Hate to break it to you, but...
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That joke flew over you. In this context, Wang is actually primarily used as a slang word for male genitalia, and secondarily for Wang computer (which as we see in wikipedia was founded by An Wang).
For the record, the 5.25 inch floppy is that size because An Wang gave a vendor a cocktail napkin that he felt was about the right size for home media.
I'm not familiar with An Wang, but the name reminds me of a line from one of my first bosses (he was the owner of a small computer shop [back when such things existed]):
Q: Who was the first female computer programmer? A: Eve. She had an Apple in one hand, and a Wang in the other.
Would that be the one that had the additional control pad? I recall a space flight game that I had with an additional controller with at least a dozen buttons on it. If we're thinking of the same game, I'll check through my collection when I get home and see if I can find it again.
They used to be stored in a rugged carrier which you inserted in a computer CD drive that fitted in the same slot where the 5-1/4 floppy drive was installed. You inserted the carrier and the drive handled the CD inside the carrier. The carrier protected the surface of the CD from scratches as there was no error correction back then.
Are you thinking of CD caddies? I had a CD drive that used those. Though that doesn't answer the question of why it was that size. Why was it advantageous to use the same size as the floppy drive? Why not use something larger or smaller? A lot of the drives that used the caddies were external anyways... I remember using them with Mac LC III's.
Before the audio CD format was defined, there were data CDs for computers.
That statement, however, is counter to the consensus in this thread so far. It seems that the Audio standard was indeed first. And I recall that the jewel cases my earliest data CD's came in were stamped in the corner "Compact Disc - Digital Audio".
is a rehash of the classic Beethoven's 9th story. According to legend, the president of Sony was presented with a prototype 11.5cm CD with a 60 minute limit. He demanded that the CD be capable of storing his favorite symphony, Beethoven's 9th, and it required a capacity of 74 minutes with a corresponding size of 12cm.
So then had they already agreed on a digital music storage method? Because of course they could have played with sampling rates and other such things to have fit 74 minutes onto a disc of whatever size they like.
Therefore Beethoven's Ninth is only of great importance if the manufacturers had already agreed to how to store the music on the disc, before deciding how large (physically) the disc would be.
Does anyone know how the CD came to be 5.25" in diameter?
Um, mine are all 12cm?
The question remains, though, regardless of how one measures the diameter. Is it by design or coincidence that the CD size matches the size of the floppy drive (and the car audio deck as well)?
I have an 8-track in my old car that is the same external width as a CD player that I have for a newer car.
I rather suspect it has something to do with the width a drive can be in a typical computer case.
We used to have 8" floppy drives - why not use that size then? Or who said it had to fit inside a computer case? A lot of early CD-ROM drives were external, and early home CD audio drives were huge... there was a time when it didn't seem like we would ever see portable CD audio players.
The Olympics aren't over yet. Just because Phelps won 8 medals in swimming doesn't mean there are no games left to be played. Several team sports (volleyball and basketball come to mind) haven't even reached their finals yet.
Wait for the medal ceremonies for the big team events, and the closing ceremonies, before you start talking about the Olympics in past tense.
I am not aware of a time in the past where an earlier version of flash was more successful on Linux than the current version (which itself is unpredictable at best and terrible at worst). I think the only thing that has changed is that, much to our disdain, flash has become even more widespread on the web.
We've had this lousy product now for over 10 years, and it still is lousy. Unfortunately it has become an even more ubiquitous lousy product.
I may be the only one here who finds this news. Although this is of course at least partially a symptom of my not caring about he iphone in general.
However, as my wife wants the iphone, I have to ask how this problem works. I thought most systems used flash for youtube - which leads me to the question of how does the iphone use youtube if it doesn't use flash?
I have so far once seen wii's available in a store - though not at a time when I had $250 to spare.
And of course up until now most people have been playing the wii-sports that comes with it. If we introduce violent games as well, the demand for the Wii amongst young angry boys might go up, at which point I might never get a Wii...
Was there something I missed about this being required for new cars (or new car purchases)? Really, the talking cars could help things quite a bit - I for one wouldn't be opposed to a car autopilot function for my commute. If we let the cars do the driving for mundane drives we could potentially get there faster, using less gas. And we'd actually be able to make use of that otherwise lost time, as well.
Yes, and notice the intentionally vague items list. A "flask heater"? An "adapter tube"? A "transformer"?!?!
The whole idea here is apparently to make EVERYONE in TX a criminal, so that they can be charged with *something* any time the pigs want to....
