Yes, you can drop it, but sometimes they charge more for the DSL line if it's not accompanied by voice -- eg, their normal pricing is technically a "bundle."
What we do is have a local-only landline (no long distance) for like $8 a month, which gets us the normal DSL price, and keeps the family luddites from worrying we won't have 911 service. The fact that we can throw stones at the hospital a block away notwithstanding...
I don't see any reason to pay the conglomerates for long-distance, though.
Dude -- it didn't jump the shark, it rocket-jumped the shark, which blew up the shark into itty bitty sharkbits, which was so awesome it unjumped the shark and bought a bag of chips!
If that sentence wasn't awesome, please exit at the next platform and leave my entertainment alone.:-)
That's why Tufte and his information-architecture crew always recommend putting important information *on a handout* -- by which they mean a real hand-out with copies of the data, not a "teaser" summary or (worse) tiny screenshots of the slides.
History as it is, I wouldn't call giving humans religious leanings a mistake -- atheist cultures have, thus far, been just as bloody as theistic ones. We just happen to be in a generation where the "global threat to peace" is religious, as opposed to the last, when it was political. And banning Christianity or the like today wouldn't help any more than banning capitalism would have before. It's the ideologues what are the problem, not their ideas.
That said -- I agree that theologians are silly to disregard findings like this. The findings have no bearing as to whether any given religion is true -- the idea that the religion grew out of an evolutionary mechanism is no more intrinsically valid than the idea that the evolutionary response was selected for by the object (deity) of the religion.
Umm...it's been my experience, in a mixed PC/Mac business environment full of shared calendars and crackberries, that the employees using Entourage for their Exchange activities are able to do *more* than those on Outlook, as Entourage duplicates all core functions and adds the ability to have shared project folders which Office 2003 lacked. I've also migrated employees from Outlook to Entourage, using a bonecrushingly-complicated 5 minute tutorial (that button now looks like that and this now looks like this...enjoy). So.....I call bunk.
I dunno...most of texts of the Old Testament say, in a nutshell, "work with me and I'll bless you, don't work with me and I'll curse you."
Harsh as that seems on the surface to many modern minds (rules are t3h 3vil!), isn't that sort of the basic principle of all governance? Pay your dues and get, say, highways and Social Security, ignore your taxes and get a jail sentence?
I've done some more reading since my last post, and there actually is evidence that they understood some of the math behind the properly quasiperiodic tilings -- which I see some of your other posts mention. Yay Lu and Steinhardt!
The interesting thing about quasicrystal (and 2d mapping thereof) tilings is that they are emphatically *not* regular -- so at any given vertex you can put in any number of available tile shapes, and all might appear to work, until you get 100 tiles further along and find you've backed yourself into a corner where nothing fits.
there are rules (now) that Steinhardt and his colleagues (including my wife...which is why I know something here...heh) have developed which can tell you what shape should come next to prevent backing yourself into the corner, but they have taken years to develop -- not because they're mathematically complex, but just because it takes a looooong time to try all the possible combinations, and then recognize what happened at each vertex.
my assumption is the same as the parent's -- that the Muslim artists simply "brute forced" these -- that is to say, put down random tiles, took them back up when they created bad spots, and patted themselves on the back when it all worked and looked pretty -- and then jotted down what the pattern looked like. having helped my wife do the same thing early in her thesis work -- let me tell you, it's a pain in the arse with these shapes -- but by no means impossible, and the results are always impressive.
Better served? Yes, of course. Possible in the short term? No!
Both manufacturers hurry out minor iterations of their existing processor set while readying the next generation; it's a stop-loss tactic, since they can pop something like this out in the engineering equivalent of an afternoon, and it masks the fact that they're falling behind. Rather like the Pentium IV QRSTTurboMach5's that were coming out almost weekly back when Athlon was pantsing Intel. Intel knew they sucked just as much as we did -- but not releasing them would have terminated their share price.
Besides -- your average Dell buyer only sees "New Release", not benchmarks.
