I use an electric mower, and you're not going to mow a 6 acre lawn with an electric lawn mower. In practice 100 feet is about as long an extension cord as you can use, and trying to mow a lawn that large would require numerous electrical outlets all over the place. And the subsequent trimming around them that would be necessary.
Sheep are a bad option, they tend to eat the grass more or less down to the root. So, if you don't mind having to reseed the lawn constantly, it works, but otherwise you're going to have to move them around constantly so as not to run out of grass.
Right, but the standard doesn't really take into account the fact that most of these devices are being used in small spaces. My parents house is only like 25x25 and three stories tall. The furthest distance the signal ever needs to get is like 40 feet or so.
Individuals in condos or apartments likely need even less range than my folks do.
The economy was in free fall and those stimulus programs more or less arrested the crash. You might remember that the economy more or less crashed in the couple months leading up to Obama's election. I'm not sure how you can possibly blame Obama for a crash that was started by the other parties incompetent fiscal policy decisions.
Say what you will, but arguing that there was any alternative is naive to say the least. This isn't like Bush who turned a $6tn projected surplus into $5tn of additional debt in his 8 years in office. It's really easy to blame Obama when it's the GOP that fucked things up in the first place.
Doubtful, regardless of what the ratings agencies say, US debt is still the safest in the world. There's nothing that offers as much interest for so little risk, even now we're not going to have any trouble paying the debt back, which is ultimately the main concern.
If there was going to be a problem it would have shown up in the bond market by now. That's not to say that it's impossible, but it's not just a matter of our bonds, it's all the other bonds that people could by. If we were anywhere near the precipice at this point you'd see massive repricing in all sectors.
I doubt it, as long as the GOP refuses to allow taxes to rise high enough to pay for essential spending and pay off our debts it's not likely to happen.
Indeed, but not just that, but the fact that the GOP was able to push it to the brink of default that was almost certainly the last straw. As long as the GOP can hold the budget hostage and refuse any sort of reform there's a possibility of default. Unfortunately, these budget bills have to originate in the house, where the GOP has a majority.
Because lifting the debt ceiling isn't about spending, it's about paying for money that's already been spent. Which is why you hear folks making those sorts of claims. A good analogy would be back in the 80s when it was common for credit card transactions to be done manually with that device and carbon paper. You'd go in hand the card over and they'd zip zip the machine and you'd be on your way.
What happened with the debt ceiling would be more or less equivalent to your credit card company telling the merchant a bit later that you were actually over your limit and that they'd have to raise it or you'd have to pay off some of your debt or they wouldn't give the merchant the money.
Which is why the folks that were holding the debt ceiling hostage as a preventative measure against spending were so stupid. They could have gotten $4,000bn in cuts had they accepted $100bn in loophole closures, instead the final deal was cuts only and ended up being a little over half what the cuts would otherwise have been.
I remember finding a video for my painting instructor and being shocked that it cost $500 for a DVDR copy with no right to back it up and being told that that's more or less just what films for schools cost.
Same sort of thing with AutoCAD, it is expensive, expensive enough that it's not affordable for anybody that isn't working in the industry. But, if you're drawing up plans for a multimillion dollar project, the cost is a pittance comparatively speaking compared with the other costs involved. And ultimately as long as everybody else is using that software that's what you'll get.
Not that it makes it right mind you, but that is how that works. I'm skeptical that this is a good thing ultimately for the folks that use the site.
Yes, but it is Prius on Prius violence. The only thing better would have been if the drivers had gotten into an altercation as well. Seriously, I'm always shocked when a Prius driver turns out to be anything other than a self obsess jack ass, I swear they take special classes to teach them how to drive in an incompetent and self obsessed manner.
Sounds about right. Trying to draw a direct correlation like that is pretty much only something of use to the oil industry. If you were to replace 10% of the cars on the roads with electrics you'd get an increase in fleet efficiency without necessarily having to decrease the mass that much.
