You put it in a highly elliptical orbit. Then its path crosses with space junk periodically and it requires much less fuel, expended at perigee, to intercept the next target.
That has got to be the stupidest idea I've seen on the web in some time. A "EULA Remover"? Come on, it deletes the EULA so you can click ok without reading the EULA. It requires that you run a script to remove the EULA files, thus you have actively avoided the display of the EULA. The guy who wrote this suggests you take a screen shot of the empty EULA window as proof that you didn't read it.
Here's an easier idea: close your eyes when the EULA screen is on. Take a picture of yourself with your eyes closed so you can prove that you weren't able to read the EULA. I'm sure both approaches are equally as legally defensible.
...some of the nuclear power plants here in Canada are using or switching over to an emulator to run the plants because they are running out of spare parts for their 1972 control machines...
Ed, get a life. I call it "sequel" every chance I get and I teach my customers to do the same because it's easier for them to remember. As for SEQUEL, the language, who the heck still uses, much less *remembers* that fossil besides old pedantic farts... what a minute...
I agree -- mostly. You avoided naming names, so I'll be the bad guy: Borland's Delphi libraries are not thread-safe, the "interface" mechanism conflicts with their TComponent child-release mechanism, the visual components often conflict with each other, etc., etc. Granted, this is as of version 5.0 and they're up to 6.0 now, but in 6.0 they made a massive move to Linux and threw out the BDE, so I can't imagine they've gotten rid of all the bugs. Combine that with the bugs I've had to work around in the 5 different 3rd party tools we've purchased and made a part of the in-house toolkit and you've got minor nightmares on a regular basis.
On the other hand, time to market is a principle you have to respect if you plan on staying in business, and rolling your own is more than just time-consuming; it can be expensive when your competitor is eating your lunch providing functionality quicker than you do because you're still mapping out and implementing functionality that they bought prepackaged.
Let's just say I agree with you in principle, and that the DOS programs I built (comms, case management, shipment preparation and tracking, patient care, clinicals, materials management, real estate, etc.) ran (and in some cases still run) flawlessly. But there is so much functionality out there that customers expect nowadays and so little time in which that functionality is expected to be delivered that it's unrealistic to reinvent the wheel just so you can control every line of code.
If you were to walk in to any major chain store in the US and ask where they kept the LPs, they would look at you like you were from another planet.
Only if the clerk was new. I'm always amazed at how, more and more, major music chains are stocking vinyl. If the guy doesn't know what an LP is, he doesn't belong in a music store.
And then there was metered bandwidth, and the phone companies that had acquired cable saw the net bills, that they were even larger than the phone bills had been, and they grabbed their huge bellies and laughed....
Actually, that's not entirely true. You have to account for matter that, due to expansion, exceeds and the pull of gravity necessary to "close" the universe. Eventually it exceeds light relative to the opposite side of the universe, red shifting until no information from that matter can reach the opposite side. In effect, it ceases to exist, and since gravity cannot exceed the speed of light, the gravitational effect of the matter on one side of the universe is not felt by the matter on the opposite side.
Display a web page on a CRT, then look at a glyph under a magnifying glass. The glyph will be shaking slightly. Even the best CRTs do this,
Son, I don't know about your CRT, but my glyphs aren't shaking even a little bit. I'm running a 3 year old 21" ViewSonic P810 at 1600x1200, and it's rock solid, baby. No eyestrain here.
And as an added bonus, I can make Jiffy Pop Popcorn simply by setting it on top of the monitor...
1. As regards the theory that travel into the past causes a universe split, and respecting preservation of energy, how much energy would it take to travel back in time if that trip caused the creation of a mirror universe? Obviously far more energy than we have at our disposal.
2. So you've worked out a method of time travel that runs on a reasonable amount of energy. You set the dial for a couple of hours, forward or back, and hit the button. Where do you find yourself? Floating in space. The earth, sun, galaxy, galaxy cluster, have all moved during your trip. If on the other hand gravity still exerts a pull on you, during the time dilation that would have to occur, the magnification of gravitational force would squish you like a bug. So you're either grape jelly or space junk.
3. All of this assumes that time is an actual dimension, rather than a mathematical one, which has never been proven. Even Einstein's theory of relativity dealt with time per a given point as an mathematical effect which could be slowed relative to another point. Defining time as a dimension simplifies the math. Time travel theories take this simplification out of context.
I absolutely agree. In fact I may have to print out your message and send copies of it to our customers (and my boss). For some time now I've been fighting a machine that is just plain dated. It was hot, bleeding edge, when I got it -- 6 years ago. Now it crawls. Software has gotten bigger, and software vendors aim their products at machines with minimum CPU speed and memory configuration. I am actually in a situation where, for the past couple of days, I've had to tell customers that I couldn't help them because my machine was running a conversion and I couldn't so much as load my email reader. Long story short, CPU and memory are *always* important issues.
