That's not what he's saying. He says that earths are statistically rare. That doesn't make any predictions on the amount of life in the universe that might exist on not-earth like planets/habitats...
None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds, therefore we can round the average population of the Universe to zero, and so the total population must be zero.
Kindles have always had two prices. The lower price with ads is the advertised price. You can pay a higher price for the one without ads on the lock screen.
I'll be happy (okay, happier) to pay for an ad-free and spyware-free version of Windows 10. However, I suspect the retail versions behave just like the free version. This means Windows 7 will be the last version of Windows I use.
P.S. Making people pay for an ad-free version of Solitaire is a dick move MS.
Actually, "less lawyers" is grammatically fine. Ask a linguist (in this case, the co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language).
Actually, that article to which you linked contains the guy's opinion and a *plea* to abandon the different uses for "fewer" (fewer beers) and "less" (less beer) in some cases -- like, "Your package will arrive in seven days or less" vs. "Your package will arrive in seven days or fewer" -- and he makes some good points, but he's wrong. People should learn the correct grammar instead.
Even in the context of that article, "fewer lawyers" is correct, not "less" and, as far as I'm concerned, the sign for the express lane in your grocery store should still say: "10 items or fewer" - not "less".
Now if they'll ditch that useless, waste-of-space left sidebar containing that "Anytime" crap, then allow us to disable suggestions, and auto complete and... just about everything that doesn't work w/o Javascript then the various Google pages may be usable w/o me having to use NoScript, and HTTP (through Proxomitron) to make it simply palatable. Seriously, having it shuffle words with every character typed is so fucking annoying (and a waste of bandwidth) - their keystroke analysis be damned.
All I want is a simple, clean entry form where I can think and type in peace until I press Enter.
I used MythTV for years as a DVR and I tried a lot of different file systems.
The 2 that always worked the best were JFS and XFS for the sole reason that large file deletes took almost no time at all. Compared to several seconds or even minutes with other file systems.
Yup. On my MythTV system, I use XFS on the filesystem hosting the video files and ext on the other filesystems.
On a sort of unrelated note -- he was only 79! So keep that in mind for your retirement plans. Despite having some of the best health care in the world, most of us are dead by 82. And 98.4% are dead by age 90.
If you're lucky. My wife Sue died at 61 in Jan 2006 (I was 42 then). Other than the brain tumor that killed her just 7 weeks after diagnosis, she was in perfect health. She worked out with a trainer (cardio and weights) twice a week and walked several time a week. She was an English and Gifted Education teacher and was thinking of retiring in a few years.
I'm very, very grateful for the 20 years we had together. Remember Sue...
The Democratic Party base will hate him for blowing an opportunity to name a liberal, and the Republican Party base will hate their party leaders for allowing Obama to fill the slot at all.
As though the base of either party needs another reason to hate politicians these days...
Einstein's own gravitational waves were probably really, really small/weak.
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I thought the whole point of H1-Bs was to fill jobs that they couldn't find qualified applicants for? But now they are firing (excuse me, 'laying off') the workers, then turning around and claiming they need to import people? If this doesn't get rid of the excuses for the H1-B program, NOTHING will...
I think what companies like this do is redefine the job so their current workers are "no longer qualified", then refuse to "retrain" them, then *have* to fill those positions with H1-B people 'cause, you know, they can't find qualified US workers. Moral? No. Currently, barely legal? Seems so.
Blame Congress for listening to companies clamoring for more H1-B visas. Then blame ourselves for electing those in Congress.
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You need to seriously chill out.
It was a intended as a funny comment (I included a smiley) about a ridiculous *actual* statement Cruz made (you know, a "fact"). Regardless of his age, it does seem to reflect his character - if you've actually watched and/or listen to him. You compared him to Rand Paul and while they may have similar political positions on some things, their personalities are quite different - which was my point. Hilliary is another matter altogether.
I guess you and whoever modded my post agree that facts are "overrated".
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If one was a Rand Paul supporter, it makes sense to switch to Ted Cruz, whose stances are not too different.