IANARS, but I would think a big (say, square mile) plow would be able to "catastrophically catch" many objects; and anything that had enough kinetic energy to blast through it like a bullet would probably be slowed enough to drop into a decaying orbit. Thoughts?
Punching affects other people too. Should professional boxing be banned?
Professional boxing in shared residential space is already banned. Without noise permits or zoning variances, it's called "disturbing the peace." And towns can choose not to issue permits or variances if they feel like it.
It's also worth noting that fluorescents of all sorts are a very bad idea when working with fast-moving (repetitive) tools like lathes and drills, since Very Bad Things (tm) can happen if the RPM of the tool hits the same number of beats per minute as the ballast on the fluorescent light. That is to say, with the light flashing at the perfect rate, your eye will suddenly see the tool at the same point in its rotation on every rotation, instead of a motion blur, and if you're having a bad brain day, you might forget you have it turned on. Bye bye fingers.
Fluorescents are also a pain for photographers, for the same reason -- flip your shutter at a faster frame rate than the ballast on the light and you'll see very bizarre things, like having two pictures in a row, one lit and the other not.
anywho...not to say I'm against CFL's -- I'm not, I love them -- but there's a time and a place for "legacy" tech, and a ban would be dumb.
Yeah, but y'know -- if politicians want to be incurably stupid ninnies seeking a way to let off testosterone poisoning, I would prefer the posturing and pointless spygames of a cold war pissing contest over the more traditional "wipe out the furriner populace" approach.
For extended deployment, yeah, this would be a bear. But I would think for SWAT-style military deployments into occupied buildings, this would be brilliant. Send four "hardened" troops in ahead of the "soft" troops to clear the building, then let them return to base to cool off.
I would think it would also be handy for the guy who draws the short straw to man the Humvee turret -- in which case AC lines could easily be run up through his feet.
Ok -- so, yeah, (1) I should have AC'd to avoid that accusation, but (2) a cachelink *belongs* right up top, so you don't have to dredge through a hundred comments to find it, so many of us *like* it when people provide said link in said place and (3) thbbth.:-)
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Yes, you can drop it, but sometimes they charge more for the DSL line if it's not accompanied by voice -- eg, their normal pricing is technically a "bundle." What we do is have a local-only landline (no long distance) for like $8 a month, which gets us the normal DSL price, and keeps the family luddites from worrying we won't have 911 service. The fact that we can throw stones at the hospital a block away notwithstanding... I don't see any reason to pay the conglomerates for long-distance, though.
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to: 123 Fake street, Fakeville, NY, 12345. Thank you.Dude -- it didn't jump the shark, it rocket-jumped the shark, which blew up the shark into itty bitty sharkbits, which was so awesome it unjumped the shark and bought a bag of chips!
:-)
If that sentence wasn't awesome, please exit at the next platform and leave my entertainment alone.
That's why Tufte and his information-architecture crew always recommend putting important information *on a handout* -- by which they mean a real hand-out with copies of the data, not a "teaser" summary or (worse) tiny screenshots of the slides.
History as it is, I wouldn't call giving humans religious leanings a mistake -- atheist cultures have, thus far, been just as bloody as theistic ones. We just happen to be in a generation where the "global threat to peace" is religious, as opposed to the last, when it was political. And banning Christianity or the like today wouldn't help any more than banning capitalism would have before. It's the ideologues what are the problem, not their ideas.
That said -- I agree that theologians are silly to disregard findings like this. The findings have no bearing as to whether any given religion is true -- the idea that the religion grew out of an evolutionary mechanism is no more intrinsically valid than the idea that the evolutionary response was selected for by the object (deity) of the religion.
Umm...it's been my experience, in a mixed PC/Mac business environment full of shared calendars and crackberries, that the employees using Entourage for their Exchange activities are able to do *more* than those on Outlook, as Entourage duplicates all core functions and adds the ability to have shared project folders which Office 2003 lacked. I've also migrated employees from Outlook to Entourage, using a bonecrushingly-complicated 5 minute tutorial (that button now looks like that and this now looks like this...enjoy). So.....I call bunk.
