Highest floor of taipei 101 is below the highest of sears. If they can count that stupid spire, why can't sears count the antenna tower? at least the antenna is actually a useful part of the building.
Wait they abhore a concise recipe for "how to do x" because it doesn't give much information on "why to do x"?
The howtos were a problem for me when I started using linux as well, but for the exact reason you put them down: there were way too many "ok then you use such and such" command line tool to set this up and then skipped a dozen steps that were probably trivial, but were nearly impossible for a newbie such as myself figure out.
Exercises for the reader belong in college courses not howto guides. I know they did that to make the howtos general enough to apply to as many distributions as possible, but i think it would be nice if they followed a two-column format: one side for exactly how to do it on some specific known system, say a fresh install of a popular distro, and the other side with the generalities.
If i just want to run a webserver to test out certain aspects of a personal web "site" that is only a few pages, I don't want to have to also learn a semester-course worth of material about apache.
There is glove technology that does exactly what you require. The critical feature is that the fingers are connected to present a minimal surface area for heat conduction. They are sold under the product name, "mittens."
You can't use your fingers in warm gloves anyway, so what's the point in reducing their insulating ability by separating them?
I don't care how cool it is to use your iPod in the snow. There's no way I'm buying critical survival gear like a ski jacket from a cut-rate computer store.
I don't know about no power, but we are evolving in that direction. What I meant was that the idea of federalism has passed. The new paradigm is somewhat nationalistic, with ever more problems being addressed at the federal level, appropriately or not.
The recent battles over the supreme court are a symptom of this: It wouldn't matter who sat on the court if they weren't a place to establish national policy.
Well it all goes back to the civil war, which we lost. I don't mean southern slave-owning segregationists, though they lost too. The price of their loss though was the death of Federalism in the US.
Interesting, but those execs would be shooting themselves in the foot. Advert $$ depends on ROI. (in the long term, the market will relax to this position, but in the short term, companies may actively be measuring and optimizing) So improperly measuring viewership is a fast road to losing all advertising dollars.
What I've been wondering though is why we have neilson anymore at all. With the advent of digital cable, it would seem to me that it's now possible to monitor directly the viewing habits of millions of people. That's a large sample. If made optional, i would even opt-in to just such monitoring, since it would mean that every time i watched my favorite shows i'd be casting a vote to keep it on the air.
the noscripts extsension lets you explicitly allow sites to use javascript on a perminant or temporary basis. It uses a functionality similar to firefox's popup blocker, so it's pretty convenient. Now as to whether you trust a 3rd party app to take care of your security needs, that's another question entirely.
"According to you, anarchy is a group of people thinking for themselves with no regard to others."
Once you have organized, you have an organization. By definition, this cannot be anarchy. The only tenable position in an anarchic society is that of self-interest, whether that includes altruism or not is up to the individual.
Unfortunately, in an environment of anarchy, anyone who is able to organize will have a significant advantage over the free-actors. The best thing you can do is probably to form a group around a set of principles, spell out those principles explictly in some kind of document, and appoint a fraction of their number to coordinate enforcement actions.
Pedantic: Pure bandwidth - the post office. This is likely to have a higher S/N ratio as well based on cost of entry.
Pratical: The modern collegiate system. If you could really learn faster from a laptop than through actual mentored schooling, people would be doing that rather than wasting time and family fortunes on primary, secondary and post secondary education.
The SEC is a nongovernmental agency without the full authority of the people of the united states. It would certainly initiate an investigation, but it would be unable to subpoena any information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation. Hopefully, others in the FBI would take it from there, but if the crooked agents laundered the money well, that investigation would be at least as difficult as the one against the potentially crooked CEO that started the whole thing.
Of course they were. We hadn't even begun to define the problem yet. so of course, as knowledge became better, the old definitions would be determined to be inadequate. They were useful for getting to that point though.
Yeah that's the point. You still need to eat. You could eat more than you should though. an extra $30 a month might give you enough instant gratification that you'd choose that instead of the gym. And then you'd be fat.
I suspect that if you examine the demographics, you would find that there is an INVERSE relationship between income and weight. (in the US)
Frankly I would consider this to be one of the successes of our civilization: that even the very poor have enough resources to become unhealthily overweight. It's no great virtue to be that obiese, but I'd certainly rather live in a country where the leading cause of death is heart disease rather than one where it's starvation, dehydration, or dyssentary.
Well duh, of course the initial tests aren't realistic. They're initial tests. That'd be like after redstone saying, "Well the tests were interesting, but they still don't prove it's possible to put a man on the moon."
If you use those as data points and plot the trend, you'll see that the gap is shortening..
from Chainsaw in 2003 with a respectable retro buffer of 29 years, followed by amity with a buffer of 26 years, to the Hicher with a buffer of only 21 years. Why if these trends continue we'll run out of retro sometime in the year 2018. People we've got to start conserving the past TODAY.
Damn you "The Onion" for not letting me find and properly link this reference.
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How large are say.. the pyramids at giza compared to the VAB?
Perhaps, but that graph is highly inaccurate as to the number of pirates.
Highest floor of taipei 101 is below the highest of sears. If they can count that stupid spire, why can't sears count the antenna tower? at least the antenna is actually a useful part of the building.
Wait they abhore a concise recipe for "how to do x" because it doesn't give much information on "why to do x"?
