This is an interesting and probably a good move for the company that ate my cellphone provider. Regardless, I am envisioning a scenario during which American comm sats are destroyed by ground based weaponry such as that which has already demonstrated by the Chinese. Now I doubt the elimination of payphones will bring about the end of the world, but yanking up a bunch of this infrastructure and increasing dependence on cellular technology may have some interesting effects. I'm reminded of the battlestar galactica which depended on paper communication and old style telephones because the newer communications technology was so easily compromised by cylon intelligence.
They couldn't even have the LCD projector cables neatly routed. Its just like hanging down onto the table like.. OMG.. is that tied into a noose? OMG, is that a body!!!
This incident is clearly the product of dereferenced topology anomolies though localised environmental underflows may have resulted in a marked geological destabilization.
I find it quite Ironic that our universe is so big that we have never even seen the edge of it using modern telescopes and stuff, and we are floating around on a pebble in a huge universe and all there is is like flaming crap that will burn up entire lifeless worlds made up of toxic garbage in a LIMITLESS VOID and we are here discussing where to put some toxic garbage...
I've been trying out Vista Ultimate 64bit on an "old" gaming PC (AMD 3800+ single core / 4GB RAM / single nvidia 7800GTX GPU) for a month or so now. I can honestly say that the odd game performs slightly better than under 32 bit XP with 2GB RAM. Some games need tweaking to run in Vista or patches and the odd game just plain doesn't work, but then again I had the same problem when migrating to XP from my old win98 gaming PC. My issues have not been with performance but just with total design annoyances and a number of minor glitches. For example, when start menu items get created they generate permission errors when deleting them until you reboot, even with UAC disabled and with ownership assigned on the file and permissions elevated and no file locks. Of course, I'm using the classic start menu because I can't stand the new one. As someone who provides tech support to legacy windows users as well as Vista users I find it really annoying that they pulled the same crap as before like when they renamed "Find" to "Search" with legacy windows. The control panel items got renamed AGAIN and generally everything shifted around just enough to be annoying and make it more difficult to find. I didn't hit any obstacles that prevented me from working, but honestly, some things just didn't NEED to be changed, but it seems like they changed it to make things easier for the user or to make it appear new and cool, but in fact made it inconsistent with what they were used to. The thing is, there are so many little bitty teeny tiny crappy things about it, I am considering sacrificing DX10 and downgrading to XP just to stop the headaches. Of course, if I could get my entire game library to work on Linux I would not even be discussing winders.
Such individuals should go on trial in every country in alphabetical order. If they die before completion then all remaining countries should leave the case open in the event the defendants are ressurected by futuristic technology or divine beings.
Can anyone explain how the image being 2GB image has become an issue? A DVD still holds it (and a lot more), ghost automatically spans to additional files when it reaches that size (and can be set to span smaller for CDS). I have never encountered any issues with deploying images greater than 2GB from media OR over the network. Heck, even powerquest drive image (now assimilated by the symantec collective) and some of the crappier image utilities can handle it. Perhaps this is an issue for people using IE to download an ISO of an image disc (IE has a cache bug that limits the size of a file download over http to 2GB) Or perhaps this is some issue with Microsoft's new WIM imaging format that I am not aware of? Most workstation deployments in the enterprise include an amount software on them which has already put them above 2GB. Am I missing something or is this just an anti-microsoft bloated software nitpick.
I would agree with you if this wasn't posted under developers. This isn't universal information, but is considered prerequisite for Linux development. This info is more appropriate for the Slash homepage and for those who are too lazy to delve into articles or read through books like LPI exam cram for the 101 exam which include this info. Not to sound arrogant, but LOL if you are an real developer putting together code for Unix platforms without the fundamentals.
Many careers are heavily dependent on credentials and only slightly dependent on reputation. Some careers aren't dependent on either, but are instead totally dependent on BS. If I am a middle manager, having indispensable workers gives me perceived power which means additional job security for everybody! Being indispensable can also be reversed by releasing your secret documentation or automating a task for your replacement, etc. so you could still be eligible for that promotion after all. I disagree that this is always bad for your career. In the real world, many people live and profit by screwing others and playing them for fools. Sorry to break it to you, but it does work or else people wouldn't do it. I've been in IT over 10 years and can tell you that these types of people are a dime a dozen. Whether or not it is morally wrong is another discussion.
HR departments have adopted new job titles. Now you have "Technician", which essentially means system administrator, webmaster, onsite tech, helpdesk technician, application developer and so forth. Then you have managers which are all now titled CEO. Ever wondered why companies have 50 CEO's?
