It may have been closer to 4 years not 3. A couple of years in Vista hell, then finally broke the Window and [did something I haven't worked out a metaphor for] with the Penguin.
More practically, the only reason we store spent reactor fuel (past the first few years) is that it can be renewed via a breeder reactor and used again.
The only reason. Nothing to do with having a stock of highly unpleasant nucleides for making weaponry - conventional nukes or dirty bombs?
Oh to be so young and uncynical!
Oh, hang on, what's this in today's headlines? Oh, nothing terribly suspicious.
Sort of thing I might have done in my youth, except for the bit about asking for a license.
Err, I have one (but I'm not a tenant, just a flat owner) and my friend has one (he is a rent-paying tenant).
But then again, I read/. and he doesn't use the Internet. Or have a phone. Landline or mobile. According to theoretical statistics, neither of us probably exist.
Assuming you actually own that copyright. 99% of the work contracts out there have a clause where you are ceding all intellectual property to the employer.
The author asserts that he's not even seen his contract. For 5 years. He's cut off one of his legs.
even if the software is not related to the business of your employer and even if developed in your spare time;
The author asserts that he worked "night and day" for them, which implies no spare time. The software in question is (a major / the main) line of business for his former employers. He's cut off another two legs.
So spending 10 minutes to read your contract might save a butt-load of lawyer fees.
It might have done, but he didn't. If he'd paid his union dues, then he might have had free legal advice too (as well as being repeatedly strongly encouraged to read his contract and lodge a copy with the union lawyer). Hence the several legs laying in the pool of blood on the floor. I'd expect there are some broken friendships in the gore too.
The only remaining leg for him to stand on is that the code was GPL'd until the (arguable) owners un-GPL'd it. So that last GPL version can be forked. That's likely to set him up in direct competition with his former employers.
I hear the lawyers rubbing their hands together even as I type.
Prostitution in and of itself is a victimless crime. If two consenting adults decide to exchange money for sex, where is the crime?
No one has paid a fuck tax yet. That is the fundamental crime.
I'm sure that tax collectors around the world are working on the problem, along with the related problem of taxing breathing. Tax men have been working towards this fundamental tax (or trivial relatives) since taxation was invented.
If the bullet is going to hit the laser, then it is going to have a fairly slow drift trajectory across the line of sight when viewed from the laser. So, speed of servoing isn't likely to be that much of an issue for self-defence.
If a bullet travels a little over mach 1 (someone else said), then theoretically a sniper could shoot at me from (say) 1km away and I could see the muzzle flash, possibly see the bullet emerging from it, register what I'd seen, and still live to tell the tale as the bullet whistles past my ear.
Now there is a proposition for Mythbusters!
(Boring ; they'd use Buster with a high-speed camera for an eye-ball. I wanted to see Adam get head-shot by Walrus-chops.)
Evaporation only makes the problem go to some mythical place called "Away". "Away" does not appear in any atlas or gazetteer I've found, and in fact often turns out to be your neighbour's yard.
The Cubans should sue but are unlikely to lower themselves to American standards. The Bahamians could sue, and probably ought to. The Puerto Ricans probably can't.
"Trike", "chlorothene", 1,1,1-trichloroethylene is not particularly nice stuff. It's chemically homologous to chloroform, which is a known cumulative liver poison, which will probably get you before it's (likely) carcinogenicity does.
We stopped using it about 19 years ago, despite it being a damned good tool for the job we used it for, and for many other "off-book" jobs too. I couldn't justify the hazard to myself and my fellow workers for the utility that it had. So we use something else (non-chlorinated, with several biochemical pathways for detoxifying it, so it's non-cumulative ; for details, arrange a meeting through Reception when I'm on the correct continent) for it's main task and the "off-book" tasks we do with less effective solvents and elbow grease. I was not popular, but at the time, I was the stock buyer and I simply stopped buying it, used up our stocks and removed it from the order forms. To add it back, it would have to pass a change review including a risk assessment, and it won't ever pass that.
