doctors can simply cauterise it so the rest of us can carry on munching, crunching and slurping like normal humans.
I'm 100% unimpressed by the fact that either no one took the time to teach such folk manners, or that having been taught, they failed to integrate these basic socializations. While it may be polite to slurp in China, it isn't most other places. Consequently, it's not okay to slurp here, just because it's okay to slurp in China.
People can certainly chew with their mouths open, talk as loudly as they want, mumble, hold their tableware like a monkey with a broken wrist, face-dive into their dishes while eating, drool, snort, ignore personal grooming, blow their nose at the table, bang their tea/coffee cup with their spoon, fail to hold doors for others, fail to keep appointments, never say thank you, start their sentences with "me and...", fail to show up when they said they would, slurp their drinks and soups, dive into their cellphones at meals, drive down the street with their windows down and their audio maxed out, cut in line...
But I feel no obligation to respect or forgive them for any of it, or subject myself to their company, or keep them on as an employee.
There's nothing wrong with any of these things that some (very) basic socialization wouldn't cure. I consider my ostracization of adults exhibiting these characteristics to be nothing less than my social duty.
TLDR: It is incumbent on us to learn basic manners and consideration; also, being moderately irritated by inconsiderate social behavior isn't a syndrome. It's evidence of being civilized.
A few years back, sometime overnight, a new cat I had rescued peed in my toaster.
In the morning, dull witted and bleary eyed, I threw a couple slices of rye bread in there, and pushed down the lever. The heating elements immediately vaporized the cat urine, while altering it chemically into something that smelled so bad I could not possibly adequately describe it.
As I reeled out of the room coughing and gagging, I actually thought I heard that toaster laughing at me.
I think that damed burst of vapor was actually hallucinogenic.
I kept the cat anyway. The toaster, however, I disposed of. With prejudice.
It's not AI unless it's (A)rtificial and (I)ntelligent. You'll know when it's intelligent. Because it'll exhibit actual characteristics of intelligence. Not the ability to filter images based on content.
But go ahead, keep calling your toaster and your thermostat intelligent. It's very amusing. Despite the fact that it's not very... intelligent.
Among the greatest things of mathematics is that it transcends us while being accessible to anyone who really tries
That's just... bullshit.
Is walking "accessible to anyone who really tries"? What if they have no legs?
Lots of people simply do not have the intellectual facilities -- not training, I'm talking about capacity here -- to even begin to approach mathematics beyond various levels. Every person is a mix of capacities and limits. To claim that undertaking X is accessible to any person who "really tries" demonstrates nothing more than that the claimant has very little understanding of people in general.
Or to look at it from the other end of the stick, you're not going to become Einstein just because you "really try."
We're not identical cupcakes spewed out by a cupcake factory, some of us missing the icing just because we went down a different conveyor belt.
What good will it do to drive an electric car if it's charged by electricity produced from a coal fired power plant?
o The vehicle is inherently power source agnostic.
o The vehicle changes power source based on the area it is in when it charges.
o An EV uses energy more efficiently than an ICEV.
o It's easier and more efficient to reduce pollution at one power plant than to upgrade/alter/replace large numbers of polluting vehicles. Coal plant pollution is highly accessible for pollution control. There are post-combustion products and ash. Both can be approached; while the EV produces zero additional distributed pollution itself.
o More non-coal power is coming online in many areas. You can already supplement whatever source is feeding power to your home with wind and solar. But this is unlikely to change anything about the coal plant, because...
o How you charge your car is extremely unlikely to change the coal plant's output. You're just using more of what is being produced if you charge from its output. The typical coal plant runs at a very steady rate; it takes a lot of time to fire up a coal fueled generator, so coal plants can't respond to power grid variations quickly. So they run at a capacity able to deliver what might be needed all the time. They don't generally sit there with idle generators, either. And if they can, that means the area is getting power from elsewhere to take up the slack, and that may very well be from sources other than coal.
o If you have an ICEV, your pollution footprint is fixed by your unbreakable link to the petroleum industry for the service life of the vehicle and/or the time you own it, whichever is shorter. But if you have an EV, the instant that coal plant is supplemented or replaced by a less polluting source (which is almost anything, coal plants are not great), your pollution footprint becomes smaller.
US Probes Panasonic Unit For Alleged Bribery Violations
...and congress will get right on this as soon as they settle today's transactions with the lobbyists parked in their congressional waiting rooms. Priorities, people, priorities. Your government at work. Take a breath. If it were easy, we could just elect any asshole to do it.