Almost any coder who isn't a noob or high school dropout has coded in COBOL and/or PASCAL or at least been exposed to it (i.e. supported poorly implemented COBOL applications like I have to). The majority of the community may not have written production COBOL code, but that has never stopped anyone from having an unfavorable opinion. Hating COBOL is cool, kind of like hating Microsoft.
Considering the vast majority of the community hates COBOL with a passion, I think it would be easier to get together a group of people who want to promote (insert your favorite band's name here) latest album.
I'm not so sure that the spaces were intended for drainage considering the pyramid did originally have an outer layer that was probably good for dispensing with water. You may be onto something with the dung though...
The cats got Egyptians in poo as well. The Persians took advantage of the Egyptians love for cats. They were going to launch cats over the walls of an Egyptian fort they were laying siege to. The Egyptians just handed the fort over to them instead so that cats were not hurt. In the same spirit, I would rather surrender this thread to you than endure any more of your pitiful jokes.
Interesting you should mention a credit card. Consider the national geographic reference:
Myth: The stones of the Pyramids are fitted so tightly that you can't slide a credit card between them.
Reality: Not true. Some stones have mortar, some don't--and you can easily slide a credit card between them.
- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egyptjournal/fac ts.html
This makes me wonder... It would make sense for some gaps to be intentionally left between blocks to provide flexibility, but I think it also sounds reasonable that they were using some sort of process at least similar to what you describe to lay mortar. Perhaps the missing mortar was the result of human error? Maybe they did not use mortar in the process when using formed blocks because pouring them in place created a bond? I have also read somewhere (can't find a link) that the collapse of the Meidum pyramid was due to the poor quality of the binding material. If the binding material in the big pyramid was different, then maybe the Meidum pyramid's collapse resulted in them needing to change their recipe for mortar?
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This is an interesting and probably a good move for the company that ate my cellphone provider. Regardless, I am envisioning a scenario during which American comm sats are destroyed by ground based weaponry such as that which has already demonstrated by the Chinese. Now I doubt the elimination of payphones will bring about the end of the world, but yanking up a bunch of this infrastructure and increasing dependence on cellular technology may have some interesting effects. I'm reminded of the battlestar galactica which depended on paper communication and old style telephones because the newer communications technology was so easily compromised by cylon intelligence.
They couldn't even have the LCD projector cables neatly routed. Its just like hanging down onto the table like.. OMG.. is that tied into a noose? OMG, is that a body!!!
This incident is clearly the product of dereferenced topology anomolies though localised environmental underflows may have resulted in a marked geological destabilization.
I find it quite Ironic that our universe is so big that we have never even seen the edge of it using modern telescopes and stuff, and we are floating around on a pebble in a huge universe and all there is is like flaming crap that will burn up entire lifeless worlds made up of toxic garbage in a LIMITLESS VOID and we are here discussing where to put some toxic garbage...
I've been trying out Vista Ultimate 64bit on an "old" gaming PC (AMD 3800+ single core / 4GB RAM / single nvidia 7800GTX GPU) for a month or so now. I can honestly say that the odd game performs slightly better than under 32 bit XP with 2GB RAM. Some games need tweaking to run in Vista or patches and the odd game just plain doesn't work, but then again I had the same problem when migrating to XP from my old win98 gaming PC. My issues have not been with performance but just with total design annoyances and a number of minor glitches. For example, when start menu items get created they generate permission errors when deleting them until you reboot, even with UAC disabled and with ownership assigned on the file and permissions elevated and no file locks. Of course, I'm using the classic start menu because I can't stand the new one. As someone who provides tech support to legacy windows users as well as Vista users I find it really annoying that they pulled the same crap as before like when they renamed "Find" to "Search" with legacy windows. The control panel items got renamed AGAIN and generally everything shifted around just enough to be annoying and make it more difficult to find. I didn't hit any obstacles that prevented me from working, but honestly, some things just didn't NEED to be changed, but it seems like they changed it to make things easier for the user or to make it appear new and cool, but in fact made it inconsistent with what they were used to. The thing is, there are so many little bitty teeny tiny crappy things about it, I am considering sacrificing DX10 and downgrading to XP just to stop the headaches. Of course, if I could get my entire game library to work on Linux I would not even be discussing winders.
Many old technological devices can be recycled into targets for practicing small arms fire.
