Apparently I'm in the minority here, but I use Experts Exchange all the time. Granted, I first paid for it because I got tired of seeing those results in google. But, I've found that there are many types of questions that I can get answered there with less effort than I would expend otherwise by googling for hours.
Have you noticed that the Greek Empire fell? Or that the Roman Empire fell? Or that there are many other societies where generations worked hard to build up what future generations squandered and lost due to their complacency? Just because we, (humanity in general), have advanced over those millennia, doesn't mean there weren't societies that rose and fell in that time period, or that there weren't centuries where civilization took turns for the worse.
I've never understood what people meant when they said that the Greek empire fell. Weren't they conquered by the Romans? Being conquered can happen to any civilization no matter what it's like.
OTOH, the Roman empire fell due to uprisings by parts of that empire (is that correct?). But, since that empire was made up of numerous different civilizations with little in common, I don't see how that's relevant.
I agree with the grandparent. Go back and talk with parents in the 60's and I'm sure that they would have lots to say about the kids going down a terrible path. Yet, at least a few people in those generations were able to do some kickass world changing for the good. Just think of all the awesome things that have been discovered and created since then.
The burden caused by a mortgage and bills are not an illusion. They are quite real. And they are not something you can 'stand upon'. They are a necessary evil
I think it's overstating things quite a bit to say that a mortgage is an evil of any sort. It's certainly a burden, but you can choose the size of your burden. Regardless of what you are accustomed to, you will get used to living someplace smaller if you choose a lesser burden.
Examples of necessary evils: taxes.
Actually, that's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
SATA hard drives are hot swappable. I have a bay in the front of my system. You just push a button and the drive powers down and comes out.
However, the bay is only a convenience. For backups, you could leave the sata cables poking through the front of your system. You plug the drive in, run you backup, then unplug it and take it to wherever.
Step 3 to 4 "proves" that -1=1. The error is in the step that assumes sqrt(a/b)=sqrt(a)/sqrt(b). That's only true when a and b are positive real numbers.
It's simple. Planet is not a scientific word. Whatever definition they come up with won't make a bit of scientific difference. There are scientific words to describe everything in the solar system. Planet is not one of those words.
Personally, I think the best definition would basically include Pluto as a special case just so people don't cry about it. Something along the lines of:
"Planet: A large body that's spherical as a result of its own gravity which was formed at the same time as the solar system in the plane of the ecliptic. Also, Pluto is a planet too."
Does that mean that it's not legal to make a game on a website that looks like Monopoly, but that if you name it Rule Them All and use different street names then it's perfectly legal? I've recently implemented Chess and Checkers (not yet deployed, but pretty close) and I was wondering what other games I could legally put on the site.
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We don't even know that the pictures really came from the laptop. It seems reasonably likely that the laptop was broken if the feedback on ebay is any guide. But, the buyer is obviously pretty dim. He bought a laptop from someone with 1 feedback. It seems reasonable to me that someone that stupid (being more an animal than a human) would be capable of lying about finding those pics on the laptop.
Or maybe it's all true. There's no way to tell from this tabloid crap.
I've never understood the point of that. What was the rationale for requiring contests to give out free game pieces? Why do non-wining game tickets need to exist?
*laugh* Actually, that picture is a little old. I have a new stronger table that supports everything. The top is plastic so it still sags, but the interior is metal, so it won't ever collapse.
I'm pretty sure most of the sound comes through the front and back. I obviously can't cover those up because that'd kill air flow.
Actually, at one point I installed some Tornado MAXX fans in there. The noise was so loud that I could barely hear myself when talking. I quickly removed them and went back to normal speed fans. I haven't had any overheating problems and the noise doesn't blow out my eardrums.
If that was a PC case I'd love one of those. Do I need more room for expansion? No. I've still got 1 PSU, 3 front bays, and 8 back bays free. But, that case would put fear into anyone who walked within sight of it. That's important.
Pfft. Those cases look pretty, and I'm impressed by the super huge fans in Aerocool, but they all cower in the shadow of my case.
Drum roll please. On May 29, 2003, I entered a new phase of PC ownership. That was the day that my Chenbro SR101 21 bay server case arrived. Perhaps you didn't hear me. I said it was a 21 bay case! It's 14.5" wide and 25" tall! (The 25" includes the caster wheels.) It's a monster and unless you're one of the lucky few who own a case like this, it would most likely eat your case for an after dinner snack!
