"The sectors might even be interleaved, making any such comparison almost meaningless. "
Also misleading, you can compensate by partitioning the disks and use the faster partitions before you use the slower ones. I believe this is often done for benchmarks etc.
No it is not. It's a fallacy that I still have to tell high school students to "click on the start button" or "read the error", just like I do with their grandparents.
Well put, but you forgot to mention the psychosis some people get with computer problem stress.
Personally, I think botnets are proof that people should be licensed before they are allowed to connect to the Internet by themselves. The whole industry seems to think it should cater to the lowest common denominator, I disagree. I say kick them the fuck out. Just like someone that drives like shit isn't allowed on the road.
It's very normal to realize you're dreaming and wake up. The whole process take a lot of discipline and persistence. When I was a kid, I'd have lucid dreams when I had to go to the bathroom, I would become lucid and manipulate my dream so that I believed I was using the restroom when I was actually wetting the bed. Eventually, I learned that whenever I was lucid I had to wake up for real so I didn't wet the bed. Later when I was specifically trying to have a lucid dream I'd often become lucid and wake right up. Another frustrating event was to start out with a lucid dream and try to stay focused. It's easy to gain lucidity after you fall asleep and forget why you wanted to in the first place, having no direction makes it easy to give up and go back to just sleeping.
Can you do calculus in your head, without writing anything down? I ask because it is completely limited to things you can do in your head while you are awake. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde is an excellent example of a work that was developed during sleep and drafted very rapidly in the following few days. Learning higher Math might be very difficult, but you could probably work out and memorize multiplication tables or pour over memorized chess games.
This happened to me when my best friend died. I was 18 and I had been good friends with him since I was 5. At the time I understood the situation in several ways. First I knew very well what lucid dreaming was and how profoundly real dreams can seem (it's a matter of attaining awareness/consciousness while you are dreaming). Second I had understood this situation to be a potential root for the near ubiquitous belief in zombies/ghosts/vampires, due to an armchair study of demonology. None of this information made my dream any less soothing.
P.S. Lucid dreaming is awesome. At one point I could do homework in my dreams, limited access to textbooks of course, but anything you can remember you can study in your sleep.
I've got my associates in CIS. I was browsing around here reading about P=NP problems. I looked it up and found the traveling salesman problem. Hah. That's funny. It's a neat problem and applies to networking among other things. But, in the specific case of the salesman, it's relatively easy to setup a database and have airline employees enter in their coordinates. Then the programming becomes very straight forward.
yes and no. It increases the breadth and depth of the problem, for viruses that means vast propagation. Basically, it doesn't make it impossible to create malware, it makes it exponentially more difficult to create *automated* malware.
interesting point, if google blacklisted twain do you think he would exist in a 100 years? The catalogging data is to books as google is to the Internet, except google does not claim to own the url of the website. As far as I know google doesn't own the following format so I could use it for my own data.
"HTML - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML - 130k - Cached - Similar pages"
Link text, Description, url, size, cached file, similar files
There is a huge difference between Mark Twain and ESPN. Another difference is that if you control the catalog data and you delete that data, you've basically burnt a book - it disappears.
I had a funny thought a while ago while researching the correlation between religion and psychosis. What if, back in the day, you had a crazy, what do you do with them? Send them to a monastery to write for the Bible? Why not? Given the limited resources of older societies to deal with severe psychological disorders what else would you do with the king's nephew when he went bat-shit crazy? Just a thought, but I thought it was a neat little theory. What if the original function of religion was mental health and that's why you have things like people walking on water etc.
Since when are two software competitors expected to match each other feature by feature? Hell, I used Real Player as an iTunes alternate and all it would do is read the iPod library. It is not supposed to be the same as iTunes.
I don't use wine or photoshop, but I might consider wine for a lot of applications I keep in vm-ware, just because I won't need to wait for it to boot.
I believe in economic liberalism, but I don't believe most on the right practice that. They preach it, they preach it all day long, hell I'd say they've redefined it.
A truly free economy would have vehicles with alternative fuel sources by now. The US doesn't have that, because our economy is constrained. I think it's constrained by television. Specifically, commercials which lead to consumerism. Instead of thinking about the car that's best for the environment or the car that gets the best gas mileage, they (us/we/the world) think(s) about the cool song or hot babe in the comercial. Consumerism is the belief that people will eat (consume) whatever you feed to them and it's true if you include trillions of hours of information on the airwaves.
I think maybe both (*political*) liberals and (*academic*) economists tend not to like consumerism.
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So, in order to keep the air force base data out of the GPS system wouldn't they need to know where it was?
"The sectors might even be interleaved, making any such comparison almost meaningless. "
Also misleading, you can compensate by partitioning the disks and use the faster partitions before you use the slower ones. I believe this is often done for benchmarks etc.
Dude, I don't think Microsoft would stoop that low? Really?
