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Marie Antoinette, Louix XVI's wife and other 18th century french nobility did actually achieve a 12" waist, but only because they were continually wearing corsets, which they started doing at a very early age.
These girls fainted easily...
Btw, I have seen a few costumers/cosplayers that have been able to pull off wearing an Aeon Flux costume much better than Charlice Theron.
If content providers and hardware manufacturers are going to invest a whole lot of money on BluRay they are not going to be very keen on investing in HVD for some time.. HD-DVD costs less right now, so that would be a better choice right now.. if at all.
I read a study recently that most phishing web sites don't live longer than a week... A database of unimportant entries is not going to do any good. I figure that Microsoft will have to keep a staff of around a dozen people day and night checking out each one of these flagged URLs as soon as the URLs come in, or otherwise it is not going to be very effective.
Wine is grown on Gotland today and there is information on that site which you can use to compare the growing conditions to other parts of Sweden.
You should also consider that many of our cultivated species are not as resilient to weather conditions as the older variations they originate from. It is quite possible that the grape found in Sweden in the neolithic area could survive the present-day climate. Humans have also wiped out entire species in prehistoric times. Grapes are tasty.:)
The project was described as a fairy tale with swordfighting. Many movies fit that description, and it wasn't even mentioned as an adaptation of a movie. Duh!
You are comparing a newer generation to an older. The 68000 came in 1979. The i386 was introduced first in 1986. The 68020 however, introduced in 1987 did support 32x32->64 bit multiplication and division between all data registers. An external MMU was available, but it was unused by MacOS and AmigaOS. And the 68000 has had nice relative addressing modes from the start. I don't understand what you are referring to. (I have written machine code for all of these.)
What I want to know: Can I paint circles in it?
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In older version of The Gimp it was very difficult to draw perfect concentric circles in it. I had to manually measure and mark the corners of the bounding box around the circle, and then I had to adjust for the "Stroke" feature drawing one pixel down and to the left instead of inside... and so on.
It's the little things that separate the good programs from the bad. Not the amount of features.
I live in Sweden, Europe. The last time Apple upgraded the Mini, the price stayed unchanged in the US, but rose 12% over here... I can only expect the price to rise again. That's what you get for waiting, I guess.
I am afraid that the format would allow the Chinese government to control which titles are released on it, so that no titles involving critizism against the regime would be allowed.
I prefer how Opera does it... or, actually I mean the default configuration, because it is configurable. A "New" window or tab is blank, but there is a "Duplicate" option on the context menu. Duplicate windows even come with a duplicate history. Most of the time I want a blank page with an empty address field. Sometimes I am replying in a forum and I need to go back and then forward... and in those cases Duplicate becomes very handy.
Btw. I have removed the windoze caps off my black Keytronic with some nailpolish remover (etylacetate, chemically very similiar to acetone) on a q-tip. However, there is still a depression in the plastic shaped like the keycap and the remover did make the plastic a little bit cloudy.
I did not do it, but you could try sanding the depression a little bit with fine sandpaper and then "flash" it quickly with the flame from a lighter or a candle to melt the sanding marks.
Caps Lock. Who named this key anyway? In Windows, it's not a caps lock key, it's a caps reverse key. And who the hell needs a caps reverse key? hAS aNYONE eVER rEALLY nEEDED tHIS fUNCTIONALITY bEFORE? I wonder where some people's brains are sometimes.
I couldn't agree more. I have it disabled in both Windows and Linux.
Old typewriters that I have used had a very simple, straightforward design solution to this problem: Shift cancelled Caps Lock. In fact, the Caps Lock key was not a toggle switch. It entered Caps Lock mode and the Shift key got you out of it. Why this design became different on the computer, I don't know...
The hardcore Star Wars collectors will still buy both formats, to make their collection "complete" and then bitch a lot on message boards about which version is the best from a technical standpoint, followed by a petition to George Lucas to release the version where Han shoots first in the other format, whilst there are multiple independent attempts at transcoding that version to the other format and to the new holographic HVD disc which has 10 × more space and which is what most of the rest of the world is using instead.
I have been looking forward to this movie for years, ever since I saw the first trailer. Then I watched the old movies (were on their site then). They are pretty good... by fanfilm standards, that is.
I wish I had mod points, so that I could mod the parent up, because I find the references to be quite interesting. I once looked at Mozard/oz for distributed virtual environments, because it is used to provide distribution in the DIVE system. I was quite disappointed then, because DIVE was not very scalable. The programming model behind E is much more interesting, from that perspective.
