Slice it thin and fry it heavily, and it tastes like bacon. I should check sometime if it's healthier or cheaper than bacon...
Shred it, along with cheddar cheese and mix with relish and mayo and/or Miriacle Whip, and you've got Spam Salad, which is good for sandwiches. Grocery store delis frequently sell "Ham sandwich spread", which is similar.
Bake it with a glaze made of apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, cinnamon and clove, and you have Baked Spam, which my parents make occasionally. I've co-opted the glaze for ham steaks, but since realized that the Spam has a better texture.
What are the chances that 2 trial lawyers (who's biggest contributors are the trial lawyers associations) giving us the litigation reforms so crucial to getting escalating health care and pharm costs under control for the long term viability of our economy?
Kerry was a prosecutor. While that worries me in a civil liberties sense, I don't think that much affects his impartiality on torte reform.
The Quakers also believe that God still reveals truth regularly, but they seem to be a lot more laid back about it. I'm pretty fond of them; my son goes to a Quaker school, and I'd almost certainly be Quaker if I was still a Christian.
I usually use VNC to check on whatever process I have running, and Remote Desktop will give me nice, fast, good-looking access to the wrong login. Usually, I want to see what's actually on the screen.
$160, if you buy an OEM copy with the motherboard. You're given a couple of automatic reactivations, though, and I think you can get a couple more by calling MS.
Um, to their benefit, Itanium was not, nor ever will be, a workstation processor.
I remember reading an article in a computer magazine (probably Byte -- this would be their kidn of thing) when I was in high school, probably 11 years ago. The Pentium was just about to come out, and a road map was given for future development. Way back then, Intel was saying the 786 was a drastic redesign, and they were working on it with HP.
Around three years ago, articles linked from/. reported that the Pentium 4 that was just being released was a backup plan that Intel had kept working on, in case IA-64 didn't work out. (That the Pentium 4 didn't really work out, either, is beside the point.)
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I just checked, and Oracle SE appears to be $366 per user, which still strikes me as too steep.
It does, of course, depend on your business, but the only business I've had interest in starting would be an ASP, which would require at least a processor license, for $15,000.
they are usually interested in using more than 1 cpu and just 5Gb.
the sybase offer is useless.
Hardly. You can start out with this Sybase system as a small business, and by the time you outgrow the 5 gig limit, you can afford to buy Sybase. That sounds to me like a rather obvious gain for both the users and Sybase.
The better you become at reading, the better you become at writing.
More specifically, the better you become at reading non-fiction, the better you become at writing non-fiction. Fiction doesn't have much in common with non-fiction (except, perhaps, history) beyond grammar.
They already have with sex offender registries. The Supreme Court ruled that it wasn't ex post facto because the main goal wasn't punitive, but I believe it was a 5-4 decision.
Oh how interesting things would be if the likes of Vonage added "Federal Wiretap Fee" as a lineitem on the bill.
(I do billing for a phone company)
They're probably not allowed. When the school-and-libraries portion of the Universal Service Fund charges were mandated, phone companies were forbidden from making it an invoice line-item.
That said pdf is EVIL INCARNATE a simple 15 page document suddenly becomes a 4 meg monstrosity... each that would have easily fit (images included) in less than a meg in any other format
I don't get why Unix people seem to love PostScript and hate PDF when PDF is really just a semi-binary, random-access version of PostScript with less potential to cause trouble (since it's not a full language).
PDF and PostScript are very efficient ways to store a document. You can instruct either to draw a 1 point line 2 inches from the top of the page, from half an inch from the left to half an inch from the right (a PostScript version would be "1 setlinewidth 36 648 moveto 540 0 rlineto stroke"), print "Sales Report" in 14 point Helvetica at the top, and print a page full of detail lines in 9 point Times, for probably 3kb with PostScript or 4kb with PDF (because PDF has a file-pointer index added to allow random access). If you have inline images, PDF is actually better, because it can cleanly put the image data into a binary object (everything in PDF is an object; each is numbered, they reference each other by number, and the index says, basically, "object 1 is at bytes 17-38, object 2 is at bytes 40-452, etc."), while the PostScript version would have to be a procedure and not everything maps cleanly.
The problem come from the data source, in two ways:
1. PostScript and PDF's natural letter spacing is perfectly good. I've used PostScript to send something like two million pages of phone bills using without ever wanting to do anything to override PostScript's defalt spacing. However, the PostScript/PDF (Adobe Imaging Model, which also includes SVG) spacing is not quite the same as what Windows or any other display system does (unless based on PostScript, like NeWS, or on PDF, like I've heard OS-X is). Since WYSIWYG requires that the print output look exactly like the screen output, much lower-level documents are created. A typical PostScript print file that was created by a print driver will look like "72 72 moveto (J) show 72.4 72 moveto (a) show 72.6 72 moveto (c) show", etc., while something I wrote by hand would simply be "72 72 moveto (Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz) show".
2. I don't really know other operating systems that well, but the Windows MetaFormat system that Windows uses to send information to print drivers seems to be really low level. The application used to create a document may know that it contains the same image 5,000 times so it only stores it once, and PDF could also store it just once, but that information is lost by the print driver sytem. This isn't necessarily a bad design on Windows part, since most printers use PCL (which, I believe, came from Hewlett Packard, not Adobe) and PCL can't do anything useful with that sort of information.
And his assertion that Microsoft leaves their employees facing arrest in other countries seems baseless; he didn't mention a single instance.
"For example when employees were arrested in Turkey because Kurdistan had been shown as a separate entity on maps of the country, a decision was taken to remove Kurdistan from all maps."
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Can someone tell me where I can sign-up for the upcoming Civil War?
Can't we just let them seceed, this time? Confederate flags are so popular, there has to still be an interest in it.
