Have them learn a programming language--that'd be far more productive than having them play games. Have them make pong, or something simple like that.
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"If we mix them (nitrogen and oxygen) together in a ratio of 4 to 1, they produce nothing but hot air," said Thomas Klaptoke, a chemistry professor from Munich University.
Hell, that's all that profs produce, and I'd hardly call university a safe environment!
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yep I bought it. I buy my music too. I even buy movies, games, clothes, food. Heck, I AM an idiot eh? I bet you save a tonne of cash by stealing stuff.
If there's an alternative. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but windows mediaplayer seems to be the only way to view WMF's, etc.. And seems to be the best way to view avi's of all kinds. For me, media player is one of the very few reasons that I boot into windows. ergo, it's one of the few reasons that I bought windows in the first place.
I'm thinking that the name banjo was a carefully chosen reference. I mean, all I can think of when I think of banjoes is duelling banjoes, which, of course, makes me think of the movie, Deliverence.... And all I have to say about that is "c'mere webserver, we're gonna make you squeel like a pig"
Re:packages for YOUR distro....woops, bad link
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check at the following link. Not only does it it contain links to packages on a sourceforge server, but it is a good write-up about the release, as well.
Well, I need a copy of Windows for games, etc.. So I got a copy of 98SE when I built my duron last year. It cost under $200CDN at the time. (when you get a copy with a new pc, the os is not free, no matter what you may think!) Since then, I have tried out about 6 linux distros--but their cost was limited to bandwidth and the cost of a couple of cdr's.
I've spent WAY more on windows than on linux.
Allan
"It MAY be an innocant person that bought a second hand computer. Id go with the cop method, not the Radek method."
That's not an innocent person, that's a person in posession of stolen property--9/10 of the law, my friend!
Allan
Ok, I think that the fact that the average temperature on earth has been increasing over the past 100 years or so. The question is : why?
This is a classic correlation vs causation issue. We know that temperatures have been increasing for some time (how long, we don't know, because we've only recently learned how to measure temperature). Also, we know that co2 emmissions have been building up over the same time period for which we have temperature data. These two things are clearly positively correlated. That does not necessarily mean that co2 emmission build up is the sole or even most important reason for increases in temperature.
It is just as possible that the earth's temperature follows very long-term cyclic behaviour and just happens to be on the upward phase in it's cycle. Meaning that the correlation between temperatures and pollution is spurious (or, at least positively biased).
How can analysts get around this? Either find really sound temperature and co2 data that extends back through at least 2 global climate cycles (how, I dunno), or wait a few thousand years until we've collected such data through a couple of cycles.
Allan
Umm, well yes that's true. But the price that they charge will always depend on the level of competition in the market, as well. If you were the only person in America that sold red widgets, then would you charge a lower price just because you were able to produce at really-high volume?
No, you'd take advantage of the fact that you have a monopoly and charge what ever would yield the highest profits. As a matter of fact, the price of a good is inversly related to the degree of competition in a market, ceteris paribus. If you find this interesting, check any first year undergraduate economics textbook for the theory of monopolies.
Allan
Or IDA's for short is what my employer (in the governement of Canada....) has done to try to keep it's employees smart and happy.
Basically, the way it works is that each employee has a an annual budget of $5000 CDN (doen't not carry-over if not spent) that they can use on anything that they think would develop their human capital. That is, anything that would develop the individual's carreer (not just their carreer with this emplployer).
I usually use this to go to conferences, buy books and journals, etc.. (I have a research position).
There was only one problem.... how do you deal with long term training? Well, management here has decided, that if an employee is gone for more than 5 business days, everyday thereafter should draw $100 from the individual's development account to go towards lost work time. I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not (since they don't pay me $100/day when I go to a conference that takes place on a weekend), but it gets the job done--you can't really go away for too long before your budget runs dry.
Allan
somebody mod this as funny!!
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HAHA,.....oh jeez. stop it man, you're killing me...."death of a... potential universe" haHah, my sides are splitting..... Oh, that's priceless!! You WERE joking, right?
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Seems like trying to make a museum of all the grains of sand that used to be on a beach, but sadly washed-away to sea, over the years.
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yes, it annoyed me too. Rather than wine, I looked for links. try these:
http://www.distributed.net/rc5/
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/faq/cache/28.html
I really don't know all that much about RSA encryption, but I figure that the rate at which the project approaches completion is time-varient. It's likely that it slows down when it gets close to the end. What this means, of course, is that the stat saying that "we'll exhaust the keyspace in 1,309 days at yesterday's rate" is an underprediction of how long this'll actually take.
All of that said, it'll probably speed up at the same time since there'll likely be a fairly large increase in the number of people with the client installed. (especially now that it's had a prop from/. (probably not the first time, eh?))
Allan
Not only is the end nice because, in theory, you'll only have to sit through advertisments that are of interest to you, but the products you buy will likely be cheaper because companies won't have to charge you for distributing adds to people that aren't even interested--I can't wait.
Allan
Slashdot Mirror
they wouldn't work.
Allan
Have them learn a programming language--that'd be far more productive than having them play games. Have them make pong, or something simple like that.
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"...99 percent of all missiles are launched in training over your own ground,"
That's the key. But do we really care about the enemy's environment? So, perhaps a more appropriate name for these is training missiles.
