or attach a hardware dongle, in order to run a piece of software? Isn't that what you're doing when you have to insert a game CD when the game is installed to the hard drive?
I think soon we're likely to start seeing games distributed on modified USB flash drives. That could function as a dongle, would save the time to install the game, would save the user's hard drive space, and would run faster.
It reminds me of something I saw briefly on the discovery channel about discovering Atlantis or something. The problem with that show was that it was trying to be much too literal. They examined several older civilizations that could have inspired the Atlantis stories and that Plato might have heard about, but then they kept dismissing them over minutia. I think one of them was basically dead-on except for the age. Really, if you're writing about some civilization that existed long ago, and have no modern dating technology, is 4000 years ago really much different from 9000 years ago?
I'm pretty sure than AMD had their own processor archs ages ago. The AMD 29000 series was quite successful until AMD 1995 when AMD decided they needed the engineers working on it to concentrate on x86 (a shame, but it did seem to work out for them). That had a register window system like Sparc and the Intel 860 series (and the Berkeley RISC1 that they all descended from), but it used a variable-sized register window, which eliminates the register-wasting problem the other architectures had. To my mind, this is clearly The Right Way to have a CPU operate, but it is, alas, no more.
I don't buy this "we couldn't find anyone" BS. Were you, by chance, using a 2 year old technology, and your HR drones were looking for someone who "must have 5 years experience" with it. etc.
It could be that they're using a technology that has clearly lost whatever competition it was in, and they can't find anyone because whoever they hired would be stuck with something irrelevant on their resume. Delphi, VB 6, Forth, PL/1, whatever. The only people who would be exercising good judgment by taking a job like that would be those wanting to retire soon.
Serves the Democrats right for crossing over and voting for McCain in Republican primaries. They have no right to complain after they stuck us with one of our weakest possible candidates (the only way it could've been worse would've been if that idiot Ron Paul ended up winning).
Democrats were told to vote for Mitt Romney to drag out the Republican race and hurt the Republican party. Democrats who voted for McCain, like me, did so because we genuinely thought he was the Republican who would make the best president (of those running -- I kinda like Lincoln Chafee and Olympia Snowe).
Now, I had been on the fence about whether to vote for McCain in the Republican primary or Miller (if he looked viable) or Obama in the Democratic primary. But then there really wasn't a Democratic primary in Michigan, so that was easy.
What's wrong with the two parties getting to choose their candidates without interference from outsiders? It's not fair to independents. It's also not fair to people trying to knock out lunatics like George W. Bush, Rudy Guliani or Hillary Clinton (I don't mind her but I realize many do) at every possible stage. I'll be voting Democratic in November, but this year was the second time I've voted for McCain in for president. In 2000, I might even have voted for him in the general election.
the solution, as I've often maintained, is to ban all carry-on luggage with the exception of purses and one briefcase or small backpack per person. And no one with a child under 10 would ever fly under those conditions, so it would be good for the railroad industry, too!
They also are show absolutely no originality or as Office Space would say, "flare." Flair. And just don't wear a white shirt. If you're not going to a job interview, a black suit with a collarless dress shirt and no tie can be nice.
In a country where the majority of men carry guns, how do you tell a civilian from a soldier? And if you're fighting a country with a draft, should there be any ethical distinction?
and use it hire some developers to improve Moodle to the point where it does not suck? Beyond that, how about encouraging improvements to it as computer science and information systems senior projects?
a reasonable person would conclude that Reiser is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. He had means, motive, and opportunity. It's certainly plausible that he killed her, but it's just as plausible that she went back to Russia or that her boyfriend killed her.
And yes, Hans is a very strange guy, but so's Nina's boyfriend that the jury doesn't get to hear about.
Had the UK gone turtle we'd have survived fine without the US. Maybe the U.S. didn't need to be a combatant, but if the U.K. would have been fine all by themselves, why was the submarine blockade such a threat?