Yes, decreasing the mass is the easiest way to increase gas mileage, but it's hardly the only way. And ultimately it's a tad disingenuous to suggest that it's the only way of doing it. For instance one could improve the transmission, I don't think that anybody's managed to get more efficient in that respect than a CVT except possibly by eliminating the transmission completely. A change like that would be neutral or possibly a slight improvement in terms of death toll over the current models.
Part of that has to do with all the products being fixated on longest distance possible. Which is understandable, but these days one doesn't necessarily want the signal to be that strong as interference with other people's equipment is a much more significant problem than getting a strong enough signal. Whenever I go to set up a new device around here I wind up finding at least a dozen different wireless networks all set up.
It's even worse at a convention like this where you're likely to have even more devices closer together.
That's not realistic. Think of all those folks that had converted to Islam during the 90s, do you really think it's reasonable for them to have expected the backlash following 9/11 when the made their choice?
The point is that you can't be sure what's going to be OK at some arbitrary point in the future to be on record as having said.
Or all those tapes that Bill Maher had on Christine O'Donnell. Granted they were stupid things for somebody professing to be a conservative Christian to say on tape, but still, I doubt she would have predicted them being harmful in a future run for office.
It's difficult to come up with a handle as difficult to trace as JSmith or JJohnson. Plus, if somebody does manage to notice the similarities between two different accounts you can always deny it as those are presumably common names for folks to have.
I'm sorry, but you're full of it. My argument is that I don't have any way of knowing who it is that's writing a particular entry in an encyclopedia therefore it's a higher requirement for the Wikipedia to have to do that. Those long standing encyclopedias aren't necessarily any more accurate than the wikipedia is ultimately.
And as far as accuracy goes, How accurate is wikipedia? it's hardly the sort of incompetent mush you're suggesting it is.
Precisely why is the Wikipedia being held to a higher standard than say the Encyclopedia Britannica? Or for that matter the World Book Encyclopedia. I mean seriously, do you have any idea who it is that works on any of those articles?
Just because you're not using a real name doesn't mean that you're not accountable for what you're doing. It's relatively easy to get access to that if you really need it. The bigger issue is that Wikipedia rewards bad behavior and that's not going to stop just because folks are using their real names. Institutional incompetence and corruption are hardly eliminated just by using real names or even face to face interactions.
I think you're being kind of generous there. I remember Windows from that period of time, and I can vouch for the fact that it wasn't a working win32 implementation.
The issue isn't patents, the issue is that the money to fund the USPTO comes largely from fees that they levy on applications. And as such there's a conflict of interest that comes when they need to say no because a patent application isn't valid. It's something you see in other things like unemployment insurance where the staff of the department behaves like it's working for the employers because that's who is paying their paycheck ultimately, not the applicant for benefits.
It's even worse with the USPTO because the public doesn't have a direct relationship with the USPTO and has limited methods of redress even though the USPTO is there for the benefit of the citizens at large.
The truth is, if you want your job done, you look at the merits of every possible program without considering if it's open source or not. There are good software like Apache that are mostly good for web hosting (unless you have certain requirements). Then there is lots of shit. The same is true for proprietary software tho. But if you want to get something real done, it's just stupid to limit yourself to only open source OR proprietary software. Pick the best tool for the job.
The problem there is that you also need to factor in the cost of Windows or OSX if you want to use proprietary software that's designed for professionals. If you're using one of those platforms then the calculation is much easier, but if you're not interested in giving those companies money then your options are severely limited.
That's one thing that MS seems to have gotten right. I can tell if the app has been launched, if it has multiple windows and where applicable the status of the window. All in all it seems to work well for it's purpose.
There's a number of good minimalist and otherwise lightweight WM out there. I've used XFCE, but I tend to prefer Fluxbox and the other smaller ones. I just don't feel that it's a particularly sensible use of resources to run a WM that has all sorts of bells and whistles that I don't even want.
In that case they've got no right to bitch about things being intermingled. Personally I think those folks ought to be consulting with either a marriage counselor or a divorce attorney because that's a dysfunctional or possibly abusive marriage.
