19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle".
16th Century? I'm pretty sure that guy posts on slashdot regularly. "oi got frist psot"
I think they got him confused with someone else. Everyone knows the Welsh language has no vowels and is impossible to understand even to Welsh people.
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No help on the moving front, but if you buy a solid oak desk, you can resurface it instead of replacing it, because it is still intact. When the desktop starts to get thin, you just drop another layer of oak on top and refinish it. None of this is very difficult to do well (mostly you need clamps, and a router is nice but not required) and it's a lot cheaper than constantly buying that ikea bullshit.
I have to agree, there was some study that showed that people, mostly extroverts but a few introverts, but those with a strong social network were least likely to be depressed, more and more likely to be content.
err I did leave several things out. Bah I should start proofreading my stuff before I write it out. Now my excuse is just crawling out of bed 2 minutes ago.
I was drunk and didn't want to bother to edit it at all and clean it up and make it look nice and pretty,. Conversational english is different from written english though. I did several things out too.
I have an XPS Generation 2. Its 2 years old roughly. I'd place it Jan-Feb 04. Its a fairly good machine. The only problem I have had was my vid card fan, a 9800XT died on me, and was running idle at 77 degrees C, and the one time I caught it before it finally crapped out it was running 111 degrees C. I call Dell Support and got a woman with a very foreign accent, which made it difficult to understand and I had to repeat things, the other problem was I could not communicate my e-mail reliably, spelling it out to a computer would have been easier then the way the woman on the phone was interupting my letters. I tell the woman on the phone the problem with the card, how I tried to reseat it and check the power plug on the card. She reqs a new one(actually refurbished by my guess in the packaging but whatever it works). I get a few days ago, insert it works fine. All this time I got probably 2-3 calls above this to my cell phone which was definitely good communication, again the only problem was the lack of speaking English that wasn't in an American accent that I am used to. The only problem I had was they sent me an invoice, basically the price of the card in case I didn't send it back. The scary part is they aren't even charging the current market price, nor the price from 2 years ago, but some other weird price that comes to $600. So thats my Dell horror story with an XPS. The funny thing with 9800XT, is Dell put their oem bios on it, and it disabled the overdrive feature, pretty much the only reason to get an XT. Then you had to go to the support forums to find the flashrom for it.
The only thing I think they could improve on is dust covers and easier access to the screens for the fans. removing all the drives to just clean the front grill is a pain. I did receive a few disks with plenty of software, and one definitely with windows on it. They have their own recovery software, its annoying, and I wish I had a WinXP Pro disk, or a WinXP Home disk for that matter. I blame Microsoft for that problem though, simply because they should be pushing it on people. When someone wants a computer fixed or whatever, I cant do it because if I have to reformat, or reinstall, it 10x easier instead of making another visit.
I will say one thing, getting a Dell is a big waste of money, you can build one for much cheaper and it be better suited for you. The Reason I got mine though is the 4-5 year warranty
Yellowstone immediately comes to mind as a geothermal power source. I bet if it destroys the environment, the GOP will be all over this. Yellowstone is also the site of a "supervolcano". Which can have a large destructive force on the enviroment, and would ba national/world-wide disaster. Which the GOP definitely seems to support those.
This is the United States of America we are talking about. The reason for the whole Second Amendment wasn't placed in there for hunting reasons. It was placed in there so that we could rise up and would not have to result to using torches and pitchforks like others in the past had to when they revolted against the government. The other reasons for it is defense against invading armies or militias.
I should remind you that this government was founded on the "freedom to do antisocial stuff and remain anonymous". If you know anything about Tom Paine and his critical rule on the papers he published. You would know that at the time that was considered antisocial and it was anonymous.
That is free speech, the ability to publish something with out interference by people with power in government that is greater than yours as a citizen. What exactly it the problem with publishing things anonymously? If an argument or idea is good it will stand and will spread, if it is bad not many will follow it. Does it matter whether it is anonymous or if someone puts their name on it?
Hell, it's not like anyone actually cares what you print unless you're doing something illegal that would warrent them spending a lot of time and money to try and find you.
That is true in an uncorrupted system. The question remains what would happen if someone did use their power like J. Edgar Hoover did, and others in history that have got away with abuse of power in such a manner.
And there is the case of just because something is illegal, that doesn't mean that something is a wrong thing to do.
You have heard of evolution right? You don't live in Kansas do you?
Natural selection gets rid of competitors that can't compete. The best way to compete is to have the best of the best, because then you don't have to compete to survive as much.
Lets have two people swim in a race, one guy will wear a wetsuit and flippers and one will wear a regular speedo bathing suit. The guy in the suit probably has a better chance of winning because of the wetsuit and flippers.
