At the national level, we've gone from taking a few years to put a man on the moon to taking four years to pass an ANNUAL budget through just the senate. We've gone from "defeat the Soviet Union" to "emulate the French"
Are you aware of what the income distribution and income tax rates were in this country before you claim we started to "emulate the French"?
With everything going on in the world I'm reminded of a hopeful quote:
"In vain does the God of War growl, snarl, roar, and try to interrupt with bombards, trumpets, and his whole tarantantaran... let us despise the barbaric neighings which echo through these noble lands, and awaken our understanding and longing for the harmonies."
The only way to solve this is to embed the screen with a grid of cameras clustered around the center, and allow the software to decide which camera to active by detecting where the other party's eyes are on the screen. Redrawing people's eyes just seems like the wrong way to go about it... even if it looks perfect 99% of the time, the remaining 1% will freak the sh*t out of everybody.
Oooh, wow, I didn't realize these victims were born afflicted with "LWP" syndrome. Give a f'ing break, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
"You're lazy as hell and killing yourself with food."
"Agreed. However, before I do anything about it I'll need for you to prove to me scientifically that it's my fault."
You can feel them as they watch you,
A thousand eyes now filled with pain,
I'll just sit back and relax now,
As your heart disconnects from your brain.
Yes I guess I see,
They ain't doin nothin here but livin' off of you and me, well
Yes I guess I know,
There ain't no place left on this earth that you can call your own, and
Yes I hope I see
The day we all wake up and get up off our bended knees, well
Hallelujah,
Let it all just burn,
Cause they ain't the type for listenin and they sure ain't never gonna learn.
Fat will prevent you from doing much exercise, making you tire quickly, blowing out your joints, and your respiratory and circulatory systems just can't keep up with the huge demands on a body twice the normal size.
These rationalizations don't help. Sure, a 350 lb. person deciding suddenly to start jogging 3 miles a day will likely regret it, but what about walking 200 yards a day? What about taking the stairs once in a while? Swimming? Biking? What about - gasp - not eating candy/ice cream/cup cakes/fruit loops/cookies/pancakes/cheeseburgers - ever.
"Woe is me - McDonald's is the only food I have the time and money for...I'm a victim!!"
Guess what, you can actually get healthy crap at fast food restaurants - they do carry fruits and vegetables and non-fried chicken, and it's just as cheap. Read through 100 comments on this article and you'll find 90 excuses for not having any will power and 10 people sick of the bullshit. That ratio is the epidemic, the obesity is just a symptom.
Hell yes obese 6-year olds are lazy! Are you serious? How many hours a day did you spend on your ass playing angry birds or watching cartoons on an ipad when you were 6 years old? 6-year olds don't need to go jogging, they just need to do normal physical 6-year old stuff. Their parents not letting them drink fruit juice and eat tasty cakes all the time wouldn't hurt either.
FFS, the cognitive dissonance surrounding the "obesity epidemic" is infuriating. Get off your asses!! YOU are to blame!!!
I was at a mall this evening and though it was funny that the little kiosk that used to demo the Surface Pro/RT was gone...until my wife pointed out that it's because they just opened a "Microsoft Store". I had to see it, and sure enough it was an incredibly thorough facsimile of an apple store, except the "geniuses" (I wonder what they call them...) had purple shirts, and of course there was microsoft crap on all of the extremely well-lit Ikea-esque tables instead of apple crap.
I'm kind of a bystander in the MS/Apple flamewar (for work and personal use I have a suped-up macbook pro that runs a Windows7 VM) but the sight of this down to the wood-grain copy of an Apple store just made me feel pity for Microsoft. I mean, jesus, it was already clear that their business model since the Zune has been "do what apple does, seems to work", but this place takes it to a new level.
I like Windows7, I loved my xbox (until I had a kid and gave it to a cousin after 2 years of non-use), they can do some shit right and should accentuate that instead of this across the board pathetic strategy of Apple emulation. After all, the sincerest form of flattery is imitation, as they say. I just don't get it.
Microsoft are becoming the gobots to Apple's transformers.
Did the gay married couples in New York enjoy federal recognition of their marriage and all that it entails? Guessing not, as stipulated in the DOMA act. Not sure why it's notable that this was deemed unacceptable by "the gay crowd".
Choose exercises/examples from Knuth's books and implement sample programs in the language of your choice - make it a weekly contest, best sample app wins gift cards or something.
