And so we see the real point of IRAs and 401ks. To lock up your money in vehicles where other people can make it work for them.
Thank you, but "won't be taxed until later, when taxes' inexorable rise negates the supposed benefit of the lower income" is just not as enticing as it used to be.
IRAs are like cell phone contracts. You think you're getting a deal, but all you're really getting is less bargaining power.
Of the last ten things I've looked up on Wikipedia, four have been stubs.
I've oft wondered how many of those stubs are things about which no one has written, and how many are things about which fairly decent articles have been deprecated, not-notabled, or otherwise removed for various reasons on the spectrum of reasonable to nefarious.
He's evolving down from "skydiving" to a workable personal jetsuit, rather than up from "rocket skating." An early iteration had no engines at all, just a delta-wing personal glider (and it could probably be considered as an incremental improvement over the "wing suit" which came after the "balloon suit"...)
It's just safer this way. If he fails, he's ditches the wing and activates "plain old skydiving" mode with a parachute. If he'd started from the ground on the first try, there are dozens of places where a failure means death without any fall-back options at all.
In previous interviews he has stated than an eventual goal is to do a complete flight including takeoff.
With polarized glasses, you would display the images interleaved, at the same time. You'd sacrifice vertical resolution, I think, similar to the loss with interlaced playback.
I suppose it's possible that even with polarized glasses, time-domain interleaving might turn out to be technically simpler (still using an extra lcd film to get the cross polarization done right). But there are screens out now that are boasting 120 hz (presumably some kind of temporal interpolation) on the consumer market, so I don't think that it'd be a huge technical challenge to split that in half and still look good.
Your eye can handle the lag just fine. Pretty much every 3D film, except maybe IMAX, does it the one-after-the-other way. At some small multiple of 24 hz.
Oh oh I can make information travel faster than light too.
Step one: get a gigantic wall (say, a million km long) and a red laser pointer. Place one friend at each end of the wall (on the same side.). Stand in the middle of the wall and walk away from it for a half million km. Aim the laser pointer at the first friend and turn it on. Flick wrist to point along the wall to the second friend. If you can do it in less than three seconds, about four seconds after you started, you will observe a red dot traveling from one friend to the other, "faster than light." Amazing!
Anyway, near as I can figure, they're pretty much doing the same thing, but with more obfuscatory math to help you think you don't understand it.
That's the wrong way to do it. You're talking fancy sync'd headsets if you do it that way. Power and signal tether you to a position, and weight puts unnecessary strain on your neck.
The proper way to do stereoscopic 3D with an LCD is to sacrifice half your pixels to perpendicular orientation and use linear polarized lenses like the movie theaters do. I mean, jeez, LCD screens are already polarized. All it would take is an extra layer.
Yeah, I thought that too, but it occurred to me that satellite-to-ground communication is limited by the ground stations within the footprint of the satellite. If the only available ground stations are saturated with other traffic, it may very well be that a space-routed signal arrives at its destination before a direct to ground routed signal under certain conditions.
The idea would not be for communication via satellite network to another ground station, that would likely be more effectively improved by using full-ground path. But rather to improve communications with the satellites themselves by utilizing ground links that are not saturated.
It's even worse than that. With liberal use of jumps, the hackers can edit the jumped-over text to make sentences that actually mean something, rather than simply superficially looking like English. They could, for instance, combine a fork bomb with a screed about cheap haircuts that really aren't.
Now, if I'm reading right, on page 7 there is a diagram which seems to imply that they also have a solution to the halting problem...
As a low level character without any gold, you have to start from the bottom, doing work that higher level players found boring.
This it the thing that kills the MMO concept, IMO. Everything in the game is in there by design, so why would the designers deliberately put in bits that are "too boring for high level players" and how could that possibly be "acceptible level of boring for low level players"
MMO game economies have raw materials invariably going for higher prices than the finished goods for a reason, and the reason is that XP makes doing a job more valuable than buying the output, and that due to the variety of activities available to them, there is nothing that is more boring for a high level character than a low level character.
The pizza parlor that "does sushi on the side" to have an enormous menu isn't going to be any good. Also, "all you can eat sushi buffet" probably isn't that great, either.
When you make your sandwich, it doesn't matter much if your uncooked meat slices (most luncheon meat is "cooked" by injecting it with salt and spices) are a little thick or wide. You just try to get roughly the right total amount and balance it off with veggies.
