On the covers: apparently someone in Harper decided some time ago that the Corgi (UK) covers were too "cartoony" and would lead US readers to believe they were children's books. You'd think enough of us would have bitched by now that they'd have gotten the clue, but no, they went from interesting but not great covers to FSKING UGLY ones.
On Amazon.co.uk pricing: I don't know that I've found the shipping to be "a bugger" at all. Seems every time I've ordered, the shipping has been pretty much swallowed up by the exchange rate. Sure, I end up paying the equivalent of US cover price instead of the "standard" 30% discount from Borders or Amazon US, but cover price for a good cover is easily worth it even if you aren't a raving loony. At least that's what the voices keep telling me.
Care to send that Z250 to me then? I've been using Z100's for a couple of years now and had no problems whatsoever. Yeah, I know about the "click of death", but apparently that doesn't effect everything they've done, since I ain't never had it myself.
The POINT was that transactions do for database consistency what journalling does for filesystem consistency. So Sorry if that was so unclear that "my eyes are turning brown".
The only advantage the new FSes hold is probably their journaling capability
Probably?
Sorry, but "the good old Ext2" has left me crying for lost files more times than I want to count. I can abuse, for example, Solaris systems pretty well, and I have to work hard to get serious filesystem corruption. By comparison, for a long time it seemed every other time I just did an "init 6" on my SuSE box with Ext2 filesystems I lost another couple of files, until it got the the point where something to do with Qt is gone, and the window system won't come up. Greaaat.
"Only" journalling capability is akin to complaining about Oracle's "only" advantage over MySQL etc. being rollback/atomicity/transaction consistency. Gee, what a "tiny" thing.
Talk about disturbingly fickle. I was reading some of the other recent cases (one decided today, forget the names, but it's about illegal wiretapping being broadcast by a media outlet after the crime was already committed) and ran across the following quote:
The normal method of deterring unlawful conduct is to punish the person
engaging in it. It would be remarkable to hold that speech by a law-abiding possessor of information can be suppressed in order to deter conduct by
a non-law-abiding third party.
Now if that can't be used to defend 2600 against the MPAA, I don't know what can. Of course, I'm sure the court will change it's mind when it comes to copyright issues....
Perhaps, instead of assuming that your own personal view of what "likely" happened, since you have no more idea than the original poster about whether the woman was "mouthing off" etc., you could actually be bothered to look it up first.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-1408.ZS.html is the reference. Turns out that the law is written specifically to allow arrest, but not require it. Further, it's worth noting that there is no mention of the woman "mouthing off" or otherwise resisting the arrest. Therefore the Supreme Court ruling was appropriate that the officer was within the law and that the law doesn't violate the 4th amendment (because the 4th amendment doesn't explicitly define warrantless arrests as "unreasonable search and seizure".
On the other hand, it does seem to be pretty obvious that if statues are written so that it is up to the officer to decide in such cases whether an arrest is warranted or not, it leaves lots of opportunity for abuse of the law to harass citizens. But since that wasn't the question the Supremes are supposed to be addressing, it didn't get addressed.
So, it sounds like a good idea, but what is the environmental impact of a break in that pipe with that liquid nitrogen in it? Ain't it going to go liquid to gas awful damn fast?
Poker is usually for money, even if it's only play money (quarters or whatever). Online fps games and the like are not even for money, they're just for fun and the challenge. Yes, there are other ways to cheat; most of them take some effort to achieve. Having ASUS remove the see through drivers continues to make it take some effort.
1) I keep hearing people talk about "neat" or "useful" ways to use this see through technology. But I never hear anyone provide an example. I'm curious to hear a couple of real, possibly interesting, examples.
2) Someone else has already said this, but I'll underscore it. If I was restricted to playing half-life with people I knew, until about 2 months ago I'd never have played multi-player half-life, and even now I'd only have one opponent (who is significantly less experienced, though he's catching up fast:-).
Most of the people I know who play fps games have had trouble setting up half-life and abandoned it in favor of the games that work without a lot of hassle on their machines (quake, unreal, etc). I don't know why this is the case, as I never had real trouble, but I tried helping several of them set up half-life at a lan party and didn't have any more success than they did.
So because I can't find people with equipment that works easily with the game I prefer, I can either take my chances with cheaters or with only one other person? That hardly seems reasonable. The whole point of having internet games is so you *don't* have to be isolated into some small clique and you *can* find numerous and skilled opponents to play with/against.
