Or to admit to falling for a lie...
Geez some people!
Now, where'd you get that 85 terrabit USB pen? I saw one advertised in Tiger Direct the other day, but they were out of stock when I tried to order it...
Not really: corn is cheap, and a good majority of the fattening stuff out there contains corn syrups and not cane sugar.
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But it was too much - too many conflicting performance / security / legacy issues to deal with. The technologists couldn't bring themselves to make all the compromises necessary for such a combination to succeed.
Modern diesel cars (on average) tend to get slightly better mileage per gallon of fuel. That would be more of a cost savings over gasoline fueled cars as well.
Isn't that pretty much the case, though?
Apple sells 10s of millions of iPods per quarter, but the number of units of iTunes music sold is, if I recall correctly, an order of magnitude lower than that.
We've got lots of razors, but aren't going back to the till for so many blades, especially ones that only fit in our personal shaver and can't be shared with our closest friends [some of whom are quite hairy...]
99.9 (AKA 3 nines) means that your stated level of service allows for an interruption of 8.76 hours. Which is great in the abstract. But on Primary Day of a hotly contested race being battled out on all media fronts including the internet, not so good....
If you RTFA, you'd see that they compared Van Gogh's works to other artists who painted what ostensibly are turbulent scenes (specifically, The Scream) and that painting did not have nearly the same degree of compliance with the Kolmogorov functions.
In essence, this study is not asking "can an artist paint something that looks turbulent" inasmuch as they are saying that during his psychotic stages, van Gogh captured turbulence with a degree of accuracy not found in other works by artists of his caliber.
Firstly, I think part of this trend is that people mistake copying and pasting for scholarship. It's not. Just because you copied the juicy parts of an article into a "blockquote" tag does not mean that you've helped your reader understand an issue. All you've done is shown them what someone else said. Their interpretation of it might be completely different from your own--in fact, by removing the quotation from the context, your readers might interpret the quotation in exactly the opposite fashion that you intended when you posted it.
In the lead up to the presidential elections on 2000, I tried to get my friends to start an on-line discussion group of issues heading into it. I found that for many of them, their notion of what a "discussion" was consisted of copying and pasting articles they agreed with into the forum, with no additional commentary. I gave up after 2 weeks, because no amount of explaining that I was looking for their input on the issues not what other people said verbatim sunk in.
In looking back, I attribute that to a lack of belief that their opinions were important. These folks, (most of them younger than me, I might add) have been robbed of the belief that their opinions mattered--that their writing on a subject of interest to them was just as valid as someone writing an Op-Ed for the New York Times.
[Please note, Eliel did say valid, not well-written, not well (or even cogently) presented, just valid--Ed.]
This seems to be a disturbing trend. More people are participating in on-line dialogs, but fewer are expressing their own thoughts: choosing instead to regurgitate what they heard from someone else.
True, but one can't help but wonder at the timing of this patent. With the US Congress having basically mandated that everyone will have to change their television sets by 2009 (since analog TV broadcasts will go the way of the 300 baud modem) consumers are going to be put into a position where they either have to shell out big bucks for a new set, or smaller bucks for an HDTV->Normal res converter box.
Imagine now that the Benevolent Broadcasterss of Amercica decide to help consumers out by subsidising the cost of these new sets. Don't you think that a manufacturer who whispers in their ear that their sets guarantee that consumers have to watch adverts will get the bulk of these subsidies?
Consumers are happy with their cheaper "New fangled Hi Deaf Tee Vee"s, broadcasters count the money they get from assuring advertisers that they have a lock on our eyeballs, 3rd party ROM manufacturers get happy building replacement chip sets to bypass the system.
I have a large book collection, and purchased a program (which I love) called ReaderWare. It will let you just imput a bunch of ISBN and LOC numbers and then will go out and get the details of each title for you from on-line booksellers like B&N, and Amazon.
It also has lots of standard canned fields that sound like you and your wife could use (Location being one of them).
So given how many books you have, find a cheap bar-code reader (old CueCats work fine with it) and spend a nice quiet weekend cataloging all your books automagically...