No it is not. It's a fallacy that I still have to tell high school students to "click on the start button" or "read the error", just like I do with their grandparents.
take this valium and shut up, open your mouth again and I'll shoot
hmm, maybe all IT people should be allowed to handout pills and carry guns.
Well put, but you forgot to mention the psychosis some people get with computer problem stress.
Personally, I think botnets are proof that people should be licensed before they are allowed to connect to the Internet by themselves. The whole industry seems to think it should cater to the lowest common denominator, I disagree. I say kick them the fuck out. Just like someone that drives like shit isn't allowed on the road.
http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-World-Dreaming-Stephen-Laberge/dp/034537410X/ref=pd_sim_b_1
try that book, maybe you will have a little luck there. You can probably fix your number problem if you work at it.
It's very normal to realize you're dreaming and wake up. The whole process take a lot of discipline and persistence. When I was a kid, I'd have lucid dreams when I had to go to the bathroom, I would become lucid and manipulate my dream so that I believed I was using the restroom when I was actually wetting the bed. Eventually, I learned that whenever I was lucid I had to wake up for real so I didn't wet the bed. Later when I was specifically trying to have a lucid dream I'd often become lucid and wake right up. Another frustrating event was to start out with a lucid dream and try to stay focused. It's easy to gain lucidity after you fall asleep and forget why you wanted to in the first place, having no direction makes it easy to give up and go back to just sleeping.
Can you do calculus in your head, without writing anything down? I ask because it is completely limited to things you can do in your head while you are awake. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde is an excellent example of a work that was developed during sleep and drafted very rapidly in the following few days. Learning higher Math might be very difficult, but you could probably work out and memorize multiplication tables or pour over memorized chess games.
This happened to me when my best friend died. I was 18 and I had been good friends with him since I was 5. At the time I understood the situation in several ways. First I knew very well what lucid dreaming was and how profoundly real dreams can seem (it's a matter of attaining awareness/consciousness while you are dreaming). Second I had understood this situation to be a potential root for the near ubiquitous belief in zombies/ghosts/vampires, due to an armchair study of demonology. None of this information made my dream any less soothing.
P.S. Lucid dreaming is awesome. At one point I could do homework in my dreams, limited access to textbooks of course, but anything you can remember you can study in your sleep.
I've got my associates in CIS. I was browsing around here reading about P=NP problems. I looked it up and found the traveling salesman problem. Hah. That's funny. It's a neat problem and applies to networking among other things. But, in the specific case of the salesman, it's relatively easy to setup a database and have airline employees enter in their coordinates. Then the programming becomes very straight forward.
"I could not imagine many software companies that want to get into the solution business."
I'm beginning to believe Scott Adams is hands down the greatest IT philosopher of all time.
yes and no. It increases the breadth and depth of the problem, for viruses that means vast propagation. Basically, it doesn't make it impossible to create malware, it makes it exponentially more difficult to create *automated* malware.
interesting point, if google blacklisted twain do you think he would exist in a 100 years? The catalogging data is to books as google is to the Internet, except google does not claim to own the url of the website. As far as I know google doesn't own the following format so I could use it for my own data. "HTML - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML - 130k - Cached - Similar pages"
Link text, Description, url, size, cached file, similar files
There is a huge difference between Mark Twain and ESPN. Another difference is that if you control the catalog data and you delete that data, you've basically burnt a book - it disappears.
I had a funny thought a while ago while researching the correlation between religion and psychosis. What if, back in the day, you had a crazy, what do you do with them? Send them to a monastery to write for the Bible? Why not? Given the limited resources of older societies to deal with severe psychological disorders what else would you do with the king's nephew when he went bat-shit crazy? Just a thought, but I thought it was a neat little theory. What if the original function of religion was mental health and that's why you have things like people walking on water etc.
http://www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia+religious+delusions
I don't know about marriage, but divorce is all about getting screwed!
Since when are two software competitors expected to match each other feature by feature? Hell, I used Real Player as an iTunes alternate and all it would do is read the iPod library. It is not supposed to be the same as iTunes.
If you think it's cool to post links to yourself.
I don't use wine or photoshop, but I might consider wine for a lot of applications I keep in vm-ware, just because I won't need to wait for it to boot.
that is using the term "consumerism" politically, rather than economically.
I believe in economic liberalism, but I don't believe most on the right practice that. They preach it, they preach it all day long, hell I'd say they've redefined it.
A truly free economy would have vehicles with alternative fuel sources by now. The US doesn't have that, because our economy is constrained. I think it's constrained by television. Specifically, commercials which lead to consumerism. Instead of thinking about the car that's best for the environment or the car that gets the best gas mileage, they (us/we/the world) think(s) about the cool song or hot babe in the comercial. Consumerism is the belief that people will eat (consume) whatever you feed to them and it's true if you include trillions of hours of information on the airwaves.
I think maybe both (*political*) liberals and (*academic*) economists tend not to like consumerism.
dude, it's technically looney.