I totally disagree with your assessment of Maxtor drives. I swear by them. I've got a 7 gig and two 30 gig drives in my machine, and I installed a 20 gig drive in my wife's machine. All have performed beautifully. The 7 gig drive is going on 4 (5?) years old with not a hiccup, and the 30s are at least a year old. I recommend Maxtors to my friends and neighbors, and I've never heard anyone complain.
On the flip side, I'll probably have an IBM drive in my new dual AMD machine just for the performance. We'll see how it goes....
I sent Mr. Roedy an email hoping that this was just an unfortunate choice of words:
"Am I correct that the "hole" you're referring to is the remains of the World Trade Center?"
To which he replied:
"yes
I urge every American to contact Mr. Roedy and let him know that no American has anything for which to apologize. Apparently not all Canadians are as open minded and informed as Mr. Gordon Sinclair.
This made me so mad I had to vent somewhere. I came across the following website today, http://mindprod.com. Check it out. You won't believe what this guy has to say about the bombings.
I completely agree. Bush, with a huge contribution in hand from Billy Gates to his re-election war chest, has obviously pulled strings to get the DOJ to back off. There is no way that slapping M$ back a bit is going to destroy that company. It's too big, too pervasive. But the penalty should fit the crime. Unbundling Explorer from Windows. Crimping future profits and exacting fines commensurate with the profits gained by breaking laws and ignoring previous court orders would fit the bill nicely.
That message almost reads like flame-bait. The break up of Microsoft combined with monetary penalties and severe limitations on bundling apps with operating systems would allow the computer industry to flourish, distributing potential market opportunities among companies that, currently, wither and die in M$'s shadow.
Funny you guys should bring this up. I sent an
email to AMD last week about this and
this is the response I received:
From: "hwsupti" 10/2/00 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: UNSOLVE Re: Multi-processor boards for AMD Athlon 1GHz and up
Hello Todd,
Currently, there are no dual processor motherboards available for the
Athlon.
New chipsets are under development by several companies that will support
multiprocessor systems. However, official release dates have not been
announced, so stay tuned to our web site for the latest information.
A side note: Did anyone else notice the cover of the Newsweek issue that starts that online article? It reads, "Why Bush Is Winning." Good ole Newsweek, always able to call them a mile away...
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You put it in a highly elliptical orbit. Then its path crosses with space junk periodically and it requires much less fuel, expended at perigee, to intercept the next target.
You watched all six of those movies with no sound? Dude, you need a hobby...
I agree, though, that Metropolis was way ahead of the genre. Fantastic stuff.
How long before a phreak taps into the local phone trunk, reroutes the 800 number, and collects a pretty fistful of HRIDs and whatnot?
Safe to say, it's already happened...
Should have been "Walking Adverts for Nintendo Kids".
That's some of the best advice I've gotten from this site. Thanks.
That has got to be the stupidest idea I've seen on the web in some time. A "EULA Remover"? Come on, it deletes the EULA so you can click ok without reading the EULA. It requires that you run a script to remove the EULA files, thus you have actively avoided the display of the EULA. The guy who wrote this suggests you take a screen shot of the empty EULA window as proof that you didn't read it.
Here's an easier idea: close your eyes when the EULA screen is on. Take a picture of yourself with your eyes closed so you can prove that you weren't able to read the EULA. I'm sure both approaches are equally as legally defensible.
...some of the nuclear power plants here in Canada are using or switching over to an emulator to run the plants because they are running out of spare parts for their 1972 control machines...
Scratch my plans to move to Canada...
Ed, get a life. I call it "sequel" every chance I get and I teach my customers to do the same because it's easier for them to remember. As for SEQUEL, the language, who the heck still uses, much less *remembers* that fossil besides old pedantic farts... what a minute...
I agree -- mostly. You avoided naming names, so I'll be the bad guy: Borland's Delphi libraries are not thread-safe, the "interface" mechanism conflicts with their TComponent child-release mechanism, the visual components often conflict with each other, etc., etc. Granted, this is as of version 5.0 and they're up to 6.0 now, but in 6.0 they made a massive move to Linux and threw out the BDE, so I can't imagine they've gotten rid of all the bugs. Combine that with the bugs I've had to work around in the 5 different 3rd party tools we've purchased and made a part of the in-house toolkit and you've got minor nightmares on a regular basis.
On the other hand, time to market is a principle you have to respect if you plan on staying in business, and rolling your own is more than just time-consuming; it can be expensive when your competitor is eating your lunch providing functionality quicker than you do because you're still mapping out and implementing functionality that they bought prepackaged.
Let's just say I agree with you in principle, and that the DOS programs I built (comms, case management, shipment preparation and tracking, patient care, clinicals, materials management, real estate, etc.) ran (and in some cases still run) flawlessly. But there is so much functionality out there that customers expect nowadays and so little time in which that functionality is expected to be delivered that it's unrealistic to reinvent the wheel just so you can control every line of code.
