When I read something like "confirms Einstein's theory" AGAIN I just get annoyed. In my opinion, the mission would only be a success if it found a flaw in Einstein's theories. Those theories are many decades old and I'm hungry for some totally new physics.
I get so disappointed when I hear that the Pioneer mystery (or whichever one was curving unexpectedly) is solved using perfectly well known physics. Where are the new unknown rules that we can use to create new breakthrough technologies?
All the speculation I see in those articles seems far fetched to me. A price between $350 and $400? They're going to court hard core gamers? The controller will have an HD screen?
If they're doing any of those things they're basically doing exactly opposite of what they've done so successfully with the Wii. I assume the console will be able to do HD video, but putting an HD screen on the remote is unlikely given that every portable game system they've ever made has had screens with a lower resolution than TVs.
So they'll gather DNA from all arrestees, but will they give people the right to have further DNA tests done when the evidence might exonerate them? I keep hearing stories of innocent people in jail for years because the police labs screw up (or don't do tests at all) and they weren't given the right to do DNA tests at an external lab even if they paid for it themselves. It seems to me that laws are generally slanted towards increasing the number of people in prison regardless of whether or not they are guilty.
If MSN Search was first it's too bad they didn't transfer some of that search knowledge to other products. In my experience searching in sharepoint is utterly unreliable when it comes to actually finding things because it often just reports back that it found nothing rather than indicate that it limited the scope of the search because you happened to be on some particular page. I have always needed to navigate out to the root and then search from there to make sure I'm searching everything.
In outlook the search is ridiculous. At home I can search years of email in seconds using Thunderbird. In outlook it takes many minutes to just search the last year worth of email.
Windows search is not decent (although I haven't used Windows 7 yet). Nothing is indexed, so searching millions of files takes forever.
Microsoft is so big that it is impossible for it to transfer any useful knowledge from one part of the company to another.
My understanding is that their proposed budget didn't push for cuts in military, social security, medicare, or medicaid. As such, any cuts they mention are just posturing. Those 4 make up nearly all money spent, so anything else is just screwing around at the edges messing with programs that they don't like.
If they did propose to cut any of the big 4 then I'm impressed. If they chop the military budget in half (chop it in half and we'd still have way more than enough military power to defend ourselves if it was ever necessary), raise SS age to 70, and reduce eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid to only those who need the money then that would truly fix the budget crisis.
You're drinking the kool-aid. I'm sorry, but I will not give a chance to someone who just mouths words. Ron Paul is the only representative that I trust to do what he says because he truly has done exactly what he said for decades. Everyone else just says what they need to in order to get elected. Ron Paul has an internal drive to do what he says which is shared by precious few humans. I still disagree with him on a variety of things, but I do trust him to vote like he says. I'm not stupid enough to feel the same about any other politician.
Seriously, Palin is a hero to the Tea Party. What else needs to be said? She's the queen of saying one thing while doing another.
In the case of the U.S. that means voting for people who want to cut the budget because the less money the government has, they less power they wield.
And who exactly is that? By my count there might be one or two people in the entire house and senate who want to cut the budget. The rest just want to cut the budget for programs they don't like and increase the budget for things they do like.
If you honestly believe Tea Party candidates want to cut the budget (as in, cut the budget, period, end of story) then you are living in a fantasy world.
Why isn't launching from an aircraft a big win? Rockets spend loads of fuel launching through the lower layers of atmosphere that planes can pass through with far less energy.
I would argue that we should only consider it good dancing if it still looks good without music.
Without music dancing becomes mime. Whether or not you think a mime is crazy depends on what you know about why they are miming. If they are miming because they really think they are trapped in a box then they really are crazy. If they are miming to entertain then they are good entertainers.
Astrologers are either good entertainers or misguided idiots. Whether you can hear their music or not, they are not scientists.
The shooter hardly seems like a clear leftist. In the article you point to they also favorited Mein Kampf, are against federal laws, and insists on the gold and silver standard. That's a good mix of hard right and hard left. I'd say they're just pure anarchist with a mix of pure crazy.
When the GP says "Neither has Obama" it sounds like he's saying they're on the same level. It may be valid to say that there are better people out there qualified to be president, but Palin is a stupid person who knows with absolute conviction that she is always right about everything. That's the worst type of person to have in a position of power.
I've always wondered about how language shapes thought. I've never learned another speaking language, but I do know that this concept is absolutely true in programming languages. Some programming languages allow you to express things far easier than others. Reading a few lines of code in one language can be equivalent to a page of code in another. Other times the amount of code is the similar, but the code in one language is far easier to understand.