But as long as you carry at least one gun with you at all times, then you're OK, right? And the gun rack on the back of your pickup truck scores double, I've heard...
I was using numerous as a synonym for several. And beyond that it is still a matter of perspective. If we have 2 finance interns, 2 marketing interns, and 1 IT intern, that is 5 people. It is a fair number of interns, but then you compare that to the 90 employees and it really isn't that significant. And they certainly aren't responsible for a large chunk of the work, no matter how much you may like to imply otherwise.
Just keep sticking to your story. You didn't do anything wrong by those interns, remember:
And then when you're done being abused here, you'll realize how much better the rest of the industrialized world treats its inhabitants.
You're taking that out of context, but that doesn't surprise me at all. I was referring to the way that our country abuses interns. If you would actually read what I wrote (not that I would expect you to do that) you would see that I already said we expected short hours from our interns.
But its not in your style to pass on the ability to twist my comments for your own agenda (whatever it may be).
Our IT department only had one intern, and around 7 paid employees. Generally we only worked the interns around 10-15 hours a week while the rest of us worked around 30 or more. And as I said, the other interns were primarily marketing or finance.
I'd lie next time
That wouldn't be much of a deviation from what you've written thus far. If you really want to change your MO, I'd suggest reading instead of just assuming. But you're free to do as you please, and I'm sure you will.
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In the comic, it's "DROP TABLE." In the summary, it's "DROP DATABASE."
I wonder if I'm the only SQL noob who had to look up the "drop database" command to see that indeed it is valid?
Granted, not everyone gets to play with their first database with the rights to even use the 'drop database' command...
Because theres' nothing a non-USian can learn in such a "story", except that US-ians are teh morons.
Hold on, that's not true! In this story, we learn that the terrorist watch list is not only a bad idea, but it is poorly implemented!
I think he may have been trying to indicate that we already knew that. Even more so, that pretty much everyone in the world already knew that.
An Wang is the Wang in your joke...
Hate to break it to you, but ...
whoosh
That joke flew over you. In this context, Wang is actually primarily used as a slang word for male genitalia, and secondarily for Wang computer (which as we see in wikipedia was founded by An Wang).
For the record, the 5.25 inch floppy is that size because An Wang gave a vendor a cocktail napkin that he felt was about the right size for home media.
I'm not familiar with An Wang, but the name reminds me of a line from one of my first bosses (he was the owner of a small computer shop [back when such things existed]):
Q: Who was the first female computer programmer?
A: Eve. She had an Apple in one hand, and a Wang in the other.
Would that be the one that had the additional control pad? I recall a space flight game that I had with an additional controller with at least a dozen buttons on it. If we're thinking of the same game, I'll check through my collection when I get home and see if I can find it again.
They used to be stored in a rugged carrier which you inserted in a computer CD drive that fitted in the same slot where the 5-1/4 floppy drive was installed. You inserted the carrier and the drive handled the CD inside the carrier. The carrier protected the surface of the CD from scratches as there was no error correction back then.
Are you thinking of CD caddies? I had a CD drive that used those. Though that doesn't answer the question of why it was that size. Why was it advantageous to use the same size as the floppy drive? Why not use something larger or smaller? A lot of the drives that used the caddies were external anyways... I remember using them with Mac LC III's.
Before the audio CD format was defined, there were data CDs for computers.
That statement, however, is counter to the consensus in this thread so far. It seems that the Audio standard was indeed first. And I recall that the jewel cases my earliest data CD's came in were stamped in the corner "Compact Disc - Digital Audio".
is a rehash of the classic Beethoven's 9th story. According to legend, the president of Sony was presented with a prototype 11.5cm CD with a 60 minute limit. He demanded that the CD be capable of storing his favorite symphony, Beethoven's 9th, and it required a capacity of 74 minutes with a corresponding size of 12cm.
So then had they already agreed on a digital music storage method? Because of course they could have played with sampling rates and other such things to have fit 74 minutes onto a disc of whatever size they like.
Therefore Beethoven's Ninth is only of great importance if the manufacturers had already agreed to how to store the music on the disc, before deciding how large (physically) the disc would be.
Does anyone know how the CD came to be 5.25" in diameter?
Um, mine are all 12cm?
The question remains, though, regardless of how one measures the diameter. Is it by design or coincidence that the CD size matches the size of the floppy drive (and the car audio deck as well)?
I have an 8-track in my old car that is the same external width as a CD player that I have for a newer car.
I rather suspect it has something to do with the width a drive can be in a typical computer case.
