Perhaps, but we can't really maintain any real expectations of the Republicans. In recent years Republicans have become the party of massive government (both in terms of control and in terms of spending).
Democrats may have desired universal health care for everyone, but it was Republicans that finally passed the massive spending bills in the federal government and in California.
Every other positive thing about the Republicans has been reversed in recent years. I see no reason to be surprised if they start passing a bunch of new taxes too.
Perhaps the parties are switching places again. It happened once before sometime in the last hundred years. It may be happening again now.
"slownesday" wouldn't show up. Those sorts of tags seem to be filtered out these days.
I used to eagerly read the tags to see snappy answers to posts like "duh", "no", "yes", "hell yes" and so on.
It was like having a low resolution voting system. If very few people disagreed with the article then "no" wouldn't show up.
I now see no reason at all to look at the tags. I don't know why people even bother adding them. The editor posting the article could easily add simple tags like "politics".
On the other hand, perhaps the solution would be to add a poll to every single article and then allow people to add things to the poll that were not originally included.
The poll results would say things like "yes 1370/1865" to indicate how many had voted for "yes" over the total number of people who voted in the poll while "yes" was an option.
I don't think it works like that. Big black holes like the one at the center of the galaxy were made by lots of mass crushing together until it bent space enough to become a black hole.
But, it's the mass that's dangerous, not the black-hole-ness. If you create a black hole without the mass then what's going to pull stuff past the schwarzschild radius? If it has the mass of a few atoms that were crushed together to form a black hole, nothing else could get close enough to it to become part of the black hole unless you used a particle accelerator to smash more particles into the hole.
Does anyone know what sort of special properties mini black holes have? I know they certainly wouldn't just suck the whole earth into them, but I'm wondering if they somehow have other new properties that they didn't have before. Do they have any magnetic properties which differ from the properties of the component atoms? Given their microscopic size (they're just made of a small number of atoms smashed together), wouldn't they just evaporate right away?
The computer uses power of two, it's how it measures things
It does except when it doesn't. How many flops exist in a teraflop? The answer is exactly 1 trillion flops.
In any case, hard drives are sold to the public. Most of the public doesn't know how to count in binary. Whether or not the engineers use powers of two is irrelevant when you're marketing something.
I agree that the bi versions should be used if you mean the version that's a power of two. It's silly to have a kilometer be 1000 meters, a kilogram be 1000 grams, a kiloliter be 1000 liters, and a kilobyte be 1024 bytes.
People, consistency is good. Anything else gets your probe smashed into Mars.
I filter my email with a whitelist for stuff I want and then filter all email with "img " in them into the junk folder. Every now and then I skim my junk folder and it very rarely has anything important in it. It's probably the most effective anti-spam rule that I have.
It's really a mixture of points. The idea is that Disney uses a lot of stuff from the public domain, but Disney is also directly responsible for the effectively infinite copyright length which prevents anything copyrighted from ever entering the public domain again.
It's wrong for china to steal stuff like Shrek or whatever else they've developed in recent years. I'd say it's morally just fine for them to steal old stuff like Mickey Mouse which by all rights should have been in the public domain decades ago.
So which party do you think is not insane? Is it the democrats who want to Robin Hood this entire country into poverty or the republicans who want to turn this country into a theocracy?
I voted for the democrats in the last election purely because I wanted the republicans to get the fuck out of office. But, I'm still a libertarian. I cheer when gridlock happens because I know that 99 times out of 100, any bill that passes is a bill that does something that I don't like.
You're making me relive the horror of that day. I remember being angry almost to the point of tears when the anti-gerrymandering initiative was voted down. I considered a vote against that initiative to effectively be a vote against democracy (an odd thing to have, but that's what it was).
No, I meant that if I spend a lot of time compiling things, I can look at the compilation benchmark and see that it's faster than others. Each one of those numbers would be against a standard system (fixed amount of memory and same video card). The point is to have a measurement that measures what really matters to each person.
Why can't the box for each cpu list something along the following lines? People could pick the number that is important to them and consumers wouldn't have to wonder what the number meant because it'd be obvious what it meant.
