> dual flush toilets with "light" and "heavy" flush modes are available everywhere except in the most undeveloped third world countries. > here in the US... you see standard high-flow toilets.
There's no reason those two bits of logic wouldn't mix.
This system'll get you out of trouble for about a full year, given ten photo sessions a day. You'll get free on-site support and you can store a full session in cache!
McGyver appears to be able to make anything he wants out of duct tape, a few pens, some rubber ducting, steel tubing and a torch. It does sound believable at times. Which ones would you like to try?
> *nix : oh, I've not touched that server for 3 years, bulletproof, see : 1 year uptime
If your server only has 1 year uptime after 3 years of bulletproof operation, you might want to check the bulletproofing or the real-time clock on the machine.
> Well, again we have a person who thinks that they are smart, while completely misunderstanding a simple concept. ALso, you don't get A's because you're not as smart as you think, not because of the subjects. Your excuse is epidemic amongst people like you.
> Do you think that learning a subject requires the same level of mastery as teaching that subject? Of course not. So while your short sighted, selfish view of GP's point was that he was "abusing" other students, decent teachers understand that he is making the students learn the material from a different point of view.
> Now add to that the fact that a teacher must often explain a subject in several different ways to different students, and you understand why teaching is the best way to learn something.
> So go ahead and just take your test. The other students who actually engage themselves in assisting others will be better prepared than you....
You might just have picked up that I was also being abused to help others, thereby doing exactly what you say I didn't. I help people online with problems on a higher level thereby also enhancing my own knowledge. Please, don't think you're all-knowing. I don't, for one.
> Also, as an aside, don't be such a dick. You're not a teacher,...
I'm not a teacher? I do help people who don't understand stuff so that they will understand it. I'm regularly asked by teachers to help out a few people in the class and when people don't understand what the teachers say I'm the first or second person they go to for extra classes. I think that up to a level qualifies me as a teacher.
>... and I can say with certainty your attitutude would preclude you from ever being any good at it. So judging how others do it while adding nothing but inaccurate criticism is just dumb.
That would be "attitude".
Attitude has very little to do with being a teacher. Trying to understand how somebody thinks and does stuff and trying to help them see stuff their own way does have to do with being a teacher.
Plus, you still fail to show where my criticism was inaccurate.
Try to understand the situation. I'm just a guy who is going to a university, helping others, helping my teachers with the things they err on, trying to get my degree and all I get is people asking me for more help, me not learning anything but teaching (I didn't go to an IT study to learn how to teach) and in the end being handed a certificate stating that I can in fact do what the others could with my help. The point is not that I don't want to help, the point is that I'd rather spend my time doing something where I will learn something new.
Slight detail: your reply was a lot more offensive than mine, whereas you accuse me of being a "dick". Try to use a mirror for your own attitude next time.
> The problem is greatest at the entry level, where you have everyone from the student who thinks that maybe they'd like to learn how to program a computer all the way up to the kids who have been coding since they were ten years old and know at least six computer languages.
And still I'm left out (been programming a computer since I was 5...).
>...to use those students who picked up the material quickly to help the others along...
So, you're not teaching to smart people, you're abusing them to make your job easier. If teachers would stop that I'd be a lot happier. Just give me a fscking test and be done with it.
And no, I don't get straight A's. I get A's and A-'s on interesting subjects and C's on the rest, plain because I don't care.
They support open source by providing closed source drivers for an open source platform, which you can only install after reading and agreeing to a EULA. It might just be me, but aren't those the EXACT THINGS that open source is meant to not have?
It's good at detecting waves, which is what it was developed for. It thus tries to detect sine waves in a single edge (which is a block wave, which is what the fourier transform was first developed for - but you need an infinite precision one to do that accurately) and detects a bunch of these (1/n! like stuff). Combined and transformed back they do in fact create the same input. For compression they cut off the small details, so it can't transform back and get the same back.
I can't screw in a screw with a hammer. In the same way then, the hammer would be useless, since it can't even screw in a screw.
Use stuff where it belongs. Use jpeg for real-life picture compression, not for paint files or screenshots. Use PNG for those that are byte-level regular.
>... then Skype can set up servers in the US that take the computer to computer call and re-route it here, making a computer to computer call from China to the US indistingushable from a computer to US phone call.
That's exactly what they want. Skype calls that are routed in china don't bring in as much funds as calls being routed in the US (or any other country, for that matter).
> You Canadians and Europeans can say what you want about the USA and "us Americans"...
Yep we could. It's called freedom of speech and is always around here. We can't even get sued for millions for what we say, unless it's explicitly against a single company and even then there are very big limits as to the amount. A case like this wouldn't get above 6000 euro or so, with the defendant having a very good case and the other probably not even bothering to sue.
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> dual flush toilets with "light" and "heavy" flush modes are available everywhere except in the most undeveloped third world countries. ... you see standard high-flow toilets.
> here in the US
There's no reason those two bits of logic wouldn't mix.
TFA says they prohibit existing ICANN tld's. That doesn't prohibit registering .sex however...
This system'll get you out of trouble for about a full year, given ten photo sessions a day. You'll get free on-site support and you can store a full session in cache!
= SunStore&cmdStartWebConfig_CP&familyCode=SE6920&ba seSelected=3
http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process
No problem this.
There's a kernel of truth in this reaction.
Try the apple stores. No more home-built computer problems.
As funny as that might be, if you disable the WMA version of the cd that way and get the plain CD version, it's probably even true.
> Embed me please! I want never again to have to manually pay for anything
:-)
When you do, please get in line at the cash register behind me. Saves me money
McGyver appears to be able to make anything he wants out of duct tape, a few pens, some rubber ducting, steel tubing and a torch. It does sound believable at times. Which ones would you like to try?
