Problem is, in an age where insurance is a requirement people think that lowering insurance rates is an appropriate goal for public policy. Drag racing, even by yourself on a deserted road, is risky behavior, which raises risk for insurance companies and therefore their rates as well. They're not just going to absorb that loss.
Indeed. I also am saddened by the fact that although there are scores of legitimate reasons not to vote for him, the principle reason Barack Hussein Obama will not be elected president is his name.
You really picked the wrong spot on the treadmill. Sure, if you want to be able to play every game on its maximum settings, you're going to have to upgrade $2500 worth of computer equipment every year. But if you're willing to "settle" for playing those same games, but waiting until you upgrade your computer to experience the best graphics, you realize that you don't have to have the very best equipment available.
This is especially important because computer equipment has geometric price increases for diminishing returns. If you buy low-mid range computer every two or three years, you'll still be able to play all the same games, but you'll pay the same price as the PS3.
In fact, I posit that no matter how much your budget is, you'll get more "power" by buying new low-mid machines as often as your budget allows rather than buying monster machines that drain the budget infrequently. This goes for graphics card upgrades as well if you choose to go that route. The price for the currently high-end drops very rapidly in that field. If you're paying more than $100-$200 cards on a video card, you're throwing money away.
Carbon dating is actually pretty crappy precisely because it requires you to make assumptions about the formation distribution. But it's also a rather rapidly decaying element compared to other dating isotopes. So no fossils are dated using carbon-14. Mammoth bones could be, perhaps.
If you have a decay chain you can, with enough samples, either estimate the age or determine that you can't estimate the age.
DC is 10 miles on its longest side. It is trivial to live in Maryland or Virginia and commute to DC. It was deliberately created to specifically not be represented in congress. It's not just some oversight that needs to be corrected.
I do agree there is too much "security" but that is a side effect of DC residents beng disenfranchised.
If you want representation in congress, you should live in a state. The residents aren't disenfranchised because they were never enfranchised in the first place. DC was specifically created (using mostly worthless swamp land I might add) so that no one state would have real or perceived sway over the national government.
People weren't supposed to live there. Anything that convinces people to avoid DC is a good thing IMO. Especially if the people in question are members of a legislative body...
The road doesn't get more expensive to maintain as fuel prices go up, so taxing by dollar wouldn't make sense there. Though adjusting for inflation does, of course.
That's where you're wrong. (except for the inflation)
Road maintenance is highly dependent on the cost of petroleum. You can't do major road work without petroleum powered heavy machinery; said machinery is always going to require some kind of portable energy source. Further, crude products are required for synthetic asphalt production.
It really shouldn't be CMYK or RGB. It should allow you to define an arbitrary colorspace and transform. Then it should either do calculations in your colorspace or in its native colorspace by filtering through your colorspace twice. This behavior should be at the user's preference. With filters grayed out if they aren't defined for your colorspace.
Then the whole colorspace thing could be handled by plugins. Obviously, only RGB would have to be included by default. The rest would be provided by the community.
Color depth should also be arbitrary at the user's discretion. Filters and transforms which rely on a specific depth should be handled in the same way as color space.
Perhaps what I'm describing isn't really the GIMP. But what is essentially a GUI front-end to a powerful suite of image manipulation functions is definitely in the spirit of OSS and UNIX. Photoshop doesn't even have arbitrary color{depth,space}.
I really don't understand why everyone taxes by the gallon. They should charge by the dollar. Then they wouldn't have to pass a new law every couple of years because of inflation or price fluctuations. Unless the point is to have a reason to pass new laws, which can then have unrelated riders attached to them.
Where are all the linux guys getting all this cheap gear? I'm always seeing forum posts about insanely inexpensive gear working perfectly, then when I look for it, i can't even find it for that price on eBay (which I'm not going to use anyway, as I very much like that new-computer smell)
I had the same problem with video. Although that pretty much worked right out of the box for me despite my having chosen what would at forum glance appear to have been the worst card I could've picked. ATI TV wonder pro something or other, to complement my ATI radeon 9600 XT. Purchased because unlike the much talked about, allegedly low-priced Hauppage cards, it was actually available at my local big box store.
Now that the digital changeup is going down, I'm thinking about upgrading. Remembering the brand from the forums, I did a quick search to see what the latest Hauppage card is. Surprise! It seems like every card has "good linux support" except the low-priced one you can pick up at radio shack. But it still looks like a good deal, since I dual boot. Just means spending more time in windows. Perhaps I'll buy it anyway.
I don't like to complain. I fully understand that it's about scratching itches, and as I'm not a developer, I lament that my itches are not the same ones the developers want to scratch. But I still have to wonder, is it a linux-user thing to tend to exaggerate the deals we get on hardware?
They used to run a spy series on Discovery channel. In it, they would describe a few of the braindead things people do. For instance "secretaries" would, instead of taking time to take classified documents to the shredder, tear them in half and toss them in the regular waste bin. The flaw in this should be blatantly obvious: instead of making it harder for an intelligence agent to acquire interesting information, they basically highlighted the most interesting bits!
