An 80 year old grandmother takes two of her grandchildren (ages 4 and 6) for a walk in the park. They are the only ones in the park. What is the average age of the people in the park? And is there anyone in the park within 20 years of that average age?
The low expected lifespans in previous years was due mostly to the fact that half of all children died before they reached 15 or so. The adults lived almost as long as we do on average. Very few people died in their 30's and 40's. Please re-think your conclusions in light of these facts.
Even a cursory google search of 'percentage belief in evolution' and 'percentage christian in united states' makes it clear that you are also pulling 'It's just that the idiots are the ones that shout the loudest.' out of you ass as well. The idiots may well be the loud ones, but they hold with the majority opinion among christians at least.
You should practice some of that science you appear to advocate here, and learn a bit about the world, and the people in it. It has been my experience that this takes some intentional seeking out of information, not a casual 'I read sometimes' practice.
Not guessing - just poor memory - it had been months since I had watched it. Ed does talk about a polaroid camera, seconds or minutes per frame, and implies 3 exposures per frame for color pictures. Chances are the image was rendered one line or pixel at a time. Nobody had a real framebuffer yet, publicly anyway. They mention that too.
If anything, this video is too long, but it gives a lot of background on Ed Catmull , the animated hand, and Pixar. Well worth the time, especially if you don't know what's the big deal with a crappy hand animation.
For example this video was probably made by taping polaroids to a CRT to get the images out of the computer and onto the film.
to go to the previous recently accessed folder : cd -
(yes, this is much less than what you asked for, but that much is already there)
to show your recent commands : history N
where N is how many commands to display. It is fairly easy to copy/paste the command you want to run/edit from there.
Honestly, I don't expect Windows to have those drivers. I was replying to someone who apparently thought that not only Windows should have those drivers, but also that it did have them. I was pointing out that this was still a problem.
And you are right, Windows Update helps. That was the first thing I tried. It didn't get everything, but it was worth using.
I last installed Windows about a week and a half ago. (not on my computer, and this was at work)
Windows 7. Nothing had drivers. Not even the usb ports worked, I had to burn network drivers to a CD to get them on the machine so I could download and install the rest of the drivers.
If you are installing on older (2-3 years) hardware, yes, windows 7 has most of the drivers. But not on new hardware. This hasn't changed since 1995.
Linux? Graphics drivers are occasionally a pain, and obscure devices are sometimes trouble. Generally it just works though.
Dangit, I so wish that "almost nothing" and "badly written Java and.net apps" actually had something in common. It would make my job so much easier and more pleasant. For example we have one server that feels like it is running on a 486sx machine, with 4MB RAM. A poorly written and ported from Mac Java app is the culprit.
Can't comment on the VS issue much, I haven't used it since '01.
The constitution is clear and careful with the wording it uses. When it means citizen - it uses the word 'citizen'. Most of the bill of rights uses the term 'people' not citizens. It means what it says. The US simply does not have jurisdiction over most people outside of the US, there is nothing in the constitution to imply that those people not not have those rights.
Not all rights are inalienable, and since some of these rights have been granted to US citizens only, it is not wrong to say that citizens have more rights than non-citizens. The right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures does not fall into this category.
You can have a phonetic alphabet, or you can have standardized spelling - not both. Most words in english are spelled the way they were pronounced.
Yes - I mean words like 'through' and 'knight"
English has fixed spelling - and therefore can't have a phonetic alphabet. The core reason for this is simple - language changes over time. The rules of spelling are being ignored, mostly because the rules are made up after the fact to match the language. And the rules we have are getting rather out of date.
"C4 is very stable and insensitive to most physical shocks. Detonation can only be initiated by a combination of extreme heat and a shock wave, as when a detonator inserted into it is fired. C4 cannot be detonated by a gunshot or by dropping it onto a hard surface. It does not explode when lit on fire or exposed to microwave radiation."
so having cheap transportation controlled by professional operators eliminating our dependence on frequent wars in the middle east would be less valuable than 10 years of paying for frequent wars in the middle east? please explain.
