I went gambling in Mississippi and went in with $100 allowed to lose (yeah, I know, I know, last of the big spenders...). I came out $20 ahead so was pretty chuffed but yes, you're absolutely correct the only way to gamble (in a gambling house) is to expect to lose and load up on the free drinks and cheap hotel rooms.
The best kind of gambling is among friends. That way, no money is going to some faceless third party. Although I still think that can be unhealthy if it gets too serious. Best to gamble for pennies.
Sorry, my writing was ambiguous. What I was trying to say was that fungi (of which mushrooms are a member)do not fit into the kingdoms of animals, vegetables or minerals.
I don't think the bug gives a rats ass whether or not you think it's justified to rip it apart. If ripping your legs off could be to the benefit of 'legitimate
life-saving medical research', would you let them?
Well, unless there's some more weirdy experiments in wiring insects up to web browsers, I don't think the poster was a bug so your question is absurd.
Toyota are using the word "bugger" in a TV ad? I take it they are counting on most of the American population not knowing that it means male-male anal sex.
On the other hand, it is easier to seek forgiveness than permission. At least the politicians know how unpopular this would be and are less likely to get away with sneaking it in (not that they won't try sooner or later anyway)
Tomatoes are the fruit of the tomato plant which is a vegetable.
It's all the result of some weird reasoning that we decide to categorise the various parts of plants into being fruit or vegetable. It's the same thing as when I see signs in supermarkets which point me to "beers and lagers". Lagers are beers dammit. It's the same kind of thing where you get goods labelled "Organic". Well, of course it's organic. It has carbon in it doesn't it? All part of the dumbing down of society I'm afraid.
Oh, by the way, mushrooms aren't vegetables. In the three kingdoms, animal, vegetable, mineral, fungi dont fit into any of them (I'm sure someone can explain it better)
Besides, at true nano size, you're not talking about enough size or power to actually do anything. Not in the scale of space you're looking at,
anyway...
No, imagine. Large globs of nano-satellites. When they need to change orbit, they can lengthen themselves out into a cable (also usable for generating power), convert themselves to the tool of choice (adjustable wrench, pliers), split themselves into multiple parts when required in more than one place (one group to hold the parts together, the other to do up the nut), form into parabolic mirror shapes for welding, spread themselves out flat to shield from sunlight or as a solar sail, stand in for broken components on satellites. Very flexible indeed
"Yes Napster made us lose sales on our new CD, but sales on our old CD skyrocketed."
Of course, you're not going to hear them say "Well, sales of our new CD are low because it isn't as good as the previous one. Luckily, we're still getting revenue off of our old one thanks to napster".
That, and if Disney were to have lost those trademarks, it
would have lost the core of their business, costing a hell of a lot of jobs.
Oh, I was going to write some witty response about drug dealers and government not supporting legalization of drugs and losing their core business etc but I don't think I can be bothered.
I'll just say It is not he business of government to erode the rights of its citizens to provide a bit of cash for billion-dollar corporations
Yes, that would be pretty good. Transmit at a real slow speed so even a low bandwidth user's connection doesn't get saturated, maybe use a few channels for different speeds. Most people only use a fraction of their bandwidth, mostly browsing or chatting with small bursts of high bandwidth usage followed by long periods of inactivity. The client could even switch to a higher rate transmission when activity is low.
The client could also be smart and once it has most of a file, only tune into channels when the bits it is missing are "playing". As it gets towards the end, it could even get more agressive and tune into faster channels to get the chunks it needs (at the expense of your other bandwidth)
I don't know. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would rather not go to the bother of downloading and compiling the Kernel. Also, for older systems there may be space and time limitations. The kernel source is up to what, over 30 megs now and I recall compiles on my old 486/33 with 4MB of RAM took over 24 hours (5 mins on my Athlon 650 w 128MB:) )
Besides, the original poster was just talking about selecting the source modules you need I think. There's no real need for me to be downloading driver source for devices which are *never* going to be compiled. However, selecting your options then waiting and getting the resultant compiled kernel would be pretty cool. I first thought of this due to my 24+ hour compiles as mentioned above (with kernels which matched previous configs being cached of course). This would be very workable with 5 minute compile times but now that I have 5 minute compiles, the need goes away. It might be worth doing just for the coolness factor as you say but I don't have a permanent connection (yet)
One place I worked had entry via a four digit pin entered on a horizontal keypad. As a temp worker, I wasn't allowed a pin. Unfortunately, also as a temp worker, I was turning up earlier than the real workers and having to stand around in the cold and the rain. Fortunately, there had been drilling in the corridor so a quick sprinkling of brickdust got me the four numbers and from there, it was trivial to get the actual PIN.
