I went to NY for a week with my family in 1998. As I was just starting my engineering degree I took the opportunity to get a HP 48G calculator which at the time was much cheaper in the US.
I remember having to explain in broken english to the security guard (pre-TSA) that this was a working calculator and that it could do math. RPN here didn't help at all, but eventually she let me go.
I'd settle for decent shelf space at the local book stores.
As I see it, sci-fi get relegated to the bottom shelf on a hidden corner of the store, while esoterism, alternative medicines crap, and the latest celebrity endorsed diet gets to the front window.
the thing is, if you already accessed the url, the result for the dns query (or hosts file) is cached and it doesn't need to do the query again.. try it with a url you never accessed before.
this got me thinking.. how about making a insulated (to keep the helium inside) board large enough to lift one person with some mechanism to keep it at a low enough altitude?
I had to deal with Ontrack once, and the service they provided was fabulous.. Expensive (it wasn't me that was paying), but well worth the money spent...
I am on a 700mhz iBook and I had no such problems with the 10.2.8 update too. My systems is even faster than ever.
I usually had to reboot my 'book because of a major slowdown in the genie effect and the dock, as it over time degraded, and was more and more not-so-smooth, and a reboot fixed that for a few more days..8 fixed that, at least over the course of a week, since I did the needed reboot the system is still like it was freshly rebooted.
Even in the light of this bug ridden update, I am looking forward to the Panther update... My system is faster with each update.
Think about the market for huge mail-servers being bought from IBM and Sun to handle communication.. Both companies will loose money beacuse of this; and that will result in reduction of tax money collected.
By that logic the gov should be supporting spam. And while we're at it, they should support forest fire and crime because it helps both firemen and policemen keep their jobs.
Spam is bad, inconvenient, a burden in the bandwidth and disk space, end of question. Anything that helps us get rid of it is good.
Mandrake's Galaxy and Redhat's Bluecurve unified themes are a step in the right direction, why in the world are they so big? Buttons, window decorations are huge. My desktop (running KDE, under Mandrake 9.1 actually) has the MKUltra window decoration and the Alloy theme. Why? They are elegant and small. I don't need a 30px tall window decoration. MKUltra/Alloy's minimalistic looks work great with me. I am using a cheap el-crapo 17" monitor the highest confortable resolution is 1024x768 at 85hz, and as such I don't want a toolbar, the window border and the menu to take most the space.
If I had a 19 or 21", I would have no problem with this, but I have a 17", and I still know plenty of people with 15 and 14" monitors.. Keramik, Bluecurve, Galaxy are way too big...
While I am at this, the default font sizes are also too big. Let's see MDK 9.2 or redhat 9.x use Bitstream's Vera font in sensible sizes. I use them at 9 points and my desktop looks great!
Screw a music-only disk. I want a small high capacity disc for data storage. Currently we have floppy (cheap but useless in regards of capacity/reliability) zip/ls120 disks (expensive for what you're getting) and CD/DVD (good capacity and cheap, but huge and somewhat fragile).
Had Sony pushed the minidisc format for computer data by now we probably had gotten rid of floppies and zip disks. Minidiscs are small, hard do damage and cheap. Their capacity is nothing to write home about (140mb, IIRC), though.
An offshot of a minidisc and a DVD would be perfect. Small high-capacity DVD media protected by a minidisc case.
funny... I just had the same problem while registering an hotmail account for my girlfriend to use, so we could IM each other... most of our contacts are MSN addresses, so Windows Messenger was the best choice. I don't like that much, but what the hell! Gaim has no problems with that..
Back to the topic, her name is Ana Luisa and guess what happens when you concatenate her first two names together! It was getting on my nerves to receive a error message because of some issue with the username (but not an existing username, oddly)... It was only after a lot of attempts that I noticed the first 4 chars of the username... Added a underscore and it was all ok...
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When leaving the US I had to power up my HP48 and try to explain it was a calculator and how to do a sum using RPN.
It was in 1998, shortly after the Swissair 111 flight and there was no explanation for the crash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
Not only Trantor, but Earth itself as in The Caves of Steel.
Similar concept appears in Clarke's The City and the Stars.
I went to NY for a week with my family in 1998. As I was just starting my engineering degree I took the opportunity to get a HP 48G calculator which at the time was much cheaper in the US.
I remember having to explain in broken english to the security guard (pre-TSA) that this was a working calculator and that it could do math. RPN here didn't help at all, but eventually she let me go.
This happened shortly after Swissair 111.
I would donate too, and I'm not even american nor live there.
Those trillion dollars would create a lot of jobs building a thing like this.
