Maybe in the winter the sky is murky grey 90% of the time...or maybe that's just how Rolla seems when you are about to get bent over by a math test that if you get better than a 60% on, then the prof thinks he/she failed at making a hard enough test. They really should hand out vasoline with those things!
Perhaps you should visit Missouri in the summer then. *Plenty* of sun...trust me. In fact, I'm a UM-Rolla student (for only two more weeks thank god) and I've lived all my life in Missouri thus far. So, I should know.
Not that you are necessarily from the US, but you do realize that current US passport photos are digital scans of the photo you already have to send them, right? And you don't think they save that photo in a database? As other posters have mentioned, it makes no difference whether it is stored on a chip on the passport or not in this case.
Not so. Think about it this way...the RIAA has virtually unliminited funds. Peng has virtually zero funds in comparison. Even if he *did* win, do you know how much money it would take to cover the legal fees? I don't want to even think about it! So what is giving the kid 5 bucks going to hurt? Hell, I just blew 40 tonight playing darts, playing pool, and drinking some beer...basically mindless fun. I consider the 5 bucks I donated to the kid to be the best money I've spent all day.
They actually didn't ban MTV in St. Charles county...the cable provider just stopped carrying it. I think that was just after I graduated high school and left for Rolla, but I seem to remember hearing about St. Charles area teens actually forming a picket line outside the cable company office to protest!
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I'm of the opinion that those don't look good either. It's not the color so much as the plastic look. It just seems flimsy and tacky to me. Again, just an opinion.
You may not be the only one, but I completely disagree with you. (Disclaimer: I'm a pc user that has never really liked how macs looked before...and I'm not looking for flames here). Aside from the fact that I just don't like the look of MacOS and how much they cost, one of the big things that always bugged me about Macs was the way they looked. However, I think the G5's look *VERY* nice. It is quite possibly the nicest looking computer case I've ever seen in fact. The The colorful clear plastic iMacs and powerMac towers just hurt my eyes even looking at them.
Honestly, I can see myself buying one of these if I ever have enough extra cash laying around to waste on expensive toys;) I've been wanting to get a new high end machine for a linux workstation.
Rather offtopic, but speaking of bands making fun of Metallica, a friend and I decided to make a joke death-metal band a while back because we were bored. Our first song is entitled...And Then I Laughed and Had a Beer". I did the vocals, my friend did all the guitar work, and the drums are a drum machine program.
Hmm...I could have sworn I just saw a story on the front page of slashdot yesterday stating that plan 9 is now officially distributed under and OSI approved license.
Interesting you mention that. The University of Missouri system recently converted everything to peoplesoft, and so far I've heard nothing but four-letter words and other complaints uttered in the same breath as the word Peoplesoft (I'm a student at the Rolla campus). From what I've heard, there have been several lawsuits against Peoplesoft from various customers, yet we still moved everything to that knowing there have been problems.
[offtopic]All I can do now is laugh about this...I hope Oracle does take them over and terminate their products. It'd be fitting justice against the university administrators that have wasted money and blown the budget so bad that there was even talk of cutting one of the four campuses a while back, and now they are raising student fees by almost 20% starting in the fall semester. I'm glad I'm getting out of here in a couple of months. [/offtopic]
...until they figure out how to de-evolve a species? I think it would be pretty cool if they could figure out how to turn on all the dormant genes in a species no longer being used.
You need to be using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in/etc/make.conf or you can export that on the command line before you emerge bittorrent I believe. Substitute another arch for x86 if it applies.
I have no idea why anyone is interested in her. Not only do her movies and music suck IMHO, but she's just plain ugly. Where the hell did that nose come from?? Was one of her parents a goblin?
"Big-ass waves 10 feet away! 'Why, oh why did my house go away!?' We'll let's see."
Anyway, to get back on topic, I really don't know what Streisand's problem is. It's not like the guy was purposely taking a picture of her place just because it's her place...they are documenting the entire California coastline. Since when is science subject to a 50 million dollar lawsuit for taking a picture? I would say this lawsuit is totally frivolous.
[geology geek]By the way, those tilted beds look really nice...you can see the dips changing from left to right. If it wasn't a picture of queen bitch's house, I'd set it as my background. [/geology geek]
Hmm, guess I didn't take a look at who wrote the article, but that means nothing. In fact, if indeed she didn't have DMA enabled on her faster computer, that says to me that she is possibly not qualified to review an OS and compare it's speed with linux. Another poster replied to me saying that the default kernel in RH9 is really slow. Why is that? You would think they would provide a kernel that provides good performance (pre-empt and low latency anyone?). I guess that's why I like compiling everything myself with optimizations.
That's possible. I do use hdparm to set my UDMA mode to 100. I've also seen (heard?) computers skip mp3's when using a crappy sound card (namely some old non-creative isa cards).
In the review, he mentions that he has a dual Celeron 533 system. From the article conclusions: "Even with Mozilla so slow when operating clogging up both my CPUs, mp3 playback did not skip (while it does on Red Hat Linux 9 on the much faster AthlonXP 1600+). " All I have to say is....WTF???
