So I get it, okay? But even though I know my new microwave is 1200W (and I even know what that means), that doesn't mean I won't find you in your office and shoot your ass if your satellite regularly aims 50mW at my kids.
I think you mean big-M Mega, not little-m milli. Other than that slight technicality, I do agree with you. (And hey, what's 9 zeros between friends, anyway!)
And therein lies the problem - one man's bloat is another man's critical feature. I write and maintain a mature open source finance package, and am trying to walk the fine line between adding new features and adding bloat. Even with this very limited domain application, there are people who insist that feature X is absolutely required, even though I personally would never think to use it. No software is perfect for everyone, and the more you try to make it so, the more bloat will appear.
(I understand that you are arguing along the same lines that I am, so I am not trying to counter you, rather build up your argument).
Since Mars has not yet sucked Earth into it, why do you think that Black Hole Mars would do any differently? Where would all the extra matter come from?
The amount of gravitational attraction in an object is directly related to the amount of matter in an object; just because that matter is very dense (a black hole) doesn't mean that it will suddenly effect a larger gravitational pull on other matter.
I am a photographer (mostly for fun, although I have done a few shoots for money). While I agree that Canon or Nikon are somewhat the defacto standard which you cannot go wrong with, there are other alternatives which can work very well for you as well. Personally, I use Olympus dSLRs for the most part, and find them quite good. Upsides with Olympus are the quality of the lenses (even the kit lenses are very good as compared to Canon / Nikon's kit lenses), good telephoto performance, image stablization in the camera body (as opposed to the lens, like Canon / Nikon - this means that all of your lenses are stabilized, not just the expensive ones), etc. Downsides to Olympus are fewer third party accessories (flashes, etc), smaller sensor (which means more noise and less low light performance).
Not trying to convince you to go with something other than Canon / Nikon, as there is no doubt that they both make very good cameras; just letting you know that there are alternatives, which may fit your shooting style better. Kinda like the Windows vs. Linux debate;-)
If you do use flash drives (or CDs / DVD, for that matter), make sure to do a 100% redundancy par2 copy on one of them. This will allow you to retrieve data using either disk, even with massive corruption.
I think that is a Southern (as in, Southern US) thing. I lived in NC for a couple of years, and was amazed that people did that. Here in western Canada, that is not done at all to my knowledge. I personally do hunt (for food) other animals, mostly big game like deer and elk. Due to my interaction with people in similar social circles, I think that I would be in a position to know about what other species are hunted as well (although that assumption may be incorrect).
Here's another deserter. I have been an Apple user for about 5 years now, after getting a 12" G4 Powerbook. Currently I am on two Macbook Pros (one for home, one for work). However, due to a number of reasons (DRM being a large one), I will no longer be purchasing new Apple hardware. My home MBP is currently dual booting OSX / Ubuntu, and my next machine will be a laptop running Linux full time.
It's too bad, overall my Apple experience has been good, but there are just too many 'If only this worked how I wanted' issues to stay with this.
I know that if you examine it at a low enough level, it's all deterministic.
Possibly. I have heard some theories (even here on Slashdot, IIRC) that due to truly random quantum events, at a low level, things are not as deterministic as you may think. Of course, this may or may not actually affect our brains, leading to truly non-deterministic behaviour.
From everything I have seen, the church does not tell members to vote any way - they are very aware of church / state separation, and as a policy will not tell people which way to vote. All the church does it encourage members to vote according to their conscience, which I would hope anyone would agree with.
Slightly off topic - what charger are you using? I am looking for a good smart charger, but am finding it hard to find a good model from all the junk out there.
Some of my requirements are:
Separate channels for each battery (some of my devices use 3 batteries, which cannot be charged in a charger with two batteries per channel).
Smart charging, preferably using dT/dt method or something equivalent
Nice to have features are:
Manual amperage settings (default to low power slow charge, but can boost higher if you need the batteries finished quickly)
9v charging
Battery Conditioning (charge / discarge cycles; apparently can give new life to old batteries, if the marketing can be believed).
The closest I have seen so far seems to be the LaCrosse BC-900, with favourable reviews, but any other suggestions would be most welcome.
I have a real Arduino (used in my Drum Master project), as well as a couple of RBBB's, which are basically Arduino clones which fit on a breadboard - see http://moderndevice.com/RBBB_revB.shtml for details / ordering. Both Arduino and the various clones come highly recommended by me. (No association to Modern Device company, other than being a very happy customer).