Currently, I can get cable or DSL but the DSL is so much slower than cable, it's really not a viable option.
So, you are going to stick to dial-up for the foreseeable future. Yes?
It may not be what you want, or what you got used to, but that doesn't necessarily make it not work at all. You'll just have to change the things that you do. Want a new Linux Distro ; get someone to post you a DVD. Want to send someone a letter? Compose it offline and send it when you next connect.
Do you still have a "party line" which you share with your neighbours. Say, you use it in odd hours and they use it in even hours?
Well seeing as how I've been in prison myself and did quite a bit of research on it, [SNIP] So, uh, how is that not played up when everybody always immediately jumps to "Ohhhh! Butt rape!" when they hear "prison"?
Just as a matter of interest, what (in your knowledge) is the proportion of anal rapes to oral rapes in prison? Or is oral rape not considered as "rape" but a "lewd and libidinous assault"?
This object could have just been the case for such a tool.
TFA states that the object is a case, but for a balance, not a protractor. You can see the joint along the length of the body, but the hinges aren't illustrated. I'd guess leather, but not necessarily. And not important to the question at hand.
Appears to be a degree system of measurement. Eat that, grad and radian fans...
I've heard that electrons can only spin in one of two directions. That means that they count in binary. Eat that, trinary, octal, decimal and hex fans... Same argument ; same relevance. They're different tools for different jobs.
Gradians (grads) were introduced to make artillery calculations simpler in the days when the calculations were done years before the gun was built and put into tables for use at the gun emplacement.
Radians emerge naturally from the geometry of the circle and make the maths of trigonometry much simpler (if you don't have enough mathematics to know this already, get back to making change at your checkout in Walmart!).
Degrees were convenient to Babylonians counting on their fingers. But otherwise they are just as arbitrary as gradians.
Although it looks like english, it lacks a few important details, and even with those it would be gibberish.
Could you please translte you post into Italian. Your English is imperfect and confusing, and may actually be gibberish, and it would be so much more convenient for me if you wrote in Italian. Or Russian. Or French.
The article is obviously written by someone working in a non-native tongue, English. So before you criticize, ask yourself if you could do any better.
and the plumb line needs to pass through the center of the device, then the center of the device would have had a hole from which to hang the plumb line.
TFA describes how Egyptians plumbs were constructed in general and how the examples in this particular architect's tomb were used. You point is addressed in TFA.
TBH, I'm very unconvinced that this balance case had an actual protractor carved into it. I think it's just a geometrical design. But then, I did RTFA, despite the admittedly fractured English. Then again, sharing today's office with a Frenchman and a Philipeno, working with Romanians, Tanzanians, and even bloody Australians, perhaps I'm a little less bigoted about languages than you are.
Every trig problem I had to solve went to great efforts to say angles are not accurate.
On exam papers, in text books etc?
Look at any properly made engineering drawing. Somewhere there should be an injunction "DO NOT SCALE", meaning "Do not measure anything on this paper and correct for scale ; if you think you need a measurement, and it is not written in the drawing, consult your supervisor."
That applies to CAD-generated drawings as much as hand-drawn ones. The problem isn't in the drawing itself ; it's in the fact that paper isn't a stable medium. It changes size and shape with changing environment, particularly humidity. The same applies to drafting film (sometimes called "sepia paper").
So, on a properly made drawing, if an angle is needed, the value of the angle is written on the drawing, or the angle is defined in some other way (distances along a straight edge from some reference point, etc). "Dimensioning" drawings is a non-trivial subject. Firstly, you have to define your object unambiguously (not always simple ; many apparently sufficient dimensioning schemes can have multiple solutions), and secondly, you have to arrange your dimensions in a way that is efficient for the manufacturer to mark up the raw material, and that minimises the effects of additive errors. And no doubt there are other matters too. Specifying a bolt hole requires about 6 dimensions before you even get started on special treatments.
I've used a protractor before, when I was in elementary school. I cannot imagine a practical use for one today.
