They need to make an auto console version. Obviously this would require redesigning the car itself a bit as well, but imagine your friends' surprise when they want to play some tunes and you pull out a 12" LP and place it on the appropriately sized loading tray in the dash.
Broder and Black can't get a break. First Farscape, now Stargate. And what did they cancel stargate in favor of?
Some crappy British serial treknobabble-comedy trash whose principle virtue I can discern so far is that it's "been on the air a really long time"?
A "mutant X" ripoff complete with it's own ubiquitous and unquestioned racial epithet?
A "Friday the Thirteenth: the series" ripoff with (ok, it would be hard to ripoff that series without improving it...)?
Wrestling? wtf? how scifi is wrestling? They don't even dress like KISS anymore.
Ten dozen random giant snake/crocodile movies? You'd think one film would be sufficient to cover the subject.
I'm all for ending shows with dignity, but Scifi's choices are completely irrational. I mean, if they really are having money troubles, they should go back to how they built the damn channel in the first place: showing old scifi and "b" movies. There are plenty of terrible scifi films, they don't need to go out of their way to make their own...
What's all this mind control business? I'm just saying that genes that are similar to your own have greater significance to you than genes that are different from your own. If you're truly a rational evolutionist, at least part of your moral code would be about producing and preserving genetic code similar to your own. It's not so much that you would want others to be destroyed, rather that if some must be killed, you would prefer it be those that are least similar to yourself.
Which justifies "fighting them there, rather than here." If there must be a battle, better that the battlefield be as far from my own kin as possible. Granted there arise issues of whether the battle is inevitable (whilst no such questions arise if the battle comes to you...), but it's better to examine those cases than pretend no battles must ever take place. The earth has finite resources, so even if there is plenty right now, eventually some groups are going to have to fight other groups.*
*population control would seem to solve this problem, but it is a prisoner's dilemma. This state is only meta-stable.
I used to be part of that movement. Until I found out about walmart's offerings. They're not bad phones, but as it turns out I like the doodads, gizmos, and interwhatizis that the expensive phones provide and was fooling myself all this time.
Only because you've failed to consider evolution in your list of moral justifications.
I'm sick of watching the slashdot groupthink smash everyone who claims not to believe in evolution (but strangely often has evolution-friendly moral codes. Abortion stances come to mind as an obvious one.) And support people who claim to believe in evolution, but whose moral code is completely bereft of any insights gained by that belief.
Yes, Hitler had a moral code based on evolution, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any useful insights to be gained from it. You wouldn't say no on should be vegetarian just because Hitler was one, or that we should encourage smoking because Hitler despised it, would you?
If wars must be fought, then they should be fought on your enemy culture's soil, so that the collateral damage makes their genes less likely to be passed down. If you're fighting on your own soil, you're already losing. You could win the war and still be completely absorbed and genetically overwhelmed by the loser's culture anyway.
Math is a bear to express in ascii. Of course, it's inexplicably a bear to express in every MS office product I've used (up to 2003). Perhaps because I ought to buy MathType, a more powerful extension to the microsoft equation editor (You didn't know that office was adware, did ya).
It's not much better for openoffice, though. Entering equations is not particularly easier, but at least OO.org won't crash while you enter them, and provides somewhat of a mechanism for inputting symbols that aren't in the equation palette (toolbox, really, but in both suites, the collection of buttons to input equation symbols is stylistically and functionally similar to an artist's palette.)
So, I guess we're stuck with nice, easy to read LaTeX for the time being. And those files are ascii, so I guess I was wrong all along.
I've always thought that one simpson's episode had it right, but they went too far. Just pick 10 or 15 "light-holidays" a year and turn everything off. Make sure everyone knows about it, and try to make it convenient. Allow low-intensity "glow" style outdoor lighting where safety requires it.
Correct. Except, you were thinking about IO, the sulphurous hell-moon of Jupiter. Tidal heating is not sufficient to explain the temperature of the earth's interior.
But who cares about Karma? It's not like it's hard to get excellent: just post on topics you're interested in, have a genuine opinion about or some useful knowledge, and your karma will go up. Funny doesn't get karma because funny posts don't really add to the discussion. They're just funny. You're not supposed to be able to game the system by posting a few funny things to balance out your trolls.
Regarding flamebait, though, I won't ever see such a post, because I browse at +5 flamebait all the time. Especially in politics, insightful comments often get trashed by mods with differing opinions. It's so bad that even people I disagree with have been unfairly modded.;)
Stop trying to game karma. If you're a mod, and you think something is funny, mod it funny. If you think it's insightful, mod it so. If you think it's insightful, but not +5 insightful, and it's at +3, then leave it alone. And if you think it's flamebait or troll, think long and hard about why you think that before casting it from regular view. But don't avoid negative modding of posts that add noise to the signal.
