You think the candy-striper was the project lead? You need to use the scroll wheel more. Third from the right in the final picture: Aaron Brethorst (Program Manager).
But there are only 6 non-managers* in the picture, and Aaron is apparently in good company with the other 4 program managers. "The girl" btw, is also a program manager.
*Unless "developer" is also a code-word for manager...
These guys must be doing great with all that managing going on ou' dere. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess they're probably "well managed" in the same sense as a steak can be "well done."
Of course it's down. It's down because Edwards is out of that business and busy running for president. He's the classic smooth-talking lawyer of little substance that takes on big-money cases and ignores anything else, regardless of merit.
There are probably some good lawyers in the medical field, trying to get justice for patients that have been truly wronged. Edwards wasn't one of 'em. He was the guy channeling fetal testimony for the multi-million dollar lawsuit based on crank science.
Only one: It will become increasingly difficult to maintain as applications go through major versions and Novell needs to keep its GPL2 forks compatible with the GPL3 versions.
That might be the reason they give you, but that's not the best reason for YOU to ditch the laptop and take notes the regular way. Heck, even if they pass out pages of "lecture notes" you're still well advised to take your own notes for several reasons.
1) there might be stuff talked about that isn't in the notes 0) The essence of learning is repetition. By writing it down, you actually reduce the chance you'll need to look it up later.
And don't get into a whole, argument about "well that's just learning by rote." You have to learn some stuff by rote before the rest can click into place. You simply cannot make the connections if you don't have the connecting points. In fact, no teacher can tell you anything other than rote knowledge. The job of the teacher is to give you enough information to lead you to a greater understanding.
How much space&CPU does a simple decryption algorithm really take anyhow? Especially during the brief periods when it's not being used. If there's bloat, there's gotta be a reason other than DRM. Unless it's exceedingly poorly implemented DRM, in which case, there are probably some advantages there for the user...
Would that be a RAID array.. of Disks? Or are you talking about the less common, but more fun, matrix of redundant pesticide canisters?
Seriously though (for sufficiently small values of serious) we need to work on the RAID acronym. It's not nearly redundant enough, but the problem is that Redundant RAID Array of In(expensive|dependent) Disks collapses to RRAIDAID, and making that redundant enough expands the acronym recursively and exponentially. What we need is a properly recursive/redundant acronym that expands to no larger than a single fully-redundant iteration.
Venn diagrams, learn about them back in the day? They are synonyms because they have the same meaning in some contexts. For instance, their dictionary meanings are very similar. We call this denotation, because we explicitly state the meaning.
But there are also connotations, which are the "unsaid" parts of a word's meaning. A good dictionary will mention these as well, but it will have to be updated frequently, because they change faster than the 'official' meaning.
For instance, gate has a specific meaning: a device which can be opened to control access to some area. But the suffix -gate has a very different meaning in certain very specific contexts. Ever since a particular event in the early 70s, it has come to imply a scandal of some sort, usually grand, and is derived from the name of a popular Washington hotel.
As another example, how many times have you called someone a bastard whose parents were not unwed at the time of their conception? And why is that considered to be insulting in the first place?
We should just migrate the web entirely to postscript. Anything web can do postscript can do better, since it's pretty much a full programming language...that fits in a printer. Nobody complains about postscript interpreters becoming bloated, memory and CPU hogs. Plus, page-print will finally "just work" well for a whole class of people.
Yes, but the fact that the French and the Americans use a different communications protocol has made communications more complicated. Requiring a "translation" abstraction layer which sometimes results in lost meaning.
Further, communication within each of those languages was less easy, respectively, until an invention which largely standardized each for their respective populations. The dictionary. Just look at the rates of word drift pre-and post dictionary, and the effect phonetic spellings have done for continent-wide communication. Part of Europe's fragmentation may be due to the fact that it has historically (as in, pre-print, and definitely wax cylinder) been difficult to maintain linguistic uniformity over large empires. As goes the language, so goes the culture.
Except only computer people use those units. SI prefixes are factors of 10^x where x is an integer (typically a multiple of 3)
This standard has been in place for far longer than the "binary" prefixes, yet computer people continue to assert their use. As convenient as powers-of-two are for operating systems, is it really convenient enough to muddy up perfectly good standard prefix definitions. Ironic that most of these people are metric supremacists when it comes to physical units...
So the question is, who is the scummiest, HDD manufacturers who use the overall more standard standard, which happens to over represent their capacity in a world where software distributors typically use a common-to-the-field standard which happens to under represent their requirements?
