but scenes that created an air of foreboding. For instance, you walk down a dark hallway and see a vague shape jump around the corner. Go around the corner, and there's nothing there. *That* is what creates the feeling of impending doom
You are spot on. Horror is foreboding, knowing that something bad is going to happen, just not knowing exactly how or when.
I'll make a reference to H.P.Lovecraft. Arguably the most famous horror author, and basically all his stories starts with telling you how awful everything went in the end. Then he starts describing exactly how it happened and why it couldn't be avoided.
This will cause encrypted darknets to flourish which will cause a faster downward spiral due to the whole 'Pedo Menace'.
People use the Internet only because it's easy and safe. But don't forget that the Sneakernet have been silently ramping up its bandwidth to some serious beef. What can you fit on a MicroSD these days? 8GB? That's some serious amount of data on the size of a fingernail.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a teenager going to school with pockets full of flash memory.
I, of course, don't support public obscenities and indecencies- it's just plainly wrong to do some things in public. But then I try to think why it is, and can't seem to find a good answer. Is it because that's how I was brought up, and that's how I learned it should be? Culture is the buffer between Experience and Genes.
Experience can change a human in a blink of an eye. Genes changes us over millenia. Culture serves as a collection of "rules of thumb" collected by a society and changes in the course of generations.
Culture is the way it is today because it have been an efficient organization of our society. Thinking of sex as a taboo most likely came with cities and large numbers of people living close together. Casual sex certainly transmits diseases. Culture changed to make this behavior unacceptable. A mix of darwinism and common sense adding up over the years.
Sex and morality is reforming these days because we have birth control and disease control. It's not as dangerous as it was before. I assume our genes are coded for more casual sex. If it wasn't in our genes, affairs and one-night stands would be unheard of.
I expect it to settle on a level of sexual openness that we can safely have, given current technologies for preventing disease or accidental pregnancy.
If there's a 30-second period per year when data doesn't properly move, and that requires manual cleanup, that's acceptable. And if there is a 1-hours downtime, EVER, you just blew through the scheduled downtime for the next 120 years.
"Six nines" is meaningless. Unrealistic.
It is a promise that you cannot be hit by a single accident, fuckup, pissed-off-employee or act of god.
Exactly. Looks like Montreal is getting yet another system similar to Paris Velib, Barelona Bicing, Stockholm City Bikes, and others... Except this one will be buried in snow from November to April.
Trondheim, Norway had a similar system when I was there in 1998, not sure if it is older than that.
At 63.4 degrees North, I think those would also also qualify for the winter part.
They do indeed shovel the streets here, they shovel all the streets, but it still remains extremely slippery. It's quite a dangerous endeavour to ride bike in Wintertime, and only bike nuts and downtown bicycle couriers do it. Your wheels may suddenly just jerk sideways and completely slip away from under you, slamming you in the ground. Dress for the occation: http://www.icebike.org/Equipment/nokian296.htm
You NEED studded tires if you're going to bicycle on ice, bike nut or not. They're not expensive and will absolutely reduce the risk of having an accident.
If you have a large enough population of players where nearly everyone plays co-operate, the 2 or 3 assholes who play to betray do quite well. They only pay the price if they play the same opponent a few times. Without paying the price, they will do quite well. I've thought about this a few times with lberal amounts of game theory.
If nice people discover assholes, they should not ignore or forgive them, or the assholes will continue exploiting other nice people and come out on top.
Instead, nice people should utterly annhilate assholes when encountered.
My point is that these qualities don't increase the probability of survival for human offspring. Risky behavior and actions that cause conflicts are often quite fatal in human society. Apes don't survive if they take a lot of risks. Passive and risk adverse behavior are better suited to survival. The same is true for humans. Correlation and causation.
This research makes just as much sense when flipping it around: If you got some genes that makes the girls come running, it may cause your personality to become self-centered and exploitive.
