There is a lot of hype and Kool-Aid being floated about by people who think they know everything, and the beliefs are being re-enforced by like minded individuals. But a lie is a lie, no matter how often you repeat it, it still remains fundamentally untrue...
I don't really know where to begin, but I particularly like this gem. It saddens me that many of my neighbours to the south think like this. I come from probably the dirtiest and most US-like province in Canada, but yet public and government opinion is much different here, i.e. let's try to at least do something.
On your note about wind, I think there is a consensus that large-scale weather patterns will not change. Local weather effects may be felt, but they won't be as disastrous as continuing to burn fossil fuels.
My problem with the metric system is for real world short distances an inch seems like a more reasonable unit of measure than a centimeter, which seems too short.
How about this. Two centimetres (or two and a half is pretty close).
I'm from Canada of a younger generation, and the only thing I use imperial for would be weight (fluid measures, pints and shots I maybe an exception, but it's very similar to knowing it in millilitres). I'm much more familiar with pounds than kilograms for common things.
The Prime Minister is apologizing for some hack in Alberta who recently made these comments.
Premier says apology punishment enough after Alberta MLA's comments
"In his blog,
The Prime Minister (Stephen Harper) and the Premier of Alberta (Ed Stelmach) are two different people.
I think the second part of his comment was offensive.
Although I agree with the other poster, shouldn't people smile:P ?
Disclaimer:
I'm from Alberta. I'm not too impressed with Stelmach, and Harper's been ok but I have a pretty blase feeling from him. We need someone more dynamic running Canada (this, coming from a Conservative).
As both a reply to this and the GP, trying to read original works can be very challenging.
For one, they are not written in the same language (assuming you speak English), and the brevity of our modern language was lost to the ancients.
Second, why waste centuries of thought, development and simplification after many of these things were initially discovered?
E.T. Bell's Men of Mathematics is easily one of the best popular science books written about math. Ever.
Contrast this with reading the (translated) proofs of God Created The Integers, which is easier to digest?
Besides, if I remember my math, a sine wave is simply made up of a string of parabolas with a change in the inflection point at Y = 0. (Not bad for a lawyer, eh?)
While I agree with the rest of your post, I believe this is wrong.
... two HS degrees, seriously? Is that necessary?
Where I'm from (Calgary, AB, Canada) there is enough leeway in HS for most kids to get a HS degree even if they aren't very strong at one or two subject(s) (they can earn extra credits through options, community service/work experience, take 'easy math' courses), and they still get the satisfaction of getting a HS diploma like everyone else.
Considering that the majority of kids get a HS diploma (including equivalent programs for those with learning disabilities) and have the satisfaction of graduating with their peers, is it necessary for the requirements to be even easier?
Does unleashing a bunch of relatively uneducated 10th graders (in my area; they are kids at 16, are just out of junior high and are still very immature with only a year of high school to temper that, and just got a driver's license) seem like a good idea?
Exactly - a single-use plastic bottle of "spring water" - while driving themselves there and back in their hybrid Yukon/Escalade, and returning to a massive home.
In Alberta (Canada), under APEGGA, software engineering is an accredited discipline. There are some P.Eng software engineers (although I can't say what the certificate has printed on it).
See;
http://www.apegga.org/Applicants/pdf/General/GApplication.pdf
I think what you mean to say is:
"Grammar [corrected as above] Nazis are the WORST waste of human space there [b]are[/b] online."
However... as I read on in your post, I think you're trying to be ironic. I applaud your hilarious use of (but not limited to); run-on sentences, missing subjects, improper abbreviations (PHD should be PhD), using the wrong conjugation ("OR proof" should be "OR prove"), extra commas ("...have to contribute, so their stupidity..."), and wrong plurality ("...underachievers there is online today.").
I don't think it's that high, and that would be in the short term. Over time variation is introduced into the gene pool from different combinations of sexual partners, 'genetic drift' / mutations.
An extreme example would be northern elephant seals or cheetahs.
Obligatory wikipedia reference; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Examples
For all the alarmists out there, how is this different from what Microsoft already does...?
They install a "host of services" onto your PC (bloat). Then you stop paying for it, losing the "right to use it on your PC" (which you never had to begin with, read their EULAs). This means you have a bunch of junk sitting on your box, having spent a bunch of money, for stuff you can't use.
Seems like many Office+Windows experiences already out there...
"The machines start at under $500 for a Linux-based model... [It] lacks is an optical drive for ingesting DVDs and CD-ROMs... many schools requested the drives be left out to prevent students from playing unauthorized games."
