When the Great Library burned down it was one of the greatest losses to humanity I can ever imagine.
That suggests that the great library was, in fact, not succeeding its goal as a disseminator of information. They should have been able to reconstitute the library from copies they'd made and distributed.
It sounds like, instead, it was not a great repository of knowledge for the public at all, but rather a literary oubliette. I have heard the above, possibly apocryphal, account as well, and because of the impact of the burning of the library, I am suspicious as to whether you would even get a copy back most of the time....
The problem with the "why they look fine when you amortize them over the 20 year expected lifetime" is that you have to pay for them 100% up front. Many people simply do not have that kind if liquidity, and one thing that ties up capital is buying stuff that has a freakin' 20 year payoff.
Also, you have to trust those crooks at GE not to be lying about the lifetime (they don't warranty them for 20 years, so i'm skeptical that the current gen. will really last that long. Crappy incandescents are warrantied for the full lifetime of the bulb, however short that tends to be..)
Anyway, the solution to both issues is simple - someone needs to sell a "lighting plan" where you pay a fixed rate to rent a household worth of LED bulbs, replacement of burned out ones included. Why should the homeowner bear the entire risk?
The existence of such lighting contracts, with the risk of failure priced in, etc, would make the whole thing obvious - if the LED lighting contract is half as much as the incandescents on a monthly basis, the choice would be much easier.
If you want to get anywhere inside of route 495, you have to throw out almost everything know about safe driving. That knowledge is useless to you. You are in a battle. It is as important to move forward as it is to survive.
If you decide to visit boston, if it is your first visit, and it is raining or snowing or (especially) foggy, don't get on the roads.
Apple users still have the command line, and there are some tweaks that can only be done with it in OS X. For instance, many of the sleep/hibernate settings are hidden under pmset, and there are a tone of "defaults write com.apple..." snippets out there.
I would not like to see it become #1, unless it was a plurality #1. I don't really care about Apple's profits except that I hope they're enticing enough for apple to keep making useful, pretty things that use unix under the hood, and selling at a price-point that I can afford to buy them. I don't need to have my purchase decision validated by the actions of other consumers.
I think that means they need to be at least a little bit hungry. #1 (at least the way MS is #1) in desktops would not be helpful to that end. 10% is plenty, IMO.
I don't think this would be an issue with a Linux as #1 scenario, as linux isn't a product, it's a field - even in a 90% linux scenario, there would still be dozens of companies all making their own improvements, some of which would get incorporated into the main line over time, and all those companies competing with each other for your custom.
It's really not. What percentage of passengers are killed by the TSA?
We won't know until the results of the long term studies are in. Give us a ring in 15-20 years.
It might be possible to estimate, if we could get some independently verified numbers on the radiation doses they're inflicting.
And that's just the direct kills. The time-person kills are much, much higher. There were about 700 million air passengers in the US in 2010. If the TSA increases the length of time they spend doing bullshit (waiting in line, getting papers in order, obtaining lunch.. anything at all that requires arriving at the airport just a little bit earlier) by a mere 10 minutes, they have killed the time equivalent of over 1500 people.
A bunch of kids who camped out for three months with no discernible goal (but a vague, not incorrect, notion that there is something wrong with the financial sector...), apparently started because one bank was instituting a convenience fee of up to sixty dollars a year depending on spending habits is an "obvious indicator" of the public being less tolerant?
Pretty much all of the public not living on trust funds or still in college made fun of the occupy movement constantly. Albeit with less vitriol than some segments used against the tea partiers.
I would, in fact. How do you expect to raise outrage otherwise?
Switch to pre-paid. There's only one extra shady fee that the pre-paid providers (who are really the same as the contract providers....) charge - the e911 fee...
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But.. if he paid for the tools, he should get to keep the tools. Surgeon's tools make good electronics tools, you know. Especially those locking forceps thingies.
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My cousin's mother died a *much* more noble death.
Can't stop death from coming. And there is a time to fight for life, but also a time to recognize when the fight is over.
Less painful, maybe, but who are you to say it was more noble. Usually, though, you don't hear the word "noble" used to refer to someone who took enough painkillers to dull the pain, heedless of fatal consequences. You tend to hear it used more to refer to people who endure pain and suffering to perform some kind of service, like saving an a dozen orphans from a burning building that a meteor was about to hit, or something.