If you were to walk in to any major chain store in the US and ask where they kept the LPs, they would look at you like you were from another planet.
Only if the clerk was new. I'm always amazed at how, more and more, major music chains are stocking vinyl. If the guy doesn't know what an LP is, he doesn't belong in a music store.
And then there was metered bandwidth, and the phone companies that had acquired cable saw the net bills, that they were even larger than the phone bills had been, and they grabbed their huge bellies and laughed....
Actually, that's not entirely true. You have to account for matter that, due to expansion, exceeds and the pull of gravity necessary to "close" the universe. Eventually it exceeds light relative to the opposite side of the universe, red shifting until no information from that matter can reach the opposite side. In effect, it ceases to exist, and since gravity cannot exceed the speed of light, the gravitational effect of the matter on one side of the universe is not felt by the matter on the opposite side.
Deep, huh?
Son, I don't know about your CRT, but my glyphs aren't shaking even a little bit. I'm running a 3 year old 21" ViewSonic P810 at 1600x1200, and it's rock solid, baby. No eyestrain here.
And as an added bonus, I can make Jiffy Pop Popcorn simply by setting it on top of the monitor...
1. As regards the theory that travel into the past causes a universe split, and respecting preservation of energy, how much energy would it take to travel back in time if that trip caused the creation of a mirror universe? Obviously far more energy than we have at our disposal.
2. So you've worked out a method of time travel that runs on a reasonable amount of energy. You set the dial for a couple of hours, forward or back, and hit the button. Where do you find yourself? Floating in space. The earth, sun, galaxy, galaxy cluster, have all moved during your trip. If on the other hand gravity still exerts a pull on you, during the time dilation that would have to occur, the magnification of gravitational force would squish you like a bug. So you're either grape jelly or space junk.
3. All of this assumes that time is an actual dimension, rather than a mathematical one, which has never been proven. Even Einstein's theory of relativity dealt with time per a given point as an mathematical effect which could be slowed relative to another point. Defining time as a dimension simplifies the math. Time travel theories take this simplification out of context.
I absolutely agree. In fact I may have to print out your message and send copies of it to our customers (and my boss). For some time now I've been fighting a machine that is just plain dated. It was hot, bleeding edge, when I got it -- 6 years ago. Now it crawls. Software has gotten bigger, and software vendors aim their products at machines with minimum CPU speed and memory configuration. I am actually in a situation where, for the past couple of days, I've had to tell customers that I couldn't help them because my machine was running a conversion and I couldn't so much as load my email reader. Long story short, CPU and memory are *always* important issues.
I totally disagree with your assessment of Maxtor drives. I swear by them. I've got a 7 gig and two 30 gig drives in my machine, and I installed a 20 gig drive in my wife's machine. All have performed beautifully. The 7 gig drive is going on 4 (5?) years old with not a hiccup, and the 30s are at least a year old. I recommend Maxtors to my friends and neighbors, and I've never heard anyone complain.
On the flip side, I'll probably have an IBM drive in my new dual AMD machine just for the performance. We'll see how it goes....
Actually, it blows...
And you paid *how much* for all that music? Just the music, please....
I sent Mr. Roedy an email hoping that this was just an unfortunate choice of words:
"Am I correct that the "hole" you're referring to is the remains of the World Trade Center?"
To which he replied:
"yes
I urge every American to contact Mr. Roedy and let him know that no American has anything for which to apologize. Apparently not all Canadians are as open minded and informed as Mr. Gordon Sinclair.
This made me so mad I had to vent somewhere. I came across the following website today, http://mindprod.com. Check it out. You won't believe what this guy has to say about the bombings.
I completely agree. Bush, with a huge contribution in hand from Billy Gates to his re-election war chest, has obviously pulled strings to get the DOJ to back off. There is no way that slapping M$ back a bit is going to destroy that company. It's too big, too pervasive. But the penalty should fit the crime. Unbundling Explorer from Windows. Crimping future profits and exacting fines commensurate with the profits gained by breaking laws and ignoring previous court orders would fit the bill nicely.
That message almost reads like flame-bait. The break up of Microsoft combined with monetary penalties and severe limitations on bundling apps with operating systems would allow the computer industry to flourish, distributing potential market opportunities among companies that, currently, wither and die in M$'s shadow.
Funny you guys should bring this up. I sent an
email to AMD last week about this and
this is the response I received:
From: "hwsupti" 10/2/00 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: UNSOLVE Re: Multi-processor boards for AMD Athlon 1GHz and up
Hello Todd,
Currently, there are no dual processor motherboards available for the
Athlon.
New chipsets are under development by several companies that will support
multiprocessor systems. However, official release dates have not been
announced, so stay tuned to our web site for the latest information.
Best Regards,
AMD TSC
A side note: Did anyone else notice the cover of the Newsweek issue that starts that online article? It reads, "Why Bush Is Winning." Good ole Newsweek, always able to call them a mile away...