There was another, similar drink called the Borg Sphere as well. I was going to try one of them a couple weeks ago, but they actually closed at 1 in the morning even though the place was still packed. (Sony's Fan Faire was held in the same hotel, which contributed quite a bit to the place being full that night.) You can see the menu for Quark's here (as a PDF): http://www.startrekexp.com/pdf/quarks_menu.pdf
I'm at the SOE Fan Faire 2008 right now. For what it's worth, at the keynote speech it was claimed that this summer's "Living Legacy" promotion increased the number of paying subscribers for EverQuest and EverQuest 2 by 20%. That's not bad at all, particularly for EverQuest which is close to 10 years old.
The GP poster said "I'll BUY a support contract! If you offered such a thing." So paying for a primary developer or two might not be out of the question, especially if the costs can be split between a handful of lawfirms.
The question would then become why to make the product open source.
Deciding to no longer allow ticket sales through third parties is one thing (though I would still argue it is a bad move). But how can they get away with not honoring tickets already sold?
While I'm opposed to just about all reality TV, you could do worse than "So You Think You Can Dance". At least it promotes interest in various types of dancing, a healthy physical activity. The same can't be said about shows like "Big Brother" or "The Bachelor".
You could use DOSBox to run Windows 3.1, in case AmiPro doesn't work under Wine. If you choose this route, you might want to download S3 video drivers for Windows 3.1, so you can choose a higher video resolution.
That's assuming the primary difficulty is a programming challenge in the first place.
I don't know about California, but civil service rules in New York are needlessly complex. There are hundreds of earnings codes, each corresponding to a different type of payment. There are lots of special cases: for instance, if you earn Overtime and Standby pay in the same pay period, you are entitled to a small additional payment, even if the Overtime and Standby were for two different jobs. (And it is unlikely but possible for someone to hold jobs that are on different pay cycles, making the meaning of "in the same pay period" less clear.)
Here's a random bulletin detailing some changes to a small part of New York's system, to give you a taste of what it's like: http://www.pef.org/pst2007/osc/pb826.htm
Implementing each individual rule in a program is pretty straightforward. But there are a LOT of rules, making it a time consuming process. It probably takes longer to learn and internalize civil service rules than it takes to learn COBOL.
Well, it would be a real shame if that 95% ruined it for the rest of us. I have an R4 and I'll be using it exclusively for a VNC-like application I'm writing so I can run programs on my desktop computer remotely. (Originally I wanted to use DSLinux, but it turns out that without a GBA cartridge to expand the memory capacity, it can't run very many programs--not even ssh. And the web browser in DSOrganize was a letdown as well.)
A better sponsorship would be to quit developing IIS and focus all of its development staff on Apache for Windows, and Apache in general. Apache already dominates, make it better.
Doesn't that run counter to the idea that monoculture is bad in computing?
That is exactly what the "Tachy Goes to Coventry" setting does in vBulletin (for example). I'm sure other forum/discussion systems have implemented it too, as it can be quite effective.
Basically, the idea is to take a multi-layered approach, starting with simple "Danger" warnings (both symbolic and in current languages, large scale and small), and finishing with detailed scientific information about what we will have buried. There will be instructions to add new structures with translations into whatever languages will have arisen in future societies. Sturdy but low-value materials will be used. There are a lot of other considerations; the "Expert Judgement..." document is an interesting read.
I agree with the other posters saying that reprocessing should make all of this moot, though.
Raytracing is an "embarrassingly parallel" task that should scale well as desktop computers execute more and more code in parallel. Can the same be said about rasterizing?
That's assuming that the "porn channels" are easily identified as such. Sure, many might have obvious names, but can you be sure that all of them do? And then there's the issue of proxy servers and Usenet web gateways...
Some people expect video game sales to remain relatively strong even through a recession.
Movies, music, theme parks, vacations and restaurants are some of the activities consumers will likely scale back on, before they cut out their video game budget, especially in the core video game sector.
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There was another, similar drink called the Borg Sphere as well.
I was going to try one of them a couple weeks ago, but they actually closed at 1 in the morning even though the place was still packed. (Sony's Fan Faire was held in the same hotel, which contributed quite a bit to the place being full that night.)
You can see the menu for Quark's here (as a PDF):
http://www.startrekexp.com/pdf/quarks_menu.pdf
The fees (if any) associated with credit freezes vary from state to state.
http://www.consumersunion.org/campaigns/learn_more/003484indiv.html
Ugh. What could these possibly offer that couldn't be done with, say, Flash?
