Yes he did make it that way. But its not unjust. Unjust being defined as "unfair". It is actually quite fair...you reap what you sow, you receive punishment for what you did. Unless you believe in Christ, then the sentence is thrown out since Christ took our punishment himself. Seems pretty just to me.
No, it's not just. It is merciful. It would be just to condemn us for our sin, but fortunately He is Merciful.
As you mention dust was the big killer, if you bought one of these (hugely expensive) you also need an even more expensive record bashing/cleaning machine to be able to use it.
I just got one of these, 44x24x44 nice. The writing is full CAV too with 8Mb cache. And Mt Ranier support, which is just wonderful, for those that don't know this means you just put in a blank CDR/CDRW and start packet writing to it - the formatting is done in the background so no annoying wait before the disc is usable. I'm not too sure about the Disc T@2 feature, I suppose it's nice putting graphics round the edge of a CDR but I tend to fill them up.
Err, it wasn't a reason for me to get it but somebody might care that the LED is blue/purple. Oh and my previous fastest CDRW is a 12x10x32 so this is a useful increment.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Not all dystopic but worth reading anyway.
Re:where do they get these numbers??
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From the Article:
District Clerk Charles Bacarisse told the paper that no confidential information was disclosed but the alleged intrusion eventually resulted in the county closing its wireless LAN only a month after it was activated.
But is the prosecution a case of shooting the messenger?
On March 18, Puffer demonstrated to a county official and a Chronicle reporter how easy it was to gain access to the court's system using only a laptop computer and a wireless LAN card.
So he stole NO information - he performed a demonstration in front of a county official.
yeah, that would help me a lot. If I understood what that crazy command meant at all. Tell me how to do it in windows 2000, the os I use when not coding.
OK, so learn what shell scripts are then, and a few basic commands. You could do this in a nix or you can install some software on your W2K box,e.g. Cygwin or some of the Window ports of nix commands.
As far as I'm concerned, linux is good for coding, because it has all the good text editors and the free compilers and the nice terminal windows. I haven't seen anything else linux does better. Especially audio.
Being able to do things like write the above script I found pretty useful. I develop on windows for a living and having Cygwin, emacs and t.h.e. make my life so much easier. When I have to view every line which contains a certain string in all files with the same suffix in a folder tree it takes about 5 minutes to run in cygwin. Windows 'find' or 'search' command (depending on version) doesn't cut it. E.G. to find all lines in all files *.bar in the tree starting at c:\dev which contain the string 'foo', and where 'foo' and 'bar' may be in any combination of upper and lower case, and where the C drive is mounted as/mnt/c and you want the reults in a file (myoutput.file) with the filename, line number and line contents, you can use
Of course you need to wipe the output file first, anyone know how to do this in windows without cygwin?
If all you want to do is surf the web then windows is OK (use Opera emulating IE), but then so is Linux (use Opera emulating IE). There are more games for windows and I can't run my excel/access vba apps on linux, but apart from that....
All the hobbits got swords (knives to the Big Folk) made by the Men of Westernesse from the Barrow when they were rescued by Tom.
Frodo dropped his at Weathertop when he was stabbed the Nazgul Lord. At some point it was broken (can't remember when) which is one reason Bilbo gave him Sting when the Company set off from Imladris.
My pet peeves from FOTR were 1. Gandalf bumping his head at Bag End - No Way. 2. Belittling Frodo by some of his brave acts being performed by others e.g. Arwens defiance at the Ford (but I don't mind cutting Glorfindel for a better movie).
Again, I'll say that the strongest thrust that ship can provide (besides foward) would be lateral. That ship can bank super fast, and then push down hard to complete a turn.
Push against what?
Leaving aside the fictions of Inertial Dampers and Artificial Gravity it makes sense to design a ship so that the main thrust would be 'up' to provide a simulation of gravity (a la General Relativity). From this pov all ST vessels are 90 degrees from sane....
Why does the Artificial Gravity never fail (except STVI) even when they lose all power - I suspect it's cheaper for a TV Show - like you can't have the lights fail and still film the show!
Re:The Force violates conservation of momentum
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One of the (many) things I really like about Terry Pratchett is the way he handles this sort of thing in the Discworld stories - the wizards know that if they use telekinesis they have to be really carefully not to have their brains come out of their ears. And when they teleport Rincewind to the counterweight continent they're very careful to allow for the different distances from the hub and move something the other way to balance it out.
It's amusing how Pterry sets stories on a disc on the back of four elephants on a turtle swimming through space, with magic and manifest anthropomorphic representations - and then get conservation of momentum right.
You actually only need to be able to generate thrust in one direction if you can rotate the vessel so that you can direct the thrust in any direction. Think about the design of the command/service modules of the Apollo missions, one honking big engine and a few thrusters.
