I don't mind the stock spams so much. Every time I see one I just think of the morons who actually read spam losing their money - it brightens up my day!
What I realize is the spammer who sent that message just made money so they can keep affording to do this.
Oh, and the world was black and white back then, too. When everything got colorized, old pictures and movies stayed the same, because they were color pictures of the black and white world.
But how do you explain all those color paintings from that time?
Yep, and 70% of drivers think they're in the top 30 percentile.
Just because you don't get into an accident doesn't mean you're driving safely. Now get off the damn phone and stop swerving into my lane.
Problem with flipping the bird to a jerk like that is he doesn't see it anyway, he's still dicking around on his phone... (2 stoplights later even...true story...)
What good would a backup tape be if the box you're restoring to is extra crispy? And if you're getting a tape from offsite you have to wait for it to be found and delivered (assuming your offsite repository is more like Iron Mountain and less like supervisor's garage).
With a live box you've cut your wait time dramatically.
I know I'd rather have a live box rather than rebuild from scratch...
But yeah, I have no idea what the difference is between a beverage and a drink.
If you asked me, I'd say a beverage would be a soda or fruit drink.
A drink would be at least 5% alcohol, preferably no less than 10%. (Cause, like, in movies, if someone offers a drink, they break open the liquor cabinet.)
Drink is demoted to mean a beverage if it's obvious there's no alcohol in the immediate vacinity.
It exists, but it's a redheaded stepchild compared to the other six denomination. Might as well not exist. (As a note, I did say 'raise the printing level of the $2s' but I can see how the deeper meaning of that could've been missed...I'm not always a clear writer without the benefit of a lengthy editorial process)
There's $8.7 Billion in $1 bills circulated, and $1.5B in $2s (for 750M paper bills). Despite that many $2s, though, they're rarely circulated. Most are 'collectables', either purchased directly from the treasury or previously circulated ones held on to as a keepsake. To compare, there's 2 billion in $5s circulated.
What needs to be done is get about 3 Bil in $2s and 3 Bil in $1s circulated, more or less. (I have my almanac! I can check actual numbers! Yeay for reference materials...) That keeps the amount of currency in circulation the same, but 1/3rd less the physical bills created. With more $2s in circulation, wear and tear on $1s would go down so they wouldn't have to be destroyed and reprinted as often.
That would be a perfect time to start phasing out the $1 bill entirely and replace it with more durable coinage.
One personal anecdote, when I took a trip to Australia and hit the exchange, I just happened to have a $2 US with me. They had never seen one before.
Problem is, this would seem to be contrary to Valve's methodology. Opening it up means probably bringing on many new clients, with who knows what attached.
The way Steam is now, it does exactly what Valve wants it to do and no one else is breathing down their neck. Valve seems to be pretty self contained, make their own schedules, and release a product when it's done (as evident by the requisite one year delay for every release...). I doubt they'd want to be involved with anyone that would compromise their freedom.
Sometimes companies don't put profits first, but once they do there's no going back.
Those who played the violent video game showed more activation in the amygdala, which is involved in emotional arousal, and less activation in the prefrontal portions of the brain associated with control, focus and concentration than the teens who played the nonviolent game.
So the teens playing the emotionally rousing combat game were emotionally aroused, and the teens playing the precision racing game were more focused? Amazing. I'm no scientist, but this study seems like it was set up specifically with the goal of finding something wrong with violent games in mind.
Dollar coins haven't become popular simply because they are inconvenient to use. Who wants/needs a pound (0.454 kg) of dollar coins jangling around in their pants pocket or purse?
How do you explain Australia and Canada then? I've spent a week vacation in AU and simply loved the currency there. It's so much more intuitive.
I think one major problem with a $1 coin though is the sheer lack of $2 currency. The way it is, you'd need FOUR $1 coins to bridge the gap between the low end dollar values. With a $2 bill (or better yet, a $2 coin) you'd only ever *need* one $1 coin and you'd be more motivated to spend it when you get it.
The treasury should start phasing out mass production of the $1 for starters, probably down to 33% of current levels and raise the $2 to the same level, that being 33% of current $1 production. This would maintain the same amount of currency in circulation but with 33% less bills printed. The initial cost would be trivial as it simply requires replacing the plates on an existing $1 machine. (Not taking account any future change in shape, but that'd be sweeping anyway, so wouldn't make a difference with this. Just make more $2 plates than $1 plates.)