Yet, learning a programming language doesn't take much time compared to the huge investment in time required to learn a speaking language. (unless the GP is correct that it only takes 2 weeks to learn Esperanto).
How does this work in speaking languages? In some languages is it possible to express things with fewer words or with a grammar that makes things easier to understand? Do some languages have ways to be clever or poetic that do not exist in others?
You only need one job. Web developers are needed by practically every company. I don't know what percentage of all that is Java vs C# but as a Java programmer I know that Java jobs are trivially easy to come by.
In any case, objecting to C# is likely not an objection to C# itself. I personally think it looks like a great language. It's really objecting to all the stuff that's likely to come along with C# like Windows servers, IIS, VB scripts, IE only sites, Microsoft SQL Server, the attitude that cross platform development doesn't matter and a bunch of other crap that some of us don't want to have to deal with. If you don't have a problem with any of that stuff then that's your business. Don't blame anyone else for your eventual ulcers though.
Was he actually happy or did he continue to feel unhappy with the speed but didn't bother you because he knew that there were no other faster drives available?
I know I am like that. I buy fast components, but things rarely are fast enough. The only exception I have felt in years is graphics cards. New cards can easily bee 20 times faster and as a result there is a real appreciable speed improvement.
My wife and I have watched netflix movies exclusively for at least 2 years. I very nearly went to see Avatar to see it in 3D, but instead I chose to just wait a few years until I can see it in 3D at home.
Theaters are simply not a pleasant place to watch movies.
Not every Democrat is Ralph Nader. Not every Republican is Sarah Palin. Not every Libertarian is Ayn Rand.
As a moderate libertarian I think certain services need to be provided for by the government in situations where the market simply will not work properly. The fire department is certainly an obvious example of that.
Just because I believe that does not mean I've jumped to the other end of the spectrum where I'd love an HOA on every block telling me what color my fence can be.
Yes, but the right side of the screen isn't very useful. I prefer to waste a lot of space on the right rather than a little space at the bottom. I always have the task bar and browser tabs on the right side to preserve vertical space.
If drinking while driving is less dangerous than texting then it's not nearly as big a deal as I have always thought. If that's really true (unlikely except for very light drinking) then I'd be in favor of making it legal to drink and drive.
The real problem is driving. Automate the roads and legally require all new cars to be able to drive themselves using smart roads with embedded sensors. This solves all problems: - bored drivers who need to distract themselves - people who change lanes all the time and cause traffic to slow in all lanes - people who waste gas accelerating and braking all the time - people who make mistakes - people who are tired - people who drink and drive - people who get blowjobs while driving
Trains won't work. People want to drive directly to where they want to go. People on trains also stink too much. Blab on about trains all you want, but they are a locale specific solution that will never ever solve all driving problems.
People who enjoy driving can go have a blast at a race track or whatever on weekends. I'm sure that statistically the number of crashes due to computer failures will be far below the rate of crashes due to assholes who think they're great drivers.
Whoa there, don't knock the fedora. Baseball caps and cowboy hats cause a man to look like they dropped 20 IQ points. The fedora is the only hat that a man can wear and not look like an idiot.
The trick is to rotate the object as it passes through the scanner. Don't bother finding the codes, the scanner usually can scan at high speeds and from the bottom and side, just rotate it as it goes through and 99% of the time it'll find the code. If it doesn't then just keep turning it. I love those things at my grocery store. There are usually no lines and I can scan items 10 times faster than the "special"/old/apathetic people who seem to make up most of the checkout staff.
It also saves me from going through the annoying ritual necessary to appease the grocery gods and get your stuff out of the store: "no, I don't want to donate", "no bags, thanks", "no, no bags", "no, not even for those", scan card, "credit", "no, I can handle it", "you too".
All those hard to find books are easy to find online at amazon.com and odds are good that they will be available used for a very low price plus shipping.
Offline stores are good for only one thing: paging through a book before you buy.
Yep. I have a whole store display box of those things (they look very cool). I think there are 30 in the box or thereabouts. I've never eaten any though (I avoid eating decades old candy.).
It's amazing how much Pac-Man junk there is out there! I have Pac-Man roller skates, trash cans, stickers, sleeping bags, vitamins, keychains, board games, a phone, a radio, a sled, bed sheets, many types of glasses, many types of toys, and a whole bunch of other stuff. It all looks great on display in my rec room!
