The CompUSA stores are way too small for Fry's. A typical Fry's store (at least here in Texas) is the size of a Super Wal-Mart. Besides, in Texas, Fry's is already here (except that they badly need a store in San Antonio), so CompUSA hasn't been relevant here for at least five years.
Not that Fry's doesn't occupy the space of closed businesses. It's just that AFAIK, In(cr)edible Universe was the only place big enough for Fry's to occupy.
Man I miss Fry's. I'm from the Houston area, and after they opened one around 2002 I never went back to CompUSA or Best Buy, except to maybe price shop electronics.
In the big four metro areas in Texas (DFW, Houston, San Antonio, Houston) they have no niche that isn't filled by Fry's (except in SA, which badly needs a Fry's), Apple Store, and Altex.
To make matters worse, about a year or so ago they remodeled to add a Home Theatre area. Oh yeah, like I want to go to a store with "Comp" in its name to look for consumer electronics. That might have been a good idea ten years ago, but HT is way too mainstream now. Someone else mentioned them selling office furniture as of a few years back, and that's when I remembered there was an area of the store which was like a black hole in my awareness.
I would put "lack of focus" high on the list of reasons for their failure. They started out as a computers and accessories place, with their main claim to fame being having a corner of the store for Apple stuff (back in the day when Apple Stores were few and far between), and tried to be a big-box office store and a big-box electronics store, failing at both.
think in jolly ole England those Maximum Clearance" sign are marked "Max. Headroom". How many times have truck drivers, in England they are called lorry drivers, ignore all of those signs. Here are some image of what happens if someone ignores those signs
Also, one of my pet peeves with 'snopes' is that they say that cell phones can't/don't cause gasoline vapour to explode
And they're right. What is causing the fires is people (typically women) getting back into their vehicles during fueling, generating static electricity in the process of getting in and out of the vehicle (especially in the winter when someone would want to go inside), then "lighting the torch" when they touch the nozzle. That they may be using their cell phones during this process is merely coincidence.
Now the site is Wordpressed (like Slashdotting, only the other way around) and you can't get to it, but one of the last posts before it died pointed out that this was from a trainered version. That's where someone adds cheat code to a ROM. As it turns out, the original doesn't have any of the code in question. Dissassembling for the purpose of adding cheats is a completely sensible explanation of the code that was found.
The moral of the story? Start with a known clean dump (look for the "[!]" tag) before assuming that the introns were in the original game.
As someone who intentionally did not and has never watched Episode I (Wierd Al told me everything I needed to know in under five minutes) or II or III, I know that it had already jumped before Jar-Jar. The bad parts of Episode I were just higher jumps.
What jumped it for me was the "Han didn't really shoot first" edit from the Ministry of Truth. I don't care enough about the other changes to even know what they are, but that really bugged me. I still have the laserdiscs. They did eventually release the original version on DVD, but you could tell that Lucas really didn't want to.
Actually, the first hint of a jump was when the original movie was retroactively renamed to "Episode IV". I just wish I still had that bootleg VHS tape from back in the mid '80s so I could see if it had the original opening.
Hell, I first found out about it last week on the front page of Encyclopedia Dramatica. But that what was Last Thursday. Then I saw it mentioned on Drudge yesterday. Now she's just another An Hero, and I don't want to waste my time figuring out which ED page it was.
I just read TFA and it doesn't give any details. My guess? I just checked, and C# apparently uses reference-count garbage collection. That means that an object will stay around until there are zero references to it. The best way to create an object that will never go away is to create a circular linked list, then delete the reference to the list. All the items refer to each other, but there is nothing else that references them. But any complicated data structure that can have circular references will leak memory.
A mark-sweep garbage collector will catch this, but at the cost of interrupting the program temporarily to do GC. This isn't exactly friendly to real-time applications.
So basically this looks like a classic noob blunder. Just because there is "automatic" garbage collection doesn't mean that you can turn your brain off.
Do they have some mechanism for surviving the intial format or is this a complete hoax?
What "initial format"? If you buy this drive and install it, preformatted with the trojan, Windows will see it as already formated and mount it, then autorun the malware. Moments later, the human who doesn't notice it's already formatted goes slowly (to a computer) to the disk format utility. By the time the format begins, the damage has already been done.
I will admit that I have noticed that sometimes brand new drives are already formatted, but then I immediately reformat them as HFS+ volumes. Next time that happens, I'll take a moment to see if there might be any invisible files.