Related things (or things that I think should be): Octave: A virtual environment where execution of the same code in the same objects is replicated on several nodes. The project is also looking at using capabilities for security (a direction which I applaud). I think that capabilities provides a natural mapping.
Ownership types: It makes encapsulation very tight and forces the programmer to spend more time on the design of its classes and objects. A possible side-effect could be that the compiler could draw conclusions about memory management at compile-time and make garbage collection process more efficient, but more research is needed to see how large this effect is.
However, what is ultimately needed for distributed environments is if object behaviour more easily could be separated into predictable and side effects so that we could minimize the network communication overhead. I think all the technologies mentioned above could help towards that goal.
There is no evidence that this "lightsaber" was used in the production of any Star Wars movie. We can only tell that is was owned by Gary Kurtz.
It is a Graflex camera flash with a linhof mount at the end of it. The black grips (or "cooling fins") are of a type not seen anywhere else but in Kurtz collection. No lightsaber in any production photo or publicity photos or any of the lightsabers that Lucasfilm regularly puts on display has any grips like it. For all we know, it could be something that Gary Kurtz built himself...
(ps. An authentic Graflex 3-cell flash in good condition is worth no more than $200 USD)
I remember the japanese TRON text encoding, which was not only a character set but which also allowed embedding of custom glyphs in the text stream. I don't remember if these were vectorized or bitmaps or both. The original purpose was to allow the transmission of unusual Kanji glyphs such as names of japanese villages where the glyph was unique to that village.
I did a quick Google search and found out that TRON Code is indeed still used in cell phones to this day. That might be the tech behind point 3 in the parent post.
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Marie Antoinette, Louix XVI's wife and other 18th century french nobility did actually achieve a 12" waist, but only because they were continually wearing corsets, which they started doing at a very early age.
These girls fainted easily
Btw, I have seen a few costumers/cosplayers that have been able to pull off wearing an Aeon Flux costume much better than Charlice Theron.
If content providers and hardware manufacturers are going to invest a whole lot of money on BluRay they are not going to be very keen on investing in HVD for some time..
HD-DVD costs less right now, so that would be a better choice right now.. if at all.
I read a study recently that most phishing web sites don't live longer than a week...
A database of unimportant entries is not going to do any good.
I figure that Microsoft will have to keep a staff of around a dozen people day and night checking out each one of these flagged URLs as soon as the URLs come in, or otherwise it is not going to be very effective.
Wine is grown on Gotland today and there is information on that site which you can use to compare the growing conditions to other parts of Sweden.
:)
You should also consider that many of our cultivated species are not as resilient to weather conditions as the older variations they originate from. It is quite possible that the grape found in Sweden in the neolithic area could survive the present-day climate.
Humans have also wiped out entire species in prehistoric times. Grapes are tasty.
It's only a rumor, folks.
The project was described as a fairy tale with swordfighting. Many movies fit that description, and it wasn't even mentioned as an adaptation of a movie. Duh!
You are comparing a newer generation to an older.
The 68000 came in 1979. The i386 was introduced first in 1986.
The 68020 however, introduced in 1987 did support 32x32->64 bit multiplication and division between all data registers. An external MMU was available, but it was unused by MacOS and AmigaOS.
And the 68000 has had nice relative addressing modes from the start. I don't understand what you are referring to. (I have written machine code for all of these.)
In older version of The Gimp it was very difficult to draw perfect concentric circles in it. I had to manually measure and mark the corners of the bounding box around the circle, and then I had to adjust for the "Stroke" feature drawing one pixel down and to the left instead of inside ... and so on.
It's the little things that separate the good programs from the bad. Not the amount of features.
I live in Sweden, Europe. The last time Apple upgraded the Mini, the price stayed unchanged in the US, but rose 12% over here ...
I can only expect the price to rise again.
That's what you get for waiting, I guess.
I am afraid that the format would allow the Chinese government to control which titles are released on it, so that no titles involving critizism against the regime would be allowed.
No, there are some quirks in Opera.
For instance, the icons on top of the page are hidden.
... slashdot does not work with Netscape 4 when I try it today.
I tried it because of a gnarly bug in Opera, requesting pages from the wrong sites....
I prefer how Opera does it... or, actually I mean the default configuration, because it is configurable. ... and in those cases Duplicate becomes very handy.
A "New" window or tab is blank, but there is a "Duplicate" option on the context menu. Duplicate windows even come with a duplicate history.