I'm a 10th level U.S. Senator!
I'm at the SOE Fan Faire 2008 right now.
For what it's worth, at the keynote speech it was claimed that this summer's "Living Legacy" promotion increased the number of paying subscribers for EverQuest and EverQuest 2 by 20%. That's not bad at all, particularly for EverQuest which is close to 10 years old.
Well, for one thing, a GPS device probably doesn't distinguish between public and private spaces.
Doing so would involve stating under penalty of perjury that you own the rights to something in each video. I wouldn't recommend it.
The GP poster said "I'll BUY a support contract! If you offered such a thing." So paying for a primary developer or two might not be out of the question, especially if the costs can be split between a handful of lawfirms.
The question would then become why to make the product open source.
Deciding to no longer allow ticket sales through third parties is one thing (though I would still argue it is a bad move). But how can they get away with not honoring tickets already sold?
While I'm opposed to just about all reality TV, you could do worse than "So You Think You Can Dance". At least it promotes interest in various types of dancing, a healthy physical activity. The same can't be said about shows like "Big Brother" or "The Bachelor".
You could use DOSBox to run Windows 3.1, in case AmiPro doesn't work under Wine.
If you choose this route, you might want to download S3 video drivers for Windows 3.1, so you can choose a higher video resolution.
That's assuming the primary difficulty is a programming challenge in the first place.
I don't know about California, but civil service rules in New York are needlessly complex. There are hundreds of earnings codes, each corresponding to a different type of payment. There are lots of special cases: for instance, if you earn Overtime and Standby pay in the same pay period, you are entitled to a small additional payment, even if the Overtime and Standby were for two different jobs. (And it is unlikely but possible for someone to hold jobs that are on different pay cycles, making the meaning of "in the same pay period" less clear.)
Here's a random bulletin detailing some changes to a small part of New York's system, to give you a taste of what it's like:
http://www.pef.org/pst2007/osc/pb826.htm
Implementing each individual rule in a program is pretty straightforward. But there are a LOT of rules, making it a time consuming process. It probably takes longer to learn and internalize civil service rules than it takes to learn COBOL.
If only!
Well, it would be a real shame if that 95% ruined it for the rest of us. I have an R4 and I'll be using it exclusively for a VNC-like application I'm writing so I can run programs on my desktop computer remotely. (Originally I wanted to use DSLinux, but it turns out that without a GBA cartridge to expand the memory capacity, it can't run very many programs--not even ssh. And the web browser in DSOrganize was a letdown as well.)
E=mc^2 would only be relevant if the payload consisted of antimatter. And producing antimatter on that scale is far beyond our current capabilities.
I think the formula you're looking for is (1/2)mv^2, with a high value for v.
Doesn't that run counter to the idea that monoculture is bad in computing?
That is exactly what the "Tachy Goes to Coventry" setting does in vBulletin (for example). I'm sure other forum/discussion systems have implemented it too, as it can be quite effective.
New Yorkers pay sales tax.
For the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, this is the solution that was developed:
Permanent Markers Implementation Plan, United States Department of Energy, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (PDF)
Some brainstorming that led to the above document--this contains some of the more "exotic" ideas that were considered:
Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (PDF)
Excerpts in HTML format
Overview of warnings for Yucca Mountain
Basically, the idea is to take a multi-layered approach, starting with simple "Danger" warnings (both symbolic and in current languages, large scale and small), and finishing with detailed scientific information about what we will have buried. There will be instructions to add new structures with translations into whatever languages will have arisen in future societies. Sturdy but low-value materials will be used. There are a lot of other considerations; the "Expert Judgement..." document is an interesting read.
I agree with the other posters saying that reprocessing should make all of this moot, though.
No optional arguments in C?
Then what purpose does stdarg.h serve?
Raytracing is an "embarrassingly parallel" task that should scale well as desktop computers execute more and more code in parallel. Can the same be said about rasterizing?
My phone--also a Motorola--occasionally complains about an "unauthorized" charger, but it charges anyway even when displaying that message.
"Girls with Network Equipment" (including cables) close enough?
http://web.archive.org/web/20060112033557/http://hwpr0n.se/
That's assuming that the "porn channels" are easily identified as such. Sure, many might have obvious names, but can you be sure that all of them do? And then there's the issue of proxy servers and Usenet web gateways...
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3612/analyze_this_is_the_video_game_.php?print=1