I suppose it matters how whiney the tone is, but I think everyone who *likes* playing games for *fun* can agree that the munchkins who have to have the best score no matter what (typically exploiting every possible loophole in the rules) ruin any game they have anything to do with. This goes for "real life" games as well as those affected by "see through" drivers.
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Dr. Laura is HARDLY a presenter of valid secular arguments in most cases. She knows what's right and wrong, because her (converted) Judaism tells her what is right and wrong. She is a very smart cookie; she uses those smarts to then figure out ways to argue for what she already, a priori, knows is right and wrong.
Perhaps more clever than the average conservative moralist, but not particularly higher quality.
In addition to asking her about homosexuality (so she can show her true foaming insanity), you should ask her about how to treat one's mentors. Seems she had an affair with her radio mentor long ago when she was first getting started, and when he was (many years later) going to magnanamously and quietly present her with all the nude photos he had of her to destroy as she wished, she turned into a raving bitch. At which point he essentially said FUCK YOU and turned the photos over to whomever wanted them. Quite the example of why you should practice the good manners you preach.
I'm pretty disappointed with the anything goes entries in the 5k contest. I couldn't get more than half of them to work, and of those that didn't only one explicitly said it wouldn't (gave me "your browser is too old" or some such). I'm just running Netscape 4.72, fer cryin' out loud; I guess a year old is just too ancient to deal with.
Seems to me that if I'm that dependent on the features of the browser itself, then it ought to be fair to write a 20 byte java program that does the equivalent of "system(minesweeper)" and claim to have written a 20 byte minesweeper.
Had we read the article, it would be noted that exactly that is what UVA is trying to do. An example was given of a student who had given their paper to a friend as a model, not intended for them to copy (I remember this happening myself). Not sure how UVA will determine this, but that's their plan.
Of course your subject had to be still for the entire grabbing process (and this was sloooooow) which limited it's usefulness.
That sounds exactly like photography in the early 1900's.... Notice in some of the photos that there are rainbow effects (notable ones were a picture taken close to a moving river, where the water ends up rainbowed, and another taken of a large area with people moving in it, where there are rainbow shadows of people who moved between colors).
Ornithopters. As in Dune and dozens of other sci-fi classics.
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As opposed to all the atheist and other assorted wackos out there? I left the church over significant issues a long time ago, but that doesn't mean that no one from the church can do good. Larry's doing some very good.
As for reading what you wrote, sorry, but I can still read every perl script I ever wrote. If you can't, you're doing it wrong.
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I believe apocalypse 1 addressed the point that simple scripts written in perl 5 will be clearly distinguished from perl 6 and treated as perl 5 appropriately. Which means chances are good you'll still be able to use your old coding style just fine. It's unclear as yet how this will handle the elmination/deprecation of things like $", but Larry's done a good job so far of maintaining appropriate backward compatability, so I have no reason to doubt him going forward.
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On Amazon.co.uk pricing: I don't know that I've found the shipping to be "a bugger" at all. Seems every time I've ordered, the shipping has been pretty much swallowed up by the exchange rate. Sure, I end up paying the equivalent of US cover price instead of the "standard" 30% discount from Borders or Amazon US, but cover price for a good cover is easily worth it even if you aren't a raving loony. At least that's what the voices keep telling me.
Care to send that Z250 to me then? I've been using Z100's for a couple of years now and had no problems whatsoever. Yeah, I know about the "click of death", but apparently that doesn't effect everything they've done, since I ain't never had it myself.
From this post I've have NEVER guessed it though.
The POINT was that transactions do for database consistency what journalling does for filesystem consistency. So Sorry if that was so unclear that "my eyes are turning brown".
But what happened when they went after the Baldwins???
Probably?
Sorry, but "the good old Ext2" has left me crying for lost files more times than I want to count. I can abuse, for example, Solaris systems pretty well, and I have to work hard to get serious filesystem corruption. By comparison, for a long time it seemed every other time I just did an "init 6" on my SuSE box with Ext2 filesystems I lost another couple of files, until it got the the point where something to do with Qt is gone, and the window system won't come up. Greaaat.
"Only" journalling capability is akin to complaining about Oracle's "only" advantage over MySQL etc. being rollback/atomicity/transaction consistency. Gee, what a "tiny" thing.
Heh! If only I had moderator points.....
Yep. That way, when you die, your kids can flounder completely lost with no means to control themselves.
While those around you with the right equipment get to know *all about* your taste in sex objects? Good idea.
