I don't know you but I watch TV to be entertained. The formulas that always work on long running TV series have some sort of comedic relief in there. Goofy characters or funny moments no matter how dark a situation they are going through.
Galactica managed to pull off a dark drama but their ratings felt season after season. I for one didn't feel like watching much of the last 2.
I don't think SG-U (or BSG/Caprica) before it really reflects how human beings really deal with adversity. Even in the darkest moments we manage to at least laugh about it, it's part of our psychological makeup.
Do you want to know why both SGU and Caprica got canceled meanwhile Eureka keeps going?, just thing about when was the last time you saw someone on both these series smiling.
The issue here is due process, registrars should ignore any government "request" to remove or redirect a DNS entry unless it is ordered by a court of law.
The same applies to the former DNS provider for wikileaks, visa, mastercard and anybody else who stopped doing business with them just because they got a call from some government dude accusing them of illegal activity.
I was lucky enough to think of using a pseudonym the first time I got online through a 2400 bps modem and I have kept that since then. It was really useful when I got hired as programmer for a defense contractor, I caught my manager goggling me and of course he found nothing. I use fake names in social networks... my friends know who really I am.
Only websites where I use my real identity are the ones who already got my personal info through other means (banks, credit cards, insurance, etc).
If you are comparing to blu-ray then it probably sucks but you know what?, that quality is good enough for me.
When they designed NTSC TV, they calculated that 525 lines were more than enough for a 12" TV placed several feet away from the viewer. The only reason we need higher resolutions now is because current technology allows for bigger TV screens.
The human eye cannot tell the difference between 720p and 1080i unless you are sitting less than 10 feet from a 55" TV or you are in the 1% of the world population with higher-resolution eyes.
I just finished a project where the other developer was a noob that thought he was uber and my code was crap.
He lobbied the boss behind my back and they started pushing me away, not including me in design meetings and reducing my coding responsibilities meanwhile the "uber" dev overcomplicated the code by throwing factories and inheritance all over the place without any regard to design patterns and coupling....
So yeah, keep it simple but make sure the boss understand your design decisions.
I would love to see if there is a correlation between the increase of ADD/ADHD and the switch to high-carb, low-fat diets in the seventies.
When I switched to Atkins diet (high-fat, low-carb) one of the first things I noticed after about a week my mind started feeling stronger and I was able to keep my focus for hours.
The biggest problem of pest control is farmers planting the same crop over and over making themselves vulnerable to a single gene changing in a pest or weed to destroy it.
The best protection against pests and weeds is planting a broad diversity of species and allow the plants themselves evolve their own defenses. Yes they will produce less and lower quality crop but they will also slow down the evolution rate of pests and weeds.
The biggest mistake these biotech companies made was to underestimate living things' relentless resiliency to survive, evolve and adapt to their environment.
So he is guilty of denial of service for denying to provide the passwords that allowed someone else the "service" of administering the network?
If he shuts down every user from the network, that is denial of service but this is a stretch. Congrats to the lawyers that pulled that off, you need Johnnie Cochran's like talent to confuse the Jury with this chewbacca defense so much even a CCNA certified guy bought it.
I really hope the EFF looks into this case and helps with appeal. It is pretty scary that an IT admin can be criminally liable for lack of common sense.
I read and re-read the statement, then read what Michael Geist post about what it is supposed to mean and I don't get it. It seems Mr. Geist is twisting the words to try to make a hoopla where there is none.
Just read the whole thing with a cool head: The U.S. Trade Representative is saying "lets agree on some language to put in paper so we can allow the public to review it"... Geist translates it to "no public review until everybody sign the treaty"
If you think about it: there is no final draft, they haven't agree on final language yet. Allowing public intervention on terms that are being negotiated is counter-productive. Remember, this needs to be approved by Congress after it is signed.
Fully agree with this, more important is you don't have to restrict yourself to be an employee.
According to that lookup tool the Salary for my area (Dallas-Fort) Worth and experience (10+ years as web developer) is around 62k...