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I use an electric mower, and you're not going to mow a 6 acre lawn with an electric lawn mower. In practice 100 feet is about as long an extension cord as you can use, and trying to mow a lawn that large would require numerous electrical outlets all over the place. And the subsequent trimming around them that would be necessary.
Sheep are a bad option, they tend to eat the grass more or less down to the root. So, if you don't mind having to reseed the lawn constantly, it works, but otherwise you're going to have to move them around constantly so as not to run out of grass.
Right, but the standard doesn't really take into account the fact that most of these devices are being used in small spaces. My parents house is only like 25x25 and three stories tall. The furthest distance the signal ever needs to get is like 40 feet or so.
Individuals in condos or apartments likely need even less range than my folks do.
The economy was in free fall and those stimulus programs more or less arrested the crash. You might remember that the economy more or less crashed in the couple months leading up to Obama's election. I'm not sure how you can possibly blame Obama for a crash that was started by the other parties incompetent fiscal policy decisions.
Say what you will, but arguing that there was any alternative is naive to say the least. This isn't like Bush who turned a $6tn projected surplus into $5tn of additional debt in his 8 years in office. It's really easy to blame Obama when it's the GOP that fucked things up in the first place.
Doubtful, regardless of what the ratings agencies say, US debt is still the safest in the world. There's nothing that offers as much interest for so little risk, even now we're not going to have any trouble paying the debt back, which is ultimately the main concern.
If there was going to be a problem it would have shown up in the bond market by now. That's not to say that it's impossible, but it's not just a matter of our bonds, it's all the other bonds that people could by. If we were anywhere near the precipice at this point you'd see massive repricing in all sectors.
I doubt it, as long as the GOP refuses to allow taxes to rise high enough to pay for essential spending and pay off our debts it's not likely to happen.
Indeed, but not just that, but the fact that the GOP was able to push it to the brink of default that was almost certainly the last straw. As long as the GOP can hold the budget hostage and refuse any sort of reform there's a possibility of default. Unfortunately, these budget bills have to originate in the house, where the GOP has a majority.
Because lifting the debt ceiling isn't about spending, it's about paying for money that's already been spent. Which is why you hear folks making those sorts of claims. A good analogy would be back in the 80s when it was common for credit card transactions to be done manually with that device and carbon paper. You'd go in hand the card over and they'd zip zip the machine and you'd be on your way.
What happened with the debt ceiling would be more or less equivalent to your credit card company telling the merchant a bit later that you were actually over your limit and that they'd have to raise it or you'd have to pay off some of your debt or they wouldn't give the merchant the money.
Which is why the folks that were holding the debt ceiling hostage as a preventative measure against spending were so stupid. They could have gotten $4,000bn in cuts had they accepted $100bn in loophole closures, instead the final deal was cuts only and ended up being a little over half what the cuts would otherwise have been.
I remember finding a video for my painting instructor and being shocked that it cost $500 for a DVDR copy with no right to back it up and being told that that's more or less just what films for schools cost.
Same sort of thing with AutoCAD, it is expensive, expensive enough that it's not affordable for anybody that isn't working in the industry. But, if you're drawing up plans for a multimillion dollar project, the cost is a pittance comparatively speaking compared with the other costs involved. And ultimately as long as everybody else is using that software that's what you'll get.
Not that it makes it right mind you, but that is how that works. I'm skeptical that this is a good thing ultimately for the folks that use the site.
Yes, but it is Prius on Prius violence. The only thing better would have been if the drivers had gotten into an altercation as well. Seriously, I'm always shocked when a Prius driver turns out to be anything other than a self obsess jack ass, I swear they take special classes to teach them how to drive in an incompetent and self obsessed manner.
Sounds about right. Trying to draw a direct correlation like that is pretty much only something of use to the oil industry. If you were to replace 10% of the cars on the roads with electrics you'd get an increase in fleet efficiency without necessarily having to decrease the mass that much.
Yes, decreasing the mass is the easiest way to increase gas mileage, but it's hardly the only way. And ultimately it's a tad disingenuous to suggest that it's the only way of doing it. For instance one could improve the transmission, I don't think that anybody's managed to get more efficient in that respect than a CVT except possibly by eliminating the transmission completely. A change like that would be neutral or possibly a slight improvement in terms of death toll over the current models.
