To those not aware, it's New York City's information number. Before tons of people wrack up toll charges and yell at me because they thought they might hear a woman's voice and got all excited. Actually, this is slashdot, so maybe the robotic woman's voice at the other end does something for people out there.
Mission managers acknowledge the hardy rover may never come back out, but say they think the potential for discovery is worth it. 'The rover has operated more than 12 times longer than its originally intended 90 days...
it's much better to use something like -the Book of Moses- rather than -Moses's book-. However, that is still preferable to -Moses' book-.
Actually, The Elements of Style expressly contradicts you. It states that one should use the form "Chris's book" unless the proper noun is a biblical persona. So "Moses' book" or "Jesus' book" is proper.
MS, concentrate on making Vista better instead of having people do useless studies. kthnxbye
You had me going until this last line. Microsoft has tens (hundreds?) of thousands of employees. All of them working on Vista will lead to a worse problem (even if all of them were equally skilled developers, coordinating that many programmers would be impossible.) So why should they scale back an unrelated-to-development part of their empire (in this case PR?)
If you're refering to post-civil war abolision of slavery via the 13th amendment, ever since that time, people have been in near slavery.
Sharecropping in the 1800s
The Company Store the only store you could access because of remote work conditions, and a store where you could (actually, were forced to by prices and wages) get a line of credit to buy food. You could leave whenever your debt was paid off. This was popular in the early 1900s. Bankrupcy laws killed this method, but since those have been revised, can we say resurgence?
Striking? Unions? We dealt with them pretty well (Haymarket Sq., etc.)
I've checked various framerates. I cannot tell the difference above around 18-20 Hz (when paying attention. I've played games at 12-15 FPS without noticing anything wrong), but I recognize others can. In movies/animation/etc. 24/25(PAL)/29.97(NTSC) are standard.
41 FPS for display purposes. However, many time physics/AI/etc is done "per-frame." A higher FPS will still affect those (moreso since any decently threaded game will use less resources rendering.) Most display systems cannot handle 100Hz, and most humans cannot tell the difference above 25-30 Hz. It's only games where slow displays lead to slow calculated frames that this will cause a problem. That and arrogant SOB's who claim they can tell the difference without FRAPS.
Plus, at that resolution you are fill-bound anyway.
TFA is down, but I doubt it covered this anyway. I go to iTunes and purchase the rights to a song, expecting to be leasing the time between now and when it enters the public domain. If the time when the song enters the public domain is moved up, because of poor behavior by the copyright holder, do I get a prorated refund because I bought a license for time that the company (in hindsight) cannot have sold me?
Because, you know, with the length of copyright, this results in a 80-99% discount...
Disclaimer: I am an American, however, I was forced to take European history. Are people in Europe ever required to take American history?
Let's start with your major contention: Basically it means they can push through the EU constitution that was thrown out by voters in 2 of the countries last time, without the pesky annoyances of, oh lets say, the people of the EU[Ed's note: I assume you mean the people of the two dissenting EU contries] voting on the matter...[A constitution that requires] only a majority of countries are needed for things to be agreed upon not unanimous...
An example from US history would be the movement from the Articles of Confederation (which did require unanimous ratification of the Articles and the laws) to the US Constitution (which required a 3/4 ratification for the Constitution and simple majority for the laws). The reason the US Constitution only required 3/4 ratification was to force Rhode Island and Providence Plantation and North Carolina to join the Union (since they were known to oppose it) and leave a one state buffer. The reason why the simple majority system works better, well perhaps I best use a European example: "Poland was a country ruled by a council of 500 barons, all of whom had to agree for anything to happen. This allowed Poland to get ****ed by anyone who could make a simple decision."
Basicailly, the Articles of Conferation were a flop, and there needed to either be one or thirteen states. Similarly, any EU requiring unanimous consent will also fail. History abounds with examples where the needs of building or running a nation mean forcing people into the social contract. There doesn't seem to be any other way for the world to work.
