Nothing except p-chem. Which does not strictly exclude the possibility, but does suggest that higher elements are probably pretty rare: Stable solutions in the higher elements are difficult to find. You usually end up with extremely short half-lives. Isotopes with short half-lives are unlikely to be found far from whatever phenomenon generated them.
And you can't really say "But your opinions are wrong!". At best, you can say something like "The policies you advocate go against the constitution", and they can respond "Well, then I guess my opinion is that we should change the constitution."
One would hope that's what they'd say. Although my experience is that they're probably too impatient for that, so they'll say something about it being a "living document" while thinking "It's just a piece of paper."
But the file formats don't specify this. The image from a camera will set gray 127 to pretty much half the number of photons hitting the sensor as white 255, won't it?
Yeah, I think it comes down to what the graphics files specify. This is the first I've heard that 24-bit color is logarithmic. I suspect that.. it isn't..though. If it is, then yeah, the scaling algorithms ought to have been taking it into account.
Any time you're taking an average, you can hand-craft a set of points that average to whatever you want. The dalai picture doesn't really prove anything, only that a log/exponential scaling algorithm might have some interesting, perhaps even desirable results.
Combining rail with road traffic on a new bridge is about as sound an environmental decision as combining heavy-lift capabilities with manned flight with satellite retrieval was a sound economic decision for the space shuttle. Or buying a combo TV/VCR would've been in 2001. There might be some cases that make sense, but you add structural and maintenance design constraints to both projects that increase the overall cost, and energy cost.
Unless you have a space constraint on either landing preventing a two-bridge solution, it's probably better to keep them separate.
There's no way to reasonably expect a person to know that your example is a login and password or just garbledegook auto-generated directory structure. You see autogenerated directory structures all over the web, in fact there's probably some on this very web page if you'd care to look under the hood.
Not only that, but even in the second example (and btw, don't foucs on GET v. POST very much. Under the hood, they're extremely similar.) everything is sent in plaintext. You're still not talking about a locked door. At best, you're talking about a long hallway of open doorways, where some lead to rooms and many do not.
There is already a very simple, pretty secure way to allow restricted web access to certain information, and that way is SSL, not http passwords. (which would be more of "http://user:pass@example.com/stuff" but which are also plaintext and therefore frowned upon.)
This is eerily reminiscent of the cell phone companies who used to, instead of encrypting their transmissions, just transmit in plain ol' AM, and rely on specific legislation to make sure no one was listening. Except that such legislation is not in place here.
It would be, if you had someone smoke the marijuana through a bong, poured the bong water into a swimming pool filled with distilled water, took a liter from that and poured it into another swimming pool full of distilled water, took a liter from that... about 3 more times or so, and then presented a 2-oz dosages of the result as a "remedy."
Otherwise it's herbalism, which itself can also be a scam, but for different reasons. Homeopathy is like a scam squared: the scammer might start with an herbal remedy that itself is a scam, and the proceed to sell his own concoctions which don't actually contain any of the herbal remedy.
The affected government minister said that the website was accessed 3,727 times, and that this is 'akin to 3,727 attempts to turn their own head in a busy, public marketplace and look at a billboard.'
Don't want people reading your web site? Put it behind a login. Anything else is just sophistry to cover up incompetence. Web sites are advertisements first and foremost. The whole point is to make it possible for as many people as possible to read your thing. If you want to exclude certain people from being able to view it, then you shouldn't just put a billboard up where you think it's out of the way and hope nobody notices, you should put it behind a door which requires a key to get in.
We never utter the phrase, "There's no word for it in English." in English. When we find a culture that has a concept for which no word currently exists in Engilsh, we say, "well, what's your word for it." Then we hit their language with a sack of potatoes and run off with the word. Sometimes the assault is more violent than than that, sometimes the exchange is far too friendly to be described in polite company, but by hook or by crook, there is no concept which cannot be expressed in English. At least, not for any length of time.
Yah, that's all well and good, but it doesn't look like the local DA is inclined to pursue justice here. There are only two other options for justice, and one of them was very well described in a play about two teenagers who alternately poison and then stab each other in a crypt. It does not end well.
That leaves civil penalties. And civil penalties go to the plaintiff.. and the lawyers. There's no where else they *can* go.
I'm with you on "not punishing the other students by suing the school itself" except that the school idiotically extends a liability umbrella over its agents. School officials should have to buy liability insurance just like doctors do, and they should be responsible for their actions and their subordinates. None of this "mwa ha ha, the town pays the penalty for our wrongdoing against the town" malarkey.