It's a masterpiece of case design! There are holders for wires in it to reduce clutter. It's like running a network inside the PC.
It has spaces for up to 15 fans.
It has caster wheels.
The motherboard is on a removable platter so I was able to just take the platter out and put the motherboard on it instead of having to put it into the case directly.
It has 12 external 5.25" bays and 8 internal 3.5" bays and 1 external 3.5" bay for the floppy drive.
The floppy drive bay has a removable platter so you can attach the drive to it and then attach the platter to the case.
The case comes with rails for the 5.25" bays. You attach the rails to each 5.25" device (CDROM, removable hard drive, etc.) and you can just slide the device into the bay and it snaps in place. You just squeeze the sides to pull them back out. There's no need to have to screw each one in and out when you want to move them around!
There's room in the back for 3 power supplies (I have 2 installed right now) and it's possible attach power supplies into the 5.25" bays if desired which theoretically means you could have 7 power supplies in it, but you wouldn't have much room left over for anything else.
The back, sides, top, and front panels are all removable, so if I want to I can remove them and have them painted or even paint them myself! (I was thinking of maybe having the entire thing painted shiny dark black with 1 big yellow pacman on each side.) I wonder if they sell spoilers for PC cases... Actually, I think I may have no choice but to add neon lights to it.
You're referring to maturity. People gain maturity by being on their own, independent of others, regardless of age.
When someone refers to someone as a "kid" then there's no way to know the age of the "kid" unless you know if they are referring to biological or mental age. Often it's just a relative term. A 70 year old may well refer to a 40 year old as a kid. I know that parents will refer to their children as their kids no matter how old they are.
On the other hand, I don't know how often people use "teen" to refer to someone between 13 and 19. I'm guessing the most common usage is to use teen to refer to adolescents, but who knows. When it comes to pron, teen will often refer to 25 year olds (or even older).
Language is often not strictly logical. I guess you just have to assume ambiguity. If you want specifics then you need to know the specific age.
Operator overloading for strings is in the language and is expected by anyone reading the code. The primary objection to operator overloading is operator overloading by users which makes code more difficult to understand because if you just look at a block of code you never know whether the operators are doing what they look like they are doing.
If someone reads some code that says "a = b" then they don't need to go check out the definition of the class to see if the equals operator is overloaded to do something else.
Reasonable people may disagree on whether or not operator overloading is generally a bad idea, but the use of the plus operator for string concatenation isn't really relevant to the argument.
If you want to complain about something not being in the language, please complain about the lack of closures. They aren't likely to be in there until Dolphin is released.
Changing the length of a day is just a display issue. The number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970 would be the same as it always was. Changing the length of a second would cause all kinds of problems. It'd make Y2K look like a trivial change. Just as a simple example: the meter is defined as the length that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 s. The values of basic constants in physics would need to all change. You'd have to look at the publish date on a book to determine whether the values are correct or not.
If everybody would just spend a fraction of this time cooking, fast food restaurants and instant foods would be obsolete, because everybody would be at least an adequate cook.
I know this is offtopic, but I can't let a silly comment like that pass. People don't eat instant foods because they're bad cooks. They eat them because they're instant. Cooking takes more time than popping something in the microwave.
In any case, I personally consider Lean Pockets to be better than 99% of the food I have ever eaten in my life, so being able to cook wouldn't help me get better tasting food.
I guess that makes clear that you feel that the substance is irrelevant as long as the perception is maintained.
I feel that way only within the context of entertainment where the perception is the only thing that matters.
Completely irrelevant, since most people don't expect the actors to perform those scenes themselves.
And why do people have that expectation? For whatever reason I simply do not have that expectation of musicians any more than I do of actors.
In the rare case where the actor DOES have a reputation for performing such stunts (e.g., Jackie Chan), people would be very upset if he _claimed_ he had performed them, but it later turned out that a stunt double had done it.
I have extra respect for Jackie Chan in the same way that I have respect for anyone who is good at multiple difficult things. Being a stunt guy is hard work as is acting, so I definitely have respect for him. However, knowing that Jackie Chan does his own stunts does not in any way influence my opinion regarding his movies.
I know what you're trying to say and I guess I'll just have to respectfully disagree. I personally would feel cheated if a great singer wasn't popular simply because she was ugly or just had a horrible stage presence. If people normally expect musicians to do it all then I guess I just do not like that that is the case.
