It would be nice if MS operating systems had an easy way to re-map keys built-in to the OS, as other operating systems do (e.g. linux and to a lesser extend, OS X).
I really like the option of swapping control and caps lock on the left side, and it occurs to me that programming tasks might be a lot more comfortable if I had some mappings for braces, brackets, parentheses, slashes and pipes in the home row. It's not right that programmers should have to type 90% of the time with their pinkies.
He put it in quotes. That's exactly the kind of customer he is to a site paid for by advertising.
Now here's an interesting datum. Slashdot has a checkbox to disable the advertising. The advertising, however, is sufficiently unobtrusive that many of those of us who have that box are leaving it unchecked....
And if they host them on-site, that removes a big portion of my objection - slow ad servers are one of the things that have been making the web frustrating for me for a long time.
Dear web site owners: if your ad server doesn't care as much about serving the ads (which they directly make money off of) in a timely manner as you do about serving the actual content (which you only indirectly make money off of via the ads), you should really think about what that means for you and your business.
The weird thing isn't that they got the allowance. The weird part is that they are the only town that got it. Instead of making a general law that communities with high horse-traffic (and high-horse traffic, too, I suppose) are allowed to consider the safety of horses, they spelled it out for one specific community by name.
Still doesn't explain why frozen veggies are always so bland. It might not matter that they're equally healthy if they just get pushed around on the plate.
Second one. I wasn't looking in the right place, apparently. Motor Vehicle code and Streets and Highways didn't have what I was looking for. I didn't see the Vehicle code section until after I posted.
Hmm, I think I found the speed laws. In the Constitution and Laws section as I should've expected, not in the code and regulations section. I find it interesting California actually has coded speed limits (as opposed to merely considering certain speeds as prima facie evidence of being in violation of a requirement to drive safely that some states have).
And this:
22353. When conducting an engineering and traffic survey, the City of Norco, in addition to the factors set forth in Section 627, may also consider equestrian safety.
What's special about Norco that they get their very own law in the vehicle code? Are their horses especially fragile?
Does that have the force of law? I can't find anything in the California Code (http://www.ca.gov/about/government/state/lawsandregs.html) that looks like it establishes any laws or authorizes any any agencies to create regulations regarding the operation of a motor vehicle.
There's a section under motor vehicles for computer crime, though, for some reason - Title 13, Division 2, section 12. Interestingly, the CCR page is the second application I've ever seen that uses silverlight.
I don't think that's what's happening, based on my experience with highways where there isn't a carpool lane. The slowbys will find their way to the left-most lane and assume they're fine because they're not exceeding a posted speed limit or breaking a carpool lane law and there are obviously no other laws regulating vehicle speed and operation than those two.
If you want to understand the economy, you need to stop thinking about the money and look at where all the stuff goes. Money is a proxy for that, but it has some serious deficiencies if it is the only think you look at.
Keynes was too focused on money and stretched out the great depression to last an entire generation. People point to the war coinciding with the "end" of the depression as evidence of Keynsian economics, but although there was a lot of activity and high labor participation rate among those who weren't getting shot at, the actual distribution of goods was pretty poor. There was rationing across all segments of the economy to maintain a war machine that basically destroyed all of those goods and also destroyed hundreds of years of accumulated infrastructure. The depression didn't end until after the wartime spending ended and millions of perfectly capable workers returned home from years of wrecking stuff.
The powerful elite aren't hoarding money (that would have a deflationary effect, btw, so low wages wouldn't actually be a problem until they started spending their hoard.).
Does the program that delivers food stamps offer nutritional advice as well? You know your way around a kitchen. Are there resources available for people who don't know their way around a kitchen to learn the skill to stretch the benefit?
Nutritionally, there is no reason to pick fresh food over frozen food.
This is a claim I hear a lot, and from what I can tell are credible sources, so I'm inclined to believe it, but the taste of frozen (especially vegetables) is often vastly inferior to that of fresh. I can't help but wonder why the taste can be so different, but the nutritional content (save minerals, of course) would be unaffected. What is it, exactly, that our taste sense is supposed to detect?
Signatures aren't meant to be your password. They're meant to be a deliberate act signifying your acceptance of terms. Any deliberate mark will do, which is why old movies have (usually illiterate) characters literally signing contracts with an X.
Another problem wit trying to use a signature for ID is that your calligraphy plan won't work. It only even sort-of works as id when muscle memory kicks in - when you sign as quickly as possible.
He won't be president in 2016 (or 2017..). You can get away with something like this as an incumbent and get re-elected, but it won't work for a nominee.