I've got an AthlonXP 1800+, and I've never ever ever ever had an mp3 skip (both windows and linux) unless the mp3 file was actually corrupted itself. Hell, even when I was using my old pentium 233 I only rarely had a skip. I can even have my CPU usage run up to 100% compiling stuff and mp3's still don't skip. I'm just not sure I buy this.
Actually, Guinness in a can is *better* than in the bottle. The reason is, they have to put some sort of preservatives into the bottle to keep light from corrupting it, which in turn makes the beer taste crappy. That makes Guinness in a can the only example I can think of where the canned beer taste better.
Not only does RA Salvatore write really good Forgotten Realms books, but his demon wars series is very good too. I believe they are published by Del-Rey books.
Why do you need color? Seriously...I'm not trying to troll you or anything. When all you want is to see surface features, black and white is perfectly adequate. If the images were in color, you'd just see what color the sediments are (some varying shades of red and yellow probably). Personally, I think black and white pictures of landscapes look pretty neat.
That's exactly how spamassassin works. My school has it set up on their exchange servers. The problem with that is...you still get the spam. So even if it does go in another folder, which in turn still wastes your bandwidth and time in deleting it, as far as the spammer knows it went through. The still gets paid for having sent out a successful spam. The only real advantage is being able to read your legit messages without sorting through the spam, and even that is starting to become an issue because it seems the spammers have become much smarter. Thus, I still get around 10 spams a day in my main inbox...although that is still an improvement from the actual 100 plus or minus a day I actually get.
I still like the idea of those spam tarpits restricting the bandwidth from known spam domains. All email gets through eventually...which isn't a problem for most normal messages. It is a problem though when the spammers suddenly find their connection to remote mail servers throttled and can't send all they want to in as little time as it would normally take.
I don't know who modded that as funny, but I don't think it's very funny at all. The mining industry is being strangled to death in the US especially. It's a shame that the jobs and money are going elsewhere, especially when I'm very interested in economic geology and not interested in leaving the country.
Actually, most volcanic sands don't have much quartz at all, and here is why. If it has been derived from a basaltic volcano (ie Hawaii), the composition of the sand will be extremely high in mafic (very silica poor) minerals since the source magma was low in silica. Then, if you are talking about a volcano whose melt composition is closer to the felsic (silica rich...so much so that you get quartz precipitating) side, these are typically very explosive volcanos that produce lots and lots of fine grained ash but no lava flows to weather from. What you *really* want is a sand eroding from an exposed granite. You get great big fat quartz crystals, and feldspars that turn to clay very quickly. And that's just if you want to find a loose sand that will be quartz rich. What I would do is actually get a hold of some mining rights out in the Southwest US somewhere and start a quarry operation on all the excellent quartz sandstone they've got.
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Maybe in the winter the sky is murky grey 90% of the time...or maybe that's just how Rolla seems when you are about to get bent over by a math test that if you get better than a 60% on, then the prof thinks he/she failed at making a hard enough test. They really should hand out vasoline with those things!
Perhaps you should visit Missouri in the summer then. *Plenty* of sun...trust me. In fact, I'm a UM-Rolla student (for only two more weeks thank god) and I've lived all my life in Missouri thus far. So, I should know.
Not that you are necessarily from the US, but you do realize that current US passport photos are digital scans of the photo you already have to send them, right? And you don't think they save that photo in a database? As other posters have mentioned, it makes no difference whether it is stored on a chip on the passport or not in this case.
Not so. Think about it this way...the RIAA has virtually unliminited funds. Peng has virtually zero funds in comparison. Even if he *did* win, do you know how much money it would take to cover the legal fees? I don't want to even think about it! So what is giving the kid 5 bucks going to hurt? Hell, I just blew 40 tonight playing darts, playing pool, and drinking some beer...basically mindless fun. I consider the 5 bucks I donated to the kid to be the best money I've spent all day.
They actually didn't ban MTV in St. Charles county...the cable provider just stopped carrying it. I think that was just after I graduated high school and left for Rolla, but I seem to remember hearing about St. Charles area teens actually forming a picket line outside the cable company office to protest!
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I'm of the opinion that those don't look good either. It's not the color so much as the plastic look. It just seems flimsy and tacky to me. Again, just an opinion.
You may not be the only one, but I completely disagree with you. (Disclaimer: I'm a pc user that has never really liked how macs looked before...and I'm not looking for flames here). Aside from the fact that I just don't like the look of MacOS and how much they cost, one of the big things that always bugged me about Macs was the way they looked. However, I think the G5's look *VERY* nice. It is quite possibly the nicest looking computer case I've ever seen in fact. The The colorful clear plastic iMacs and powerMac towers just hurt my eyes even looking at them.
;) I've been wanting to get a new high end machine for a linux workstation.
Honestly, I can see myself buying one of these if I ever have enough extra cash laying around to waste on expensive toys
Rather offtopic, but speaking of bands making fun of Metallica, a friend and I decided to make a joke death-metal band a while back because we were bored. Our first song is entitled ...And Then I Laughed and Had a Beer". I did the vocals, my friend did all the guitar work, and the drums are a drum machine program.