Yes, but can this device provide adequate cooling for a pair of NVIDIA 8800's in a brutal "room temperature" environment?
Such individuals should go on trial in every country in alphabetical order. If they die before completion then all remaining countries should leave the case open in the event the defendants are ressurected by futuristic technology or divine beings.
Here come the fun police...
I don't have a link handy but Freespace 2!
Sorry, I've been backed up in work and out of touch with the news. Who did China declare war on? I'm so confused.
Can anyone explain how the image being 2GB image has become an issue? A DVD still holds it (and a lot more), ghost automatically spans to additional files when it reaches that size (and can be set to span smaller for CDS). I have never encountered any issues with deploying images greater than 2GB from media OR over the network. Heck, even powerquest drive image (now assimilated by the symantec collective) and some of the crappier image utilities can handle it. Perhaps this is an issue for people using IE to download an ISO of an image disc (IE has a cache bug that limits the size of a file download over http to 2GB) Or perhaps this is some issue with Microsoft's new WIM imaging format that I am not aware of? Most workstation deployments in the enterprise include an amount software on them which has already put them above 2GB. Am I missing something or is this just an anti-microsoft bloated software nitpick.
I would agree with you if this wasn't posted under developers. This isn't universal information, but is considered prerequisite for Linux development. This info is more appropriate for the Slash homepage and for those who are too lazy to delve into articles or read through books like LPI exam cram for the 101 exam which include this info. Not to sound arrogant, but LOL if you are an real developer putting together code for Unix platforms without the fundamentals.
Many careers are heavily dependent on credentials and only slightly dependent on reputation. Some careers aren't dependent on either, but are instead totally dependent on BS. If I am a middle manager, having indispensable workers gives me perceived power which means additional job security for everybody! Being indispensable can also be reversed by releasing your secret documentation or automating a task for your replacement, etc. so you could still be eligible for that promotion after all. I disagree that this is always bad for your career. In the real world, many people live and profit by screwing others and playing them for fools. Sorry to break it to you, but it does work or else people wouldn't do it. I've been in IT over 10 years and can tell you that these types of people are a dime a dozen. Whether or not it is morally wrong is another discussion.
HR departments have adopted new job titles. Now you have "Technician", which essentially means system administrator, webmaster, onsite tech, helpdesk technician, application developer and so forth. Then you have managers which are all now titled CEO. Ever wondered why companies have 50 CEO's?
I think you are referring to a "Tron" box.
I'm sure both vista users will appreciate this innovation.
The Worse is Better design philosophy, idiocy, selfishness and greed are factors leading to the difficulty of software design.
Almost any coder who isn't a noob or high school dropout has coded in COBOL and/or PASCAL or at least been exposed to it (i.e. supported poorly implemented COBOL applications like I have to). The majority of the community may not have written production COBOL code, but that has never stopped anyone from having an unfavorable opinion. Hating COBOL is cool, kind of like hating Microsoft.
Considering the vast majority of the community hates COBOL with a passion, I think it would be easier to get together a group of people who want to promote (insert your favorite band's name here) latest album.
You may be referring to a recent /. article on Damascus Steel, which I enjoyed. It kind of gives sword hacking a whole other meaning!
Actually, I take that back and you are probably right. They must have known it was going to take them a very long time to build and took precautions.
I'm not so sure that the spaces were intended for drainage considering the pyramid did originally have an outer layer that was probably good for dispensing with water. You may be onto something with the dung though...
The cats got Egyptians in poo as well. The Persians took advantage of the Egyptians love for cats. They were going to launch cats over the walls of an Egyptian fort they were laying siege to. The Egyptians just handed the fort over to them instead so that cats were not hurt. In the same spirit, I would rather surrender this thread to you than endure any more of your pitiful jokes.
Myth: The stones of the Pyramids are fitted so tightly that you can't slide a credit card between them.c ts.html
Reality: Not true. Some stones have mortar, some don't--and you can easily slide a credit card between them.
- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egyptjournal/fa
This makes me wonder... It would make sense for some gaps to be intentionally left between blocks to provide flexibility, but I think it also sounds reasonable that they were using some sort of process at least similar to what you describe to lay mortar. Perhaps the missing mortar was the result of human error? Maybe they did not use mortar in the process when using formed blocks because pouring them in place created a bond? I have also read somewhere (can't find a link) that the collapse of the Meidum pyramid was due to the poor quality of the binding material. If the binding material in the big pyramid was different, then maybe the Meidum pyramid's collapse resulted in them needing to change their recipe for mortar?