I took a look around (admittedly, a brief one) and the only official Treasury department reference to China's status in the business world was here:
There currently are a few countries which must obtain an annual presidential waiver or extension of a waiver to continue their NTR status. China is the most important country in this group which must obtain an annual waiver to maintain NTR. The waiver for China has been in effect since 1980. Every year, since 1989, legislation has been introduced in Congress to disapprove the President's waiver. The legislation has sought to tie China's NTR renewal to meeting certain human rights conditions that go beyond freedom of emigration. Through 1998, attempts to deny China NTR have failed. NTR is likely to be approved for China in 1999 as well.
So why are these tech companies being called in about business practices? They should be suing Congress for harrassment because as stated on this same page:
Under NTR both parties agree not to extend to any third party nation any trade preferences that are more favorable than those available under the agreement concluded between them unless they simultaneously make the same provisions available to each other. Although NTR is a reciprocal agreement, it must be negotiated separately with each country. Furthermore, each individual agreement must include additional and specific provisions that take into account national security, dispute settlement procedures, trade promotion, and various other considerations.
So if Congress has granted NTR/MFN status to China, that means that the security and "other considerations" clauses are already defined. Either Google et al. are violating those tenants or they are not.
This is really just Congressional grandstanding at it's worst.
Mod me as redundant, but this is sadly true.
Too many of the news stories that should be hard-hitting investigative features on the networks are presented with more clarity on the Daily Show in a 1 minute segment.
It's interesting too how many serious journalists are making sojourns to the Daily Show these past few months.
And has anyone else noticed how Colbert has been able to ask tougher questions (under the guise of jokingly being 'on their side') of conservative pundits during his Q&A than they would stand for anywhere else?
Only in the United States can a station called "Comedy Centra" be the source of reliable journalism....
The foreign policy of the US is generating more global instability than what Kim Jung Il (sp?) is up to.
What I meant was that compared to the relatively constrained Iraq-under-Saddam Hussein, Kim Jung Il's North Korea was more of a real threat at the time the US invasion of Iraq happened.
Now that the Iraq war is a reality, it's what the US does there over the next few years that will determine the way in which eastern and western, Muslim and "Christian" nations get along in the future.
Now, however, we're cowards. We aren't prepared to die for freedom. We're prepared to give up every last precious liberty in order to slightly reduce the risk of a few hundred or thousand people getting blown up every few years.
Speaking from the stance of a US citizen, I would say it's actually worse than that. "We" have also become comfortable with the idea of sending someone else's children into a sovereign nation on the now-admitted-to pre-text of protecting ourselves from an alleged clear and present danger that did not exist. And we're numb enough to ingore the great loss of life that continues to happen on a daily basis as a result of this flawed policy.
And I think a good number of "us" are afraid to fess up to the fact that these actions that "our" nation has taken will in the long term lead to a few more thousand people getting blown up every few years than would have otherwise.
Meanwhile, true threats to the globe [read, North Korea] are left to fester.
Finally, given the legitimate nature of the war in Afghanistan, and pretending Iraq was really about terror and not about flawed global policy, the fact that non-military citizens have not been called upon to make any sacrifices during the prosection of two wars except of our civil liberties is really just plain depressing. Has the memory of World War II really faded that quickly between the decades? So much so that the son can so easly choose to forget the sacrifices of the father's generation?
I loved the show, but really wished Gilbert Godfried would talk in a normal voice. At the times when he was actually funny, his voice still acted as a laugh-suppressant
You would think that after the Manhattan project didn't incenerate the earth as it was feared it would by some people incited by a few wrong-headed scientists, that folks would do a little research before knee-jerking their way to denying this man his chance to do basic research.
To me, the only valid complaint one might make without having ana advanced degree in physics would be wondering about the effects of the huge magnetic pulses this would put out and the effects on his neighbors' electronics for the few micro seconds a day. But then again, if their house is close enough to be affected by these fields, they're too close anyway.
If you've been running these databases successfully, you're probably spending a lot of time writing and maintaining code to handle ACID issues, locking, and other headaches.
Why not pay someone else to do that kind of work?
[And yes, you can donate to PostgreSQL development!]
Because sometimes the clicking the "Big Red No" button means you can't listen to your Sony-purchased CD. [TO be fair, Sony's software didn't zombify PCs, but it opened another door into the soul of innocent PCs through which witch doctor crackers could perform their rituals to turn them into another member of the zombie hordes]
Not everyone is as savvy as we geeks and know the secret of holding down the shift key when inserting a CD.