We used to have 8" floppy drives - why not use that size then? Or who said it had to fit inside a computer case? A lot of early CD-ROM drives were external, and early home CD audio drives were huge ... there was a time when it didn't seem like we would ever see portable CD audio players.
Does anyone know how the CD came to be 5.25" in diameter?
Were the designers intentionally working with from the size of the floppy disk, which happened to be right for car CD players?
Or were they working to fit the same size as car stereos, which happened to be the same size as 5.25" floppy drives?
Or did they ignore both and just happen to end up that size?
Or did someone happen to have a 5.25" floppy drive in their car, and thought it would be great to read more than 1.2mb worth of data on a disc?
Actually if we look at the picture we'll see that he also needs (at the least) pedals and a crank if he wants to actually move the bike on his own.
He might also appreciate a seat.
What next, getting an actual perpetual motion engine from eBay?
You didn't think it would already be there?
Just patent the process of firing someone for refusing to file a patent. Then they'll have to license the technology to be able to use it against you.
But if the company either develops a new process, or a machine to do the process better, aren't they off the hook?
And we still don't care.
Though clearly some people do, or nobody would have been concerned about the effect of the Olympics on the internet.
The Olympics aren't over yet. Just because Phelps won 8 medals in swimming doesn't mean there are no games left to be played. Several team sports (volleyball and basketball come to mind) haven't even reached their finals yet.
Wait for the medal ceremonies for the big team events, and the closing ceremonies, before you start talking about the Olympics in past tense.
I am not aware of a time in the past where an earlier version of flash was more successful on Linux than the current version (which itself is unpredictable at best and terrible at worst). I think the only thing that has changed is that, much to our disdain, flash has become even more widespread on the web.
We've had this lousy product now for over 10 years, and it still is lousy. Unfortunately it has become an even more ubiquitous lousy product.
I may be the only one here who finds this news. Although this is of course at least partially a symptom of my not caring about he iphone in general.
However, as my wife wants the iphone, I have to ask how this problem works. I thought most systems used flash for youtube - which leads me to the question of how does the iphone use youtube if it doesn't use flash?
Idle just doesn't feel like frontpage material /.
Which may be why Idle is not front page.
I have so far once seen wii's available in a store - though not at a time when I had $250 to spare.
And of course up until now most people have been playing the wii-sports that comes with it. If we introduce violent games as well, the demand for the Wii amongst young angry boys might go up, at which point I might never get a Wii...
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Where do we find this? I sought and did not find.
Was there something I missed about this being required for new cars (or new car purchases)? Really, the talking cars could help things quite a bit - I for one wouldn't be opposed to a car autopilot function for my commute. If we let the cars do the driving for mundane drives we could potentially get there faster, using less gas. And we'd actually be able to make use of that otherwise lost time, as well.
An armed man can mix whatever chemicals he damn well pleases.
Until of course a group of several other (better armed) men tell you otherwise.
Yes, and notice the intentionally vague items list. A "flask heater"? An "adapter tube"? A "transformer"?!?!
The whole idea here is apparently to make EVERYONE in TX a criminal, so that they can be charged with *something* any time the pigs want to....
But as long as you carry at least one gun with you at all times, then you're OK, right? And the gun rack on the back of your pickup truck scores double, I've heard...
You did - remember?
I was using numerous as a synonym for several. And beyond that it is still a matter of perspective. If we have 2 finance interns, 2 marketing interns, and 1 IT intern, that is 5 people. It is a fair number of interns, but then you compare that to the 90 employees and it really isn't that significant. And they certainly aren't responsible for a large chunk of the work, no matter how much you may like to imply otherwise.
Just keep sticking to your story. You didn't do anything wrong by those interns, remember :
And then when you're done being abused here, you'll realize how much better the rest of the industrialized world treats its inhabitants.
You're taking that out of context, but that doesn't surprise me at all. I was referring to the way that our country abuses interns. If you would actually read what I wrote (not that I would expect you to do that) you would see that I already said we expected short hours from our interns.
But its not in your style to pass on the ability to twist my comments for your own agenda (whatever it may be).
all the Interns doing the work got nothing.
Who said we had a large number of interns?
Our IT department only had one intern, and around 7 paid employees. Generally we only worked the interns around 10-15 hours a week while the rest of us worked around 30 or more. And as I said, the other interns were primarily marketing or finance.
I'd lie next time
That wouldn't be much of a deviation from what you've written thus far. If you really want to change your MO, I'd suggest reading instead of just assuming. But you're free to do as you please, and I'm sure you will.