Actually, that would be great - but we are talking about mass transit, not fantasy. No current mass transit system could do for the US what you have just asked for.
Just the time wasted waiting for the bus/train and the extra travel time that those take would cost the economy more than the actual costs of any known mass transit. Here in Utah - where most of the population lives in a small corridor of cities - the fares cost almost as much as driving does, the buses are slow, don't run where or when most people need them, and the fares only pay for 17% of the transit operating costs. Cheap efficient transportation means private cars. Mass transit here only comes close to that if you live and work close to the newish light rail tracks, and have to commute during rush hour.
There are probably places - even in the US - where mass transit is the better option. Guess what, most of those already have it. Manhattan comes to mind for example.
Oh, and most buses/trains still run on oil - so they don't change the oil dependence much.
I tried to find a well phrased way to head off this kind of crappy reply. I didn't find one. So here goes the tl;dr version:
Without a corporate charter, such 'bands' would be much smaller and fewer than current corporations. Why? Ownership and trust issues. There would be no corporation to own any of the assets, just a bunch of people. Each member of the company would have a big interest in making sure one of the others doesn't just walk off with all the stuff. Or sell it and disappear with the cash. These trust issues would be a huge limit to the size and number of companies. Just think of how much smaller corporations would be if they couldn't do IPOs or issue more stock. And without corporate charters and corporate law, this would be impossible.
With no stockholders to screw, or stock valuations to inflate, many of the abuses that CEOs currently do would be pointless. Pumping up the stock for short-term gains and long-term pain would be stupid if the company was run by the owners of the company instead of some CEO looking for a big bonus and golden parachute. It wouldn't happen. Cutting corners in product safety to make a fast buck looks a lot less inviting when you go to jail for manslaughter when things go bad, instead of losing some of your bonus.
Corporate charters are very relevant to our current situation. They are the current, but not the key problem.
"its not a contemporary issue. it is an issue of social dynamics -> if groups are allowed to acquire more power than others, they dominate others. this was so in 5000 Bc, this is as such now."
You are correct. This is the key problem. Shall we explore how this happens? There are two basic methods that have been used throughout history, and they both amount to the same thing in the end. Bad government.
Method 1: The wealthy/ambitious get the current government to pass laws giving them special status of some sort that allows them to dominate. Examples are special laws for 'nobles', inheritance laws, like primogeniture to keep the wealth in one piece, and regulations that keep out smaller competitors. (EPA, OSHA, and licenses of most kinds fit here). Corporate law - including the charter are a modern version of this.
Method 2: Hire thugs/soldiers and take over by direct force. The result of this is to become the de facto if not de jur government. Feudal europe is a good example of this method.
Notice in both cases this is a problem of government. A proper 'limited' government would prevent both methods from happening. In fact the emphasis should be on 'proper' and not 'limited' - a fact that most limited government advocates don't seem to get either. They seem to think that free market competition would prevent this. They don't seem to get that each and every business is trying to prevent competition, and only government power can sustain a free market. I don't claim to know exactly what form of government it would take to achieve this. I am hopeful, but not certain that it is even possible. Mainstream Libertarian ideas usually don't understand these points. They would be sadly disappointed in the results of the kind of government they advocate, and largely because what you have stated would indeed happen. What libertarians do get is that a big government with lots of regulations is inefficient, expensive and ripe for it's own brand of tyranny. And it still doesn't prevent the strong/rich from dominating the weak/poor.
A truly limited government would have limited ability to grant corporate charters. Funny how all the pro-government people seem to forget that the corporate mess is a direct result of government power in the first place.
Not quite like that. People (including the violent ones) tend to like violent movies. And while they are watching said violent movies, they aren't getting drunk and being violent. 'Study' really has nothing to do with that.
Malmarker then? Maldata? Evilbytes? I suppose at some level pedantry about word definitions makes sense, so fine, don't call it malware. But it is in the same 'badness' class as most malware, and needs an equally bad name to go with it.
