Alien chicks do not have an arbitrary number of boobs; the number of breasts on a female alien is given by the formula
Breasts = 2 + f(film)
f(text) = 1 if the film in question is Total Recall and 0 otherwise.
More so I missed 'get off the fraking computer I need to print my homework and none of your 87,000 facebook "friends" cares that you should be working on a paper but aren't.' I am both a student and staff at a university and every time I walk into our main lab I see 90% of people dicking around and 10%--tops--doing work. These numbers change, of course, at 2 or 3 a.m. but not as much as you may think.
Spend $1,000 on that new laptop, or instead use the same $1,000 to take out less in student loans? That should be a pretty easy choice.
Indeed it is easy - a laptop is available to my (hypothetical) child 24/7 wherever on campus they need or want to use it. It's entertainment, communications, education, etc... etc... in one compact package.
It's a bargain at twice the price.
And if they convince you they need a mac, it may be at twice the price.
If, however, there are 'a couple dozen computers' on campus they will--I guarantee--be occupied by stupid people checking facebook and watching laughing babies on youtube.
Make a friend and borrow their machine...
I lack a printer, and thus I rely on the University's printing capabilities. I'm sure I'm not the only one; many students appear to have their own computers, but seem to rely on the University for printing off papers or projects.
And it would be that difficult to have printer labs or networked printers? My university is beginning to phase out computer labs but maintain printing facilities. Aside from which, just bring a printer to school...
The benefit is navigability. I can't guess at what article number something is but (gods willing) I can pull up the directory listing of sitewhatever.com/archives/2009/03/27/ and find what article I want. Boingboing is an excellent example. Although I suppose googling would be easier and probably faster to boot...
Of all things that could be optimized, urls shouldn't have a high priority (unless you want people to enter them manually).
I'm pretty sure their HTML, CSS, and javascript could be optimized way more than just their urls.
But rather than simply sites, people often what it to be filled with crap (which nobody but themselves care about).
ps, that doesn't mean you should try to create "nice" urls instead of incomprehensible url that contain things like article.pl?sid=09/03/27/2017250
Of all things that could be optimized, urls shouldn't have a high priority (unless you want people to enter them manually).
I'm pretty sure their HTML, CSS, and javascript could be optimized way more than just their urls.
But rather than simply sites, people often what it to be filled with crap (which nobody but themselves care about).
ps, that doesn't mean you should try to create "nice" urls instead of incomprehensible url that contain things like article.pl?sid=09/03/27/2017250
To your ps, most of that is easily comprehensible It was an article that ran today; only the 2017250 is unmeaningful in itself. Perhaps article.pl?sid=09/03/27/Muerte/WasteOfEffort would be better but we're trying to shorten things up.
I'd have to agree. I just sent an email that it took me 20 seconds or more to realize had a small typo. I don't see why it would be all that difficult to let the user pick the delay...
Yes, yes it did; except for all of the unanswered questions.
1) What the hell was Starbuck?
2) How did future Baltar and Six 'talk' to present Six and Baltar?
3) How the frak did they find new Earth? Deus Ex Machina much?
Also there's the question that's raised but not answered of why would everyone vote to give up all technology more advanced than a pointy stick and live with prelingual natives which was a major wtf...
In brief, it tied up some but all of the strings (mostly the emotional and not the intellectual) into a bow.
P.S. May have cried a little when Roslyn died.
There are numerous organizations aimed at ending the problems which you mentioned or to lessen their horrible impact however the ethical position that all beings capable of experiencing pain ought not to willfully be made to suffer is coherent and valid.
Further, no matter the past evolutionary impact of meat in the protohuman diet it is now unnecessary. As for hunger, it takes 16 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of edible animal protein so who is trying to do/doing more to end hunger, you or them?
The problem with what most folk are saying in this discussion, that people play games or are annoying with computers are missing something fundimental. People are plenty annoying without computers. That fidgety kid in front of you who bounces his feet and shakes the floor distracts you, if he had a laptop minesweeper could keep the floor more steady and the rest of the class more focused. People pass notes, chat, doodle, &c. This has been done for a long long time, and just because the diversions are getting more plentiful and frankly more fun doesn't mean they should be blocked.
In addition, some people cannot take pen and paper notes. I, for one, have dysgraphia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia) and get a laptop for exams and instead of bringing one to each lecture I just don't take notes at all and listen, tho that seems to be a bit of a disctraction for folk too. Perhaps students should learn to focus on the teacher and not the people around him/her with or without the machine.
Some have said that the classroom is the teacher's space and I agree with that, however it is also the student's space. As much as the teacher is there to teach, if the students can't learn effectivly how the teacher wants them to learn then the teacher is doing something wrong. I believe that at least for myself taking notes are a distaction and a barrier, but that doesn't mean as a teacher I would ban pen and paper.
