HAH! That is funny. The rest of government has plenty of smart people in it. And the rest of the world has plenty of corrupt lunatics in it too. I will not argue that corrupt lunies never make it into government. You might say the same of your country but you'd likely be knowingly fabricating or somewhat naive.
1. gentlemen will want to keep their nails trimmed short, approx. 1/8th - 1/16th of inch below the tip of the finger. 2. ladies will generally not need this howto and will not be addressed specifically. 3. file the sharp corners on your nails to a smooth edge. 4. use the edge of the nail file to press the cuticle away from the tip of your finger 5. if the cuticle will not separate. File the cuticle down to the surface of the nail. 6. If you still have problems with torn cuticles you may want to try using moisturizer. this will help to elasticize the cuticle, making it more likely to stretch and less likely to tear.
If all else fails you can a)get a girlfriend to take care of your nails (she will also likely want to pluck your eyebrows) b) ask your mom (awkward, might hurt her feelings that you don't already know also) c) get a pedicure and pay close attention, ask questions, treat it like going to the dentist.
thought requires failure as a form of evaluation. Nobody wants to program something that fails. For example a 3yr old would not pass the turing test, but is fully capable of thought and will one day be capable of passing it. AI must be allowed to fail and learn from it's failure in order to form thoughts and opinions on it's own. AI must also have goals and aspirations, once these goals and aspirations are set it is too easy for humans just to program something that will not fail at it's given task. The applications for true AI exist only in Sci-Fi or they are so different from our way of life that people will not accept them. Would you trust a program with your life if it was designed with an allowance for failure? Probably not, but that's how people are designed, that's how they learn, form opinions and why they "think".
I use spreadsheets to prototype and document ideas. Once I had thought a full blown reference implementation in a spreadsheet would be a good idea (basically, more time was spent on the reference than the final project). Fact is spreadsheets are good for one-off problems, or simple problems that gather lots of data (ex. accounting, statistics). When you have a heavy data model, heavy logic model, and complex results, spreadsheets are ultimate FAIL. They are good for developing algorithms quickly, good for testing a piece of data and figuring out what you want it to look like in a database, but they do not scale well for many types of projects. My rule of thumb is that any given portion of a successful spreadsheet should be limited to about five. Five inputs, five outputs, or five calculations. So you can have five inputs, 20 calculations. 20 inputs and five calculations etc. Otherwise the debugging process will consume your project.
you got me all wrong kid. I'm 29 don't own a home and 401k is fledgling at best. you want my advice on retaining wealth? don't marry an alcoholic. I don't argue that things aren't inflated, I'm arguing that it's dangerous to deflate 20yrs of inflation over a period of 6 months or so without any consideration for the market's influence. Americans seem to think it's guaranteed that things will work out, it's not.
anyways, no, lower housing prices = less interest to be earned = less money to loan = less credit, which is what everyone lives on these days. Any economic boost will be absorbed by collapsing credit lines. Fine with me, but there is a significant number of the US population that will be forced to live on a cash basis, they will hurt, and a recession/depression is inevitable.
"purchase" was the wrong term, but you know what I mean. What we will see without intervention is one or two strong banks eventually owning every home in the US. Housing prices are going to drop regardless of government intervention, the question is how quickly.
You're absolutely right. JP Morgan and Citigroup would love nothing more than to purchase up, every other financial institution in the US. There is absolutely no reason the American people should purchase companies like Wachovia at $1/share, let's leave the real profits to the companies that already stand a great chance to profit from this. While we're at it let's just let housing prices fall into the dirt, so the JP Morgan's can prey equally on Mainstreet homeowners as well.
The LSB standardized on RPM. This was a rather contentious blow to distros that use a different packaging system. I *think* Debian achieved compliance by including the Alien package manager, but they specifically do not claim compliance.
http://www.google.com/search?&q=linux+intel+drivers
I understand where your coming from but like you say the bug is years old. Probably on hardware that isn't sold anymore.
Somewhere in there you will find a story about Intel making it semi-official about 1.5 - 2 yrs ago IIRC.
intel wireless chipsets are NICE. I bought a dell laptop with ubuntu pre-installed that came with an intel wireless chipset, I have no problems whatsoever.
the big thing for ubuntu would be to pressure other hardware makers to go the same route as intel, guess it hasn't been working out. as a customer I prefer to support intel and other hardware manufacturers that provide support for Foss drivers.
your ability to spin bullshit will not compensate for a lack of thought, I was hoping you would become un-confused, the cyclical nature of our discussion relates directly to your ability to spin bullshit. That is why it is called SPIN. You are mistaking logic for rhetoric and arguing rhetorically on behalf of logic. It is confusing and I really thought you ought to know.
is it absurd to ask questions of the universe, even though we cannot effectively measure it? What are quarks made out of? How long is time? Exactly?
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HAH! That is funny. The rest of government has plenty of smart people in it. And the rest of the world has plenty of corrupt lunatics in it too. I will not argue that corrupt lunies never make it into government. You might say the same of your country but you'd likely be knowingly fabricating or somewhat naive.
1. gentlemen will want to keep their nails trimmed short, approx. 1/8th - 1/16th of inch below the tip of the finger.
2. ladies will generally not need this howto and will not be addressed specifically.
3. file the sharp corners on your nails to a smooth edge.