If he is the republican nominee, he won't win the general. He wasn't going to win the general anyway - Republicans outside of New Jersey won't turn out for him and Democrats don't have a reason to vote for him, either, since they could just vote for an actual Democrat.
wind doesn't vary on a minute by minute basis, though. Perhaps we don't need batteries, so much as we need a way to communicate pricing signals to the consumers.
If I had a device that I could set price points to, say, start a load of laundry or run the refrigerator compressor, or hold off on the AC when a price transmitted by the power company is high or low, I could make my own demand follow the actual supply more closely.
Just because I might have a few big-power needs, doesn't mean I can't be flexible with when they are executed, if I have some way of knowing when a good time is.
I would want the information to be a price that I choose, though, rather than the "smart metering" I've seen elsewhere where the device allows the power company to decide when your devices run. If I'm picking, I can override, for instance if I'm going to an interview in a few hours and just noticed I need to wash a suit or something.
When the US was founded, the business of America was endless days of toiling on a farm. It was 90% of the economy. Today less than 2% of the US economy is agriculture. We aren't 88% unemployed. Other industries and pursuits have developed to fill the gaps, and our quality of life is much better than our forbears.
It is a mistake to think that efficiencies that obviate one industry, for instance buggy whip manufacturers, are overall harmful on a macroeconomic scale. Before the automobile, most people did not own a horse, and cities stank of horse shit anyway from the conveyances of the wealthy. Today there are 250 million cars on the road in the US alone (a nation of 313 million).
I wonder if you compare the size of the automobile industry to the horse and carriage industry if you will find the transition to be overall harmful to the number of workers and their quality of life, even if you compare today's auto industry.
In daylight you can identify most of the bad drivers by several signs. For instance, they may have text on the sides and an unusual number of antennas, or there might be a flattened olympics logo (minus one ring) in chrome on the front and back of the vehicle.
At night, though, the decals are not easily identifiable, so we need some way for other drivers to be aware of the dangers to be able to avoid the risk. Unusually shaped headlights are one way this has been solved in the past, but unusually bright lights might be sufficient as well.
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It would be nice if MS operating systems had an easy way to re-map keys built-in to the OS, as other operating systems do (e.g. linux and to a lesser extend, OS X).
I really like the option of swapping control and caps lock on the left side, and it occurs to me that programming tasks might be a lot more comfortable if I had some mappings for braces, brackets, parentheses, slashes and pipes in the home row. It's not right that programmers should have to type 90% of the time with their pinkies.
He put it in quotes. That's exactly the kind of customer he is to a site paid for by advertising.
Now here's an interesting datum. Slashdot has a checkbox to disable the advertising. The advertising, however, is sufficiently unobtrusive that many of those of us who have that box are leaving it unchecked....
And if they host them on-site, that removes a big portion of my objection - slow ad servers are one of the things that have been making the web frustrating for me for a long time.
Dear web site owners: if your ad server doesn't care as much about serving the ads (which they directly make money off of) in a timely manner as you do about serving the actual content (which you only indirectly make money off of via the ads), you should really think about what that means for you and your business.
The weird thing isn't that they got the allowance. The weird part is that they are the only town that got it. Instead of making a general law that communities with high horse-traffic (and high-horse traffic, too, I suppose) are allowed to consider the safety of horses, they spelled it out for one specific community by name.
In my state, they can get you for either the speeding or the slower-than-traffic-ing.
Still doesn't explain why frozen veggies are always so bland. It might not matter that they're equally healthy if they just get pushed around on the plate.
Second one. I wasn't looking in the right place, apparently. Motor Vehicle code and Streets and Highways didn't have what I was looking for. I didn't see the Vehicle code section until after I posted.
Hmm, I think I found the speed laws. In the Constitution and Laws section as I should've expected, not in the code and regulations section. I find it interesting California actually has coded speed limits (as opposed to merely considering certain speeds as prima facie evidence of being in violation of a requirement to drive safely that some states have).
And this:
22353. When conducting an engineering and traffic survey, the City of Norco, in addition to the factors set forth in Section 627, may also consider equestrian safety.
What's special about Norco that they get their very own law in the vehicle code? Are their horses especially fragile?
Does that have the force of law? I can't find anything in the California Code (http://www.ca.gov/about/government/state/lawsandregs.html) that looks like it establishes any laws or authorizes any any agencies to create regulations regarding the operation of a motor vehicle.
There's a section under motor vehicles for computer crime, though, for some reason - Title 13, Division 2, section 12. Interestingly, the CCR page is the second application I've ever seen that uses silverlight.
But it has cameras so it can do augmented reality, though doesn't it?
If everyone drives 80 in a 65 zone, maybe the zone is marked incorrectly.