Pretty hard to guide a SAM using that technique. The point of stealth isn't to keep people from knowing it's there (the explosions of the bombs are a dead giveaway), but to make it nigh-impossible to shoot down. You can always just fly a fighter over to the rough location and then shoot it down old-school with visually-aimed guns.
I was playing a very realistic Stealth Fighter game on my Commodore 128 prior to the Gulf War. Once it was declassified, they updated the game for the PC. The original plane was really, really close to how the declassified version looked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-19_Stealth_Fighter
I suppose it does look kinda similar from a silhouetted front view, but most popular descriptions of a stealth fighter before the F-117 were declassified were very curvy, not at all like the jagged F-117.
land-based missles are always more accurate. Somone will correct me if I'm wrong. That's not true now, with GPS, but it was true back then. You probably wouldn't know your own position closer than within a few miles if you weren't in sight of shore.
Well, agreeing to host Soviet missiles around 1960 would qualify as a seriously shitball stunt. But did it really matter? By 1958, the Soviets had ballistic missile submarines that could launch against the U.S. with just as short warning as anything coming from Cuba.
32" was the biggest my wife would put up with. I'd like bigger, but if I watch a Blu-Ray movie after dark with the lights off and my glasses on, I'm pretty satisfied with it.
Some of us are just fine with a single TV, even with multiple family members. I admit that being able to watch TV while doing dishes would be nice, but there's no way it's going to happen in my kitchen.
I can aim my infared remote over my shoulder and it works. The TiVo remote is pretty forgiving, but the remote on our old DVD player is not. It doesn't help that the living room is very cramped and most of the A/V equipment is half-hidden behind the TV, because that's the only way it would fit.
That aside what is the battery life like for a bluetooth controller? No idea. PS3 controllers have built-in rechargeables, and I've never had trouble with them running out.
Quick show of hands...how many bought a PS2 not because it was a game console, but because it let them get a console and DVD player in one, for not a lot more than a high-quality DVD player? My wife and I was going to, but DVD players had gotten so much cheaper by the time the PS2 actually came out we changed our minds. At the time, we also had a PC with a DVD-ROM and a 17" monitor, vs. a 15" TV. We bought a DVD player for $150 shortly after we got a hand-me-down 21" TV.
I actually did buy a 40GB PS3 as a Blu-Ray player in November, because both it and the cheapest dedicated players were $400. It looks good, and I really like having the Bluetooth controller so I don't have to aim a remote just right.
Seeing the picture of the prototype being dropped from a 50 year-old B-52. And the design is 60 years old! The Air Force realized a few years ago that an awful lot of their bombing requirements just weren't very dangerous, and an airliner with a bomb bay was perfectly sufficient for those jobs. The B-52 is cheaper to fly than the B-1 or B-2 and we have a good supply, so why not keep using them?
Evolution does not require a director... If you think it does, then you have profoundly misunderstood what the process of evolution is all about. He or she could have just disagreed, not misunderstood. I think you'll find that most biologists or medical doctors who are religious believe something like directed evolution, and it's probably safe to say they understand the fundamentals of evolution.
Evolution is a complete theory without any sort of director, but if you believe in a higher power of any sort, it is perfectly plausible that that power is influencing what mutations arise and then leaving it to natural selection to sort out what works. Of course, if you believe in an omnipotent god, that doesn't really leave any room for natural selection or extinctions; a belief in omnipotence deserves ridicule, anyway, though.
it's theoretically possible that someone could be aroused by images or depictions of something, without actually wishing to do that same thing themselves. I think that's very common with incest. Incest stories are one of the most popular categories if you look at any sex story website or newsgroup, but I don't think many people ready those stories have any interest in even fantasizing about their own family members, much less acting on it.
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or attach a hardware dongle, in order to run a piece of software?
Isn't that what you're doing when you have to insert a game CD when the game is installed to the hard drive?