Hmm...I could have sworn I just saw a story on the front page of slashdot yesterday stating that plan 9 is now officially distributed under and OSI approved license.
Interesting you mention that. The University of Missouri system recently converted everything to peoplesoft, and so far I've heard nothing but four-letter words and other complaints uttered in the same breath as the word Peoplesoft (I'm a student at the Rolla campus). From what I've heard, there have been several lawsuits against Peoplesoft from various customers, yet we still moved everything to that knowing there have been problems. [offtopic]All I can do now is laugh about this...I hope Oracle does take them over and terminate their products. It'd be fitting justice against the university administrators that have wasted money and blown the budget so bad that there was even talk of cutting one of the four campuses a while back, and now they are raising student fees by almost 20% starting in the fall semester. I'm glad I'm getting out of here in a couple of months. [/offtopic]
...until they figure out how to de-evolve a species? I think it would be pretty cool if they could figure out how to turn on all the dormant genes in a species no longer being used.
You need to be using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in /etc/make.conf or you can export that on the command line before you emerge bittorrent I believe. Substitute another arch for x86 if it applies.
I have no idea why anyone is interested in her. Not only do her movies and music suck IMHO, but she's just plain ugly. Where the hell did that nose come from?? Was one of her parents a goblin?
Anyway, to get back on topic, I really don't know what Streisand's problem is. It's not like the guy was purposely taking a picture of her place just because it's her place...they are documenting the entire California coastline. Since when is science subject to a 50 million dollar lawsuit for taking a picture? I would say this lawsuit is totally frivolous.
[geology geek]By the way, those tilted beds look really nice...you can see the dips changing from left to right. If it wasn't a picture of queen bitch's house, I'd set it as my background. [/geology geek]
Hmm, guess I didn't take a look at who wrote the article, but that means nothing. In fact, if indeed she didn't have DMA enabled on her faster computer, that says to me that she is possibly not qualified to review an OS and compare it's speed with linux. Another poster replied to me saying that the default kernel in RH9 is really slow. Why is that? You would think they would provide a kernel that provides good performance (pre-empt and low latency anyone?). I guess that's why I like compiling everything myself with optimizations.
That's possible. I do use hdparm to set my UDMA mode to 100. I've also seen (heard?) computers skip mp3's when using a crappy sound card (namely some old non-creative isa cards).
I've got an AthlonXP 1800+, and I've never ever ever ever had an mp3 skip (both windows and linux) unless the mp3 file was actually corrupted itself. Hell, even when I was using my old pentium 233 I only rarely had a skip. I can even have my CPU usage run up to 100% compiling stuff and mp3's still don't skip. I'm just not sure I buy this.
Actually, Guinness in a can is *better* than in the bottle. The reason is, they have to put some sort of preservatives into the bottle to keep light from corrupting it, which in turn makes the beer taste crappy. That makes Guinness in a can the only example I can think of where the canned beer taste better.
Hmmm...perhaps you didn't RTFA.
Not only does RA Salvatore write really good Forgotten Realms books, but his demon wars series is very good too. I believe they are published by Del-Rey books.
Why do you need color? Seriously...I'm not trying to troll you or anything. When all you want is to see surface features, black and white is perfectly adequate. If the images were in color, you'd just see what color the sediments are (some varying shades of red and yellow probably). Personally, I think black and white pictures of landscapes look pretty neat.
That's exactly how spamassassin works. My school has it set up on their exchange servers. The problem with that is...you still get the spam. So even if it does go in another folder, which in turn still wastes your bandwidth and time in deleting it, as far as the spammer knows it went through. The still gets paid for having sent out a successful spam. The only real advantage is being able to read your legit messages without sorting through the spam, and even that is starting to become an issue because it seems the spammers have become much smarter. Thus, I still get around 10 spams a day in my main inbox...although that is still an improvement from the actual 100 plus or minus a day I actually get. I still like the idea of those spam tarpits restricting the bandwidth from known spam domains. All email gets through eventually...which isn't a problem for most normal messages. It is a problem though when the spammers suddenly find their connection to remote mail servers throttled and can't send all they want to in as little time as it would normally take.
Actually it was ...B,A,A,B,Select,Start
I don't know who modded that as funny, but I don't think it's very funny at all. The mining industry is being strangled to death in the US especially. It's a shame that the jobs and money are going elsewhere, especially when I'm very interested in economic geology and not interested in leaving the country.
Actually, most volcanic sands don't have much quartz at all, and here is why. If it has been derived from a basaltic volcano (ie Hawaii), the composition of the sand will be extremely high in mafic (very silica poor) minerals since the source magma was low in silica. Then, if you are talking about a volcano whose melt composition is closer to the felsic (silica rich...so much so that you get quartz precipitating) side, these are typically very explosive volcanos that produce lots and lots of fine grained ash but no lava flows to weather from. What you *really* want is a sand eroding from an exposed granite. You get great big fat quartz crystals, and feldspars that turn to clay very quickly. And that's just if you want to find a loose sand that will be quartz rich. What I would do is actually get a hold of some mining rights out in the Southwest US somewhere and start a quarry operation on all the excellent quartz sandstone they've got.