Now take two people with wetsuit and flippers. each person has different flippers and wetsuits....
Now repeat those trials 100 billion times. You will have found after repeated trials someone with probably the most efficient flippers and wetsuit combination.
And by the end of the year, plans are in place to outfit every child with an ankle bracelet and barcode on their forehead. And children will only be allowed to not leave their residence except for school. All other activities are banned in an effort to be vigilant to protect the children. Children will also not be allowed to play in their yard. Any child violating these laws will be confiscated and sold to the highest bidder. If there are no bids, they will be fed to Cthulhu.
Seriously. Why is it the government's job to protect the children? Thats a parental responsibility. What next, ban AOL IM under the age of 18? It is IMPOSSIBLE to enforce such an age limit. If you protect them from every single thing that can hurt them, when they grow up they will have no defenses to deal with any situation.
Sadly. I also agree with Yahoo's decision here. Although now the defense of... "Yahoo doesn't allow underage people from chatting, so I thought he/she was at least 18!
Re:This game would ROCK on the Nintendo Revolution
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Ok, we know your a rocket scientist, and we know you have the much valued low-end 5-digit slashdot userid. But did you read what's in the parenthesis?
Let me state it again for you, you probably missed it the first, I will remove those evil parenthesis;
cost of a PS2 plus the game
Brand new in the box ps2 costs roughly $150, the katamari games cost probably $50 total. I ain't a rocket scientist, so my math be wrong here, carry the one... take the inverse and multiply.... I get a total of $200 without taxes added, roughly, and rounding $.99 to 1 dollar. Its such a small difference even if you have 7% sales tax, I will give you the extra change for it, here's my two cents, that should MORE than cover the difference.
Yeah, but you are also forgeting how much money licensing brings in too.... Toys, soft drinks, candy, all those things that have Star Wars III on it were licensed and made money.
Is this meant for control as in "Brave New World". Or is this meant for research? Knowing the Dutch, and the way this is worded, it seems to goal of this is noble. Whether it will stay noble is the question.
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19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle".
16th Century? I'm pretty sure that guy posts on slashdot regularly. "oi got frist psot"
I think they got him confused with someone else. Everyone knows the Welsh language has no vowels and is impossible to understand even to Welsh people.
No help on the moving front, but if you buy a solid oak desk, you can resurface it instead of replacing it, because it is still intact. When the desktop starts to get thin, you just drop another layer of oak on top and refinish it. None of this is very difficult to do well (mostly you need clamps, and a router is nice but not required) and it's a lot cheaper than constantly buying that ikea bullshit.
Will a wireless router running Linux work?
I have to agree, there was some study that showed that people, mostly extroverts but a few introverts, but those with a strong social network were least likely to be depressed, more and more likely to be content.
I take medication during the holidays. Prescribed by myself. Ok I am not a doctor, so I self-medicate with alcohol.
Yeah, I have been waiting for this game to come out of beta for like a several years now....
err I did leave several things out. Bah I should start proofreading my stuff before I write it out. Now my excuse is just crawling out of bed 2 minutes ago.
I was drunk and didn't want to bother to edit it at all and clean it up and make it look nice and pretty,. Conversational english is different from written english though. I did several things out too.
I have an XPS Generation 2. Its 2 years old roughly. I'd place it Jan-Feb 04. Its a fairly good machine. The only problem I have had was my vid card fan, a 9800XT died on me, and was running idle at 77 degrees C, and the one time I caught it before it finally crapped out it was running 111 degrees C. I call Dell Support and got a woman with a very foreign accent, which made it difficult to understand and I had to repeat things, the other problem was I could not communicate my e-mail reliably, spelling it out to a computer would have been easier then the way the woman on the phone was interupting my letters. I tell the woman on the phone the problem with the card, how I tried to reseat it and check the power plug on the card. She reqs a new one(actually refurbished by my guess in the packaging but whatever it works). I get a few days ago, insert it works fine. All this time I got probably 2-3 calls above this to my cell phone which was definitely good communication, again the only problem was the lack of speaking English that wasn't in an American accent that I am used to. The only problem I had was they sent me an invoice, basically the price of the card in case I didn't send it back. The scary part is they aren't even charging the current market price, nor the price from 2 years ago, but some other weird price that comes to $600. So thats my Dell horror story with an XPS. The funny thing with 9800XT, is Dell put their oem bios on it, and it disabled the overdrive feature, pretty much the only reason to get an XT. Then you had to go to the support forums to find the flashrom for it.