I think soon we're likely to start seeing games distributed on modified USB flash drives. That could function as a dongle, would save the time to install the game, would save the user's hard drive space, and would run faster.
It reminds me of something I saw briefly on the discovery channel about discovering Atlantis or something.
The problem with that show was that it was trying to be much too literal. They examined several older civilizations that could have inspired the Atlantis stories and that Plato might have heard about, but then they kept dismissing them over minutia. I think one of them was basically dead-on except for the age. Really, if you're writing about some civilization that existed long ago, and have no modern dating technology, is 4000 years ago really much different from 9000 years ago?
I'm pretty sure than AMD had their own processor archs ages ago.
The AMD 29000 series was quite successful until AMD 1995 when AMD decided they needed the engineers working on it to concentrate on x86 (a shame, but it did seem to work out for them). That had a register window system like Sparc and the Intel 860 series (and the Berkeley RISC1 that they all descended from), but it used a variable-sized register window, which eliminates the register-wasting problem the other architectures had. To my mind, this is clearly The Right Way to have a CPU operate, but it is, alas, no more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_29000
I don't buy this "we couldn't find anyone" BS. Were you, by chance, using a 2 year old technology, and your HR drones were looking for someone who "must have 5 years experience" with it. etc.
It could be that they're using a technology that has clearly lost whatever competition it was in, and they can't find anyone because whoever they hired would be stuck with something irrelevant on their resume. Delphi, VB 6, Forth, PL/1, whatever. The only people who would be exercising good judgment by taking a job like that would be those wanting to retire soon.
Combating boredom would be another toughie
I think sending a couple would be better. Or maybe 4-5 gay people of the same gender for redundancy.
Serves the Democrats right for crossing over and voting for McCain in Republican primaries. They have no right to complain after they stuck us with one of our weakest possible candidates (the only way it could've been worse would've been if that idiot Ron Paul ended up winning).
Democrats were told to vote for Mitt Romney to drag out the Republican race and hurt the Republican party. Democrats who voted for McCain, like me, did so because we genuinely thought he was the Republican who would make the best president (of those running -- I kinda like Lincoln Chafee and Olympia Snowe).
Now, I had been on the fence about whether to vote for McCain in the Republican primary or Miller (if he looked viable) or Obama in the Democratic primary. But then there really wasn't a Democratic primary in Michigan, so that was easy.
What's wrong with the two parties getting to choose their candidates without interference from outsiders?
It's not fair to independents. It's also not fair to people trying to knock out lunatics like George W. Bush, Rudy Guliani or Hillary Clinton (I don't mind her but I realize many do) at every possible stage. I'll be voting Democratic in November, but this year was the second time I've voted for McCain in for president. In 2000, I might even have voted for him in the general election.
the solution, as I've often maintained, is to ban all carry-on luggage with the exception of purses and one briefcase or small backpack per person.
And no one with a child under 10 would ever fly under those conditions, so it would be good for the railroad industry, too!
They also are show absolutely no originality or as Office Space would say, "flare."
Flair. And just don't wear a white shirt. If you're not going to a job interview, a black suit with a collarless dress shirt and no tie can be nice.
In a country where the majority of men carry guns, how do you tell a civilian from a soldier?
And if you're fighting a country with a draft, should there be any ethical distinction?
and use it hire some developers to improve Moodle to the point where it does not suck?
Beyond that, how about encouraging improvements to it as computer science and information systems senior projects?
a reasonable person would conclude that Reiser is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. He had means, motive, and opportunity.
It's certainly plausible that he killed her, but it's just as plausible that she went back to Russia or that her boyfriend killed her.
And yes, Hans is a very strange guy, but so's Nina's boyfriend that the jury doesn't get to hear about.
Apparently in your world all you have to do in order to get away with murder is (1) destroy the body
Will it blend?
Had the UK gone turtle we'd have survived fine without the US.
Maybe the U.S. didn't need to be a combatant, but if the U.K. would have been fine all by themselves, why was the submarine blockade such a threat?