Before you knock the concept of a game based on mis-behaving in the school yard, I recommend you try http://www.sissyfight.com/sissyfight/home.html.
Give it a go and see how addicting reliving one's childhood in a mean-sprited way can be...
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these running System Product Interpreter ... Oh wait...
I welcome my massively parallel Rexx Overlords
Blogger.com
On blogger, no one can hear you screed....
Or to admit to falling for a lie... Geez some people! Now, where'd you get that 85 terrabit USB pen? I saw one advertised in Tiger Direct the other day, but they were out of stock when I tried to order it...
Not really: corn is cheap, and a good majority of the fattening stuff out there contains corn syrups and not cane sugar.
How much of that can be laid at the feet of Drew "I know how many clock cycles a file i/o takes" Major's death grip on Netware's kernel code?
Slashdot readers are an endangered species?
Modern diesel cars (on average) tend to get slightly better mileage per gallon of fuel. That would be more of a cost savings over gasoline fueled cars as well.
Isn't that pretty much the case, though?
Apple sells 10s of millions of iPods per quarter, but the number of units of iTunes music sold is, if I recall correctly, an order of magnitude lower than that.
We've got lots of razors, but aren't going back to the till for so many blades, especially ones that only fit in our personal shaver and can't be shared with our closest friends [some of whom are quite hairy...]
Sam Jackson overacting in one's general direction might piss off even the most docile reptile...
I think he was referring to the phrase Bully Pulpit, which is what Jack's trying to mount with this stunt.
99.9 (AKA 3 nines) means that your stated level of service allows for an interruption of 8.76 hours. Which is great in the abstract. But on Primary Day of a hotly contested race being battled out on all media fronts including the internet, not so good....
If you RTFA, you'd see that they compared Van Gogh's works to other artists who painted what ostensibly are turbulent scenes (specifically, The Scream) and that painting did not have nearly the same degree of compliance with the Kolmogorov functions.
In essence, this study is not asking "can an artist paint something that looks turbulent" inasmuch as they are saying that during his psychotic stages, van Gogh captured turbulence with a degree of accuracy not found in other works by artists of his caliber.
Firstly, I think part of this trend is that people mistake copying and pasting for scholarship. It's not. Just because you copied the juicy parts of an article into a "blockquote" tag does not mean that you've helped your reader understand an issue. All you've done is shown them what someone else said. Their interpretation of it might be completely different from your own--in fact, by removing the quotation from the context, your readers might interpret the quotation in exactly the opposite fashion that you intended when you posted it.
In the lead up to the presidential elections on 2000, I tried to get my friends to start an on-line discussion group of issues heading into it. I found that for many of them, their notion of what a "discussion" was consisted of copying and pasting articles they agreed with into the forum, with no additional commentary. I gave up after 2 weeks, because no amount of explaining that I was looking for their input on the issues not what other people said verbatim sunk in.
In looking back, I attribute that to a lack of belief that their opinions were important. These folks, (most of them younger than me, I might add) have been robbed of the belief that their opinions mattered--that their writing on a subject of interest to them was just as valid as someone writing an Op-Ed for the New York Times.
[Please note, Eliel did say valid, not well-written, not well (or even cogently) presented, just valid--Ed.]
This seems to be a disturbing trend. More people are participating in on-line dialogs, but fewer are expressing their own thoughts: choosing instead to regurgitate what they heard from someone else.
It makes me sad.
True, but one can't help but wonder at the timing of this patent. With the US Congress having basically mandated that everyone will have to change their television sets by 2009 (since analog TV broadcasts will go the way of the 300 baud modem) consumers are going to be put into a position where they either have to shell out big bucks for a new set, or smaller bucks for an HDTV->Normal res converter box.
Imagine now that the Benevolent Broadcasterss of Amercica decide to help consumers out by subsidising the cost of these new sets. Don't you think that a manufacturer who whispers in their ear that their sets guarantee that consumers have to watch adverts will get the bulk of these subsidies?
Consumers are happy with their cheaper "New fangled Hi Deaf Tee Vee"s, broadcasters count the money they get from assuring advertisers that they have a lock on our eyeballs, 3rd party ROM manufacturers get happy building replacement chip sets to bypass the system.