Keep in mind that the PS2 is still way outselling the PS3.
Microsoft wanted none of that, so they burned their bridges from the start, by stopping Xbox-1 production when the 360 was released. It was probably costing them too much to source those 5-year old PC parts anyhow.
There is a general net energy gain starting from both ends, decreasing toward the middle, centering on iron.
The main difference is that fission rarely happens spontaneously, so it is a lot harder to control for the purpose of energy generation. It also doesn't help that you can (theoretically) always add protons to make bigger, more unstable atoms, but you can't make an atom smaller than hydrogen.
Even when you want to use fusion in a bomb, you still have to start it with a fission bomb.
Jerry Pournelle was the last reason I was still reading Byte at the end.
In '87 or so, they had a "tax laws are changing, so get six years for $99" special offer. I didn't care about tax deductions, having only recently finished college, but it was still a damn good deal.
By the end of that six years it had turned into little more than a bunch of reviews for mostly PC-clone software and hardware. Essentially all of its geek origins had vanished. So I let it lapse. (It was a much easier decision than letting Scientific American lapse a few years ago because of becoming too political, which I later found was an intentional move on the part of its Editor in Chief.)
You could even pack the isotope into large artillery shells and fire them towards Earth.
Which still doesn't solve the main problem. We don't have Helium 3 fusion yet. And we aren't likely to for years. We'll probably have flying cars and Duke Nukem Forever first.
We haven't even gotten the easiest fusion reactions working yet to the point where they will generate a net gain of electricity.
None of this was made up the two people blocked from Canada are guilty of various crimes.
Link, please. Seriously, I want to know the details of these various crimes, not just an unsubstantiated throwaway sentence. And I don't see it in TFA, which is clearly from a site which believes Bush == Satan and wouldn't give those details because it might make their side look not so good.
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The CompUSA stores are way too small for Fry's. A typical Fry's store (at least here in Texas) is the size of a Super Wal-Mart. Besides, in Texas, Fry's is already here (except that they badly need a store in San Antonio), so CompUSA hasn't been relevant here for at least five years.
Not that Fry's doesn't occupy the space of closed businesses. It's just that AFAIK, In(cr)edible Universe was the only place big enough for Fry's to occupy.
In the big four metro areas in Texas (DFW, Houston, San Antonio, Houston) they have no niche that isn't filled by Fry's (except in SA, which badly needs a Fry's), Apple Store, and Altex.
To make matters worse, about a year or so ago they remodeled to add a Home Theatre area. Oh yeah, like I want to go to a store with "Comp" in its name to look for consumer electronics. That might have been a good idea ten years ago, but HT is way too mainstream now. Someone else mentioned them selling office furniture as of a few years back, and that's when I remembered there was an area of the store which was like a black hole in my awareness.
I would put "lack of focus" high on the list of reasons for their failure. They started out as a computers and accessories place, with their main claim to fame being having a corner of the store for Apple stuff (back in the day when Apple Stores were few and far between), and tried to be a big-box office store and a big-box electronics store, failing at both.
Don't you mean Darth Ballmer?
Here's what else can happen if you ignore those signs:
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q101/djpaultimberman/maxHeadroom2.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs
Grasshopper... when you can snatch this Wii from my han^H^H^H^H^H^H a store, it will be time for you to leave.
And they're right. What is causing the fires is people (typically women) getting back into their vehicles during fueling, generating static electricity in the process of getting in and out of the vehicle (especially in the winter when someone would want to go inside), then "lighting the torch" when they touch the nozzle. That they may be using their cell phones during this process is merely coincidence.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=grQYr507r_A
I've always thought it looked like a penguin, with the gap between the horns being the penguin's eye.
Now that you mention it, the feet do look somewhat turd-like, but only the feet.
Now the site is Wordpressed (like Slashdotting, only the other way around) and you can't get to it, but one of the last posts before it died pointed out that this was from a trainered version. That's where someone adds cheat code to a ROM. As it turns out, the original doesn't have any of the code in question. Dissassembling for the purpose of adding cheats is a completely sensible explanation of the code that was found.
The moral of the story? Start with a known clean dump (look for the "[!]" tag) before assuming that the introns were in the original game.
Maybe the headline was supposed to be "Astronauts Hook Up Via eHarmony in Lengthy Spacewalk"?