I quit my last salaried job 2 years ago. I have been working independent since then just finding gigs on Craigslist. I work 60 hrs a month in average and earn plenty of money to cover all my expenses and to buy anything I need.
The study may be flawed but their methodology suggest a good first step. It would be an interesting exercise to come up with a protocol for studies to answer the questions this one tried.
One thing to keep in mind is HFCS is a good food preservative. This is why they are putting it in pretty much everything you find on the shelves. The fact that inhibits appetite and makes you consume more of the product is just "collateral damage"
Don't underestimate Obama's campaigning machine. Republicans think they already won the mid-terms but I disagree.
The fact that the President just needed to step-up his game for a couple weeks to get this bill passed speaks volumes of his campaigning ability. Now this same machine is at the service of all congressmen who voted yes.
How did your representative vote? If you don't like how he voted just vote for somebody else next time.
As for the rest of the representatives, I believe they voted according to the people they represent (you claim 56% were against, maybe they had different/more accurate numbers).
The fact that you disagree with this bill being passed doesn't mean everybody else does too and in cases of disagreement about what should be the law, majority rules.
The individual mandate doesn't kick in until 2016, plenty of time for the economy to recover... besides the world ends in 2012 so is never going to happen:-p
There is nothing in the constitution for or against healh care, therefore is up to us, through Congress, to decide if we want a bill such as Health Care Reform to become law.
Well guess what, we voted this Congress into office and the majority of our representatives decided the people their represent wanted health care reform, so the bill passed. This is how democracy works. It sucks to be in the minority... huh?
Constitutional rights have nothing to do with this. Congress can, at the will of the people, write any law it pleases. It is up to The Supreme Court to, upon challenge, find if parts of a law are unconstitutional.
If you don't like the laws Congress is passing, make sure to vote for congressmen aligned to your principles next time.
Nature evolves providing diversity and that is its best defense. From the beginning of farming we have been fighting diversity therefore becoming vulnerable to pests. We develop a pesticide to control this pest and after a while the pest evolves becoming resistant to it....
Homogenization makes business sense but is not the way of nature. We would like to produce one kind of corn, soybean, potato, apple, etc... the one that yields us more profit. In pursuing this we are creating a single point of failure. All we need is for a pest to become round-up resistant and all our soybean/corn produce goes to hell.
Remember that pests are also fighting for survival and having more of the same just make it easier for them to figure out a resistance. If we had diversity, some of the crop would die but the rest will survive. Not as profitable but way safer.
We have so much regulation in this country we just can't experiment with new kinds of airplanes or invent a new way of air travel. Imagine all the red tape you will have to go through just to put the damn plane together.
The FAA has frozen innovation in the airplane industry: we still base our airplane designs in the same basic principles invented 100 years ago because trying something new would require years of research and testing just to comply with their safety requirements.
I predict these chinese inventors will propel a new way of air travel while the US will be left way behind.
Imho, air transportation has degenerated to a point it doesn't make sense anymore: we build huge airports just to handle the huge airplanes. The bigger the airport, the more time we waste getting there, checking in, taxing around, etc. If you have ever landed in Dallas-Fort Worth you probably expent a good 20 minutes from touch down until the plane reaches its gate.
Just flew from Denver to Dallas: total flight time is around 90 mins, we took off to the airport at 6:30 am and I got home at 3:30 pm. That is 10 hrs travel time. Just checked google maps and same trip in car would have taken me about 14 hrs.
Maybe instead of going bigger we should go smaller, redesigning the airplane to be small and easier to fly so almost anybody could own one or even rent it.
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I don't know you but I watch TV to be entertained. The formulas that always work on long running TV series have some sort of comedic relief in there. Goofy characters or funny moments no matter how dark a situation they are going through.
Galactica managed to pull off a dark drama but their ratings felt season after season. I for one didn't feel like watching much of the last 2.
