You do not have the right to refuse the test, but you do have the right to insist on them taking a blood test rather than a urine or breathalyzer test, and you do have the right to refuse the roadside ballet they try to make you do. I don't drink, but if I did, I'd insist on a blood test for two good reasons: It is going to be the most accurate thing, and arranging for it takes longer, giving your liver more time to reduce your BAC.
I dare say people know their governor a lot more than the people whose house caught fire across town, which was the GP's point.
Also, what their governor does, in general, has more impact on their lives than the people whose house caught fire across town, which is why they're more newsworthy, which was also the GP's point.
You're really willing to rake someone over the coals that hard over a single extra "h"? It's not as if you successfully negated his point, or even made one of your own.
No, it's not just like:cueCat. The big difference is mobility. The:cueCat was tethered to a PC, making it almost completely useless. These things make it possible to get more information on a thing you want to buy while you're in the store in front of one.
Now, there are those who say that being directed to marketing material is a less than completely useful thing, but in a world where these things were ubiquitous, my hope is that the amount of intrusive advertising around us might get toned down. "Scan this for more info" is a whole lot less annoying than having a TV-DVD player playing an infomercial on an endless loop in the store. The latest outrage is that the TVs in the grocery store now don't seem to respond to TV-B-Gone anymore.
How are these different from the indulgences the Catholic church used to sell?
For those unclear on the concept, the church used to sell certificates that granted time off from purgatory for your sins. To make a long story short, the unscrupulous sale of these are one of the big ticket items in the list of thesis that Martin Luther pinned up to the church door, which led eventually to the protestant reformation.
I'm particularly happy about 7.1, as it has introduced support for booting from GPT partitioned disks. At long last, the tired old MBR and BSD label system can be thrown on the trash-heap of history. Since we have mostly macs with one FreeBSD server in the house, the shift to GPT was mostly already done. Now the only media not GPT partitioned in our house is read-only media or small flash drives (SD or thumb).
Some advice for anyone considering it:
1. Don't use the 'gpt migrate' command. I did my transition by buying a new hard disk, but once it was complete and I was happy with the results, I experimented with the old drive. The migration went poorly. For one thing, you need to have enough space unallocated at the end of the disk to fit the GPT protective copy, but even then, it didn't migrate my setup properly.
2. You need to use 'gpt boot' to make a boot partition that contains the first stage loader. This also writes boot code into the MBR that loads this boot partition. This loader, in turn, will load the actual loader from the first UFS partition and from there you're off to the races. At some point, you may transition to an EFI based machine and will need to replace this boot partition with an EFI system partition, into which you will add (to be written) an EFI loader for FreeBSD. Changing this over will be made much, much easier if your boot partition and swap partition are next to each other. Transitioning will be a simple matter of deleting the swap and boot partitions, creating the EFI system partition, then creating a new swap from the remaining space.
It doesn't work in the sense that transferring the files to your PC doesn't serve any particular purpose, since you can't use those files anywhere except on the Wii on which you purchased them.
This is in contrast to pictures and videos you take with your camera.
I haven't found a need to have more than one SD card per device - that is, one in the camera, one in the Wii (to back up the WiiWare), etc. You just empty them onto your computer every so often (this doesn't work for the Wii, but that hasn't filled up anyway, and it doesn't look likely to anytime soon).
I think GP's reply implied that the chip was single-use - that is, a chip has a useful lifespan of a single act of sequencing. In which case, he's right that both the chip and a single sequencing costs $1000.
It's not a battery unless there are a bunch of them connected together next to each other. As an example, my flashlight contains a single battery that consists of 3 C size cells.
The etymology of the term as it applies to electrical power originates from the term as applied to military artillery, where a battery was a series of guns that operated together.
Company founder Stephen Turner estimates that such a chip would be able to sequence an entire human genome in under half an hour to 99.999 per cent accuracy for under $1000
Does that mean that the chip costs $1000 or that each human genome processed costs $1000?
So the government owned water and sewer pipes that serve your house are a bad thing?