"I awoke in a daze - sticky, smelling of stale alcohol, only imagining that her head would hurt as badly as mine when she finally awoke. Vague memories of drinks, friends, laughter, and sex. Lots of sex. As I picked my pants up off the floor, my cell phone fell from the pocket and by some cruel twist of fate tapped her cell phone lying nearby..."
I always code for a single return statement at the end of a function but not for performance reasons, I just think it is easier to eyeball. I don't care what the compiler does with it. I hate trying to eye-debug a method/function that is peppered with return statements (aside from maybe a single "guard" statement at the top of the function), I inevitably miss one and go trundling down the wrong path, wasting a bunch of time in the process. My functions typically all end with "return retVal;" YMMV
Who's to say some significant fraction of popup adds we see in general browsing aren't injected by the ISPs? The actual content providers could be totally unaware while the ISPs are selling ad space on any site, what a cash cow.
ISP: Hey, company X - for $100,000 we can make sure your ads are seen on 3% of all requests in region R, on sites with content targeted at demographic D. Company X: Is that legal? ISP: Of course! It's right here on page 17 of the terms and conditions...
It's simpler than that, once ISP popups become a regularity blackhats have an incredibly simple popup to copy that people will assume is their ISP, so all must be well. "Click here, and enter your account ID to find out if you are affected"...
In fact, is everyone absolutely certain this is actually Cox and not some malware outbreak masquerading as the ISP?
I tinkered with this thing for a little pet project once and at that time decided that it would be a great tool for a child to become accustomed to the basic concept of programming. They can script simple macros with the visual widgets and then create more complex steps with shell script callouts and the such. There's a text-to-speech ("say" command) that is always a huge hit with kids, at least it was for me:)
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At the national level, we've gone from taking a few years to put a man on the moon to taking four years to pass an ANNUAL budget through just the senate. We've gone from "defeat the Soviet Union" to "emulate the French"
Are you aware of what the income distribution and income tax rates were in this country before you claim we started to "emulate the French"?
Let me google that for you.
Completely off-topic, but you inspired my new sig (works out of the bag in a mac terminal). Will have to check out that book, thank you.
With everything going on in the world I'm reminded of a hopeful quote:
... let us despise the barbaric neighings which echo through these noble lands, and awaken our understanding and longing for the harmonies."
"In vain does the God of War growl, snarl, roar, and try to interrupt with bombards, trumpets, and his whole tarantantaran
- Johannes Kepler
The only way to solve this is to embed the screen with a grid of cameras clustered around the center, and allow the software to decide which camera to active by detecting where the other party's eyes are on the screen. Redrawing people's eyes just seems like the wrong way to go about it... even if it looks perfect 99% of the time, the remaining 1% will freak the sh*t out of everybody.
Oooh, wow, I didn't realize these victims were born afflicted with "LWP" syndrome. Give a f'ing break, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
"You're lazy as hell and killing yourself with food."
"Agreed. However, before I do anything about it I'll need for you to prove to me scientifically that it's my fault."
Can you see the absurdity? Go for a walk sir.
You can feel them as they watch you,
A thousand eyes now filled with pain,
I'll just sit back and relax now,
As your heart disconnects from your brain.
Yes I guess I see,
They ain't doin nothin here but livin' off of you and me, well
Yes I guess I know,
There ain't no place left on this earth that you can call your own, and
Yes I hope I see
The day we all wake up and get up off our bended knees, well
Hallelujah,
Let it all just burn,
Cause they ain't the type for listenin and they sure ain't never gonna learn.
-- Devil Makes Three, Never Learn
Fat will prevent you from doing much exercise, making you tire quickly, blowing out your joints, and your respiratory and circulatory systems just can't keep up with the huge demands on a body twice the normal size.
These rationalizations don't help. Sure, a 350 lb. person deciding suddenly to start jogging 3 miles a day will likely regret it, but what about walking 200 yards a day? What about taking the stairs once in a while? Swimming? Biking? What about - gasp - not eating candy/ice cream/cup cakes/fruit loops/cookies/pancakes/cheeseburgers - ever.
"Woe is me - McDonald's is the only food I have the time and money for...I'm a victim!!"
Guess what, you can actually get healthy crap at fast food restaurants - they do carry fruits and vegetables and non-fried chicken, and it's just as cheap. Read through 100 comments on this article and you'll find 90 excuses for not having any will power and 10 people sick of the bullshit. That ratio is the epidemic, the obesity is just a symptom.
