Most Europeans, at least, measure mileage in volume required per 100km. The Germans says "verbrauch," roughly [a car] "requires" so many liters per 100km.
N.B., Americans actually measure distance/volume (miles per gallon)--you switched them.
Wait, so now you're saying the elevator should have only one button (which the OP was complaining about), but it shouldn't be a "go" button?
I have to disagree again, I'm afraid. An emergency button is great, but I still think a "go" button should be there. Me telling an elevator when I'm ready to go is one of my psychological diseases, maybe. From too many years lugging suitcases into and out of hotel elevators, maybe.
If that's his point, how does it apply to the elevator? Is he saying the elevator should have a "wait, that's not right, I don't want to go anywhere" button?:-|
Well, having a button to push ("Go" or something) could help people signify when they were ready to go, e.g. if there were several people getting on the elevator. I personally don't think I would like an elevator with no buttons at all--but maybe those are just my psychological problems showing through.
I think the same thing applies to modal dialog boxes, personally. I want a button that I can push when I'm done reading it. I don't want the computer to try and decide when I'm done and close the dialog box before I'm ready. Maybe I wasn't reading for the first half of the time the computer calculated it would take me to read the dialog box, because I was distracted. Honestly, would you rather have dialog boxes disappear by themselves, or something?
Actually, for a two-floor structure like the Apple Store, that would work quite nicely. I'm not sure "there" would be the best label for the button, though.
That's not really true. I've had my current Windows computer for just under a year, and have had absolutely no problems with it. I reinstalled Windows when I first got it to get rid of all of Dell's junk, but other than that I've had no trouble with viruses, malware, or anything else. All I have is a standard firewall and antivirus, as well as SpyBot S&D and such that I run regularly (which have never come up with anything but cookies and such). Maybe I'm just lucky...
Actually, I recall reading several years ago that birds with tracking radios attached to them can often be observed to follow roads when making long flights over land.
The question is how you get the "average weight" of a single penny. If you weigh just one penny, and use that as the average, then you have some total inaccuracy X. If you instead weigh 10 pennies and divde the weight by 10, the inaccuracy is much less: roughly X/10.
Actually, you would expect it to be roughly X/sqrt(10). Standard error decreases with the inverse of the square root of the sample size.
One Senator: Russ Feingold, D-WI. If he ever runs for President, he receives my vote by default just for that. Anybody else who wants to win it away from him would have to give me some very, very good reasons.
There was also one abstention, so the final vote was 98-1. The House did marginally better, with about 10% against.
If you had read the article, you would know the answer: the college students test better on average than adults as a whole./.: For people too illiterate to read more than a paragraph before posting about it.
I suppose it depends on what and how you study. If you just study Math/CS/Engineering, you probably won't read much. If you take some lit/civ classes, you shoul hopefully do much more.
This year I'm in a two-semester History of Civ course, for example, which looks at war and peace in civilization through books (not including War and Peace, though). I do lots of reading.
If you associate with the right people, you'll do even more. For example, balance your/. time with reading plays aloud. I just finished a read-through of Henry V with some friends of mine about 5 minutes ago.
Perhaps my university is just better about not giving busywork...
Honestly, if Michael Dell had been given the job of running Apple 5 or 6 years ago, I expect it wouldn't be around anymore. He's good at what he does, but Steve Jobs is absolutely brilliant at what he does, and it's completely different from what Dell does...
Well, I know that on my university campus network, iTunes + myTunes is probably the most popular way to share music...
That may be because "real" P2P protocals are all limited to 5kbps by packet shaping, which is a nuisance when I want to download the new version of Ubuntu or the like.
This actually reminds me of an old Russian joke, which goes something like this.
A Russian comrade, after years of requesting it, gets permission to go visit an old friend who has emigrated to New York years before. When he arrives, his friend shoes him all the conveniences of modern American life, and he is greatly impressed by all of them--except one. As he enter's his friend's apartment, the latter explains to him that in America, if there is ever an emergency, you can simply pick up the telephone, dial 911, and you will get somebody on the line.
"Hah!" exclaims the Russian comrade. "That is nothing! Why, in Russia, you simply pick up the phone, dial any number you want, and start talking!"
The difference between this and FISA is that FISA requires prior approval by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, FISC, as you would have known had you actually read the first three lines of the page you linked to:
Requests are adjudicated by a special eleven member court called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
These taps were done without any judicial permission, which even FISA requires. The time required for a FISC approval (as short as a few hours if a case is urgent) was claimed to be too short, justifiying this.
One of the things I find most worrying about the entire thing, though, is summed up in this statement by Trent Lott:
``I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.''