In not all cases are they government owned. There still exist private water companies that for the purposes of this discussion operate no differently than, say, PG&E.
And sewer and water are not perfect examples, because there are lots of folks who use wells and septic tanks, meaning that they are self-reliant. There even exist some folks who are self-sufficient for their electricity needs. I don't know of anyone who is "self sufficient" for their Internet connectivity. Indeed, it would literally be impossible.
but your arm is alive and removing ('aborting') it is no moral problem and I feel the same way about an unthinking fetus
You would have made a better argument with "unthinking embryo."
"Fetus" is a term that is applicable from about the 11th week of pregnancy all the way to childbirth. Is a 1 day pre-term baby an "unthinking fetuses?"
Windows NT, which was designed, from the beginning, to be "a multi-user OS connected to the internet".
[citation needed]
I will grant you that NT was designed to be connected to a network, but I find it incredulous that the designers had in mind a publicly accessible one, much less the Internet as we know today. Even Billy got it wrong in the first edition of The Road Ahead and had to revise his pontifications.
I've never understood how people can decry intellectual endeavors as being pointless.
Where did I do that? There are those who have spent a great deal of time and thought on the angels-on-pins question. I suggest you go read the wikipedia article I linked to for further edification.
I am not suggesting the question posed in TFA is pointless. I am suggesting, however, that it is academic. Whether you regard that as insulting or not, I leave to you.
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You do not have the right to refuse the test, but you do have the right to insist on them taking a blood test rather than a urine or breathalyzer test, and you do have the right to refuse the roadside ballet they try to make you do. I don't drink, but if I did, I'd insist on a blood test for two good reasons: It is going to be the most accurate thing, and arranging for it takes longer, giving your liver more time to reduce your BAC.
Can we declare Flash a saint?
Why not? Getting women to sleep with you is definitely a miracle.
Fail.
I dare say people know their governor a lot more than the people whose house caught fire across town, which was the GP's point.
Also, what their governor does, in general, has more impact on their lives than the people whose house caught fire across town, which is why they're more newsworthy, which was also the GP's point.
Denver is a shit town.
There. Fixed that for you.
P.s. Crush the Orange!
You're really willing to rake someone over the coals that hard over a single extra "h"? It's not as if you successfully negated his point, or even made one of your own.
it's time we dump all other languages and move over to English!
Fine by me. Let me know where to find a good x86 English compiler and I'll start coding in it from now on.
I read the baseball story linked in the article. The Java app allowed users to see the numbers for themselves,
No it didn't. It allowed me to see the BBOD and force-quit Safari is all.
No, it's not just like :cueCat. The big difference is mobility. The :cueCat was tethered to a PC, making it almost completely useless. These things make it possible to get more information on a thing you want to buy while you're in the store in front of one.
Now, there are those who say that being directed to marketing material is a less than completely useful thing, but in a world where these things were ubiquitous, my hope is that the amount of intrusive advertising around us might get toned down. "Scan this for more info" is a whole lot less annoying than having a TV-DVD player playing an infomercial on an endless loop in the store. The latest outrage is that the TVs in the grocery store now don't seem to respond to TV-B-Gone anymore.
How are these different from the indulgences the Catholic church used to sell?
For those unclear on the concept, the church used to sell certificates that granted time off from purgatory for your sins. To make a long story short, the unscrupulous sale of these are one of the big ticket items in the list of thesis that Martin Luther pinned up to the church door, which led eventually to the protestant reformation.
I'm particularly happy about 7.1, as it has introduced support for booting from GPT partitioned disks. At long last, the tired old MBR and BSD label system can be thrown on the trash-heap of history. Since we have mostly macs with one FreeBSD server in the house, the shift to GPT was mostly already done. Now the only media not GPT partitioned in our house is read-only media or small flash drives (SD or thumb).
