this affliction might be the same as the commonly-recognised (i.e. non-technical e.g. not from organic chemistry) longest word in English - Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
yeah but then what do we do with the.... aw screw it, i'll just use an obligatory simpsons quote:
QUIMBY: For decimating our pigeon population, and making Springfield a less oppressive place to while away our worthless lives, I present you with this scented candle.
Skinner talks to Lisa.
SKINNER: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
LISA: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
SKINNER: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
LISA: But aren't the snakes even worse?
SKINNER: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
LISA: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
SKINNER: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
this must be the worst plug this website has ever seen
agreed - so much so, though, i can't quite believe that isn't an elaborate bluff by the editors to slash-effect offline the site of original story, it being so obviously junk.
At work we get large quantities of hard drives from various manufacturers and out of every batch we usually get 1 or 2 that just will not spin up, or have other errors prohibiting their use.
me too - with regular PC hardware. clustering together off-the-shelf PCs (from e.g. compaq, HP, also random-company builds in the UK), ie buying them from the maker/reseller/whatever with 'the same spec' and expecting the whole bunch to work the same. 100 or so PCs delivered at a time - about 5 separate cluster builds have revealed about a 1 in 50 failure rate. HDs, boards, memory, whatever.
none of the vendors seem too surprised - they fess up replacements straight under warranty.
anyone got thoughts on likely accuracy? false negs/pos's? speed vs quality? TFA looks too much like an advert to give out this sort of information. (it also uses 'leverage' as a verb.)
agreed. i do this on my sony walkman phone - hardly a big deal (unless it's $sys$'ing me without me knowing;P).
BUT - i have 100 or so songs on there - which i would have had to pay $250 to download, apparently... yeah right. that's more than the handset cost me.
what about switching development to texas, and then making sony pay for it as some sort of community-service thing? if it didn't work, they could even $sys$ it in the desert somewhere.
from a scientific computing coder's point of view, watching industry's response to changes in their vendors' offerings, i've even seen companies change the nature of their core scientific 'truths' after a particular functionality tweak or slowdown means that otherwise they wouldn't be able to get out of the office at 5.00pm on a friday.
Music downloads are for people who don't fully *appreciate* music and treat it as something to have on in the background while they work or workout
personally i would agree, but surely the point is the particular personal mechanism by which anyone chooses to indulge their appreciation. i choose to prefer CDs simply because downloads involve too much interaction with my computer which reminds me of being at work. CDs are colourful, they sit on my nice shelves, i can use them in my non-computer hi-fi with lots of knobs useful directly to my musical experience, etc etc. (incidentally, perhaps this makes a hi-fi simply a computer (it has transistors too...) with an infinitely customised user interface.)
however others may feel that their musical experience is not clipped by continual interaction with a computer, in which case all power to them.
surely before we formulate such lists comparing oranges with tuesdays (as might happen similarly if for example one made a list of the best movies showing a picture of a car), we might lay down some basic classifications:
- space movies about actual space. in which case, apollo13 has to be top of the list de facto since it actually happened (give or take).
- space movies about the human fantasy of what we might like space to be like. in which case star wars would probably be top due to its popularity - most humans seem to be most interested in this version of fantasy.
- space movies about the transcendent nature of space as a concept. 2001 comes top.
- space movies that are simply good movies that happen to be set in space. don't know which one would come top here.
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well, good luck logging my car - it's filthy.
obligatory dubya gags:
1) George Bush congratulates the rocks on achieving freedom from the oppressive socialism of the cliff.
2) George Bush declares war on the volcano - "violent destruction of this nature will not be permitted on American soil".
(if there are volcanoes on the moon, maybe.)
i, for one, welcome our new linguistic overlords.
QUIMBY: For decimating our pigeon population, and making Springfield a less oppressive place to while away our worthless lives, I present you with this scented candle.
Skinner talks to Lisa.
SKINNER: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
LISA: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
SKINNER: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
LISA: But aren't the snakes even worse?
SKINNER: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
LISA: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
SKINNER: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
The family head back to the car.
at the moment, the best defence against malaria in [south] africa seems to be revisiting DDT.
agreed - so much so, though, i can't quite believe that isn't an elaborate bluff by the editors to slash-effect offline the site of original story, it being so obviously junk.
dude, it's free. don't like the development status? lend a hand.
me too - with regular PC hardware. clustering together off-the-shelf PCs (from e.g. compaq, HP, also random-company builds in the UK), ie buying them from the maker/reseller/whatever with 'the same spec' and expecting the whole bunch to work the same. 100 or so PCs delivered at a time - about 5 separate cluster builds have revealed about a 1 in 50 failure rate. HDs, boards, memory, whatever.
none of the vendors seem too surprised - they fess up replacements straight under warranty.
anyone got thoughts on likely accuracy? false negs/pos's? speed vs quality? TFA looks too much like an advert to give out this sort of information. (it also uses 'leverage' as a verb.)
BUT - i have 100 or so songs on there - which i would have had to pay $250 to download, apparently ... yeah right. that's more than the handset cost me.
what about switching development to texas, and then making sony pay for it as some sort of community-service thing? if it didn't work, they could even $sys$ it in the desert somewhere.
convergence criteria, choice of modelling levels, error/accuracy tolerance, that sort of thing.
from a scientific computing coder's point of view, watching industry's response to changes in their vendors' offerings, i've even seen companies change the nature of their core scientific 'truths' after a particular functionality tweak or slowdown means that otherwise they wouldn't be able to get out of the office at 5.00pm on a friday.
what about putting a couple of $sys$'s in there somewhere
wait til they get started on the smoking. although that probably wouldn't be frivolous.
yeah, they're patenting the customer review system too
the best way to etch any apple is of course to throw some dirt at it
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F11.html
personally i would agree, but surely the point is the particular personal mechanism by which anyone chooses to indulge their appreciation. i choose to prefer CDs simply because downloads involve too much interaction with my computer which reminds me of being at work. CDs are colourful, they sit on my nice shelves, i can use them in my non-computer hi-fi with lots of knobs useful directly to my musical experience, etc etc. (incidentally, perhaps this makes a hi-fi simply a computer (it has transistors too...) with an infinitely customised user interface.)
however others may feel that their musical experience is not clipped by continual interaction with a computer, in which case all power to them.
- space movies about actual space. in which case, apollo13 has to be top of the list de facto since it actually happened (give or take).
- space movies about the human fantasy of what we might like space to be like. in which case star wars would probably be top due to its popularity - most humans seem to be most interested in this version of fantasy.
- space movies about the transcendent nature of space as a concept. 2001 comes top.
- space movies that are simply good movies that happen to be set in space. don't know which one would come top here.