I don't think that's what's happening, based on my experience with highways where there isn't a carpool lane. The slowbys will find their way to the left-most lane and assume they're fine because they're not exceeding a posted speed limit or breaking a carpool lane law and there are obviously no other laws regulating vehicle speed and operation than those two.
It's not bogus, it's homage or easter egg. Like the stereogram in Mallrats that is not a sailboat of any kind.
If you want to understand the economy, you need to stop thinking about the money and look at where all the stuff goes. Money is a proxy for that, but it has some serious deficiencies if it is the only think you look at.
Keynes was too focused on money and stretched out the great depression to last an entire generation. People point to the war coinciding with the "end" of the depression as evidence of Keynsian economics, but although there was a lot of activity and high labor participation rate among those who weren't getting shot at, the actual distribution of goods was pretty poor. There was rationing across all segments of the economy to maintain a war machine that basically destroyed all of those goods and also destroyed hundreds of years of accumulated infrastructure. The depression didn't end until after the wartime spending ended and millions of perfectly capable workers returned home from years of wrecking stuff.
The powerful elite aren't hoarding money (that would have a deflationary effect, btw, so low wages wouldn't actually be a problem until they started spending their hoard.).
Does the program that delivers food stamps offer nutritional advice as well? You know your way around a kitchen. Are there resources available for people who don't know their way around a kitchen to learn the skill to stretch the benefit?
Nutritionally, there is no reason to pick fresh food over frozen food.
This is a claim I hear a lot, and from what I can tell are credible sources, so I'm inclined to believe it, but the taste of frozen (especially vegetables) is often vastly inferior to that of fresh. I can't help but wonder why the taste can be so different, but the nutritional content (save minerals, of course) would be unaffected. What is it, exactly, that our taste sense is supposed to detect?
Why can't they do it the way that satellites do - all control operations are sent encrypted.
Signatures aren't meant to be your password. They're meant to be a deliberate act signifying your acceptance of terms. Any deliberate mark will do, which is why old movies have (usually illiterate) characters literally signing contracts with an X.
Another problem wit trying to use a signature for ID is that your calligraphy plan won't work. It only even sort-of works as id when muscle memory kicks in - when you sign as quickly as possible.
Which is why, you shouldn't use pull autopay. You should use push auto pay.
If the credit card companies want to be involved in auto-pay or one-click situations, they should bring their id/authentication out of the 1950s.
He won't be president in 2016 (or 2017..). You can get away with something like this as an incumbent and get re-elected, but it won't work for a nominee.
If he is the republican nominee, he won't win the general. He wasn't going to win the general anyway - Republicans outside of New Jersey won't turn out for him and Democrats don't have a reason to vote for him, either, since they could just vote for an actual Democrat.
wind doesn't vary on a minute by minute basis, though. Perhaps we don't need batteries, so much as we need a way to communicate pricing signals to the consumers.
If I had a device that I could set price points to, say, start a load of laundry or run the refrigerator compressor, or hold off on the AC when a price transmitted by the power company is high or low, I could make my own demand follow the actual supply more closely.
Just because I might have a few big-power needs, doesn't mean I can't be flexible with when they are executed, if I have some way of knowing when a good time is.
I would want the information to be a price that I choose, though, rather than the "smart metering" I've seen elsewhere where the device allows the power company to decide when your devices run. If I'm picking, I can override, for instance if I'm going to an interview in a few hours and just noticed I need to wash a suit or something.
When the US was founded, the business of America was endless days of toiling on a farm. It was 90% of the economy. Today less than 2% of the US economy is agriculture. We aren't 88% unemployed. Other industries and pursuits have developed to fill the gaps, and our quality of life is much better than our forbears.
It is a mistake to think that efficiencies that obviate one industry, for instance buggy whip manufacturers, are overall harmful on a macroeconomic scale. Before the automobile, most people did not own a horse, and cities stank of horse shit anyway from the conveyances of the wealthy. Today there are 250 million cars on the road in the US alone (a nation of 313 million).
I wonder if you compare the size of the automobile industry to the horse and carriage industry if you will find the transition to be overall harmful to the number of workers and their quality of life, even if you compare today's auto industry.
That's a lot of big words. Are you warming up to rail against the bourgeoisie from your coffee shop macbook?
Chrome has per-domain javascript white/blacklisting built-in.
It might be ok, though..
In daylight you can identify most of the bad drivers by several signs. For instance, they may have text on the sides and an unusual number of antennas, or there might be a flattened olympics logo (minus one ring) in chrome on the front and back of the vehicle.
At night, though, the decals are not easily identifiable, so we need some way for other drivers to be aware of the dangers to be able to avoid the risk. Unusually shaped headlights are one way this has been solved in the past, but unusually bright lights might be sufficient as well.