While I'm sure that FPGA's and other things can be more powerful, the simplicity and ease of use of Arduino and its IDE make it worthwhile for beginners, such as myself.
Very interesting... do you have some sources for this? I believe that it is true (I have seen Linux, well at least Ubuntu, seem to slow down quite a bit in the past few years), but I would like to see what studies have been done to document this.
Well, the New Oxford English dictionary defines it as "the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, esp. when considered as an academic discipline." Creationism is a widely held view on the source of all existance - to me, that fits the definition.
In fact having taken various philosophy classes (most notably metaphysics), I can tell you that a great part of that class was concerned with the nature of God, morality, reality (what does our existence entail), etc. While this particular class did not go into details of creation myths, you needed a certain amount of understanding of them to fully understand various philosopher's positions, especially some of the early Christian philosophers such as St. Augustine.
While I have no problem with creationism existing in mythology courses as well, I see no reason not to include it in philosophy. Knowledge cannot always be compartmentalized into distinct topics with no overlap, no matter how much one may want it to be! Of course, creation myths of any kind do not belong in the hard sciences, as they are not a real scientific theory - but, much of philosophy also does not meet the criteria of hard science.
(And yes, this is coming from a Christian (specifically LDS) who believes in evolution, who feels that the creation story in Genesis is man's attempt to explain the world in simple terms, with an emphasis on the 'why', not the 'how'.)
CC skimmers represent, IMHO, a different class of criminals. CC numbers are quite valuable to organized crime, etc, and due to a lack of interest with the banks, it is pretty easy to get away with CC fraud. (It is cheaper for banks to absorb the losses rather than pay for better CC security). Plus, it is quite easy to get tens of CC numbers over the course of an evening, say if you are working at a restaraunt.
Compare that to common home burglaries - unless the victim has a large amount of cash sitting on his night stand, to actually make any money, the burglars would have to pawn or otherwise get rid of the stuff they stole. Not counting the increased chance that they get caught when pawning, if nothing else it is just quite a bit more work, and does not scale as efficiently.
Due to how CC fraud both scales better, and requires some up-front investments (CC skimmer), I don't think that we will be seeing much of a change with the 'smart' criminals going into home burglaries - there is just too much work for the payback to be worth it, in volume.
Ubuntu (even the X variant) is not a good example of a light Linux distro. Try DSL or something similar, and come back.
The strength of Linux is not that it takes no resources - the strength is that it can be customized to a greater extent than non-OSS programs. Try running Windows XP on a Linksys router with 2MB RAM. As a less drastic example, I ran Linux with Enlightenment desktop (which at the time had better effects than Windows, and still looks better than XP IMO) on a P 166 with 64MB ram. It ran just fine.
A somewhat unrelated anecdote about hardware problems on 8.10....
I just put 8.10 on my Macbook Pro (Santa Rosa). Everything seemed to work beautifully at first - wireless, sound, video, flash, etc. With some minor tweaks I got two finger scrolling / right click working. This was on the ADM64 install, as well!
Then after about a week, I tried watching a video, and noticed that sound was no longer working. I still have no idea what broke it, whether it was an upgrade or something I did. I am now to the point of considering either going to 8.04 (which doesn't support my WiFi out of the box), or Debian Testing (which I have no idea how well it works - if at all), or even restoring my old OSX install. I truly like using Linux more than OSX (and of course Windows, by a long shot), but I am at a loss as to what is happening.
(And no, I have not filed a bug yet, as I can't figure out what is causing the problem. Once (if) I figure that out, I will definitely be submitting that and / or a patch.)
You seem to be looking at old numbers - see CBC for (what I assume are) accurate numbers. Looks like Prentice won with 72.9 percent popular vote, with 38545 votes.
(Also in Prentice's riding, and voted against him)
Speaking as someone in Calgary Southwest (Harper's riding), where he won with 70-some percent of the votes, I am very disappointed, but not surprised that he won. Look at who is campaigning against him - we have pothead Kelly Christie (Green), Marlene Lamontagne (Liberal) who makes McCain look young, a nurse (Holly Heffernan, NDP), a pastor (Larry Heather), and a late runner libertarian not worthy of mention. (Disclosure - while I normally vote Green, I voted NDP this time because of a) I did not want this green candidate anywhere near government, and b) I support the NDP stance on a number of issues which are important to me, including bill C-61 and the war in Afghanistan).
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So I get it, okay? But even though I know my new microwave is 1200W (and I even know what that means), that doesn't mean I won't find you in your office and shoot your ass if your satellite regularly aims 50mW at my kids.
