Personally, I've been wondering why Google hasn't taken a bite out of squatters that sit on the obvious name of it's own services. Take a wander over to googlenews.com or googlecalendar.com.
> The number of ships actually DECREASED between SC2 and SC3, some > of the storyline aspects of SC2 were either changed or outright > ignored (why did the Spathi join when in SC2 they sealed themselves > off on their home planet?)
As explained by Niffiwan (the Spathi) in SC3, the Chmmr came and popped their protective sheild "like a soap bubble" and announced that the Spathi "were free".
And, the PS2 controller is just a SNES controller, with two analog sticks, two-extra top buttons, and pressure sensitivity. Similarities outweighing the differences and all.:)
Bill Frist is aware that even if the Senate manages to pass increased federal funding for this research, fellow Republican George Bush (Jr.) will follow through on his threat to veto the bill. This is more likely an event of standard political maneuvering than a ray of hope for stem cell advocates. Remember that Frist is considered a major Republican contender for president in 2008.
Can someone please explain how a mirror would work for this (each individual mirror is made up of smaller hex-pieces) if it's made up of many, many small pieces with holes in between? I thought you needed a large, flat unbroken surface for each mirror?
Great. So people deliberately fish them out, and they never get a chance to breed a super-species of giant catfish that will conquer humanity once and for all. *sigh* How boring.
I'm reminded of a NOVA show that I watched that talked about theories of time travel. This was discussing the (discredited?) quantum-wormhole idea, but stated that scientists trying to figure out how the future could affect that past decided to use a much less complicated model to work with - pool balls on a table. When a ball went down a pocket, it went back to a certain space earlier in time, and kept it's current vector. In the simulations, it turned out that the ball was actually going back into the past and managing to knock itself into the portal.
So, can we figure out a model to calculate what might happen on a slightly more complex level? The human world has so many elements it's impossible predict what could happen.
So the question is, if we do have at least a technological clue how time travel to the present from the future might be made possible, why not start work on it today so it can actually be done tomorrow?
Or, failing that, what I think would be interesting is setting up a sealed space with a one-way looking space in a typical enviornment of our day and age (say, a busy city sidewalk) that people from the future could use to come back and reside inside while looking out. That way if time travel is invented, and requires an enviornment that cannot create paradoxes, time travelers could come to this space and view the past as it happens. Sure, about as useful as a video camera, but a far more novel experience. And the people on the outside in the present could never know if the structure is being used or not.
But I don't want individual applications full of code to take care of tasks using multiple processors. I want a few rather powerful processors running single-CPU applications, and the operating system doling out the work.
Imagine it - a cpu that uses AMD's 64-bit extention architechture on top of an entirely revamped 8/16/33 bit instruction set. Appealing to programmers familiar with AMD's 64-bit instructions (with 16 registers, half GPR), while at the same time eliminating outdated legacy elements that waste precious silicon.
(Not that Apple could convince Intel to make a revamped hybrid CPU of the sort just for themselves, but I think it would be a nice road to take.)
I've heard the radio preview, and seen a few still frames from the movie. Call me crazy, but I don't rememember reading anything in the books showing Ford Prefect as black (...and the guy they choose doesn't look like someone who could play the nonsensical, pissy drunkard Ford.) Nor of Marvin having a head the size of a beach ball. And in the pictures, I haven't been able to find any pictures of Zaphod Beeblebrox with two heads (does he even have them?) I'm starting to wonder if the movie is even worth seeing. In fact, the only *good* thing I've heard as of yet is that Marvin's voice will be Alan Rickman. Is this worth paying for, or is giving this money an insult to Douglas Adams?
- Most farmers like DST so they don't need to get up so early in order to get chores done.
I've heard this arguement before but I've never really understood it. It's not like the cows know what time it is.
Just like humans have internal clocks, so do other mammals. This thread has many people posting on how changes in their routine of just one hour throws them off. Why wouldn't the same thing happen to cows?
IMHO farmers will get up when there is enough light to get done whatever needs doing.
I was under the impression that farmers got up a good bit before there was sunlight. At any rate, I doubt that the opinions of non-farmers like us have any impact on how farmers actually do work. We might try asking one?
3.) More shiny blue. Since this isn't the final Aero 3D-accelerated interface, expect more of this but using DirectX.
