Mostly because padlocks are cool.
Somehow, someway, it will be related to goatse or the GNAA.
"The new GNAA orbital induction station is now operational!" Especially if it looks like a great sphere or pair of spheres in orbit. *cough*
You know, that's how a lot of presidents are chosen. Most people dont take the time to get properly informed. Instead, they choose the guy who "looks like he's the better president." Looks are important to a lot of people, whether you're at a job interview, or running for president, a lot of people will allow their "notions which may or may not be based on reality" to guide their hand. Get two identical twins with identical credentials, and the one the people-stripminer (read HR person) thinks looks better will probably get the job.
Headaches are better than being stupid and having found out you've screwed up later on. Obviously he's got some sort of marketable skill in that area, or he wouldnt be designing the database. He's asking the question in order that he may bask in the collective wisdom of many hundreds of geeks, and their songs of databasery resounding through the halls of the frozen server room of life. Obviously.
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According to the Libertarian presidental candidate for 2004's website, he wanted to privatize police forces. Is that not insane?
Personally I think that we need to do away with a party system, because political parties only divide the country, and real men should be able to clearly deliniate whom they stand with on any issue without neccessarily standing with said person on all issues.
Also, the two main political parties are money-whores.
Shazam. You're right. It goes from 131.xxxxx feet, to 130 feet because you have to round anything that isnt significant in an inter-system conversion. And actually, the article probably didnt do sig-figs, otherwise they would've landed a value of ~100, because trailing zeroes are insiginificant unless there is a decimal *somewhere* in the answer.
More than likely, as I'm pretty ignorant of the actual terminology. I just remember those numbers. Your having called me on that is much appreciated.
With my brother's, my mom's, and my own computers all running 24/7 w/o any common household appliances(AC, Heat, etc.) being run daily, we were up to around 1.8 to 2.1kWh a month. That's a lot of power. We live on the west coast, so our power company likes to charge for electricity like the IRS likes to charge taxes. We were in probably the upper-quartile in terms of power consumption, with three computers running. The only place I can think of where that wouldnt be a problem is if you didnt own your own home, and even then, the landlord would probably raise the rent when he found out how much of a draw we were.
I agree that it's a wonderful thing to build up information-exchange infrastructure in third-world countries, but I think a lot of people in this discussion forget that said countries dont need computers, they need access to information. Computers are a good vehicle for this, yes.
Some browsers(Opera that I know of) can be set up to authenticate as other browsers when a website pokes it for auth. I have Opera set up to authenticate as MSIE 6 because otherwise my bank website wont let me in because my browser apparently doesnt support SSE. It's funny that Opera has SSE options, and that I can get in by authenticating as MSIE instead of Opera.
You've got to be joking. Please tell me you're being sarcastically patriotic and that you're not serious about giving up America's ideals to preserve America? Honestly, if you're going to fight for freedom of speech, you have to fight for everyone's freedom to speak, and not just your own. I agree that it would be acceptable to use them to bring down the terrorist infrastructure, but when you start talking about their public websites, that's when you cross the line. Where does the line between angry semi-militant Blogger and anti-government terrorist start then?
--rant--
And another thing. Why do people insist that America's more idealistically based rights, like that of due process or freedom of speech, are only rights that belong to Americans, and that it's perfectly acceptable to deny them to anyone who does not share this soil? The entire concept of INTRINSIC HUMAN RIGHTS being denied to everyone but those in your country is preposterous.
--/rant--
No, very little offends me. Besides, I was more posting that comment in support of releasing the video via BT, as you're more likely to reach an intelligent audience. Also, it kinda turned into a rant against the way mainstream music has sunk in focus from originality to sales. Sorry if you misunderstood me.
The thing most people dont realise which is a contributing factor to this success is that a music video is basically an advertisement for a band. By distributing your ad to people who are intelligent enough to comprehend BT, and not the near-illiterate common denominator of MTV, you might actually succeed in reaching people who are not only jaded enough to know when something is bad, but jaded enough to realise that something is good.
(Disclaimer: Note that if you disagree with anything I just said, you're probably right. I'm really not one to argue. I'm more one to ramble.)
Oh, that and MTV just plain sucks. Those of us interested in something new/original frequently avoid MTV stuff, because most of it lacks originality. Hell, everything I hear on the radio is just a rehash of everything I heard a year ago on the same station. Different name, same sound.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor ---Read this please. Then suggest that nuclear technology is "zomg! Splodey!" dangerous. Radioactive, yes. Splodey no.
That would not be social engineering. That would be fraud. People go to prison for a long time for stealing confidential information.
I agree with the quoted post, specifically as it pertains to the internet. I would also add a margin of about 4% to his statisitic. About 95% of everything you read or find on the web via search engines is crap. I also disagree with your comment about the NY Times. Are you saying they're crappy because they disagree with you?
