It is not RESONANT frequency. It is RESONANCE frequency. When will you people LEARRRNNNN???????///slash
I've never seen that in a text. The CRC/IEEE Electrical Engineering Handbook uses the term "resonant frequency". Some math texts refer to it as "natural frequency," particularly when a mechanical system is being modeled -- like the traditional mass-on-a-spring thing. Musicians use "fundamental" (or "fundamental frequency"), but what's a couple "pi"s between friends?
Now if you'd go crack down on "damp" versus "dampen," I could totally get behind that.
When you get your drivers license.. don't they already store your photo in a database?
The simple solution to this is to just NOT get a drivers license. You know that's a perfectly fine thing to do. Build your life around that fact, instead of lazily building your life around the need to drive a car on a taxpayer subsidized highway system.
These days, no ID = no vote. Opt out of a driver's license (or non-driver ID card), you opt out of voting, too. You also opt out of having a bank account. There's more, but I'll leave completing the list of opt-outs to others . ..
' . . . ending with the proof of self being required at polling places, to rent a house, buy a gun, open a bank account, acquire credit, board a plane or even attend a sporting event or log on the internet.'
Ending with? I think in my state (plus federal laws/reg) we've got at least 4 of those already. And that's not counting opening an account with the gas company.
There are very few reasons why a key won't work the first time and they all tie back to the user (this author) being a moron. First, use the correct disc. Second, use the correct CD key for the disc. Third, don't activate until all the devices are installed instead of marked as "unknown device." Fourth, actually activate Windows in the stated time period instead of ignoring it. Fifth, don't activate it more than once per year. And if all else fails just activate it via the Microsoft robot on the phone. It takes approx 4 mins 32 seconds to do.
I have never, ever had to talk to a rep in India ever in 10 years in business building and refurbishing computers. So who was he even talking to on the phone and why? Probably a license vs disc-used discrepancy. Definitely, without a doubt, USER ERROR!
Phrased another way, "We've provided you with a wide variety of possible ways to screw up installation and activation, many of which we could even catch for you and prevent, but choose not to. It's just so much more fun to be able to smile smugly at moron users, who even cares if we make any money?"
Why would we want to numb existential distress? This emotion is a social corrective mechanism that tells us when society is moving in the wrong direction. The reason it is becoming more of a problem in modern times is because our society is profoundly ill and we perceive that on some level. In the same way physical pain makes one pull one's hand out of the fire, existential stress makes one reevaluate one's life and look at ways it could be made more meaningful and more fulfilling. Why don't we just make a drug to cure ambition, sexual desire and distress of the conscience while while we are at it and wreck the human race for good?
I can pull my hand out of a fire. I can't fix society's problems with or without crippling anxiety and depression. For that matter, no one can fix the real biggie of "existential distress", the one that puts the "existential" in the existential distress, as in the end of one's existence -- we've all heard of it: Death. The basket cases and the numb all meet the same end.
The liver toxicity of Acetaminophen is used to deter opioid addiction by mixing opioids with Acetaminophen. Opioids are powerfully addictive narcotics and this practice kills about 500 Americans per year.
This isn't like spiking rubbing alcohol with methanol and other toxins. The opiods really do increase the pain relieving properties of the acetaminophen greatly. Unfortunately, the opiods are, as you say, addictive narcotics. But unlike how you interpret it, the practice actually increases narcotic addition rather than deterring it. Patients end up abusing the drugs that their own doctors gave them. Doctors don't really have that many better options for serious pain, and many don't really do a good job at preventing addiction. Patients aren't deterred by the acetaminophen toxicity when they beg their doctors for "Vike" or Percoset or Oxycontin refills because withdrawal is painful and unpleasant.
If the acetaminophen were really put in to "poison" the opiods, then it's doing an absolutely terrible job. It doesn't kill all that quickly, it doesn't make people violently ill. I think I'd have to call it the second-worst conspiracy I ever saw.
...If they capture all the transmissions originating from their listening devices and ending at their storage device across the country (on top of storing the transmissions that they intercept.)
And humanity literally requires infinite food. Just not all right now.
Unfortunately for all of us, some people continue to give us a really bad reputation in the executive suite."
Sorry, but nothing, and I mean nothing, compares with the the bad reputation the executive suite has with everyone one. Psychotic bastards, the lot. Have you forgotten the whole banking fiasco that caused a massive economic meltdown? So, I think if anyone has a reputation to fix, it is upper management.