Of course, my trying to be conscientious about it is probably why my mod points always expire with 2 or 3 left. But whatever. The important thing is not to add noise through capricious moderation.
Heh, the seem a bit gross to me too, even without a soda-fast, but after one week, I'm still craving the damn things. It doesn't help that my town (actually, every town I've ever lived in) has let the water supply get all awful-tasting.
I think you're looking at the obesity epidemic the wrong way, though. Every culture until the modern age has had starvation and malnutrition as a leading, if not the leading, cause of death. We've technically still got malnutrition, but not because of any problems in producing or procuring food, so at least for a little while, we should be proud that the leading cause of death currently is an abundance of inexpensive food.
It's not like it's catching. If you're in a room with fat people, you're not going to also get fat (unless you adopt the same diet and exercise regimen of course). So the key thing here is not to blow things out of proportion with panicky knee-jerk actions.
The most important thing we can do is to remove what I call the "fat safety net." Those damn scooters they give to people who can't walk. Apparently, being too heavy for your own knees is considered disability enough to get a subsidized scooter, which obviously isn't going to help you get less fat.
News Flash: "Too Fat to Move" isn't a disability. It's a self-control problem. Go to the damn pool and wiggle around a bit. And get infected with tapeworm. From what I've seen it looks a lot safer and reversible than gastric bypass...
Not to mention the airlines not charging double for people who clearly need two seats. It's all well and good for the airlines to try to be compassionate with people who are sensitive about their weight, but if their weight is oozing into seat-space I've paid for, then the airlines are being compassionate at my expense and not their own.
OTOH, your soundproof, pressure sensitive, thermally controlled, laser beam sporting room would make one heck of a media room. Granted spilled drinks and noisy friends would make it less secure, but it's a small price to pay for watching spy movies in the 'command center.'
No, it's far more insidious than that. They sell those rereleases as limited editions, and have a brief window in which you can buy or wait a decade for the next one. This is for childrens' videos, which actually get watched enough to wear out the tape, or have a huge chance of scratching, breaking, or mysterious gooping of the DVD.
So you have to buy multiple limited edition videos at limited edition prices if you want to make it through your kids' childhood with the videos intact.
"Unlicensed" here means that the devices may be used without applying for a license. In essence, the entire population already has a free (limited) license for the bands in question at low power (one of the limitations). If you pay for a license, you already pay for a license.
They are talking about raising the license fee (and incurring a whole lot of paperwork: someone's going to have to register all of those paid-for licenses.)
Reminds me of a toll bridge near me whose toll revenue just barely paid for the toll booth operations for about a decade before someone finally got rid of it. (the toll, that is, the bridge is fine)
I can see that, and If I wasn't a spartan wrt. gaming: I think if I can't own with the standard equipment, I'm probably not going to with the fancy stuff, I'd consider paying almost that much on a gaming mouse. But still just 3 buttons. I'd be after resolution, since that reduces the distance to perform a manoeuvre without making it more difficult to aim like increasing the "sensitivity" would.
The controls have always been in the context menu. the GIMP people really love the right mouse button. Every time you use it it's like you're flipping off your computer.
I don't need any more than three buttons to do any of the things you've described, even if I decide to go WITHOUT removing my hand from the mouse. I could do those things with two buttons, but it would require the addition of mouse gestures, which I use anyway. I can also do any of the things you mentioned without even touching the mouse, so there's a lot of range over which you could debate its usefulness.
There most certainly is a reason not to have extra buttons if the standard 2+wheel are more than sufficient: If you put side buttons on a surface that you apply pressure to in order to move the thing, you've turned your nice mobile mouse into a stationary one-handed keyboard*. Of course, in that sentence, I realize now why you need those extra buttons.
* or a Carpel-Tunnel inducing dexterity test.
No matter how you decide to ambulate your mouse, putting buttons on the side reduces the locomotive options, and eliminating lateral symmetry as many of the "ergonomic" designs reduces the ease of switching hands, which you should occasionally do to reduce repetitive activities. For myself, at least, this loss of options is not compensated by the additional specificity of extra buttons.
Yeah, My head equates euros and pounds for some reason. even Dell has computers for O($300). (celerons, of course, and without monitor, but monitors don't need to be replaced as often as computers.)
for $218, you could still get a device which is technically a computer AND has a touch screen, but it would be inferior in each respect to either the wacom or the dell.
It's still way more than I'd like to spend for an input device, unless I fancy myself a graphic artist.