4. use the edge of the nail file to press the cuticle away from the tip of your finger
5. if the cuticle will not separate. File the cuticle down to the surface of the nail.
6. If you still have problems with torn cuticles you may want to try using moisturizer. this will help to elasticize the cuticle, making it more likely to stretch and less likely to tear.
If all else fails you can a)get a girlfriend to take care of your nails (she will also likely want to pluck your eyebrows) b) ask your mom (awkward, might hurt her feelings that you don't already know also) c) get a pedicure and pay close attention, ask questions, treat it like going to the dentist.
the cuticle doesn't properly detach itself from the nail as it grows. The nail's growth slowly tears your skin apart.
"thought requires failure as a form of [feedback for] evaluation"
thought requires failure as a form of evaluation. Nobody wants to program something that fails. For example a 3yr old would not pass the turing test, but is fully capable of thought and will one day be capable of passing it. AI must be allowed to fail and learn from it's failure in order to form thoughts and opinions on it's own. AI must also have goals and aspirations, once these goals and aspirations are set it is too easy for humans just to program something that will not fail at it's given task. The applications for true AI exist only in Sci-Fi or they are so different from our way of life that people will not accept them. Would you trust a program with your life if it was designed with an allowance for failure? Probably not, but that's how people are designed, that's how they learn, form opinions and why they "think".
yea buddy, I remember exactly what it was about, I watched it from my first grade classroom.
isn't it funny they had that shit playing live in classrooms across the US?
I use spreadsheets to prototype and document ideas. Once I had thought a full blown reference implementation in a spreadsheet would be a good idea (basically, more time was spent on the reference than the final project). Fact is spreadsheets are good for one-off problems, or simple problems that gather lots of data (ex. accounting, statistics). When you have a heavy data model, heavy logic model, and complex results, spreadsheets are ultimate FAIL. They are good for developing algorithms quickly, good for testing a piece of data and figuring out what you want it to look like in a database, but they do not scale well for many types of projects. My rule of thumb is that any given portion of a successful spreadsheet should be limited to about five. Five inputs, five outputs, or five calculations. So you can have five inputs, 20 calculations. 20 inputs and five calculations etc. Otherwise the debugging process will consume your project.
you got me all wrong kid. I'm 29 don't own a home and 401k is fledgling at best. you want my advice on retaining wealth? don't marry an alcoholic. I don't argue that things aren't inflated, I'm arguing that it's dangerous to deflate 20yrs of inflation over a period of 6 months or so without any consideration for the market's influence. Americans seem to think it's guaranteed that things will work out, it's not.
anyways, no, lower housing prices = less interest to be earned = less money to loan = less credit, which is what everyone lives on these days. Any economic boost will be absorbed by collapsing credit lines. Fine with me, but there is a significant number of the US population that will be forced to live on a cash basis, they will hurt, and a recession/depression is inevitable.
I would assume that the profits would prevent us from seeing significant tax increases. Sorry for the language.
"purchase" was the wrong term, but you know what I mean. What we will see without intervention is one or two strong banks eventually owning every home in the US. Housing prices are going to drop regardless of government intervention, the question is how quickly.
You're absolutely right. JP Morgan and Citigroup would love nothing more than to purchase up, every other financial institution in the US. There is absolutely no reason the American people should purchase companies like Wachovia at $1/share, let's leave the real profits to the companies that already stand a great chance to profit from this. While we're at it let's just let housing prices fall into the dirt, so the JP Morgan's can prey equally on Mainstreet homeowners as well.
Retards
The LSB standardized on RPM. This was a rather contentious blow to distros that use a different packaging system. I *think* Debian achieved compliance by including the Alien package manager, but they specifically do not claim compliance.
I'm not so put off by his way of doing things, but I would certainly wrap that process up in something of my own that made it simpler.
http://www.google.com/search?&q=linux+intel+drivers I understand where your coming from but like you say the bug is years old. Probably on hardware that isn't sold anymore. Somewhere in there you will find a story about Intel making it semi-official about 1.5 - 2 yrs ago IIRC.
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
intel wireless chipsets are NICE. I bought a dell laptop with ubuntu pre-installed that came with an intel wireless chipset, I have no problems whatsoever.
the big thing for ubuntu would be to pressure other hardware makers to go the same route as intel, guess it hasn't been working out. as a customer I prefer to support intel and other hardware manufacturers that provide support for Foss drivers.
your ability to spin bullshit will not compensate for a lack of thought, I was hoping you would become un-confused, the cyclical nature of our discussion relates directly to your ability to spin bullshit. That is why it is called SPIN. You are mistaking logic for rhetoric and arguing rhetorically on behalf of logic. It is confusing and I really thought you ought to know.
is it absurd to ask questions of the universe, even though we cannot effectively measure it? What are quarks made out of? How long is time? Exactly?
100 years ago people were dumber than they are now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
sometimes they also steal his ideas with catastrophic results, thus proving he was always an idiot anyways.
decidedly, undeniably, castigated.
then why do you discuss it? Are you absurd? Computers are not intended to drive on the road, are they fundamentally flawed because they don't?
why claim there isn't?
http://www.crasseux.com/books/ctutorial/
I haven't read it, but it's worth a shot.
It was a philosophical discussion and I am on your side. - you friggin' moron