Well if geeks could solve the busy beaver problem, they probably wouldn't have had time to come up with all that free software. Or am I thinking of the wrong beaver?
And if the people who wrote SQL*Worksheet for Oracle are listening. I could live without the message box after you exit it saying (from memory) "SQL*Worksheet Exited" with an OK button.
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Lord Hugh must be trolling too much, I recognised him from your quote, even though his post has already reached the/. cemetery. Actually I probably read/. too much, but I can give it up any time, honest.
This means he cleared all 256 boards, ate all the bonus fruit and four ghosts with each power pellet, and didn't die.
Did he really eat four ghosts with each power pill? I thought that after one of the early levels (about 13 IIRC) that the power pills no longer turned the ghosts blue.
I knew I was on dangerous ground when I was thinking of kind of a tautology. And I take my hat off to you for that fine word which I admit to having to look up. Here is the definition from m-w.com, which is bordering very closely as an example of the word it defines:
the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said)
A phrase I will have to remember next time I'm in an all day meeting with the PHBs. Although I think the meaning is more to do with redundancy than self contradiction and meaningless filler
With the letters E, P, O and N they could have at least been OPEN (Optical Passive Ethernet Network), or more sinisterly PEON. This may have highlighted that an ethernet network is kind of a tautology.
Of course this minor whinging is down to the fact that my Locale's c-time (time for Californian Innovations to be on offer) is about 67 months. And that is only until BT screw you
One reason, said Eric von Hippel, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who heads up a research effort in the field, is that virtually all the available evidence suggests that open source is "a huge advantage" to companies. "They are able to build on a common standard that is not owned by anyone," he said. "With Windows, Microsoft owns them."
I'm sure he said 0wns
Does anyone know where I can find "all the available evidence"? Or even some of it.
In the Daily Mirror in the UK is a fiendish general knowledge crossword. Finding the answers to the questions on the net is good for teaching search engines, and some of the big info sites (e.g. imdb, britannica, expedia). It also helps for bookmarks, as similar categories of questions often come up.
Are you trying to say that reading the bible daily is good for marriage? In which case you meant "Only 0.1% of couples that read the bible daily get divorced". What you actually said seems more likely
I.e. if 0.1% of all couples read the bible daily then 100% of all couples that read the bible will get divorced?
Or another way 99.9% of all couples neither read the bible daily nor get divorced
More recent MUDs (e.g. the stuff by simu) have a server enforced time that each action will take, as well as maximum buffered inputs for zero time commands. They still have problems with scripters of course, the battle continues...
Why do Iranians and Guatamalans have contempt for the US?
On monday I watched a documentary on the history channel about the CIA in Iran. I don't know who bank-rolls the channel, but I'd reckon they aren't small.
The information is out there, its just that people don't seem actively interested in it
WAP has provisions for identifying the user agent. It can use the data from this to provide customized content for larger sizes if it wants. Its too much effort (money) for most people to do, so they go for the lowest common denominator.
Yes, but any 16 year old with a cable modem and a CD burner can download a copy of any Linux distro and have a REAL, robust, scalable server OS to play with, free of charge.
They'd probably need a computer too, unless they can operate the interface on their peripherals manually somehow. Then I wouldn't put that past kids today, won't be long until they're directly wired.
If I put a 21" CRT on my desk at home it would fall right through it (£20 crap from MFI that it is). I've no room for a bigger and stronger desk. Just a shame that I can't afford a big LCD (yet).
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Well if geeks could solve the busy beaver problem, they probably wouldn't have had time to come up with all that free software. Or am I thinking of the wrong beaver?
I'm not sure if Bruce Perens was talking about Ximian here, but he seemed to imply that someone was a way down the path to an open implementation.
Hell, I'm in England and we've had nearly a fortnight (two weeks) of sunshine. I can only conclude that, yes, it is the beginning of the end.
Independence from what or whom?
So why oh why do C and C++ use the same symbol for pointers and multiplication?
And if the people who wrote SQL*Worksheet for Oracle are listening. I could live without the message box after you exit it saying (from memory) "SQL*Worksheet Exited" with an OK button.
Lord Hugh must be trolling too much, I recognised him from your quote, even though his post has already reached the /. cemetery. Actually I probably read /. too much, but I can give it up any time, honest.
Of course, that tells you just how old the codebase for Win9x really is...)
All it tells you is that their interfaces are backwardly compatible. Your suspicions may be right, however.
Did he really eat four ghosts with each power pill? I thought that after one of the early levels (about 13 IIRC) that the power pills no longer turned the ghosts blue.
I knew I was on dangerous ground when I was thinking of kind of a tautology. And I take my hat off to you for that fine word which I admit to having to look up. Here is the definition from m-w.com, which is bordering very closely as an example of the word it defines:
the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said)
A phrase I will have to remember next time I'm in an all day meeting with the PHBs. Although I think the meaning is more to do with redundancy than self contradiction and meaningless filler
I'm a big England cricket fan. So for your chance to gloat, how much did you enjoy the Old Trafford ODI? And what will the score in Ashes be?
With the letters E, P, O and N they could have at least been OPEN (Optical Passive Ethernet Network), or more sinisterly PEON. This may have highlighted that an ethernet network is kind of a tautology.
Of course this minor whinging is down to the fact that my Locale's c-time (time for Californian Innovations to be on offer) is about 67 months. And that is only until BT screw you
I'm sure he said 0wns
Does anyone know where I can find "all the available evidence"? Or even some of it.
In the Daily Mirror in the UK is a fiendish general knowledge crossword. Finding the answers to the questions on the net is good for teaching search engines, and some of the big info sites (e.g. imdb, britannica, expedia). It also helps for bookmarks, as similar categories of questions often come up.
Are you trying to say that reading the bible daily is good for marriage? In which case you meant "Only 0.1% of couples that read the bible daily get divorced". What you actually said seems more likely
I.e. if 0.1% of all couples read the bible daily then 100% of all couples that read the bible will get divorced?
Or another way 99.9% of all couples neither read the bible daily nor get divorced
So, instead of doing this: prepare data -> encrypt -> compress, do this instead: prepare data -> compress -> encrypt.
Any reason why that wouldn't work?
More recent MUDs (e.g. the stuff by simu) have a server enforced time that each action will take, as well as maximum buffered inputs for zero time commands. They still have problems with scripters of course, the battle continues...
Why do Iranians and Guatamalans have contempt for the US?
On monday I watched a documentary on the history channel about the CIA in Iran. I don't know who bank-rolls the channel, but I'd reckon they aren't small.
The information is out there, its just that people don't seem actively interested in it
The BBC servers crawled through the 1997 Election. This one was too boring to even notice a change in traffic patterns
WAP has provisions for identifying the user agent. It can use the data from this to provide customized content for larger sizes if it wants. Its too much effort (money) for most people to do, so they go for the lowest common denominator.
PPV must be making some money since it's still available.
Substitute VA Linux or Redhat for PPV and it doesn't seem to read so true. Not that that implies that PPV isn't making money
Yes, but any 16 year old with a cable modem and a CD burner can download a copy of any Linux distro and have a REAL, robust, scalable server OS to play with, free of charge.
They'd probably need a computer too, unless they can operate the interface on their peripherals manually somehow. Then I wouldn't put that past kids today, won't be long until they're directly wired.
Damn, I was about to go out and but a Mac, but I've never thawed a hot dog and I don't fancy learning now
If I put a 21" CRT on my desk at home it would fall right through it (£20 crap from MFI that it is). I've no room for a bigger and stronger desk. Just a shame that I can't afford a big LCD (yet).
Is that how it works in Finland?