I have a large book collection, and purchased a program (which I love) called ReaderWare. It will let you just imput a bunch of ISBN and LOC numbers and then will go out and get the details of each title for you from on-line booksellers like B&N, and Amazon.
It also has lots of standard canned fields that sound like you and your wife could use (Location being one of them).
So given how many books you have, find a cheap bar-code reader (old CueCats work fine with it) and spend a nice quiet weekend cataloging all your books automagically...
So why are these tech companies being called in about business practices? They should be suing Congress for harrassment because as stated on this same page:
So if Congress has granted NTR/MFN status to China, that means that the security and "other considerations" clauses are already defined. Either Google et al. are violating those tenants or they are not.
This is really just Congressional grandstanding at it's worst.
Mod me as redundant, but this is sadly true.
Too many of the news stories that should be hard-hitting investigative features on the networks are presented with more clarity on the Daily Show in a 1 minute segment.
It's interesting too how many serious journalists are making sojourns to the Daily Show these past few months.
And has anyone else noticed how Colbert has been able to ask tougher questions (under the guise of jokingly being 'on their side') of conservative pundits during his Q&A than they would stand for anywhere else?
Only in the United States can a station called "Comedy Centra" be the source of reliable journalism....
The foreign policy of the US is generating more global instability than what Kim Jung Il (sp?) is up to.
What I meant was that compared to the relatively constrained Iraq-under-Saddam Hussein, Kim Jung Il's North Korea was more of a real threat at the time the US invasion of Iraq happened.
Now that the Iraq war is a reality, it's what the US does there over the next few years that will determine the way in which eastern and western, Muslim and "Christian" nations get along in the future.
Speaking from the stance of a US citizen, I would say it's actually worse than that. "We" have also become comfortable with the idea of sending someone else's children into a sovereign nation on the now-admitted-to pre-text of protecting ourselves from an alleged clear and present danger that did not exist. And we're numb enough to ingore the great loss of life that continues to happen on a daily basis as a result of this flawed policy.
And I think a good number of "us" are afraid to fess up to the fact that these actions that "our" nation has taken will in the long term lead to a few more thousand people getting blown up every few years than would have otherwise.
Meanwhile, true threats to the globe [read, North Korea] are left to fester.
Finally, given the legitimate nature of the war in Afghanistan, and pretending Iraq was really about terror and not about flawed global policy, the fact that non-military citizens have not been called upon to make any sacrifices during the prosection of two wars except of our civil liberties is really just plain depressing. Has the memory of World War II really faded that quickly between the decades? So much so that the son can so easly choose to forget the sacrifices of the father's generation?
Apparently, 1 hour US shows are about 44 minutes.
Half hour shows are about 22 minutes.
Approximately 16 minutes of advertising / hour
Now if program A leaves the antenna at 10AM....
I loved the show, but really wished Gilbert Godfried would talk in a normal voice. At the times when he was actually funny, his voice still acted as a laugh-suppressant
You would think that after the Manhattan project didn't incenerate the earth as it was feared it would by some people incited by a few wrong-headed scientists, that folks would do a little research before knee-jerking their way to denying this man his chance to do basic research.
To me, the only valid complaint one might make without having ana advanced degree in physics would be wondering about the effects of the huge magnetic pulses this would put out and the effects on his neighbors' electronics for the few micro seconds a day. But then again, if their house is close enough to be affected by these fields, they're too close anyway.
If you've been running these databases successfully, you're probably spending a lot of time writing and maintaining code to handle ACID issues, locking, and other headaches.
Why not pay someone else to do that kind of work?
[And yes, you can donate to PostgreSQL development!]
Because sometimes the clicking the "Big Red No" button means you can't listen to your Sony-purchased CD. [TO be fair, Sony's software didn't zombify PCs, but it opened another door into the soul of innocent PCs through which witch doctor crackers could perform their rituals to turn them into another member of the zombie hordes]
Not everyone is as savvy as we geeks and know the secret of holding down the shift key when inserting a CD.
Oops, did I just say that out loud?
Before you knock the concept of a game based on mis-behaving in the school yard, I recommend you try http://www.sissyfight.com/sissyfight/home.html. Give it a go and see how addicting reliving one's childhood in a mean-sprited way can be...