# seconds to compile linux kernel x.y.z = N1 avg framerate of Doom 3 with ABC video card = N2 # seconds to convert a 2GB avi file into mp4 format with program DEF = N3
How does it do 4 monitors? The picture of it at:
http://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Quadro-Pcie-256MB-4PO RT/dp/B000ERVHHY/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-3242536-67904 26?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1175828765&sr=8-1 only shows two connectors on the back. Does it come with some sort of separate connector that connects to the board which has two more ports on it?
Here we can look at that and say, "Psssh, effing New Jersey" but in a lot of places in Europe they absolutely believe that we would fry this joker for a non-violent crime.
6 years ago I would have said that such an opinion was stupid reactionary emotional nonsense. Somewhere between 4 and 6 years ago I realized I was wrong. He's right to be afraid to be deported to here. He probably wouldn't be killed, but he'd almost certainly get 250 years in a maximum security prison. During that time our wonderful prison system would not do anything at all to protect him from violent criminals inside the prison because, as we all know, crime is only bad when it happens outside a prison. Rape and murder are no big deal in there right? Piss off the wrong prosecutor and you deserve to be raped.
Protection from cruel and unusual punishment is not part of our justice system anymore.
Are you sure there are even hundreds? I get a lot of spam, but there's very little variety in that spam. It seems to me like there are a tiny number of spammers that control a large number of zombie machines.
If there were truly a huge number of spammers then you'd think that the average spam per day would stay roughly level. It doesn't. There are days when I get no spam at all. There are days when I get one or two messages. There are days when I suddenly get dozens of messages (usually all of the same type).
That's not really a great comparison. IPv6 has no immediate benefits and has some short term problems. Using IPv6 is more like paying off the budget deficit. You don't do it because it's not your problem, it's your kid's problem.
Presumably a non-trivial increase in connection speed would be a much bigger draw to people.
LOL. You guys sound like the silly people who got all emotional over the definition of the word "planet". You all know exactly what you're referring to. You all agree that it's important not to have your system go down. But you're worried about the semantic meaning of "vulnerability" as if admitting disagreement over a simple definition means that somehow you lose.
If you can't agree over the word "vulnerability" then just call it a severe high priority super really bad bug and move on.
I'm confused. At what point do they get money out of that process? You said "They don't need to worry about transferring money out of the compromised brokerage accounts", but if they're just using the accounts to pump the stock then wouldn't they still leave a trail back to themselves since they would have needed to own the stock in one of their own accounts in the first place?
The authorities would just need to look at the owners of these stocks who owned the stock before the hype and then see who sold during the hype. One time would be a coincidence, but if they were found doing that more than once then it'd be awfully suspicious.
Yotta is the largest metric prefix and it's the next one after Zetta, so it looks like the standards people are going to have to get together to name some more prefixes.
I don't understand why anyone would use the base 2 definition. A kilometer is 1000 meters. A giga-year is a billion years. A mega-liter is a million liters. A teraflop is a trillion flops.
A teraflop is not 2^40 flops. It is 10^12 flops.
If I have a gigabyte then I assume I have a billion bytes. If you want to use prefixes that denote base 2 then you should come up with prefixes that are not the same as the metric prefixes.
The hard drive manufacturers are of course just doing it for marketing purposes, but that doesn't make it wrong.
During the boom, the federal deficit was balanced without cutting any spending. They had a surplus. What did they do with that surplus? Did they spend one dime on paying down the deficit? No, they spent it. What happened when tax revenues went down due to economic decline? Did they cut spending? No.
The correlation between spending and taxes is one way only. It goes up when there's a surplus, but it doesn't go down when there's a deficit.
That said, the democrats are making at least a bit of noise about being more responsible. They clearly are itching to have universal health care, but I'm hoping that they'll fail to do that while also thwarting the crazy spending that the Republicans want.
I voted for a Democrat for the first time recently (2004 I think) and I certainly have no intention of ever voting Republican again at the federal level unless I see some indication that they'll act fiscally responsible.