~J.C.
Sure I can...
Let G be an associative group with an associative binary operation. There is an identity in G, let us call it 'e' with the following properities.
1) For every x in G, taking the operation of x on e is equivalent to the operation of e on x is the same as x itself.
2) For every x in G, there is an inverse of x, denoted 'y' such that taking the operation of x on y is equivalent to the operation of y on x is the same as the identity e.
~V
'Remember, remember, the fifth of November'
That argument is compleatly falacious(sp?) in the business world. Would Apple answer the phones, even once, let a long a couple percent of the time by saying 'Apple computers, please feck off.'? No! The argument that because some small percent of the market diserves to be isolated or ignored is inherenlty false. They may not for budget reasons, but I find that doubtful. *shrugs* Just my $0.02.
G-d willing it isn't. I was this close to buying a ReplayTV and after reading this I put in another call to pre-sale support. Funny story about that later. But I asked for, in writing, a promise that they won't pull a TiVo on me. If they give me what I ask for I'm buying a Replay, if not, maybe a MythTV is in my future.
I think Replay has one of the smallest call centers in the Info-Tech world. I called half a dozen times yesterday and 5 of them got the same woman. By the end of the day we were on a first name basis. My last call of the day, saddly, didn't get routed to her. I really freaked the guy who got my call out by asking him to say hi to my other CSR.
From the article: 'short delivery times have forced the company to cap flat-fee rentals at six per month... Customers can rent additional titles for an extra fee.' If they tried to pull that crap, Netflix would get all but every one of amazon's customers. The point of this is no rental cap. Silly amazon.com.
Wired has a running thing on the last page of every issue, Found: Artifacts from the Future. One of them is on this exact subject. It is here. I very much support both of these ideas. Open source makes sure no one's screwing with the machines intentionally and a hard copy makes sure people can't lie. Well not exactly, but it makes it harder.
LaGrange points are the points in relation to two bodies, in this case the Earth and Sun, such that a body of neglegible mass will maintain its distance from the first two bodies. That is, relative to the Earth and Sun these stations wouldn't move. These points are here.
Slashdot Mirror
Alien chicks do not have an arbitrary number of boobs; the number of breasts on a female alien is given by the formula Breasts = 2 + f(film) f(text) = 1 if the film in question is Total Recall and 0 otherwise.
I think you meant the ATO...
More so I missed 'get off the fraking computer I need to print my homework and none of your 87,000 facebook "friends" cares that you should be working on a paper but aren't.' I am both a student and staff at a university and every time I walk into our main lab I see 90% of people dicking around and 10%--tops--doing work. These numbers change, of course, at 2 or 3 a.m. but not as much as you may think.
Indeed it is easy - a laptop is available to my (hypothetical) child 24/7 wherever on campus they need or want to use it. It's entertainment, communications, education, etc... etc... in one compact package. It's a bargain at twice the price.
And if they convince you they need a mac, it may be at twice the price.
If, however, there are 'a couple dozen computers' on campus they will--I guarantee--be occupied by stupid people checking facebook and watching laughing babies on youtube. Make a friend and borrow their machine...
I lack a printer, and thus I rely on the University's printing capabilities. I'm sure I'm not the only one; many students appear to have their own computers, but seem to rely on the University for printing off papers or projects.
And it would be that difficult to have printer labs or networked printers? My university is beginning to phase out computer labs but maintain printing facilities. Aside from which, just bring a printer to school...
The benefit is navigability. I can't guess at what article number something is but (gods willing) I can pull up the directory listing of sitewhatever.com/archives/2009/03/27/ and find what article I want. Boingboing is an excellent example. Although I suppose googling would be easier and probably faster to boot...
Of all things that could be optimized, urls shouldn't have a high priority (unless you want people to enter them manually). I'm pretty sure their HTML, CSS, and javascript could be optimized way more than just their urls. But rather than simply sites, people often what it to be filled with crap (which nobody but themselves care about).
ps, that doesn't mean you should try to create "nice" urls instead of incomprehensible url that contain things like article.pl?sid=09/03/27/2017250
Of all things that could be optimized, urls shouldn't have a high priority (unless you want people to enter them manually). I'm pretty sure their HTML, CSS, and javascript could be optimized way more than just their urls. But rather than simply sites, people often what it to be filled with crap (which nobody but themselves care about).
ps, that doesn't mean you should try to create "nice" urls instead of incomprehensible url that contain things like article.pl?sid=09/03/27/2017250
To your ps, most of that is easily comprehensible It was an article that ran today; only the 2017250 is unmeaningful in itself. Perhaps article.pl?sid=09/03/27/Muerte/WasteOfEffort would be better but we're trying to shorten things up.