Or there could be a root cause and have nothing to do with genes at all. For example, "power". Girls like guys with power, while power corrupts the personality.
The "normal" core temperature of a healthy human body varies by a degree or two over the course of a day without any harm. Attempts to calculate an average temperature of a crowd of humans will turn out different in the third decimal place depending on which humans and which measuring tools you use. I've read half the thread now, and you're the first post that halfway resembled being on topic, although unintentionally so.
I also comment obsessively because I want to be able to come back to the code a year later and know, quickly, what I did and why I did it. Comment "why". The code itself explains "how".
It's not about how many comments, it's about adding information that cannot be expressed easily in code. If it is a dirty hack, make sure to note it down so the next person along cannot make the mistake it for an amazingly clever solution.
If you spent hours considering different angles of attack before you went for one, make a short summary of the other solutions and what drawbacks they had.
If you make a tradeoff, explain why you went for it, or someone will waste a lot of time thinking they can "fix" your code not knowing of any pitfall you avoided with that tradeoff.
"Attitude control" means the thrusters to change its orientation, as opposed to changing the course. You could likely make the probe spin real fast. Not sure if that would give you any more exciting data, though.
I think you can safely assume the engineers on the project have gone through the possible options.
ctrl-shift-del is your friend ? No, it's the enemy! What file can I edit to kill this bastard keycombo off for good?
Why? I very often use "CTRL-SHIFT-END" to select text from marker to end, then hit "ENTER" to clear the selected block with a newline for more typing. The key right next to "end" is "del". This have caused my to nuke my cache and settings countless times due to this and I don't enjoy the feature the slightest.
They actually said what they've been doing in the video: hookers, cocaine and getting level 70 WoW characters. Exactly what I would expect of Duke's R&D staff.... Hookers and cocaine, sure. But what the hell were they doing playing WoW???
I got stuck on the first question. It said "Who is Winnie the Pooh's depressive donkey friend?" "Tussi"!...at least in the language I read those stories.
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but scenes that created an air of foreboding. For instance, you walk down a dark hallway and see a vague shape jump around the corner. Go around the corner, and there's nothing there. *That* is what creates the feeling of impending doom
You are spot on. Horror is foreboding, knowing that something bad is going to happen, just not knowing exactly how or when.
I'll make a reference to H.P.Lovecraft. Arguably the most famous horror author, and basically all his stories starts with telling you how awful everything went in the end. Then he starts describing exactly how it happened and why it couldn't be avoided.
Exactly.
From the wiki site, CueCat was about sending people to a fixed URL. Read: bombard them with advertisements.
This is exactly the opposite of the article, which is about using the barcode as an ID to look up information at location chosen by the user.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos#Theme
This will cause encrypted darknets to flourish which will cause a faster downward spiral due to the whole 'Pedo Menace'.
People use the Internet only because it's easy and safe. But don't forget that the Sneakernet have been silently ramping up its bandwidth to some serious beef. What can you fit on a MicroSD these days? 8GB? That's some serious amount of data on the size of a fingernail.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a teenager going to school with pockets full of flash memory.
Um, my dog runs pretty fast.
You insensitive clod!
Your last claim is incorrect. Vista creates pirates, which as we all know reduce global warming.
Actually, you're wrong. People do not want Vista, even for free. So there is less piracy than with XP.
Even by pirate-logic, Vista increases global warming.
Don't extrapolate the US's crappy economy to countries you know nothing about, thanks.
Agreed. Come to Norway with a nice skillset and hold up a poster saying "IT dude want work" at the airport. Headhunters in 3, 2, 1...
With the current exchange rates, the salary might also be pretty decent.
Actually, they can't.
Sure they can. A microscopic black hole has a microscopic gravity. It would loop around/through earth making a microscopic path on its way.
Experience can change a human in a blink of an eye. Genes changes us over millenia. Culture serves as a collection of "rules of thumb" collected by a society and changes in the course of generations.