Anyway, this has all been a diversion. You clearly have a far more optimistic view of how the government would react to a sudden influx of additional cash. Without hard data I guess there's no way of determining which of us is right.
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Perhaps, but we can't really maintain any real expectations of the Republicans. In recent years Republicans have become the party of massive government (both in terms of control and in terms of spending).
Democrats may have desired universal health care for everyone, but it was Republicans that finally passed the massive spending bills in the federal government and in California.
Every other positive thing about the Republicans has been reversed in recent years. I see no reason to be surprised if they start passing a bunch of new taxes too.
Perhaps the parties are switching places again. It happened once before sometime in the last hundred years. It may be happening again now.
There are several definitions of "ton". One of those definitions is that a ton is exactly 2000 lbs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton
"slownesday" wouldn't show up. Those sorts of tags seem to be filtered out these days.
I used to eagerly read the tags to see snappy answers to posts like "duh", "no", "yes", "hell yes" and so on.
It was like having a low resolution voting system. If very few people disagreed with the article then "no" wouldn't show up.
I now see no reason at all to look at the tags. I don't know why people even bother adding them. The editor posting the article could easily add simple tags like "politics".
On the other hand, perhaps the solution would be to add a poll to every single article and then allow people to add things to the poll that were not originally included.
The poll results would say things like "yes 1370/1865" to indicate how many had voted for "yes" over the total number of people who voted in the poll while "yes" was an option.
I don't think it works like that. Big black holes like the one at the center of the galaxy were made by lots of mass crushing together until it bent space enough to become a black hole.
But, it's the mass that's dangerous, not the black-hole-ness. If you create a black hole without the mass then what's going to pull stuff past the schwarzschild radius? If it has the mass of a few atoms that were crushed together to form a black hole, nothing else could get close enough to it to become part of the black hole unless you used a particle accelerator to smash more particles into the hole.
Does anyone know what sort of special properties mini black holes have? I know they certainly wouldn't just suck the whole earth into them, but I'm wondering if they somehow have other new properties that they didn't have before. Do they have any magnetic properties which differ from the properties of the component atoms? Given their microscopic size (they're just made of a small number of atoms smashed together), wouldn't they just evaporate right away?
Out of curiosity, who calls the colon a "double point"? Did you make that up or is it a foreign language thing?
In any case, hard drives are sold to the public. Most of the public doesn't know how to count in binary. Whether or not the engineers use powers of two is irrelevant when you're marketing something.
I agree that the bi versions should be used if you mean the version that's a power of two. It's silly to have a kilometer be 1000 meters, a kilogram be 1000 grams, a kiloliter be 1000 liters, and a kilobyte be 1024 bytes.
People, consistency is good. Anything else gets your probe smashed into Mars.
I filter my email with a whitelist for stuff I want and then filter all email with "img " in them into the junk folder. Every now and then I skim my junk folder and it very rarely has anything important in it. It's probably the most effective anti-spam rule that I have.
Am I the only one who uses text emotions? *shrug* I guess that just makes me different. *smile*
You're right, the pokemon movie was unbearable, just like the game and the tv show.
It's really a mixture of points. The idea is that Disney uses a lot of stuff from the public domain, but Disney is also directly responsible for the effectively infinite copyright length which prevents anything copyrighted from ever entering the public domain again.
It's wrong for china to steal stuff like Shrek or whatever else they've developed in recent years. I'd say it's morally just fine for them to steal old stuff like Mickey Mouse which by all rights should have been in the public domain decades ago.
So which party do you think is not insane? Is it the democrats who want to Robin Hood this entire country into poverty or the republicans who want to turn this country into a theocracy?
I voted for the democrats in the last election purely because I wanted the republicans to get the fuck out of office. But, I'm still a libertarian. I cheer when gridlock happens because I know that 99 times out of 100, any bill that passes is a bill that does something that I don't like.
You're making me relive the horror of that day. I remember being angry almost to the point of tears when the anti-gerrymandering initiative was voted down. I considered a vote against that initiative to effectively be a vote against democracy (an odd thing to have, but that's what it was).
