Have fun trying to merge changes in an executable binary file.
Not seeing the difference between arbitrary files on a disk and files that have been explicitly version controlled is I guess what makes you the hardware guy - does that mean you nail the floorboards down?
Why would you post AC because you do peer review? It doesn't mean you have to have a secret identity, I've reviewed too why would that make me be anonymous everywhere I go?
Yes since it's just as common to want to run 3 full screen games at the same time as wanting to run an email client, a web browser, and a word processor running at the same time.
I often curse at my windows machine because it won't let me play Quake, Quake II, and Quake III all full screen with my single monitor, keyboard,and mouse at the same time.
If channels were un-packaged you wouldn't get HBO for 1/20th the price of a premium package. Instead you'd get HBO for 1/2 the price of the premium package and all of the other channels for something more than 1/20th
So if all I wanted was HBO I get it for half price? Sounds good.
If all I wanted was a couple of the other channels I'd get it 20% of the current price? Sounds good too.
Sure the people who want all the channels lose their current subsidy from everyone else, but there's probably about 3 such people.
It's not as I put it, it's as the agency in question put it.
But I disagree, when part of you aims is to educate then the experts need to do some communicating with the public. If the agency in question isn't there to educate the public then sure the technical people can hide away in their labs. If a particular engineer doesn't like talking to the press they don't need to, but allowing people to ask technical questions and get answers directly from the technical folk it very useful.
It'll be great fun when the presenting of "A new approach to the geometric control of ultra-long span cable stay bridges" at http://www.bridgemanagement2007.com/ is done by the PR department and not engineers.
That's all pretty much irrelevant since we aren't talking about random computer programmers who might have to talk to someone and get their picture taken.
We're talking about reporters wanting to speak with the experts in the field to go over the details of something. Would you rather talk to an economist or the PR officer for a fund management company about what the Fed might be about to do with interest rates and what the effects might be? Would you rather speak to a NASA scientist or to a PR officer about the findings from the deep impact mission?
Remember this isn't an orgnisation who just happens to have some engineers, it's an orgnisation that defines the reason for its existance as "Save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards and enforcement activity." Lot of good the education and research will do when the engineers aren't allowed to discuss their findings "on the record".
Except of course your deficit with the grocery store is balanced by your surplus with your employer. And the grocery store's surplus with you is balanced by their deficit with their suppliers, and so on... Though you might be one of the many Americans who are running a net deficit themselves, and now that credit is tightening that's going to cause a world of hurt.
The US trade deficit is balanced by foreign entities collecting US dollars. Since they can't do anything else with those dollars they just loan them back to the US (buying T-bill for example). Basically the US buys stuff from China and pays them with US dollars, which they then loan back to the US so it can buy more stuff.
The US has the advantage that unlike an individual it can just devalue the dollar and pay it all back by running the printing press...
But you are right, that a trade deficit isn't the end of the world, and a trade deficit in a particulr sector (tech...) is a complete non-issue. Just means the US sucks as tech relative to the rest of the world...
That isn't what they would do. Obviously "We found some cocaine in the sewer coming from Bob's house so Bob must be have used and possessed cocaine" isn't going to what they go to court with.
Instead they use that cocaine in the sewer as probable cause to get a search warrant to search the house. See all the trash searching leading to warrants in the past...
And they wouldn't test all the houses, they'd test the ones they want to get a warrant for - for whatever other reason (resident has wrong skin colour, known drug users seem to visit often, etc, etc) that isn't good enough for a warrant by itself.
Tracing child pornography downloads to your IP wouldn't be enough to get you convicted, it might get a them a search warrant though...
But surely you try enforcing the laws you already have first.
Sure, if the punishments are too small to stop the behaviour the law was enacted to stop then you need to do some tweaking - upping the penalties for example. But first you have to enforce what you have, it might be good enough - you can't know if you never enforce.
It gives some ways to get your content into an article you have a conflict of interest over (via the talk page), but just editing the article is clearly not the way to do things.
Thanks for pointing that out, winning friends, influencing, and getting laid with slashdot readers is so high on my list of things to do before the apocalypse, and I've been going about it all wrong.
I'd never dream of annoying people, I'm so deeply sorry for my tone. Please forgive and be my friend?
