Unless you're a dispensing pharmacist or medial professional, you're unlikely to be able to tell if the little yellow pill you ordered online is in fact your gout medication, a generic antihistamine, or worming meds for cats, and you won't know until your gout gets worse.
Unless they have a GC/MS machine, I doubt a dispensing pharmacist or medial professional could tell either.
I cut my programming teeth on HyperCard (well, really BASIC, but HyperCard was next).
I built so many damn useful little apps in HyperCard in my youth...one of my favorites was one that displayed porn images hidden in the resource fork of that particular Hypercard stack (to hide from Dad).
And then there were all those awesome Hypercard extensions that added functionality, etc etc. I loved it.
Is this really a language as much as it is an IDE that saves to Javascript, Dart, or Python?
Well, you could say the same thing about C and C++. C++ code is "saved" to C code and THEN compiled to machine code (at least that's how it used to work) using the C compiler.
Well, I meant it like "shrinkage" (aka theft) is a cost of doing business in the retail industry. You put up with some small amount of theft because the cost of stopping it is more than the cost of your losses due to theft.
Sure, you could have 0 theft if you just locked the doors to your store and didn't let anyone in...but you'd go out of business press quick.
Republicans wanted this looking forward to base projections on reality, not on fantasy.
I have a grease-fire on my stove. Based on the fact that my house has historically not been on fire, I will do nothing about said grease-fire, and will legislate that everyone ignore experts' "wild fantasy predictions" that the house may indeed burn down.
If you let government take over your health care, you are giving the government control over your health.
As opposed to the for-profit entities that control my health now? I'll take my chances with the Gov, thanks. At least they won't kill me/bankrupt me so the CEO can make an extra buck.
It's mandatory help that's enabling people to not make the individual decision to change their ways.
They'd make the same decisions otherwise, but it would cause more collateral damage to society. Think of it as a cost of "doing business" (i.e. having a stable society)
Yes, this is the way to go. Grab an older Android phone.
Fuck micro-controllers, just write an app. It's got wifi, bluetooth, ethernet (I assume that can be done over USB easily), haptic feedback...what else do you want on a hobby board?
OK he did some other dude, didn't want people to know, despite the fact that most civilized people don't really care and in this modern era you don't have to care about the uncivilized people who do care
This, plus other sermons the rabbi delivered, make me think that the ultra-orthodox live in fear that they are so weak-willed that they will give into desire/sin/whatever once the tiniest of opportunities present themselves. Thus, they make rules to prevent people from coming anywhere close to temptation.
Not to be rude, but that sounds almost *exactly* like Vulcan culture.
I've had T-Mobile since 2004 and I get just fine service almost everywhere.
Sure, if I'm waaaay out in the boonies I may be stuck with GPRS data, but I almost always have a signal to make a call.
Add on the fact that you can make/receive calls over wifi totally seamlessly and that makes it even better. When you're connected to wifi the phone will shut off its GSM radio and you save tons of battery life.
"Terahertz radiation is non-ionizing submillimeter microwave radiation and shares with microwaves the capability to penetrate a wide variety of non-conducting materials. Terahertz radiation can pass through clothing, paper, cardboard, wood, masonry, plastic and ceramics. It can also penetrate fog and clouds, but cannot penetrate metal or water."
Yes, you're right. After all, visible-light is pretty damn high-frequency and it sucks at penetrating walls.
Visible light: 400 to 700 nm Far Infrared: 15,000 nm to 1,000,000 nm Regular wifi: 125,000,000 nm
I have no idea at what wavelength drywall and other modern building materials start seriously attenuating a signal (as in "only good for line-of-sight" attenuating). Anyone?
All it would take is for a client to verify to data in the chunk (probably by it's MD5 or SHA), and if it's busted then try and download it again from the same peer. If it fails the second time then just ban the peer.
But I imagine they already do this, don't they?
Yes, but I wonder what happens when a torrent with, say, 100 legitimate seeders suddenly becomes a torrent with 100 legitimate seeders and 100,000 fake/poisoned seeders.
Legit clients waste time and bandwidth rooting out the fake seeders...what ratio of fake/legit seeders is required to being the whole thing to it's knees (e.g. you waste 682GB of downstream bandwidth trying to download a 700MB movie and it takes 2 weeks)?
With that incredibly simplistic system you just replaced 6 cars with 1. But by dividing the number of cars by 1/6th you've reduced cars on the road, so you've reduced traffic.
Nope, that's incorrect. The number of cars on the road (at a given time) will *increase*.
Instead of what we have now: --Car A driving Worker A to work at 6:30am (and then being parked all day) --Car B driving Worker B to work at 7:30am (and then being parked all day)
you'll have: --Car A driving Worker A to work at 6:30am --Car A driving itself to pick up Worker B --Car A driving Worker B to work at 7:30am
The same amount of cars will be on the road during the actual commuting part of both workers' journeys (it'll just be the same car in both instances instead of 2 different cars), PLUS you have the extra leg/journey where the car is driving itself to pick up Worker B (which doesn't happen at all in case #1).