I like my gear watch just fine. Very, very useful. Phone can stay in pocket. a lot more.
iWatch... done buying Apple stuff, pretty much, after watching them intentionally obsolete perfectly good hardware time and time again. Although if they'd push out a nice tower Mac Pro again I'd probably bite. My late 2009 12/24 core tells me they can make good hardware when they want to. The trashcan tells me they don't want to.
Size matters too. The amount of space taken reflects directly on the cost of the installation in a number of ways, and likely upon tax liabilities as well.
I can see these artisinally crafted frames flying off the shelf at bodegas in gentrified urban areas everywhere. Maybe they can get Shinola to brand them.
I thought "artisinally crafted frames" were shit. I guess I don't know shit from shinola.
1) Trump puts 20% tax on Mexican imports 2) Imports increase in price to account for same 3) We, the American consumer, pay the increased price 4) Wall is paid for. By American consumers.
Of course all operating system have their own problems. As a user of all three operating systems, I can quote you chapter and verse. Yanking the computer right out from under you while you're working without giving you any choice in the matter, however, is as far as I know, a unique vacation benefit of Windows.
Having said that all operating systems have their problems, OS X is the one that has gotten in my way the least -- and I'm not just a user, I'm also a developer that writes code for all three platforms. If I was to try to come up with an irritation score, OS X would absolutely come away with definitely the lowest, and Windows definitely with the highest, leaving linux cleanly in the middle.
Lots of us are forced to use software not available on Linux or even OS X.
Forced outside of work? That's... interesting. I wonder who is forcing you? Perhaps you should call the authorities.
This may help:
1: Parallels or VWWare or some other similar solution
2: Once Windows is installed in the VM, turn off the VM's network access, or use a firewall to prevent it from getting to Microsoft unless you say "ok". One such product (for the Mac, at least) is "Little Snitch"; when (whatever) tries to get to (wherever) you can catch it in a dialog and say yes or no or allow till reboot or forever, etc., while choosing "all connections" or "only this connection". It's very useful to control wayward software. Like Windows.
And if you want to let Windows out of its cage, you can, and you can still do real work on the Mac, as it's not crippled by whatever Windows malfuckery is going on in the VM.
you smug dink
Well, if it makes you feel any better, the reason I'm smug is because I have this all handled. I never let Windows out of its little sandbox, since it isn't housebroken.:)
No, my guesswork was precisely accurate. Adobe told me the upgrade would not run. They were either ignorant or uninformed, and, the way to get this to run, according to their own web pages, was to go inside the installer bundle and execute code from within the MacOS section of the bundle directly as well as downloading Oracle's legacy Java support, which is exactly what I meant when I said "jumping through hoops I was not informed of." Neither the installer or Sierra suggested any such thing, nor did you.
Also, whether Sierra "offers to trash installers as a matter of routine" isn't the issue: The issue was that Sierra refused to run the installer. Advice is one thing. Refusal is something else entirely.
All's well, though, as other posts pointed me to the procedure required, and it worked. I appreciate that.
The PC revolution was just a dream some of us had, I guess. Turns out McNealy won, in the personage of Nadella.
No. You're just using the wrong Personal Computer operating system.
Neither linux or OS X / MacOS will force you to update.
The more you support companies that abuse you, the more you will be abused. This is not rocket science, and if your job does not force you to use the Windows OS, you are not locked in to Microsoft, no matter what else makes you think you are. You can make a fresh start any time you like. linux is free. OS X comes with a dongle (you know, the one called "a computer.") Both make Windows looks like the garbage it is.
Or, you can continue being abused. The rest of us will just watch in amazement.
For instructions on installing older versions of Creative Suite on Sierra:
Yes, this was correct; it didn't solve everything, but with that in hand, above to point out to their customer service that they had a page on it, I got Adobe to get me the rest of the way. Then, installing the "legacy java" from Oracle handled the rest.
Guess it was really a good idea to blow a huge bitch here.:)
It may run as an upgrade or something, or by jumping through some hoops I was not informed of, but when I went to install it, I was not given the opportunity to let the installer run by the OS, so that was a pretty solid roadblock in this fresh install of 10.12. And Adobe tech support straight-up told me it wouldn't work. So that leaves three possibilities: They are lying; they are ignorant; or you are wrong.
I expect the vendor of a particular bit of software to be informed, and to inform me clearly in turn. Do you think that's out of line?
