That's sort of the point of the language. The ability to write once and not have to rewrite the entire thing because you're now on a different platform.
Your complaint is sort of like complaining about how hard assembly is and how they should figure out how to make it more easily read and do things for you.
Not really, if the file is still on the same disk, then it's not backed up. This is nice for times when you fat finger something, but it's not going to protect you from HDD problems or other hardware failure.
Personally, I use crashplan to backup to an external HDD as well as to their servers. When I need a restore, I pretty much always use the local copy, but I'm still protected in case that becomes unavailable.
I don't agree with that. I rarely ever see people failing to use their turn signals. Occasionally, I'll see them wait too long, but I rarely see people not using the.
The main driving problems I see here are people that are too polite and clog things up trying to figure out who should go.
I know what IQ is, I take it you don't. The definition of IQ hasn't changed, it's just that it gets misapplied greatly in the modern era. It's every bit as goofy as the French's obsession with graphology.
Those are apartments, and you usually have an elevator that takes you 95% of the way to the mailboxes. It's like that around here for apartments as well. But, for most houses you still have individual mailboxes at the house. I think it's mostly suburban developments where the mailboxes are set up in one location.
Most Americans would prefer that the US government stop shielding UPS and Fedex from competition with the USPS and allow the USPS a more leisurely schedule for funding its pension system.
What you're ignoring there is that the benefit of USPS is that you can get things delivered on saturday without having to pay extra like with the competition.
-.45 is well within the margin of error for IQ testing. And really, any differences of IQ under 3% is not worth even considering. A person who cares can easily gain 10 IQ points just based upon environment alone.
What's more IQ itself is a narrow measure of aptitude primarily focused upon success rates at school. Even if the drop in IQ were more meaningful, it would still not necessarily mean that people were getting less intelligent, it could mean that their aptitudes were changing to focus on other things.
That's a valid concern, but another part of it is that iodized salt isn't usually what they're using in processed foods. So, not only do you get tons of salt, but it doesn't even have the trace minerals that would benefit you.
And yes, the main reason that salt is in so many foods is because it increases appetite and enhances flavor.
That's good in theory, but it's unlikely that your version of MacOS from the '80s is still going to work. Floppies are terrible in terms of reliability over long periods of time.
I'm in a similar situation, just not to that extent. One of the tricks is to categorize things and decide roughly where things belong before you start. Then move things to the correct place, verify the copy and back up. After that, I generally destroy the original, especially if it's in a weird format. (And yes, I consider 3.5" floppies to be a weird format, and really anything other than CDROM or DVDROM at this point)
I disagree, keeping the original only makes sense when the original is in a stable format and you have plenty of room.
I've been dealing with this problem on a much smaller scale, and if you aren't extremely careful it can be hard to keep track of which disks you're keeping because you can, and which ones you're keeping because you have to.
Dump it to disk, verify the contents, back it up and chuck the original media. In the long term, 1 CDROM is going to last better than 400 or so floppies will.
Now, if you're dealing with paper, those tend to be incredibly durable provided decent paper and ink was used, those you're generally best keeping if you're archiving and have space.
Do you have any evidence to support that view point?
Seriously, put together a 2000 calorie diet that gets 100% of the RDA for all those vitamins and minerals, then come back and tell us about how dangerous and unecessary multivitamins are. Bottom line is that apart from A, D, E and K, pretty much all the other ones just wash out of your system before becoming dangerous. B6 and the minerals can also cause some problems if you're taking in too much, but you'd have to work on that.
There's a very good reason why multivitamins exist, and that's because it's non-trivial to get enough nutrients in even healthy foods. And that's assuming that you have the time and energy to properly select and prepare your foods. It also assumes that your body needs the same amount of nutrients as the information suggests. Which may or may not apply.
That's not true at all. It's not about laziness, it's about the foods that we eat not being sufficiently nutrient dense to provide all the vitamins and minerals that we need, while staying within our caloric budget. Even just getting the RDAs in under 2000 calories requires one to use supplements.
What's more, to even get close, you need to be extremely careful about what you eat and require a lot more education than what's normally available.
Vitamins themselves pose no danger whatsoever to ones health, provided that one isn't overdoing it or trying to compensate for poor health. The problem is that a lot of people think that it permits them to avoid eating a generally healthy diet.
I wish more folks would understand this. If you make the content reasonably priced and you use a format that's available cross platform, then you shouldn't have any trouble selling enough copies to pay for production and a tidy profit.
The cost of DRM can easily wipe out the proceeds of hundreds of subscriptions, or more, without guaranteeing a single additional subscription. And in all likelihood the magazine will be pirated within a day or two of release anyways.