Why not spending a couple of extra cents on quality ingredients to make a quality beer instead of blowing money on cooling?
Because that wouldn't be the American Megacorporate Way. Why spend more on product quality, when you could spend half as much on ubiquitous ad campaigns to redefine the country's understanding of what "beer" even is?
WRT beer, what is this American Megacorporation to which you refer? AB InBev? Grupo Modello? SABMiller? Molson Coors? (I guess that last one's half-American, but not really "mega" compared to the first two.)
You chill beverage to hide the unpleasant flavors.
Good beer is best served just at or slightly below room temp. Keep it in a cool, dark place - it's ready when you are.
Colonials::sigh::
Like wines, the customary serving temperature of various beers depends on the type. And personal preference. Stuffy Brits::sigh::
While on a float trip in Arkansas many years ago, a friend in a bikini offered me a titty. Shock turned to disappointment when I learned that in parts of the South Central US, those foam beverage sleeves are known as "Tiddies" for the Texas-based manufacturer of such foam-rubber products. But my beer did stay colder longer, so it wasn't a total loss.
Jeez, is it so hard NOT to take the car for groceries?
Oh, yes. If I bike to the store, I will get yelled at by at least one motorist irritated that she had to give me the teensiest bit of room to go by. Some will go so far as to crowd you into curbs and obstructions just to make sure you can hear that they're yelling something angry but still unintelligible. Plenty of people -- slashdotters included -- consider bikes to be a nuisance that should be restricted to sidewalks (illegal in most states) or trails (which don't actually go anywhere, they're not designed for transportation purposes.). Many will even suggest that bodily harm to bicyclists is desirable and a worthwhile goal for drivers.
What's that "supermarket" thing you're talking about? Outside the US we have regular shops every second corner: I live in the suburbs yet there's six grocery shops I can get to crossing a street at most once, two of them fairly large (for Polish rather than US standards). Supermarkets around here are also notorious for cheating with expired food, something corner shops don't dare to.
Bread is what makes using supermarkets a bad idea: it is good for two days. I've seen bread in the US, you solve this problem by not having edible bread in the first place: that earthy sponge has never been good so it can't get worse:p
I've seen some pretty large supermarkets outside the US. They appear to be just about the same as ours, with the exception of a few labels. We can thank global food processing conglomerates for that.
My nearest supermarket (and most others in my area) now carry fresh bread delivered daily in the wee hours of the morning. Mine even has a bakery attached. You can get any kind you want, pretty much -- they take requests. You can still buy the sandwich bread, of course, which is what I assume you were referring to. It serves its use case, which is containing peanut butter or bologna for kids without having much flavor and stays fresh forever, thanks to science. Yay, science.
But walking distance . . . not here I'm afraid. The nearest supermarket is 1.6 miles away. The next nearest is 2 miles. Big suburban lots and restrictive zoning keeps retail centers clumped together far from single-family homes. A severe paucity of sidewalks makes it worse. I'm pretty sure the sidewalks thing is intentional, to keep the "undesirables" out by discouraging foot traffic. Likewise the lack of bike lanes and other considerations for the two-wheeled crowd.
On the bright side, convenience-wise, a grocery delivery service did start up here. Our second shipment comes tomorrow. Only one data point, but so far, so good.
So is it still there? I thought they fixed it already because of all the negative feedback. Can't they just put a dialog box during installation:
It's not fixed in my opinion, because it's still the default and you've got to opt out and you've got to take active measures to do so. A fresh install of the latest 12.10.xx gives you a little clickable message (it's a URL shortcut, turns out) that is called "Legal Notice". It tells you generally how to disable the internet Dash search. It would be quite easy to ignore the "Legal Notice" at the bottom of the UI, thinking it was just more license agreement BS that no one reads anyway.
Unity has many haters, but from the latest LTS release on, it is actually pretty good.