This says more about the paucity of your imagination than it does about the utility of protractors. Do any sort of work where you (not a machine) have to produce a material object and you'll soon come across situations where you need them. Same if you only design or specify the objects.
digital calculators beginning over a century ago. They are far faster and more accurate than the best human computers,
If and only if they are used correctly. And very often, working out how to present a calculation (including checking if you've got the appropriate number of parentheses if you have a calculator which does parentheses ; I've never had one) takes longer than doing the maths in your head, to the first couple of significant digits at least. If you're then punching the problem into the machine (to get the 5th and 6th significant digits, say), then you've got a "road map" of the problem to check whether you've entered the numbers correctly.
A 200kilo professional corrupt gorilla [Somali governments] a few hundred miles away is much more dangerous to me than a gaggle of 400kilo amateur corrupt gorillas [Western governments] on the other side of the world.
Rifle practice on the reef at low tide. I hope the rifles don't blow up.
Why are the prison control systems connected to the Internet? Who thought that was a good idea?
(1)Two prisons with a wall in common are getting refurbishment. The decision is made to have one control room for the two prisons (I don't know if this would work where prisons are privatised ; it would certainly work here where only a couple of prisons are privatised). This saves 8 full-time jobs (possibly 12, I don't know the shift/ vacation rotas) between the two prisons. Nothing goes wrong.
(2) Two prisons on opposite sides of a street are being refurbished. In the light of (1) above, these now share a control room. There is a dedicated link running on wire under the road.
(3) Someone puts a JCB ("back hoe," whatever) through the dedicated link ; while repairs are carried out, a lash-up fix is "engineered" through the Internet.
(4) Two jails on opposite sides of a city are being refurbished. In light of the above experiences the decision is made to save another 8 full-time paid staff by linking these over the internet and sharing a control room.
It's easy to get to strange sounding places without making any strange sounding moves.
So, either Vista is an utter paragon of security, or
Vista has a (rapidly) vanishingly small market penetration.
Since it was Vista that moved me to vape my next machine's Windows (not sure what it was, Vista or 7. Who cares? Not me.) install and overwrite it with Ubuntu, I suspect the answer is the lack of market penetration.
Sub-tropical Aiberdeen. Very sub-tropical at the moment.
There has been a lot of fibre going in over the last decade, blocking roads in and around industrial estates and the airport. But I've never heard of anyone getting a domestic fibre. It's only been about 5 years since we got ADSL, and on my estate we're getting about 2MB down and 0,5MB up, which is more than adequate.
The fibre doesn't seem to extend north of the Central Belt. In fact, it only seems to be in Edinburgh & Glasgow (and down on the Plains of Englandshire too).
No I sit corrected. It goes to Bathgate too. Bathgate, that well-known centre of technological affairs. [shakes head]
Speaking of form factors, anyone remember 5.25" hard drives? I liked the Bigfoots back in the day -- affordable high-capacity, and they were third-height, so you got decent airflow over them in half-height bays.
Yes, I remember them. Didn't ever have a BigFoot though, I'm pretty sure. Weird-shaped things, weren't they. I may have picked up one from a corpse pile one time.
Last one I had was the 19GB model
My last one was... I can't remember the make, but it was 90MB. Absolute bitch because I had to partition it into 2x32 and one 24MB chunks.
Then, just as I was seriously thinking about getting a copy of Coherent (£100, I think it was) I heard about this mad Finn with a project to learn about 386-en.
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There is no number 4.
It may have been closer to 4 years not 3. A couple of years in Vista hell, then finally broke the Window and [did something I haven't worked out a metaphor for] with the Penguin.
The only reason. Nothing to do with having a stock of highly unpleasant nucleides for making weaponry - conventional nukes or dirty bombs?
Oh to be so young and uncynical!
Oh, hang on, what's this in today's headlines? Oh, nothing terribly suspicious.
Sort of thing I might have done in my youth, except for the bit about asking for a license.