However, as a temp worker, it turned out that the work ran out shortly after anyway. But it was an interesting exercise (Have to do something to keep yourself sane in those boring summer jobs).
Personally, I really don't like people that puts Linux on their second computer, an old Pentium 75 with 24 MB and a stone-age Trident graphics
adapter or some such, and then spout off to tell how "bad" Linux performs compared to their Windows system (which of course runs on an Athlon
with 128 MB and a fancy-smancy graphics adapter). I've met that type of persons...
Err, well the linux machine is a Cyrix 133 actually but bang on about the Athlon. Though I do that because I know how much better Linux is. I need the Athlon for windows so I can get the quick reboot when it crashes;). So I'm not one of the complainers.
I am sick to death of Microsoft picking these assinine directory names...
Ah, you mean like the wonderful way they chose "Program Files" to demonstrate their "long filename" support "with spaces" which made it a pain to install all those old 16 bit programs. I mean, why not just call it "Programs"?
Yet another example of Microsoft ignoring all the lessons learnt in years before. Spaces have been available in filenames in Unix for forever yet people avoid them. Why? Because it makes things complex, breaks scripts and you have to escape them on the command line (or in the case of MS use quotes which complicates things even more if that means you have a script which then needs to be double escaped).
Not to mention of course that long directory names mean it's impossible to get more than a couple of levels in the directory tree in explorer. Of course, we're supposed to put things in "My Documents" anyway.
Anyway, I'm sure this has all been hashed out before so I'll just leave it there.
Err, well actually in my case, drivers, tools and applications that I'll want to install if I reinstall '98 (or add some functionality to someone else's setup).
scamp was one of the folks who wrote from Europe with the news that an administrative board for the
European Patents Office has voted 10-9 to allow patents for software in Europe
What the hell is an unelected bunch of managers of an organisation doing making wide-reaching policy decisions such as this which should a matter for elected lawmakers
It's exactly this kind of crap which makes so many of us in England against tighter integration with the EU.
Trumpet still do a version of winsock for win9x. Works much better than DUN (for example, DUN connection timeouts work from when new TCP connections are initiated rather than when data was last transmitted. Annoying when you're trying to transfer large files) and has some hand extra functionality.
Unfortunately, it costs and last I checked, wasn't compatible with Netmeeting (if that's an issue for you). I probably would have forked over for it but in the end, I'm using NAT and a linux box with ppp-on-demand (which has its own annoyances).
Oh. And it (trumpet winsock) also does IPV6 already.
I had to work full time to support myself. Most(but not all) of the students who succeeded in
engineering or CS at my school were traditional students, working 10 hours a week or less, and they had ample time to finish the assignments.
Which is why it makes sense to give students a decent grant (allowance) so they can spend their time exctracting as much value as possible from their education and go on to become high-value members of the workforce instead of having them flipping burgers by night, catching up on their sleep during lectures in the day, dropping out then flipping burgers permanently.
Unfortunately, here in the UK, we've gone from treating education as a necessity to a healthy economy to a commercial product to be sold to as many as possible for as much as possible. Now, you expect that from the tories but we've even been betrayed by so called "socialist" labour. (So sucks to you "communist Europe" man).
Myself, I managed to get through university while grants were still mostly supportive and there were no tuition fees but I'm disgusted at what the last 10 years of government have done to the higher education system in this country.
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The best kind of gambling is among friends. That way, no money is going to some faceless third party. Although I still think that can be unhealthy if it gets too serious. Best to gamble for pennies.
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Honest :)
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Well, unless there's some more weirdy experiments in wiring insects up to web browsers, I don't think the poster was a bug so your question is absurd.
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What next? "Bollocks"?
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It's all the result of some weird reasoning that we decide to categorise the various parts of plants into being fruit or vegetable. It's the same thing as when I see signs in supermarkets which point me to "beers and lagers". Lagers are beers dammit. It's the same kind of thing where you get goods labelled "Organic". Well, of course it's organic. It has carbon in it doesn't it? All part of the dumbing down of society I'm afraid.