At least the latest LTS (12.04.whatever) still uses Unity 2D. 12.10 uses Unity 3D only (once you're past the login). Performance is dismal on a virtual machine. Virtual box, AQEmu, virtmanager, etc. all can't handle the way Unity uses 3D acceleration. Blame is passed off on the virtual machine managers, but Ubuntu obviously didn't test that. I can't be the only person that tries out new distros as virtual machines, or likes to use virtual development machines, can I? It's certainly not a good first impression when you can't even drag a window around smoothly. Maybe they assume everyone will try with a LiveCD and boot alternate environments off a USB stick. Workarounds suggested on Ubuntu forums are like: "use Xubuntu". Well that's great, the fix for Ubuntu's user environment is to use another one.
If by "~99," you mean the email client I was using in 1999: I can't trust my email client (in this case kmail) to keep my emails indefinitely. Modern kmail puts messages in a database that's subject to frequent corruption that may cause partial or total loss of content. Backup and restore involves a multi-step (error-prone) process to export/import that database prior to saving data. Total kmail failure due to upgrade may result in inability to access archived emails until newly introduced bug is fixed (even if backed up) or require tedious reversion to earlier version.
But searching old messages now -- when available -- is easier and more efficient, so there's that.
Example. Just checked new email messages. At least one message has appeared with a phantom duplicate. Attempting to read this duplicate results in an error ("KMail folders unavailable . .."). Deleting the duplicate did eventually work this time. Whew. I guess the corruption got cleaned up. Not really sure. Suggested work-around is to rebuild the index. Honestly can't tell if that makes it better or not. It doesn't prevent future problems. Oh yeah, I've got one permanent phantom message in one folder from a few months ago that can neither be read nor deleted. I can rebuild the hell out of that folder index to no avail.
OTOH, much of KDE works. I can still find applications in a categorized menu without knowing the name ahead of time. Unity really fails in "discoverablility". See "Design of Everyday Things" by Norman.
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Sorry, I figured the garbage man part made it obvious
Well, Ed Zern citing non-existent books thought that, too.
It is not RESONANT frequency. It is RESONANCE frequency. When will you people LEARRRNNNN???????///slash
I've never seen that in a text. The CRC/IEEE Electrical Engineering Handbook uses the term "resonant frequency". Some math texts refer to it as "natural frequency," particularly when a mechanical system is being modeled -- like the traditional mass-on-a-spring thing. Musicians use "fundamental" (or "fundamental frequency"), but what's a couple "pi"s between friends?
Now if you'd go crack down on "damp" versus "dampen," I could totally get behind that.
I fear that next, they will require a blood / saliva / sperm sample as in the movie Gatica?
"Gattaca". There's no "i" in DNA, so to speak. Clever, huh?
Exactly. My county has required photo ID for voting since at least the early 1970s.
Serious question: do you have to have a photo ID and register in advance to vote, or is the photo ID sufficient?
When you get your drivers license.. don't they already store your photo in a database?
The simple solution to this is to just NOT get a drivers license. You know that's a perfectly fine thing to do. Build your life around that fact, instead of lazily building your life around the need to drive a car on a taxpayer subsidized highway system.
These days, no ID = no vote. Opt out of a driver's license (or non-driver ID card), you opt out of voting, too. You also opt out of having a bank account. There's more, but I'll leave completing the list of opt-outs to others . . .
Ending with? I think in my state (plus federal laws/reg) we've got at least 4 of those already. And that's not counting opening an account with the gas company.
There are very few reasons why a key won't work the first time and they all tie back to the user (this author) being a moron. First, use the correct disc. Second, use the correct CD key for the disc. Third, don't activate until all the devices are installed instead of marked as "unknown device." Fourth, actually activate Windows in the stated time period instead of ignoring it. Fifth, don't activate it more than once per year. And if all else fails just activate it via the Microsoft robot on the phone. It takes approx 4 mins 32 seconds to do. I have never, ever had to talk to a rep in India ever in 10 years in business building and refurbishing computers. So who was he even talking to on the phone and why? Probably a license vs disc-used discrepancy. Definitely, without a doubt, USER ERROR!
Phrased another way, "We've provided you with a wide variety of possible ways to screw up installation and activation, many of which we could even catch for you and prevent, but choose not to. It's just so much more fun to be able to smile smugly at moron users, who even cares if we make any money?"
Yes.
No.
Why would we want to numb existential distress? This emotion is a social corrective mechanism that tells us when society is moving in the wrong direction. The reason it is becoming more of a problem in modern times is because our society is profoundly ill and we perceive that on some level. In the same way physical pain makes one pull one's hand out of the fire, existential stress makes one reevaluate one's life and look at ways it could be made more meaningful and more fulfilling. Why don't we just make a drug to cure ambition, sexual desire and distress of the conscience while while we are at it and wreck the human race for good?