Why do you feel the need to classify this death as noble, over and above painless or comfortable?
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I'm starting to get a little disturbed by how many articles there are, post affordable care act, that that seem be pushing the "die inexpensively" option as the preferred choice....
You're not paying for search, but it's clearly not something that can be done for free - it takes gobs of bandwidth just to spider everything and racks upon racks of processing to digest it all into something that can fit on mere "whole data centers" worth of disks.
Since you're not paying, someone must be. And if they're paying, what must they be buying?
Yes, I believe I mentioned a company which employs programmers and makes its money from something other than selling software. The downside was implied to be obvious - with the particular product mentioned, the users aren't in control of their own data, because they're not the customers, they're the product
Now, what kind business employs novel writers but doesn't sell novels....
Can't you run the kindle app on the Nook Color already?
Either way, it's missing the point. The color products are for watching movies and doing interactive stuff (and reading in the dark). If you're serious about the reading, you get the e-paper ones. Which, with B&N at least, complements your tablet nicely due to the inter-device page syncing.
You know, the McMansion is a fine choice of housing. Would you prefer that we eschew all of the mass production and process knowledge gained over the years and everyone get a one-off custom home?
And not only that, but apparently they needed computers and astronomers to come up with the "definitely not obvious" solution of "accumulate the error until it's about a week, then have an extra week."
Homeschooling only works if you can afford the loss of income of one of the parents (or the time-equivalent of one of the parents, or the split of work-hours such that neither parent gets to see the other one most days...).
Which brings to mind another question - productivity is now many times what it was when the country was founded - we're down to less than 2% of the workforce needed for agriculture from something like 80%, and that's not even the industry with the most significant gains.
So.. why DO so many families need two full-time incomes just to make ends meet, or even to live in a modest amount of comfort?
Yeah, hydro is great, but can you build new capacity? A lot of the sites where you could use hydro have already been built out. Many of the rest have already been excluded for environmental reasons. If we dam up every river remaining, to hell with the environmental concerns, how much additional hydro capacity could we build out?
That quite is especially weird - Included with every mac (I think. I installed Xcode before checking): gcc (man page suggests it can compile c, c++, objective c, fortran 90, fortran 95, ada, assembler and java source), perl, python, ruby, shell (bash and csh, I think), all available from the terminal app. You can edit the source files with vim (included, and which has its own scripting language - ed), but a beginner would probably just use textedit.
It also includes a graphical language (automator) that isn't that functional (can be looped, but has no branching, and a limited selection of hooks into other apps. But you can make applescript/perl/shell nodes), and of course applescript (available from the terminal if you want to, but the applescript editor is more useful and better documented.
Next, you can get Xcode for no extra fee with Lion, (and you can't get a new Mac without getting Lion), and that includes the iOS development tools.
I'm sure I've missed a bunch of stuff, and I deliberately didn't mention all the unix core utils stuff that can be used instead of scripting for certain types of tasks. Apple machines (other than iOS) actually come with some pretty powerful tools right out of the box.
A beginner would need to obtain some documentation for many of those tools (perldoc is pretty bare by default for instance), but the tools themselves are all there. I'm not sure why Apple got lumped in with Microsoft in the quote you found.
Indeed it is. An interpreter in a phone would be to allow the users of the phone to do things they want it to do.
They won't be writing apps to sell, they'll be writing one-off scripts for personal use either to do something specific, or to just play with programming. If they turn out the be useful, they can aways be re-written in a more efficient language and polished for distribution.
BASIC probably isn't a good choice either, for the small screen of a touch phone. What is really needed is a graphical scripting language with well-designed hooks into the phone's databases (like the address book and calendar), and sensors.
The reason manufacturing is important is because it creates additional jobs beyond just those involved in a particular product
Wrong. The reason manufacturing is important is because it makes the stuff. No designer has a job if the product they design stays on the computer. Design is important, too, but the real goal of an economy ought to be to make the stuff... the more stuff there is, the more stuff there is to go around.
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When the Great Library burned down it was one of the greatest losses to humanity I can ever imagine.
That suggests that the great library was, in fact, not succeeding its goal as a disseminator of information. They should have been able to reconstitute the library from copies they'd made and distributed.