I'd have to agree. I just sent an email that it took me 20 seconds or more to realize had a small typo. I don't see why it would be all that difficult to let the user pick the delay...
Yes, yes it did; except for all of the unanswered questions. 1) What the hell was Starbuck? 2) How did future Baltar and Six 'talk' to present Six and Baltar? 3) How the frak did they find new Earth? Deus Ex Machina much? Also there's the question that's raised but not answered of why would everyone vote to give up all technology more advanced than a pointy stick and live with prelingual natives which was a major wtf... In brief, it tied up some but all of the strings (mostly the emotional and not the intellectual) into a bow. P.S. May have cried a little when Roslyn died.
There are numerous organizations aimed at ending the problems which you mentioned or to lessen their horrible impact however the ethical position that all beings capable of experiencing pain ought not to willfully be made to suffer is coherent and valid. Further, no matter the past evolutionary impact of meat in the protohuman diet it is now unnecessary. As for hunger, it takes 16 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of edible animal protein so who is trying to do/doing more to end hunger, you or them?
The problem with what most folk are saying in this discussion, that people play games or are annoying with computers are missing something fundimental. People are plenty annoying without computers. That fidgety kid in front of you who bounces his feet and shakes the floor distracts you, if he had a laptop minesweeper could keep the floor more steady and the rest of the class more focused. People pass notes, chat, doodle, &c. This has been done for a long long time, and just because the diversions are getting more plentiful and frankly more fun doesn't mean they should be blocked. In addition, some people cannot take pen and paper notes. I, for one, have dysgraphia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia) and get a laptop for exams and instead of bringing one to each lecture I just don't take notes at all and listen, tho that seems to be a bit of a disctraction for folk too. Perhaps students should learn to focus on the teacher and not the people around him/her with or without the machine. Some have said that the classroom is the teacher's space and I agree with that, however it is also the student's space. As much as the teacher is there to teach, if the students can't learn effectivly how the teacher wants them to learn then the teacher is doing something wrong. I believe that at least for myself taking notes are a distaction and a barrier, but that doesn't mean as a teacher I would ban pen and paper. ~J.C.
Sure I can... Let G be an associative group with an associative binary operation. There is an identity in G, let us call it 'e' with the following properities. 1) For every x in G, taking the operation of x on e is equivalent to the operation of e on x is the same as x itself. 2) For every x in G, there is an inverse of x, denoted 'y' such that taking the operation of x on y is equivalent to the operation of y on x is the same as the identity e. ~V 'Remember, remember, the fifth of November'
Haven't you been paying attention? Rootkit... soon that provided solution will be nothing but a fond memory. /tinfoil hat
That argument is compleatly falacious(sp?) in the business world. Would Apple answer the phones, even once, let a long a couple percent of the time by saying 'Apple computers, please feck off.'? No! The argument that because some small percent of the market diserves to be isolated or ignored is inherenlty false. They may not for budget reasons, but I find that doubtful. *shrugs* Just my $0.02.
G-d willing it isn't. I was this close to buying a ReplayTV and after reading this I put in another call to pre-sale support. Funny story about that later. But I asked for, in writing, a promise that they won't pull a TiVo on me. If they give me what I ask for I'm buying a Replay, if not, maybe a MythTV is in my future.
I think Replay has one of the smallest call centers in the Info-Tech world. I called half a dozen times yesterday and 5 of them got the same woman. By the end of the day we were on a first name basis. My last call of the day, saddly, didn't get routed to her. I really freaked the guy who got my call out by asking him to say hi to my other CSR.
Pax,
~J.C.
But where's the any key?!
This article about captcha being unnecessary and useless needed to pass one. Does anyone else find that as funny as I do?
From the article: 'short delivery times have forced the company to cap flat-fee rentals at six per month... Customers can rent additional titles for an extra fee.' If they tried to pull that crap, Netflix would get all but every one of amazon's customers. The point of this is no rental cap. Silly amazon.com.
Wired has a running thing on the last page of every issue, Found: Artifacts from the Future. One of them is on this exact subject. It is here. I very much support both of these ideas. Open source makes sure no one's screwing with the machines intentionally and a hard copy makes sure people can't lie. Well not exactly, but it makes it harder.
Whoops!
Just one more thing to do when I win the lottery.
Oooh! Pretty!
LaGrange points are the points in relation to two bodies, in this case the Earth and Sun, such that a body of neglegible mass will maintain its distance from the first two bodies. That is, relative to the Earth and Sun these stations wouldn't move. These points are here.
Yay! Now we can see the red screen of death.