This is, of course, assuming that the car will only take 1 passenger at a time (like how most people commute via car to work now).
But this says nothing about actual traffic delays, which I imagine would be *greatly* decreased by communication between vehicles/coordination.
I have a GTab (purchased about a year ago for $280...they're still that expensive??) and I love it. Yes, it can be just a tiny bit slow at times, but it works great like 99% of the time. Primarily used by my 4 year old as his "computer", great for playing games, watching movies (copied-over avis, youtube, netflix), etc.
I've run both VeganTab and The DRH ICS, and I must say I like the latter better. I had some issues with VeganTab locking up and random reboots, and DRH ICS seems to have fixed that.
DRH ICS only overclocks to 1.2GHz at the moment. I don't think there are any "alternative" kernels for DRH ICS and right now 1.2 is the max on the default kernel.
It's almost therapeutic to completely suspend your disbelief every once in a while and get in touch with the spiritual side (I think that there is a certain mental state that every human - no matter how skeptic, etc. - can achieve if they want to... and it's pretty pleasant, really).
Of course it's pleasant. Why do you think the majority of people are religious? Being an atheist is HARD because you can't abdicate responsibility to the man in the sky/tarot cards/etc. Not saying that you believe, but now you see how seductive it can be...
Opiate of the masses, indeed.
As long as you keep it at that and don't ever start to think that you could actually make important decisions based on all that, it's pretty much the most harmless source of enjoyment that there is.
Casinos are always packed to the gills with people. Do you *really* think they all see it as nothing more than entertainment and fully expect to lose all the money they put on the table?
So yes, if you have the right mindset, it's totally harmless. The issue is that the majority of humanity does NOT have the right mindset.
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Well I've been registered longer than you and you've been on my foes list for years.
In short: fuck off.
Unless you're a dispensing pharmacist or medial professional, you're unlikely to be able to tell if the little yellow pill you ordered online is in fact your gout medication, a generic antihistamine, or worming meds for cats, and you won't know until your gout gets worse.
Unless they have a GC/MS machine, I doubt a dispensing pharmacist or medial professional could tell either.
I cut my programming teeth on HyperCard (well, really BASIC, but HyperCard was next).
I built so many damn useful little apps in HyperCard in my youth...one of my favorites was one that displayed porn images hidden in the resource fork of that particular Hypercard stack (to hide from Dad).
And then there were all those awesome Hypercard extensions that added functionality, etc etc. I loved it.
Is this really a language as much as it is an IDE that saves to Javascript, Dart, or Python?
Well, you could say the same thing about C and C++. C++ code is "saved" to C code and THEN compiled to machine code (at least that's how it used to work) using the C compiler.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Indeed! Just ask the Japanese, whose whole culture started off as a knock-off of Chinese culture.
Well, I meant it like "shrinkage" (aka theft) is a cost of doing business in the retail industry. You put up with some small amount of theft because the cost of stopping it is more than the cost of your losses due to theft.
Sure, you could have 0 theft if you just locked the doors to your store and didn't let anyone in...but you'd go out of business press quick.
Republicans wanted this looking forward to base projections on reality, not on fantasy.
I have a grease-fire on my stove. Based on the fact that my house has historically not been on fire, I will do nothing about said grease-fire, and will legislate that everyone ignore experts' "wild fantasy predictions" that the house may indeed burn down.
Plus it's doubtful it will actually rise that much in one century.
It is? That's the consensus view right now among, you know, actual scientists who know what the fuck they're talking about.
If you let government take over your health care, you are giving the government control over your health.
As opposed to the for-profit entities that control my health now? I'll take my chances with the Gov, thanks. At least they won't kill me/bankrupt me so the CEO can make an extra buck.
It's mandatory help that's enabling people to not make the individual decision to change their ways.
They'd make the same decisions otherwise, but it would cause more collateral damage to society. Think of it as a cost of "doing business" (i.e. having a stable society)
Consulting on *what*? IT? Isn't that exactly the same thing?
Never going back to contacts again, not even for groovy sci-fi VR glasses.
When was the last time your tried contacts? Materials science has come a looooong way in the last 10 years or so.
Much more comfortable than they were in the 90s.
Yes, this is the way to go. Grab an older Android phone.
Fuck micro-controllers, just write an app. It's got wifi, bluetooth, ethernet (I assume that can be done over USB easily), haptic feedback...what else do you want on a hobby board?
OK he did some other dude, didn't want people to know, despite the fact that most civilized people don't really care and in this modern era you don't have to care about the uncivilized people who do care
Yeah, it's just that simple. *eye roll*
This, plus other sermons the rabbi delivered, make me think that the ultra-orthodox live in fear that they are so weak-willed that they will give into desire/sin/whatever once the tiniest of opportunities present themselves. Thus, they make rules to prevent people from coming anywhere close to temptation.