If you put a lock on your mailbox, you instantly flag your mail as interesting. If you really need a lock, get a PO box at an actual post office. Where it's not only a federal crime to tamper with your mail, but there are actual officers of the law present for much of the day.
What bugs me is that I picked my networking card based partly on Feisty's wireless card matrix in which it was claimed to "works 100% out of the box."
Of course, It didn't say that you have to download software to make it work, and that that software wasn't in the repository. or that you couldn't use the GUI with it. No, that information was had by sifting through the forums.
Fortunately, I was wise enough to search through the forums, and the card I chose was the only "100% works out of the box" at the time that was under $70 and had posts by people who had allegedly actually gotten it to work and thought they knew how they did it.
Well I got it working eventually, but I'll have to wait to reinstall Gutsy when someone to figures out how to do it again. 'Till then, back to XP & 7.04.
Anyway, what's the point of buying the "blessed" hardware (as in the brand and model that all the forums rave about) if by the time all the raves are out, the manufacturer has quietly upgraded the firmware/hardware to render all that raving moot?
You got some statistics to back that up? Or are you just projecting what you think you'd do if you were one or two brackets lower than whatever your current position is?
"Something you have" is just a fancy "something you are" or "something you know" It's always either an overblown password or an ID marker.
"something you are" is crap security. Retinal scans are far too invasive, and iris scans are easily spoofed. Thumbprint scans aren't even all that unique. See mythbusters for a demonstration. Although they're usually pretty sloppy, I think their efforts on this front prove that biometrics are really hard, if not impossible to weed out the spoofing.
A user name is more than sufficient. Or even just an account number. The "something you have" ID badge can make this go quicker by having a bar code or RFID to enter your user name for you.
"something you are" is a claim. "something you know" is the proof.
Nice twist there, but that's not the definition of 'terrorism' that he rails against That's the one he waxes nostalgic for. He assumes based on government action that there must be some new, double-standard which he then rails against.
And you seem to think that anything at any energy level will have dramatic, measurable effects.
To put things in perspective, in your hypothetical wind farm, a single turbine will absorb more power than HAARP can even output, let alone focus on a specific weather event a quarter of a world away.
It's not about whether you absorb the energy or add it. It's about the scale. HAARP is simply insufficient.
... reminds me of "It's not a bug, it's a feature" syndrome.
It's not a bug or a feature. It's a design decision. It may be a useful compromise for your situation, or even a complementary benefit, or it may not. But you can't change the physics to suit your idea of an ideal wireless communications device, or indeed even make an assumption about what everyone's ideal wireless communications device even is.
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Problem is, in an age where insurance is a requirement people think that lowering insurance rates is an appropriate goal for public policy. Drag racing, even by yourself on a deserted road, is risky behavior, which raises risk for insurance companies and therefore their rates as well. They're not just going to absorb that loss.
Indeed. I also am saddened by the fact that although there are scores of legitimate reasons not to vote for him, the principle reason Barack Hussein Obama will not be elected president is his name.
Congress and "Productive" are scary words to have in the same sentence.
Bcc = blind carbon copy.
You really picked the wrong spot on the treadmill. Sure, if you want to be able to play every game on its maximum settings, you're going to have to upgrade $2500 worth of computer equipment every year. But if you're willing to "settle" for playing those same games, but waiting until you upgrade your computer to experience the best graphics, you realize that you don't have to have the very best equipment available.
This is especially important because computer equipment has geometric price increases for diminishing returns. If you buy low-mid range computer every two or three years, you'll still be able to play all the same games, but you'll pay the same price as the PS3.
In fact, I posit that no matter how much your budget is, you'll get more "power" by buying new low-mid machines as often as your budget allows rather than buying monster machines that drain the budget infrequently. This goes for graphics card upgrades as well if you choose to go that route. The price for the currently high-end drops very rapidly in that field. If you're paying more than $100-$200 cards on a video card, you're throwing money away.
Carbon dating is actually pretty crappy precisely because it requires you to make assumptions about the formation distribution. But it's also a rather rapidly decaying element compared to other dating isotopes. So no fossils are dated using carbon-14. Mammoth bones could be, perhaps.
If you have a decay chain you can, with enough samples, either estimate the age or determine that you can't estimate the age.
DC is 10 miles on its longest side. It is trivial to live in Maryland or Virginia and commute to DC. It was deliberately created to specifically not be represented in congress. It's not just some oversight that needs to be corrected.
Most movies don't use an entire disk. Heck quite a few don't even use half the disk. I'm talking to you "breakout romantic comedy of the year"
People weren't supposed to live there. Anything that convinces people to avoid DC is a good thing IMO. Especially if the people in question are members of a legislative body...
Road maintenance is highly dependent on the cost of petroleum. You can't do major road work without petroleum powered heavy machinery; said machinery is always going to require some kind of portable energy source. Further, crude products are required for synthetic asphalt production.
It really shouldn't be CMYK or RGB. It should allow you to define an arbitrary colorspace and transform. Then it should either do calculations in your colorspace or in its native colorspace by filtering through your colorspace twice. This behavior should be at the user's preference. With filters grayed out if they aren't defined for your colorspace.
