The fast food places do the same thing, without needing a fauxtalian translation to bring about. Like starbucks they did it not by renaming things to make people think they're getting bigger drinks, but by refraining from advertising the smaller sizes available. (starbucks has a secret, smaller size, but I forget what they insist on calling it. I don't shop there that often because I don't like coffee enough to pay tree-fitty a cup.
But yeah, it's pretty annoying, anyway. I usually just go out of my way to be "extra-clear." Like something like, "I want whatever is the middle size"
Next time you're in there, try ordering in the language of the originators of the coffee craze: Amharic.
If someone wants to start a 'fictionpedia' they should go right ahead, but it's actually a little embarrassing when there's more written about Scooby-Doo than the Napoleonic Wars.
Perhaps. But if the wikipedia had been around since people who served in the Napoleonic wars were alive, there would probably be quite a bit more info on them. Of course there would have been deletionists complaining that the Napoleonic Wars had a lot more content than the punic wars or some-such.
Now, granted, Scooby-Doo is also a lot less important to the world than the Napoleonic wars were, but if you compare it to other important contemporary events, I think you'll find that the ratio is a tad more agreeable.
And more importantly, the problem is one of brevity: the article on Scooby-Doo should be edited for terseness, not deleted in its entirety. And, perhaps, any pages about supporting characters should be excluded from searching.
I've never seen anybody supply a zip-topped ventilated bag, although I suppose you could make holes in it yourself. This would probably, however, only serve to draw attention to yourself.
None of these models are "right"; they are more or less precise, and more or less useful in different cases. Sorry, but the "Newtonian mechanics proven wrong" meme bugs the hell out of me almost as much as astrology.
Somebody, somewhere, must have improperly uttered a similar phrase, instead of the more accurate, "Newtonian mechanics have proven to be an incredibly useful simplification of a greater theory." Even if Newton had come up with relativistic quantum mechanics, it would still be necessary to distill classical physics out for practical purposes.
Astrology is not a model, and can't be proven wrong as it is not evidence based, and makes no testable predictions.
Ahh, but there's the kicker. It makes plenty of testable predictions every day. And they're published every day too. Of course the predictions are often themselves contradictory, but that doesn't mean they're untestable. It just means that it's impossible for them not to be proven wrong.
Actually, come to think of it, astrology is a lot like chiropractic and homeopathy.
On 3, burning pattern doesn't really make much sense as a pricing factor, since the stamper isn't really going to care what made the pits. Certainly it makes a certain amount of sense, if I'm reading that correctly, to have the first load data on the outside of the disk, to load faster. (I think there are settings in mkisofs you could use to sort-of simulate that if you really wanted to) But I don't see why that would make it more expensive.
The water in my local county tastes terrible. I don't know why, perhaps it is simply that they aren't doing enough to filter it, or some asshole thinks that chlorine and dirt tastes good and is pumping up the levels. Actually, come to think of it, the water in my entire state tastes terrible, and a different kind of terrible in each of the various water districts.
Now, what they probably should do is have no less than three, separate water mains. One really small one (gotta keep the flow velocity up or you risk stagnant water issues) for potable water, one that's still technically potable but tastes terrible, for showering, appliances, and pools, and one that you really shouldn't be drinking, for landscaping.
But they don't do that, and it's not likely they will any time soon where I live.
At any rate, as I understand it, your Calgary tap water tastes pretty good, and I'd probably be willing to pay to get some of it shipped down here. Do you know of a source that is less expensive or more convenient than 250 mL Dasani water bottles? Because what Coca Cola is selling isn't water. They're selling convenience and consistency.
Well, yeah, for $400 bucks, there not anywhere near worth it. But for 20 bucks, they'd have a decent market in the walmart crowd. Heck, walmart already sells toys that are nearly as functional, just with shorter LCDs and focused entirely on cheesy games instead of useful text-entry.
For $9-$12, they become disposable. People might buy a couple just to have around.
And there's no reason they can't fit extremely limited internet access in there, like, just pine or something, via modem or ethernet port. They used to sell email appliances rather like that, but they never got down to the $15 price point wherein they'd be everywhere.
If it costs anywhere near a hundred dollars to make something with less functionality than an atari 2600, something is very, very wrong.
Oh boy, they accept that their countries are corrupt, rah. Maybe that's why they're still corrupt.
But that's not the point, and that's not even the kind of corruption the parent was talking about.
Small countries are numerous. And small. The properties go hand-in-hand Therefore, those that can be bought, can be bought relatively cheaply. For the amount of money Microsoft spends on politicians in the US to keep the FTC off it's back, it can buy the votes of a few dozen small countries if those countries are corrupt. If the vote of each of those countries is worth the same as one United States, or France, or UK, or even Finland, well you can see how it can make the prospect of corrupting the institution more practical for any entity with resources and desire.