Or all those billions going to the moon were wasted and nothing good came out of it?
I'd settle for decent shelf space at the local book stores.
As I see it, sci-fi get relegated to the bottom shelf on a hidden corner of the store, while esoterism, alternative medicines crap, and the latest celebrity endorsed diet gets to the front window.
it does, and you don't need to restart anything.
the thing is, if you already accessed the url, the result for the dns query (or hosts file) is cached and it doesn't need to do the query again.. try it with a url you never accessed before.
It means Prawn in Portuguese too. Gamba and Gambá (notice the acute accent) are different words in Portuguese.
Gambá comes from brazillian portuguese probably, as I've never even heard the term, and I'm a native portuguese speaker (from Portugal).
or as the locals would say it, siscents seixanta sis...
:)
(thanks Socrates/Eramus at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona!
it surely is my html editor of choice, as can be seen here
Hey, at least this was a very good excuse to lose some weight! :)
this got me thinking.. how about making a insulated (to keep the helium inside) board large enough to lift one person with some mechanism to keep it at a low enough altitude?
back to the future flying skateboards, anyone?
I'd buy one in a heartbeat!
newton is/was a pda. no keyboard.
oh please!
why not wait half an hour or so, instead of creating even more demand on the poor server?
sorry, had to be said...
I had to deal with Ontrack once, and the service they provided was fabulous.. Expensive (it wasn't me that was paying), but well worth the money spent...
I am on a 700mhz iBook and I had no such problems with the 10.2.8 update too. My systems is even faster than ever.
.8 fixed that, at least over the course of a week, since I did the needed reboot the system is still like it was freshly rebooted.
I usually had to reboot my 'book because of a major slowdown in the genie effect and the dock, as it over time degraded, and was more and more not-so-smooth, and a reboot fixed that for a few more days.
Even in the light of this bug ridden update, I am looking forward to the Panther update... My system is faster with each update.
By that logic the gov should be supporting spam. And while we're at it, they should support forest fire and crime because it helps both firemen and policemen keep their jobs.
Spam is bad, inconvenient, a burden in the bandwidth and disk space, end of question. Anything that helps us get rid of it is good.
well, when even old style steam trains explode in a huge fireball, I'd say we would still be ok with hydrogen fuel cells...
or really, Ultima Underworld-like.. Of course it's another type of game, but the 3d concept was there first.
no, the equivalent would be xerox-ing all the pages.
If you're like me, this site is going to have a hell lot more than 200.000 page views a day! :)
Mandrake's Galaxy and Redhat's Bluecurve unified themes are a step in the right direction, why in the world are they so big? Buttons, window decorations are huge. My desktop (running KDE, under Mandrake 9.1 actually) has the MKUltra window decoration and the Alloy theme. Why? They are elegant and small. I don't need a 30px tall window decoration. MKUltra/Alloy's minimalistic looks work great with me. I am using a cheap el-crapo 17" monitor the highest confortable resolution is 1024x768 at 85hz, and as such I don't want a toolbar, the window border and the menu to take most the space.
If I had a 19 or 21", I would have no problem with this, but I have a 17", and I still know plenty of people with 15 and 14" monitors.. Keramik, Bluecurve, Galaxy are way too big...
While I am at this, the default font sizes are also too big. Let's see MDK 9.2 or redhat 9.x use Bitstream's Vera font in sensible sizes. I use them at 9 points and my desktop looks great!
yeah... it's a shame... probably diphicult to code .NET with PH#! :)
Screw a music-only disk. I want a small high capacity disc for data storage. Currently we have floppy (cheap but useless in regards of capacity/reliability) zip/ls120 disks (expensive for what you're getting) and CD/DVD (good capacity and cheap, but huge and somewhat fragile).
Had Sony pushed the minidisc format for computer data by now we probably had gotten rid of floppies and zip disks. Minidiscs are small, hard do damage and cheap. Their capacity is nothing to write home about (140mb, IIRC), though.
An offshot of a minidisc and a DVD would be perfect. Small high-capacity DVD media protected by a minidisc case.
Anyway, just a few more couple of cents.
funny... I just had the same problem while registering an hotmail account for my girlfriend to use, so we could IM each other... most of our contacts are MSN addresses, so Windows Messenger was the best choice. I don't like that much, but what the hell! Gaim has no problems with that..
Back to the topic, her name is Ana Luisa and guess what happens when you concatenate her first two names together! It was getting on my nerves to receive a error message because of some issue with the username (but not an existing username, oddly)... It was only after a lot of attempts that I noticed the first 4 chars of the username... Added a underscore and it was all ok...