Not to be rude, but that sounds almost *exactly* like Vulcan culture.
This device has already been invented by a certain Tom Peters. I present: THE CALCUCORN:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7064178994016272127
(skip to 7:15)
Do you really think anyone spends 100K on a Breguet because it tells accurate time?
No, they spend $100K on it because they're a pretentious douchebag with more money than sense/penis size.
I've had T-Mobile since 2004 and I get just fine service almost everywhere.
Sure, if I'm waaaay out in the boonies I may be stuck with GPRS data, but I almost always have a signal to make a call.
Add on the fact that you can make/receive calls over wifi totally seamlessly and that makes it even better. When you're connected to wifi the phone will shut off its GSM radio and you save tons of battery life.
"Terahertz radiation is non-ionizing submillimeter microwave radiation and shares with microwaves the capability to penetrate a wide variety of non-conducting materials. Terahertz radiation can pass through clothing, paper, cardboard, wood, masonry, plastic and ceramics. It can also penetrate fog and clouds, but cannot penetrate metal or water."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz
Yes, you're right. After all, visible-light is pretty damn high-frequency and it sucks at penetrating walls.
Visible light: 400 to 700 nm
Far Infrared: 15,000 nm to 1,000,000 nm
Regular wifi: 125,000,000 nm
I have no idea at what wavelength drywall and other modern building materials start seriously attenuating a signal (as in "only good for line-of-sight" attenuating). Anyone?
All it would take is for a client to verify to data in the chunk (probably by it's MD5 or SHA), and if it's busted then try and download it again from the same peer. If it fails the second time then just ban the peer.
But I imagine they already do this, don't they?
Yes, but I wonder what happens when a torrent with, say, 100 legitimate seeders suddenly becomes a torrent with 100 legitimate seeders and 100,000 fake/poisoned seeders.
Legit clients waste time and bandwidth rooting out the fake seeders...what ratio of fake/legit seeders is required to being the whole thing to it's knees (e.g. you waste 682GB of downstream bandwidth trying to download a 700MB movie and it takes 2 weeks)?
With that incredibly simplistic system you just replaced 6 cars with 1. But by dividing the number of cars by 1/6th you've reduced cars on the road, so you've reduced traffic.
Nope, that's incorrect. The number of cars on the road (at a given time) will *increase*.
Instead of what we have now:
--Car A driving Worker A to work at 6:30am (and then being parked all day)
--Car B driving Worker B to work at 7:30am (and then being parked all day)
you'll have:
--Car A driving Worker A to work at 6:30am
--Car A driving itself to pick up Worker B
--Car A driving Worker B to work at 7:30am
The same amount of cars will be on the road during the actual commuting part of both workers' journeys (it'll just be the same car in both instances instead of 2 different cars), PLUS you have the extra leg/journey where the car is driving itself to pick up Worker B (which doesn't happen at all in case #1).
This is, of course, assuming that the car will only take 1 passenger at a time (like how most people commute via car to work now).
But this says nothing about actual traffic delays, which I imagine would be *greatly* decreased by communication between vehicles/coordination.
I have a GTab (purchased about a year ago for $280...they're still that expensive??) and I love it. Yes, it can be just a tiny bit slow at times, but it works great like 99% of the time. Primarily used by my 4 year old as his "computer", great for playing games, watching movies (copied-over avis, youtube, netflix), etc.
I've run both VeganTab and The DRH ICS, and I must say I like the latter better. I had some issues with VeganTab locking up and random reboots, and DRH ICS seems to have fixed that.
DRH ICS only overclocks to 1.2GHz at the moment. I don't think there are any "alternative" kernels for DRH ICS and right now 1.2 is the max on the default kernel.
Worse than that, everyone thinks all gypsies are Romanian! Poor gypsies... :)
It's almost therapeutic to completely suspend your disbelief every once in a while and get in touch with the spiritual side (I think that there is a certain mental state that every human - no matter how skeptic, etc. - can achieve if they want to... and it's pretty pleasant, really).
Of course it's pleasant. Why do you think the majority of people are religious? Being an atheist is HARD because you can't abdicate responsibility to the man in the sky/tarot cards/etc. Not saying that you believe, but now you see how seductive it can be...
Opiate of the masses, indeed.
As long as you keep it at that and don't ever start to think that you could actually make important decisions based on all that, it's pretty much the most harmless source of enjoyment that there is.
Casinos are always packed to the gills with people. Do you *really* think they all see it as nothing more than entertainment and fully expect to lose all the money they put on the table?
So yes, if you have the right mindset, it's totally harmless. The issue is that the majority of humanity does NOT have the right mindset.