(also noting the headline grammar was bad too)
As someone who intentionally did not and has never watched Episode I (Wierd Al told me everything I needed to know in under five minutes) or II or III, I know that it had already jumped before Jar-Jar. The bad parts of Episode I were just higher jumps.
What jumped it for me was the "Han didn't really shoot first" edit from the Ministry of Truth. I don't care enough about the other changes to even know what they are, but that really bugged me. I still have the laserdiscs. They did eventually release the original version on DVD, but you could tell that Lucas really didn't want to.
Actually, the first hint of a jump was when the original movie was retroactively renamed to "Episode IV". I just wish I still had that bootleg VHS tape from back in the mid '80s so I could see if it had the original opening.
Thanks to Comcrap hiding the name of who sent the notices, we had to wait until someone in France got hit up. Apparently it is Odex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odex%27s_actions_against_file_sharing
(currently, the wiki page hasn't been uploaded, but I'm sure eventually someone will gather the info from the current drahmah and add it)
P.S. mod parent up!
Hell, I first found out about it last week on the front page of Encyclopedia Dramatica. But that what was Last Thursday. Then I saw it mentioned on Drudge yesterday. Now she's just another An Hero, and I don't want to waste my time figuring out which ED page it was.
I just read TFA and it doesn't give any details. My guess? I just checked, and C# apparently uses reference-count garbage collection. That means that an object will stay around until there are zero references to it. The best way to create an object that will never go away is to create a circular linked list, then delete the reference to the list. All the items refer to each other, but there is nothing else that references them. But any complicated data structure that can have circular references will leak memory.
A mark-sweep garbage collector will catch this, but at the cost of interrupting the program temporarily to do GC. This isn't exactly friendly to real-time applications.
So basically this looks like a classic noob blunder. Just because there is "automatic" garbage collection doesn't mean that you can turn your brain off.
http://www.ryanblock.com/2007/11/the-first-macbook-pro-with-a-64gb-ssd/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIUa0mwUwW8
It takes 20 seconds to boot to the desktop, half of that is the time before it actually starts booting from the disk (gray apple).
What "initial format"? If you buy this drive and install it, preformatted with the trojan, Windows will see it as already formated and mount it, then autorun the malware. Moments later, the human who doesn't notice it's already formatted goes slowly (to a computer) to the disk format utility. By the time the format begins, the damage has already been done.
I will admit that I have noticed that sometimes brand new drives are already formatted, but then I immediately reformat them as HFS+ volumes. Next time that happens, I'll take a moment to see if there might be any invisible files.
Something else like a... hard disk?
Keep in mind that the PS2 is still way outselling the PS3.
Microsoft wanted none of that, so they burned their bridges from the start, by stopping Xbox-1 production when the 360 was released. It was probably costing them too much to source those 5-year old PC parts anyhow.
There is a general net energy gain starting from both ends, decreasing toward the middle, centering on iron.
The main difference is that fission rarely happens spontaneously, so it is a lot harder to control for the purpose of energy generation. It also doesn't help that you can (theoretically) always add protons to make bigger, more unstable atoms, but you can't make an atom smaller than hydrogen.
Even when you want to use fusion in a bomb, you still have to start it with a fission bomb.
At least Polaroid had an excuse.
Jerry Pournelle was the last reason I was still reading Byte at the end.
In '87 or so, they had a "tax laws are changing, so get six years for $99" special offer. I didn't care about tax deductions, having only recently finished college, but it was still a damn good deal.
By the end of that six years it had turned into little more than a bunch of reviews for mostly PC-clone software and hardware. Essentially all of its geek origins had vanished. So I let it lapse. (It was a much easier decision than letting Scientific American lapse a few years ago because of becoming too political, which I later found was an intentional move on the part of its Editor in Chief.)
There are people who would consider that not just raping the Moon Goddess, but anally raping the Moon Goddess.
(P.S.: In before rule 34!)
Which still doesn't solve the main problem. We don't have Helium 3 fusion yet. And we aren't likely to for years. We'll probably have flying cars and Duke Nukem Forever first.
We haven't even gotten the easiest fusion reactions working yet to the point where they will generate a net gain of electricity.
Link, please. Seriously, I want to know the details of these various crimes, not just an unsubstantiated throwaway sentence. And I don't see it in TFA, which is clearly from a site which believes Bush == Satan and wouldn't give those details because it might make their side look not so good.
I think he can find some here.
I think the real fun part is if some rich alcoholic lives in the high-rise and manages to damage the elevator at 3AM one night.