A definition of 'munchkin', origin forgotten: "A player who, when told that the game will involve political intrigue in 15th-century Italy, insists on playing a Ninja."
It's also about 10,000,000 nanometers wide, or 0.00001 kilometers wide. But none of these three options has quite the polish of saying it's 1 centimeter wide.
Just the file indexing is worth the price of admission. And what browser you use doesn't matter; I've got it up on Firefox right now, and it rocks quite thoroughly.
Might be true, but in the end it's up to the people who own the hardware, pay the power bills, and sign your paycheck to decide what you can do on their nickel. If you disagree, persuade them to change, or go work for someone who has different policies. If you go ahead agaisnt policy, expect that you might get smacked for it.
When I was in my rabid workunit-whore phase on SETI@Home, I desperately wanted to use the mostly-idle work servers I administered to boost my score. I went to the CEO, asked if I could do it, and he had me write up a permission letter for his signature. It was great cranking out the units without worrying about getting caught; sometimes playing by the rules actually works.
Actually, they do a lot more than make the code look cleaner. By specifying the type of a collection's elements at run time, generics can move a class of programming errors from run time to compile time. Needless to say, compile time errors are a lot cheaper to find and fix.
Warning: Unknown(/usr/www/users/salcan/index.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0
Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/usr/www/users/salcan/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0
I only saw the enhanced version of Episode IV once, as my doctor has advised me to avoid situations which make me feel suicidal. So I need someone to confirm my memory of one particuarly awful point.
In the hacked-in scene where Han talks to Jabba, is it really the case that Han's lines are practically word-for-word the same as his earlier lines to Greedo? Like the script was cut-and-pasted from one to the other with a few penciled-in changes?
Am I imagining things? Because if not, and if that's the way it was in Lucas's grand creative vision, Lucas is needs professional help, pronto. Because that's just plain sloppy filmmaking.
Back in my chem student days, one of my professors had a poster on his office door offering translations of phrases found in technical papers. My favorite pair were:
Pure: We only dropped a little on the floor. Extremely pure: We didn't drop any on the floor.
NASA has now added this:
Adequately pure: We slammed it into the Utah desert floor, but at less than 200 miles per hour so it's probably okay.
An equivalent idea was proposed in about 1982, at the dawn of the internet. Simply tar your filesystem, then email the tar to yourself along a lengthy old-style routing chain. If you need your data back, just wait for the email to arrive and untar it. You could tune the recovery latency by adjusting the routing chain. Of course, over dialup uucp, even one-node-out-and-back path could result in a two day latency.
And how precisely does Firefox know that a given link leads to a PDF file (or doesn't lead to one, for that matter)? Content type is determined by examining the response header, not the URL. Failing to obey this rule is the cause of endless browser woes.
It may be the case that guessing based on extension gives the right answer often enough to make this extension useful, but users should beware of trusting it completely.
(Note that the mailto: check *is* entirely safe, since that's a protocol check on the URL itself.)
I agree. I run 2000 Pro on my desktop system at home, and it's rock-solid and easy to manage. I often wonder why more people don't use it; unless you're into PC games or have cost as a primary concern, there's no better non-ideology-based choice, in my view.
It appears to come in two flavors, Listen and Real. I have the Listen version and have had no Real-esque nightmares, which I definitely got from RealOne (and every other piece of Real software I've ever tried to use).
Go with Rhapsody. All you can stream from a pretty huge library is around ten bucks a month. I do most of my music listening in my home office, so this is perfect for me. I barely use CDs anymore. It's especially nice being able to satisfy those weird urges to hear things you normally hate at no (incremental) cost whatsoever. (I'm not going to by an America CD just to satisfy my psychotic need to hear "Sister Golden Hair", but if I can have it streaming for free in a few seconds...)
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A definition of 'munchkin', origin forgotten: "A player who, when told that the game will involve political intrigue in 15th-century Italy, insists on playing a Ninja."
about 10 millimeters wide
It's also about 10,000,000 nanometers wide, or 0.00001 kilometers wide. But none of these three options has quite the polish of saying it's 1 centimeter wide.
I can't help wondering what they thought it meant. What actual idea were they trying to convey? I'm drawing a blank on likely substitute words.