I'm curious as to why they don't alternate levels or something. Is there something about going from 90nm -- 65 nm that has to take a certain number of years, or that has to be done in order?
I mean, it seems strange to me that these fab size reductions keep coming down like clockwork if it's research that's holding them back. I would expect that the jumps would be more irregularly spaced and dramatic, even if they average out to the Moore observation.
I'd say the real question is, why aren't things like these sold at Wal*Mart for $20 a pop? They're great for students, who don't really need full wordprocessing and internet capabilities all the time, just enough to type some things and then use a real computer for markup & such.
Right. Much like the NYT distributing their content for the price of signing up, and see how they're taking over the market.
That price was too high, though. They, unlike dozens upon dozens of other newspapers, who all get their page one stories from the same two sources (Reuters & AP), they required users to give up information about themselves. And they didn't ask for much. At least, not much less than a bank would ask for when taking out a loan of several hundred thousand dollars.
So let's see here: Enough information for identity theft in exchange for "access" to the same stories as everyone else, plus the made up stories, plus the horribly slanted editorial pages.
The thing is, though, what the hell are you supposed to do if everyone else is going blindly down that road? What the hell can you do beyond voting (with your fingers crossed), letters, blog posts, debates, books, and shouting in the streets (the last few of which may require a time investment that takes away from your source of income, and therefore food)?
Are you supposed to resort to assassinations or something? Booth killed Lincoln, and look how well that worked out for the south: over a decade of punishing "reconstruction." Probably single-handedly stalled race relations for nearly a century, too.
Except that smoking causes health problems and other issues for other people..
Not according to the WHO, who've gone on record as stating that there is no established link between second hand smoke and lung disease. And I was even willing to believe it was a significant problem for places like bars.
The critical factor is concentration. As they say, "The solution to pollution is dilution" and even in a crowed bar, you're talking about a few pints per breath into a space measured in tens of cubic feet. It would take a whole lot o' breathin' (and a piss-poor air exchange) to reach equilibrium concentration.
Yeah, until they hit round about Mars orbit. Then, due to the dropoff in insolation, it starts to make sense to switch to internal power supplies. Especially if you require propulsion-level power supply.
Plutonium RTGs will run for a very long time, and your electric propulsion doesn't care where the electricity comes from. Why not use both? Solar panels for the inner solar system, and explosive bolts for when the the panels' mass causes "drag" on a decay-dominated power source?
The atmosphere on mars is far too thin to consider *landing* something like the space shuttle, and even if it could, there is no place to land: it's covered in huge boulders. Mars looks a lot like southern Arizona. A mars lander is naturally going to be quite a bit more like the lunar lander, only bigger. By a lot.
And the critical issue is: there's nothing on Mars that's worth sending people for. The moon, maybe, assuming you need people to run a far-side radio telescope.
As for Diaspora, we don't have anywhere near the resources necessary to attempt anything like that. We'd need much better launch vehicles, or an impending disaster severe enough that nuclear rockets make sense to build.
Why is it that in 8 years, I have never, EVER heard of a major Democrat standing up and saying outright, without analogy, subtlety or tact, that thanks to Bush the terrorists have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams?
Because thanks to him, the Democrats have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Literally. As in, they were criticizing the prescription drug boondoggle as going to far. When is that supposed to kick in, anyway?
And they got their education bill: "No Child Left Behind" was co-written by senator Edward "water under the bridge" Kennedy.
Technically, Bush got his tax cuts through, I guess, but taxes are an merely an inflation-control measure. Spending is where the real problems start, and he didn't get any cuts at all on that front. In fact, he presided over the largest expansion of the federal government since FDR!
And do you really think that Democrats were opposed to federalizing airport security screeners? More fodder for the government employees' union.
I do wonder, though, what Gore would've done post 9/11. I imagine that domestically, it would be very similar to what Bush has done. Only difference I'd guess is that Gore would probably have bombed afghanistan right away, and then considered that the end of it on the foreign agenda side.
So.. are you saying that the Tuskegee experiments, forced sterilization, Mengele and the Holocaust,the engineered Ukranian famine, and other atrocities didn't happen?
No, Cossack is right. Those people were murdered by atheists, in the name of atheism. Just because the murderers didn't utter the phrase, "I kill you in the name of my god, 'None'" doesn't mean they weren't murdered to advance atheism.
Marx was pretty memorable in his condemnation of religion, and the atrocities of Marxism may, perhaps ironically, be one of the principle reasons for resistance to atheism. From Eugenics to Stalinism, our grandparents made some pretty grand mistakes. And learned from them. We would do well to avoid charging blindly into the exact same alleys.
