Women's feet are more prone to swell. And they like impractical shoes that provide little support. Imagine buying a low support shoe, then your feet shrink 15% and your shoes want to fall off -- time for another pair.
Easily fixed. DNT is like the outside facing doors of your house locking by default (example). Apache is saying "We have the right to walk right into your house, even if the door is locked".
Agreed about hesitating to post. I did it myself just a minute or two earlier.
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Regarding permabanning, if that was used here, a user could couple it with auto-downmodding people with new accounts and adjust "how new" to suit their personal lack of desire to see troll posts.
Much as we all hate Facebook, this must be a large part of the reason you have to "be yourself" on their site -- so that they can perman ban you if necessary. BTW, when was the last time someone talked about being stalked by trolls on Facebook?
More ramble: given how bullied Asperger kids are, it is no wonder that Facebook is in the forefront of trying to stop this...
Agreed. My recent "smart" purchase was to buy a quality voice recorder. Rather than try to bend a phone to my desktop-sized needs, I just make notes for later. My current system is to write such notes on paper, so this is a major upgrade.
The buy link is just as broken, in its own way. Doesn't show in the status line where it is taking you. Displays nothing on my 750k hosts file machine. Apparently destination is wazala.com. And a mere $50. Think I'll buy six for each of my mansions.
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And how bout them spiffy _pictures_?! Must suck pretty bad for them to not have video.
Almost all of the pages have a good description, an example, links to related functions, and a comment area where other people can extend it. .
Examples are, have always been and probably always will be the weak area of almost all documentation because.
- You _sometimes_ get _an_ example.
- The example is probably trivial.
- The example code is rarely functional (and is probably just a near useless code snippet that you could write based solely on the keyword's definition, above).
The incomprehensible part of this is that the person writing docs could just search the mounds of code (s)he is documenting and pull _plenty_ of examples for each language keyword. And they would be providing better documentation if they _only_ did this (provided the examples were pulled from working code).
In the early days (when dead tree docs were expected), the lack of examples was somewhat justified as it shortened the manual, but for decades it has been feasible to write manuals of virtually any size (i.e. 10 or 100 times larger than they are) and accomplish a heck of a lot more.
I got so sick of manuals that I would just read the Error Codes section (or sometimes manual). Unless _it_ was well done I wouldn't even bother with the main manual, electing to just purchase a manual (after scanning through all the bookstore had on the subject).
You start off talking about "using all the sunlight we receive", and your following remarks may be appropriate for that (or not, see below). Then you conclude:
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In the not-so-distant future we're going to have real problems with energy use, purely based on the waste heat. How much we can use of the sun's energy--or any other source--has nothing to do with dollars.
Your remarks are not appropriate to, for example, hydro power. Water is going to tumble down mountains anyway. In doing so, heat is going to be given off. If we stick a generator in the way, less heat is given off at the source and more elsewhere. The only extra heat from hydrothermal is do to conversion & transportation losses.
And in thinking further about your base premise, it sounds like B.S. to me for the same reason -- sunlight is going to hit the ground, with some bouncing back. Stick a solar cell in the way and you get pretty much the same thing -- maybe slight differences in absorption (like the conversion loss mentioned above) but hardly a huge difference in what is happening. Either a rock is heating up, liberating energy locally, or electricity is being created and used elsewhere...liberating energy there.
What about a revised test for this company:
(1) each person has to spend $slackingoff hours writing some code,
(2) each person is then critiqued on their code as part of $wasteoftime hours of instruction,
(3) each person writes $inyourdreams lines of new code and then
(4) each person's pay for the following week is based on the % (above $somenumberfewwillexceed) improvement (negatives allowed) over their first attempt,
(5) $bottom worst scores soaped onto an inaccessbile front-facing window of the main building, or on the not-wind-(rain)-blown side
(6) $top best scores given a chance to become programmers.