Slice it thin and fry it heavily, and it tastes like bacon. I should check sometime if it's healthier or cheaper than bacon...
Shred it, along with cheddar cheese and mix with relish and mayo and/or Miriacle Whip, and you've got Spam Salad, which is good for sandwiches. Grocery store delis frequently sell "Ham sandwich spread", which is similar.
Bake it with a glaze made of apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, cinnamon and clove, and you have Baked Spam, which my parents make occasionally. I've co-opted the glaze for ham steaks, but since realized that the Spam has a better texture.
What are the chances that 2 trial lawyers (who's biggest contributors are the trial lawyers associations) giving us the litigation reforms so crucial to getting escalating health care and pharm costs under control for the long term viability of our economy?
Kerry was a prosecutor. While that worries me in a civil liberties sense, I don't think that much affects his impartiality on torte reform.
The Quakers also believe that God still reveals truth regularly, but they seem to be a lot more laid back about it. I'm pretty fond of them; my son goes to a Quaker school, and I'd almost certainly be Quaker if I was still a Christian.
*SIGH* This really wasn't meant to be funny.
Think of it this way: You got not one, but two +5 posts out of it.
I usually use VNC to check on whatever process I have running, and Remote Desktop will give me nice, fast, good-looking access to the wrong login. Usually, I want to see what's actually on the screen.
A TV attached to a DVD player (and not a computer) also works surprisingly well for this sort of thing.
Unless you're watching special features. Those really need a mouse.
That might be costing you a couple hundred dollars a year in electricity.
$160, if you buy an OEM copy with the motherboard. You're given a couple of automatic reactivations, though, and I think you can get a couple more by calling MS.
Um, to their benefit, Itanium was not, nor ever will be, a workstation processor.
/. reported that the Pentium 4 that was just being released was a backup plan that Intel had kept working on, in case IA-64 didn't work out. (That the Pentium 4 didn't really work out, either, is beside the point.)
I remember reading an article in a computer magazine (probably Byte -- this would be their kidn of thing) when I was in high school, probably 11 years ago. The Pentium was just about to come out, and a road map was given for future development. Way back then, Intel was saying the 786 was a drastic redesign, and they were working on it with HP.
Around three years ago, articles linked from
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Does this strike anyone else as macabre?
Of course Avalon isn't the first vector graphics library. It is, however, the first mainstream GUI toolkit to be 100% vector-based.
Display PostScript was around ages ago (15 years?). It never became that popular, but I don't think you could call Avalon mainstream, yet, either.
If Oracle were substantially more reliable than Sybase, you would have a point, but we're not talking about MySQL and PostGreSQL here.
Yes, the data may be worth paying for, but you don't always gain anything by paying.
I just checked, and Oracle SE appears to be $366 per user, which still strikes me as too steep.
It does, of course, depend on your business, but the only business I've had interest in starting would be an ASP, which would require at least a processor license, for $15,000.
MS, Sybase & Ashton Tate jointly developed the core engine up until the mid nineties
Wasn't Ashton Tate dead by the early 90's? Or did Borland just buy dBase, rather than the whole company?
Yes, we'll be in trouble if Microsoft ever discontinues SQL Server. Somehow, I'm not terribly concerned.
they are usually interested in using more than 1 cpu and just 5Gb.
the sybase offer is useless.
Hardly. You can start out with this Sybase system as a small business, and by the time you outgrow the 5 gig limit, you can afford to buy Sybase. That sounds to me like a rather obvious gain for both the users and Sybase.
The better you become at reading, the better you become at writing.
More specifically, the better you become at reading non-fiction, the better you become at writing non-fiction. Fiction doesn't have much in common with non-fiction (except, perhaps, history) beyond grammar.
Direct elections would cost the sparsely populated states what little influence they have in the electoral college system already.
Well, yeah; the citizens of those states are over-represented.
If you overclock it, does that mean your mp3s all start to sound ike Alvin and the Chipmunks?
Wait - what happens to the Chipmunk mp3s?
You won't hear anything, but your dog will be really pissed off.
They already have with sex offender registries. The Supreme Court ruled that it wasn't ex post facto because the main goal wasn't punitive, but I believe it was a 5-4 decision.
27 meg sounds about like the size of the JDK.
Oh how interesting things would be if the likes of Vonage added "Federal Wiretap Fee" as a lineitem on the bill.
(I do billing for a phone company)
They're probably not allowed. When the school-and-libraries portion of the Universal Service Fund charges were mandated, phone companies were forbidden from making it an invoice line-item.
I don't get why Unix people seem to love PostScript and hate PDF when PDF is really just a semi-binary, random-access version of PostScript with less potential to cause trouble (since it's not a full language).
PDF and PostScript are very efficient ways to store a document. You can instruct either to draw a 1 point line 2 inches from the top of the page, from half an inch from the left to half an inch from the right (a PostScript version would be "1 setlinewidth 36 648 moveto 540 0 rlineto stroke"), print "Sales Report" in 14 point Helvetica at the top, and print a page full of detail lines in 9 point Times, for probably 3kb with PostScript or 4kb with PDF (because PDF has a file-pointer index added to allow random access). If you have inline images, PDF is actually better, because it can cleanly put the image data into a binary object (everything in PDF is an object; each is numbered, they reference each other by number, and the index says, basically, "object 1 is at bytes 17-38, object 2 is at bytes 40-452, etc."), while the PostScript version would have to be a procedure and not everything maps cleanly.
The problem come from the data source, in two ways:
And his assertion that Microsoft leaves their employees facing arrest in other countries seems baseless; he didn't mention a single instance.
"For example when employees were arrested in Turkey because Kurdistan had been shown as a separate entity on maps of the country, a decision was taken to remove Kurdistan from all maps."