I can pull my hand out of a fire. I can't fix society's problems with or without crippling anxiety and depression. For that matter, no one can fix the real biggie of "existential distress", the one that puts the "existential" in the existential distress, as in the end of one's existence -- we've all heard of it: Death. The basket cases and the numb all meet the same end.
The liver toxicity of Acetaminophen is used to deter opioid addiction by mixing opioids with Acetaminophen. Opioids are powerfully addictive narcotics and this practice kills about 500 Americans per year.
This isn't like spiking rubbing alcohol with methanol and other toxins. The opiods really do increase the pain relieving properties of the acetaminophen greatly. Unfortunately, the opiods are, as you say, addictive narcotics. But unlike how you interpret it, the practice actually increases narcotic addition rather than deterring it. Patients end up abusing the drugs that their own doctors gave them. Doctors don't really have that many better options for serious pain, and many don't really do a good job at preventing addiction. Patients aren't deterred by the acetaminophen toxicity when they beg their doctors for "Vike" or Percoset or Oxycontin refills because withdrawal is painful and unpleasant.
If the acetaminophen were really put in to "poison" the opiods, then it's doing an absolutely terrible job. It doesn't kill all that quickly, it doesn't make people violently ill. I think I'd have to call it the second-worst conspiracy I ever saw.
...If they capture all the transmissions originating from their listening devices and ending at their storage device across the country (on top of storing the transmissions that they intercept.)
And humanity literally requires infinite food. Just not all right now.
Awesome work, not tantrums, is what will keep you in a happy professional career.
You should create inspirational posters!
Annnnd here's my favorite out of context /. quote of the week (year?).
It's only May.
Unfortunately for all of us, some people continue to give us a really bad reputation in the executive suite."
Sorry, but nothing, and I mean nothing, compares with the the bad reputation the executive suite has with everyone one. Psychotic bastards, the lot. Have you forgotten the whole banking fiasco that caused a massive economic meltdown? So, I think if anyone has a reputation to fix, it is upper management.
Rich means never having to say you're sorry.
Why not spending a couple of extra cents on quality ingredients to make a quality beer instead of blowing money on cooling?
Because that wouldn't be the American Megacorporate Way. Why spend more on product quality, when you could spend half as much on ubiquitous ad campaigns to redefine the country's understanding of what "beer" even is?
WRT beer, what is this American Megacorporation to which you refer? AB InBev? Grupo Modello? SABMiller? Molson Coors? (I guess that last one's half-American, but not really "mega" compared to the first two.)
You chill beverage to hide the unpleasant flavors. Good beer is best served just at or slightly below room temp. Keep it in a cool, dark place - it's ready when you are. Colonials ::sigh::
Like wines, the customary serving temperature of various beers depends on the type. And personal preference. Stuffy Brits ::sigh::
While on a float trip in Arkansas many years ago, a friend in a bikini offered me a titty. Shock turned to disappointment when I learned that in parts of the South Central US, those foam beverage sleeves are known as "Tiddies" for the Texas-based manufacturer of such foam-rubber products. But my beer did stay colder longer, so it wasn't a total loss.
Not one shit was given...
Feel free to repeat the experiment with chilled tap water, I guess, if that'll help
Below are the speedtests of two different routers using a wired connection.
Actiontec (about 2011) – 53.22 MB (down) 8.23 (up) Linksys WRT54G v2 (about 2004) – 23 MB (down) 7.76 (up)
I've got Time Warner cable internet, so I'm cool, then.
Jeez, is it so hard NOT to take the car for groceries?
Oh, yes. If I bike to the store, I will get yelled at by at least one motorist irritated that she had to give me the teensiest bit of room to go by. Some will go so far as to crowd you into curbs and obstructions just to make sure you can hear that they're yelling something angry but still unintelligible. Plenty of people -- slashdotters included -- consider bikes to be a nuisance that should be restricted to sidewalks (illegal in most states) or trails (which don't actually go anywhere, they're not designed for transportation purposes.). Many will even suggest that bodily harm to bicyclists is desirable and a worthwhile goal for drivers.