As far as the exotic dancer argument, with more and more states passing 'no touching' laws, you might end up being relegated to dropping it in a hat on the runway soon anyway.
The shutdown menu team should know precisely nothing about the internals of the shell and kernel, they should be calling an API which is guaranteed to work given the right input. They can test using a harness till the real code is in there, and if the real code doesn't meet the API spec, well then it'll be fixed by the other teams.
An ideal solution, (delving into a topic I decided not going into, that Windows should be more modual, because I'd be risking a flamebait...heh), but what it sounded like what was going on was the APIs were being developed simultanious to the code, so what shutdown expects to be there one day gets changed by kernel later.
That's an entirely different problem though, one that a better code repository wouldn't fix.
Throwing too many researchers at a problem is like throwing too many programmers at an operating system. Plus not every researcher has a cellular biological background (or whatever...)
This is actually one of the better pseudo-scientific studies at least, can finally get some closure on all those times I was told 'SIT UP STRAIGHT!'
No numbers for November (expect those mid December) yet, so the Wii might have passed depending on launch numbers, but it did beat the 360 easily in October.
But you won't know you have a bug for months so the teams will code away making buggier software and not realizing it until the root sync. (Wait...why does that sound familiar...hrm...dunno...)
FTA, the shutdown menu relied on the shell team and the kernel team, and they only shared root. So how do you know if the menu's broken unless it's synced with everything? Can't test a new menu without the most recent kernel and shell build... Or you can, but once kernel re-syncs, who's to say menu won't up and break?
Main Entry: eradicate Pronunciation: i-'ra-d&-"kAt Function: transitive verb... 1 : to pull up by the roots 2 : to do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots (programs to eradicate illiteracy)
Barring that, it certainly seems that it's being *treated* as a disease. Sleep interferes with productivity, therefore it must be cured.
It could also be a metaphor.
Grammatically, the word's perfectly fine. Just because you have a preconceived notion on how it should be used doesn't mean it's wrong.
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I'm not sure this can really be considered 'intellectual' though...
It's not hard. It is impossible. If the legistature intended the statue to include IM, then they need to go back and amend it.
Either that or more explicitly define electronic mail as a message adhering to RFC 2822, is transmitted across TCP port 25, received on TCP port 110, et cetera.
We can simply define 'electronic mail' as mail, or a message, sent electronically, as opposed to physically, where it was received by the recipient in an instant. An 'instant message' if you will.
Since the legislature did not specifically define what they mean by 'electronic mail,' how can you be sure of their intent?
Such projects actually then happen because they can be profitable - which is to say, they produce something people actually WANT enough to spend their money on it. Profitability actually means making something *people truly want*, rather than what people SAY they want.
Let's converse this again.
I can see myself donating to NASA, but unless I was given a form with a list of everything, I doubt I would remember to do the same for the NOAA. One problem with the definition "what people truly want" is people don't know what that is or what it takes to get there.
Science, strictly speaking, is (on the whole) not profitable. Research is not profitable. Neither is development. Only product is profitable. You don't make product flying a plane into a hurricane, but it still needs to be done.
Thus, it makes sense for government to subsidize science, otherwise it's unlikely generic science would get done since it produces no product, only data. However, that data can be applied by other people in private industry, like structural engineers making buildings that can withstand the hurricanes the planes above flew in to.
I just don't see Alcoa funding hurricane flights, but that's me.
The problem with private industry is they end up needing results and showing profit. Thus long, difficult projects that don't show a good return will be scrapped. The government doesn't need to show results on a profit level, which is why they fund things like this: to promote the wellbeing and advancement of the state in ways the private sector would not.
Personally, I like my tax dollars going to NASA as opposed to the multitude of social programs run by the state.
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I don't mind the stock spams so much. Every time I see one I just think of the morons who actually read spam losing their money - it brightens up my day!
What I realize is the spammer who sent that message just made money so they can keep affording to do this.
I die a little inside...
Oh, and the world was black and white back then, too. When everything got colorized, old pictures and movies stayed the same, because they were color pictures of the black and white world.
But how do you explain all those color paintings from that time?
Yep, and 70% of drivers think they're in the top 30 percentile.