I don't want any man who puts security before freedom in my government. If I lived in Mississippi I'd try to do something about him; alas, I live in Utah, so I've got Orrin Hatch to worry about.
Nice job taking quotes out of context; I hope you will put this post on your resume next time you apply to be a politician's campaign advisor.
For the record, here's the context from why the parent poster has taken Scalia's quote:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a "living document."
""Oh, how I hate the phrase we have--a 'living document,'" Scalia says. "We now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete's sake."
You give the mainstram media far too much credit. Besides the sibling of this post pointing out that the Slashdot headline is nearly the same as the BBC headline (Admittedly, the BBC headline puts quotations marks around Faked, indicating that it is an allegation), I recall a MSM headline just the other day after the whole Air Marshal fiasco, which read "Bags Exploded After Air Marshal Kills Passenger."
Admittedly, the headline was technically true--the bags were exploded after the air marshal killed the passenger. However, it makes is sound very much like the bags had bombs in them and exploded of their own volition, and not that they were exploded by a bomb crew, as actually happened. I tested the headline out on a number of people who didn't know yet what had actually happened, and that was the conclusion nearly all of the reached.
I'm far from a MSM IS OBSELEET BGOLS ARE TEH FUCHURE!!1 fanboy, but I do think the MSM is often given (and certainly tries to take) more credit than it deserves.
As an American who has spent more than half my life living in Europe (France, Austria, and Sweden), I understand your sentiments. On the other hand, I would like to point out that many Europeans are somewhat hypocritical about decrying the state of civil liberties in the US, seeing as they themselves limit free speech (e.g. Holocaust denial is illegal in a number of European countries).
The actions of the election commission to appear to be illegal, but it's not quite so bad as suggested in the summary--the commission told Diebold et al. that they can begin selling if they are able to place all code in escrow by December 22, while the law appears to require that all code be in escrow and have been reviewed before the commission can give approval.
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Most Europeans, at least, measure mileage in volume required per 100km. The Germans says "verbrauch," roughly [a car] "requires" so many liters per 100km.
N.B., Americans actually measure distance/volume (miles per gallon)--you switched them.
Wait, so now you're saying the elevator should have only one button (which the OP was complaining about), but it shouldn't be a "go" button?
I have to disagree again, I'm afraid. An emergency button is great, but I still think a "go" button should be there. Me telling an elevator when I'm ready to go is one of my psychological diseases, maybe. From too many years lugging suitcases into and out of hotel elevators, maybe.
If that's his point, how does it apply to the elevator? Is he saying the elevator should have a "wait, that's not right, I don't want to go anywhere" button? :-|
I'm not sure I buy that...
Well, having a button to push ("Go" or something) could help people signify when they were ready to go, e.g. if there were several people getting on the elevator. I personally don't think I would like an elevator with no buttons at all--but maybe those are just my psychological problems showing through.
I think the same thing applies to modal dialog boxes, personally. I want a button that I can push when I'm done reading it. I don't want the computer to try and decide when I'm done and close the dialog box before I'm ready. Maybe I wasn't reading for the first half of the time the computer calculated it would take me to read the dialog box, because I was distracted. Honestly, would you rather have dialog boxes disappear by themselves, or something?
Actually, for a two-floor structure like the Apple Store, that would work quite nicely. I'm not sure "there" would be the best label for the button, though.
That's not really true. I've had my current Windows computer for just under a year, and have had absolutely no problems with it. I reinstalled Windows when I first got it to get rid of all of Dell's junk, but other than that I've had no trouble with viruses, malware, or anything else. All I have is a standard firewall and antivirus, as well as SpyBot S&D and such that I run regularly (which have never come up with anything but cookies and such). Maybe I'm just lucky...
Actually, I recall reading several years ago that birds with tracking radios attached to them can often be observed to follow roads when making long flights over land.
See e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3460977.stm
I don't get it. Why are you giving us statistics from over a year ago?
Recent Statistics (for the week ending Friday) show that usage is up to over 8%.
The question is how you get the "average weight" of a single penny. If you weigh just one penny, and use that as the average, then you have some total inaccuracy X. If you instead weigh 10 pennies and divde the weight by 10, the inaccuracy is much less: roughly X/10.
Actually, you would expect it to be roughly X/sqrt(10). Standard error decreases with the inverse of the square root of the sample size.
One Senator: Russ Feingold, D-WI. If he ever runs for President, he receives my vote by default just for that. Anybody else who wants to win it away from him would have to give me some very, very good reasons.
There was also one abstention, so the final vote was 98-1. The House did marginally better, with about 10% against.
If you had read the article, you would know the answer: the college students test better on average than adults as a whole. /.: For people too illiterate to read more than a paragraph before posting about it.