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When I read something like "confirms Einstein's theory" AGAIN I just get annoyed. In my opinion, the mission would only be a success if it found a flaw in Einstein's theories. Those theories are many decades old and I'm hungry for some totally new physics.
I get so disappointed when I hear that the Pioneer mystery (or whichever one was curving unexpectedly) is solved using perfectly well known physics. Where are the new unknown rules that we can use to create new breakthrough technologies?
All the speculation I see in those articles seems far fetched to me. A price between $350 and $400? They're going to court hard core gamers? The controller will have an HD screen?
If they're doing any of those things they're basically doing exactly opposite of what they've done so successfully with the Wii. I assume the console will be able to do HD video, but putting an HD screen on the remote is unlikely given that every portable game system they've ever made has had screens with a lower resolution than TVs.
It's not small, but it's 1/5 the size of a 9.0 earthquake (10^9 / 10^8.3).
So they'll gather DNA from all arrestees, but will they give people the right to have further DNA tests done when the evidence might exonerate them? I keep hearing stories of innocent people in jail for years because the police labs screw up (or don't do tests at all) and they weren't given the right to do DNA tests at an external lab even if they paid for it themselves. It seems to me that laws are generally slanted towards increasing the number of people in prison regardless of whether or not they are guilty.
If MSN Search was first it's too bad they didn't transfer some of that search knowledge to other products. In my experience searching in sharepoint is utterly unreliable when it comes to actually finding things because it often just reports back that it found nothing rather than indicate that it limited the scope of the search because you happened to be on some particular page. I have always needed to navigate out to the root and then search from there to make sure I'm searching everything.
In outlook the search is ridiculous. At home I can search years of email in seconds using Thunderbird. In outlook it takes many minutes to just search the last year worth of email.
Windows search is not decent (although I haven't used Windows 7 yet). Nothing is indexed, so searching millions of files takes forever.
Microsoft is so big that it is impossible for it to transfer any useful knowledge from one part of the company to another.
My understanding is that their proposed budget didn't push for cuts in military, social security, medicare, or medicaid. As such, any cuts they mention are just posturing. Those 4 make up nearly all money spent, so anything else is just screwing around at the edges messing with programs that they don't like.
If they did propose to cut any of the big 4 then I'm impressed. If they chop the military budget in half (chop it in half and we'd still have way more than enough military power to defend ourselves if it was ever necessary), raise SS age to 70, and reduce eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid to only those who need the money then that would truly fix the budget crisis.
You're drinking the kool-aid. I'm sorry, but I will not give a chance to someone who just mouths words. Ron Paul is the only representative that I trust to do what he says because he truly has done exactly what he said for decades. Everyone else just says what they need to in order to get elected. Ron Paul has an internal drive to do what he says which is shared by precious few humans. I still disagree with him on a variety of things, but I do trust him to vote like he says. I'm not stupid enough to feel the same about any other politician.
Seriously, Palin is a hero to the Tea Party. What else needs to be said? She's the queen of saying one thing while doing another.
And who exactly is that? By my count there might be one or two people in the entire house and senate who want to cut the budget. The rest just want to cut the budget for programs they don't like and increase the budget for things they do like.
If you honestly believe Tea Party candidates want to cut the budget (as in, cut the budget, period, end of story) then you are living in a fantasy world.
Why isn't launching from an aircraft a big win? Rockets spend loads of fuel launching through the lower layers of atmosphere that planes can pass through with far less energy.
I would argue that we should only consider it good dancing if it still looks good without music.
Without music dancing becomes mime. Whether or not you think a mime is crazy depends on what you know about why they are miming. If they are miming because they really think they are trapped in a box then they really are crazy. If they are miming to entertain then they are good entertainers.
Astrologers are either good entertainers or misguided idiots. Whether you can hear their music or not, they are not scientists.
The shooter hardly seems like a clear leftist. In the article you point to they also favorited Mein Kampf, are against federal laws, and insists on the gold and silver standard. That's a good mix of hard right and hard left. I'd say they're just pure anarchist with a mix of pure crazy.
When the GP says "Neither has Obama" it sounds like he's saying they're on the same level. It may be valid to say that there are better people out there qualified to be president, but Palin is a stupid person who knows with absolute conviction that she is always right about everything. That's the worst type of person to have in a position of power.
I've always wondered about how language shapes thought. I've never learned another speaking language, but I do know that this concept is absolutely true in programming languages. Some programming languages allow you to express things far easier than others. Reading a few lines of code in one language can be equivalent to a page of code in another. Other times the amount of code is the similar, but the code in one language is far easier to understand.