But then again, I read /. and he doesn't use the Internet. Or have a phone. Landline or mobile. According to theoretical statistics, neither of us probably exist.
We'd need to be a type-II or type-III civilisation to consider this practical (using the whole power output form a star, or from a galaxy).
Well, my "this would make a good Myth to bust" sense is functioning at least.
The author asserts that he's not even seen his contract. For 5 years. He's cut off one of his legs.
The author asserts that he worked "night and day" for them, which implies no spare time. The software in question is (a major / the main) line of business for his former employers. He's cut off another two legs.
It might have done, but he didn't. If he'd paid his union dues, then he might have had free legal advice too (as well as being repeatedly strongly encouraged to read his contract and lodge a copy with the union lawyer). Hence the several legs laying in the pool of blood on the floor. I'd expect there are some broken friendships in the gore too.
The only remaining leg for him to stand on is that the code was GPL'd until the (arguable) owners un-GPL'd it. So that last GPL version can be forked. That's likely to set him up in direct competition with his former employers.
I hear the lawyers rubbing their hands together even as I type.
No one has paid a fuck tax yet. That is the fundamental crime.
I'm sure that tax collectors around the world are working on the problem, along with the related problem of taxing breathing. Tax men have been working towards this fundamental tax (or trivial relatives) since taxation was invented.
If a bullet travels a little over mach 1 (someone else said), then theoretically a sniper could shoot at me from (say) 1km away and I could see the muzzle flash, possibly see the bullet emerging from it, register what I'd seen, and still live to tell the tale as the bullet whistles past my ear.
Now there is a proposition for Mythbusters!
(Boring ; they'd use Buster with a high-speed camera for an eye-ball. I wanted to see Adam get head-shot by Walrus-chops.)
The Cubans should sue but are unlikely to lower themselves to American standards. The Bahamians could sue, and probably ought to. The Puerto Ricans probably can't.
"Trike", "chlorothene", 1,1,1-trichloroethylene is not particularly nice stuff. It's chemically homologous to chloroform, which is a known cumulative liver poison, which will probably get you before it's (likely) carcinogenicity does.
We stopped using it about 19 years ago, despite it being a damned good tool for the job we used it for, and for many other "off-book" jobs too. I couldn't justify the hazard to myself and my fellow workers for the utility that it had. So we use something else (non-chlorinated, with several biochemical pathways for detoxifying it, so it's non-cumulative ; for details, arrange a meeting through Reception when I'm on the correct continent) for it's main task and the "off-book" tasks we do with less effective solvents and elbow grease. I was not popular, but at the time, I was the stock buyer and I simply stopped buying it, used up our stocks and removed it from the order forms. To add it back, it would have to pass a change review including a risk assessment, and it won't ever pass that.
So, you are going to stick to dial-up for the foreseeable future. Yes?
It may not be what you want, or what you got used to, but that doesn't necessarily make it not work at all. You'll just have to change the things that you do. Want a new Linux Distro ; get someone to post you a DVD. Want to send someone a letter? Compose it offline and send it when you next connect.
Do you still have a "party line" which you share with your neighbours. Say, you use it in odd hours and they use it in even hours?
Just as a matter of interest, what (in your knowledge) is the proportion of anal rapes to oral rapes in prison? Or is oral rape not considered as "rape" but a "lewd and libidinous assault"?
Your scheme for "renewing" nuclear fuels is ... ?
BTW, I do understand "breeder" technologies. If you want to bring them up as "renewed" fuels, then I'll be glad to demolish the proposition.
TFA states that the object is a case, but for a balance, not a protractor. You can see the joint along the length of the body, but the hinges aren't illustrated. I'd guess leather, but not necessarily. And not important to the question at hand.
I've heard that electrons can only spin in one of two directions. That means that they count in binary. Eat that, trinary, octal, decimal and hex fans ...
Same argument ; same relevance. They're different tools for different jobs.
Gradians (grads) were introduced to make artillery calculations simpler in the days when the calculations were done years before the gun was built and put into tables for use at the gun emplacement.