I'm not sure Rand ever dreamed of world domination (or simply Google: cruz world domination):
A video posted to YouTube Saturday shows an 18-year-old Ted Cruz sarcastically joking about world domination.
“Take over the world, world domination, you know, rule everything,” Cruz says when asked about his aspirations. "Rich, powerful, that sort of stuff." The footage was taken in 1988, according to the video's YouTube description, while Cruz was attending Second Baptist School in Houston.
But, I could be wrong. I haven't read all of Rand's position papers.:-)
While this is nowhere near the hottest temperature that has ever been achieved in nuclear fusion research (that distinction belongs to the Large Hadron Collider which reached 4 trillion degrees Celsius),...
Sadly, even at such temperatures, the LHC was, like the Mythbusters, also unable to successfully flash-fry shrimp in a shrimp cannon.
Regarding the remote tribes: that is even more paradox. Suppose they never had a visitor or there is no living person that connects them to an other population, then the distance to random other people on the world is "undefined" or "infinite".
On the other hand, perhaps, if no one knows anyone outside their tribe(s), never had an outside visitor, etc... then, from their perspective, no one else exists and they know everyone in the world and their numbers are probably 1 or 2.
Six degrees of separation is the, already well established, idea that any individual is connected to any other via six network nodes. New research has discovered that the average between Facebook users is just three and a half...
Facebook has set another bar even lower. </sarcasm>
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That's not what he's saying. He says that earths are statistically rare. That doesn't make any predictions on the amount of life in the universe that might exist on not-earth like planets/habitats...
From HHGTTG: The Universe
Population
None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds, therefore we can round the average population of the Universe to zero, and so the total population must be zero.
I wonder how long until someone manages to hack a keylogger in via this vector and start recording passwords?
Pretty sure that functionality is already baked into Windows 10. Or was that your point? :-)
Kindles have always had two prices. The lower price with ads is the advertised price. You can pay a higher price for the one without ads on the lock screen.
I'll be happy (okay, happier) to pay for an ad-free and spyware-free version of Windows 10. However, I suspect the retail versions behave just like the free version. This means Windows 7 will be the last version of Windows I use.
P.S. Making people pay for an ad-free version of Solitaire is a dick move MS.
I'm still happily on 7 with auto-updates disabled and the win 10 upgrade notifier removed
Me too, though MS keeps trying to sneak it in every month. Hopefully when the free "upgrade" period is over they'll knock it off.
... it begins.
did you have to break everything?
I dunno. Seems he's been pretty constant ...
Actually, "less lawyers" is grammatically fine. Ask a linguist (in this case, the co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language).
Actually, that article to which you linked contains the guy's opinion and a *plea* to abandon the different uses for "fewer" (fewer beers) and "less" (less beer) in some cases -- like, "Your package will arrive in seven days or less" vs. "Your package will arrive in seven days or fewer" -- and he makes some good points, but he's wrong. People should learn the correct grammar instead.
Even in the context of that article, "fewer lawyers" is correct, not "less" and, as far as I'm concerned, the sign for the express lane in your grocery store should still say: "10 items or fewer" - not "less".
Now if they'll ditch that useless, waste-of-space left sidebar containing that "Anytime" crap, then allow us to disable suggestions, and auto complete and ... just about everything that doesn't work w/o Javascript then the various Google pages may be usable w/o me having to use NoScript, and HTTP (through Proxomitron) to make it simply palatable. Seriously, having it shuffle words with every character typed is so fucking annoying (and a waste of bandwidth) - their keystroke analysis be damned.
All I want is a simple, clean entry form where I can think and type in peace until I press Enter.
PVS-Studio detected more than 1000 suspicious code fragments that are most likely bugs or inaccurate code.
So this is the end of open source firmware on basically any device with a radio
Probably just a transmitter not a radio in general, but that just a guess. I don't think there are regulations against receivers.
I used MythTV for years as a DVR and I tried a lot of different file systems.
The 2 that always worked the best were JFS and XFS for the sole reason that large file deletes took almost no time at all. Compared to several seconds or even minutes with other file systems.
Yup. On my MythTV system, I use XFS on the filesystem hosting the video files and ext on the other filesystems.