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DNA_codon_table
Aspartic acid, Tyrosine. In that order.
(The last A doesn't do anything)
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An 80 year old grandmother takes two of her grandchildren (ages 4 and 6) for a walk in the park. They are the only ones in the park. What is the average age of the people in the park? And is there anyone in the park within 20 years of that average age?
The low expected lifespans in previous years was due mostly to the fact that half of all children died before they reached 15 or so. The adults lived almost as long as we do on average. Very few people died in their 30's and 40's. Please re-think your conclusions in light of these facts.
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Even a cursory google search of 'percentage belief in evolution' and 'percentage christian in united states' makes it clear that you are also pulling 'It's just that the idiots are the ones that shout the loudest.' out of you ass as well. The idiots may well be the loud ones, but they hold with the majority opinion among christians at least.
You should practice some of that science you appear to advocate here, and learn a bit about the world, and the people in it. It has been my experience that this takes some intentional seeking out of information, not a casual 'I read sometimes' practice.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laying_worker_bee
(yes, that study was a poor example...)
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Not guessing - just poor memory - it had been months since I had watched it. Ed does talk about a polaroid camera, seconds or minutes per frame, and implies 3 exposures per frame for color pictures. Chances are the image was rendered one line or pixel at a time. Nobody had a real framebuffer yet, publicly anyway. They mention that too.
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Pixar - A Human Story of Computer Animation
If anything, this video is too long, but it gives a lot of background on Ed Catmull , the animated hand, and Pixar. Well worth the time, especially if you don't know what's the big deal with a crappy hand animation.
For example this video was probably made by taping polaroids to a CRT to get the images out of the computer and onto the film.
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And in particular, This
And now you are aware of some states 'that will allow you to carry a handgun in public without a permit'
(p.s. for those too lazy to click the links, The state referred to is most likely Vermont, and it is no longer alone in this)
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Some bash features you may be interested in...
to go to the previous recently accessed folder : cd -
(yes, this is much less than what you asked for, but that much is already there)
to show your recent commands : history N
where N is how many commands to display. It is fairly easy to copy/paste the command you want to run/edit from there.
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Honestly, I don't expect Windows to have those drivers. I was replying to someone who apparently thought that not only Windows should have those drivers, but also that it did have them. I was pointing out that this was still a problem.
And you are right, Windows Update helps. That was the first thing I tried. It didn't get everything, but it was worth using.
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I last installed Windows about a week and a half ago. (not on my computer, and this was at work)
Windows 7. Nothing had drivers. Not even the usb ports worked, I had to burn network drivers to a CD to get them on the machine so I could download and install the rest of the drivers.
If you are installing on older (2-3 years) hardware, yes, windows 7 has most of the drivers. But not on new hardware. This hasn't changed since 1995.
Linux? Graphics drivers are occasionally a pain, and obscure devices are sometimes trouble. Generally it just works though.
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Can't comment on the VS issue much, I haven't used it since '01.
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The constitution is clear and careful with the wording it uses. When it means citizen - it uses the word 'citizen'. Most of the bill of rights uses the term 'people' not citizens. It means what it says. The US simply does not have jurisdiction over most people outside of the US, there is nothing in the constitution to imply that those people not not have those rights.
Not all rights are inalienable, and since some of these rights have been granted to US citizens only, it is not wrong to say that citizens have more rights than non-citizens. The right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures does not fall into this category.
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You can have a phonetic alphabet, or you can have standardized spelling - not both. Most words in english are spelled the way they were pronounced.
Yes - I mean words like 'through' and 'knight"
English has fixed spelling - and therefore can't have a phonetic alphabet. The core reason for this is simple - language changes over time. The rules of spelling are being ignored, mostly because the rules are made up after the fact to match the language. And the rules we have are getting rather out of date.
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"C4 is very stable and insensitive to most physical shocks. Detonation can only be initiated by a combination of extreme heat and a shock wave, as when a detonator inserted into it is fired. C4 cannot be detonated by a gunshot or by dropping it onto a hard surface. It does not explode when lit on fire or exposed to microwave radiation."