You don't need to bank, you rotate the ship and turn the main engine on. You can think about any simple manoeuvre as planar, so if you want to go 45 degrees to the 'left' of your present heading you rotate 90 degrees left and fire the engines (90 degrees right of your original heading) until you make the velocity you require. There was an Amiga game called Warhead which did this very well, very hard to play. No banking required, it's just eye candy.
I stopped and was surrounded by tiny cubes of glass
Sounds like safety glass to me, you were lucky.
I went through a glass door when I was eight. I was lucky because I only had 10 stitches, 2 in the palm of my hand, 3 in my ankle and 5 on the top of my thigh. I remember sitting on the floor looking into my leg at the red spongey stuff (muscle) - another few millimetres and my femoral artery would have been cut, and I would very probably have died.
I always smile at the 'guy survives going through a sheet of glass with no injury' crap. Most of the time you will be hurt. Badly.
If they really cared, they wouldn't wait until you quit to counter offer..
Exactly. Not that you should expect a company to care for you in the first place...
One job I had in '85 the work I was hired for changed (from C on PC to RPGIII on System/36 to PL/1 on MVS), so I wanted to move to our Special Projects team doing cool stuff with LANs (1985 remember) but no luck. So I found another job, back to IBM mainframe but a nice rise. When I handed my notice in on Friday I was called into the VPs office after lunch and they offered to move me to where I wanted and match salaries. I had to think it over for 2 hours as I had been celebrating over lunch before I realized that they could have done this before I quit. So I left.
Crazy place to work, I got a turkey as part of my Christmas Bonus. We all did. One of the directors had a turkey farm....
secondly, have you used KDE, mozilla, open office lately? these products are currently shaking up the M$ camp. if all M$ developers, engineers, etc. were sent on leave for one year (keep a core nimbda resolution team around), they would be playing catch-up for the next few years (possibly some of those workers would contribute to the os projects as well).
SO?
I mean that is the point of being punished for breaking the law isn't it? If a criminal was convicted of a crime and was facing jail time would many too many people object to that because it would be an inconvenience?
Actually I meant three copies of the six-books-in-one volume version, I also have 1 copy of The Return Of The King because my first copy of LOTR didn't have all the appendices.
I only have a very fragile Watchers Of The Dark. If I ever see another title I'll probably buy it (as well as a replacement for WOTD of course). Same goes for Eric Frank Russell too.
I somehow doubt that I'm the only bibliophile that keeps the old, tattered versions when I buy new (er) copies of much-read tomes - I can see three The Lord Of The Rings, two The Hobbit and two Next Of Kin right now, most other duplicates are lovingly stored.
I rarely dispose of books, when I was a student I bought 10-12 2nd hand books a week for a fair while, still got em all:-)
As requested, here is a short review of Episode IV: Overrated.
Re:Isn't that that film...
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Isn't that that film that's historically inaccurate, was released ages ago and is yet another film where the Americans solely win World War II without any help from anybody?
II'm sorry, but you'll have to narrow it down a bit more....
Legitimacy comes from support of the governed (by, for, and of the people, remember?), not from standing up and declaring one's self emperor and thus the sole source of all legal authority. Legitimacy also comes from a certain moral authority.
Is this moral absolutism to be taken to mean that there have only been 'legitimate' governments for the last few hundred years and even then in only a few countries? In which case should all legal and moral precedent arising from law originating under 'illegitimate' institutions be ignored?
And what proportion of the governed have to support a regime to legitimize it? As an example (hopefully less emotive then the middle east or Ireland) consider Spain. As I understand it the majority of the Spanish population wish Spain to be a single country, but the majority of those in the Basque regions wish to be independent, which majority is right? Compare and contrast this with the Star Wars galaxy, the US immediately before the Civil War, Palestine etc.
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It is merciful.
It would be just to condemn us for our sin, but fortunately He is Merciful.
As you mention dust was the big killer, if you bought one of these (hugely expensive) you also need an even more expensive record bashing/cleaning machine to be able to use it.
Kind of reminds me about the shopkeeper who tells his customer "I'm sick of telling all you people I don stock foo because there's no demand!"
(When Spanish takes over from English in the US will the rest of the world follow?)
destCounter ++;
srcCounter ++;
destCounter = srcCounter; ?
I prefer the fromer as I can see more code on the screen at once.
Newbies! :-)
The writing is full CAV too with 8Mb cache. And Mt Ranier support, which is just wonderful, for those that don't know this means you just put in a blank CDR/CDRW and start packet writing to it - the formatting is done in the background so no annoying wait before the disc is usable.
I'm not too sure about the Disc T@2 feature, I suppose it's nice putting graphics round the edge of a CDR but I tend to fill them up.
Err, it wasn't a reason for me to get it but somebody might care that the LED is blue/purple. Oh and my previous fastest CDRW is a 12x10x32 so this is a useful increment.