I guess my real issue is with your original complaint where you said something about it being soulless. I simply do not in any way believe that a fake bugler is soulless in a context where the bugler isn't even the point of the gathering.
Good example. I don't see why people were upset by that whole silly thing. Even so, the pathetic thing is that she sucks even when someone else is singing for her. Or was she lip syncing to her own singing from a studio? It doesn't matter. She sucks regardless.
Hey, if it looks like a person singing and performing, and it sounds like a person singing and performing, then what conceivable problem is there with the fact that the person is actually lip-syncing? I mean, other than the fact that they're completely lying to their audience?
That's not really a great example. I personally don't understand why people are upset by that. Milli Vanilli (sp?) sounded good to me. They looked kind of cool. What's the big deal that the music video acting and the singing were done by different people?
When you watch a movie, are you upset to learn that a stunt double was used during certain action sequences? Do you feel that the audience is being lied to by making it look like it was really Bruce Willis who jumped from the top of the building?
Well, I suppose if you're the kind of person who believes that perception is more important than substance, then I guess there is no problem. If you're the kind of the person who believes in doing something _right_, then you should find this kind of attitude downright dishonest.
What substance? It's a show. The show IS the substance. It's only dishonest if the person who paid for the bugler was deceived. And even then it hardly makes any real difference.
The audience got a show (albeit, a solemn one at a funeral, but it's a show nonetheless).
Music, acting, and any other type of performance is entirely superficial. The play is the thing.
What difference does it make? If it looks like a person playing taps and it sounds like a person playing taps then what conceivable problem is there with the fact that the person is not in fact playing taps?
The important part is the ceremony and the soundwaves.
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Apparently I'm in the minority here, but I use Experts Exchange all the time. Granted, I first paid for it because I got tired of seeing those results in google. But, I've found that there are many types of questions that I can get answered there with less effort than I would expend otherwise by googling for hours.
OTOH, the Roman empire fell due to uprisings by parts of that empire (is that correct?). But, since that empire was made up of numerous different civilizations with little in common, I don't see how that's relevant.
I agree with the grandparent. Go back and talk with parents in the 60's and I'm sure that they would have lots to say about the kids going down a terrible path. Yet, at least a few people in those generations were able to do some kickass world changing for the good. Just think of all the awesome things that have been discovered and created since then.
Examples of necessary evils: taxes.
Actually, that's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
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SATA hard drives are hot swappable. I have a bay in the front of my system. You just push a button and the drive powers down and comes out.
However, the bay is only a convenience. For backups, you could leave the sata cables poking through the front of your system. You plug the drive in, run you backup, then unplug it and take it to wherever.
Step 3 to 4 "proves" that -1=1. The error is in the step that assumes sqrt(a/b)=sqrt(a)/sqrt(b). That's only true when a and b are positive real numbers.
It's simple. Planet is not a scientific word. Whatever definition they come up with won't make a bit of scientific difference. There are scientific words to describe everything in the solar system. Planet is not one of those words.
Personally, I think the best definition would basically include Pluto as a special case just so people don't cry about it. Something along the lines of:
"Planet: A large body that's spherical as a result of its own gravity which was formed at the same time as the solar system in the plane of the ecliptic. Also, Pluto is a planet too."
Does that mean that it's not legal to make a game on a website that looks like Monopoly, but that if you name it Rule Them All and use different street names then it's perfectly legal? I've recently implemented Chess and Checkers (not yet deployed, but pretty close) and I was wondering what other games I could legally put on the site.
We don't even know that the pictures really came from the laptop. It seems reasonably likely that the laptop was broken if the feedback on ebay is any guide. But, the buyer is obviously pretty dim. He bought a laptop from someone with 1 feedback. It seems reasonable to me that someone that stupid (being more an animal than a human) would be capable of lying about finding those pics on the laptop.
Or maybe it's all true. There's no way to tell from this tabloid crap.
I've never understood the point of that. What was the rationale for requiring contests to give out free game pieces? Why do non-wining game tickets need to exist?
*laugh* Actually, that picture is a little old. I have a new stronger table that supports everything. The top is plastic so it still sags, but the interior is metal, so it won't ever collapse.
I'm pretty sure most of the sound comes through the front and back. I obviously can't cover those up because that'd kill air flow. Actually, at one point I installed some Tornado MAXX fans in there. The noise was so loud that I could barely hear myself when talking. I quickly removed them and went back to normal speed fans. I haven't had any overheating problems and the noise doesn't blow out my eardrums.