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They need to make an auto console version. Obviously this would require redesigning the car itself a bit as well, but imagine your friends' surprise when they want to play some tunes and you pull out a 12" LP and place it on the appropriately sized loading tray in the dash.
Sort of, but you have to correct for the depletion of the radiation source. It's not precisely 50/50 because of the decay part of radioactive decay.
I'm all for ending shows with dignity, but Scifi's choices are completely irrational. I mean, if they really are having money troubles, they should go back to how they built the damn channel in the first place: showing old scifi and "b" movies. There are plenty of terrible scifi films, they don't need to go out of their way to make their own...
Killing birds with rocks doesn't sound very environmentally friendly to me...
Um.. what?
What's all this mind control business? I'm just saying that genes that are similar to your own have greater significance to you than genes that are different from your own. If you're truly a rational evolutionist, at least part of your moral code would be about producing and preserving genetic code similar to your own. It's not so much that you would want others to be destroyed, rather that if some must be killed, you would prefer it be those that are least similar to yourself.
Which justifies "fighting them there, rather than here." If there must be a battle, better that the battlefield be as far from my own kin as possible. Granted there arise issues of whether the battle is inevitable (whilst no such questions arise if the battle comes to you...), but it's better to examine those cases than pretend no battles must ever take place. The earth has finite resources, so even if there is plenty right now, eventually some groups are going to have to fight other groups.*
*population control would seem to solve this problem, but it is a prisoner's dilemma. This state is only meta-stable.
I used to be part of that movement. Until I found out about walmart's offerings. They're not bad phones, but as it turns out I like the doodads, gizmos, and interwhatizis that the expensive phones provide and was fooling myself all this time.
Only because you've failed to consider evolution in your list of moral justifications.
I'm sick of watching the slashdot groupthink smash everyone who claims not to believe in evolution (but strangely often has evolution-friendly moral codes. Abortion stances come to mind as an obvious one.) And support people who claim to believe in evolution, but whose moral code is completely bereft of any insights gained by that belief.
Yes, Hitler had a moral code based on evolution, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any useful insights to be gained from it. You wouldn't say no on should be vegetarian just because Hitler was one, or that we should encourage smoking because Hitler despised it, would you?
If wars must be fought, then they should be fought on your enemy culture's soil, so that the collateral damage makes their genes less likely to be passed down. If you're fighting on your own soil, you're already losing. You could win the war and still be completely absorbed and genetically overwhelmed by the loser's culture anyway.
Math is a bear to express in ascii. Of course, it's inexplicably a bear to express in every MS office product I've used (up to 2003). Perhaps because I ought to buy MathType, a more powerful extension to the microsoft equation editor (You didn't know that office was adware, did ya).
It's not much better for openoffice, though. Entering equations is not particularly easier, but at least OO.org won't crash while you enter them, and provides somewhat of a mechanism for inputting symbols that aren't in the equation palette (toolbox, really, but in both suites, the collection of buttons to input equation symbols is stylistically and functionally similar to an artist's palette.)
So, I guess we're stuck with nice, easy to read LaTeX for the time being. And those files are ascii, so I guess I was wrong all along.
I've always thought that one simpson's episode had it right, but they went too far. Just pick 10 or 15 "light-holidays" a year and turn everything off. Make sure everyone knows about it, and try to make it convenient. Allow low-intensity "glow" style outdoor lighting where safety requires it.
Correct. Except, you were thinking about IO, the sulphurous hell-moon of Jupiter. Tidal heating is not sufficient to explain the temperature of the earth's interior.
Eggs. I mean, we do believe in evolution, don't we?
But who cares about Karma? It's not like it's hard to get excellent: just post on topics you're interested in, have a genuine opinion about or some useful knowledge, and your karma will go up. Funny doesn't get karma because funny posts don't really add to the discussion. They're just funny. You're not supposed to be able to game the system by posting a few funny things to balance out your trolls.
;)
Regarding flamebait, though, I won't ever see such a post, because I browse at +5 flamebait all the time. Especially in politics, insightful comments often get trashed by mods with differing opinions. It's so bad that even people I disagree with have been unfairly modded.
Stop trying to game karma. If you're a mod, and you think something is funny, mod it funny. If you think it's insightful, mod it so. If you think it's insightful, but not +5 insightful, and it's at +3, then leave it alone. And if you think it's flamebait or troll, think long and hard about why you think that before casting it from regular view. But don't avoid negative modding of posts that add noise to the signal.
Of course, my trying to be conscientious about it is probably why my mod points always expire with 2 or 3 left. But whatever. The important thing is not to add noise through capricious moderation.