The average seek time for a hard disk is measured in milliseconds, but for continued transfers, they can have a much higher data throughput than a flash based device. File systems, caches, pages, compilers are all organized to take advantage of this ability to load lots of sequential data quickly, once a seek has been completed.
It will probably take a few more before SSD make a huge difference in performance because of the use of existing technology.
Now for small random accesses (i.e. one page), a SSD wins, hands-down.
What's wrong with updating parts of the OS incrementally? A reboot takes, like what, a minute (well, for me at least)?
My guess would be that this design would prevent updating all parts of the update all at once until checking that a previous element is installed and working properly.
It's more than a regular update, it's several updates (service pack). Many updates (mostly security updates for Windows Defender, which are the most numerous) don't require a reboot.
Start of aside:
I guess I just have yet to witness much Vista problems first-hand, I've been using it for about 9 months. I've been using Ubuntu (Gutsy) for about 5 and haven't had many problems either (mostly getting used to things like a package manager, which I wish Vista had..., although getting my wireless up and running took a bit of work) I tried running a couple programs through WINE and the performance was just... abysmal.
Both just seem to work fine. I guess I'm lucky or something.
Not too tightly integrated. I was able to add the ability to remote desktop into my Home Premium OS and it works well (TightVNC still does not work/well with Vista). Apparently some of the networking functionality was just disabled. There are some instructions on the internets somewhere...
The domain accounts though, probably much more tightly integrated.
Between Business and Home Premium, it's a fairly difficult compromise, unless you spend extra on Ultimate, which is I guess what they want. (Which will cause people to use BitLocker, and totally screw everything up, I mean, who thought of doing that?!?)
Hopefully MS will be able to learn something from a Linux-based OS for the next iteration, where things like ssh is integrated tightly. It's frustrating that the reason they don't think multiple desktops/remoting should be... you know... sensible is because they think it will decrease their market share (fewer licenses).
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There is a lot of hype and Kool-Aid being floated about by people who think they know everything, and the beliefs are being re-enforced by like minded individuals. But a lie is a lie, no matter how often you repeat it, it still remains fundamentally untrue...
I don't really know where to begin, but I particularly like this gem. It saddens me that many of my neighbours to the south think like this. I come from probably the dirtiest and most US-like province in Canada, but yet public and government opinion is much different here, i.e. let's try to at least do something.
On your note about wind, I think there is a consensus that large-scale weather patterns will not change. Local weather effects may be felt, but they won't be as disastrous as continuing to burn fossil fuels.
My problem with the metric system is for real world short distances an inch seems like a more reasonable unit of measure than a centimeter, which seems too short.
How about this. Two centimetres (or two and a half is pretty close).
I'm from Canada of a younger generation, and the only thing I use imperial for would be weight (fluid measures, pints and shots I maybe an exception, but it's very similar to knowing it in millilitres). I'm much more familiar with pounds than kilograms for common things.
It's June. It hasn't been snowing in Calgary for three weeks.
The Prime Minister is apologizing for some hack in Alberta who recently made these comments.
Premier says apology punishment enough after Alberta MLA's comments
"In his blog,
The Prime Minister (Stephen Harper) and the Premier of Alberta (Ed Stelmach) are two different people.
I think the second part of his comment was offensive. Although I agree with the other poster, shouldn't people smile :P ?
Disclaimer: I'm from Alberta. I'm not too impressed with Stelmach, and Harper's been ok but I have a pretty blase feeling from him. We need someone more dynamic running Canada (this, coming from a Conservative).
Any junior high school student should be able to compile a kernel
I want to reply, but all I can think of is a quote from Futurama. "Like putting too much air in a balloon!"
More interesting modding :P
As both a reply to this and the GP, trying to read original works can be very challenging. For one, they are not written in the same language (assuming you speak English), and the brevity of our modern language was lost to the ancients. Second, why waste centuries of thought, development and simplification after many of these things were initially discovered? E.T. Bell's Men of Mathematics is easily one of the best popular science books written about math. Ever. Contrast this with reading the (translated) proofs of God Created The Integers, which is easier to digest?
Besides, if I remember my math, a sine wave is simply made up of a string of parabolas with a change in the inflection point at Y = 0. (Not bad for a lawyer, eh?)
While I agree with the rest of your post, I believe this is wrong.
You know... I've never thought that joke was funny.
...Kind of like leveling up in an RPG.. would make things fun.