I'm wondering what happened to the red close button? Back when Apple promo'd red-yellow-green buttons, Windows XP came out with the closing "X" button colored red. Now that the "Aqua" look is all the rage (or so some people think so, I don't really care for it), the red is dropped and shiny blue takes it's place?
[the sales rep knows that he'll only earn commission on another order from Big Box if he helps Big Box cycle inventory]
Then the anti-mail-in-rebate law needs to exist to protect the retailer from unfair manufacturer practices, as well as the customer. If the entire system can't work without someone having to use a scheme that will ultimately cheat someone else (as it used to work), we're going to be in for a long, hard road without some major changes to that system.
And also the look, HD-DVD looks like a DVD while Blu Ray is in a cart.
You're saying that Blu-Ray is a caddy-based format? I read that they had more troubles with scratches than HD-DVD, but they had fixed it with a new coating. Can you verify that Blu-Ray is caddy? I've been personally hoping that HD-DVD would catch on, but I've always been a big fan of caddies.
I really wished that they had set this limit to increase yearly with inflation. This gives them an excuse years down the road to raise it to something like $5,000, a value which inflation wouldn't have reached yet.
To get rid of that "M" icon in the upper right hand corner. I accidentally click on that occasionally, and it takes me to the Mozilla homepage. Begone, big, obtrusive icon!
Now that it'll probably get cheaper, it might be the time to pick this up for use as a cell phone. Does anybody know what the pricing plan for the nGage is?
You're seeking a quest, you say? Well, I have been having some problems with Slashdot trolls. Go out to the nearest section and kill 10 trolls, and bring me back their first posts as proof of your deed. As a reward, you will recieve one of the following:
Snowballs. Yeah, I remember that upgrade patch. There were so many snowballs flying around in the game that the servers couldn't keep track of all the projectiles and the whole game went down hard.
Slashdot Mirror
Personally, I've been wondering why Google hasn't taken a bite out of squatters that sit on the obvious name of it's own services. Take a wander over to googlenews.com or googlecalendar.com.
> The number of ships actually DECREASED between SC2 and SC3, some
> of the storyline aspects of SC2 were either changed or outright
> ignored (why did the Spathi join when in SC2 they sealed themselves
> off on their home planet?)
As explained by Niffiwan (the Spathi) in SC3, the Chmmr came and popped their protective sheild "like a soap bubble" and announced that the Spathi "were free".
And, the PS2 controller is just a SNES controller, with two analog sticks, two-extra top buttons, and pressure sensitivity. Similarities outweighing the differences and all. :)
Bill Frist is aware that even if the Senate manages to pass increased federal funding for this research, fellow Republican George Bush (Jr.) will follow through on his threat to veto the bill. This is more likely an event of standard political maneuvering than a ray of hope for stem cell advocates. Remember that Frist is considered a major Republican contender for president in 2008.
That makes sense. And, after reading more, I may have misunderstood the idea. The hex shapes are the holes in the mirror, not the mirror. Weird.
Can someone please explain how a mirror would work for this (each individual mirror is made up of smaller hex-pieces) if it's made up of many, many small pieces with holes in between? I thought you needed a large, flat unbroken surface for each mirror?
Great. So people deliberately fish them out, and they never get a chance to breed a super-species of giant catfish that will conquer humanity once and for all. *sigh* How boring.
Why can't we just let evolution do it's job?
I'm reminded of a NOVA show that I watched that talked about theories of time travel. This was discussing the (discredited?) quantum-wormhole idea, but stated that scientists trying to figure out how the future could affect that past decided to use a much less complicated model to work with - pool balls on a table. When a ball went down a pocket, it went back to a certain space earlier in time, and kept it's current vector. In the simulations, it turned out that the ball was actually going back into the past and managing to knock itself into the portal.
So, can we figure out a model to calculate what might happen on a slightly more complex level? The human world has so many elements it's impossible predict what could happen.
So the question is, if we do have at least a technological clue how time travel to the present from the future might be made possible, why not start work on it today so it can actually be done tomorrow?
Or, failing that, what I think would be interesting is setting up a sealed space with a one-way looking space in a typical enviornment of our day and age (say, a busy city sidewalk) that people from the future could use to come back and reside inside while looking out. That way if time travel is invented, and requires an enviornment that cannot create paradoxes, time travelers could come to this space and view the past as it happens. Sure, about as useful as a video camera, but a far more novel experience. And the people on the outside in the present could never know if the structure is being used or not.