The howtos were a problem for me when I started using linux as well, but for the exact reason you put them down: there were way too many "ok then you use such and such" command line tool to set this up and then skipped a dozen steps that were probably trivial, but were nearly impossible for a newbie such as myself figure out.
Exercises for the reader belong in college courses not howto guides. I know they did that to make the howtos general enough to apply to as many distributions as possible, but i think it would be nice if they followed a two-column format: one side for exactly how to do it on some specific known system, say a fresh install of a popular distro, and the other side with the generalities.
If i just want to run a webserver to test out certain aspects of a personal web "site" that is only a few pages, I don't want to have to also learn a semester-course worth of material about apache.
There is glove technology that does exactly what you require. The critical feature is that the fingers are connected to present a minimal surface area for heat conduction. They are sold under the product name, "mittens."
You can't use your fingers in warm gloves anyway, so what's the point in reducing their insulating ability by separating them?
I don't care how cool it is to use your iPod in the snow. There's no way I'm buying critical survival gear like a ski jacket from a cut-rate computer store.
I don't know about no power, but we are evolving in that direction. What I meant was that the idea of federalism has passed. The new paradigm is somewhat nationalistic, with ever more problems being addressed at the federal level, appropriately or not.
The recent battles over the supreme court are a symptom of this: It wouldn't matter who sat on the court if they weren't a place to establish national policy.
Well it all goes back to the civil war, which we lost. I don't mean southern slave-owning segregationists, though they lost too. The price of their loss though was the death of Federalism in the US.
Interesting, but those execs would be shooting themselves in the foot. Advert $$ depends on ROI. (in the long term, the market will relax to this position, but in the short term, companies may actively be measuring and optimizing) So improperly measuring viewership is a fast road to losing all advertising dollars.
What I've been wondering though is why we have neilson anymore at all. With the advent of digital cable, it would seem to me that it's now possible to monitor directly the viewing habits of millions of people. That's a large sample. If made optional, i would even opt-in to just such monitoring, since it would mean that every time i watched my favorite shows i'd be casting a vote to keep it on the air.
a bit of a catch-22 then.
the noscripts extsension lets you explicitly allow sites to use javascript on a perminant or temporary basis. It uses a functionality similar to firefox's popup blocker, so it's pretty convenient. Now as to whether you trust a 3rd party app to take care of your security needs, that's another question entirely.
So.. it's like a vaccination then?
"According to you, anarchy is a group of people thinking for themselves with no regard to others."
Once you have organized, you have an organization. By definition, this cannot be anarchy. The only tenable position in an anarchic society is that of self-interest, whether that includes altruism or not is up to the individual.
Unfortunately, in an environment of anarchy, anyone who is able to organize will have a significant advantage over the free-actors. The best thing you can do is probably to form a group around a set of principles, spell out those principles explictly in some kind of document, and appoint a fraction of their number to coordinate enforcement actions.
Yes.
Pedantic: Pure bandwidth - the post office. This is likely to have a higher S/N ratio as well based on cost of entry.
Pratical: The modern collegiate system. If you could really learn faster from a laptop than through actual mentored schooling, people would be doing that rather than wasting time and family fortunes on primary, secondary and post secondary education.
BS. It doesn't matter how popular they are if no one actually buys their books.
The SEC is a nongovernmental agency without the full authority of the people of the united states. It would certainly initiate an investigation, but it would be unable to subpoena any information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation. Hopefully, others in the FBI would take it from there, but if the crooked agents laundered the money well, that investigation would be at least as difficult as the one against the potentially crooked CEO that started the whole thing.
Of course they were. We hadn't even begun to define the problem yet. so of course, as knowledge became better, the old definitions would be determined to be inadequate. They were useful for getting to that point though.
So you're correcting turkey's's extra "'"?
Yeah that's the point. You still need to eat. You could eat more than you should though. an extra $30 a month might give you enough instant gratification that you'd choose that instead of the gym. And then you'd be fat.
Food is cheaper than gym memberships.
I suspect that if you examine the demographics, you would find that there is an INVERSE relationship between income and weight. (in the US)
Frankly I would consider this to be one of the successes of our civilization: that even the very poor have enough resources to become unhealthily overweight. It's no great virtue to be that obiese, but I'd certainly rather live in a country where the leading cause of death is heart disease rather than one where it's starvation, dehydration, or dyssentary.
Well duh, of course the initial tests aren't realistic. They're initial tests. That'd be like after redstone saying, "Well the tests were interesting, but they still don't prove it's possible to put a man on the moon."
If you use those as data points and plot the trend, you'll see that the gap is shortening..
from Chainsaw in 2003 with a respectable retro buffer of 29 years, followed by amity with a buffer of 26 years, to the Hicher with a buffer of only 21 years. Why if these trends continue we'll run out of retro sometime in the year 2018. People we've got to start conserving the past TODAY.
Damn you "The Onion" for not letting me find and properly link this reference.
"Who the hell cares if a fucking actor or director is a Communist? What compromise to national security did that pose?"
Certainly not senator McCarthy. You'd have to ask the representatives that.
Ironically, the word "literally" is seldom meant in a literal sense.
They did. Don't you read the classifieds? It was definately in there
SBW with YS seeks SPRHRO for arctic
build. Must have SPR STR, XRY VSN,
be INVNCBL and able to fly.