> *nix : oh, I've not touched that server for 3 years, bulletproof, see : 1 year uptime
If your server only has 1 year uptime after 3 years of bulletproof operation, you might want to check the bulletproofing or the real-time clock on the machine.
> Windows 98 (latest patches) running Apache = Big security risk.
Risk? A risk implies that there is a chance that you will not have a problem...
* I'm assuming that you don't run it under WinNT's C2 rating requirements
What are you going to swab off somebodies skin? Best take a swab of saliva...
> Well, again we have a person who thinks that they are smart, while completely misunderstanding a simple concept. ALso, you don't get A's because you're not as smart as you think, not because of the subjects. Your excuse is epidemic amongst people like you.
...
...
... and I can say with certainty your attitutude would preclude you from ever being any good at it. So judging how others do it while adding nothing but inaccurate criticism is just dumb.
> Do you think that learning a subject requires the same level of mastery as teaching that subject? Of course not. So while your short sighted, selfish view of GP's point was that he was "abusing" other students, decent teachers understand that he is making the students learn the material from a different point of view.
> Now add to that the fact that a teacher must often explain a subject in several different ways to different students, and you understand why teaching is the best way to learn something.
> So go ahead and just take your test. The other students who actually engage themselves in assisting others will be better prepared than you.
You might just have picked up that I was also being abused to help others, thereby doing exactly what you say I didn't. I help people online with problems on a higher level thereby also enhancing my own knowledge. Please, don't think you're all-knowing. I don't, for one.
> Also, as an aside, don't be such a dick. You're not a teacher,
I'm not a teacher? I do help people who don't understand stuff so that they will understand it. I'm regularly asked by teachers to help out a few people in the class and when people don't understand what the teachers say I'm the first or second person they go to for extra classes. I think that up to a level qualifies me as a teacher.
>
That would be "attitude".
Attitude has very little to do with being a teacher. Trying to understand how somebody thinks and does stuff and trying to help them see stuff their own way does have to do with being a teacher.
Plus, you still fail to show where my criticism was inaccurate.
Try to understand the situation. I'm just a guy who is going to a university, helping others, helping my teachers with the things they err on, trying to get my degree and all I get is people asking me for more help, me not learning anything but teaching (I didn't go to an IT study to learn how to teach) and in the end being handed a certificate stating that I can in fact do what the others could with my help. The point is not that I don't want to help, the point is that I'd rather spend my time doing something where I will learn something new.
Slight detail: your reply was a lot more offensive than mine, whereas you accuse me of being a "dick". Try to use a mirror for your own attitude next time.
mod parent up - he's got a very good point. Why use machines to do OCR if there are people that can do it both better and cheaper?
Plus, it creates jobs for those who have trouble finding something to fit in with studying.
> The problem is greatest at the entry level, where you have everyone from the student who thinks that maybe they'd like to learn how to program a computer all the way up to the kids who have been coding since they were ten years old and know at least six computer languages.
...to use those students who picked up the material quickly to help the others along...
And still I'm left out (been programming a computer since I was 5...).
>
So, you're not teaching to smart people, you're abusing them to make your job easier. If teachers would stop that I'd be a lot happier. Just give me a fscking test and be done with it.
And no, I don't get straight A's. I get A's and A-'s on interesting subjects and C's on the rest, plain because I don't care.
They support open source by providing closed source drivers for an open source platform, which you can only install after reading and agreeing to a EULA. It might just be me, but aren't those the EXACT THINGS that open source is meant to not have?
It's good at detecting waves, which is what it was developed for. It thus tries to detect sine waves in a single edge (which is a block wave, which is what the fourier transform was first developed for - but you need an infinite precision one to do that accurately) and detects a bunch of these (1/n! like stuff). Combined and transformed back they do in fact create the same input. For compression they cut off the small details, so it can't transform back and get the same back.
I can't screw in a screw with a hammer. In the same way then, the hammer would be useless, since it can't even screw in a screw.
Use stuff where it belongs. Use jpeg for real-life picture compression, not for paint files or screenshots. Use PNG for those that are byte-level regular.
> Oh, and the default for saving files has to remain in Office 97/2k/xp format.
There are two applications that you speak about and both are bad with this format. One is good with OpenDocument however.
Please go ahead in time and try to conform.
If you'd call it "freedom of speech" as opposed to "first amendment", people not from the US would probably understand you too.
OK, the 1st amendment has been forced down our throat already. What's the second?
> this way they will be able to
Finish their reply?
>Explanation made simple specially for you, foot-in-the-mouth system users.
Proper use would be "especially".
Actually, no. It's kg, with a small k. Also, ks (kilo-second, 1/86.4'th of a day), km (kilometer, 1/1.609344 of a US mile), kHz etc.
Actually, using the power button as another meta type key allows twice as many options. Let me just send this email to RMS...
> Immediate reaction: Sue the moron who screwed up your test
You must be from the USA.
> ... then Skype can set up servers in the US that take the computer to computer call and re-route it here, making a computer to computer call from China to the US indistingushable from a computer to US phone call.
That's exactly what they want. Skype calls that are routed in china don't bring in as much funds as calls being routed in the US (or any other country, for that matter).
> You Canadians and Europeans can say what you want about the USA and "us Americans"...
Yep we could. It's called freedom of speech and is always around here. We can't even get sued for millions for what we say, unless it's explicitly against a single company and even then there are very big limits as to the amount. A case like this wouldn't get above 6000 euro or so, with the defendant having a very good case and the other probably not even bothering to sue.