The F-14 Tomcat was just retired, after 30+ years in service.
And that was because they were worn out, not because they were obsolete.
Pretty hard to guide a SAM using that technique. The point of stealth isn't to keep people from knowing it's there (the explosions of the bombs are a dead giveaway), but to make it nigh-impossible to shoot down.
You can always just fly a fighter over to the rough location and then shoot it down old-school with visually-aimed guns.
I was playing a very realistic Stealth Fighter game on my Commodore 128 prior to the Gulf War. Once it was declassified, they updated the game for the PC. The original plane was really, really close to how the declassified version looked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-19_Stealth_Fighter
I suppose it does look kinda similar from a silhouetted front view, but most popular descriptions of a stealth fighter before the F-117 were declassified were very curvy, not at all like the jagged F-117.
land-based missles are always more accurate. Somone will correct me if I'm wrong.
That's not true now, with GPS, but it was true back then. You probably wouldn't know your own position closer than within a few miles if you weren't in sight of shore.
Well, agreeing to host Soviet missiles around 1960 would qualify as a seriously shitball stunt.
But did it really matter? By 1958, the Soviets had ballistic missile submarines that could launch against the U.S. with just as short warning as anything coming from Cuba.
32" was the biggest my wife would put up with. I'd like bigger, but if I watch a Blu-Ray movie after dark with the lights off and my glasses on, I'm pretty satisfied with it.
Some of us are just fine with a single TV, even with multiple family members. I admit that being able to watch TV while doing dishes would be nice, but there's no way it's going to happen in my kitchen.
I can aim my infared remote over my shoulder and it works.
The TiVo remote is pretty forgiving, but the remote on our old DVD player is not. It doesn't help that the living room is very cramped and most of the A/V equipment is half-hidden behind the TV, because that's the only way it would fit.
That aside what is the battery life like for a bluetooth controller?
No idea. PS3 controllers have built-in rechargeables, and I've never had trouble with them running out.
Quick show of hands...how many bought a PS2 not because it was a game console, but because it let them get a console and DVD player in one, for not a lot more than a high-quality DVD player?
My wife and I was going to, but DVD players had gotten so much cheaper by the time the PS2 actually came out we changed our minds. At the time, we also had a PC with a DVD-ROM and a 17" monitor, vs. a 15" TV. We bought a DVD player for $150 shortly after we got a hand-me-down 21" TV.
I actually did buy a 40GB PS3 as a Blu-Ray player in November, because both it and the cheapest dedicated players were $400. It looks good, and I really like having the Bluetooth controller so I don't have to aim a remote just right.
Seeing the picture of the prototype being dropped from a 50 year-old B-52. And the design is 60 years old!
The Air Force realized a few years ago that an awful lot of their bombing requirements just weren't very dangerous, and an airliner with a bomb bay was perfectly sufficient for those jobs. The B-52 is cheaper to fly than the B-1 or B-2 and we have a good supply, so why not keep using them?
Evolution does not require a director... If you think it does, then you have profoundly misunderstood what the process of evolution is all about.
He or she could have just disagreed, not misunderstood. I think you'll find that most biologists or medical doctors who are religious believe something like directed evolution, and it's probably safe to say they understand the fundamentals of evolution.
Evolution is a complete theory without any sort of director, but if you believe in a higher power of any sort, it is perfectly plausible that that power is influencing what mutations arise and then leaving it to natural selection to sort out what works. Of course, if you believe in an omnipotent god, that doesn't really leave any room for natural selection or extinctions; a belief in omnipotence deserves ridicule, anyway, though.
it's theoretically possible that someone could be aroused by images or depictions of something, without actually wishing to do that same thing themselves.
I think that's very common with incest. Incest stories are one of the most popular categories if you look at any sex story website or newsgroup, but I don't think many people ready those stories have any interest in even fantasizing about their own family members, much less acting on it.