"If we mix them (nitrogen and oxygen) together in a ratio of 4 to 1, they produce nothing but hot air," said Thomas Klaptoke, a chemistry professor from Munich University.
Hell, that's all that profs produce, and I'd hardly call university a safe environment!
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"Anyone remember Windows 95"?
yes, I remember it..... It's the only supported os at my work (federal ministry of health in Canada) [shudder]....
reboot? hell I've kicked this thing at least 10 times already today!!
Allan
yep I bought it. I buy my music too. I even buy movies, games, clothes, food. Heck, I AM an idiot eh? I bet you save a tonne of cash by stealing stuff.
Allan
What you say is correct. But what I say is relevant. The case does not seem to be about proprietary file formats.
Perhaps it would help to read the article.
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If there's an alternative. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but windows mediaplayer seems to be the only way to view WMF's, etc.. And seems to be the best way to view avi's of all kinds. For me, media player is one of the very few reasons that I boot into windows. ergo, it's one of the few reasons that I bought windows in the first place.
Allan
I'm thinking that the name banjo was a carefully chosen reference. I mean, all I can think of when I think of banjoes is duelling banjoes, which, of course, makes me think of the movie, Deliverence.... And all I have to say about that is "c'mere webserver, we're gonna make you squeel like a pig"
try this one:
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http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001
check at the following link. Not only does it it contain links to packages on a sourceforge server, but it is a good write-up about the release, as well.
- 08 -15-005-20-NW-KE
Allan
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001
Will that replace slashdotted in geekspeak? only time will tell.
Well, I need a copy of Windows for games, etc.. So I got a copy of 98SE when I built my duron last year. It cost under $200CDN at the time. (when you get a copy with a new pc, the os is not free, no matter what you may think!) Since then, I have tried out about 6 linux distros--but their cost was limited to bandwidth and the cost of a couple of cdr's. I've spent WAY more on windows than on linux. Allan
"It MAY be an innocant person that bought a second hand computer. Id go with the cop method, not the Radek method." That's not an innocent person, that's a person in posession of stolen property--9/10 of the law, my friend! Allan
Ok, I think that the fact that the average temperature on earth has been increasing over the past 100 years or so. The question is : why? This is a classic correlation vs causation issue. We know that temperatures have been increasing for some time (how long, we don't know, because we've only recently learned how to measure temperature). Also, we know that co2 emmissions have been building up over the same time period for which we have temperature data. These two things are clearly positively correlated. That does not necessarily mean that co2 emmission build up is the sole or even most important reason for increases in temperature. It is just as possible that the earth's temperature follows very long-term cyclic behaviour and just happens to be on the upward phase in it's cycle. Meaning that the correlation between temperatures and pollution is spurious (or, at least positively biased). How can analysts get around this? Either find really sound temperature and co2 data that extends back through at least 2 global climate cycles (how, I dunno), or wait a few thousand years until we've collected such data through a couple of cycles. Allan
Umm, well yes that's true. But the price that they charge will always depend on the level of competition in the market, as well. If you were the only person in America that sold red widgets, then would you charge a lower price just because you were able to produce at really-high volume? No, you'd take advantage of the fact that you have a monopoly and charge what ever would yield the highest profits. As a matter of fact, the price of a good is inversly related to the degree of competition in a market, ceteris paribus. If you find this interesting, check any first year undergraduate economics textbook for the theory of monopolies. Allan
mmm hmm. and you -1. Just plain weird.
Debugging --bah. No more new features, for now? I'm no computer programmer, but that sounds boring. Allan
Or IDA's for short is what my employer (in the governement of Canada....) has done to try to keep it's employees smart and happy. Basically, the way it works is that each employee has a an annual budget of $5000 CDN (doen't not carry-over if not spent) that they can use on anything that they think would develop their human capital. That is, anything that would develop the individual's carreer (not just their carreer with this emplployer). I usually use this to go to conferences, buy books and journals, etc.. (I have a research position). There was only one problem.... how do you deal with long term training? Well, management here has decided, that if an employee is gone for more than 5 business days, everyday thereafter should draw $100 from the individual's development account to go towards lost work time. I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not (since they don't pay me $100/day when I go to a conference that takes place on a weekend), but it gets the job done--you can't really go away for too long before your budget runs dry. Allan
HAHA ,.....oh jeez. stop it man, you're killing me...."death of a ... potential universe" haHah, my sides are splitting..... Oh, that's priceless!! You WERE joking, right?
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Seems like trying to make a museum of all the grains of sand that used to be on a beach, but sadly washed-away to sea, over the years. Allan
like Oprah on a baked ham.
yes, it annoyed me too. Rather than wine, I looked for links. try these: http://www.distributed.net/rc5/ http://n0cgi.distributed.net/faq/cache/28.html
I really don't know all that much about RSA encryption, but I figure that the rate at which the project approaches completion is time-varient. It's likely that it slows down when it gets close to the end. What this means, of course, is that the stat saying that "we'll exhaust the keyspace in 1,309 days at yesterday's rate" is an underprediction of how long this'll actually take. All of that said, it'll probably speed up at the same time since there'll likely be a fairly large increase in the number of people with the client installed. (especially now that it's had a prop from /. (probably not the first time, eh?))
Allan
Not only is the end nice because, in theory, you'll only have to sit through advertisments that are of interest to you, but the products you buy will likely be cheaper because companies won't have to charge you for distributing adds to people that aren't even interested--I can't wait. Allan