(7) Some tired Slashdot meme
I don't believe that story. Since when do consultants ask for input from underlings, especially on something as important as a mission statement? Why, if this had actually taken place, several underlings would have gone into cardiac arrest, or at least convulsive shock.
It has been a few decades since I heard a record but I imagine that records sound better (closer to the original sound) than CDs. At least until the first snap, crackle or pop.
BT became a way for JoesSmallSite.com to dole out millions of copies of his Fabulous Bouncing Babies video without putting himself and his baby in the poor house.
So you got cars with speedometers that maxed out at 85 MPH (125 KPH). Even though the car could keep going. .
Part of that persists, last I checked (_quite_ a long time ago). If you drive your car in excess of 85mph and press cruise, cruise will engage...and your car will slowly decelerate...to 85mph.
I would be curious if this is still true in 2012, and for what cars.
You press "5" and it starts "Express microwaving" your food. You want 25 seconds? Too bad, you press "2" and away it goes for 2 minutes. Metro-fication is everywhere...
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And while we are on the insanely stupid things that microwaves do and we can't stop them doing...it used to be that when you popped the door open (after the cook time finished) the beep(ing) would stop. Now you get a beep for the door opening, and four beeps you can't mute. All thanks to Yet Another Interface Spiralling Out Of Control (pronounced Yay-Suckage!).
Your link is to "car", as in any one of thousands. Such a general link would never list a specific mpg/cost per mile figure. Therefore your "reply" is useless.
This story, on the other hand, is about a specific car, the Tata. Posting MPG (or MPG equivalent) for cars is the norm these days. I see countless ads on TV that list the MPG in massive letters. Anyone trying to promote a car will naturally talk about the MPG (or some other feature) in order to try to sell the car. Here such information is massively missing, making this entire thread pretty much content free, and a troll's paradise.
I scanned the wiki link. Doesn't seem to answer the grandparent (and my) question of "Cost per mile?"
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I mean, there are really just 2 numbers that matter for a given car: (1) capital cost, (2) cost per mile. Why doesn't the summary, or wiki, answer the second?
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You'll need a steamroller as well.
What happens when the Chinese come out with a $2 kids laser toy that tracks planes automatically? Another national defense issue?
Women's feet are more prone to swell. And they like impractical shoes that provide little support. Imagine buying a low support shoe, then your feet shrink 15% and your shoes want to fall off -- time for another pair.
First of all, most curtains are open by default!
Easily fixed. DNT is like the outside facing doors of your house locking by default (example). Apache is saying "We have the right to walk right into your house, even if the door is locked".
Regarding permabanning, if that was used here, a user could couple it with auto-downmodding people with new accounts and adjust "how new" to suit their personal lack of desire to see troll posts.
Much as we all hate Facebook, this must be a large part of the reason you have to "be yourself" on their site -- so that they can perman ban you if necessary. BTW, when was the last time someone talked about being stalked by trolls on Facebook?
More ramble: given how bullied Asperger kids are, it is no wonder that Facebook is in the forefront of trying to stop this...
Wouldn't it be interesting if car companies were behind bicycle helmet laws?
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Agreed. My recent "smart" purchase was to buy a quality voice recorder. Rather than try to bend a phone to my desktop-sized needs, I just make notes for later. My current system is to write such notes on paper, so this is a major upgrade.
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And how bout them spiffy _pictures_?! Must suck pretty bad for them to not have video.
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Examples are, have always been and probably always will be the weak area of almost all documentation because.
- You _sometimes_ get _an_ example.
- The example is probably trivial.
- The example code is rarely functional (and is probably just a near useless code snippet that you could write based solely on the keyword's definition, above).
The incomprehensible part of this is that the person writing docs could just search the mounds of code (s)he is documenting and pull _plenty_ of examples for each language keyword. And they would be providing better documentation if they _only_ did this (provided the examples were pulled from working code).
In the early days (when dead tree docs were expected), the lack of examples was somewhat justified as it shortened the manual, but for decades it has been feasible to write manuals of virtually any size (i.e. 10 or 100 times larger than they are) and accomplish a heck of a lot more.