On a sort of unrelated note -- he was only 79! So keep that in mind for your retirement plans. Despite having some of the best health care in the world, most of us are dead by 82. And 98.4% are dead by age 90.
If you're lucky. My wife Sue died at 61 in Jan 2006 (I was 42 then). Other than the brain tumor that killed her just 7 weeks after diagnosis, she was in perfect health. She worked out with a trainer (cardio and weights) twice a week and walked several time a week. She was an English and Gifted Education teacher and was thinking of retiring in a few years.
I'm very, very grateful for the 20 years we had together. Remember Sue...
The Democratic Party base will hate him for blowing an opportunity to name a liberal, and the Republican Party base will hate their party leaders for allowing Obama to fill the slot at all.
As though the base of either party needs another reason to hate politicians these days ...
"breadâ(TM),â he said. âoe half the worldâ(TM)s âoe âoe â(TM)."
WTH is that?
Sex robot after a bad BIOS update.
And using the phrase "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" in a discussion including sex robots makes me think someone is doing it wrong.
In turn, that allows GPS systems in a mobile device to calculate position with an accuracy of just an inch.
Dick measuring goes high-tech.
Even Einstein Doubted His Gravitational Waves
Einstein's own gravitational waves were probably really, really small/weak.
I thought the whole point of H1-Bs was to fill jobs that they couldn't find qualified applicants for? But now they are firing (excuse me, 'laying off') the workers, then turning around and claiming they need to import people? If this doesn't get rid of the excuses for the H1-B program, NOTHING will...
I think what companies like this do is redefine the job so their current workers are "no longer qualified", then refuse to "retrain" them, then *have* to fill those positions with H1-B people 'cause, you know, they can't find qualified US workers. Moral? No. Currently, barely legal? Seems so.
Blame Congress for listening to companies clamoring for more H1-B visas. Then blame ourselves for electing those in Congress.
When are white holes going to be discovered? :-)
Watch the Oscars.
You need to seriously chill out.
It was a intended as a funny comment (I included a smiley) about a ridiculous *actual* statement Cruz made (you know, a "fact"). Regardless of his age, it does seem to reflect his character - if you've actually watched and/or listen to him. You compared him to Rand Paul and while they may have similar political positions on some things, their personalities are quite different - which was my point. Hilliary is another matter altogether.
I guess you and whoever modded my post agree that facts are "overrated".
If one was a Rand Paul supporter, it makes sense to switch to Ted Cruz, whose stances are not too different.
I'm not sure Rand ever dreamed of world domination (or simply Google: cruz world domination):
A video posted to YouTube Saturday shows an 18-year-old Ted Cruz sarcastically joking about world domination.
“Take over the world, world domination, you know, rule everything,” Cruz says when asked about his aspirations. "Rich, powerful, that sort of stuff." The footage was taken in 1988, according to the video's YouTube description, while Cruz was attending Second Baptist School in Houston.
But, I could be wrong. I haven't read all of Rand's position papers. :-)
While this is nowhere near the hottest temperature that has ever been achieved in nuclear fusion research (that distinction belongs to the Large Hadron Collider which reached 4 trillion degrees Celsius), ...
Sadly, even at such temperatures, the LHC was, like the Mythbusters, also unable to successfully flash-fry shrimp in a shrimp cannon.
1. Nobody is looking for an accurate answer to asking if a phone has a boyfriend.
It's just a matter of time before Siri and Cortana hook up.
Keep your PC bullshit to yourselves.
So, use a Mac?
An Apple a day will keep Cortana away...
Six is not an average but an upper limit.
Regarding the remote tribes: that is even more paradox. Suppose they never had a visitor or there is no living person that connects them to an other population, then the distance to random other people on the world is "undefined" or "infinite".
On the other hand, perhaps, if no one knows anyone outside their tribe(s), never had an outside visitor, etc... then, from their perspective, no one else exists and they know everyone in the world and their numbers are probably 1 or 2.
Six degrees of separation is the, already well established, idea that any individual is connected to any other via six network nodes. New research has discovered that the average between Facebook users is just three and a half ...
Facebook has set another bar even lower. </sarcasm>