I don't test my site except with the browsers I use anyway. If your browser is broken, not my problem. Also, my UI is simple. I dislike using JS, and try to minimize it.
As a sidenote, I believe the iPhone will be an overhyped failure (not in sales, but as a product). My coworker disagrees with me. Other than shorting Apple stock, with the expectation that I can buy it back two quarters after the iPhone's arrival (after a long enough period of time that inital sales, which I expect to be extreme, will die down), is there any way you can recommend for the two of us to use for us to put money on it?
Gates responded, 'I don't do e-mail. I'm a very low-tech person.'"
Actually, this makes Gates sound stupid but as a general rule don't put sensitive information on computers connected to the internet. The best security is not having the damn wires there in the first place. At the top levels of government, where nation-states are trying to install spyware, intercept and decrypt your packets, and otherwise penetrate your defense, maybe having one of a thousand aides sneakernet it is a good solution.
I concede... "Online Audio" -> "Podcast". I experience permenant intense egomania, wherein since I happen to stream anything termed a "podcast" to my computer, I artificially excluded uses that involve downloading it first. Mea culpa.
How is the word "cookie" annoying. That's what it's called, and I don't know any other word for it. Internet words that are annoying fall into a couple of categories:
Words exists for this concept, and I'm going to combine them and think I sound cool. E.g. "Internet Etiquette" -> "Net Etiquette" -> "Netiquette"
There's a technology that already exists and has a name, but I'm going to invent a new word for it and think I'm on the cutting edge. E.g. "Streaming Audio" -> "Podcast"
I'm going to modify the word "Blog" in some way, and annoy everyone
Let me artificially abbreviate/omit words/punctuation because I don't know how to type. E.g. "It is probably too late for the movie" -> "Prbbly 2 late 4 mov"
Just like using flammable instead of inflammable and toxic instead of ittoxic. Like Strunk & White says, this should only be done to protect "idiots and children".
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NP-hard problems solved in O(n) time?
Yup. Computer games for instance will get a lot more interesting.
212-555-1212. Thanks guys
To those not aware, it's New York City's information number. Before tons of people wrack up toll charges and yell at me because they thought they might hear a woman's voice and got all excited. Actually, this is slashdot, so maybe the robotic woman's voice at the other end does something for people out there.
But, I just quit my job at Google and applied to work at Microsoft based on this: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/27/131421 9/.
There's no link between health spending and life expectancy. Unfortunately, there is a link between beer bashes and life expectancy.
Spend the 15% on Glenlivet or Jameson instead.
Looks like Boeing engineers (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/ 27/1723251/ sidenote, can someone point out the syntax to do this properly?) could learn a lot from NASA.
China is taking over the tops of very tall mountains?
Actually, The Elements of Style expressly contradicts you. It states that one should use the form "Chris's book" unless the proper noun is a biblical persona. So "Moses' book" or "Jesus' book" is proper.
You had me going until this last line. Microsoft has tens (hundreds?) of thousands of employees. All of them working on Vista will lead to a worse problem (even if all of them were equally skilled developers, coordinating that many programmers would be impossible.) So why should they scale back an unrelated-to-development part of their empire (in this case PR?)
I thought the US had abolished slavery.
If you're refering to post-civil war abolision of slavery via the 13th amendment, ever since that time, people have been in near slavery.
I've checked various framerates. I cannot tell the difference above around 18-20 Hz (when paying attention. I've played games at 12-15 FPS without noticing anything wrong), but I recognize others can. In movies/animation/etc. 24/25(PAL)/29.97(NTSC) are standard.
41 FPS for display purposes. However, many time physics/AI/etc is done "per-frame." A higher FPS will still affect those (moreso since any decently threaded game will use less resources rendering.) Most display systems cannot handle 100Hz, and most humans cannot tell the difference above 25-30 Hz. It's only games where slow displays lead to slow calculated frames that this will cause a problem. That and arrogant SOB's who claim they can tell the difference without FRAPS.