Oh, by the way, mushrooms aren't vegetables. In the three kingdoms, animal, vegetable, mineral, fungi dont fit into any of them (I'm sure someone can explain it better)
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It just sits around on backup tape at the dejanews offices.
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No, imagine. Large globs of nano-satellites. When they need to change orbit, they can lengthen themselves out into a cable (also usable for generating power), convert themselves to the tool of choice (adjustable wrench, pliers), split themselves into multiple parts when required in more than one place (one group to hold the parts together, the other to do up the nut), form into parabolic mirror shapes for welding, spread themselves out flat to shield from sunlight or as a solar sail, stand in for broken components on satellites. Very flexible indeed
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Of course, you're not going to hear them say "Well, sales of our new CD are low because it isn't as good as the previous one. Luckily, we're still getting revenue off of our old one thanks to napster".
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Oh, I was going to write some witty response about drug dealers and government not supporting legalization of drugs and losing their core business etc but I don't think I can be bothered.
I'll just say It is not he business of government to erode the rights of its citizens to provide a bit of cash for billion-dollar corporations
"Government by the people, for the people" eh?
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The client could also be smart and once it has most of a file, only tune into channels when the bits it is missing are "playing". As it gets towards the end, it could even get more agressive and tune into faster channels to get the chunks it needs (at the expense of your other bandwidth)
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Besides, the original poster was just talking about selecting the source modules you need I think. There's no real need for me to be downloading driver source for devices which are *never* going to be compiled. However, selecting your options then waiting and getting the resultant compiled kernel would be pretty cool. I first thought of this due to my 24+ hour compiles as mentioned above (with kernels which matched previous configs being cached of course). This would be very workable with 5 minute compile times but now that I have 5 minute compiles, the need goes away. It might be worth doing just for the coolness factor as you say but I don't have a permanent connection (yet)
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Easy, when you shoot the skinned NPC, the blood comes out red.
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However, as a temp worker, it turned out that the work ran out shortly after anyway. But it was an interesting exercise (Have to do something to keep yourself sane in those boring summer jobs).
Rich
Err, well the linux machine is a Cyrix 133 actually but bang on about the Athlon. Though I do that because I know how much better Linux is. I need the Athlon for windows so I can get the quick reboot when it crashes ;). So I'm not one of the complainers.
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Ah, you mean like the wonderful way they chose "Program Files" to demonstrate their "long filename" support "with spaces" which made it a pain to install all those old 16 bit programs. I mean, why not just call it "Programs"?
Yet another example of Microsoft ignoring all the lessons learnt in years before. Spaces have been available in filenames in Unix for forever yet people avoid them. Why? Because it makes things complex, breaks scripts and you have to escape them on the command line (or in the case of MS use quotes which complicates things even more if that means you have a script which then needs to be double escaped).
Not to mention of course that long directory names mean it's impossible to get more than a couple of levels in the directory tree in explorer. Of course, we're supposed to put things in "My Documents" anyway.
Anyway, I'm sure this has all been hashed out before so I'll just leave it there.
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Err, well actually in my case, drivers, tools and applications that I'll want to install if I reinstall '98 (or add some functionality to someone else's setup).
Now my cd labelled "XXX"... ;)
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What the hell is an unelected bunch of managers of an organisation doing making wide-reaching policy decisions such as this which should a matter for elected lawmakers
It's exactly this kind of crap which makes so many of us in England against tighter integration with the EU.
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Unfortunately, it costs and last I checked, wasn't compatible with Netmeeting (if that's an issue for you). I probably would have forked over for it but in the end, I'm using NAT and a linux box with ppp-on-demand (which has its own annoyances).
Oh. And it (trumpet winsock) also does IPV6 already.
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Which is why it makes sense to give students a decent grant (allowance) so they can spend their time exctracting as much value as possible from their education and go on to become high-value members of the workforce instead of having them flipping burgers by night, catching up on their sleep during lectures in the day, dropping out then flipping burgers permanently.
Unfortunately, here in the UK, we've gone from treating education as a necessity to a healthy economy to a commercial product to be sold to as many as possible for as much as possible. Now, you expect that from the tories but we've even been betrayed by so called "socialist" labour. (So sucks to you "communist Europe" man).
Myself, I managed to get through university while grants were still mostly supportive and there were no tuition fees but I'm disgusted at what the last 10 years of government have done to the higher education system in this country.
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