It sounds like, instead, it was not a great repository of knowledge for the public at all, but rather a literary oubliette. I have heard the above, possibly apocryphal, account as well, and because of the impact of the burning of the library, I am suspicious as to whether you would even get a copy back most of the time....
The problem with the "why they look fine when you amortize them over the 20 year expected lifetime" is that you have to pay for them 100% up front. Many people simply do not have that kind if liquidity, and one thing that ties up capital is buying stuff that has a freakin' 20 year payoff.
Also, you have to trust those crooks at GE not to be lying about the lifetime (they don't warranty them for 20 years, so i'm skeptical that the current gen. will really last that long. Crappy incandescents are warrantied for the full lifetime of the bulb, however short that tends to be..)
Anyway, the solution to both issues is simple - someone needs to sell a "lighting plan" where you pay a fixed rate to rent a household worth of LED bulbs, replacement of burned out ones included. Why should the homeowner bear the entire risk?
The existence of such lighting contracts, with the risk of failure priced in, etc, would make the whole thing obvious - if the LED lighting contract is half as much as the incandescents on a monthly basis, the choice would be much easier.
You haven't driven in the boston area, then.
If you want to get anywhere inside of route 495, you have to throw out almost everything know about safe driving. That knowledge is useless to you. You are in a battle. It is as important to move forward as it is to survive.
If you decide to visit boston, if it is your first visit, and it is raining or snowing or (especially) foggy, don't get on the roads.
If it's anything like Microsoft's original answer to the iPhone, I think we can be sure it will do all of those things and more!
RPGs are good against tanks, if you hit the right spot. I doubt they're going to be good against capital ship hulls....
MS and tablet users don't get them.
Apple users still have the command line, and there are some tweaks that can only be done with it in OS X. For instance, many of the sleep/hibernate settings are hidden under pmset, and there are a tone of "defaults write com.apple..." snippets out there.
As a Mac user...
I would not like to see it become #1, unless it was a plurality #1. I don't really care about Apple's profits except that I hope they're enticing enough for apple to keep making useful, pretty things that use unix under the hood, and selling at a price-point that I can afford to buy them. I don't need to have my purchase decision validated by the actions of other consumers.
I think that means they need to be at least a little bit hungry. #1 (at least the way MS is #1) in desktops would not be helpful to that end. 10% is plenty, IMO.
I don't think this would be an issue with a Linux as #1 scenario, as linux isn't a product, it's a field - even in a 90% linux scenario, there would still be dozens of companies all making their own improvements, some of which would get incorporated into the main line over time, and all those companies competing with each other for your custom.
How did you find out about this service? Tell us more, please!
It's really not. What percentage of passengers are killed by the TSA?
We won't know until the results of the long term studies are in. Give us a ring in 15-20 years.
It might be possible to estimate, if we could get some independently verified numbers on the radiation doses they're inflicting.
And that's just the direct kills. The time-person kills are much, much higher. There were about 700 million air passengers in the US in 2010. If the TSA increases the length of time they spend doing bullshit (waiting in line, getting papers in order, obtaining lunch.. anything at all that requires arriving at the airport just a little bit earlier) by a mere 10 minutes, they have killed the time equivalent of over 1500 people.
A bunch of kids who camped out for three months with no discernible goal (but a vague, not incorrect, notion that there is something wrong with the financial sector...), apparently started because one bank was instituting a convenience fee of up to sixty dollars a year depending on spending habits is an "obvious indicator" of the public being less tolerant?
Pretty much all of the public not living on trust funds or still in college made fun of the occupy movement constantly. Albeit with less vitriol than some segments used against the tea partiers.
Wait.. Is verizon the loch ness monster?
I would, in fact. How do you expect to raise outrage otherwise?
Switch to pre-paid. There's only one extra shady fee that the pre-paid providers (who are really the same as the contract providers....) charge - the e911 fee...
But.. if he paid for the tools, he should get to keep the tools. Surgeon's tools make good electronics tools, you know. Especially those locking forceps thingies.
Caffeine isn't fun. It's just bitter. Deliciously bitter.
My cousin's mother died a *much* more noble death.
Can't stop death from coming. And there is a time to fight for life, but also a time to recognize when the fight is over.