Most of the time I want a blank page with an empty address field. Sometimes I am replying in a forum and I need to go back and then forward
Do you actually use PrintScrn, Scroll Lock or Pause/Break?
:)
I have them mapped to the mp3 player: "Previous tune", "Next tune" and [i]*drumroll*[/i] "Play/Pause".
Oldskool keyboards: www.pckeyboard.com
Btw. I have removed the windoze caps off my black Keytronic with some nailpolish remover (etylacetate, chemically very similiar to acetone) on a q-tip.
However, there is still a depression in the plastic shaped like the keycap and the remover did make the plastic a little bit cloudy.
I did not do it, but you could try sanding the depression a little bit with fine sandpaper and then "flash" it quickly with the flame from a lighter or a candle to melt the sanding marks.
Caps Lock. Who named this key anyway? In Windows, it's not a caps lock key, it's a caps reverse key. And who the hell needs a caps reverse key? hAS aNYONE eVER rEALLY nEEDED tHIS fUNCTIONALITY bEFORE? I wonder where some people's brains are sometimes.
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I couldn't agree more. I have it disabled in both Windows and Linux.
Old typewriters that I have used had a very simple, straightforward design solution to this problem: Shift cancelled Caps Lock.
In fact, the Caps Lock key was not a toggle switch. It entered Caps Lock mode and the Shift key got you out of it.
Why this design became different on the computer, I don't know
A timeout would have no effect if the attack is initiated by the user's visit to the pr0n site.
I wonder about watermarking, though. It could alert the user that something isn't right. The watermark has to survive filtering, of course.
The hardcore Star Wars collectors will still buy both formats, to make their collection "complete" and then bitch a lot on message boards about which version is the best from a technical standpoint, followed by a petition to George Lucas to release the version where Han shoots first in the other format, whilst there are multiple independent attempts at transcoding that version to the other format and to the new holographic HVD disc which has 10 × more space and which is what most of the rest of the world is using instead.
Well, I guess that's you.
I have been looking forward to this movie for years, ever since I saw the first trailer. Then I watched the old movies (were on their site then). They are pretty good... by fanfilm standards, that is.
"In The Beginning" - a Babylon 5 movie
Captain Pirk - the hero in this movie
I wish I had mod points, so that I could mod the parent up, because I find the references to be quite interesting.
I once looked at Mozard/oz for distributed virtual environments, because it is used to provide distribution in the DIVE system. I was quite disappointed then, because DIVE was not very scalable. The programming model behind E is much more interesting, from that perspective.
Related things (or things that I think should be):
Octave: A virtual environment where execution of the same code in the same objects is replicated on several nodes. The project is also looking at using capabilities for security (a direction which I applaud). I think that capabilities provides a natural mapping.
Ownership types: It makes encapsulation very tight and forces the programmer to spend more time on the design of its classes and objects.
A possible side-effect could be that the compiler could draw conclusions about memory management at compile-time and make garbage collection process more efficient, but more research is needed to see how large this effect is.
However, what is ultimately needed for distributed environments is if object behaviour more easily could be separated into predictable and side effects so that we could minimize the network communication overhead. I think all the technologies mentioned above could help towards that goal.
Here is one: Belkin F8E842-DL. It has some issues though.
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I thought the football team(1) got its name from chemical company (which makes bleach and other household cleaning products).
1. "soccer team" for you across the atlantic
There is no evidence that this "lightsaber" was used in the production of any Star Wars movie. We can only tell that is was owned by Gary Kurtz.
...
It is a Graflex camera flash with a linhof mount at the end of it. The black grips (or "cooling fins") are of a type not seen anywhere else but in Kurtz collection. No lightsaber in any production photo or publicity photos or any of the lightsabers that Lucasfilm regularly puts on display has any grips like it.
For all we know, it could be something that Gary Kurtz built himself
(ps. An authentic Graflex 3-cell flash in good condition is worth no more than $200 USD)
I remember the japanese TRON text encoding, which was not only a character set but which also allowed embedding of custom glyphs in the text stream. I don't remember if these were vectorized or bitmaps or both.
The original purpose was to allow the transmission of unusual Kanji glyphs such as names of japanese villages where the glyph was unique to that village.
I did a quick Google search and found out that TRON Code is indeed still used in cell phones to this day. That might be the tech behind point 3 in the parent post.
Yes, but there is no reason that there can't be a track on the disc with panning information.
I had already thought of that but forgot about posting it for some reason.