Modern times? I think you may be partaking in the Confusion. The periods covered in Quicksilver are Old Daniel Waterhouse era (circa 1700, I think) and Young Daniel Waterhouse era (e.g. 1666).
Anyway, I'm inclined to agree with you about the prose style - but I find he's improving.
I recently read Reamde and I thought that it was very well written, very polished, while Cryptonomicon had some rough edges. Of course, YMMV - I tend not to be very discerning in that regard, if the story holds my interest.
As for holy wars, I'll leave that to others. I like both Stephenson and Gibson.
Bikes consume even more fossil fuels than a Hummer. It turns out you're a really inefficient engine for propulsion, and while you don't consume fossil fuels, the things you consume do.
"Diets high in calcium have been shown to reduce the risk of osteosaurus."
Did you perhaps mean osteoporosis?
I love the imagery though: a vengeful dinosaur attacking you because you haven't been drinking your milk!
In fact, there seems to be a critter with that name: Osteosaurus icenicus.
That's completely beside the point - we wouldn't have grown that particular non-food-grade crop in the first place if we weren't going to give it to cows.
The important thing - the resource we could have spent better elsewhere - is the land (and effort, fertilizer, water etc.) that goes into the feed crops, not the crops themselves.
The problem comes when your dye-sublimation printer is also dye-subliminal: due to a flaky network connection, it quickly appears and disappears in your operating system's list of available printers. I seem to remember reading reviews in MacUser about such printers.
Surely that applies equally to any other printer technology with a flaky network connection?
I'm skeptical also. Here's how the detection of SN 1987A unfolded:
Approximately three hours before the visible light from SN 1987A reached the Earth, a burst of neutrinos was observed at three separate neutrino observatories. This is due to the neutrino emission (which occurs simultaneously with core collapse) preceding the emission of visible light (which occurs only after the shock wave reaches the stellar surface).
3 hours is pretty much nothing over that distance. The neutrinos and the light essentially arrived at the same time.
Especially since that quote is saying that the neutrinos actually left earlier.
If the shock wave took three hours to reach the surface, that would mean the travel time of the neutrinos and photons was not even just 'essentially' the same, but actually the same.
My question is, what kind of time scale are we looking at for the propagation? Is three hours reasonable, or are we only looking at a handful of seconds?
In Egypt during the uprising against the government,
the people used RDP connections to windows servers outside of the country to publish on facebook and twitter.
each end user had his own desktop and workspace.
that's one of the reasons the government over there dropped all the BGP...
using an SSH tunnel is alright for basic usage, but the bandwidth costs might differ from place to place.. so it's not that cheap if you Really need a lot of traffic.
Curing stuff by triggering the disease? No thanks. Sounds more like genetically engineering people to have a built-in kill switch.
Seriously?
How do you expect anyone to test potential cures without having a sufferer of the disease to try to cure?
You have to be able to repro the bug, before you can test the fix.
Oh God, I used to hate 'restore'.
I can't even remember what it was supposed to do anymore, but it still sets off the "catastrophic data loss" warning bells in my head.
Interesting...
I don't tend to use that view, so had no idea what everyone is always complaining about.
On that kind of page, I see the same symptoms in Opera (11.5) too.
Should be fairly easy to make a script that converts a template sudoers-with-wildcard-usernames into a normal sudoers, with each wildcard line replaced by a set of lines for each matching user.
Of course, that's not dynamic either, but I'm not sure what you mean by dynamic in this scenario anyway.
This Penny Arcade strip pretty much sums it up for me.
Mainly because it's simply not free, yes you can enjoy the games to a certain extent without paying a penny, but they are designed to squeeze as much money out of you as possible and in the long term are far more expensive than purchasing a retail product upfront.
My strategy to work around this problem is simple and (I think) effective:
Don't buy the extra stuff that costs money.
They're only more expensive than an upfront retail product if you actually spend that much money on them - the choice is yours.
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So what happens if you lose the encrytion keys in a crash?
You restore them from the encryption key backups - the ones about which GP said
That's data that's small enough to have it's own separate archive that's easy to delete on demand.
So if you post something to the Internet while in Vegas the universe collapses?
No, only Vega collapses.
More to state coffins, I say.
Are you calling for more state heads to roll, or did you just mean coffers?
Modern times? I think you may be partaking in the Confusion. The periods covered in Quicksilver are Old Daniel Waterhouse era (circa 1700, I think) and Young Daniel Waterhouse era (e.g. 1666).
Anyway, I'm inclined to agree with you about the prose style - but I find he's improving.