If that was a PC case I'd love one of those. Do I need more room for expansion? No. I've still got 1 PSU, 3 front bays, and 8 back bays free. But, that case would put fear into anyone who walked within sight of it. That's important.
Drum roll please. On May 29, 2003, I entered a new phase of PC ownership. That was the day that my Chenbro SR101 21 bay server case arrived. Perhaps you didn't hear me. I said it was a 21 bay case! It's 14.5" wide and 25" tall! (The 25" includes the caster wheels.) It's a monster and unless you're one of the lucky few who own a case like this, it would most likely eat your case for an after dinner snack!
It's a masterpiece of case design! There are holders for wires in it to reduce clutter. It's like running a network inside the PC.
It has spaces for up to 15 fans.
It has caster wheels.
The motherboard is on a removable platter so I was able to just take the platter out and put the motherboard on it instead of having to put it into the case directly.
It has 12 external 5.25" bays and 8 internal 3.5" bays and 1 external 3.5" bay for the floppy drive.
The floppy drive bay has a removable platter so you can attach the drive to it and then attach the platter to the case.
The case comes with rails for the 5.25" bays. You attach the rails to each 5.25" device (CDROM, removable hard drive, etc.) and you can just slide the device into the bay and it snaps in place. You just squeeze the sides to pull them back out. There's no need to have to screw each one in and out when you want to move them around!
There's room in the back for 3 power supplies (I have 2 installed right now) and it's possible attach power supplies into the 5.25" bays if desired which theoretically means you could have 7 power supplies in it, but you wouldn't have much room left over for anything else.
The back, sides, top, and front panels are all removable, so if I want to I can remove them and have them painted or even paint them myself! (I was thinking of maybe having the entire thing painted shiny dark black with 1 big yellow pacman on each side.) I wonder if they sell spoilers for PC cases... Actually, I think I may have no choice but to add neon lights to it.
You're referring to maturity. People gain maturity by being on their own, independent of others, regardless of age.
When someone refers to someone as a "kid" then there's no way to know the age of the "kid" unless you know if they are referring to biological or mental age. Often it's just a relative term. A 70 year old may well refer to a 40 year old as a kid. I know that parents will refer to their children as their kids no matter how old they are.
On the other hand, I don't know how often people use "teen" to refer to someone between 13 and 19. I'm guessing the most common usage is to use teen to refer to adolescents, but who knows. When it comes to pron, teen will often refer to 25 year olds (or even older).
Language is often not strictly logical. I guess you just have to assume ambiguity. If you want specifics then you need to know the specific age.
Operator overloading for strings is in the language and is expected by anyone reading the code. The primary objection to operator overloading is operator overloading by users which makes code more difficult to understand because if you just look at a block of code you never know whether the operators are doing what they look like they are doing.
If someone reads some code that says "a = b" then they don't need to go check out the definition of the class to see if the equals operator is overloaded to do something else.
Reasonable people may disagree on whether or not operator overloading is generally a bad idea, but the use of the plus operator for string concatenation isn't really relevant to the argument.
If you want to complain about something not being in the language, please complain about the lack of closures. They aren't likely to be in there until Dolphin is released.
Changing the length of a day is just a display issue. The number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970 would be the same as it always was. Changing the length of a second would cause all kinds of problems. It'd make Y2K look like a trivial change. Just as a simple example: the meter is defined as the length that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 s. The values of basic constants in physics would need to all change. You'd have to look at the publish date on a book to determine whether the values are correct or not.
In any case, I personally consider Lean Pockets to be better than 99% of the food I have ever eaten in my life, so being able to cook wouldn't help me get better tasting food.
When you watch a movie, are you upset to learn that a stunt double was used during certain action sequences? Do you feel that the audience is being lied to by making it look like it was really Bruce Willis who jumped from the top of the building?
What substance? It's a show. The show IS the substance. It's only dishonest if the person who paid for the bugler was deceived. And even then it hardly makes any real difference.The audience got a show (albeit, a solemn one at a funeral, but it's a show nonetheless).
Music, acting, and any other type of performance is entirely superficial. The play is the thing.
What difference does it make? If it looks like a person playing taps and it sounds like a person playing taps then what conceivable problem is there with the fact that the person is not in fact playing taps?
The important part is the ceremony and the soundwaves.
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