Yes, because when they say supersonic they couldn't possibly mean oh I don't know faster than the speed of sound...
You know the speed that pressure changes can propogate through a fluid (such as the not-quite-vacuum intertelar medium around the star). That speed in which there's a change in the physics due to the formation of a shock wave (because the object is traveling faster than the pressure shift that "tells" the "upstream" fluid that the object is there).
100km/s or there abouts - depends on the local density of the interstellar medium.
Wikipedia may state that, the NASA press release claims it's travelling at 130 km/s, doesn't say what that's relative to but I would suspect the neighbourhood average (since there's a bow shock it has to be relative to that I would assume). Of course is could be relative to the ether and NASA keeping a rather large change in physics to themselves...
but you don't need a complete victory to win, just enough of one for the stock to rise by enough to make up for the probability of that occurance.
Personally I don't think the price was low enough to make it make the expected value positive, but obviously some people did - or they are just retarded as the original poster was declaring.
Of course as the OP was probably pointing out, who's buying it now? Is there any upside at all? Surely even if they win some other part of their suit they'll have to pay Novell all their money anyway...
It was all flowers and joy for workers back in the early factories (and mines) of England when that whole industrial revolution thing got off the ground...
Or maybe it transitions from shitty lives working in the fields, to shitty (but less so) lives working in factories, and then when the people actually get enough income to care about such things the conditions start improving - due to workers out numbering factory owners...
You can try and skip all that I guess, but that last great leap forward didn't turn out so well.
Those factory workers are not usually slaves, they can walk away and return to subsistence farming, but that sucks even more hence they don't. Little steps, great leaps don't work...
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Have fun trying to merge changes in an executable binary file.
Not seeing the difference between arbitrary files on a disk and files that have been explicitly version controlled is I guess what makes you the hardware guy - does that mean you nail the floorboards down?
Why would you post AC because you do peer review? It doesn't mean you have to have a secret identity, I've reviewed too why would that make me be anonymous everywhere I go?
Yes since it's just as common to want to run 3 full screen games at the same time as wanting to run an email client, a web browser, and a word processor running at the same time.
I often curse at my windows machine because it won't let me play Quake, Quake II, and Quake III all full screen with my single monitor, keyboard,and mouse at the same time.
Whenever people left themselves logged in (not as root, since no one used root...) we'd always add
.bash_profile
echo sleep 1 >>$HOME/.bash_profile
to their
It's almost as if the world's largest particle physics laboratory had something to do with creating it.
Spooky!
It means the 39x39x39 version but was written by someone partially illiterate. See http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/08/24/sony_sugar _battery/ for a picture and the dimensions specified correctly.
So if all I wanted was HBO I get it for half price? Sounds good.
If all I wanted was a couple of the other channels I'd get it 20% of the current price? Sounds good too.
Sure the people who want all the channels lose their current subsidy from everyone else, but there's probably about 3 such people.
It's not as I put it, it's as the agency in question put it.
But I disagree, when part of you aims is to educate then the experts need to do some communicating with the public. If the agency in question isn't there to educate the public then sure the technical people can hide away in their labs. If a particular engineer doesn't like talking to the press they don't need to, but allowing people to ask technical questions and get answers directly from the technical folk it very useful.
It'll be great fun when the presenting of "A new approach to the geometric control of ultra-long span cable stay bridges" at http://www.bridgemanagement2007.com/ is done by the PR department and not engineers.
That's all pretty much irrelevant since we aren't talking about random computer programmers who might have to talk to someone and get their picture taken.
We're talking about reporters wanting to speak with the experts in the field to go over the details of something. Would you rather talk to an economist or the PR officer for a fund management company about what the Fed might be about to do with interest rates and what the effects might be? Would you rather speak to a NASA scientist or to a PR officer about the findings from the deep impact mission?
Remember this isn't an orgnisation who just happens to have some engineers, it's an orgnisation that defines the reason for its existance as "Save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards and enforcement activity." Lot of good the education and research will do when the engineers aren't allowed to discuss their findings "on the record".
Yes, all of that is what I mean by "devalue the dollar".
Except of course your deficit with the grocery store is balanced by your surplus with your employer. And the grocery store's surplus with you is balanced by their deficit with their suppliers, and so on... Though you might be one of the many Americans who are running a net deficit themselves, and now that credit is tightening that's going to cause a world of hurt.
