dis iz nut sum tin hue kan reed faast bee coz you arr juss nut uzed to sea ying eet liek dat. tHiS sEntEnCe iS gOiNg To bE hArdEr tO REaD bEcAuSe yOu cAN't rEcOGNiZE tHe wOrDS aS eAsILY.
I found the second one much easier to read -- the former I have to actually sound them out to try and figure out what the heck the letter groups are meant to represent. Even the l33t-speak version was easier to read that the first.
With the T9 text completion on my phone, it's almost always faster and easier for me to write out a whole word than to get it to recognize an abbreviation.
Can you turn them off in SMP, or only in single player? Is it a setting you can toggle? Either way, doesn't quite matter: my friend the server admin likes them.;)
Of course many others knew it and acted on that viewpoint, she has the sound byte version. Machiavelli probably wrote about it, but Rand is the one that baldly said that a government's goal is to create criminals in order to wield power over the citizens:
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Conventional wisdom is that government should be about helping the populace -- few have been so cynical as to explicitly say that the goal is the opposite. (I'm not saying that I believe her, mind you, but I'm sure we can all point to examples of people applying the Letter of a law/rule in ways which people originally claimed it "would never" be used for.)
the vast majority of slashdot users wouldn't know for sure because they havn't read the TOS.
This is exacerbated by the fact that almost every TOS agreement or EULA says something like, "we can change this at any time, and don't have to notify you".
I know many might jump on you for paraphrasing Ayn Rand, but I think you're correct. We've already seen that such rules ARE abused, and that almost any potential lawbreaking has been used as a foothold for surveillance or other actions which impact us as citizens.
I hate them. I don't think I've hated an NPC so much in ANY game. It'd be one thing if they only killed me, but the fact that they destroy the things that I built, often irrevocably (because the blocks are destroyed, not merely disassembled) makes them SUCH a threat. Brilliant, and yet I hate them so. It's almost crippling sometimes, to the point where I don't even want to log in and play.
Try a tablet PC, or something with a high resolution stylus. My wife really loved note taking in OneNote - she does NOT want to type on the computer while taking notes. Taking notes in OneNote (or similar, but OneNote is very nice) lets you mix writing and diagramming, and then lets you go back and transcribe them to typeset text. I'm sure there's something similar for an IPad, though I don't know anything about how good their stylus is. The Wacom stylus and screens have been pretty awesome, though.
The question probably will hinge on whether the followers are following him or the company. Those that want to follow him, not the company, and would leave as soon as it's Not Him, shouldn't be countable as value for the company. I mean, lawyers will argue that they ARE, but they shouldn't.:)
Leaving a spring compressed won't do much harm; spring fatigue comes from the act of compressing it. So, as someone said in the first forum thread, "Load 'em up!".
Perhaps they pursue it to the degree they are comfortable with, balancing their desire for humanity and human relationships with their desire to avoid suffering.
Look at d3, a javascript visualization library. ( http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ ) I recently discovered it, and want to play with it. There are also 3d accelerated javascript libraries (three.js, I think?). I want to take this library and run with it, and use it at work. Looking at things people have done with it, I'm interested both in how to use it, as well as in learning more about data visualization. Apparently there's a whole industry for it, and I have no idea where to get started. (Cue the "Read everything by Edward Tufte" people, who speak truth.)
There's also 3d graphics with WebGL and javascript... three.js (?) I believe was one demo with some really neat demos. I have no idea how I'd use it, though.
I'm less interested in why we have beekeepers, and more interested in how one becomes one. Is there some education you pursue? Did you decide on it as a career, or get to it by happenstance? Did you always love bees, or did you wake up one day and think, "I want to herd bees!" How hard is the business aspect of it? Is it your main business, or were you already a farmer and this is just a supplement?
I realize some of these sound flippant; I'm sorry. It's such a foreign thing, and yet pretty cool. I doubt I'll ever be one, as my wife is terrified of bees, but the intricacies of bee tending are, apparently, more than I realized, and it's pretty intriguing.:D
You're allowed to write "bastard", "screwed", and "shit" on Slashdot. If you're writing the word, and we all know what it is even with a starred vowel, why do you pseudo-censor it?
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True, but that doesn't help us when our goal (as a country) is to maintain a technologically advanced fighting force. Finding out in 10 years that company X failed doesn't help us, esp when there are often competing programs from the small pool of defense contractors which also fail.
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I suspect that even making a fake site of the kind you describe would be a recipe for more trouble than any of us want to reap.
dis iz nut sum tin hue kan reed faast bee coz you arr juss nut uzed to sea ying eet liek dat.
tHiS sEntEnCe iS gOiNg To bE hArdEr tO REaD bEcAuSe yOu cAN't rEcOGNiZE tHe wOrDS aS eAsILY.
I found the second one much easier to read -- the former I have to actually sound them out to try and figure out what the heck the letter groups are meant to represent. Even the l33t-speak version was easier to read that the first.
With the T9 text completion on my phone, it's almost always faster and easier for me to write out a whole word than to get it to recognize an abbreviation.