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Umm... on the physical discomfort bit: My mother mentioned once that when you're dehydrated you tend to mistake the need for water for a need for food and act accordingly. Also, I've noticed that when I'm dehydrated I sleep less as I feel like I need to drink more fluids. Maybe obesity isnt caused by a lack of sleep, but actually a lack of water? Maybe I should drink more water so that I'm not such an enormous fat ass. There's gotta be some ancient subconscious reaction in The Foraging Creature which requires you to get out of bed and drink water.
In a side note, have you ever noticed how few water fountains there are in the world, and how many soda machines there are? Notice how so few of those take plastic or bills larger than a dollar? Maybe we just need to replace the soda and snack machines with free water vending machines. That might solve a lot of the country's issues.
Yeah... it's bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit that Bill Gates was a success without a degree. He dropped out of Harvard. He had help from his parents. I completely understand why someone with a degree in something nearly useless like polisci gets a job programming databases while someone who has studied computer science since they were potty trained gets denied a job. It's not because the employer is looking for a degree, it's because in a large project, you work with many people. You can communicate fine with yourself, which is why anyone can produce software alone on the net. Documenting that software is completely and utterly different from writing it. If you cant communicate how you wrote one object to your project manager or teammates, how are they going to use it in their sections of the project? The entire purpose of OOP and XP partly involves teamwork in design and programming. If you cant communicate, you cant work with a teammate. Most degrees that I've heard of require you to at least have basic english skills, at a C- level or higher in order to recieve them. That sort of thing is what an employer is looking for. Didnt anyone read the article suggesting that companies were looking for good communicators, not neccissarily someone who is a Wizard? If you're a wizard, and just wrote a really fancy procedure in two lines, can anyone read that? Can you explain why those two lines do what they do in plain english, without any jargon? That's the real merit of a college degree. It's not about a GPA, though the GPA implies consistent levels of competence. A degree makes several implications about your ability to communicate competently, and also that you can think and not just code.
Actually... a spedometer which tells me a speed after passing a certain 5mi increment would be *verY* useful to eliminate the distraction of looking at a dial for a few seconds and contemplating the little hairy bits. And a control system which combines tactile interface with voice commands like "Defroster active." "Floor Louvers active." would be really useful too, because then I wouldnt have to take my eyes off the road. It's just another extension of the chime that tells you to turn your lights off.
Mod this offtopic if you want. I think what the sig was getting at was that she "uses" Linux. Not that she "has" Linux. You're entirely correct in saying, though, that it's the same as saying she already "uses" a nuclear power plant. It's just not in her home.
Because in killing the convicted killer, you imply that there is no humanity left in him. Also, by killing him you do not respect *his* life. Yes, he committed a grievous wrong, but what seperates us from animals is that we have the capacity not only for reason, but for compassion and forgiveness. You dont have to agree with a person, but it would be nice if you attempted to love them enough to forgive them their transgression and admit that everyone has a chance to be reformed. I'm not saying that we should release all the violent killers on the streets. I'm only saying that we should forgive them as best we can, and not commit the same grievous wrong that they have. The entire purpose of the justice system is to punish a criminal in the hope of reformation. Also, note that though I am pro-choice, the odds of me having a g/f get an abortion are low. Pro-choice does not imply that a person is willing to have an abortion. Pro-choice only implies that the person believes that others should be allowed to dictate within their mores whether or not an unborn fetus should be removed from them.
I think one of the reasons the writer thinks doing this is such a good idea is one of the fundamental concepts behind the macintosh marketing scheme: Sell a working, out of the box solution where the hardware is so standardized that the user doesnt need to worry about whether something works with his system, or even some basic maintenance. He can pull the iMac out of the box, plug it in, turn it on, and it runs. Right out of the box. Hell, Mac OS is pretty easy to get accustomed to. Perhaps the company creating this plug and pray Linux solution would be able to also create a new GUI which is also very simple to use and caters to the SOHO user.
Or, like on my Rio Chiba, they could put a hold switch on the player so that even if you managed to get something pressing the power button for any length of time, it simply powers on the LCD for a few seconds to show a giant picture of a padlock, Mostly because padlocks are cool.
baby steps are all it takes. In twenty years we'll have... something cool.
Somehow, someway, it will be related to goatse or the GNAA. "The new GNAA orbital induction station is now operational!" Especially if it looks like a great sphere or pair of spheres in orbit. *cough*
Shouldnt /. be recieving some sort of monetary compensation for providing him with advertising revenue by linking to his page?
You know, that's how a lot of presidents are chosen. Most people dont take the time to get properly informed. Instead, they choose the guy who "looks like he's the better president." Looks are important to a lot of people, whether you're at a job interview, or running for president, a lot of people will allow their "notions which may or may not be based on reality" to guide their hand. Get two identical twins with identical credentials, and the one the people-stripminer (read HR person) thinks looks better will probably get the job.
Headaches are better than being stupid and having found out you've screwed up later on. Obviously he's got some sort of marketable skill in that area, or he wouldnt be designing the database. He's asking the question in order that he may bask in the collective wisdom of many hundreds of geeks, and their songs of databasery resounding through the halls of the frozen server room of life. Obviously.