William Burroughs used to quote Wyatt Earp as saying, "Take your time". Meaning "make your first shot count as you might not get the time to fire a second one." If your "instinct" shot does NOT hit the opponent, you've just given him his chance to shoot you
Wyatt Earp's advice is good -- if your weapon is a single-action revolver and you're going up against another experienced gunfighter who's similarly armed.
In a home defense situation with an automatic this advice is less applicable, particuarly if you're armed with a traditional DA auto with the hammer down. With a traditional DA auto, the trigger pull on the first shot is a lot heaver than on subsequent shots, which affects your accuracy. Heinlein's advice makes the most sense for this kind of weapon. Heinlein's advice also takes into account human nature -- an untrained person's first instinct when being shot at is to flinch or go for cover. An experienced gunfighter or soldier isn't going to react the same way as an untrained person will.
I could see doing it with a long gun, especially if you're shooting from the hip, but I'd never try it with a pistol. In a crisis situation, it seems like it would be far too easy for your finger to get caught in the slide or ejection port. At the very least you're courting a jam, at the worst you'll lose a finger.
That works until they start putting RFID tags in your cash too... and don't think about microwaving your money to kill the tags, because doing so will render the currency valueless and/or get you arrested for counterfeiting or some similar charge. (Defacing currency is already illegal in the US)
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Several of my credit cards require IE to pay the bill online. Even hacking the user-agent string doesn't work because they use some nasty jscript garbage that only works in IE.
Exactly. Forcing all adult content providers to go to an.xxx domain would be impossible to implement, let alone being unconstitutional. If you had a.kids TLDs, people who want to provide unobjectional content can sign a contract spelling out exactly what they can and cannot provide; and if they violate the terms of the contract, they lose the domain. This scheme is strictly voluntary and requires no government intervention. It also allows for multiple competing definitions as to what is "kid safe". For example domain.xian could have terms of service say that sex ed materials are verboten but religious prostelyzing is just fine, whereas.teens could have the exact opposite rules. This would give parents the ability to easily block domains that are unrestricted (.com) or that permit content THEY find inappropriate for their children.
I'd argue that Asimov did it first. Foundation's Edge in '82, The Robots of Dawn in '83, and Robots and Empire in '85 were where Asimov started tying the 3 storylines together. Heinlein wrote The Cat Who Walks Thru Walls in '85 and To Sail Beyond The Sunset in '87, although you could say that The Number of the Beast was where he started tying things together, and that came out in '79.
I'd like to know in terms of things just broken enough to make finding them absolute hell.
There's a link to the Microsoft SQL Server to Sybase ASE Migration Guide on the ASE for Linux home page.
Most of the differences are so simple that they can be resolved with simple search-and-replace commands.
Sybase is respectable, but from a career perspective, marketability favors, imho, in this order: Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase
The marketability of a skill is simple supply and demand. If demand for a skill exceeds the supply of people who have it, then that makes the skill more valuable. Sybase experts can charge a premium because they are in fairly short supply compared to the demand.
There may be five times as many Oracle positions as Sybase positions, but this doesn't matter when there are ten times as many qualified people applying for them.
Did you notice that DS9's change in tone corresponded with B5 beating it in the ratings game? Competition is good. Of course once B5 went off the air it was back to the same old Star Drek.
Happened last night -- I was refurbishing an old K6-2/350 to give to a friend's pre-schooler. Since the 2-year-old 56x CD-ROM and the 3 year old CD-RW drive I had in the parts box were both dead, the only thing I had left to use was a no-name 4X non-multiread unit which was manufactured in 1993. It wouldn't read my Linux CD-Rs, so I had to make boot floppies and install across the network.
Giving that drive away brought a tear to my eye -- it was the very first CD-ROM drive I ever bought. It was in daily use for more than 10 years, in at least 5 different machines, and it is still going strong. It's outlived at least a half-dozen other drives I've bought since then.
Better yet -- make them all symlinks to the same file... an original copyrighted work of your own. Say, an.mp3/.mpg of youself reading an essay about fair use.
C is a constant -- but the actual velocity of EM radition is not always C. The only time light travels at exactly C is in a perfect vacuum. Interstellar space is NOT a perfect vacuum. A sparse cloud of hydrogen has a small but measurable refractive index.
other vendors are going to (hopefully) add other cool functionality
Indeed. One of the biggest stumbling blocks keeping blades from being more widely adopted is that up until now, every vendor had their own propriatary system. An industry standard blade architecture is going to really popularize the concept.
Blades are ideal for any kind of "farm" operation -- web farm, render farm, beowulf cluster, etc. They let you pack a lot more machines into a single rack and consolidate a lot of redundant components. You can get 12+ blades in a 6U chassis, whereas the best you could do with a traditional servers is 6 1U boxen.
The last truely good and honest president we had with any integrity and no underlying agenda at all was president Reagan
+1, Funny. Look at Bush's cabinet & administration heads. Look at Reagan's cabinet & administration heads. It's basically the same set of faces, just shuffled around some. Reagan and both Bushes were all just basically figureheads standing in front of the Straussian neoconservitive machine.