Of course I'm trying to tie this analogy to having to use VB at work.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Not all dystopic but worth reading anyway.
You could do this in a nix or you can install some software on your W2K box,e.g. Cygwin or some of the Window ports of nix commands. Being able to do things like write the above script I found pretty useful. I develop on windows for a living and having Cygwin, emacs and t.h.e. make my life so much easier. When I have to view every line which contains a certain string in all files with the same suffix in a folder tree it takes about 5 minutes to run in cygwin. Windows 'find' or 'search' command (depending on version) doesn't cut it.
E.G. to find all lines in all files *.bar in the tree starting at c:\dev which contain the string 'foo', and where 'foo' and 'bar' may be in any combination of upper and lower case, and where the C drive is mounted as
Of course you need to wipe the output file first, anyone know how to do this in windows without cygwin?
If all you want to do is surf the web then windows is OK (use Opera emulating IE), but then so is Linux (use Opera emulating IE). There are more games for windows and I can't run my excel/access vba apps on linux, but apart from that....
Frodo dropped his at Weathertop when he was stabbed the Nazgul Lord. At some point it was broken (can't remember when) which is one reason Bilbo gave him Sting when the Company set off from Imladris.
My pet peeves from FOTR were
1. Gandalf bumping his head at Bag End - No Way.
2. Belittling Frodo by some of his brave acts being performed by others e.g. Arwens defiance at the Ford (but I don't mind cutting Glorfindel for a better movie).
Leaving aside the fictions of Inertial Dampers and Artificial Gravity it makes sense to design a ship so that the main thrust would be 'up' to provide a simulation of gravity (a la General Relativity). From this pov all ST vessels are 90 degrees from sane....
Why does the Artificial Gravity never fail (except STVI) even when they lose all power - I suspect it's cheaper for a TV Show - like you can't have the lights fail and still film the show!
It's amusing how Pterry sets stories on a disc on the back of four elephants on a turtle swimming through space, with magic and manifest anthropomorphic representations - and then get conservation of momentum right.
Think about the design of the command/service modules of the Apollo missions, one honking big engine and a few thrusters.
You don't need to bank, you rotate the ship and turn the main engine on. You can think about any simple manoeuvre as planar, so if you want to go 45 degrees to the 'left' of your present heading you rotate 90 degrees left and fire the engines (90 degrees right of your original heading) until you make the velocity you require.
There was an Amiga game called Warhead which did this very well, very hard to play.
No banking required, it's just eye candy.
I went through a glass door when I was eight. I was lucky because I only had 10 stitches, 2 in the palm of my hand, 3 in my ankle and 5 on the top of my thigh.
I remember sitting on the floor looking into my leg at the red spongey stuff (muscle) - another few millimetres and my femoral artery would have been cut, and I would very probably have died.
I always smile at the 'guy survives going through a sheet of glass with no injury' crap.
Most of the time you will be hurt.
Badly.
Not that you should expect a company to care for you in the first place...
One job I had in '85 the work I was hired for changed (from C on PC to RPGIII on System/36 to PL/1 on MVS), so I wanted to move to our Special Projects team doing cool stuff with LANs (1985 remember) but no luck. So I found another job, back to IBM mainframe but a nice rise.
When I handed my notice in on Friday I was called into the VPs office after lunch and they offered to move me to where I wanted and match salaries. I had to think it over for 2 hours as I had been celebrating over lunch before I realized that they could have done this before I quit. So I left.
Crazy place to work, I got a turkey as part of my Christmas Bonus. We all did. One of the directors had a turkey farm....
I mean that is the point of being punished for breaking the law isn't it? If a criminal was convicted of a crime and was facing jail time would many too many people object to that because it would be an inconvenience?
Actually I meant three copies of the six-books-in-one volume version, I also have 1 copy of The Return Of The King because my first copy of LOTR didn't have all the appendices.
Sun and Apple use and release GPL software.
MS have paid no taxes so they get no consideration.
Same goes for Eric Frank Russell too.
I somehow doubt that I'm the only bibliophile that keeps the old, tattered versions when I buy new (er) copies of much-read tomes - I can see three The Lord Of The Rings, two The Hobbit and two Next Of Kin right now, most other duplicates are lovingly stored.
I rarely dispose of books, when I was a student I bought 10-12 2nd hand books a week for a fair while, still got em all :-)
As requested, here is a short review of Episode IV:
Overrated.
And what proportion of the governed have to support a regime to legitimize it? As an example (hopefully less emotive then the middle east or Ireland) consider Spain. As I understand it the majority of the Spanish population wish Spain to be a single country, but the majority of those in the Basque regions wish to be independent, which majority is right?
Compare and contrast this with the Star Wars galaxy, the US immediately before the Civil War, Palestine etc.