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so having cheap transportation controlled by professional operators eliminating our dependence on frequent wars in the middle east would be less valuable than 10 years of paying for frequent wars in the middle east? please explain.
Actually, that would be great - but we are talking about mass transit, not fantasy. No current mass transit system could do for the US what you have just asked for.
Just the time wasted waiting for the bus/train and the extra travel time that those take would cost the economy more than the actual costs of any known mass transit. Here in Utah - where most of the population lives in a small corridor of cities - the fares cost almost as much as driving does, the buses are slow, don't run where or when most people need them, and the fares only pay for 17% of the transit operating costs. Cheap efficient transportation means private cars. Mass transit here only comes close to that if you live and work close to the newish light rail tracks, and have to commute during rush hour.
There are probably places - even in the US - where mass transit is the better option. Guess what, most of those already have it. Manhattan comes to mind for example.
Oh, and most buses/trains still run on oil - so they don't change the oil dependence much.
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I tried to find a well phrased way to head off this kind of crappy reply. I didn't find one. So here goes the tl;dr version:
Without a corporate charter, such 'bands' would be much smaller and fewer than current corporations. Why? Ownership and trust issues. There would be no corporation to own any of the assets, just a bunch of people. Each member of the company would have a big interest in making sure one of the others doesn't just walk off with all the stuff. Or sell it and disappear with the cash. These trust issues would be a huge limit to the size and number of companies. Just think of how much smaller corporations would be if they couldn't do IPOs or issue more stock. And without corporate charters and corporate law, this would be impossible.
With no stockholders to screw, or stock valuations to inflate, many of the abuses that CEOs currently do would be pointless. Pumping up the stock for short-term gains and long-term pain would be stupid if the company was run by the owners of the company instead of some CEO looking for a big bonus and golden parachute. It wouldn't happen. Cutting corners in product safety to make a fast buck looks a lot less inviting when you go to jail for manslaughter when things go bad, instead of losing some of your bonus.
Corporate charters are very relevant to our current situation. They are the current, but not the key problem.
"its not a contemporary issue. it is an issue of social dynamics -> if groups are allowed to acquire more power than others, they dominate others. this was so in 5000 Bc, this is as such now."
You are correct. This is the key problem. Shall we explore how this happens? There are two basic methods that have been used throughout history, and they both amount to the same thing in the end. Bad government.
Method 1: The wealthy/ambitious get the current government to pass laws giving them special status of some sort that allows them to dominate. Examples are special laws for 'nobles', inheritance laws, like primogeniture to keep the wealth in one piece, and regulations that keep out smaller competitors. (EPA, OSHA, and licenses of most kinds fit here). Corporate law - including the charter are a modern version of this.
Method 2: Hire thugs/soldiers and take over by direct force. The result of this is to become the de facto if not de jur government. Feudal europe is a good example of this method.
Notice in both cases this is a problem of government. A proper 'limited' government would prevent both methods from happening. In fact the emphasis should be on 'proper' and not 'limited' - a fact that most limited government advocates don't seem to get either. They seem to think that free market competition would prevent this. They don't seem to get that each and every business is trying to prevent competition, and only government power can sustain a free market. I don't claim to know exactly what form of government it would take to achieve this. I am hopeful, but not certain that it is even possible. Mainstream Libertarian ideas usually don't understand these points. They would be sadly disappointed in the results of the kind of government they advocate, and largely because what you have stated would indeed happen. What libertarians do get is that a big government with lots of regulations is inefficient, expensive and ripe for it's own brand of tyranny. And it still doesn't prevent the strong/rich from dominating the weak/poor.
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A truly limited government would have limited ability to grant corporate charters. Funny how all the pro-government people seem to forget that the corporate mess is a direct result of government power in the first place.
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Try telling us that way.
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"selfless, competent, fair, and intelligent"
"(and happen to agree with us on every issue)"
So that is why there are so many liars any hypocrites running for office, these two qualifications are mutually incompatible!
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- Igthorn
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