I dunno...most of texts of the Old Testament say, in a nutshell, "work with me and I'll bless you, don't work with me and I'll curse you."
Harsh as that seems on the surface to many modern minds (rules are t3h 3vil!), isn't that sort of the basic principle of all governance? Pay your dues and get, say, highways and Social Security, ignore your taxes and get a jail sentence?
I've done some more reading since my last post, and there actually is evidence that they understood some of the math behind the properly quasiperiodic tilings -- which I see some of your other posts mention. Yay Lu and Steinhardt!
The interesting thing about quasicrystal (and 2d mapping thereof) tilings is that they are emphatically *not* regular -- so at any given vertex you can put in any number of available tile shapes, and all might appear to work, until you get 100 tiles further along and find you've backed yourself into a corner where nothing fits.
there are rules (now) that Steinhardt and his colleagues (including my wife...which is why I know something here...heh) have developed which can tell you what shape should come next to prevent backing yourself into the corner, but they have taken years to develop -- not because they're mathematically complex, but just because it takes a looooong time to try all the possible combinations, and then recognize what happened at each vertex.
my assumption is the same as the parent's -- that the Muslim artists simply "brute forced" these -- that is to say, put down random tiles, took them back up when they created bad spots, and patted themselves on the back when it all worked and looked pretty -- and then jotted down what the pattern looked like. having helped my wife do the same thing early in her thesis work -- let me tell you, it's a pain in the arse with these shapes -- but by no means impossible, and the results are always impressive.
Better served? Yes, of course. Possible in the short term? No!
Both manufacturers hurry out minor iterations of their existing processor set while readying the next generation; it's a stop-loss tactic, since they can pop something like this out in the engineering equivalent of an afternoon, and it masks the fact that they're falling behind. Rather like the Pentium IV QRSTTurboMach5's that were coming out almost weekly back when Athlon was pantsing Intel. Intel knew they sucked just as much as we did -- but not releasing them would have terminated their share price.
Besides -- your average Dell buyer only sees "New Release", not benchmarks.
quinine cures malaria strains not yet resistant to quinine.
that's spelled "watchwomen"
IANARS, but I would think a big (say, square mile) plow would be able to "catastrophically catch" many objects; and anything that had enough kinetic energy to blast through it like a bullet would probably be slowed enough to drop into a decaying orbit. Thoughts?
It's also worth noting that fluorescents of all sorts are a very bad idea when working with fast-moving (repetitive) tools like lathes and drills, since Very Bad Things (tm) can happen if the RPM of the tool hits the same number of beats per minute as the ballast on the fluorescent light. That is to say, with the light flashing at the perfect rate, your eye will suddenly see the tool at the same point in its rotation on every rotation, instead of a motion blur, and if you're having a bad brain day, you might forget you have it turned on. Bye bye fingers.
Fluorescents are also a pain for photographers, for the same reason -- flip your shutter at a faster frame rate than the ballast on the light and you'll see very bizarre things, like having two pictures in a row, one lit and the other not.
anywho...not to say I'm against CFL's -- I'm not, I love them -- but there's a time and a place for "legacy" tech, and a ban would be dumb.
For extended deployment, yeah, this would be a bear. But I would think for SWAT-style military deployments into occupied buildings, this would be brilliant. Send four "hardened" troops in ahead of the "soft" troops to clear the building, then let them return to base to cool off.
I would think it would also be handy for the guy who draws the short straw to man the Humvee turret -- in which case AC lines could easily be run up through his feet.
Ok -- so, yeah, (1) I should have AC'd to avoid that accusation, but (2) a cachelink *belongs* right up top, so you don't have to dredge through a hundred comments to find it, so many of us *like* it when people provide said link in said place and (3) thbbth. :-)
Site's down -- try mirrordot -- http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/cf8757aa5cc8bc162 ddb78c82313ed5f/index.html
I caught it, but was too busy trying to figure out how he installed Ubuntu on his two-year-old to respond.
I think I'll wait until after Microsoft sues the pants off of AMD for using "Live!" for the name of an online service combiner.