As an example, computer simulations for Los Angeles, CA show that resurfacing about two-third of the pavements and rooftops with reflective surfaces and planting three trees per house can cool down LA by an average of 2-3K
Just wondering, but is cooling the city b 5-700 degrees Celsuius really a good idea?
makefiles? They're basically just shell scripts... and you can drop out of Vim or whatever with a handy-dandy Ctrl+Z (send it to the background) and then pop back in after you've done whatever else it is you meant to do. Frankly, I've never found an "IDE" that I liked... too complicated and they stick things in strange places. I prefer to know exactly where everything is being kept and what precicely is being done to it.
Perhaps if there were uniform rules about who is and is not "of age," such that you don't have Canada with its rule of 14, most of the States here with 18, but some with 16, then European and other countries all doing their own thing, so that something is legal in one place but not in another place, but due to the nature of the internet spreads whereever the wires flow, then there might be a tad bit less confusion on the subject.
Is it "child porn" if it is of high school kids and they make it themselves? probably in some rudimentary defininition, but its hardly the same calibre of some 9 year old being kidnapped by gypsies at the carnival and sold to some fat, hairy russian with a camcorder for sodomoization.
It's the kidnapping, slave sale, and rape that are crimes and which should be persecuted. If some stupid slut who is of-age, even if of-age where she is isn't 18, makes a webcam video and it gets around the p2p, does the fact that she's 15 make her a victim, even though she knows full well what she's doing? Does it make her a producer, or a criminal like the fat russian videographer?
Discussions about child pornography are the biggest, most bullshit wastes of time because its a giant, big-tent complaint against a whole bunch of stuff, much of which really isn't that big of a deal, but everyone is naturally going to come out and say 'string 'em all up!!' 'cause if they don't then everyone thinks that they're secretly making tapes of their own kids or something. Thus, there is no rationale debate on the subject, no room is made for nuance or subtlety of difference and it just goes on like the inquisition, only this one everyone expected and let themselves be part of.
No, you're right -- it is nothing like video games. It's more like illegal drugs. The market exists and will always exist, and outlawing it doesn't reduce demand so much as it does drive up the price and makes it more profitable to produce for those who aren't detered, if in fact they're doing it for the money.
Yes, but most holywood scripts are so poorly written in the firt place that the only real difference is the technical aspects -- camera work, sound, etc. That and the fact that you're probably not going to get the Royal Shakespeare Company either way.
Some of those are obnoxious and good to see them gone. Others, not so much. For instance, sorting/searching algorithms, data structures, etc. Don't they still make you code these things in school? Isn't it good to know how they work and why?
This program does not support a "wheel group" that restricts who can su to super-user accounts, because that can help fascist system administrators hold unwarranted power over other users.
... I bet RMS loves RATM. Seriously... what the hell kind of crap is that to put into system documentation, and then wonder why the rest of the world has a/very/ hard time taking you seriously?
other than the fact that North and South Korea have been at war for 50 years, that the US was drug into that crap by a UN mandate, etc... What the hell good does it do for us to have to patrol the border all the time? It doesn't. I strongly suspect that my great uncle, was the son of a Marine Corps general and was an Annapolis grad himself, who did 3 years in a North Korean prison camp in the 50s didn't enjoy the experience one bit. But, there is still a war on. Most people sort of forget about all that.
OSX doesn't use X-Window for its native apps. It does ship with an X11 implementation with the dev kit, though, so you can run X apps along side native Quartz apps. The X is just for Roman numeral 10
I saw the Watchman at the midnight showing when it came out, without having read the comic. I thought the movie was brilliant (Somewhat glad, due to Dr Manhattan that the IMAX showing was sold out, but it was no more offensive than when I went to Florence and saw the statue of David).