Just because you don't get into an accident doesn't mean you're driving safely. Now get off the damn phone and stop swerving into my lane.
Problem with flipping the bird to a jerk like that is he doesn't see it anyway, he's still dicking around on his phone... (2 stoplights later even...true story...)
Scrolling marquee LCD display hacked to print the text in mirrored reverse.
But I'm sure there's some law that would break, plus I'm too lazy to bother trying.
What good would a backup tape be if the box you're restoring to is extra crispy? And if you're getting a tape from offsite you have to wait for it to be found and delivered (assuming your offsite repository is more like Iron Mountain and less like supervisor's garage).
With a live box you've cut your wait time dramatically.
I know I'd rather have a live box rather than rebuild from scratch...
But yeah, I have no idea what the difference is between a beverage and a drink.
If you asked me, I'd say a beverage would be a soda or fruit drink.
A drink would be at least 5% alcohol, preferably no less than 10%. (Cause, like, in movies, if someone offers a drink, they break open the liquor cabinet.)
Drink is demoted to mean a beverage if it's obvious there's no alcohol in the immediate vacinity.
It exists, but it's a redheaded stepchild compared to the other six denomination. Might as well not exist. (As a note, I did say 'raise the printing level of the $2s' but I can see how the deeper meaning of that could've been missed...I'm not always a clear writer without the benefit of a lengthy editorial process)
There's $8.7 Billion in $1 bills circulated, and $1.5B in $2s (for 750M paper bills). Despite that many $2s, though, they're rarely circulated. Most are 'collectables', either purchased directly from the treasury or previously circulated ones held on to as a keepsake. To compare, there's 2 billion in $5s circulated.
What needs to be done is get about 3 Bil in $2s and 3 Bil in $1s circulated, more or less. (I have my almanac! I can check actual numbers! Yeay for reference materials...) That keeps the amount of currency in circulation the same, but 1/3rd less the physical bills created. With more $2s in circulation, wear and tear on $1s would go down so they wouldn't have to be destroyed and reprinted as often.
That would be a perfect time to start phasing out the $1 bill entirely and replace it with more durable coinage.
One personal anecdote, when I took a trip to Australia and hit the exchange, I just happened to have a $2 US with me. They had never seen one before.
Problem is, this would seem to be contrary to Valve's methodology. Opening it up means probably bringing on many new clients, with who knows what attached.
The way Steam is now, it does exactly what Valve wants it to do and no one else is breathing down their neck. Valve seems to be pretty self contained, make their own schedules, and release a product when it's done (as evident by the requisite one year delay for every release...). I doubt they'd want to be involved with anyone that would compromise their freedom.
Sometimes companies don't put profits first, but once they do there's no going back.
Those who played the violent video game showed more activation in the amygdala, which is involved in emotional arousal, and less activation in the prefrontal portions of the brain associated with control, focus and concentration than the teens who played the nonviolent game.
Kotaku echoes my thoughts on this one...
So the teens playing the emotionally rousing combat game were emotionally aroused, and the teens playing the precision racing game were more focused? Amazing. I'm no scientist, but this study seems like it was set up specifically with the goal of finding something wrong with violent games in mind.
Dollar coins haven't become popular simply because they are inconvenient to use. Who wants/needs a pound (0.454 kg) of dollar coins jangling around in their pants pocket or purse?
How do you explain Australia and Canada then? I've spent a week vacation in AU and simply loved the currency there. It's so much more intuitive.
I think one major problem with a $1 coin though is the sheer lack of $2 currency. The way it is, you'd need FOUR $1 coins to bridge the gap between the low end dollar values. With a $2 bill (or better yet, a $2 coin) you'd only ever *need* one $1 coin and you'd be more motivated to spend it when you get it.
The treasury should start phasing out mass production of the $1 for starters, probably down to 33% of current levels and raise the $2 to the same level, that being 33% of current $1 production. This would maintain the same amount of currency in circulation but with 33% less bills printed. The initial cost would be trivial as it simply requires replacing the plates on an existing $1 machine. (Not taking account any future change in shape, but that'd be sweeping anyway, so wouldn't make a difference with this. Just make more $2 plates than $1 plates.)
As far as the exotic dancer argument, with more and more states passing 'no touching' laws, you might end up being relegated to dropping it in a hat on the runway soon anyway.