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The fast food places do the same thing, without needing a fauxtalian translation to bring about. Like starbucks they did it not by renaming things to make people think they're getting bigger drinks, but by refraining from advertising the smaller sizes available. (starbucks has a secret, smaller size, but I forget what they insist on calling it. I don't shop there that often because I don't like coffee enough to pay tree-fitty a cup.
But yeah, it's pretty annoying, anyway. I usually just go out of my way to be "extra-clear." Like something like, "I want whatever is the middle size"
Next time you're in there, try ordering in the language of the originators of the coffee craze: Amharic.
Perhaps. But if the wikipedia had been around since people who served in the Napoleonic wars were alive, there would probably be quite a bit more info on them. Of course there would have been deletionists complaining that the Napoleonic Wars had a lot more content than the punic wars or some-such.
Now, granted, Scooby-Doo is also a lot less important to the world than the Napoleonic wars were, but if you compare it to other important contemporary events, I think you'll find that the ratio is a tad more agreeable.
And more importantly, the problem is one of brevity: the article on Scooby-Doo should be edited for terseness, not deleted in its entirety. And, perhaps, any pages about supporting characters should be excluded from searching.
Never bought grapes at a supermarket, then?
Somebody, somewhere, must have improperly uttered a similar phrase, instead of the more accurate, "Newtonian mechanics have proven to be an incredibly useful simplification of a greater theory." Even if Newton had come up with relativistic quantum mechanics, it would still be necessary to distill classical physics out for practical purposes.
Ahh, but there's the kicker. It makes plenty of testable predictions every day. And they're published every day too. Of course the predictions are often themselves contradictory, but that doesn't mean they're untestable. It just means that it's impossible for them not to be proven wrong.
Actually, come to think of it, astrology is a lot like chiropractic and homeopathy.
On 3, burning pattern doesn't really make much sense as a pricing factor, since the stamper isn't really going to care what made the pits. Certainly it makes a certain amount of sense, if I'm reading that correctly, to have the first load data on the outside of the disk, to load faster. (I think there are settings in mkisofs you could use to sort-of simulate that if you really wanted to) But I don't see why that would make it more expensive.
Look, we were all rooting for Lynx. And they had a good run. But in the end, people wanted a little more. Wishful thinking isn't going to change that.
The water in my local county tastes terrible. I don't know why, perhaps it is simply that they aren't doing enough to filter it, or some asshole thinks that chlorine and dirt tastes good and is pumping up the levels. Actually, come to think of it, the water in my entire state tastes terrible, and a different kind of terrible in each of the various water districts.
Now, what they probably should do is have no less than three, separate water mains. One really small one (gotta keep the flow velocity up or you risk stagnant water issues) for potable water, one that's still technically potable but tastes terrible, for showering, appliances, and pools, and one that you really shouldn't be drinking, for landscaping.
But they don't do that, and it's not likely they will any time soon where I live.
At any rate, as I understand it, your Calgary tap water tastes pretty good, and I'd probably be willing to pay to get some of it shipped down here. Do you know of a source that is less expensive or more convenient than 250 mL Dasani water bottles? Because what Coca Cola is selling isn't water. They're selling convenience and consistency.
That's why it's there. You have to set the baseline level so that you don't accidentally dilute the treatment into dangerous over-potency.
Well, yeah, for $400 bucks, there not anywhere near worth it. But for 20 bucks, they'd have a decent market in the walmart crowd. Heck, walmart already sells toys that are nearly as functional, just with shorter LCDs and focused entirely on cheesy games instead of useful text-entry.
For $9-$12, they become disposable. People might buy a couple just to have around.
And there's no reason they can't fit extremely limited internet access in there, like, just pine or something, via modem or ethernet port. They used to sell email appliances rather like that, but they never got down to the $15 price point wherein they'd be everywhere.
If it costs anywhere near a hundred dollars to make something with less functionality than an atari 2600, something is very, very wrong.
Oh boy, they accept that their countries are corrupt, rah. Maybe that's why they're still corrupt.
But that's not the point, and that's not even the kind of corruption the parent was talking about.
Small countries are numerous. And small. The properties go hand-in-hand Therefore, those that can be bought, can be bought relatively cheaply. For the amount of money Microsoft spends on politicians in the US to keep the FTC off it's back, it can buy the votes of a few dozen small countries if those countries are corrupt. If the vote of each of those countries is worth the same as one United States, or France, or UK, or even Finland, well you can see how it can make the prospect of corrupting the institution more practical for any entity with resources and desire.