Hell yes obese 6-year olds are lazy! Are you serious? How many hours a day did you spend on your ass playing angry birds or watching cartoons on an ipad when you were 6 years old? 6-year olds don't need to go jogging, they just need to do normal physical 6-year old stuff. Their parents not letting them drink fruit juice and eat tasty cakes all the time wouldn't hurt either.
FFS, the cognitive dissonance surrounding the "obesity epidemic" is infuriating. Get off your asses!! YOU are to blame!!!
Second episode? "Australia we the top"? C'mon guys...f**king ridiculous.
I was at a mall this evening and though it was funny that the little kiosk that used to demo the Surface Pro/RT was gone...until my wife pointed out that it's because they just opened a "Microsoft Store". I had to see it, and sure enough it was an incredibly thorough facsimile of an apple store, except the "geniuses" (I wonder what they call them...) had purple shirts, and of course there was microsoft crap on all of the extremely well-lit Ikea-esque tables instead of apple crap.
I'm kind of a bystander in the MS/Apple flamewar (for work and personal use I have a suped-up macbook pro that runs a Windows7 VM) but the sight of this down to the wood-grain copy of an Apple store just made me feel pity for Microsoft. I mean, jesus, it was already clear that their business model since the Zune has been "do what apple does, seems to work", but this place takes it to a new level.
I like Windows7, I loved my xbox (until I had a kid and gave it to a cousin after 2 years of non-use), they can do some shit right and should accentuate that instead of this across the board pathetic strategy of Apple emulation. After all, the sincerest form of flattery is imitation, as they say. I just don't get it.
Microsoft are becoming the gobots to Apple's transformers.
Did the gay married couples in New York enjoy federal recognition of their marriage and all that it entails? Guessing not, as stipulated in the DOMA act. Not sure why it's notable that this was deemed unacceptable by "the gay crowd".
It's from Repo Man.
Choose exercises/examples from Knuth's books and implement sample programs in the language of your choice - make it a weekly contest, best sample app wins gift cards or something.
Come on mods, RTFLAs (L=linked)
"I awoke in a daze - sticky, smelling of stale alcohol, only imagining that her head would hurt as badly as mine when she finally awoke. Vague memories of drinks, friends, laughter, and sex. Lots of sex. As I picked my pants up off the floor, my cell phone fell from the pocket and by some cruel twist of fate tapped her cell phone lying nearby..."
#!/bin/bash
for submission in ${submissions[@]}; do
if [ ! -z `echo $submission | grep -i "Bitcoin"` ]; then
post $submission;
fi
done
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
I always code for a single return statement at the end of a function but not for performance reasons, I just think it is easier to eyeball. I don't care what the compiler does with it. I hate trying to eye-debug a method/function that is peppered with return statements (aside from maybe a single "guard" statement at the top of the function), I inevitably miss one and go trundling down the wrong path, wasting a bunch of time in the process. My functions typically all end with "return retVal;" YMMV
Who's to say some significant fraction of popup adds we see in general browsing aren't injected by the ISPs? The actual content providers could be totally unaware while the ISPs are selling ad space on any site, what a cash cow.
ISP: Hey, company X - for $100,000 we can make sure your ads are seen on 3% of all requests in region R, on sites with content targeted at demographic D.
Company X: Is that legal?
ISP: Of course! It's right here on page 17 of the terms and conditions...
Why wouldn't they??
It's simpler than that, once ISP popups become a regularity blackhats have an incredibly simple popup to copy that people will assume is their ISP, so all must be well. "Click here, and enter your account ID to find out if you are affected"...
In fact, is everyone absolutely certain this is actually Cox and not some malware outbreak masquerading as the ISP?
I tinkered with this thing for a little pet project once and at that time decided that it would be a great tool for a child to become accustomed to the basic concept of programming. They can script simple macros with the visual widgets and then create more complex steps with shell script callouts and the such. There's a text-to-speech ("say" command) that is always a huge hit with kids, at least it was for me :)
How naive am I to get excited at the thought we might happen upon a fossil?
Thank god for ham and pork chops!
That blows! I gave my xbox away three years ago, but still. Those were fun times, fun game.
Love it. The possibilities are endless. The rebirth of relevance for 80's arcade games by way of MMO-ization.