I got so sick of manuals that I would just read the Error Codes section (or sometimes manual). Unless _it_ was well done I wouldn't even bother with the main manual, electing to just purchase a manual (after scanning through all the bookstore had on the subject).
When a battery is used, energy is liberated. Energy that was IN the battery is now outside the battery. Liberation.
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In the not-so-distant future we're going to have real problems with energy use, purely based on the waste heat. How much we can use of the sun's energy--or any other source--has nothing to do with dollars.
Your remarks are not appropriate to, for example, hydro power. Water is going to tumble down mountains anyway. In doing so, heat is going to be given off. If we stick a generator in the way, less heat is given off at the source and more elsewhere. The only extra heat from hydrothermal is do to conversion & transportation losses.
And in thinking further about your base premise, it sounds like B.S. to me for the same reason -- sunlight is going to hit the ground, with some bouncing back. Stick a solar cell in the way and you get pretty much the same thing -- maybe slight differences in absorption (like the conversion loss mentioned above) but hardly a huge difference in what is happening. Either a rock is heating up, liberating energy locally, or electricity is being created and used elsewhere...liberating energy there.
No, but definitely "hurtling", "sucked" and "flung" ! ! !
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That sweaty bike ride quickly becomes non-sweaty when it becomes your daily routine.
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What about a revised test for this company:
(1) each person has to spend $slackingoff hours writing some code,
(2) each person is then critiqued on their code as part of $wasteoftime hours of instruction,
(3) each person writes $inyourdreams lines of new code and then
(4) each person's pay for the following week is based on the % (above $somenumberfewwillexceed) improvement (negatives allowed) over their first attempt,
(5) $bottom worst scores soaped onto an inaccessbile front-facing window of the main building, or on the not-wind-(rain)-blown side
(6) $top best scores given a chance to become programmers.
(7) Some tired Slashdot meme
I don't believe that story. Since when do consultants ask for input from underlings, especially on something as important as a mission statement? Why, if this had actually taken place, several underlings would have gone into cardiac arrest, or at least convulsive shock.
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It has been a few decades since I heard a record but I imagine that records sound better (closer to the original sound) than CDs. At least until the first snap, crackle or pop.
State pushes prescription painkiller methadone, saving millions but costing lives
You know what would be kinda cool? If, on these political threads, all comments had the rating.
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BT became a way for JoesSmallSite.com to dole out millions of copies of his Fabulous Bouncing Babies video without putting himself and his baby in the poor house.
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Ad text:
"In the 90s, we'll probably see only ten real breakthroughs in computers. Here are seven of them."
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Part of that persists, last I checked (_quite_ a long time ago). If you drive your car in excess of 85mph and press cruise, cruise will engage...and your car will slowly decelerate...to 85mph.
I would be curious if this is still true in 2012, and for what cars.
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And while we are on the insanely stupid things that microwaves do and we can't stop them doing...it used to be that when you popped the door open (after the cook time finished) the beep(ing) would stop. Now you get a beep for the door opening, and four beeps you can't mute. All thanks to Yet Another Interface Spiralling Out Of Control (pronounced Yay-Suckage!).
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Your link is to "car", as in any one of thousands. Such a general link would never list a specific mpg/cost per mile figure. Therefore your "reply" is useless.
This story, on the other hand, is about a specific car, the Tata. Posting MPG (or MPG equivalent) for cars is the norm these days. I see countless ads on TV that list the MPG in massive letters. Anyone trying to promote a car will naturally talk about the MPG (or some other feature) in order to try to sell the car. Here such information is massively missing, making this entire thread pretty much content free, and a troll's paradise.
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I mean, there are really just 2 numbers that matter for a given car: (1) capital cost, (2) cost per mile. Why doesn't the summary, or wiki, answer the second?
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"The quarterback" was the thousands of engineers & technicians working for decades to perfect the pass.