Candidates who started their programmes after August 1998 may use only Casio FX115W or FX115S calculators in examinations. Other candidates must obey School's regulations.
For someone who spent their school days using the same TI method to use a calculator Casio's DAL (or whatever it's called) rubbish is a right pain. Maybe I can use that to excuse the fail mark?;)
I guess you missed the recent article about the Galeon project which will use the Gecko rendering engine and toss out all the other widgets. Admittedly it needs Mozilla to be installed but it reduces the operating overhead required. (Project homepage)
I've read through the posts and no-one has mentioned http://www.stand.org.uk. At their site you can webfax your local MP and they have a good source of information about the effects of the bill.
Quick someone help me! I've got five mod points and I want to mod this all the way up but I can't decide what it is, funny or informative or insightful? Arggh the decisions.....
Oh bugger, now I've posted. No chance of modding now. Sorry Siggy, no karma from me.
You mention damage zones but did you know that all the engine uses is a bounding box that's the same size no matter the size of your model? I found this out after I downloaded the Lego man model.
Very cool but to score a head shot you need to forget about looking for the whites of their eyes, instead aim above their head!
Say what? If it's true that copyright expires after fifty years why can't I go out and get hold of Citizen Kane for free? (Go on mention beer and speech, I dare you:)
According to that fact I should have been able to have access to it as it's been in the public domain for the last nine years.
VHS is actually a poorer cousin to Betamax. Betamax was a smaller format and offered better quality but because VHS was more popular (not sure why, anyone care to comment?) it won. Therefore just by creating a better, newer format does not guarantee you market dominance.
And even if you did create this new magical format, who is going to release films on it? All the big distributors are so tied up in DVD that they would be unlikely to enter anything vaguely resembling competition.
Personally I don't really understand why the whole region encoding system was added to DVDs. People who *really* want to watch those grey imports will always find a way.
Why use PDFs? Simply because if you need to make sure that everyone will see exactly what you intended then PDF is the way to go. How else would you distribute documentation or manuals with complex diagrams and be assured that anyone can see (and print it) it exactly as it was designed?
Hope that IE and Mozilla both display your pages the same? I think it's been proven that that's a little improbable.
wrighty. (Note that I don't condone the use of anything but vanilla html for web pages, but PDF's *do* have their uses.)
Let's open up the control software for space systems? Insane. This kind of work is all about accountablity and making sure the system is mission critical. (Not nearly the same as programming a Gnome widget;)
I guess they're (MS) just flexing their muscles to see if slashdot will just roll over. (Of course this is not going to happen.) But their case can have no weight (possibly apart from those posters who submitted the actual information).
Telling people that it's just a zip file isn't a trade secret.
wrighty.
"Desire, ambition, faith - without these life is simple."
If I had the opportunity to do this I wouldn't even blink. My Uni (Surrey, in the UK) has recently got ntl to cable up all the student rooms on campus.
I now have a phone in my room and a RJ45 socket. The cable runs as far as where the hub should be but the Uni apparently doesn't have enough money to put the backbone infrastructure in for a couple more years. Next year will be the cable modem though:-)
But they do manufacture their own satellites, 'cos obviously that's pretty cheap to do;-(
Slashdot Mirror
Tag line: Utilising GeoCities to subvert humanity.
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Candidates who started their programmes after August 1998 may use only Casio FX115W or FX115S calculators in examinations. Other candidates must obey School's regulations.
For someone who spent their school days using the same TI method to use a calculator Casio's DAL (or whatever it's called) rubbish is a right pain. Maybe I can use that to excuse the fail mark? ;)
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Oh, and all those Beowulf posts are a little pointless methinks.
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Another useful site is http://www.fipr.org/rip/RIPcountermeas ures.htm . No explainations required.
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(Is it me or does the lameness filter add in spaces to long strings?)
Oh bugger, now I've posted. No chance of modding now. Sorry Siggy, no karma from me.
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Very cool but to score a head shot you need to forget about looking for the whites of their eyes, instead aim above their head!
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The joy of playing it during lunch-three-hours. :)
"Headshot"
And UT is even better, the Redeemer has to be one of the most awe-inspiring weapons I've ever seen.
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According to that fact I should have been able to have access to it as it's been in the public domain for the last nine years.
wrighty.
And even if you did create this new magical format, who is going to release films on it? All the big distributors are so tied up in DVD that they would be unlikely to enter anything vaguely resembling competition.
Personally I don't really understand why the whole region encoding system was added to DVDs. People who *really* want to watch those grey imports will always find a way.
wrighty.
Google only does this to move the focus to the search box, saves typing molecules you see?
Hope that IE and Mozilla both display your pages the same? I think it's been proven that that's a little improbable.
wrighty.
(Note that I don't condone the use of anything but vanilla html for web pages, but PDF's *do* have their uses.)
Let's open up the control software for space systems? Insane. This kind of work is all about accountablity and making sure the system is mission critical. (Not nearly the same as programming a Gnome widget ;)
Did you not see the recent article "Space Shuttle Software: Not For Hacks"? It mentioned an oldish article about how methodical these people need to be, to ensure that everything is accounted for, thoroughly tested and all the code is signed off before it is used in the shuttle.
Sure, for systems used by a lot of people open source makes sense, but for space shuttles? I don't have a big enough garden...
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"Sorry, nothing to see here"
It's available at http://www.math.duke.edu/~yu/wreq/.
It's good in that you can see past queries along with answers posted by the support staff(almost like a self generating FAQ).
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void russian_roulette(void) { char *target; strcpy(target, "bullet"); }
I found this the other day, a Napster-like client purely for distrubuting Metallica media, even concert videos!
I'm sure it could be adapted to allow Dr Dre as well.. :-)
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(Sorry, just had to do it....)
This is goning to be huge :)
I guess they're (MS) just flexing their muscles to see if slashdot will just roll over. (Of course this is not going to happen.) But their case can have no weight (possibly apart from those posters who submitted the actual information).
Telling people that it's just a zip file isn't a trade secret.
wrighty.
"Desire, ambition, faith - without these life is simple."
If I had the opportunity to do this I wouldn't even blink. My Uni (Surrey, in the UK) has recently got ntl to cable up all the student rooms on campus.
I now have a phone in my room and a RJ45 socket. The cable runs as far as where the hub should be but the Uni apparently doesn't have enough money to put the backbone infrastructure in for a couple more years. Next year will be the cable modem though :-)
But they do manufacture their own satellites, 'cos obviously that's pretty cheap to do ;-(
wrighty.
"I am Jack's smirking revenge"
To try out comment posting. Been lurking for about a year now, 10k seems the place to start.
Done.