Plus, at that resolution you are fill-bound anyway.
TFA is down, but I doubt it covered this anyway. I go to iTunes and purchase the rights to a song, expecting to be leasing the time between now and when it enters the public domain. If the time when the song enters the public domain is moved up, because of poor behavior by the copyright holder, do I get a prorated refund because I bought a license for time that the company (in hindsight) cannot have sold me?
Because, you know, with the length of copyright, this results in a 80-99% discount...
I got a BS in Astrology. What are you implying?
The idiots in Kansas who got intelligent design into schools were voted out. (Although I think it took a few years.) So the system works, just slowly.
The word you're looking for is objectionable. Same root, but different connotation.
Disclaimer: I am an American, however, I was forced to take European history. Are people in Europe ever required to take American history?
Let's start with your major contention: Basically it means they can push through the EU constitution that was thrown out by voters in 2 of the countries last time, without the pesky annoyances of, oh lets say, the people of the EU [Ed's note: I assume you mean the people of the two dissenting EU contries] voting on the matter...[A constitution that requires] only a majority of countries are needed for things to be agreed upon not unanimous...
An example from US history would be the movement from the Articles of Confederation (which did require unanimous ratification of the Articles and the laws) to the US Constitution (which required a 3/4 ratification for the Constitution and simple majority for the laws). The reason the US Constitution only required 3/4 ratification was to force Rhode Island and Providence Plantation and North Carolina to join the Union (since they were known to oppose it) and leave a one state buffer. The reason why the simple majority system works better, well perhaps I best use a European example: "Poland was a country ruled by a council of 500 barons, all of whom had to agree for anything to happen. This allowed Poland to get ****ed by anyone who could make a simple decision."
Basicailly, the Articles of Conferation were a flop, and there needed to either be one or thirteen states. Similarly, any EU requiring unanimous consent will also fail. History abounds with examples where the needs of building or running a nation mean forcing people into the social contract. There doesn't seem to be any other way for the world to work.
I don't test my site except with the browsers I use anyway. If your browser is broken, not my problem. Also, my UI is simple. I dislike using JS, and try to minimize it.
As a sidenote, I believe the iPhone will be an overhyped failure (not in sales, but as a product). My coworker disagrees with me. Other than shorting Apple stock, with the expectation that I can buy it back two quarters after the iPhone's arrival (after a long enough period of time that inital sales, which I expect to be extreme, will die down), is there any way you can recommend for the two of us to use for us to put money on it?
Actually, this makes Gates sound stupid but as a general rule don't put sensitive information on computers connected to the internet. The best security is not having the damn wires there in the first place. At the top levels of government, where nation-states are trying to install spyware, intercept and decrypt your packets, and otherwise penetrate your defense, maybe having one of a thousand aides sneakernet it is a good solution.
I concede... "Online Audio" -> "Podcast". I experience permenant intense egomania, wherein since I happen to stream anything termed a "podcast" to my computer, I artificially excluded uses that involve downloading it first. Mea culpa.
How is the word "cookie" annoying. That's what it's called, and I don't know any other word for it. Internet words that are annoying fall into a couple of categories:
You're right. F*ck M$ for bundling IE. I use their bundled FTP client...
I'm not pro-M$, I'm anti-hypocrite.
Just like using flammable instead of inflammable and toxic instead of ittoxic. Like Strunk & White says, this should only be done to protect "idiots and children".
Secret Service (Not covered by CIA, FBI or any other Law Enforcement) Treasury Department, which is why they go after counterfiters
Coast Guards (Not covered by CIA, FBI or other Law Enforcement) Commerce Department, except during times of way, when hey become part of the DOD.
And FEMA used to be independent and have an almost cabinet level leader.
I'm sure they have a few senators in their back pocket. Rules like that don't apply to huge corporations.
Actually, the Senators are in AT&T's front pocket.. reaching through a hole in it to pleasure AT&T as it walks around.