There's practical issues as well. For instance, if you let your nails go, typing gets weird. You have to move your wrists back and down, putting stress on the wrists to compensate for the nails, or you have to accept that you won't have soft fingertips hitting the keys. This gets old really quick.
Plus, if you do anything useful with your hands, you're gonna get gunk under there. Which you have to clean out unless you're a gross slob. And the longer the nails are, the harder that is.
No, no, it's perfectly slashdot. The people that follow his advice will have a wet naked woman conveniently at hand, yet concentrate entirely on making the touchscreen work.
Or maybe it's just that when you get 50,000 people with 20,000 phones in a small space the stadium infrastructure just can't handle it. If the phone company doesn't bring in portable cells to take on the extra load quite a few people are going to have service issues.
It's also not any better than just letting them sit overnight. They "recover" a fraction of their original capacity whether or not you run a current through them. (or rather, most applications depress the voltage long before depleting the actual capacity, then the voltage recovers between uses.)
In your experiment, don't forget about the "control" batteries.
The problem is it's becoming chicken-little science and it's becoming increasingly difficult to separate self-serving politicking from genuine science. For instance, Al Gore's movie contains numerous disingenuous visuals designed to provoke a specific response. He's probably glomming onto the environmental movement as a peg in his next bid for the Presidency. The fact that he part-owns a "carbon-offset" company, the concept of which is incredibly vague is just more evidence. All he adds is noise, and if he was the only proponent, I'd ignore the whole thing.
Now, there are well meaning scientists from NOAA, and other atmospheric research centers with less of an axe to grind. Whose results I'm more likely to believe, not the least of which because I can download their datasets and plug them into MATLAB myself if I want and do the calculations myself.
I don't tend to believe computer models of any kind. My experience with those from other fields is that you're extremely lucky if they even show the feature you're looking for over a few simulated years, let alone have any long-term predictive value. What they're useful for is testing theories about features of the system, but you have to be very careful about the conclusions you draw from them. Sometimes they indicate features that you might not have thought of, since without the simulation you'd be hard pressed to have access to a fine-grained measurement set of any kind.
So, the best things the Climate worriers can do if their concern is real is:
1) Stop crying chicken little. The predictions over anyone's lifetime who's alive right now is on the order of a half a degree. Cities won't be flooded by rising sea level, but they might have to deal with an inexorable retreat from the coast.
2) The solution isn't global communism, asceticism, or reducing the global population by 5/6. If that's the only way, then the cure is worse than the disease, and most people will just take their chances.
3) I used to tell my roomates this in college when they wanted to run the heat: If you're cold, you can always put on another layer of clothes, but if you're too hot, you can't take off more clothes than all of them. Conservation will only get us so far. There's an energy floor below which we simply can't go if we want to continue to live, and we're pretty close to it already. And it's only going to increase as we add population to the world. There are still a few things to cut, but you can't cut all the way to zero.
4) Find a way to get out of the way. Nuclear power IS the answer. There is enough thorium to last for all of our lives, our childrens' lives, and their children's lives for generations to come. There's no such thing as a hydrogen economy (or as probably makes more sense, biodiesel economy) without cheap, clean energy. And for that, we need to put in huge generating capacity, fast. Nuclear is the only technology that fits the bill. The renewables are good, but they're not very well centralized, and take too long to set up to get significant generating capacity. They're a prong, but they're not the only prong, and they're not the prong we can build the quickest. Once energy is cheap enough (electricity isn't the only possible product from a nuclear pile, for instance) people will convert to using that rather than carbon-burners. You have to attack the problem from the supply side.
The best thing to do is find a way to cut as much regulatory tape as possible (and safe, obviously) on nuclear plant production. We can work on better solutions during our thousand generations of "too cheap to meter" power.
In short, the GW crowd would be a lot more believable and acceptable if they'd stop getting in the way of real solutions and promoting ridiculous half-measures or pie-in-the-sky schemes for other people to give up something, possibly something as important to them as their own or their childrens' lives.
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You think the candy-striper was the project lead? You need to use the scroll wheel more. Third from the right in the final picture: Aaron Brethorst (Program Manager).
But there are only 6 non-managers* in the picture, and Aaron is apparently in good company with the other 4 program managers. "The girl" btw, is also a program manager.
*Unless "developer" is also a code-word for manager...