Prior to the current civilization, all the previous ones that collapsed were largely separate from each other. When one empire went down, their literature was of little value as it was in a foreign language for a foreign audience. Which meant requiring people to learn to read it in order to know if it was worth saving.
Contrast that with now, where the technology is spread across nearly the entire globe and where adjustments for various languages are easy as translating. And computers can give you the gist of what the text says.
If this becomes a serious problem, then I think we probably have bigger problems as the entire world has been set back to the iron age.
And don't forget that people's eyes tend to start to go as they age, which means being able to enlarge the font arbitrarily becomes more valuable as people age. Means that you don't have to replace those books with large print editions, assuming there even is one for that particular book.
Tablets and ebook readers are a hell of a lot more comfortable to hold and read than books are. Soft cover books require you to hold them all the time, whereas with my Nook, I can just prop it up and only touch it when I need to change the page. If I went to the trouble, I could probably even hack it to add an external page turner.
Yes, there is DRM, but you know what? I've lost far more books over the years because I didn't have space than I have ebooks. Plus, if you crack the books you've bought and back them up, nobody's going to know about that. With the upside of you now having a back up, ever tried backing up a dead tree edition? It's not easy to back up or restore.
And why on earth would you be marking books? That's one of the worst places to take notes, and it makes it a real PITA to find those notes if you ever need them.
But, yes you are correct about the battery life, but you can get a spare back up battery for much less weight than carrying around enough books for a similar period of time. And yes, ebook readers do break, but the ebooks themselves don't wear out anywhere near as quickly as physical books do. Plus, regular books aren't exactly indestructible. I can easily throw my Nook into a waterproof pouch and read it under water. Which is effectively impossible with a regular book.
So, you've got 2 quasi legitimate complaints, both of which are easily dealt with. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but don't make shit up.
That's a toughie. Even though those books aren't of any value, history aside, you can't just donate them to Google to archive as the rights holders still own the rights to them.
But, the rights to books of that era are basically worthless to all but a small number of people.
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He's stuck on an island where there's only one job, and if he doesn't work he doesn't eat. Also, he can't get the job back if he quits.
That's sort of the point of the language. The ability to write once and not have to rewrite the entire thing because you're now on a different platform.
Your complaint is sort of like complaining about how hard assembly is and how they should figure out how to make it more easily read and do things for you.
Not really, if the file is still on the same disk, then it's not backed up. This is nice for times when you fat finger something, but it's not going to protect you from HDD problems or other hardware failure.
Personally, I use crashplan to backup to an external HDD as well as to their servers. When I need a restore, I pretty much always use the local copy, but I'm still protected in case that becomes unavailable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usps#Delivery_timing
So yes, they used to deliver 7 days a week.
I don't agree with that. I rarely ever see people failing to use their turn signals. Occasionally, I'll see them wait too long, but I rarely see people not using the.
The main driving problems I see here are people that are too polite and clog things up trying to figure out who should go.
I know what IQ is, I take it you don't. The definition of IQ hasn't changed, it's just that it gets misapplied greatly in the modern era. It's every bit as goofy as the French's obsession with graphology.
Those are apartments, and you usually have an elevator that takes you 95% of the way to the mailboxes. It's like that around here for apartments as well. But, for most houses you still have individual mailboxes at the house. I think it's mostly suburban developments where the mailboxes are set up in one location.
Most Americans would prefer that the US government stop shielding UPS and Fedex from competition with the USPS and allow the USPS a more leisurely schedule for funding its pension system.
What you're ignoring there is that the benefit of USPS is that you can get things delivered on saturday without having to pay extra like with the competition.
Around here our mailboxes are normally attached to the outside of the house. There's no bigger danger than having no mailbox at all.
What you're also ignoring is that when the post office started it was open 7 days a week and they didn't have the benefit of things like cars.
-.45 is well within the margin of error for IQ testing. And really, any differences of IQ under 3% is not worth even considering. A person who cares can easily gain 10 IQ points just based upon environment alone.
What's more IQ itself is a narrow measure of aptitude primarily focused upon success rates at school. Even if the drop in IQ were more meaningful, it would still not necessarily mean that people were getting less intelligent, it could mean that their aptitudes were changing to focus on other things.
That's a valid concern, but another part of it is that iodized salt isn't usually what they're using in processed foods. So, not only do you get tons of salt, but it doesn't even have the trace minerals that would benefit you.
And yes, the main reason that salt is in so many foods is because it increases appetite and enhances flavor.
The Flynn effect has to do with the effect swash buckling has on women, duh.
That's good in theory, but it's unlikely that your version of MacOS from the '80s is still going to work. Floppies are terrible in terms of reliability over long periods of time.