Frankly, sex and violence aside (both of which are super bad-ass and keww'), I quite enjoyed the ambiguity of who is a good guy/bad guy. Adrian nukes a bunch of cities in order to stop a nuclear war, and he's supposed to be the villain -- but is he any worse than Rorschach, who does the same stuff on a smaller scale? Dr Manhattan could have stopped the whole thing, but just sort of let it happen, and then at the end goes "oh yeah, I guess this makes sense..."
I'm really not sure that I can think of anything I've read or watched that was like it, except maybe 'Platoon,' which is probably the strangest comparison that anyone is going to make about this one.
Of course, this will just lead to legions of under-cover RIAA hot chicks with an unusual knack for seeking out the fat and pasty...geeks will start to think that any time a girl talks to them, it's part of an RIAA entrapment scheme and will just give up on girls all together. Soon, the chance of us reproducing in self-sustaining numbers will approach closer to zero until, one day, we're an extinct breed.
Damned typos... yes, I meant GB. And I got $20 off a 500GB external USB hard disk if I bought them together. Seeing as how I doubt I've generated 10GB of content in my entire life, I ought to best set for space.
I just bought a new laptop last Friday from Best Buy. It's a Toshiba with dual-core 64bit amd processor at 2.0Ghz, 3GB of RAM, 250MB hard disk, 15.4" screen, dvd-ram, etc. Running FreeBSD and everything works just peachy (except the internal web cam just yet, but then I've never had luck with webcams or printers on any os), so I'm not sure that your assertions hold much water. However, no, I wouldn't buy a pre-made desktop. Where's the fun in that?
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Yes, perhaps not as immoral as killing, but it is "Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman", which is perhaps worse.
As an example, computer simulations for Los Angeles, CA show that resurfacing about two-third of the pavements and rooftops with reflective surfaces and planting three trees per house can cool down LA by an average of 2-3K
Just wondering, but is cooling the city b 5-700 degrees Celsuius really a good idea?
makefiles? They're basically just shell scripts... and you can drop out of Vim or whatever with a handy-dandy Ctrl+Z (send it to the background) and then pop back in after you've done whatever else it is you meant to do. Frankly, I've never found an "IDE" that I liked... too complicated and they stick things in strange places. I prefer to know exactly where everything is being kept and what precicely is being done to it.
Probably about the same time they include Elvish and Esperanto as well.
Perhaps if there were uniform rules about who is and is not "of age," such that you don't have Canada with its rule of 14, most of the States here with 18, but some with 16, then European and other countries all doing their own thing, so that something is legal in one place but not in another place, but due to the nature of the internet spreads whereever the wires flow, then there might be a tad bit less confusion on the subject.
Is it "child porn" if it is of high school kids and they make it themselves? probably in some rudimentary defininition, but its hardly the same calibre of some 9 year old being kidnapped by gypsies at the carnival and sold to some fat, hairy russian with a camcorder for sodomoization.
It's the kidnapping, slave sale, and rape that are crimes and which should be persecuted. If some stupid slut who is of-age, even if of-age where she is isn't 18, makes a webcam video and it gets around the p2p, does the fact that she's 15 make her a victim, even though she knows full well what she's doing? Does it make her a producer, or a criminal like the fat russian videographer?
Discussions about child pornography are the biggest, most bullshit wastes of time because its a giant, big-tent complaint against a whole bunch of stuff, much of which really isn't that big of a deal, but everyone is naturally going to come out and say 'string 'em all up!!' 'cause if they don't then everyone thinks that they're secretly making tapes of their own kids or something. Thus, there is no rationale debate on the subject, no room is made for nuance or subtlety of difference and it just goes on like the inquisition, only this one everyone expected and let themselves be part of.
No, you're right -- it is nothing like video games. It's more like illegal drugs. The market exists and will always exist, and outlawing it doesn't reduce demand so much as it does drive up the price and makes it more profitable to produce for those who aren't detered, if in fact they're doing it for the money.
That sound suspicious like exactly the opposite of part of Tomorrow Never Dies.