But I don't want individual applications full of code to take care of tasks using multiple processors. I want a few rather powerful processors running single-CPU applications, and the operating system doling out the work.
Imagine it - a cpu that uses AMD's 64-bit extention architechture on top of an entirely revamped 8/16/33 bit instruction set. Appealing to programmers familiar with AMD's 64-bit instructions (with 16 registers, half GPR), while at the same time eliminating outdated legacy elements that waste precious silicon.
(Not that Apple could convince Intel to make a revamped hybrid CPU of the sort just for themselves, but I think it would be a nice road to take.)
I've heard the radio preview, and seen a few still frames from the movie. Call me crazy, but I don't rememember reading anything in the books showing Ford Prefect as black (...and the guy they choose doesn't look like someone who could play the nonsensical, pissy drunkard Ford.) Nor of Marvin having a head the size of a beach ball. And in the pictures, I haven't been able to find any pictures of Zaphod Beeblebrox with two heads (does he even have them?) I'm starting to wonder if the movie is even worth seeing. In fact, the only *good* thing I've heard as of yet is that Marvin's voice will be Alan Rickman. Is this worth paying for, or is giving this money an insult to Douglas Adams?
Dude, check your EULA. There's *tons* of stuff in there. Sorry, you clicked "I agree"; you're officially gay.
- Most farmers like DST so they don't need to get up so early in order to get chores done.
I've heard this arguement before but I've never really understood it. It's not like the cows know what time it is.
Just like humans have internal clocks, so do other mammals. This thread has many people posting on how changes in their routine of just one hour throws them off. Why wouldn't the same thing happen to cows?
IMHO farmers will get up when there is enough light to get done whatever needs doing.
I was under the impression that farmers got up a good bit before there was sunlight. At any rate, I doubt that the opinions of non-farmers like us have any impact on how farmers actually do work. We might try asking one?
Only today they claim we can trust Kim Il Jong and the mullahs of Iran more than the democratically elected government of the United States
Right! Because the majority of people are reliably smart enough to elect competent leaders.
(Not that I think *anybody* should have a nuke, mind you)
Of course Microsoft will create it...
Right after Apple does.
Does it therefore follow that to stop Microsoft, Apple computer must first go?
3.) More shiny blue. Since this isn't the final Aero 3D-accelerated interface, expect more of this but using DirectX.
I'm wondering what happened to the red close button? Back when Apple promo'd red-yellow-green buttons, Windows XP came out with the closing "X" button colored red. Now that the "Aqua" look is all the rage (or so some people think so, I don't really care for it), the red is dropped and shiny blue takes it's place?
[the sales rep knows that he'll only earn commission on another order from Big Box if he helps Big Box cycle inventory]
Then the anti-mail-in-rebate law needs to exist to protect the retailer from unfair manufacturer practices, as well as the customer. If the entire system can't work without someone having to use a scheme that will ultimately cheat someone else (as it used to work), we're going to be in for a long, hard road without some major changes to that system.
And also the look, HD-DVD looks like a DVD while Blu Ray is in a cart.
You're saying that Blu-Ray is a caddy-based format? I read that they had more troubles with scratches than HD-DVD, but they had fixed it with a new coating. Can you verify that Blu-Ray is caddy? I've been personally hoping that HD-DVD would catch on, but I've always been a big fan of caddies.
I really wished that they had set this limit to increase yearly with inflation. This gives them an excuse years down the road to raise it to something like $5,000, a value which inflation wouldn't have reached yet.
To get rid of that "M" icon in the upper right hand corner. I accidentally click on that occasionally, and it takes me to the Mozilla homepage. Begone, big, obtrusive icon!
Now that it'll probably get cheaper, it might be the time to pick this up for use as a cell phone. Does anybody know what the pricing plan for the nGage is?
You're seeking a quest, you say? Well, I have been having some problems with Slashdot trolls. Go out to the nearest section and kill 10 trolls, and bring me back their first posts as proof of your deed. As a reward, you will recieve one of the following:
1) OOG's mallet 2) Karma stew
Would you like to accept this quest?
(X) Accept (X) Cancel
Snowballs. Yeah, I remember that upgrade patch. There were so many snowballs flying around in the game that the servers couldn't keep track of all the projectiles and the whole game went down hard.
This idea had to have come from management.
Dude. Weren't you listening? 10 women for every man, and a life of doing nothing but breeding. That's not your ideal way of life? Sign me up!