What's that "supermarket" thing you're talking about? Outside the US we have regular shops every second corner: I live in the suburbs yet there's six grocery shops I can get to crossing a street at most once, two of them fairly large (for Polish rather than US standards). Supermarkets around here are also notorious for cheating with expired food, something corner shops don't dare to.
Bread is what makes using supermarkets a bad idea: it is good for two days. I've seen bread in the US, you solve this problem by not having edible bread in the first place: that earthy sponge has never been good so it can't get worse :p
I've seen some pretty large supermarkets outside the US. They appear to be just about the same as ours, with the exception of a few labels. We can thank global food processing conglomerates for that.
My nearest supermarket (and most others in my area) now carry fresh bread delivered daily in the wee hours of the morning. Mine even has a bakery attached. You can get any kind you want, pretty much -- they take requests. You can still buy the sandwich bread, of course, which is what I assume you were referring to. It serves its use case, which is containing peanut butter or bologna for kids without having much flavor and stays fresh forever, thanks to science. Yay, science.
But walking distance . . . not here I'm afraid. The nearest supermarket is 1.6 miles away. The next nearest is 2 miles. Big suburban lots and restrictive zoning keeps retail centers clumped together far from single-family homes. A severe paucity of sidewalks makes it worse. I'm pretty sure the sidewalks thing is intentional, to keep the "undesirables" out by discouraging foot traffic. Likewise the lack of bike lanes and other considerations for the two-wheeled crowd.
On the bright side, convenience-wise, a grocery delivery service did start up here. Our second shipment comes tomorrow. Only one data point, but so far, so good.
Ah come on, what sort of a relationship do you have with your family if you can't play a little prank on them from time to time.
Perhaps the kind of relationship where one or more of the parties is under the care of a cardiologist.
So is it still there? I thought they fixed it already because of all the negative feedback. Can't they just put a dialog box during installation:
It's not fixed in my opinion, because it's still the default and you've got to opt out and you've got to take active measures to do so. A fresh install of the latest 12.10.xx gives you a little clickable message (it's a URL shortcut, turns out) that is called "Legal Notice". It tells you generally how to disable the internet Dash search. It would be quite easy to ignore the "Legal Notice" at the bottom of the UI, thinking it was just more license agreement BS that no one reads anyway.
Unity has many haters, but from the latest LTS release on, it is actually pretty good.
At least the latest LTS (12.04.whatever) still uses Unity 2D. 12.10 uses Unity 3D only (once you're past the login). Performance is dismal on a virtual machine. Virtual box, AQEmu, virtmanager, etc. all can't handle the way Unity uses 3D acceleration. Blame is passed off on the virtual machine managers, but Ubuntu obviously didn't test that. I can't be the only person that tries out new distros as virtual machines, or likes to use virtual development machines, can I? It's certainly not a good first impression when you can't even drag a window around smoothly. Maybe they assume everyone will try with a LiveCD and boot alternate environments off a USB stick. Workarounds suggested on Ubuntu forums are like: "use Xubuntu". Well that's great, the fix for Ubuntu's user environment is to use another one.
U cant be srs???
What could you do in ~99 that you can't do now?
im srs asa hrt atk!!!11!
If by "~99," you mean the email client I was using in 1999: I can't trust my email client (in this case kmail) to keep my emails indefinitely. Modern kmail puts messages in a database that's subject to frequent corruption that may cause partial or total loss of content. Backup and restore involves a multi-step (error-prone) process to export/import that database prior to saving data. Total kmail failure due to upgrade may result in inability to access archived emails until newly introduced bug is fixed (even if backed up) or require tedious reversion to earlier version.
But searching old messages now -- when available -- is easier and more efficient, so there's that.
Example. Just checked new email messages. At least one message has appeared with a phantom duplicate. Attempting to read this duplicate results in an error ("KMail folders unavailable . . ."). Deleting the duplicate did eventually work this time. Whew. I guess the corruption got cleaned up. Not really sure. Suggested work-around is to rebuild the index. Honestly can't tell if that makes it better or not. It doesn't prevent future problems. Oh yeah, I've got one permanent phantom message in one folder from a few months ago that can neither be read nor deleted. I can rebuild the hell out of that folder index to no avail.
OTOH, much of KDE works. I can still find applications in a categorized menu without knowing the name ahead of time. Unity really fails in "discoverablility". See "Design of Everyday Things" by Norman.