Then the whole colorspace thing could be handled by plugins. Obviously, only RGB would have to be included by default. The rest would be provided by the community.
Color depth should also be arbitrary at the user's discretion. Filters and transforms which rely on a specific depth should be handled in the same way as color space.
Perhaps what I'm describing isn't really the GIMP. But what is essentially a GUI front-end to a powerful suite of image manipulation functions is definitely in the spirit of OSS and UNIX. Photoshop doesn't even have arbitrary color{depth,space}.
I really don't understand why everyone taxes by the gallon. They should charge by the dollar. Then they wouldn't have to pass a new law every couple of years because of inflation or price fluctuations. Unless the point is to have a reason to pass new laws, which can then have unrelated riders attached to them.
Where are all the linux guys getting all this cheap gear? I'm always seeing forum posts about insanely inexpensive gear working perfectly, then when I look for it, i can't even find it for that price on eBay (which I'm not going to use anyway, as I very much like that new-computer smell)
I had the same problem with video. Although that pretty much worked right out of the box for me despite my having chosen what would at forum glance appear to have been the worst card I could've picked. ATI TV wonder pro something or other, to complement my ATI radeon 9600 XT. Purchased because unlike the much talked about, allegedly low-priced Hauppage cards, it was actually available at my local big box store.
Now that the digital changeup is going down, I'm thinking about upgrading. Remembering the brand from the forums, I did a quick search to see what the latest Hauppage card is. Surprise! It seems like every card has "good linux support" except the low-priced one you can pick up at radio shack. But it still looks like a good deal, since I dual boot. Just means spending more time in windows. Perhaps I'll buy it anyway.
I don't like to complain. I fully understand that it's about scratching itches, and as I'm not a developer, I lament that my itches are not the same ones the developers want to scratch. But I still have to wonder, is it a linux-user thing to tend to exaggerate the deals we get on hardware?
They used to run a spy series on Discovery channel. In it, they would describe a few of the braindead things people do. For instance "secretaries" would, instead of taking time to take classified documents to the shredder, tear them in half and toss them in the regular waste bin. The flaw in this should be blatantly obvious: instead of making it harder for an intelligence agent to acquire interesting information, they basically highlighted the most interesting bits!
If you put a lock on your mailbox, you instantly flag your mail as interesting. If you really need a lock, get a PO box at an actual post office. Where it's not only a federal crime to tamper with your mail, but there are actual officers of the law present for much of the day.
What bugs me is that I picked my networking card based partly on Feisty's wireless card matrix in which it was claimed to "works 100% out of the box."
Of course, It didn't say that you have to download software to make it work, and that that software wasn't in the repository. or that you couldn't use the GUI with it. No, that information was had by sifting through the forums.
Fortunately, I was wise enough to search through the forums, and the card I chose was the only "100% works out of the box" at the time that was under $70 and had posts by people who had allegedly actually gotten it to work and thought they knew how they did it.
Well I got it working eventually, but I'll have to wait to reinstall Gutsy when someone to figures out how to do it again. 'Till then, back to XP & 7.04.
Anyway, what's the point of buying the "blessed" hardware (as in the brand and model that all the forums rave about) if by the time all the raves are out, the manufacturer has quietly upgraded the firmware/hardware to render all that raving moot?
Parent has used "Neilson" tags. He should be modded overrated.
You got some statistics to back that up? Or are you just projecting what you think you'd do if you were one or two brackets lower than whatever your current position is?
Which is bull. You know how many cities in Asia are named, "Alexandria."
Be glad for the 39 degrees. Warm enough not to freeze anything, but cool enough to keep the homeless people's aromatic volatiles from evaporating.
More like two.
"Something you have" is just a fancy "something you are" or "something you know" It's always either an overblown password or an ID marker.
"something you are" is crap security. Retinal scans are far too invasive, and iris scans are easily spoofed. Thumbprint scans aren't even all that unique. See mythbusters for a demonstration. Although they're usually pretty sloppy, I think their efforts on this front prove that biometrics are really hard, if not impossible to weed out the spoofing.
A user name is more than sufficient. Or even just an account number. The "something you have" ID badge can make this go quicker by having a bar code or RFID to enter your user name for you.
"something you are" is a claim. "something you know" is the proof.
Do you? or do you actually 'just' know environmentally-minded regular people?
Much more different than apples and oranges
Nice twist there, but that's not the definition of 'terrorism' that he rails against That's the one he waxes nostalgic for. He assumes based on government action that there must be some new, double-standard which he then rails against.
And you seem to think that anything at any energy level will have dramatic, measurable effects.
To put things in perspective, in your hypothetical wind farm, a single turbine will absorb more power than HAARP can even output, let alone focus on a specific weather event a quarter of a world away.
It's not about whether you absorb the energy or add it. It's about the scale. HAARP is simply insufficient.
It's not a bug or a feature. It's a design decision. It may be a useful compromise for your situation, or even a complementary benefit, or it may not. But you can't change the physics to suit your idea of an ideal wireless communications device, or indeed even make an assumption about what everyone's ideal wireless communications device even is.