The US trade deficit is balanced by foreign entities collecting US dollars. Since they can't do anything else with those dollars they just loan them back to the US (buying T-bill for example). Basically the US buys stuff from China and pays them with US dollars, which they then loan back to the US so it can buy more stuff.
The US has the advantage that unlike an individual it can just devalue the dollar and pay it all back by running the printing press...
But you are right, that a trade deficit isn't the end of the world, and a trade deficit in a particulr sector (tech...) is a complete non-issue. Just means the US sucks as tech relative to the rest of the world...
That isn't what they would do. Obviously "We found some cocaine in the sewer coming from Bob's house so Bob must be have used and possessed cocaine" isn't going to what they go to court with.
Instead they use that cocaine in the sewer as probable cause to get a search warrant to search the house. See all the trash searching leading to warrants in the past...
And they wouldn't test all the houses, they'd test the ones they want to get a warrant for - for whatever other reason (resident has wrong skin colour, known drug users seem to visit often, etc, etc) that isn't good enough for a warrant by itself.
Tracing child pornography downloads to your IP wouldn't be enough to get you convicted, it might get a them a search warrant though...
Would it not be the same as searching the garbage you put out on the street?
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But surely you try enforcing the laws you already have first.
Sure, if the punishments are too small to stop the behaviour the law was enacted to stop then you need to do some tweaking - upping the penalties for example. But first you have to enforce what you have, it might be good enough - you can't know if you never enforce.
And I wouldn't be surprised if a biologist wouldn't call them science anyway. "Just math" would be a likely response I suspect.
If companies are ignoring existing laws, why would new laws have any affect at all?
Why not, stay with me on this it's complicated, enforce the existing laws.
Since wikipedia itself says it's not a good idea, why would you be surprised to find that no one has acknowledges it is?
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It gives some ways to get your content into an article you have a conflict of interest over (via the talk page), but just editing the article is clearly not the way to do things.
Thanks for pointing that out, winning friends, influencing, and getting laid with slashdot readers is so high on my list of things to do before the apocalypse, and I've been going about it all wrong.
I'd never dream of annoying people, I'm so deeply sorry for my tone. Please forgive and be my friend?
Yes, because when they say supersonic they couldn't possibly mean oh I don't know faster than the speed of sound...
You know the speed that pressure changes can propogate through a fluid (such as the not-quite-vacuum intertelar medium around the star). That speed in which there's a change in the physics due to the formation of a shock wave (because the object is traveling faster than the pressure shift that "tells" the "upstream" fluid that the object is there).
100km/s or there abouts - depends on the local density of the interstellar medium.
Wikipedia may state that, the NASA press release claims it's travelling at 130 km/s, doesn't say what that's relative to but I would suspect the neighbourhood average (since there's a bow shock it has to be relative to that I would assume). Of course is could be relative to the ether and NASA keeping a rather large change in physics to themselves...
Also note that NASA used the term supersonic.
but you don't need a complete victory to win, just enough of one for the stock to rise by enough to make up for the probability of that occurance.
Personally I don't think the price was low enough to make it make the expected value positive, but obviously some people did - or they are just retarded as the original poster was declaring.
Of course as the OP was probably pointing out, who's buying it now? Is there any upside at all? Surely even if they win some other part of their suit they'll have to pay Novell all their money anyway...
What do you think the probability that the courts might make a crazy judgement would be?
How high would the stock go if that happened?
It could have been a rational gamble^Winvestment depending on what you judge those two numbers to be.
It was all flowers and joy for workers back in the early factories (and mines) of England when that whole industrial revolution thing got off the ground...
Or maybe it transitions from shitty lives working in the fields, to shitty (but less so) lives working in factories, and then when the people actually get enough income to care about such things the conditions start improving - due to workers out numbering factory owners...
You can try and skip all that I guess, but that last great leap forward didn't turn out so well.
Those factory workers are not usually slaves, they can walk away and return to subsistence farming, but that sucks even more hence they don't. Little steps, great leaps don't work...
But who'll be laughing when they have years worth of paper for the fireplace to see out the nuclear winter!
Or the standard page when the web monkey flips the "maintenance mode" switch...
Plus I'm sure they scheduled the downtime (for right now) after they noticed the crack.