I think you mean big-M Mega, not little-m milli. Other than that slight technicality, I do agree with you. (And hey, what's 9 zeros between friends, anyway!)
Cheers
Define "bloat".
Bloat; Noun: stuff *I* don't want in my software
And therein lies the problem - one man's bloat is another man's critical feature. I write and maintain a mature open source finance package, and am trying to walk the fine line between adding new features and adding bloat. Even with this very limited domain application, there are people who insist that feature X is absolutely required, even though I personally would never think to use it. No software is perfect for everyone, and the more you try to make it so, the more bloat will appear.
(I understand that you are arguing along the same lines that I am, so I am not trying to counter you, rather build up your argument).
Cheers
Since Mars has not yet sucked Earth into it, why do you think that Black Hole Mars would do any differently? Where would all the extra matter come from?
The amount of gravitational attraction in an object is directly related to the amount of matter in an object; just because that matter is very dense (a black hole) doesn't mean that it will suddenly effect a larger gravitational pull on other matter.
I am a photographer (mostly for fun, although I have done a few shoots for money). While I agree that Canon or Nikon are somewhat the defacto standard which you cannot go wrong with, there are other alternatives which can work very well for you as well. Personally, I use Olympus dSLRs for the most part, and find them quite good. Upsides with Olympus are the quality of the lenses (even the kit lenses are very good as compared to Canon / Nikon's kit lenses), good telephoto performance, image stablization in the camera body (as opposed to the lens, like Canon / Nikon - this means that all of your lenses are stabilized, not just the expensive ones), etc. Downsides to Olympus are fewer third party accessories (flashes, etc), smaller sensor (which means more noise and less low light performance).
;-)
Not trying to convince you to go with something other than Canon / Nikon, as there is no doubt that they both make very good cameras; just letting you know that there are alternatives, which may fit your shooting style better. Kinda like the Windows vs. Linux debate
Cheers
If you do use flash drives (or CDs / DVD, for that matter), make sure to do a 100% redundancy par2 copy on one of them. This will allow you to retrieve data using either disk, even with massive corruption.
Cheers
I think that is a Southern (as in, Southern US) thing. I lived in NC for a couple of years, and was amazed that people did that. Here in western Canada, that is not done at all to my knowledge. I personally do hunt (for food) other animals, mostly big game like deer and elk. Due to my interaction with people in similar social circles, I think that I would be in a position to know about what other species are hunted as well (although that assumption may be incorrect).
Cheers
like using machines to build a pyramid instead of slaves
Machines can build slaves? Cool!
Here's another deserter. I have been an Apple user for about 5 years now, after getting a 12" G4 Powerbook. Currently I am on two Macbook Pros (one for home, one for work). However, due to a number of reasons (DRM being a large one), I will no longer be purchasing new Apple hardware. My home MBP is currently dual booting OSX / Ubuntu, and my next machine will be a laptop running Linux full time.
It's too bad, overall my Apple experience has been good, but there are just too many 'If only this worked how I wanted' issues to stay with this.
Apple, farewell!
My version must be broken - I don't get the colon and bracket at the end...
I know that if you examine it at a low enough level, it's all deterministic.
Possibly. I have heard some theories (even here on Slashdot, IIRC) that due to truly random quantum events, at a low level, things are not as deterministic as you may think. Of course, this may or may not actually affect our brains, leading to truly non-deterministic behaviour.
Cheers
From everything I have seen, the church does not tell members to vote any way - they are very aware of church / state separation, and as a policy will not tell people which way to vote. All the church does it encourage members to vote according to their conscience, which I would hope anyone would agree with.
Of course, YMMV.
Cheers
Mod parent up!
I think that this is an excellent summary of how we can view religion and science - I trust Science to tell me How, and religion to tell me Why.
Cheers
Some of my requirements are:
Nice to have features are:
The closest I have seen so far seems to be the LaCrosse BC-900, with favourable reviews, but any other suggestions would be most welcome.
Cheers
Fourth it ;-)
I have a real Arduino (used in my Drum Master project), as well as a couple of RBBB's, which are basically Arduino clones which fit on a breadboard - see http://moderndevice.com/RBBB_revB.shtml for details / ordering. Both Arduino and the various clones come highly recommended by me. (No association to Modern Device company, other than being a very happy customer).
While I'm sure that FPGA's and other things can be more powerful, the simplicity and ease of use of Arduino and its IDE make it worthwhile for beginners, such as myself.
