The End of Eternity was a dumb book. So in th 130,000th century man FINALLY travels to other star systems to find them colonized by aliens. Man then return to eath the wither away.
Or...
Man simply travels back 100,000 years (or how ever long they need to go back) and colonize BEFORE the aliens do - after all they had had time travel for thousands of years.
The parachute was simply a drag chute to slow the bomb down to allow the aircraft to escape. Which incidentally, is why I thought they reduced the yeild - the aircraft could not escape a 100MT blast.
Maybe. Doing business in cash carries more overhead that one might think. Many companies would rather pay a stipend to VISA/MC than incur that overhead by dealing with something that can be destroyed or stolen with absolutely no recourse, and has to be transported somewhere to be converted to electronic currency.
If you have any connecting flights at all then all bets are off, and sometimes even if it is nonstop you can't do this succesffully with any type of consistent return.
Some planes have the cargo door in the middle of the cargo hold, baggage to the front and rear of the door. You don't know the order it is loaded and unloaded (rear portion first? last? both at the same time?) You don't know the order that the connecting flights are loaded. Sometimes the trains are left standing when a later loaded train is taken to the terminal first. Sometimes baggage is queued in the handling are until the whole planeload has arrived.
Point is, you cannot model the behavior of the baggage (un)loading with a FILO data structure like a stack.
You know, I have often wondered if anyone else realized that the security line is insanely vunerable.
Nice big group of unscreened people all crowded together standing around with no shoes on, so the survivors can't even run away over the post blast broken glass without shredding their feet.
I stand in that line thinking to myself, who the F thought up this brilliant plan?
Currently paying First, Business, and Mileage Plus Elite members get these orange tags on thier bags so that their luggage is first to come down the belt at baggage claim.
Too bad this rarely happens. I have been United premier Executive for 5 years running and I'd say this actually works 20% of the time (and that is being generous).
A better idea would be to simply reduce the weight and or amount of baggage folks can check and make up the difference in fuel savings.
The management who decides to keep code closed has no idea if the code is great, lousy, or mediocre. They simply think that for whatever reason they will profit more by keeping it closed.
The same thing can be said for much classified software and harware for that matter. Once it is classified, it becomes far easier for a company to keep it's intellectutal property secret (from competitors). This is an open and rife abuse of industrial security that is not ever going to go away.
Both masters degrees - one at Johns Hopkins the other at U Maryland, both technical fields (Math and Computer Science), most of my fellow students were American.
There were lots of ethnic Chinese and Indians - ABC and the Indian equivalent - but well under half were not citizens as far as I could tell.
Not that I was performing a census or really gave a rats ass.
I don't think Amazon et al are too concerned with rigorous Big O notation and nonrandomized input optimization.
Maybe I am splitting hairs, but I suspect these folks are occaisonally *applying* Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein rather than collaborating with them.
Lunh is basically a data entry validator. Finds simple errors like transposed digits and such. It is by no means a secure hash... and the article does not describe it precisely.
Horseshit. No one will 'control' the moon. Not unless they figure out a way to make fuel, celery, circuit boards, air, and water there.
Any 'permenant' stations on the Moon will always require Earths help simply for survival, and will be a huge drain on a nations resources in the event of war.
Want a leg up on the Chinese? LET them 'colonize' the Moon.
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The End of Eternity was a dumb book. So in th 130,000th century man FINALLY travels to other star systems to find them colonized by aliens. Man then return to eath the wither away.
Or...
Man simply travels back 100,000 years (or how ever long they need to go back) and colonize BEFORE the aliens do - after all they had had time travel for thousands of years.
...off.
Phone or no phone.
A jammer that lets the ring and the caller id through, then clamps down after say two rings, that would be great.
No yapping. Emergency calls get through (when you see that the babysitter or hospital have called you can leave and return the call).
Somehow this would just piss prople off more.
hence the multitude of "little" wars throught the latter half of the 20th century.
Of course it is silly... but trying to get a group of human beings to be rational... well good luck with that.
The parachute was simply a drag chute to slow the bomb down to allow the aircraft to escape. Which incidentally, is why I thought they reduced the yeild - the aircraft could not escape a 100MT blast.
...and 39 nanoseconds is not very long.
>> Cash will be accepted by the competition
Maybe. Doing business in cash carries more overhead that one might think. Many companies would rather pay a stipend to VISA/MC than incur that overhead by dealing with something that can be destroyed or stolen with absolutely no recourse, and has to be transported somewhere to be converted to electronic currency.
Well, atleast more folks realize it now.
If you have any connecting flights at all then all bets are off, and sometimes even if it is nonstop you can't do this succesffully with any type of consistent return.
Some planes have the cargo door in the middle of the cargo hold, baggage to the front and rear of the door. You don't know the order it is loaded and unloaded (rear portion first? last? both at the same time?) You don't know the order that the connecting flights are loaded. Sometimes the trains are left standing when a later loaded train is taken to the terminal first. Sometimes baggage is queued in the handling are until the whole planeload has arrived.
Point is, you cannot model the behavior of the baggage (un)loading with a FILO data structure like a stack.
You know, I have often wondered if anyone else realized that the security line is insanely vunerable.
Nice big group of unscreened people all crowded together standing around with no shoes on, so the survivors can't even run away over the post blast broken glass without shredding their feet.
I stand in that line thinking to myself, who the F thought up this brilliant plan?
Currently paying First, Business, and Mileage Plus Elite members get these orange tags on thier bags so that their luggage is first to come down the belt at baggage claim.
Too bad this rarely happens. I have been United premier Executive for 5 years running and I'd say this actually works 20% of the time (and that is being generous).
A better idea would be to simply reduce the weight and or amount of baggage folks can check and make up the difference in fuel savings.
Just crack open a text and start going at it.
Look, you should atleast read the article... to the very end.
....Covad DSL and Cavalier for both Phone and DSL, I can truthfully say that Verizon is doing folks a favor.
I know this is not the point, but there it is.
The management who decides to keep code closed has no idea if the code is great, lousy, or mediocre. They simply think that for whatever reason they will profit more by keeping it closed.
The same thing can be said for much classified software and harware for that matter. Once it is classified, it becomes far easier for a company to keep it's intellectutal property secret (from competitors). This is an open and rife abuse of industrial security that is not ever going to go away.
Both masters degrees - one at Johns Hopkins the other at U Maryland, both technical fields (Math and Computer Science), most of my fellow students were American.
There were lots of ethnic Chinese and Indians - ABC and the Indian equivalent - but well under half were not citizens as far as I could tell.
Not that I was performing a census or really gave a rats ass.
I suspect that it is both ways actually.
I don't think Amazon et al are too concerned with rigorous Big O notation and nonrandomized input optimization.
Maybe I am splitting hairs, but I suspect these folks are occaisonally *applying* Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein rather than collaborating with them.
Lunh is basically a data entry validator. Finds simple errors like transposed digits and such. It is by no means a secure hash... and the article does not describe it precisely.
I find it hard to believe that you could not successfully appeal that.
Horseshit. No one will 'control' the moon. Not unless they figure out a way to make fuel, celery, circuit boards, air, and water there.
Any 'permenant' stations on the Moon will always require Earths help simply for survival, and will be a huge drain on a nations resources in the event of war.
Want a leg up on the Chinese? LET them 'colonize' the Moon.
Keep your yellow mits off of our lifeless orb!
You, sir, are a fucking idiot.
Even leaves Java in the dust.
Maybe a little thing - but man I like that.... C++ has worn me down this way.
I would bet that it is written in Pascal.