I recently read Reamde and I thought that it was very well written, very polished, while Cryptonomicon had some rough edges. Of course, YMMV - I tend not to be very discerning in that regard, if the story holds my interest.
As for holy wars, I'll leave that to others. I like both Stephenson and Gibson.
Bikes consume even more fossil fuels than a Hummer. It turns out you're a really inefficient engine for propulsion, and while you don't consume fossil fuels, the things you consume do.
Yeah, stop eating, Beardo! You're inefficient!
"Diets high in calcium have been shown to reduce the risk of osteosaurus."
Did you perhaps mean osteoporosis?
I love the imagery though: a vengeful dinosaur attacking you because you haven't been drinking your milk!
In fact, there seems to be a critter with that name: Osteosaurus icenicus.
first 'B' in BBC stands for "British"...
So? That's in...like...New England, right?
Yeah I watch NBBC all the time.
That's completely beside the point - we wouldn't have grown that particular non-food-grade crop in the first place if we weren't going to give it to cows.
The important thing - the resource we could have spent better elsewhere - is the land (and effort, fertilizer, water etc.) that goes into the feed crops, not the crops themselves.
The problem comes when your dye-sublimation printer is also dye-subliminal: due to a flaky network connection, it quickly appears and disappears in your operating system's list of available printers. I seem to remember reading reviews in MacUser about such printers.
Surely that applies equally to any other printer technology with a flaky network connection?
That's what I love about working for a small outfit.
I'm the DBA *and* developer *and* do the GUI.
All the fun and none of the political bickering. ;-P
Me too! I have never understood this apparent developer / DBA war, because I'm both.
Although I do still manage some of the political bickering.
Yes.
What's Osterity?
Being frugal with Ostriches?
Austerity in Österreich?
So Gandhi was an opportunistic coward?
I'm skeptical also. Here's how the detection of SN 1987A unfolded:
3 hours is pretty much nothing over that distance. The neutrinos and the light essentially arrived at the same time.
Especially since that quote is saying that the neutrinos actually left earlier.
If the shock wave took three hours to reach the surface, that would mean the travel time of the neutrinos and photons was not even just 'essentially' the same, but actually the same.
My question is, what kind of time scale are we looking at for the propagation? Is three hours reasonable, or are we only looking at a handful of seconds?
So, could these neutrinos escape from a black hole?
They sure could, and so can I.
I'm doing it right now.
In fact, I'm escaping thousands or millions of black holes, all at once!
Oh wait... how close to the black hole do you have to be?
"Apple Approves Anti-iPhone iPhone App"
That headline would make me think "Oh! Maybe Apple's not as bad as I thought."
This one makes me think "Oh! Apple may be even worse than I thought."
And after iron was discovered...
In Egypt during the uprising against the government, the people used RDP connections to windows servers outside of the country to publish on facebook and twitter.
each end user had his own desktop and workspace. that's one of the reasons the government over there dropped all the BGP ...
using an SSH tunnel is alright for basic usage, but the bandwidth costs might differ from place to place.. so it's not that cheap if you Really need a lot of traffic.
Because RDP doesn't use any bandwidth...
Curing stuff by triggering the disease? No thanks. Sounds more like genetically engineering people to have a built-in kill switch.
Seriously?
How do you expect anyone to test potential cures without having a sufferer of the disease to try to cure?
You have to be able to repro the bug, before you can test the fix.
Oh God, I used to hate 'restore'.
I can't even remember what it was supposed to do anymore, but it still sets off the "catastrophic data loss" warning bells in my head.
Interesting...
I don't tend to use that view, so had no idea what everyone is always complaining about.
On that kind of page, I see the same symptoms in Opera (11.5) too.
Wow... cluster spam?
One and the same. Unless there is a terrorist in a terrorist, or a stockholder in a stockholder. Just here to "pour cloud water" on the claim...
What a coincidence... I'm just here to pour cloudy water on this clam. We should team up.
Should be fairly easy to make a script that converts a template sudoers-with-wildcard-usernames into a normal sudoers, with each wildcard line replaced by a set of lines for each matching user.
Of course, that's not dynamic either, but I'm not sure what you mean by dynamic in this scenario anyway.
This Penny Arcade strip pretty much sums it up for me. Mainly because it's simply not free, yes you can enjoy the games to a certain extent without paying a penny, but they are designed to squeeze as much money out of you as possible and in the long term are far more expensive than purchasing a retail product upfront.
My strategy to work around this problem is simple and (I think) effective:
Don't buy the extra stuff that costs money.
They're only more expensive than an upfront retail product if you actually spend that much money on them - the choice is yours.