The only thing I think they could improve on is dust covers and easier access to the screens for the fans. removing all the drives to just clean the front grill is a pain. I did receive a few disks with plenty of software, and one definitely with windows on it. They have their own recovery software, its annoying, and I wish I had a WinXP Pro disk, or a WinXP Home disk for that matter. I blame Microsoft for that problem though, simply because they should be pushing it on people. When someone wants a computer fixed or whatever, I cant do it because if I have to reformat, or reinstall, it 10x easier instead of making another visit.
I will say one thing, getting a Dell is a big waste of money, you can build one for much cheaper and it be better suited for you. The Reason I got mine though is the 4-5 year warranty
I love that quote from Contact. I was thinking of posting the same thing, but you beat me to it.
Then the USA will turn it around and point out their conversions for American Standard Binary to Metric Binary was wrongly calculated.
Yellowstone immediately comes to mind as a geothermal power source. I bet if it destroys the environment, the GOP will be all over this.
Yellowstone is also the site of a "supervolcano". Which can have a large destructive force on the enviroment, and would ba national/world-wide disaster. Which the GOP definitely seems to support those.
I don't think it is supposed to completely replace brushing, but to intercede when you are in the field, and don't have the time or ability to do so.
So what are your trying to say... Linux supports terrorism?
Don't let Bill Gates hear this, or it will be war!
Not all of South Carolina is a 3rd world flea pit. They do have some nice beaches and other nice places there.
I would start improvement by using PHP.
This is the United States of America we are talking about. The reason for the whole Second Amendment wasn't placed in there for hunting reasons. It was placed in there so that we could rise up and would not have to result to using torches and pitchforks like others in the past had to when they revolted against the government. The other reasons for it is defense against invading armies or militias.
Oh and zombie invasions.
Microsoft's typical way of competing involves undercutting the competition in prices.
What are they going to do, pay advertisers for adverts?
I should remind you that this government was founded on the "freedom to do antisocial stuff and remain anonymous". If you know anything about Tom Paine and his critical rule on the papers he published. You would know that at the time that was considered antisocial and it was anonymous.
That is free speech, the ability to publish something with out interference by people with power in government that is greater than yours as a citizen. What exactly it the problem with publishing things anonymously? If an argument or idea is good it will stand and will spread, if it is bad not many will follow it. Does it matter whether it is anonymous or if someone puts their name on it?
That is true in an uncorrupted system. The question remains what would happen if someone did use their power like J. Edgar Hoover did, and others in history that have got away with abuse of power in such a manner.
And there is the case of just because something is illegal, that doesn't mean that something is a wrong thing to do.
You have heard of evolution right? You don't live in Kansas do you?
Natural selection gets rid of competitors that can't compete. The best way to compete is to have the best of the best, because then you don't have to compete to survive as much.
Lets have two people swim in a race, one guy will wear a wetsuit and flippers and one will wear a regular speedo bathing suit. The guy in the suit probably has a better chance of winning because of the wetsuit and flippers.
Now take two people with wetsuit and flippers. each person has different flippers and wetsuits....
Now repeat those trials 100 billion times. You will have found after repeated trials someone with probably the most efficient flippers and wetsuit combination.
And by the end of the year, plans are in place to outfit every child with an ankle bracelet and barcode on their forehead. And children will only be allowed to not leave their residence except for school. All other activities are banned in an effort to be vigilant to protect the children. Children will also not be allowed to play in their yard. Any child violating these laws will be confiscated and sold to the highest bidder. If there are no bids, they will be fed to Cthulhu.
Seriously. Why is it the government's job to protect the children? Thats a parental responsibility. What next, ban AOL IM under the age of 18? It is IMPOSSIBLE to enforce such an age limit. If you protect them from every single thing that can hurt them, when they grow up they will have no defenses to deal with any situation.
Sadly. I also agree with Yahoo's decision here. Although now the defense of... "Yahoo doesn't allow underage people from chatting, so I thought he/she was at least 18!
Ok, we know your a rocket scientist, and we know you have the much valued low-end 5-digit slashdot userid. But did you read what's in the parenthesis?
Let me state it again for you, you probably missed it the first, I will remove those evil parenthesis;
cost of a PS2 plus the game
Brand new in the box ps2 costs roughly $150, the katamari games cost probably $50 total. I ain't a rocket scientist, so my math be wrong here, carry the one... take the inverse and multiply.... I get a total of $200 without taxes added, roughly, and rounding $.99 to 1 dollar. Its such a small difference even if you have 7% sales tax, I will give you the extra change for it, here's my two cents, that should MORE than cover the difference.
Yeah, but you are also forgeting how much money licensing brings in too.... Toys, soft drinks, candy, all those things that have Star Wars III on it were licensed and made money.
Is this meant for control as in "Brave New World". Or is this meant for research? Knowing the Dutch, and the way this is worded, it seems to goal of this is noble. Whether it will stay noble is the question.