These guys must be doing great with all that managing going on ou' dere. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess they're probably "well managed" in the same sense as a steak can be "well done."
Ninjas are afraid of the ocean anyway. They simply can't fathom the depths of the sea.
Of course it's down. It's down because Edwards is out of that business and busy running for president. He's the classic smooth-talking lawyer of little substance that takes on big-money cases and ignores anything else, regardless of merit.
There are probably some good lawyers in the medical field, trying to get justice for patients that have been truly wronged. Edwards wasn't one of 'em. He was the guy channeling fetal testimony for the multi-million dollar lawsuit based on crank science.
Only one: It will become increasingly difficult to maintain as applications go through major versions and Novell needs to keep its GPL2 forks compatible with the GPL3 versions.
But still not nearly as short as their peacfull neighbors.
No it isn't. If it was, Lincoln might not have even been hit!
That might be the reason they give you, but that's not the best reason for YOU to ditch the laptop and take notes the regular way. Heck, even if they pass out pages of "lecture notes" you're still well advised to take your own notes for several reasons.
1) there might be stuff talked about that isn't in the notes
0) The essence of learning is repetition. By writing it down, you actually reduce the chance you'll need to look it up later.
And don't get into a whole, argument about "well that's just learning by rote." You have to learn some stuff by rote before the rest can click into place. You simply cannot make the connections if you don't have the connecting points. In fact, no teacher can tell you anything other than rote knowledge. The job of the teacher is to give you enough information to lead you to a greater understanding.
How much space&CPU does a simple decryption algorithm really take anyhow? Especially during the brief periods when it's not being used. If there's bloat, there's gotta be a reason other than DRM. Unless it's exceedingly poorly implemented DRM, in which case, there are probably some advantages there for the user...
Would that be a RAID array.. of Disks? Or are you talking about the less common, but more fun, matrix of redundant pesticide canisters?
Seriously though (for sufficiently small values of serious) we need to work on the RAID acronym. It's not nearly redundant enough, but the problem is that Redundant RAID Array of In(expensive|dependent) Disks collapses to RRAIDAID, and making that redundant enough expands the acronym recursively and exponentially. What we need is a properly recursive/redundant acronym that expands to no larger than a single fully-redundant iteration.
Hertz? You non-old-timer. The word is cycles.
Venn diagrams, learn about them back in the day? They are synonyms because they have the same meaning in some contexts. For instance, their dictionary meanings are very similar. We call this denotation, because we explicitly state the meaning.
But there are also connotations, which are the "unsaid" parts of a word's meaning. A good dictionary will mention these as well, but it will have to be updated frequently, because they change faster than the 'official' meaning.
For instance, gate has a specific meaning: a device which can be opened to control access to some area. But the suffix -gate has a very different meaning in certain very specific contexts. Ever since a particular event in the early 70s, it has come to imply a scandal of some sort, usually grand, and is derived from the name of a popular Washington hotel.
As another example, how many times have you called someone a bastard whose parents were not unwed at the time of their conception? And why is that considered to be insulting in the first place?
We should just migrate the web entirely to postscript. Anything web can do postscript can do better, since it's pretty much a full programming language...that fits in a printer. Nobody complains about postscript interpreters becoming bloated, memory and CPU hogs. Plus, page-print will finally "just work" well for a whole class of people.
Yes, but the fact that the French and the Americans use a different communications protocol has made communications more complicated. Requiring a "translation" abstraction layer which sometimes results in lost meaning.
Further, communication within each of those languages was less easy, respectively, until an invention which largely standardized each for their respective populations. The dictionary. Just look at the rates of word drift pre-and post dictionary, and the effect phonetic spellings have done for continent-wide communication. Part of Europe's fragmentation may be due to the fact that it has historically (as in, pre-print, and definitely wax cylinder) been difficult to maintain linguistic uniformity over large empires. As goes the language, so goes the culture.
Except only computer people use those units. SI prefixes are factors of 10^x where x is an integer (typically a multiple of 3)
This standard has been in place for far longer than the "binary" prefixes, yet computer people continue to assert their use. As convenient as powers-of-two are for operating systems, is it really convenient enough to muddy up perfectly good standard prefix definitions. Ironic that most of these people are metric supremacists when it comes to physical units...
So the question is, who is the scummiest, HDD manufacturers who use the overall more standard standard, which happens to over represent their capacity in a world where software distributors typically use a common-to-the-field standard which happens to under represent their requirements?