The shutdown menu team should know precisely nothing about the internals of the shell and kernel, they should be calling an API which is guaranteed to work given the right input. They can test using a harness till the real code is in there, and if the real code doesn't meet the API spec, well then it'll be fixed by the other teams.
An ideal solution, (delving into a topic I decided not going into, that Windows should be more modual, because I'd be risking a flamebait...heh), but what it sounded like what was going on was the APIs were being developed simultanious to the code, so what shutdown expects to be there one day gets changed by kernel later.
That's an entirely different problem though, one that a better code repository wouldn't fix.
In my opinion, Sony screwed the pooch with the PS-3 and MS took advantage of it.
And that's why the PS2 is outselling the XBox 360?
Not exactly what I'd call taking advantage of a situation...
Throwing too many researchers at a problem is like throwing too many programmers at an operating system. Plus not every researcher has a cellular biological background (or whatever...)
This is actually one of the better pseudo-scientific studies at least, can finally get some closure on all those times I was told 'SIT UP STRAIGHT!'
...I'd also like a pony.
No numbers for November (expect those mid December) yet, so the Wii might have passed depending on launch numbers, but it did beat the 360 easily in October.
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The PlayStation 2 came in at around 235,000, with the Xbox 360 slightly disappointingly selling just under 220,000 units.
Call me crazy but I don't think you can make an aircraft carrier that runs on skis. Or an oil tanker. Or the QM2.
So on those family vacations, it's no longer "Tell no one about the shortcut" but "Tell no one about the Vista route"?
But you won't know you have a bug for months so the teams will code away making buggier software and not realizing it until the root sync. (Wait...why does that sound familiar...hrm...dunno...)
FTA, the shutdown menu relied on the shell team and the kernel team, and they only shared root. So how do you know if the menu's broken unless it's synced with everything? Can't test a new menu without the most recent kernel and shell build... Or you can, but once kernel re-syncs, who's to say menu won't up and break?
So, unless you turn it off or leave it behind,
Or my favorite, just ignore it.
How is that ignorant?
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Main Entry: eradicate
Pronunciation: i-'ra-d&-"kAt
Function: transitive verb
1 : to pull up by the roots
2 : to do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots (programs to eradicate illiteracy)
Barring that, it certainly seems that it's being *treated* as a disease. Sleep interferes with productivity, therefore it must be cured.
It could also be a metaphor.
Grammatically, the word's perfectly fine. Just because you have a preconceived notion on how it should be used doesn't mean it's wrong.
I'm not sure this can really be considered 'intellectual' though...
It's not hard. It is impossible. If the legistature intended the statue to include IM, then they need to go back and amend it.
Either that or more explicitly define electronic mail as a message adhering to RFC 2822, is transmitted across TCP port 25, received on TCP port 110, et cetera.
We can simply define 'electronic mail' as mail, or a message, sent electronically, as opposed to physically, where it was received by the recipient in an instant. An 'instant message' if you will.
Since the legislature did not specifically define what they mean by 'electronic mail,' how can you be sure of their intent?
So, after reading the novel, which "closure point" would that be?
Such projects actually then happen because they can be profitable - which is to say, they produce something people actually WANT enough to spend their money on it. Profitability actually means making something *people truly want*, rather than what people SAY they want.
Let's converse this again.
I can see myself donating to NASA, but unless I was given a form with a list of everything, I doubt I would remember to do the same for the NOAA. One problem with the definition "what people truly want" is people don't know what that is or what it takes to get there.
Science, strictly speaking, is (on the whole) not profitable. Research is not profitable. Neither is development. Only product is profitable. You don't make product flying a plane into a hurricane, but it still needs to be done.
Thus, it makes sense for government to subsidize science, otherwise it's unlikely generic science would get done since it produces no product, only data. However, that data can be applied by other people in private industry, like structural engineers making buildings that can withstand the hurricanes the planes above flew in to.
I just don't see Alcoa funding hurricane flights, but that's me.
I'll answer anyway: unlikely.
The problem with private industry is they end up needing results and showing profit. Thus long, difficult projects that don't show a good return will be scrapped. The government doesn't need to show results on a profit level, which is why they fund things like this: to promote the wellbeing and advancement of the state in ways the private sector would not.
Personally, I like my tax dollars going to NASA as opposed to the multitude of social programs run by the state.