I don't think SG-U (or BSG/Caprica) before it really reflects how human beings really deal with adversity. Even in the darkest moments we manage to at least laugh about it, it's part of our psychological makeup.
Do you want to know why both SGU and Caprica got canceled meanwhile Eureka keeps going?, just thing about when was the last time you saw someone on both these series smiling.
The issue here is due process, registrars should ignore any government "request" to remove or redirect a DNS entry unless it is ordered by a court of law.
The same applies to the former DNS provider for wikileaks, visa, mastercard and anybody else who stopped doing business with them just because they got a call from some government dude accusing them of illegal activity.
I was lucky enough to think of using a pseudonym the first time I got online through a 2400 bps modem and I have kept that since then. It was really useful when I got hired as programmer for a defense contractor, I caught my manager goggling me and of course he found nothing. I use fake names in social networks... my friends know who really I am.
Only websites where I use my real identity are the ones who already got my personal info through other means (banks, credit cards, insurance, etc).
If you are comparing to blu-ray then it probably sucks but you know what?, that quality is good enough for me.
When they designed NTSC TV, they calculated that 525 lines were more than enough for a 12" TV placed several feet away from the viewer. The only reason we need higher resolutions now is because current technology allows for bigger TV screens.
The human eye cannot tell the difference between 720p and 1080i unless you are sitting less than 10 feet from a 55" TV or you are in the 1% of the world population with higher-resolution eyes.
Twitter is great for those of us with no writing talent: no need to post a whole blog about an idea we can explain in 140 characters or less
I just finished a project where the other developer was a noob that thought he was uber and my code was crap.
He lobbied the boss behind my back and they started pushing me away, not including me in design meetings and reducing my coding responsibilities meanwhile the "uber" dev overcomplicated the code by throwing factories and inheritance all over the place without any regard to design patterns and coupling....
So yeah, keep it simple but make sure the boss understand your design decisions.
I would love to see if there is a correlation between the increase of ADD/ADHD and the switch to high-carb, low-fat diets in the seventies.
When I switched to Atkins diet (high-fat, low-carb) one of the first things I noticed after about a week my mind started feeling stronger and I was able to keep my focus for hours.
I agree with this, mythtv has been stable enough to be called 1.0 for like 10 years.
Yes, it is still not perfect but if you compare it to some commercial epic fails such as Windows Vista...
Be professional
The biggest problem of pest control is farmers planting the same crop over and over making themselves vulnerable to a single gene changing in a pest or weed to destroy it.
The best protection against pests and weeds is planting a broad diversity of species and allow the plants themselves evolve their own defenses. Yes they will produce less and lower quality crop but they will also slow down the evolution rate of pests and weeds.
The biggest mistake these biotech companies made was to underestimate living things' relentless resiliency to survive, evolve and adapt to their environment.
So he is guilty of denial of service for denying to provide the passwords that allowed someone else the "service" of administering the network?
If he shuts down every user from the network, that is denial of service but this is a stretch. Congrats to the lawyers that pulled that off, you need Johnnie Cochran's like talent to confuse the Jury with this chewbacca defense so much even a CCNA certified guy bought it.
I really hope the EFF looks into this case and helps with appeal. It is pretty scary that an IT admin can be criminally liable for lack of common sense.
I read and re-read the statement, then read what Michael Geist post about what it is supposed to mean and I don't get it. It seems Mr. Geist is twisting the words to try to make a hoopla where there is none.
Just read the whole thing with a cool head: The U.S. Trade Representative is saying "lets agree on some language to put in paper so we can allow the public to review it"... Geist translates it to "no public review until everybody sign the treaty"
If you think about it: there is no final draft, they haven't agree on final language yet. Allowing public intervention on terms that are being negotiated is counter-productive. Remember, this needs to be approved by Congress after it is signed.
Fully agree with this, more important is you don't have to restrict yourself to be an employee.
According to that lookup tool the Salary for my area (Dallas-Fort) Worth and experience (10+ years as web developer) is around 62k...