Heh, the seem a bit gross to me too, even without a soda-fast, but after one week, I'm still craving the damn things. It doesn't help that my town (actually, every town I've ever lived in) has let the water supply get all awful-tasting.
I think you're looking at the obesity epidemic the wrong way, though. Every culture until the modern age has had starvation and malnutrition as a leading, if not the leading, cause of death. We've technically still got malnutrition, but not because of any problems in producing or procuring food, so at least for a little while, we should be proud that the leading cause of death currently is an abundance of inexpensive food.
It's not like it's catching. If you're in a room with fat people, you're not going to also get fat (unless you adopt the same diet and exercise regimen of course). So the key thing here is not to blow things out of proportion with panicky knee-jerk actions.
The most important thing we can do is to remove what I call the "fat safety net." Those damn scooters they give to people who can't walk. Apparently, being too heavy for your own knees is considered disability enough to get a subsidized scooter, which obviously isn't going to help you get less fat.
News Flash: "Too Fat to Move" isn't a disability. It's a self-control problem. Go to the damn pool and wiggle around a bit. And get infected with tapeworm. From what I've seen it looks a lot safer and reversible than gastric bypass...
Not to mention the airlines not charging double for people who clearly need two seats. It's all well and good for the airlines to try to be compassionate with people who are sensitive about their weight, but if their weight is oozing into seat-space I've paid for, then the airlines are being compassionate at my expense and not their own.
OTOH, your soundproof, pressure sensitive, thermally controlled, laser beam sporting room would make one heck of a media room. Granted spilled drinks and noisy friends would make it less secure, but it's a small price to pay for watching spy movies in the 'command center.'
No, it's far more insidious than that. They sell those rereleases as limited editions, and have a brief window in which you can buy or wait a decade for the next one. This is for childrens' videos, which actually get watched enough to wear out the tape, or have a huge chance of scratching, breaking, or mysterious gooping of the DVD.
So you have to buy multiple limited edition videos at limited edition prices if you want to make it through your kids' childhood with the videos intact.
"Unlicensed" here means that the devices may be used without applying for a license. In essence, the entire population already has a free (limited) license for the bands in question at low power (one of the limitations). If you pay for a license, you already pay for a license.
They are talking about raising the license fee (and incurring a whole lot of paperwork: someone's going to have to register all of those paid-for licenses.)
Reminds me of a toll bridge near me whose toll revenue just barely paid for the toll booth operations for about a decade before someone finally got rid of it. (the toll, that is, the bridge is fine)
Wow. Everything I hear about that film makes me gladder and gladder I decided not to see it.
Who says the universe is infinite?
Yeah, 'cause nothing says "I'm concerned about security" like installing a bunch of third-party add-ons.
But don't forget to manually type the https:// because gmail defaults to plaintext.
I can see that, and If I wasn't a spartan wrt. gaming: I think if I can't own with the standard equipment, I'm probably not going to with the fancy stuff, I'd consider paying almost that much on a gaming mouse. But still just 3 buttons. I'd be after resolution, since that reduces the distance to perform a manoeuvre without making it more difficult to aim like increasing the "sensitivity" would.
The controls have always been in the context menu. the GIMP people really love the right mouse button. Every time you use it it's like you're flipping off your computer.
I don't need any more than three buttons to do any of the things you've described, even if I decide to go WITHOUT removing my hand from the mouse. I could do those things with two buttons, but it would require the addition of mouse gestures, which I use anyway. I can also do any of the things you mentioned without even touching the mouse, so there's a lot of range over which you could debate its usefulness.
There most certainly is a reason not to have extra buttons if the standard 2+wheel are more than sufficient: If you put side buttons on a surface that you apply pressure to in order to move the thing, you've turned your nice mobile mouse into a stationary one-handed keyboard*. Of course, in that sentence, I realize now why you need those extra buttons.
* or a Carpel-Tunnel inducing dexterity test.
No matter how you decide to ambulate your mouse, putting buttons on the side reduces the locomotive options, and eliminating lateral symmetry as many of the "ergonomic" designs reduces the ease of switching hands, which you should occasionally do to reduce repetitive activities. For myself, at least, this loss of options is not compensated by the additional specificity of extra buttons.
Yeah, My head equates euros and pounds for some reason. even Dell has computers for O($300). (celerons, of course, and without monitor, but monitors don't need to be replaced as often as computers.)
for $218, you could still get a device which is technically a computer AND has a touch screen, but it would be inferior in each respect to either the wacom or the dell.
It's still way more than I'd like to spend for an input device, unless I fancy myself a graphic artist.
That's half as much as an entire cheap computer (if i'm doing the rough conversion correctly), so yeah, it's certainly not cheap.