I think it was meant as a gay joke.
Yes, but most holywood scripts are so poorly written in the firt place that the only real difference is the technical aspects -- camera work, sound, etc. That and the fact that you're probably not going to get the Royal Shakespeare Company either way.
Some of those are obnoxious and good to see them gone. Others, not so much. For instance, sorting/searching algorithms, data structures, etc. Don't they still make you code these things in school? Isn't it good to know how they work and why?
On the other hand, yeah... fuck punch cards.
You totally left out the best, most susinct part:
This program does not support a "wheel group" that restricts who can su to super-user accounts, because that can help fascist system administrators hold unwarranted power over other users.
... I bet RMS loves RATM. Seriously... what the hell kind of crap is that to put into system documentation, and then wonder why the rest of the world has a /very/ hard time taking you seriously?
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Seriously, how is one going to properly use 'whom' rather than 'who', but still end a sentence in a preposition?
other than the fact that North and South Korea have been at war for 50 years, that the US was drug into that crap by a UN mandate, etc... What the hell good does it do for us to have to patrol the border all the time? It doesn't. I strongly suspect that my great uncle, was the son of a Marine Corps general and was an Annapolis grad himself, who did 3 years in a North Korean prison camp in the 50s didn't enjoy the experience one bit. But, there is still a war on. Most people sort of forget about all that.
OSX doesn't use X-Window for its native apps. It does ship with an X11 implementation with the dev kit, though, so you can run X apps along side native Quartz apps. The X is just for Roman numeral 10
I saw the Watchman at the midnight showing when it came out, without having read the comic. I thought the movie was brilliant (Somewhat glad, due to Dr Manhattan that the IMAX showing was sold out, but it was no more offensive than when I went to Florence and saw the statue of David).
Frankly, sex and violence aside (both of which are super bad-ass and keww'), I quite enjoyed the ambiguity of who is a good guy/bad guy. Adrian nukes a bunch of cities in order to stop a nuclear war, and he's supposed to be the villain -- but is he any worse than Rorschach, who does the same stuff on a smaller scale? Dr Manhattan could have stopped the whole thing, but just sort of let it happen, and then at the end goes "oh yeah, I guess this makes sense..."
I'm really not sure that I can think of anything I've read or watched that was like it, except maybe 'Platoon,' which is probably the strangest comparison that anyone is going to make about this one.
You haven't seen 'W' yet, have you?
Practically every major ISP blocks port 25 now. Comcast seems to have taken to blocking port 25 AND listing their customer IP ranges with Spamhaus.
Of course, this will just lead to legions of under-cover RIAA hot chicks with an unusual knack for seeking out the fat and pasty...geeks will start to think that any time a girl talks to them, it's part of an RIAA entrapment scheme and will just give up on girls all together. Soon, the chance of us reproducing in self-sustaining numbers will approach closer to zero until, one day, we're an extinct breed.
And then, the RIAA will have won.
wait... where can you get coffee for only $0.75?! Or is that Canadian?
I'm pretty sure that opossums eat meat as well... did you mean predatory instead of carnivorous?
In a country full of thieves, expect to get robbed ;-)
Damned typos... yes, I meant GB. And I got $20 off a 500GB external USB hard disk if I bought them together. Seeing as how I doubt I've generated 10GB of content in my entire life, I ought to best set for space.
I just bought a new laptop last Friday from Best Buy. It's a Toshiba with dual-core 64bit amd processor at 2.0Ghz, 3GB of RAM, 250MB hard disk, 15.4" screen, dvd-ram, etc. Running FreeBSD and everything works just peachy (except the internal web cam just yet, but then I've never had luck with webcams or printers on any os), so I'm not sure that your assertions hold much water. However, no, I wouldn't buy a pre-made desktop. Where's the fun in that?
And for the first time in weeks, I *DON'T* had mod points... very disappointing. That was pretty funny.