When you make sushi, if you don't get juust the right size, the texture is all wrong. Something that should be sublime and delicious becomes a disgusting gag inducer. Even the taste seems different. Inexperienced or American* sushi chefs can easily make that mistake, and home chefs all the moreso. (*"American" cuisine being of the "it's not the highest quality, so lets give them more of it" bent more often than it ought)
And then there's Fugu, which is extra difficult because a little bit of toxin is part of the experience.
I don't know how "sushi chef" compares to "executive chef" in terms of preparation difficulty, but it's definitely way above "sandwich artist" on the scale of difficulty.
I have done remote desktop with windows XP home on both ends. All you get from pro is an easier connection process. (with home, you have to manually edit the invite to have the target IP, and manually configure their firewall to pass the connection properly)
The instructions were on the Knowledge Base website, but I can't find them (for XP) right now using their search engine. The hazards of using "I'll just search again" instead of bookmarks, I suppose.
Remote Assistance comes with all versions of windows, so you don't have to worry about sketchy third-party apps or waste time downloading and installing something. It's a little more tricky to do with the home edition, but I've helped family members using XP home on both ends. As long as you follow the directions, it's not too much of a hassle.
Other operating systems have similar functionality as well under different names. (OS X, for instance calls it "screen sharing", offers several ways to use it - iChat is probably the dumbed-down-est way, but if you want to get fancy, you can tunnel it over SSH and even enable it from within the terminal session. Ubuntu calls it "Remote Desktop" and has a whole slew of applications in the repository that do varying levels of VNC. tunneling over ssh is as trivial as on the mac, or maybe it's the other way around. I doubt apple was the leader in having secure shell implemented.)
There's really no need to go buying fancy software you heard advertised on Rush or during an episode of 24. All of the modern OSs were designed around network use and have fairly complete tools for doing everything more robustly and securely than things like "gotomypc" appear to offer.
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And so we see the real point of IRAs and 401ks. To lock up your money in vehicles where other people can make it work for them.
Thank you, but "won't be taxed until later, when taxes' inexorable rise negates the supposed benefit of the lower income" is just not as enticing as it used to be.
IRAs are like cell phone contracts. You think you're getting a deal, but all you're really getting is less bargaining power.
Of the last ten things I've looked up on Wikipedia, four have been stubs.
I've oft wondered how many of those stubs are things about which no one has written, and how many are things about which fairly decent articles have been deprecated, not-notabled, or otherwise removed for various reasons on the spectrum of reasonable to nefarious.
And what office was Tina Fey running for when she said that?
He's evolving down from "skydiving" to a workable personal jetsuit, rather than up from "rocket skating." An early iteration had no engines at all, just a delta-wing personal glider (and it could probably be considered as an incremental improvement over the "wing suit" which came after the "balloon suit"...)
It's just safer this way. If he fails, he's ditches the wing and activates "plain old skydiving" mode with a parachute. If he'd started from the ground on the first try, there are dozens of places where a failure means death without any fall-back options at all.
In previous interviews he has stated than an eventual goal is to do a complete flight including takeoff.
Wow, you've been healthy for your entire late 20s. Someone get a medical journal on the line.
I guess I wasn't clear. I'm suggesting that a lot of these FTL schemes are exactly that example except dressed up so that it doesn't look so obvious.
Yes, that's my point.
With polarized glasses, you would display the images interleaved, at the same time. You'd sacrifice vertical resolution, I think, similar to the loss with interlaced playback.
I suppose it's possible that even with polarized glasses, time-domain interleaving might turn out to be technically simpler (still using an extra lcd film to get the cross polarization done right). But there are screens out now that are boasting 120 hz (presumably some kind of temporal interpolation) on the consumer market, so I don't think that it'd be a huge technical challenge to split that in half and still look good.
Your eye can handle the lag just fine. Pretty much every 3D film, except maybe IMAX, does it the one-after-the-other way. At some small multiple of 24 hz.
Oh oh I can make information travel faster than light too.
Step one: get a gigantic wall (say, a million km long) and a red laser pointer. Place one friend at each end of the wall (on the same side.). Stand in the middle of the wall and walk away from it for a half million km. Aim the laser pointer at the first friend and turn it on. Flick wrist to point along the wall to the second friend. If you can do it in less than three seconds, about four seconds after you started, you will observe a red dot traveling from one friend to the other, "faster than light." Amazing!
Anyway, near as I can figure, they're pretty much doing the same thing, but with more obfuscatory math to help you think you don't understand it.