I suppose it depends on what and how you study. If you just study Math/CS/Engineering, you probably won't read much. If you take some lit/civ classes, you shoul hopefully do much more.
/. time with reading plays aloud. I just finished a read-through of Henry V with some friends of mine about 5 minutes ago.
This year I'm in a two-semester History of Civ course, for example, which looks at war and peace in civilization through books (not including War and Peace, though). I do lots of reading.
If you associate with the right people, you'll do even more. For example, balance your
Perhaps my university is just better about not giving busywork...
Honestly, if Michael Dell had been given the job of running Apple 5 or 6 years ago, I expect it wouldn't be around anymore. He's good at what he does, but Steve Jobs is absolutely brilliant at what he does, and it's completely different from what Dell does...
Actually, I'm quite fond of this little guy.
I won't buy anything from Sony on principle, though.
the old Coke commercials are priceless (and comical)
Surely you mean the old MasterCard commercials?
Well, I know that on my university campus network, iTunes + myTunes is probably the most popular way to share music...
That may be because "real" P2P protocals are all limited to 5kbps by packet shaping, which is a nuisance when I want to download the new version of Ubuntu or the like.
This actually reminds me of an old Russian joke, which goes something like this.
A Russian comrade, after years of requesting it, gets permission to go visit an old friend who has emigrated to New York years before. When he arrives, his friend shoes him all the conveniences of modern American life, and he is greatly impressed by all of them--except one. As he enter's his friend's apartment, the latter explains to him that in America, if there is ever an emergency, you can simply pick up the telephone, dial 911, and you will get somebody on the line.
"Hah!" exclaims the Russian comrade. "That is nothing! Why, in Russia, you simply pick up the phone, dial any number you want, and start talking!"
The difference between this and FISA is that FISA requires prior approval by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, FISC, as you would have known had you actually read the first three lines of the page you linked to:
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Requests are adjudicated by a special eleven member court called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
These taps were done without any judicial permission, which even FISA requires. The time required for a FISC approval (as short as a few hours if a case is urgent) was claimed to be too short, justifiying this.
One of the things I find most worrying about the entire thing, though, is summed up in this statement by Trent Lott:
``I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.''
(see e.g. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&s
I don't want any man who puts security before freedom in my government. If I lived in Mississippi I'd try to do something about him; alas, I live in Utah, so I've got Orrin Hatch to worry about.
Nice job taking quotes out of context; I hope you will put this post on your resume next time you apply to be a politician's campaign advisor.
For the record, here's the context from why the parent poster has taken Scalia's quote:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a "living document."
""Oh, how I hate the phrase we have--a 'living document,'" Scalia says. "We now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete's sake."
You give the mainstram media far too much credit. Besides the sibling of this post pointing out that the Slashdot headline is nearly the same as the BBC headline (Admittedly, the BBC headline puts quotations marks around Faked, indicating that it is an allegation), I recall a MSM headline just the other day after the whole Air Marshal fiasco, which read "Bags Exploded After Air Marshal Kills Passenger."
Admittedly, the headline was technically true--the bags were exploded after the air marshal killed the passenger. However, it makes is sound very much like the bags had bombs in them and exploded of their own volition, and not that they were exploded by a bomb crew, as actually happened. I tested the headline out on a number of people who didn't know yet what had actually happened, and that was the conclusion nearly all of the reached.
I'm far from a MSM IS OBSELEET BGOLS ARE TEH FUCHURE!!1 fanboy, but I do think the MSM is often given (and certainly tries to take) more credit than it deserves.
Actually, assuming a circular orbit, you have to move faster when you are in a lower orbit, while a higher orbit is slower.
See e.g. http://www.freemars.org/jeff/speed/
As an American who has spent more than half my life living in Europe (France, Austria, and Sweden), I understand your sentiments. On the other hand, I would like to point out that many Europeans are somewhat hypocritical about decrying the state of civil liberties in the US, seeing as they themselves limit free speech (e.g. Holocaust denial is illegal in a number of European countries).
The actions of the election commission to appear to be illegal, but it's not quite so bad as suggested in the summary--the commission told Diebold et al. that they can begin selling if they are able to place all code in escrow by December 22, while the law appears to require that all code be in escrow and have been reviewed before the commission can give approval.
Anyway, I'm cheering for the EFF.
The paper appears to be available here.
I eagerly await your analysis, seeing as I understand about 10% of the abstract.
Including, of course, the freedom to have somebody kill and eat you?
Whoops, I guess Germany is against freedom, too.
Speaking of censorship, it is illegal to deny the holocaust in many European countries. I guess they're all pretty un-free, eh?
Sorry, but I think your argument is stupid, without regard to the validity of the censorship you are arguing against.