I'm curious as to why they don't alternate levels or something. Is there something about going from 90nm -- 65 nm that has to take a certain number of years, or that has to be done in order?
I mean, it seems strange to me that these fab size reductions keep coming down like clockwork if it's research that's holding them back. I would expect that the jumps would be more irregularly spaced and dramatic, even if they average out to the Moore observation.
I'd say the real question is, why aren't things like these sold at Wal*Mart for $20 a pop? They're great for students, who don't really need full wordprocessing and internet capabilities all the time, just enough to type some things and then use a real computer for markup & such.
But they cost as much as an OLPC, what gives?
Why does a media player need to "boot" up, anyway?
Yeah, 'cause nothing says "individualism" like wearing a mass-produced piece of cheap movie swag with a bunch of angsty teenagers.
That price was too high, though. They, unlike dozens upon dozens of other newspapers, who all get their page one stories from the same two sources (Reuters & AP), they required users to give up information about themselves. And they didn't ask for much. At least, not much less than a bank would ask for when taking out a loan of several hundred thousand dollars.
So let's see here: Enough information for identity theft in exchange for "access" to the same stories as everyone else, plus the made up stories, plus the horribly slanted editorial pages.
The thing is, though, what the hell are you supposed to do if everyone else is going blindly down that road? What the hell can you do beyond voting (with your fingers crossed), letters, blog posts, debates, books, and shouting in the streets (the last few of which may require a time investment that takes away from your source of income, and therefore food)?
Are you supposed to resort to assassinations or something? Booth killed Lincoln, and look how well that worked out for the south: over a decade of punishing "reconstruction." Probably single-handedly stalled race relations for nearly a century, too.
Gattaca, the movie about genetics for people with twitchy pointer fingers.
I mean, c'mon, drop the second 't' and you've got two triplets.
The critical factor is concentration. As they say, "The solution to pollution is dilution" and even in a crowed bar, you're talking about a few pints per breath into a space measured in tens of cubic feet. It would take a whole lot o' breathin' (and a piss-poor air exchange) to reach equilibrium concentration.
Yeah, until they hit round about Mars orbit. Then, due to the dropoff in insolation, it starts to make sense to switch to internal power supplies. Especially if you require propulsion-level power supply.
Plutonium RTGs will run for a very long time, and your electric propulsion doesn't care where the electricity comes from. Why not use both? Solar panels for the inner solar system, and explosive bolts for when the the panels' mass causes "drag" on a decay-dominated power source?
The atmosphere on mars is far too thin to consider *landing* something like the space shuttle, and even if it could, there is no place to land: it's covered in huge boulders. Mars looks a lot like southern Arizona. A mars lander is naturally going to be quite a bit more like the lunar lander, only bigger. By a lot.
And the critical issue is: there's nothing on Mars that's worth sending people for. The moon, maybe, assuming you need people to run a far-side radio telescope.
As for Diaspora, we don't have anywhere near the resources necessary to attempt anything like that. We'd need much better launch vehicles, or an impending disaster severe enough that nuclear rockets make sense to build.
Because thanks to him, the Democrats have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Literally. As in, they were criticizing the prescription drug boondoggle as going to far. When is that supposed to kick in, anyway?
And they got their education bill: "No Child Left Behind" was co-written by senator Edward "water under the bridge" Kennedy.
Technically, Bush got his tax cuts through, I guess, but taxes are an merely an inflation-control measure. Spending is where the real problems start, and he didn't get any cuts at all on that front. In fact, he presided over the largest expansion of the federal government since FDR!
And do you really think that Democrats were opposed to federalizing airport security screeners? More fodder for the government employees' union.
I do wonder, though, what Gore would've done post 9/11. I imagine that domestically, it would be very similar to what Bush has done. Only difference I'd guess is that Gore would probably have bombed afghanistan right away, and then considered that the end of it on the foreign agenda side.
But there is a hole in the bucket, dear Liza.
So.. are you saying that the Tuskegee experiments, forced sterilization, Mengele and the Holocaust,the engineered Ukranian famine, and other atrocities didn't happen?
So, allowing ndiswrapper to pass GPLONLY functions to proprietary binary blobs really a kind of license-laundering, isn't it?
No, Cossack is right. Those people were murdered by atheists, in the name of atheism. Just because the murderers didn't utter the phrase, "I kill you in the name of my god, 'None'" doesn't mean they weren't murdered to advance atheism.
Marx was pretty memorable in his condemnation of religion, and the atrocities of Marxism may, perhaps ironically, be one of the principle reasons for resistance to atheism. From Eugenics to Stalinism, our grandparents made some pretty grand mistakes. And learned from them. We would do well to avoid charging blindly into the exact same alleys.