It's no coincidence that GWB and RR are #1 and #2 for the most vacation taken while in office -- they just wave the baton while the real work is being done by guys like Chaney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and so forth. Same people, same agenda, different mouthpiece.
Get someone in their 30s and up - then you get somebody who know what the !@# to do with themselves, and aren't too embarrased to do it, either, instead of jiggle in weird, boring ways.
Amen to that. When I was 19 I dated a 32 year old woman. It was the most educational experience I ever had. Women in their late 20's and early 30's generally know exactly what they want, and will be happy to teach you how to give it to them. And they're past playing stupid high school games. The important factors are to be polite, confidant, and well-groomed. And make lots of eye contact -- you can check out her T&A when she's looking the other way.
If someone seriously wants to steal from you, they will, regardless of what precautions you take. However, dedicated thieves aren't the real threat in a college dorm setting -- casual pilferage is. What you need to do is raise the risk/reward ratio high enough to make the casual thieves think twice.
Walking away with an unattended book or laptop it is fairly inconspicuous, because lots of people on campus carry around books and laptops. It doesn't take any planning to do this, just make sure no one is looking, and then snatch and dash. Two people hauling off a big trunk is going to attract a whole lot more attention. Pulling off a theft like that takes planning, an accomplice, and involves a lot more risk -- more risk than most casual thieves would be willing to take.
Take the bare minimum with you. Get a big, solid trunk/footlocker (or build one!) and a good lock, and put all your valuables in it when you're out of the room.
Perhaps the people should pay their fucking bills on time and not just ignore them for weeks/months/years?
Perhaps you should get off your fucking high horse and realize that there are legitimate reasons for not paying a bill. Fraud happens. Billing errors happen.
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In a home defense situation with an automatic this advice is less applicable, particuarly if you're armed with a traditional DA auto with the hammer down. With a traditional DA auto, the trigger pull on the first shot is a lot heaver than on subsequent shots, which affects your accuracy. Heinlein's advice makes the most sense for this kind of weapon. Heinlein's advice also takes into account human nature -- an untrained person's first instinct when being shot at is to flinch or go for cover. An experienced gunfighter or soldier isn't going to react the same way as an untrained person will.
I could see doing it with a long gun, especially if you're shooting from the hip, but I'd never try it with a pistol. In a crisis situation, it seems like it would be far too easy for your finger to get caught in the slide or ejection port. At the very least you're courting a jam, at the worst you'll lose a finger.
That works until they start putting RFID tags in your cash too... and don't think about microwaving your money to kill the tags, because doing so will render the currency valueless and/or get you arrested for counterfeiting or some similar charge. (Defacing currency is already illegal in the US)
I'm suprised no one has linked to the (in)famous MIT Guide to Lockpicking yet.
Several of my credit cards require IE to pay the bill online. Even hacking the user-agent string doesn't work because they use some nasty jscript garbage that only works in IE.
There may be five times as many Oracle positions as Sybase positions, but this doesn't matter when there are ten times as many qualified people applying for them.
Sounds like an awesome macro. How about posting the source on your site?
Sybase 11.0.3.3 was (and still is) free for production use on Linux and FreeBSD.
Did you notice that DS9's change in tone corresponded with B5 beating it in the ratings game? Competition is good. Of course once B5 went off the air it was back to the same old Star Drek.
Giving that drive away brought a tear to my eye -- it was the very first CD-ROM drive I ever bought. It was in daily use for more than 10 years, in at least 5 different machines, and it is still going strong. It's outlived at least a half-dozen other drives I've bought since then.
Better yet -- make them all symlinks to the same file... an original copyrighted work of your own. Say, an .mp3/.mpg of youself reading an essay about fair use.
C is a constant -- but the actual velocity of EM radition is not always C. The only time light travels at exactly C is in a perfect vacuum. Interstellar space is NOT a perfect vacuum. A sparse cloud of hydrogen has a small but measurable refractive index.
Blades are ideal for any kind of "farm" operation -- web farm, render farm, beowulf cluster, etc. They let you pack a lot more machines into a single rack and consolidate a lot of redundant components. You can get 12+ blades in a 6U chassis, whereas the best you could do with a traditional servers is 6 1U boxen.
I've always been partial to Urotsukidôji: Legend of the Overfiend -- the definitive tenticle sex hentai anime.
It's no coincidence that GWB and RR are #1 and #2 for the most vacation taken while in office -- they just wave the baton while the real work is being done by guys like Chaney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and so forth. Same people, same agenda, different mouthpiece.
Walking away with an unattended book or laptop it is fairly inconspicuous, because lots of people on campus carry around books and laptops. It doesn't take any planning to do this, just make sure no one is looking, and then snatch and dash. Two people hauling off a big trunk is going to attract a whole lot more attention. Pulling off a theft like that takes planning, an accomplice, and involves a lot more risk -- more risk than most casual thieves would be willing to take.
Take the bare minimum with you. Get a big, solid trunk/footlocker (or build one!) and a good lock, and put all your valuables in it when you're out of the room.
Billing disputes can USUALLY be resolved with the company. Sometimes they can't -- sometimes you have to go to arbitration or fight it out in court.