Yet, learning a programming language doesn't take much time compared to the huge investment in time required to learn a speaking language. (unless the GP is correct that it only takes 2 weeks to learn Esperanto).
How does this work in speaking languages? In some languages is it possible to express things with fewer words or with a grammar that makes things easier to understand? Do some languages have ways to be clever or poetic that do not exist in others?
Perhaps I should have said "likely to come along with C# jobs". The types of places that use C# are likely to have many of the things on that list.
Don't get so emotionally fanboy about it.
You only need one job. Web developers are needed by practically every company. I don't know what percentage of all that is Java vs C# but as a Java programmer I know that Java jobs are trivially easy to come by.
In any case, objecting to C# is likely not an objection to C# itself. I personally think it looks like a great language. It's really objecting to all the stuff that's likely to come along with C# like Windows servers, IIS, VB scripts, IE only sites, Microsoft SQL Server, the attitude that cross platform development doesn't matter and a bunch of other crap that some of us don't want to have to deal with. If you don't have a problem with any of that stuff then that's your business. Don't blame anyone else for your eventual ulcers though.
Was he actually happy or did he continue to feel unhappy with the speed but didn't bother you because he knew that there were no other faster drives available?
I know I am like that. I buy fast components, but things rarely are fast enough. The only exception I have felt in years is graphics cards. New cards can easily bee 20 times faster and as a result there is a real appreciable speed improvement.
This.
My wife and I have watched netflix movies exclusively for at least 2 years. I very nearly went to see Avatar to see it in 3D, but instead I chose to just wait a few years until I can see it in 3D at home.
Theaters are simply not a pleasant place to watch movies.
Only for extreme Libertarians.
Not every Democrat is Ralph Nader. Not every Republican is Sarah Palin. Not every Libertarian is Ayn Rand.
As a moderate libertarian I think certain services need to be provided for by the government in situations where the market simply will not work properly. The fire department is certainly an obvious example of that.
Just because I believe that does not mean I've jumped to the other end of the spectrum where I'd love an HOA on every block telling me what color my fence can be.
Yes, but the right side of the screen isn't very useful. I prefer to waste a lot of space on the right rather than a little space at the bottom. I always have the task bar and browser tabs on the right side to preserve vertical space.
If drinking while driving is less dangerous than texting then it's not nearly as big a deal as I have always thought. If that's really true (unlikely except for very light drinking) then I'd be in favor of making it legal to drink and drive.
The real problem is driving. Automate the roads and legally require all new cars to be able to drive themselves using smart roads with embedded sensors. This solves all problems:
- bored drivers who need to distract themselves
- people who change lanes all the time and cause traffic to slow in all lanes
- people who waste gas accelerating and braking all the time
- people who make mistakes
- people who are tired
- people who drink and drive
- people who get blowjobs while driving
Trains won't work. People want to drive directly to where they want to go. People on trains also stink too much. Blab on about trains all you want, but they are a locale specific solution that will never ever solve all driving problems.
People who enjoy driving can go have a blast at a race track or whatever on weekends. I'm sure that statistically the number of crashes due to computer failures will be far below the rate of crashes due to assholes who think they're great drivers.
Whoa there, don't knock the fedora. Baseball caps and cowboy hats cause a man to look like they dropped 20 IQ points. The fedora is the only hat that a man can wear and not look like an idiot.
The trick is to rotate the object as it passes through the scanner. Don't bother finding the codes, the scanner usually can scan at high speeds and from the bottom and side, just rotate it as it goes through and 99% of the time it'll find the code. If it doesn't then just keep turning it. I love those things at my grocery store. There are usually no lines and I can scan items 10 times faster than the "special"/old/apathetic people who seem to make up most of the checkout staff.
It also saves me from going through the annoying ritual necessary to appease the grocery gods and get your stuff out of the store: "no, I don't want to donate", "no bags, thanks", "no, no bags", "no, not even for those", scan card, "credit", "no, I can handle it", "you too".
All those hard to find books are easy to find online at amazon.com and odds are good that they will be available used for a very low price plus shipping.
Offline stores are good for only one thing: paging through a book before you buy.
What makes you think they don't record the ID card scan?
But it usually is.
It's amazing how much Pac-Man junk there is out there! I have Pac-Man roller skates, trash cans, stickers, sleeping bags, vitamins, keychains, board games, a phone, a radio, a sled, bed sheets, many types of glasses, many types of toys, and a whole bunch of other stuff. It all looks great on display in my rec room!