Might it help if you were to interrogate databases through alternate means than their arses? :D
Can you turn them off in SMP, or only in single player? Is it a setting you can toggle? Either way, doesn't quite matter: my friend the server admin likes them. ;)
Of course many others knew it and acted on that viewpoint, she has the sound byte version. Machiavelli probably wrote about it, but Rand is the one that baldly said that a government's goal is to create criminals in order to wield power over the citizens:
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Conventional wisdom is that government should be about helping the populace -- few have been so cynical as to explicitly say that the goal is the opposite. (I'm not saying that I believe her, mind you, but I'm sure we can all point to examples of people applying the Letter of a law/rule in ways which people originally claimed it "would never" be used for.)
the vast majority of slashdot users wouldn't know for sure because they havn't read the TOS.
This is exacerbated by the fact that almost every TOS agreement or EULA says something like, "we can change this at any time, and don't have to notify you".
I know many might jump on you for paraphrasing Ayn Rand, but I think you're correct. We've already seen that such rules ARE abused, and that almost any potential lawbreaking has been used as a foothold for surveillance or other actions which impact us as citizens.
Why is there no pressure to do something, like cap contributions by corporations to political parties, or something, anything?
Because citizens like us can't fund the lobbying necessary to compete with the corporations.
I hate them. I don't think I've hated an NPC so much in ANY game. It'd be one thing if they only killed me, but the fact that they destroy the things that I built, often irrevocably (because the blocks are destroyed, not merely disassembled) makes them SUCH a threat. Brilliant, and yet I hate them so. It's almost crippling sometimes, to the point where I don't even want to log in and play.
Try a tablet PC, or something with a high resolution stylus. My wife really loved note taking in OneNote - she does NOT want to type on the computer while taking notes. Taking notes in OneNote (or similar, but OneNote is very nice) lets you mix writing and diagramming, and then lets you go back and transcribe them to typeset text. I'm sure there's something similar for an IPad, though I don't know anything about how good their stylus is. The Wacom stylus and screens have been pretty awesome, though.
All the same, thanks for doing awesome stuff. Have you considered publishing diagrams or a how-to guide at Instructables.com or for Make magazine?
The question probably will hinge on whether the followers are following him or the company. Those that want to follow him, not the company, and would leave as soon as it's Not Him, shouldn't be countable as value for the company. I mean, lawyers will argue that they ARE, but they shouldn't. :)
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@PhoneDog reposessed this old account. Follow @NoahKravitz if you want to read more by me.
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@PhoneDog reposessed this old account. Follow @NoahKravitz if you want to read more by me. Keep following this if you prefer.
Both of those would convey something similar, and stay under 140 characters.
Creep is mostly a function of temperature, and typically isn't an issue in environments below half the melting point of the stressed material
Would this imply that creep is unlikely to be a large factor in magazine spring tension, then?
Hmm ... interesting :D
Babies conceived in October, 1938 would have been born in the middle of 1939.
According to this, it doesn't appear to have made much difference.
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/datasets/us-births-1936-to-2000/versions/1
Let me reply in a manner less snarky and more constructive than the AC above me did.
According to people who know better than me:
http://www.ar15armory.com/forums/Magazine-Spring-fatigue-t94941.html
http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-116436.html
Leaving a spring compressed won't do much harm; spring fatigue comes from the act of compressing it. So, as someone said in the first forum thread, "Load 'em up!".
Perhaps they pursue it to the degree they are comfortable with, balancing their desire for humanity and human relationships with their desire to avoid suffering.
Also, that sounds like fun (gunsmithing). What kind of time and money investment did it take to get started on something like that?
Look at d3, a javascript visualization library. ( http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ ) I recently discovered it, and want to play with it. There are also 3d accelerated javascript libraries (three.js, I think?). I want to take this library and run with it, and use it at work. Looking at things people have done with it, I'm interested both in how to use it, as well as in learning more about data visualization. Apparently there's a whole industry for it, and I have no idea where to get started. (Cue the "Read everything by Edward Tufte" people, who speak truth.)
There's also 3d graphics with WebGL and javascript... three.js (?) I believe was one demo with some really neat demos. I have no idea how I'd use it, though.
I'm less interested in why we have beekeepers, and more interested in how one becomes one. Is there some education you pursue? Did you decide on it as a career, or get to it by happenstance? Did you always love bees, or did you wake up one day and think, "I want to herd bees!" How hard is the business aspect of it? Is it your main business, or were you already a farmer and this is just a supplement?
I realize some of these sound flippant; I'm sorry. It's such a foreign thing, and yet pretty cool. I doubt I'll ever be one, as my wife is terrified of bees, but the intricacies of bee tending are, apparently, more than I realized, and it's pretty intriguing. :D
I said you're allowed to, not that one should. Sometimes it's the right word, even if it's often not.
Perhaps he has a very impressive mohawk?
You're allowed to write "bastard", "screwed", and "shit" on Slashdot. If you're writing the word, and we all know what it is even with a starred vowel, why do you pseudo-censor it?
True, but that doesn't help us when our goal (as a country) is to maintain a technologically advanced fighting force. Finding out in 10 years that company X failed doesn't help us, esp when there are often competing programs from the small pool of defense contractors which also fail.