The only problem is that some people would then become addicted to this so-called "life MMORPG" and neglect their own lives :P
... two HS degrees, seriously? Is that necessary? Where I'm from (Calgary, AB, Canada) there is enough leeway in HS for most kids to get a HS degree even if they aren't very strong at one or two subject(s) (they can earn extra credits through options, community service/work experience, take 'easy math' courses), and they still get the satisfaction of getting a HS diploma like everyone else. Considering that the majority of kids get a HS diploma (including equivalent programs for those with learning disabilities) and have the satisfaction of graduating with their peers, is it necessary for the requirements to be even easier? Does unleashing a bunch of relatively uneducated 10th graders (in my area; they are kids at 16, are just out of junior high and are still very immature with only a year of high school to temper that, and just got a driver's license) seem like a good idea?
I couldn't tie my own shoes until 4th grade. Until then it was Velcro all the way.
Exactly - a single-use plastic bottle of "spring water" - while driving themselves there and back in their hybrid Yukon/Escalade, and returning to a massive home.
You said it. Lead, BFRs, all sorts of crazy metals that are usually separated with fire to burn them away from the PCBs...
In Alberta (Canada), under APEGGA, software engineering is an accredited discipline. There are some P.Eng software engineers (although I can't say what the certificate has printed on it). See; http://www.apegga.org/Applicants/pdf/General/GApplication.pdf
I think what you mean to say is: "Grammar [corrected as above] Nazis are the WORST waste of human space there [b]are[/b] online." However... as I read on in your post, I think you're trying to be ironic. I applaud your hilarious use of (but not limited to); run-on sentences, missing subjects, improper abbreviations (PHD should be PhD), using the wrong conjugation ("OR proof" should be "OR prove"), extra commas ("...have to contribute, so their stupidity..."), and wrong plurality ("...underachievers there is online today.").
I don't think it's that high, and that would be in the short term. Over time variation is introduced into the gene pool from different combinations of sexual partners, 'genetic drift' / mutations. An extreme example would be northern elephant seals or cheetahs. Obligatory wikipedia reference; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Examples
Because it's a cheaper version of a Mac. What's not to like?
For all the alarmists out there, how is this different from what Microsoft already does...? They install a "host of services" onto your PC (bloat). Then you stop paying for it, losing the "right to use it on your PC" (which you never had to begin with, read their EULAs). This means you have a bunch of junk sitting on your box, having spent a bunch of money, for stuff you can't use. Seems like many Office+Windows experiences already out there...
You know when http://thedailywtf.com/ picks up a story, then it is linked on /. , it's going to be an especially delicious IT failure.
"The machines start at under $500 for a Linux-based model... [It] lacks is an optical drive for ingesting DVDs and CD-ROMs... many schools requested the drives be left out to prevent students from playing unauthorized games."
:P ?
Was that REALLY necessary
The average seek time for a hard disk is measured in milliseconds, but for continued transfers, they can have a much higher data throughput than a flash based device. File systems, caches, pages, compilers are all organized to take advantage of this ability to load lots of sequential data quickly, once a seek has been completed. It will probably take a few more before SSD make a huge difference in performance because of the use of existing technology. Now for small random accesses (i.e. one page), a SSD wins, hands-down.
If Ubuntu could only agree on what type of car it is for all the car analogies. HomerCar seems like the way to go...
What's wrong with updating parts of the OS incrementally? A reboot takes, like what, a minute (well, for me at least)? My guess would be that this design would prevent updating all parts of the update all at once until checking that a previous element is installed and working properly. It's more than a regular update, it's several updates (service pack). Many updates (mostly security updates for Windows Defender, which are the most numerous) don't require a reboot. Start of aside: I guess I just have yet to witness much Vista problems first-hand, I've been using it for about 9 months. I've been using Ubuntu (Gutsy) for about 5 and haven't had many problems either (mostly getting used to things like a package manager, which I wish Vista had..., although getting my wireless up and running took a bit of work) I tried running a couple programs through WINE and the performance was just... abysmal. Both just seem to work fine. I guess I'm lucky or something.
Not too tightly integrated. I was able to add the ability to remote desktop into my Home Premium OS and it works well (TightVNC still does not work/well with Vista). Apparently some of the networking functionality was just disabled. There are some instructions on the internets somewhere...
The domain accounts though, probably much more tightly integrated.
Between Business and Home Premium, it's a fairly difficult compromise, unless you spend extra on Ultimate, which is I guess what they want. (Which will cause people to use BitLocker, and totally screw everything up, I mean, who thought of doing that?!?)
Hopefully MS will be able to learn something from a Linux-based OS for the next iteration, where things like ssh is integrated tightly. It's frustrating that the reason they don't think multiple desktops/remoting should be... you know... sensible is because they think it will decrease their market share (fewer licenses).