There's practical issues as well. For instance, if you let your nails go, typing gets weird. You have to move your wrists back and down, putting stress on the wrists to compensate for the nails, or you have to accept that you won't have soft fingertips hitting the keys. This gets old really quick.
Plus, if you do anything useful with your hands, you're gonna get gunk under there. Which you have to clean out unless you're a gross slob. And the longer the nails are, the harder that is.
No, no, it's perfectly slashdot. The people that follow his advice will have a wet naked woman conveniently at hand, yet concentrate entirely on making the touchscreen work.
He's saying that the ones who jumped to conclusions the quickest are the ones who didn't get eaten while busy pondering imponderables.
Or maybe it's just that when you get 50,000 people with 20,000 phones in a small space the stadium infrastructure just can't handle it. If the phone company doesn't bring in portable cells to take on the extra load quite a few people are going to have service issues.
It's also not any better than just letting them sit overnight. They "recover" a fraction of their original capacity whether or not you run a current through them. (or rather, most applications depress the voltage long before depleting the actual capacity, then the voltage recovers between uses.)
In your experiment, don't forget about the "control" batteries.
Would that be their current current requirements?
That can't be it. Most lawyers and nearly lawyers are able to get indoor jobs.
The problem is it's becoming chicken-little science and it's becoming increasingly difficult to separate self-serving politicking from genuine science. For instance, Al Gore's movie contains numerous disingenuous visuals designed to provoke a specific response. He's probably glomming onto the environmental movement as a peg in his next bid for the Presidency. The fact that he part-owns a "carbon-offset" company, the concept of which is incredibly vague is just more evidence. All he adds is noise, and if he was the only proponent, I'd ignore the whole thing.
Now, there are well meaning scientists from NOAA, and other atmospheric research centers with less of an axe to grind. Whose results I'm more likely to believe, not the least of which because I can download their datasets and plug them into MATLAB myself if I want and do the calculations myself.
I don't tend to believe computer models of any kind. My experience with those from other fields is that you're extremely lucky if they even show the feature you're looking for over a few simulated years, let alone have any long-term predictive value. What they're useful for is testing theories about features of the system, but you have to be very careful about the conclusions you draw from them. Sometimes they indicate features that you might not have thought of, since without the simulation you'd be hard pressed to have access to a fine-grained measurement set of any kind.
So, the best things the Climate worriers can do if their concern is real is:
1) Stop crying chicken little. The predictions over anyone's lifetime who's alive right now is on the order of a half a degree. Cities won't be flooded by rising sea level, but they might have to deal with an inexorable retreat from the coast.
2) The solution isn't global communism, asceticism, or reducing the global population by 5/6. If that's the only way, then the cure is worse than the disease, and most people will just take their chances.
3) I used to tell my roomates this in college when they wanted to run the heat: If you're cold, you can always put on another layer of clothes, but if you're too hot, you can't take off more clothes than all of them. Conservation will only get us so far. There's an energy floor below which we simply can't go if we want to continue to live, and we're pretty close to it already. And it's only going to increase as we add population to the world. There are still a few things to cut, but you can't cut all the way to zero.
4) Find a way to get out of the way. Nuclear power IS the answer. There is enough thorium to last for all of our lives, our childrens' lives, and their children's lives for generations to come. There's no such thing as a hydrogen economy (or as probably makes more sense, biodiesel economy) without cheap, clean energy. And for that, we need to put in huge generating capacity, fast. Nuclear is the only technology that fits the bill. The renewables are good, but they're not very well centralized, and take too long to set up to get significant generating capacity. They're a prong, but they're not the only prong, and they're not the prong we can build the quickest. Once energy is cheap enough (electricity isn't the only possible product from a nuclear pile, for instance) people will convert to using that rather than carbon-burners. You have to attack the problem from the supply side.
The best thing to do is find a way to cut as much regulatory tape as possible (and safe, obviously) on nuclear plant production. We can work on better solutions during our thousand generations of "too cheap to meter" power.
In short, the GW crowd would be a lot more believable and acceptable if they'd stop getting in the way of real solutions and promoting ridiculous half-measures or pie-in-the-sky schemes for other people to give up something, possibly something as important to them as their own or their childrens' lives.
Can we shut up about the Godwins already? Godwin posts have become even more annoying than the Nazi references they referred to.
Also, anti-Godwin posts are getting pretty tired, too.
Hell freezes over just about every year. Your prom queen friend sure has some 'splainin' to do.