Radians emerge naturally from the geometry of the circle and make the maths of trigonometry much simpler (if you don't have enough mathematics to know this already, get back to making change at your checkout in Walmart!).
Degrees were convenient to Babylonians counting on their fingers. But otherwise they are just as arbitrary as gradians.
Could you please translte you post into Italian. Your English is imperfect and confusing, and may actually be gibberish, and it would be so much more convenient for me if you wrote in Italian. Or Russian. Or French.
The article is obviously written by someone working in a non-native tongue, English. So before you criticize, ask yourself if you could do any better.
TFA describes how Egyptians plumbs were constructed in general and how the examples in this particular architect's tomb were used. You point is addressed in TFA.
TBH, I'm very unconvinced that this balance case had an actual protractor carved into it. I think it's just a geometrical design. But then, I did RTFA, despite the admittedly fractured English. Then again, sharing today's office with a Frenchman and a Philipeno, working with Romanians, Tanzanians, and even bloody Australians, perhaps I'm a little less bigoted about languages than you are.
On exam papers, in text books etc?
Look at any properly made engineering drawing. Somewhere there should be an injunction "DO NOT SCALE", meaning "Do not measure anything on this paper and correct for scale ; if you think you need a measurement, and it is not written in the drawing, consult your supervisor."
That applies to CAD-generated drawings as much as hand-drawn ones. The problem isn't in the drawing itself ; it's in the fact that paper isn't a stable medium. It changes size and shape with changing environment, particularly humidity. The same applies to drafting film (sometimes called "sepia paper").
So, on a properly made drawing, if an angle is needed, the value of the angle is written on the drawing, or the angle is defined in some other way (distances along a straight edge from some reference point, etc). "Dimensioning" drawings is a non-trivial subject. Firstly, you have to define your object unambiguously (not always simple ; many apparently sufficient dimensioning schemes can have multiple solutions), and secondly, you have to arrange your dimensions in a way that is efficient for the manufacturer to mark up the raw material, and that minimises the effects of additive errors. And no doubt there are other matters too. Specifying a bolt hole requires about 6 dimensions before you even get started on special treatments.
This says more about the paucity of your imagination than it does about the utility of protractors. Do any sort of work where you (not a machine) have to produce a material object and you'll soon come across situations where you need them. Same if you only design or specify the objects.
If and only if they are used correctly. And very often, working out how to present a calculation (including checking if you've got the appropriate number of parentheses if you have a calculator which does parentheses ; I've never had one) takes longer than doing the maths in your head, to the first couple of significant digits at least. If you're then punching the problem into the machine (to get the 5th and 6th significant digits, say), then you've got a "road map" of the problem to check whether you've entered the numbers correctly.
Sadist. (In a good sense.)
Rifle practice on the reef at low tide. I hope the rifles don't blow up.
It's easy to get to strange sounding places without making any strange sounding moves.
So, either Vista is an utter paragon of security, or
Vista has a (rapidly) vanishingly small market penetration.
Since it was Vista that moved me to vape my next machine's Windows (not sure what it was, Vista or 7. Who cares? Not me.) install and overwrite it with Ubuntu, I suspect the answer is the lack of market penetration.
There has been a lot of fibre going in over the last decade, blocking roads in and around industrial estates and the airport. But I've never heard of anyone getting a domestic fibre. It's only been about 5 years since we got ADSL, and on my estate we're getting about 2MB down and 0,5MB up, which is more than adequate.
No I sit corrected. It goes to Bathgate too. Bathgate, that well-known centre of technological affairs. [shakes head]
Yes, I remember them. Didn't ever have a BigFoot though, I'm pretty sure. Weird-shaped things, weren't they. I may have picked up one from a corpse pile one time.
My last one was ... I can't remember the make, but it was 90MB. Absolute bitch because I had to partition it into 2x32 and one 24MB chunks.
Then, just as I was seriously thinking about getting a copy of Coherent (£100, I think it was) I heard about this mad Finn with a project to learn about 386-en.