The normal method of deterring unlawful conduct is to punish the person engaging in it. It would be remarkable to hold that speech by a law-abiding possessor of information can be suppressed in order to deter conduct by a non-law-abiding third party.
Now if that can't be used to defend 2600 against the MPAA, I don't know what can. Of course, I'm sure the court will change it's mind when it comes to copyright issues....
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-1408.ZS .html is the reference. Turns out that the law is written specifically to allow arrest, but not require it. Further, it's worth noting that there is no mention of the woman "mouthing off" or otherwise resisting the arrest. Therefore the Supreme Court ruling was appropriate that the officer was within the law and that the law doesn't violate the 4th amendment (because the 4th amendment doesn't explicitly define warrantless arrests as "unreasonable search and seizure".
On the other hand, it does seem to be pretty obvious that if statues are written so that it is up to the officer to decide in such cases whether an arrest is warranted or not, it leaves lots of opportunity for abuse of the law to harass citizens. But since that wasn't the question the Supremes are supposed to be addressing, it didn't get addressed.
But tell me, don't you think a rapid underground expansion of gas is going to have some "explosive" consequences?
So, it sounds like a good idea, but what is the environmental impact of a break in that pipe with that liquid nitrogen in it? Ain't it going to go liquid to gas awful damn fast?
Poker is usually for money, even if it's only play money (quarters or whatever). Online fps games and the like are not even for money, they're just for fun and the challenge. Yes, there are other ways to cheat; most of them take some effort to achieve. Having ASUS remove the see through drivers continues to make it take some effort.
Bah, no one told me if I changed my sig, it would change in already posted comments. That's stupid.
2) Someone else has already said this, but I'll underscore it. If I was restricted to playing half-life with people I knew, until about 2 months ago I'd never have played multi-player half-life, and even now I'd only have one opponent (who is significantly less experienced, though he's catching up fast :-).
Most of the people I know who play fps games have had trouble setting up half-life and abandoned it in favor of the games that work without a lot of hassle on their machines (quake, unreal, etc). I don't know why this is the case, as I never had real trouble, but I tried helping several of them set up half-life at a lan party and didn't have any more success than they did.
So because I can't find people with equipment that works easily with the game I prefer, I can either take my chances with cheaters or with only one other person? That hardly seems reasonable. The whole point of having internet games is so you *don't* have to be isolated into some small clique and you *can* find numerous and skilled opponents to play with/against.
I suppose it matters how whiney the tone is, but I think everyone who *likes* playing games for *fun* can agree that the munchkins who have to have the best score no matter what (typically exploiting every possible loophole in the rules) ruin any game they have anything to do with. This goes for "real life" games as well as those affected by "see through" drivers.
Perhaps more clever than the average conservative moralist, but not particularly higher quality.
In addition to asking her about homosexuality (so she can show her true foaming insanity), you should ask her about how to treat one's mentors. Seems she had an affair with her radio mentor long ago when she was first getting started, and when he was (many years later) going to magnanamously and quietly present her with all the nude photos he had of her to destroy as she wished, she turned into a raving bitch. At which point he essentially said FUCK YOU and turned the photos over to whomever wanted them. Quite the example of why you should practice the good manners you preach.
Seems to me that if I'm that dependent on the features of the browser itself, then it ought to be fair to write a 20 byte java program that does the equivalent of "system(minesweeper)" and claim to have written a 20 byte minesweeper.
Had we read the article, it would be noted that exactly that is what UVA is trying to do. An example was given of a student who had given their paper to a friend as a model, not intended for them to copy (I remember this happening myself). Not sure how UVA will determine this, but that's their plan.
Oh, you mean you actually pay full retail for the things instead of waiting for rebates? Silly boy.
That sounds exactly like photography in the early 1900's.... Notice in some of the photos that there are rainbow effects (notable ones were a picture taken close to a moving river, where the water ends up rainbowed, and another taken of a large area with people moving in it, where there are rainbow shadows of people who moved between colors).
Ornithopters. As in Dune and dozens of other sci-fi classics.
As for reading what you wrote, sorry, but I can still read every perl script I ever wrote. If you can't, you're doing it wrong.
I believe apocalypse 1 addressed the point that simple scripts written in perl 5 will be clearly distinguished from perl 6 and treated as perl 5 appropriately. Which means chances are good you'll still be able to use your old coding style just fine. It's unclear as yet how this will handle the elmination/deprecation of things like $", but Larry's done a good job so far of maintaining appropriate backward compatability, so I have no reason to doubt him going forward.