Less painful, maybe, but who are you to say it was more noble. Usually, though, you don't hear the word "noble" used to refer to someone who took enough painkillers to dull the pain, heedless of fatal consequences. You tend to hear it used more to refer to people who endure pain and suffering to perform some kind of service, like saving an a dozen orphans from a burning building that a meteor was about to hit, or something.
Why do you feel the need to classify this death as noble, over and above painless or comfortable?
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I'm starting to get a little disturbed by how many articles there are, post affordable care act, that that seem be pushing the "die inexpensively" option as the preferred choice....
You're not paying for search, but it's clearly not something that can be done for free - it takes gobs of bandwidth just to spider everything and racks upon racks of processing to digest it all into something that can fit on mere "whole data centers" worth of disks.
Since you're not paying, someone must be. And if they're paying, what must they be buying?
Yes, I believe I mentioned a company which employs programmers and makes its money from something other than selling software. The downside was implied to be obvious - with the particular product mentioned, the users aren't in control of their own data, because they're not the customers, they're the product
Now, what kind business employs novel writers but doesn't sell novels....
Can't you run the kindle app on the Nook Color already?
Either way, it's missing the point. The color products are for watching movies and doing interactive stuff (and reading in the dark). If you're serious about the reading, you get the e-paper ones. Which, with B&N at least, complements your tablet nicely due to the inter-device page syncing.
You know, the McMansion is a fine choice of housing. Would you prefer that we eschew all of the mass production and process knowledge gained over the years and everyone get a one-off custom home?
And not only that, but apparently they needed computers and astronomers to come up with the "definitely not obvious" solution of "accumulate the error until it's about a week, then have an extra week."
Homeschooling only works if you can afford the loss of income of one of the parents (or the time-equivalent of one of the parents, or the split of work-hours such that neither parent gets to see the other one most days...).
Which brings to mind another question - productivity is now many times what it was when the country was founded - we're down to less than 2% of the workforce needed for agriculture from something like 80%, and that's not even the industry with the most significant gains.
So.. why DO so many families need two full-time incomes just to make ends meet, or even to live in a modest amount of comfort?
Yeah, hydro is great, but can you build new capacity? A lot of the sites where you could use hydro have already been built out. Many of the rest have already been excluded for environmental reasons. If we dam up every river remaining, to hell with the environmental concerns, how much additional hydro capacity could we build out?
That quite is especially weird - Included with every mac (I think. I installed Xcode before checking):
gcc (man page suggests it can compile c, c++, objective c, fortran 90, fortran 95, ada, assembler and java source), perl, python, ruby, shell (bash and csh, I think), all available from the terminal app. You can edit the source files with vim (included, and which has its own scripting language - ed), but a beginner would probably just use textedit.
It also includes a graphical language (automator) that isn't that functional (can be looped, but has no branching, and a limited selection of hooks into other apps. But you can make applescript/perl/shell nodes), and of course applescript (available from the terminal if you want to, but the applescript editor is more useful and better documented.
Next, you can get Xcode for no extra fee with Lion, (and you can't get a new Mac without getting Lion), and that includes the iOS development tools.
I'm sure I've missed a bunch of stuff, and I deliberately didn't mention all the unix core utils stuff that can be used instead of scripting for certain types of tasks. Apple machines (other than iOS) actually come with some pretty powerful tools right out of the box.
A beginner would need to obtain some documentation for many of those tools (perldoc is pretty bare by default for instance), but the tools themselves are all there. I'm not sure why Apple got lumped in with Microsoft in the quote you found.
Indeed it is. An interpreter in a phone would be to allow the users of the phone to do things they want it to do.
They won't be writing apps to sell, they'll be writing one-off scripts for personal use either to do something specific, or to just play with programming. If they turn out the be useful, they can aways be re-written in a more efficient language and polished for distribution.
BASIC probably isn't a good choice either, for the small screen of a touch phone. What is really needed is a graphical scripting language with well-designed hooks into the phone's databases (like the address book and calendar), and sensors.
The reason manufacturing is important is because it creates additional jobs beyond just those involved in a particular product
Wrong. The reason manufacturing is important is because it makes the stuff. No designer has a job if the product they design stays on the computer. Design is important, too, but the real goal of an economy ought to be to make the stuff... the more stuff there is, the more stuff there is to go around.