The logo was selected out of over 400 submissions in an albeit lengthy process
Anybody have a clue what the word 'albeit' is doing in there?
Just the file indexing is worth the price of admission. And what browser you use doesn't matter; I've got it up on Firefox right now, and it rocks quite thoroughly.
Might be true, but in the end it's up to the people who own the hardware, pay the power bills, and sign your paycheck to decide what you can do on their nickel. If you disagree, persuade them to change, or go work for someone who has different policies. If you go ahead agaisnt policy, expect that you might get smacked for it.
When I was in my rabid workunit-whore phase on SETI@Home, I desperately wanted to use the mostly-idle work servers I administered to boost my score. I went to the CEO, asked if I could do it, and he had me write up a permission letter for his signature. It was great cranking out the units without worrying about getting caught; sometimes playing by the rules actually works.
Actually, they do a lot more than make the code look cleaner. By specifying the type of a collection's elements at run time, generics can move a class of programming errors from run time to compile time. Needless to say, compile time errors are a lot cheaper to find and fix.
We develop a big, complicated J2EE app under WinXP, and deploy it without modification onto Solaris. Pretty impressive WORA as far as I'm concerned.
I only saw the enhanced version of Episode IV once, as my doctor has advised me to avoid situations which make me feel suicidal. So I need someone to confirm my memory of one particuarly awful point.
In the hacked-in scene where Han talks to Jabba, is it really the case that Han's lines are practically word-for-word the same as his earlier lines to Greedo? Like the script was cut-and-pasted from one to the other with a few penciled-in changes?
Am I imagining things? Because if not, and if that's the way it was in Lucas's grand creative vision, Lucas is needs professional help, pronto. Because that's just plain sloppy filmmaking.
One would hope you could hit amontillado.unc.edu to find out.
Oh, that rocks so hard! Thanks for pointing this out; it answers my last objection to the tabbed-browsing concept.
Back in my chem student days, one of my professors had a poster on his office door offering translations of phrases found in technical papers. My favorite pair were:
Pure: We only dropped a little on the floor.
Extremely pure: We didn't drop any on the floor.
NASA has now added this:
Adequately pure: We slammed it into the Utah desert floor, but at less than 200 miles per hour so it's probably okay.
An equivalent idea was proposed in about 1982, at the dawn of the internet. Simply tar your filesystem, then email the tar to yourself along a lengthy old-style routing chain. If you need your data back, just wait for the email to arrive and untar it. You could tune the recovery latency by adjusting the routing chain. Of course, over dialup uucp, even one-node-out-and-back path could result in a two day latency.
Man, those were the days.
And how precisely does Firefox know that a given link leads to a PDF file (or doesn't lead to one, for that matter)? Content type is determined by examining the response header, not the URL. Failing to obey this rule is the cause of endless browser woes.
It may be the case that guessing based on extension gives the right answer often enough to make this extension useful, but users should beware of trusting it completely.
(Note that the mailto: check *is* entirely safe, since that's a protocol check on the URL itself.)
Quisling is the only possible name for this weasel.
Man, if Lance beat riders from space, I have even more respect for him. Those guys have, like, photon torpedos and shit on their bikes!
I agree. I run 2000 Pro on my desktop system at home, and it's rock-solid and easy to manage. I often wonder why more people don't use it; unless you're into PC games or have cost as a primary concern, there's no better non-ideology-based choice, in my view.
I suppose transforming from "mob of looters" into "protection racket" is progress of a sort.
It appears to come in two flavors, Listen and Real. I have the Listen version and have had no Real-esque nightmares, which I definitely got from RealOne (and every other piece of Real software I've ever tried to use).
Go with Rhapsody. All you can stream from a pretty huge library is around ten bucks a month. I do most of my music listening in my home office, so this is perfect for me. I barely use CDs anymore. It's especially nice being able to satisfy those weird urges to hear things you normally hate at no (incremental) cost whatsoever. (I'm not going to by an America CD just to satisfy my psychotic need to hear "Sister Golden Hair", but if I can have it streaming for free in a few seconds...)
literally being metaphorically syphoned
I feel like I should do a Jessica Simpson-style doubletake. "Um, is it literal...or...metaphorical?"
"it could stretch"