I'm in a similar situation, just not to that extent. One of the tricks is to categorize things and decide roughly where things belong before you start. Then move things to the correct place, verify the copy and back up. After that, I generally destroy the original, especially if it's in a weird format. (And yes, I consider 3.5" floppies to be a weird format, and really anything other than CDROM or DVDROM at this point)
I disagree, keeping the original only makes sense when the original is in a stable format and you have plenty of room.
I've been dealing with this problem on a much smaller scale, and if you aren't extremely careful it can be hard to keep track of which disks you're keeping because you can, and which ones you're keeping because you have to.
Dump it to disk, verify the contents, back it up and chuck the original media. In the long term, 1 CDROM is going to last better than 400 or so floppies will.
Now, if you're dealing with paper, those tend to be incredibly durable provided decent paper and ink was used, those you're generally best keeping if you're archiving and have space.
Thanks to my hosts file, I have everything filtered. Now it takes 2 days to turn on my computer and I can only reach slashdot.
It's a matter of degrees. Doing so occasionally isn't a problem. Doing so constantly is.
But in neither case does it make any sense to censor the net, as there's plenty of material out there that they can't censor.
Fortunately, it's Texas, which means that they aren't actually missing out on education by skipping classes.
They might even be learning useful things, rather than the Texas brand of propaganda.
Do you have any evidence to support that view point?
Seriously, put together a 2000 calorie diet that gets 100% of the RDA for all those vitamins and minerals, then come back and tell us about how dangerous and unecessary multivitamins are. Bottom line is that apart from A, D, E and K, pretty much all the other ones just wash out of your system before becoming dangerous. B6 and the minerals can also cause some problems if you're taking in too much, but you'd have to work on that.
There's a very good reason why multivitamins exist, and that's because it's non-trivial to get enough nutrients in even healthy foods. And that's assuming that you have the time and energy to properly select and prepare your foods. It also assumes that your body needs the same amount of nutrients as the information suggests. Which may or may not apply.
That's not true at all. It's not about laziness, it's about the foods that we eat not being sufficiently nutrient dense to provide all the vitamins and minerals that we need, while staying within our caloric budget. Even just getting the RDAs in under 2000 calories requires one to use supplements.
What's more, to even get close, you need to be extremely careful about what you eat and require a lot more education than what's normally available.
Vitamins themselves pose no danger whatsoever to ones health, provided that one isn't overdoing it or trying to compensate for poor health. The problem is that a lot of people think that it permits them to avoid eating a generally healthy diet.
I'd mod you up if I had mod points.
I wish more folks would understand this. If you make the content reasonably priced and you use a format that's available cross platform, then you shouldn't have any trouble selling enough copies to pay for production and a tidy profit.
The cost of DRM can easily wipe out the proceeds of hundreds of subscriptions, or more, without guaranteeing a single additional subscription. And in all likelihood the magazine will be pirated within a day or two of release anyways.
And how likely do you think that is?
Prior to the current civilization, all the previous ones that collapsed were largely separate from each other. When one empire went down, their literature was of little value as it was in a foreign language for a foreign audience. Which meant requiring people to learn to read it in order to know if it was worth saving.
Contrast that with now, where the technology is spread across nearly the entire globe and where adjustments for various languages are easy as translating. And computers can give you the gist of what the text says.
If this becomes a serious problem, then I think we probably have bigger problems as the entire world has been set back to the iron age.
And don't forget that people's eyes tend to start to go as they age, which means being able to enlarge the font arbitrarily becomes more valuable as people age. Means that you don't have to replace those books with large print editions, assuming there even is one for that particular book.
Tablets and ebook readers are a hell of a lot more comfortable to hold and read than books are. Soft cover books require you to hold them all the time, whereas with my Nook, I can just prop it up and only touch it when I need to change the page. If I went to the trouble, I could probably even hack it to add an external page turner.
Yes, there is DRM, but you know what? I've lost far more books over the years because I didn't have space than I have ebooks. Plus, if you crack the books you've bought and back them up, nobody's going to know about that. With the upside of you now having a back up, ever tried backing up a dead tree edition? It's not easy to back up or restore.
And why on earth would you be marking books? That's one of the worst places to take notes, and it makes it a real PITA to find those notes if you ever need them.
But, yes you are correct about the battery life, but you can get a spare back up battery for much less weight than carrying around enough books for a similar period of time. And yes, ebook readers do break, but the ebooks themselves don't wear out anywhere near as quickly as physical books do. Plus, regular books aren't exactly indestructible. I can easily throw my Nook into a waterproof pouch and read it under water. Which is effectively impossible with a regular book.
So, you've got 2 quasi legitimate complaints, both of which are easily dealt with. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but don't make shit up.
That's a toughie. Even though those books aren't of any value, history aside, you can't just donate them to Google to archive as the rights holders still own the rights to them.
But, the rights to books of that era are basically worthless to all but a small number of people.