I quit my last salaried job 2 years ago. I have been working independent since then just finding gigs on Craigslist. I work 60 hrs a month in average and earn plenty of money to cover all my expenses and to buy anything I need.
The study may be flawed but their methodology suggest a good first step. It would be an interesting exercise to come up with a protocol for studies to answer the questions this one tried.
One thing to keep in mind is HFCS is a good food preservative. This is why they are putting it in pretty much everything you find on the shelves. The fact that inhibits appetite and makes you consume more of the product is just "collateral damage"
A camera to take pics of Schrödinger's LOLcat
Don't underestimate Obama's campaigning machine. Republicans think they already won the mid-terms but I disagree.
The fact that the President just needed to step-up his game for a couple weeks to get this bill passed speaks volumes of his campaigning ability. Now this same machine is at the service of all congressmen who voted yes.
How did your representative vote? If you don't like how he voted just vote for somebody else next time.
As for the rest of the representatives, I believe they voted according to the people they represent (you claim 56% were against, maybe they had different/more accurate numbers).
The fact that you disagree with this bill being passed doesn't mean everybody else does too and in cases of disagreement about what should be the law, majority rules.
It's actually the opposite. It establish a basic framework with some restrictions leaving up to Congress to fill up the blanks.
*sigh*
The individual mandate doesn't kick in until 2016, plenty of time for the economy to recover... besides the world ends in 2012 so is never going to happen :-p
There is nothing in the constitution for or against healh care, therefore is up to us, through Congress, to decide if we want a bill such as Health Care Reform to become law.
Well guess what, we voted this Congress into office and the majority of our representatives decided the people their represent wanted health care reform, so the bill passed. This is how democracy works. It sucks to be in the minority... huh?
veterinary medicine is what healthcare would be like if it were truly private
What your dog experienced is healthcare without the insurance middlemen. You dealt directly with the healthcare provider.
Health insurance companies stand in between you and your doctor squeezing both sides to increase their own profits.
Constitutional rights have nothing to do with this. Congress can, at the will of the people, write any law it pleases. It is up to The Supreme Court to, upon challenge, find if parts of a law are unconstitutional.
If you don't like the laws Congress is passing, make sure to vote for congressmen aligned to your principles next time.
Nature evolves providing diversity and that is its best defense. From the beginning of farming we have been fighting diversity therefore becoming vulnerable to pests. We develop a pesticide to control this pest and after a while the pest evolves becoming resistant to it....
Homogenization makes business sense but is not the way of nature. We would like to produce one kind of corn, soybean, potato, apple, etc... the one that yields us more profit. In pursuing this we are creating a single point of failure. All we need is for a pest to become round-up resistant and all our soybean/corn produce goes to hell.
Remember that pests are also fighting for survival and having more of the same just make it easier for them to figure out a resistance. If we had diversity, some of the crop would die but the rest will survive. Not as profitable but way safer.
We have so much regulation in this country we just can't experiment with new kinds of airplanes or invent a new way of air travel. Imagine all the red tape you will have to go through just to put the damn plane together.
The FAA has frozen innovation in the airplane industry: we still base our airplane designs in the same basic principles invented 100 years ago because trying something new would require years of research and testing just to comply with their safety requirements.
I predict these chinese inventors will propel a new way of air travel while the US will be left way behind.
Imho, air transportation has degenerated to a point it doesn't make sense anymore: we build huge airports just to handle the huge airplanes. The bigger the airport, the more time we waste getting there, checking in, taxing around, etc. If you have ever landed in Dallas-Fort Worth you probably expent a good 20 minutes from touch down until the plane reaches its gate.
Just flew from Denver to Dallas: total flight time is around 90 mins, we took off to the airport at 6:30 am and I got home at 3:30 pm. That is 10 hrs travel time. Just checked google maps and same trip in car would have taken me about 14 hrs.
Maybe instead of going bigger we should go smaller, redesigning the airplane to be small and easier to fly so almost anybody could own one or even rent it.