That's the wrong way to do it. You're talking fancy sync'd headsets if you do it that way. Power and signal tether you to a position, and weight puts unnecessary strain on your neck.
The proper way to do stereoscopic 3D with an LCD is to sacrifice half your pixels to perpendicular orientation and use linear polarized lenses like the movie theaters do. I mean, jeez, LCD screens are already polarized. All it would take is an extra layer.
So.. you think spam filters should be illegal?
Yeah, I thought that too, but it occurred to me that satellite-to-ground communication is limited by the ground stations within the footprint of the satellite. If the only available ground stations are saturated with other traffic, it may very well be that a space-routed signal arrives at its destination before a direct to ground routed signal under certain conditions.
The idea would not be for communication via satellite network to another ground station, that would likely be more effectively improved by using full-ground path. But rather to improve communications with the satellites themselves by utilizing ground links that are not saturated.
It's even worse than that. With liberal use of jumps, the hackers can edit the jumped-over text to make sentences that actually mean something, rather than simply superficially looking like English. They could, for instance, combine a fork bomb with a screed about cheap haircuts that really aren't.
Now, if I'm reading right, on page 7 there is a diagram which seems to imply that they also have a solution to the halting problem...
Yeah, go ahead and read the rest of that sentence.
I give Ogg a pass for as long as the big raster image editor project uses the name, "gimp."
And my point was that the skill required is much greater than that which is necessary to prepare a "$5 foot-long"
I think society can afford too many scientists by a far larger margin than it can too many lawyers...
As a low level character without any gold, you have to start from the bottom, doing work that higher level players found boring.
This it the thing that kills the MMO concept, IMO. Everything in the game is in there by design, so why would the designers deliberately put in bits that are "too boring for high level players" and how could that possibly be "acceptible level of boring for low level players"
MMO game economies have raw materials invariably going for higher prices than the finished goods for a reason, and the reason is that XP makes doing a job more valuable than buying the output, and that due to the variety of activities available to them, there is nothing that is more boring for a high level character than a low level character.
It's always better to gamble with somebody else's fortune.
If you find things like OS X and the Wii simple and aesthetically pleasing, then this game's for you.
As long as you don't, you know, expect to actually run it using OS X or Wii...
The pizza parlor that "does sushi on the side" to have an enormous menu isn't going to be any good. Also, "all you can eat sushi buffet" probably isn't that great, either.
When you make your sandwich, it doesn't matter much if your uncooked meat slices (most luncheon meat is "cooked" by injecting it with salt and spices) are a little thick or wide. You just try to get roughly the right total amount and balance it off with veggies.
When you make sushi, if you don't get juust the right size, the texture is all wrong. Something that should be sublime and delicious becomes a disgusting gag inducer. Even the taste seems different. Inexperienced or American* sushi chefs can easily make that mistake, and home chefs all the moreso. (*"American" cuisine being of the "it's not the highest quality, so lets give them more of it" bent more often than it ought)
And then there's Fugu, which is extra difficult because a little bit of toxin is part of the experience.
I don't know how "sushi chef" compares to "executive chef" in terms of preparation difficulty, but it's definitely way above "sandwich artist" on the scale of difficulty.
You don't need pumps. You grow the fish in corrals in the ocean.
I have done remote desktop with windows XP home on both ends. All you get from pro is an easier connection process. (with home, you have to manually edit the invite to have the target IP, and manually configure their firewall to pass the connection properly)
The instructions were on the Knowledge Base website, but I can't find them (for XP) right now using their search engine. The hazards of using "I'll just search again" instead of bookmarks, I suppose.
Mod parent up!
Remote Assistance comes with all versions of windows, so you don't have to worry about sketchy third-party apps or waste time downloading and installing something. It's a little more tricky to do with the home edition, but I've helped family members using XP home on both ends. As long as you follow the directions, it's not too much of a hassle.
Other operating systems have similar functionality as well under different names. (OS X, for instance calls it "screen sharing", offers several ways to use it - iChat is probably the dumbed-down-est way, but if you want to get fancy, you can tunnel it over SSH and even enable it from within the terminal session. Ubuntu calls it "Remote Desktop" and has a whole slew of applications in the repository that do varying levels of VNC. tunneling over ssh is as trivial as on the mac, or maybe it's the other way around. I doubt apple was the leader in having secure shell implemented.)
There's really no need to go buying fancy software you heard advertised on Rush or during an episode of 24. All of the modern OSs were designed around network use and have fairly complete tools for doing everything more robustly and securely than things like "gotomypc" appear to offer.