Think about what you just said for a minute. The grinding is bad enough the first time....
Frankly, I'm surprised that any MMO manages to last as long as they do once people realize that. I'm dumbfounded at WoW's success, though.
Do you really want the officially sanctioned price for spying on kids in their bedrooms to be "a box of candy"?
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Fine, we'll do that as soon as people stop trying to game the system by inventing ever-more complex ways to avoid paying their taxes.
Precisely. The latter one follows the former.
Also, as the tax code is currently used for behavior modification as well as actual revenue generation, we should not condemn those who alter their behavior to present a smaller taxable profile. That was the intended effect. If we don't like it, then we shouldn't put all kinds of behavior-modifying loopholes in the law!
Until law making authority is granted to another body (read: our constitution is re-written), then we'll never have a simple, straight-forward, tax code.
Fie on you. I think you're right. Part of the problem is that lawyers in legislatures have a slight conflict of interest: they have no interest in creating good laws, or striking bad (or even good) laws, but they have a direct financial interest to creating more laws.
I'm not saying the code shouldn't be amended. I think it could be simplified quite a bit while remaining quite effective. But I don't hold any illusions that it *will* be simplified without a military coup.
Eventually, we'll get to the point where it's almost ready to happen. At that point the politicians on watch will either wise up very quickly and re-form just enough to keep their heads...or they won't. We seem to have a pretty high tolerance for intolerable tyrannies, though. Does that make us stoically noble in some way? I'm going to claim it.
Ubuntu's plan, if i read correctly, was to take advantage of periods in the boot cycle during which no IO was occurring to cache "frequently used programs" or just "stuff that's going to be needed during the boot process later" as determined by some kind of heuristic.
it shouldn't have added to the boot time because it was supposed to take place while the cpu was occupied, and presumably used direct memory access features to get the bits into the RAM.
I believe you could also add files to the list manually, but the important thing about this feature is that it does not specify what should stay in RAM, only what should be cached "if there's time" during boot.
I was hoping someone would know if there was any feature like that (other than/dev/ramN, which is inferior to tmpfs in every other way), and if there was any feature that would show what actually is cached. I'm definitely curious about it, seems like something that would be found under sysfs or procfs if it exists.
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For all the tax-avoiding mental gymnastics many of the antitax crowd employ, and with how smart they think they are, you'd think a simple, straightforward solution such as what you did would be obvious. Some people just don't want to pay taxes.
You've made a mistake here. The anti-tax crowd aren't against paying their taxes. They don't want to have to go through any kind of "straightforward" gymnastics to avoid taxes. They just want the taxes to not be in the way to avoid.
Because of the complexity of the tax laws, we now have a new activity which somehow is frowned upon by everyone (and committed by nearly as many.). An activity which is not only perfectly legal, but also presumably encouraged. You've even advocated that activity right here, but for some reason there are people decrying "Tax Avoision."
Why not just not have that complexity. Have a tax code that's short enough for a single person to read completely through in less than 2000 hours of reading (leaving two weeks for actual work). Every section you can't read is a section you can't be sure doesn't apply to you. If you're on the hook for criminal liability for failing to adhere to "must" sections, then you must be able to read them. And that's not even counting the money you lose by not having time to find "may" sections.
For hygiene reasons, you should take your own fingerprint in ink (at home), scan it into your computer, and print it out with a laser printer. Cut that into a little loop that you can put over a glove and tape it together. When you arrive at work, put on one of those finger-condoms, put the fingerprint loop over it, and scan that.
That way you won't have to worry about how many people touched that thing without washing their hands (and after going to the rest room) since the last time the device was cleaned. As an added bonus, if Mythbusters are to be believed, there's a good chance that you'll get a better read off the paper than your hand...
I love how we got this term "McCarthyism" as if Senator McCarthy was in charge of the House Unamerican Affairs Committee and not, you know, concerned entirely* with 100-200 communists in the State Dept. who might have had loyalties to foreign countries, specifically USSR. Of which, the released Venona records reveal probably were actually communists, and many of which genuinely were spies.
*ok, and a lot with grandstanding. But his targets were all within a federal agency with immense power.
But yeah, don't worry about traitors in the department charged with diplomacy and state security or anything. That'd be like, some kind of -ism and like, race-bating or something. It's not like they can hurt you with a bad treaty or anything. Oh.. wait...