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I'm 100% unimpressed by the fact that either no one took the time to teach such folk manners, or that having been taught, they failed to integrate these basic socializations. While it may be polite to slurp in China, it isn't most other places. Consequently, it's not okay to slurp here, just because it's okay to slurp in China.
People can certainly chew with their mouths open, talk as loudly as they want, mumble, hold their tableware like a monkey with a broken wrist, face-dive into their dishes while eating, drool, snort, ignore personal grooming, blow their nose at the table, bang their tea/coffee cup with their spoon, fail to hold doors for others, fail to keep appointments, never say thank you, start their sentences with "me and...", fail to show up when they said they would, slurp their drinks and soups, dive into their cellphones at meals, drive down the street with their windows down and their audio maxed out, cut in line...
But I feel no obligation to respect or forgive them for any of it, or subject myself to their company, or keep them on as an employee.
There's nothing wrong with any of these things that some (very) basic socialization wouldn't cure. I consider my ostracization of adults exhibiting these characteristics to be nothing less than my social duty.
TLDR: It is incumbent on us to learn basic manners and consideration; also, being moderately irritated by inconsiderate social behavior isn't a syndrome. It's evidence of being civilized.
Raging at such things is something else again.
Axel? Axel Pressbutton? Is that you?
"Data" is not the plural of "anecdote."
I skipped work, therefore I am.
True story:
A few years back, sometime overnight, a new cat I had rescued peed in my toaster.
In the morning, dull witted and bleary eyed, I threw a couple slices of rye bread in there, and pushed down the lever. The heating elements immediately vaporized the cat urine, while altering it chemically into something that smelled so bad I could not possibly adequately describe it.
As I reeled out of the room coughing and gagging, I actually thought I heard that toaster laughing at me.
I think that damed burst of vapor was actually hallucinogenic.
I kept the cat anyway. The toaster, however, I disposed of. With prejudice.
It's not AI unless it's (A)rtificial and (I)ntelligent. You'll know when it's intelligent. Because it'll exhibit actual characteristics of intelligence. Not the ability to filter images based on content.
But go ahead, keep calling your toaster and your thermostat intelligent. It's very amusing. Despite the fact that it's not very... intelligent.
That's just... bullshit.
Is walking "accessible to anyone who really tries"? What if they have no legs?
Lots of people simply do not have the intellectual facilities -- not training, I'm talking about capacity here -- to even begin to approach mathematics beyond various levels. Every person is a mix of capacities and limits. To claim that undertaking X is accessible to any person who "really tries" demonstrates nothing more than that the claimant has very little understanding of people in general.
Or to look at it from the other end of the stick, you're not going to become Einstein just because you "really try."
We're not identical cupcakes spewed out by a cupcake factory, some of us missing the icing just because we went down a different conveyor belt.
Not yet, anyway.
o The vehicle is inherently power source agnostic.
o The vehicle changes power source based on the area it is in when it charges.
o An EV uses energy more efficiently than an ICEV.
o It's easier and more efficient to reduce pollution at one power plant than to upgrade/alter/replace large numbers of polluting vehicles. Coal plant pollution is highly accessible for pollution control. There are post-combustion products and ash. Both can be approached; while the EV produces zero additional distributed pollution itself.
o More non-coal power is coming online in many areas. You can already supplement whatever source is feeding power to your home with wind and solar. But this is unlikely to change anything about the coal plant, because...
o How you charge your car is extremely unlikely to change the coal plant's output. You're just using more of what is being produced if you charge from its output. The typical coal plant runs at a very steady rate; it takes a lot of time to fire up a coal fueled generator, so coal plants can't respond to power grid variations quickly. So they run at a capacity able to deliver what might be needed all the time. They don't generally sit there with idle generators, either. And if they can, that means the area is getting power from elsewhere to take up the slack, and that may very well be from sources other than coal.
o If you have an ICEV, your pollution footprint is fixed by your unbreakable link to the petroleum industry for the service life of the vehicle and/or the time you own it, whichever is shorter. But if you have an EV, the instant that coal plant is supplemented or replaced by a less polluting source (which is almost anything, coal plants are not great), your pollution footprint becomes smaller.
I award you one furlong per forthright.
It won't be too much longer before you won't have to be doing the driving, so it won't matter if you're tired or not.
Point of order? Wouldn't it be "fission and fusion plants", as both are nuclear plants?