No problems there then. Gerrymandering makes it extremely difficult for the opposite party to gain control, so it won't happen often.
No, I meant that if I spend a lot of time compiling things, I can look at the compilation benchmark and see that it's faster than others. Each one of those numbers would be against a standard system (fixed amount of memory and same video card). The point is to have a measurement that measures what really matters to each person.
Why can't the box for each cpu list something along the following lines? People could pick the number that is important to them and consumers wouldn't have to wonder what the number meant because it'd be obvious what it meant.
# seconds to compile linux kernel x.y.z = N1
avg framerate of Doom 3 with ABC video card = N2
# seconds to convert a 2GB avi file into mp4 format with program DEF = N3
How does it do 4 monitors? The picture of it at:O RT/dp/B000ERVHHY/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-3242536-67904 26?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1175828765&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Quadro-Pcie-256MB-4P
only shows two connectors on the back. Does it come with some sort of separate connector that connects to the board which has two more ports on it?
Protection from cruel and unusual punishment is not part of our justice system anymore.
Are you sure there are even hundreds? I get a lot of spam, but there's very little variety in that spam. It seems to me like there are a tiny number of spammers that control a large number of zombie machines.
If there were truly a huge number of spammers then you'd think that the average spam per day would stay roughly level. It doesn't. There are days when I get no spam at all. There are days when I get one or two messages. There are days when I suddenly get dozens of messages (usually all of the same type).
That's not really a great comparison. IPv6 has no immediate benefits and has some short term problems. Using IPv6 is more like paying off the budget deficit. You don't do it because it's not your problem, it's your kid's problem.
Presumably a non-trivial increase in connection speed would be a much bigger draw to people.
LOL. You guys sound like the silly people who got all emotional over the definition of the word "planet". You all know exactly what you're referring to. You all agree that it's important not to have your system go down. But you're worried about the semantic meaning of "vulnerability" as if admitting disagreement over a simple definition means that somehow you lose.
If you can't agree over the word "vulnerability" then just call it a severe high priority super really bad bug and move on.
I'm confused. At what point do they get money out of that process? You said "They don't need to worry about transferring money out of the compromised brokerage accounts", but if they're just using the accounts to pump the stock then wouldn't they still leave a trail back to themselves since they would have needed to own the stock in one of their own accounts in the first place?
The authorities would just need to look at the owners of these stocks who owned the stock before the hype and then see who sold during the hype. One time would be a coincidence, but if they were found doing that more than once then it'd be awfully suspicious.
I don't know how widespread it is, but my Canon Digital Rebel takes pictures with a 3:2 aspect ratio, so it's wider than 16x9.
Yotta is the largest metric prefix and it's the next one after Zetta, so it looks like the standards people are going to have to get together to name some more prefixes.
I don't understand why anyone would use the base 2 definition. A kilometer is 1000 meters. A giga-year is a billion years. A mega-liter is a million liters. A teraflop is a trillion flops.
A teraflop is not 2^40 flops. It is 10^12 flops.
If I have a gigabyte then I assume I have a billion bytes. If you want to use prefixes that denote base 2 then you should come up with prefixes that are not the same as the metric prefixes.
The hard drive manufacturers are of course just doing it for marketing purposes, but that doesn't make it wrong.
During the boom, the federal deficit was balanced without cutting any spending. They had a surplus. What did they do with that surplus? Did they spend one dime on paying down the deficit? No, they spent it. What happened when tax revenues went down due to economic decline? Did they cut spending? No.
The correlation between spending and taxes is one way only. It goes up when there's a surplus, but it doesn't go down when there's a deficit.
That said, the democrats are making at least a bit of noise about being more responsible. They clearly are itching to have universal health care, but I'm hoping that they'll fail to do that while also thwarting the crazy spending that the Republicans want.
I voted for a Democrat for the first time recently (2004 I think) and I certainly have no intention of ever voting Republican again at the federal level unless I see some indication that they'll act fiscally responsible.
Anyway, this has all been a diversion. You clearly have a far more optimistic view of how the government would react to a sudden influx of additional cash. Without hard data I guess there's no way of determining which of us is right.