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Nothing except p-chem. Which does not strictly exclude the possibility, but does suggest that higher elements are probably pretty rare: Stable solutions in the higher elements are difficult to find. You usually end up with extremely short half-lives. Isotopes with short half-lives are unlikely to be found far from whatever phenomenon generated them.
And you can't really say "But your opinions are wrong!". At best, you can say something like "The policies you advocate go against the constitution", and they can respond "Well, then I guess my opinion is that we should change the constitution."
One would hope that's what they'd say. Although my experience is that they're probably too impatient for that, so they'll say something about it being a "living document" while thinking "It's just a piece of paper."
But the file formats don't specify this. The image from a camera will set gray 127 to pretty much half the number of photons hitting the sensor as white 255, won't it?
Yeah, I think it comes down to what the graphics files specify. This is the first I've heard that 24-bit color is logarithmic. I suspect that.. it isn't..though. If it is, then yeah, the scaling algorithms ought to have been taking it into account.
Any time you're taking an average, you can hand-craft a set of points that average to whatever you want. The dalai picture doesn't really prove anything, only that a log/exponential scaling algorithm might have some interesting, perhaps even desirable results.
The counter takes cash.
Pay at the counter.
twisty-click or clicky-top?
Combining rail with road traffic on a new bridge is about as sound an environmental decision as combining heavy-lift capabilities with manned flight with satellite retrieval was a sound economic decision for the space shuttle. Or buying a combo TV/VCR would've been in 2001. There might be some cases that make sense, but you add structural and maintenance design constraints to both projects that increase the overall cost, and energy cost.
Unless you have a space constraint on either landing preventing a two-bridge solution, it's probably better to keep them separate.
Not only that, but even in the second example (and btw, don't foucs on GET v. POST very much. Under the hood, they're extremely similar.) everything is sent in plaintext. You're still not talking about a locked door. At best, you're talking about a long hallway of open doorways, where some lead to rooms and many do not.
There is already a very simple, pretty secure way to allow restricted web access to certain information, and that way is SSL, not http passwords. (which would be more of "http://user:pass@example.com/stuff" but which are also plaintext and therefore frowned upon.)
This is eerily reminiscent of the cell phone companies who used to, instead of encrypting their transmissions, just transmit in plain ol' AM, and rely on specific legislation to make sure no one was listening. Except that such legislation is not in place here.
It would be, if you had someone smoke the marijuana through a bong, poured the bong water into a swimming pool filled with distilled water, took a liter from that and poured it into another swimming pool full of distilled water, took a liter from that... about 3 more times or so, and then presented a 2-oz dosages of the result as a "remedy."
Otherwise it's herbalism, which itself can also be a scam, but for different reasons. Homeopathy is like a scam squared: the scammer might start with an herbal remedy that itself is a scam, and the proceed to sell his own concoctions which don't actually contain any of the herbal remedy.
Obligatory "funny web site" link: Mitchel & Webb on Youtube
This could be solved with a LaTeX to ePub utility. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there was one.
The affected government minister said that the website was accessed 3,727 times, and that this is 'akin to 3,727 attempts to turn their own head in a busy, public marketplace and look at a billboard.'
Don't want people reading your web site? Put it behind a login. Anything else is just sophistry to cover up incompetence. Web sites are advertisements first and foremost. The whole point is to make it possible for as many people as possible to read your thing. If you want to exclude certain people from being able to view it, then you shouldn't just put a billboard up where you think it's out of the way and hope nobody notices, you should put it behind a door which requires a key to get in.
We never utter the phrase, "There's no word for it in English." in English. When we find a culture that has a concept for which no word currently exists in Engilsh, we say, "well, what's your word for it." Then we hit their language with a sack of potatoes and run off with the word. Sometimes the assault is more violent than than that, sometimes the exchange is far too friendly to be described in polite company, but by hook or by crook, there is no concept which cannot be expressed in English. At least, not for any length of time.
Yah, that's all well and good, but it doesn't look like the local DA is inclined to pursue justice here. There are only two other options for justice, and one of them was very well described in a play about two teenagers who alternately poison and then stab each other in a crypt. It does not end well.
That leaves civil penalties. And civil penalties go to the plaintiff.. and the lawyers. There's no where else they *can* go.
I'm with you on "not punishing the other students by suing the school itself" except that the school idiotically extends a liability umbrella over its agents. School officials should have to buy liability insurance just like doctors do, and they should be responsible for their actions and their subordinates. None of this "mwa ha ha, the town pays the penalty for our wrongdoing against the town" malarkey.
Sounds to me like *all* of the students broke the rule...