I have not received any such information from either the elephants or the turtle. Therefore, I doubt the veracity of this.
However, should it prove to be true, I suggest we destroy all the observatories so this can never happen again.
Oh.
Wait.
I like my gear watch just fine. Very, very useful. Phone can stay in pocket. a lot more.
iWatch... done buying Apple stuff, pretty much, after watching them intentionally obsolete perfectly good hardware time and time again. Although if they'd push out a nice tower Mac Pro again I'd probably bite. My late 2009 12/24 core tells me they can make good hardware when they want to. The trashcan tells me they don't want to.
Size matters too. The amount of space taken reflects directly on the cost of the installation in a number of ways, and likely upon tax liabilities as well.
Well, except for fusion. That's consistently 20 years out. Oh, and flying cars. Those we're just not going to get, because, reasons.
I thought "artisinally crafted frames" were shit. I guess I don't know shit from shinola.
1) Trump puts 20% tax on Mexican imports
2) Imports increase in price to account for same
3) We, the American consumer, pay the increased price
4) Wall is paid for. By American consumers.
That is the plan.
Mexico is not going to pay. We are going to pay.
Of course all operating system have their own problems. As a user of all three operating systems, I can quote you chapter and verse. Yanking the computer right out from under you while you're working without giving you any choice in the matter, however, is as far as I know, a unique vacation benefit of Windows.
Having said that all operating systems have their problems, OS X is the one that has gotten in my way the least -- and I'm not just a user, I'm also a developer that writes code for all three platforms. If I was to try to come up with an irritation score, OS X would absolutely come away with definitely the lowest, and Windows definitely with the highest, leaving linux cleanly in the middle.
Forced outside of work? That's... interesting. I wonder who is forcing you? Perhaps you should call the authorities.
This may help:
1: Parallels or VWWare or some other similar solution
2: Once Windows is installed in the VM, turn off the VM's network access, or use a firewall to prevent it from getting to Microsoft unless you say "ok". One such product (for the Mac, at least) is "Little Snitch"; when (whatever) tries to get to (wherever) you can catch it in a dialog and say yes or no or allow till reboot or forever, etc., while choosing "all connections" or "only this connection". It's very useful to control wayward software. Like Windows.
And if you want to let Windows out of its cage, you can, and you can still do real work on the Mac, as it's not crippled by whatever Windows malfuckery is going on in the VM.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, the reason I'm smug is because I have this all handled. I never let Windows out of its little sandbox, since it isn't housebroken. :)
No, my guesswork was precisely accurate. Adobe told me the upgrade would not run. They were either ignorant or uninformed, and, the way to get this to run, according to their own web pages, was to go inside the installer bundle and execute code from within the MacOS section of the bundle directly as well as downloading Oracle's legacy Java support, which is exactly what I meant when I said "jumping through hoops I was not informed of." Neither the installer or Sierra suggested any such thing, nor did you.
Also, whether Sierra "offers to trash installers as a matter of routine" isn't the issue: The issue was that Sierra refused to run the installer. Advice is one thing. Refusal is something else entirely.
All's well, though, as other posts pointed me to the procedure required, and it worked. I appreciate that.
No. You're just using the wrong Personal Computer operating system.
Neither linux or OS X / MacOS will force you to update.
The more you support companies that abuse you, the more you will be abused. This is not rocket science, and if your job does not force you to use the Windows OS, you are not locked in to Microsoft, no matter what else makes you think you are. You can make a fresh start any time you like. linux is free. OS X comes with a dongle (you know, the one called "a computer.") Both make Windows looks like the garbage it is.
Or, you can continue being abused. The rest of us will just watch in amazement.
Yes, this was correct; it didn't solve everything, but with that in hand, above to point out to their customer service that they had a page on it, I got Adobe to get me the rest of the way. Then, installing the "legacy java" from Oracle handled the rest.
Guess it was really a good idea to blow a huge bitch here. :)
Thank you very much.
It may run as an upgrade or something, or by jumping through some hoops I was not informed of, but when I went to install it, I was not given the opportunity to let the installer run by the OS, so that was a pretty solid roadblock in this fresh install of 10.12. And Adobe tech support straight-up told me it wouldn't work. So that leaves three possibilities: They are lying; they are ignorant; or you are wrong.
I expect the vendor of a particular bit of software to be informed, and to inform me clearly in turn. Do you think that's out of line?
Sierra refused to run the installer. Pretty straight up. I linked to a screencap of the problem.