Some advice for anyone considering it:
1. Don't use the 'gpt migrate' command. I did my transition by buying a new hard disk, but once it was complete and I was happy with the results, I experimented with the old drive. The migration went poorly. For one thing, you need to have enough space unallocated at the end of the disk to fit the GPT protective copy, but even then, it didn't migrate my setup properly.
2. You need to use 'gpt boot' to make a boot partition that contains the first stage loader. This also writes boot code into the MBR that loads this boot partition. This loader, in turn, will load the actual loader from the first UFS partition and from there you're off to the races. At some point, you may transition to an EFI based machine and will need to replace this boot partition with an EFI system partition, into which you will add (to be written) an EFI loader for FreeBSD. Changing this over will be made much, much easier if your boot partition and swap partition are next to each other. Transitioning will be a simple matter of deleting the swap and boot partitions, creating the EFI system partition, then creating a new swap from the remaining space.
I should rephrase it.
It doesn't work in the sense that transferring the files to your PC doesn't serve any particular purpose, since you can't use those files anywhere except on the Wii on which you purchased them.
This is in contrast to pictures and videos you take with your camera.
I haven't found a need to have more than one SD card per device - that is, one in the camera, one in the Wii (to back up the WiiWare), etc. You just empty them onto your computer every so often (this doesn't work for the Wii, but that hasn't filled up anyway, and it doesn't look likely to anytime soon).
I think GP's reply implied that the chip was single-use - that is, a chip has a useful lifespan of a single act of sequencing. In which case, he's right that both the chip and a single sequencing costs $1000.
And I thank him for answering my question. :)
Um, terminology fail.
It's not a battery unless there are a bunch of them connected together next to each other. As an example, my flashlight contains a single battery that consists of 3 C size cells.
The etymology of the term as it applies to electrical power originates from the term as applied to military artillery, where a battery was a series of guns that operated together.
Suicide with a gun is extremely effective and clean (compared to with a knife).
I'm not convinced. Why don't you demonstrate it for us?
Company founder Stephen Turner estimates that such a chip would be able to sequence an entire human genome in under half an hour to 99.999 per cent accuracy for under $1000
Does that mean that the chip costs $1000 or that each human genome processed costs $1000?
DOS was, by and large, pretty solid
So is a rock. And equally useful.
Hopefully most IT folks will be otherwise occupied at that time and not focusing on their system clocks
Occupied doing what?
Why bother saying, "Besides Zune owners?"
How many of those could there be?
I mean, willing to publicly admit it?
So the government owned water and sewer pipes that serve your house are a bad thing?
In not all cases are they government owned. There still exist private water companies that for the purposes of this discussion operate no differently than, say, PG&E.
And sewer and water are not perfect examples, because there are lots of folks who use wells and septic tanks, meaning that they are self-reliant. There even exist some folks who are self-sufficient for their electricity needs. I don't know of anyone who is "self sufficient" for their Internet connectivity. Indeed, it would literally be impossible.
but your arm is alive and removing ('aborting') it is no moral problem and I feel the same way about an unthinking fetus
You would have made a better argument with "unthinking embryo."
"Fetus" is a term that is applicable from about the 11th week of pregnancy all the way to childbirth. Is a 1 day pre-term baby an "unthinking fetuses?"
Why not encourage abortion?
I'd like to go further and encourage retroactive abortion while we're at it. It would make The Soup even more interesting, if that were possible.
Because, after all, on the Internet, no one knows you're a dog.
Windows NT, which was designed, from the beginning, to be "a multi-user OS connected to the internet".
[citation needed]
I will grant you that NT was designed to be connected to a network, but I find it incredulous that the designers had in mind a publicly accessible one, much less the Internet as we know today. Even Billy got it wrong in the first edition of The Road Ahead and had to revise his pontifications.
I've never understood how people can decry intellectual endeavors as being pointless.
Where did I do that? There are those who have spent a great deal of time and thought on the angels-on-pins question. I suggest you go read the wikipedia article I linked to for further edification.
I am not suggesting the question posed in TFA is pointless. I am suggesting, however, that it is academic. Whether you regard that as insulting or not, I leave to you.