After reading Poljut's statement, I think it might be time for a re-re-thinking...
Think about what you just said for a minute. The grinding is bad enough the first time.... Frankly, I'm surprised that any MMO manages to last as long as they do once people realize that. I'm dumbfounded at WoW's success, though.
Calculated by who, the screenwriters for the movie, Eraser?
Do you really want the officially sanctioned price for spying on kids in their bedrooms to be "a box of candy"?
Fine, we'll do that as soon as people stop trying to game the system by inventing ever-more complex ways to avoid paying their taxes.
Precisely. The latter one follows the former. Also, as the tax code is currently used for behavior modification as well as actual revenue generation, we should not condemn those who alter their behavior to present a smaller taxable profile. That was the intended effect. If we don't like it, then we shouldn't put all kinds of behavior-modifying loopholes in the law!
Until law making authority is granted to another body (read: our constitution is re-written), then we'll never have a simple, straight-forward, tax code.
Fie on you. I think you're right. Part of the problem is that lawyers in legislatures have a slight conflict of interest: they have no interest in creating good laws, or striking bad (or even good) laws, but they have a direct financial interest to creating more laws.
I'm not saying the code shouldn't be amended. I think it could be simplified quite a bit while remaining quite effective. But I don't hold any illusions that it *will* be simplified without a military coup.
Eventually, we'll get to the point where it's almost ready to happen. At that point the politicians on watch will either wise up very quickly and re-form just enough to keep their heads...or they won't. We seem to have a pretty high tolerance for intolerable tyrannies, though. Does that make us stoically noble in some way? I'm going to claim it.
Depends on whether they're uniformed or not. Geez man, this is geneva convention 101.
Ubuntu's plan, if i read correctly, was to take advantage of periods in the boot cycle during which no IO was occurring to cache "frequently used programs" or just "stuff that's going to be needed during the boot process later" as determined by some kind of heuristic.
it shouldn't have added to the boot time because it was supposed to take place while the cpu was occupied, and presumably used direct memory access features to get the bits into the RAM.
I believe you could also add files to the list manually, but the important thing about this feature is that it does not specify what should stay in RAM, only what should be cached "if there's time" during boot.
I was hoping someone would know if there was any feature like that (other than /dev/ramN, which is inferior to tmpfs in every other way), and if there was any feature that would show what actually is cached. I'm definitely curious about it, seems like something that would be found under sysfs or procfs if it exists.
For all the tax-avoiding mental gymnastics many of the antitax crowd employ, and with how smart they think they are, you'd think a simple, straightforward solution such as what you did would be obvious. Some people just don't want to pay taxes.
You've made a mistake here. The anti-tax crowd aren't against paying their taxes. They don't want to have to go through any kind of "straightforward" gymnastics to avoid taxes. They just want the taxes to not be in the way to avoid.
Because of the complexity of the tax laws, we now have a new activity which somehow is frowned upon by everyone (and committed by nearly as many.). An activity which is not only perfectly legal, but also presumably encouraged. You've even advocated that activity right here, but for some reason there are people decrying "Tax Avoision."
Why not just not have that complexity. Have a tax code that's short enough for a single person to read completely through in less than 2000 hours of reading (leaving two weeks for actual work). Every section you can't read is a section you can't be sure doesn't apply to you. If you're on the hook for criminal liability for failing to adhere to "must" sections, then you must be able to read them. And that's not even counting the money you lose by not having time to find "may" sections.
For hygiene reasons, you should take your own fingerprint in ink (at home), scan it into your computer, and print it out with a laser printer. Cut that into a little loop that you can put over a glove and tape it together. When you arrive at work, put on one of those finger-condoms, put the fingerprint loop over it, and scan that.
That way you won't have to worry about how many people touched that thing without washing their hands (and after going to the rest room) since the last time the device was cleaned. As an added bonus, if Mythbusters are to be believed, there's a good chance that you'll get a better read off the paper than your hand...
I love how we got this term "McCarthyism" as if Senator McCarthy was in charge of the House Unamerican Affairs Committee and not, you know, concerned entirely* with 100-200 communists in the State Dept. who might have had loyalties to foreign countries, specifically USSR. Of which, the released Venona records reveal probably were actually communists, and many of which genuinely were spies.
*ok, and a lot with grandstanding. But his targets were all within a federal agency with immense power.
But yeah, don't worry about traitors in the department charged with diplomacy and state security or anything. That'd be like, some kind of -ism and like, race-bating or something. It's not like they can hurt you with a bad treaty or anything. Oh.. wait...