Culture is the way it is today because it have been an efficient organization of our society. Thinking of sex as a taboo most likely came with cities and large numbers of people living close together. Casual sex certainly transmits diseases. Culture changed to make this behavior unacceptable. A mix of darwinism and common sense adding up over the years.
Sex and morality is reforming these days because we have birth control and disease control. It's not as dangerous as it was before. I assume our genes are coded for more casual sex. If it wasn't in our genes, affairs and one-night stands would be unheard of.
I expect it to settle on a level of sexual openness that we can safely have, given current technologies for preventing disease or accidental pregnancy.
"Six nines" is meaningless. Unrealistic.
It is a promise that you cannot be hit by a single accident, fuckup, pissed-off-employee or act of god.
I guess this must be some convervative fuzzy logic. Fuck is forbidden, and motherfucker is extra forbidden...
Exactly. Looks like Montreal is getting yet another system similar to Paris Velib, Barelona Bicing, Stockholm City Bikes, and others... Except this one will be buried in snow from November to April.
Trondheim, Norway had a similar system when I was there in 1998, not sure if it is older than that.At 63.4 degrees North, I think those would also also qualify for the winter part.
http://www.icebike.org/Equipment/nokian296.htm
You NEED studded tires if you're going to bicycle on ice, bike nut or not. They're not expensive and will absolutely reduce the risk of having an accident.
If nice people discover assholes, they should not ignore or forgive them, or the assholes will continue exploiting other nice people and come out on top.
Instead, nice people should utterly annhilate assholes when encountered.
This research makes just as much sense when flipping it around: If you got some genes that makes the girls come running, it may cause your personality to become self-centered and exploitive.
Or there could be a root cause and have nothing to do with genes at all. For example, "power". Girls like guys with power, while power corrupts the personality.
Plunge the thermometer into a vat of ice water and make a mark. Plunge the thermometer into your body, make another mark.
Wow! you're right, it's was very clever!Though I would have boiled the water instead and used powers of ten to make it practical.
That's the great thing about a standard. You keep it even when you realize it's not as perfect as you thought.
Just as the meter being defined by the speed of light in a vacuum, 299,792,458 m/s instead of simply 300,000,000.
And just wait until they redefine the kilogram as a specific number of carbon atoms. I doubt it will be any round number.
So... it has started?
;)
I was a bit confused here. Especially since the link at
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?p=downloadday
displays big old "Firefox 2" for me.
Wrong link? It shouldn't be, it was straight from the official mail from admin@spreadfirefox.com. Click link... Firefox2! Yay! Err... no, wait.
There is even a "Firefox 3 Sneak Peek!" link on the page htey linked. Did someone screw up a cache or did someone forget to flip an important switch?
If it's not just me, it is hillarious
It's not about how many comments, it's about adding information that cannot be expressed easily in code. If it is a dirty hack, make sure to note it down so the next person along cannot make the mistake it for an amazingly clever solution.
If you spent hours considering different angles of attack before you went for one, make a short summary of the other solutions and what drawbacks they had.
If you make a tradeoff, explain why you went for it, or someone will waste a lot of time thinking they can "fix" your code not knowing of any pitfall you avoided with that tradeoff.
"Attitude control" means the thrusters to change its orientation, as opposed to changing the course. You could likely make the probe spin real fast. Not sure if that would give you any more exciting data, though.
I think you can safely assume the engineers on the project have gone through the possible options.
Why?
I very often use "CTRL-SHIFT-END" to select text from marker to end, then hit "ENTER" to clear the selected block with a newline for more typing. The key right next to "end" is "del". This have caused my to nuke my cache and settings countless times due to this and I don't enjoy the feature the slightest.
As a Scandinavian, I am compelled to invoke the Slashdot meme:
I am a genetically correct viking, you insensitive clod!
It said "Who is Winnie the Pooh's depressive donkey friend?" "Tussi"!