Part of that has to do with all the products being fixated on longest distance possible. Which is understandable, but these days one doesn't necessarily want the signal to be that strong as interference with other people's equipment is a much more significant problem than getting a strong enough signal. Whenever I go to set up a new device around here I wind up finding at least a dozen different wireless networks all set up.
It's even worse at a convention like this where you're likely to have even more devices closer together.
That's not realistic. Think of all those folks that had converted to Islam during the 90s, do you really think it's reasonable for them to have expected the backlash following 9/11 when the made their choice?
The point is that you can't be sure what's going to be OK at some arbitrary point in the future to be on record as having said.
Or all those tapes that Bill Maher had on Christine O'Donnell. Granted they were stupid things for somebody professing to be a conservative Christian to say on tape, but still, I doubt she would have predicted them being harmful in a future run for office.
It's difficult to come up with a handle as difficult to trace as JSmith or JJohnson. Plus, if somebody does manage to notice the similarities between two different accounts you can always deny it as those are presumably common names for folks to have.
I'm sorry, but you're full of it. My argument is that I don't have any way of knowing who it is that's writing a particular entry in an encyclopedia therefore it's a higher requirement for the Wikipedia to have to do that. Those long standing encyclopedias aren't necessarily any more accurate than the wikipedia is ultimately.
And as far as accuracy goes, How accurate is wikipedia? it's hardly the sort of incompetent mush you're suggesting it is.
Precisely why is the Wikipedia being held to a higher standard than say the Encyclopedia Britannica? Or for that matter the World Book Encyclopedia. I mean seriously, do you have any idea who it is that works on any of those articles?
Just because you're not using a real name doesn't mean that you're not accountable for what you're doing. It's relatively easy to get access to that if you really need it. The bigger issue is that Wikipedia rewards bad behavior and that's not going to stop just because folks are using their real names. Institutional incompetence and corruption are hardly eliminated just by using real names or even face to face interactions.
I think you're being kind of generous there. I remember Windows from that period of time, and I can vouch for the fact that it wasn't a working win32 implementation.
The issue isn't patents, the issue is that the money to fund the USPTO comes largely from fees that they levy on applications. And as such there's a conflict of interest that comes when they need to say no because a patent application isn't valid. It's something you see in other things like unemployment insurance where the staff of the department behaves like it's working for the employers because that's who is paying their paycheck ultimately, not the applicant for benefits.
It's even worse with the USPTO because the public doesn't have a direct relationship with the USPTO and has limited methods of redress even though the USPTO is there for the benefit of the citizens at large.
The truth is, if you want your job done, you look at the merits of every possible program without considering if it's open source or not. There are good software like Apache that are mostly good for web hosting (unless you have certain requirements). Then there is lots of shit. The same is true for proprietary software tho. But if you want to get something real done, it's just stupid to limit yourself to only open source OR proprietary software. Pick the best tool for the job.
The problem there is that you also need to factor in the cost of Windows or OSX if you want to use proprietary software that's designed for professionals. If you're using one of those platforms then the calculation is much easier, but if you're not interested in giving those companies money then your options are severely limited.
No, I'm pretty sure that Unity doesn't have any utility to be sucked out of it. It does however have more suction than a hoover.
That's one thing that MS seems to have gotten right. I can tell if the app has been launched, if it has multiple windows and where applicable the status of the window. All in all it seems to work well for it's purpose.
Unity OTOH is still as steaming pile of crap.
There's a number of good minimalist and otherwise lightweight WM out there. I've used XFCE, but I tend to prefer Fluxbox and the other smaller ones. I just don't feel that it's a particularly sensible use of resources to run a WM that has all sorts of bells and whistles that I don't even want.
In that case they've got no right to bitch about things being intermingled. Personally I think those folks ought to be consulting with either a marriage counselor or a divorce attorney because that's a dysfunctional or possibly abusive marriage.
We should send them to Texas, I hear they need rain.