Cheers
Very interesting... do you have some sources for this? I believe that it is true (I have seen Linux, well at least Ubuntu, seem to slow down quite a bit in the past few years), but I would like to see what studies have been done to document this.
Very much appreciated!
Cheers
Well, the New Oxford English dictionary defines it as "the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, esp. when considered as an academic discipline." Creationism is a widely held view on the source of all existance - to me, that fits the definition.
In fact having taken various philosophy classes (most notably metaphysics), I can tell you that a great part of that class was concerned with the nature of God, morality, reality (what does our existence entail), etc. While this particular class did not go into details of creation myths, you needed a certain amount of understanding of them to fully understand various philosopher's positions, especially some of the early Christian philosophers such as St. Augustine.
While I have no problem with creationism existing in mythology courses as well, I see no reason not to include it in philosophy. Knowledge cannot always be compartmentalized into distinct topics with no overlap, no matter how much one may want it to be! Of course, creation myths of any kind do not belong in the hard sciences, as they are not a real scientific theory - but, much of philosophy also does not meet the criteria of hard science.
(And yes, this is coming from a Christian (specifically LDS) who believes in evolution, who feels that the creation story in Genesis is man's attempt to explain the world in simple terms, with an emphasis on the 'why', not the 'how'.)
Cheers
A culling is needed? Bring on the Wraith!
Umm.... what do *you* think Philosphy entails?
Have you ever played basketball? Of course that is a violent sport! ;-)
Cheers
CC skimmers represent, IMHO, a different class of criminals. CC numbers are quite valuable to organized crime, etc, and due to a lack of interest with the banks, it is pretty easy to get away with CC fraud. (It is cheaper for banks to absorb the losses rather than pay for better CC security). Plus, it is quite easy to get tens of CC numbers over the course of an evening, say if you are working at a restaraunt.
Compare that to common home burglaries - unless the victim has a large amount of cash sitting on his night stand, to actually make any money, the burglars would have to pawn or otherwise get rid of the stuff they stole. Not counting the increased chance that they get caught when pawning, if nothing else it is just quite a bit more work, and does not scale as efficiently.
Due to how CC fraud both scales better, and requires some up-front investments (CC skimmer), I don't think that we will be seeing much of a change with the 'smart' criminals going into home burglaries - there is just too much work for the payback to be worth it, in volume.
Cheers
Ubuntu (even the X variant) is not a good example of a light Linux distro. Try DSL or something similar, and come back.
The strength of Linux is not that it takes no resources - the strength is that it can be customized to a greater extent than non-OSS programs. Try running Windows XP on a Linksys router with 2MB RAM. As a less drastic example, I ran Linux with Enlightenment desktop (which at the time had better effects than Windows, and still looks better than XP IMO) on a P 166 with 64MB ram. It ran just fine.
Cheers
A somewhat unrelated anecdote about hardware problems on 8.10....
I just put 8.10 on my Macbook Pro (Santa Rosa). Everything seemed to work beautifully at first - wireless, sound, video, flash, etc. With some minor tweaks I got two finger scrolling / right click working. This was on the ADM64 install, as well!
Then after about a week, I tried watching a video, and noticed that sound was no longer working. I still have no idea what broke it, whether it was an upgrade or something I did. I am now to the point of considering either going to 8.04 (which doesn't support my WiFi out of the box), or Debian Testing (which I have no idea how well it works - if at all), or even restoring my old OSX install. I truly like using Linux more than OSX (and of course Windows, by a long shot), but I am at a loss as to what is happening.
(And no, I have not filed a bug yet, as I can't figure out what is causing the problem. Once (if) I figure that out, I will definitely be submitting that and / or a patch.)
Cheers
Ahh, I'm an idiot! Too early on Monday for me. I'll just sit back and watch...
Cheers
You seem to be looking at old numbers - see CBC for (what I assume are) accurate numbers. Looks like Prentice won with 72.9 percent popular vote, with 38545 votes.
(Also in Prentice's riding, and voted against him)
Cheers
Speaking as someone in Calgary Southwest (Harper's riding), where he won with 70-some percent of the votes, I am very disappointed, but not surprised that he won. Look at who is campaigning against him - we have pothead Kelly Christie (Green), Marlene Lamontagne (Liberal) who makes McCain look young, a nurse (Holly Heffernan, NDP), a pastor (Larry Heather), and a late runner libertarian not worthy of mention. (Disclosure - while I normally vote Green, I voted NDP this time because of a) I did not want this green candidate anywhere near government, and b) I support the NDP stance on a number of issues which are important to me, including bill C-61 and the war in Afghanistan).