Yup. There was a D&D module that was published that contained dawizard tables. Because the guy that wrote the module wrote about mages but the editor decided to call them wizards and did a search-and-replace.
30 minutes times the number of constituents is an impossible amount of time. And unless Bill Gates is a constituent, he has no business speaking with my congresscritter.
listen to and represent the views of their constituents (and no one else)
Did you know that corporations cannot vote? Did you know that congresscritters listen to corporations? Do you think you could get 30 minutes alone with your congresscritter? Do you think Bill Gates could? Of course he could. Unless you live in Washington state, Bill Gates is not a constituent of your congresscritter. This is wrong.
But it's true! For example, those flash-animation ads suck up a LOT of CPU, and a newer processor would render them faster. Flash ads are the primary reason why I'm thinking about upgrading...from my P-166.
Yup...good old Swynth. Used to zone out on it for 20-30 minutes ata time. IIRC, it was a combination of two other programs: Swish and Synth Sample (thus the spelling of the name). I've not heard it in fifteen years and can still close my eyes, see the lines, and hear the music. Google doesn't turn up anything useful; anyone got a copy somewhere?
...ungtil the law changes. Two things are necessary to fix corporate America:
1. Corporate death penalty. Hey, shareholders! Your stock certificates are now toilet paper, because you gave your money to criminals! This will encourage stockholder responsibility; no longer will they be able to focus on the bottom line to the exclusion of all else, unless they LIKE seeing their assets on an auction block.
2. Jail time for executives in civil cases. Demanding that I give you my wallet is a crime, but cheating someone out of $100,000,000 is business as usual? I don't think so. Just because the loss of cash results from a contractual disagreement doesn't mean that FRAUD is not occurring.
Look at the time stamps on the replies on the same level as mine. Several people had already nicely explained the situation. I chose to vent my spleen about the that either eleven-year-olds are posting on slashdot or somebody had been the victim of a lobotomized science education.
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Right...and every time you buy a CD or go to a movie, you are spending money that school or non-profit could really benefit from. And every time you eat at a restaurant, you are spending money that some hungry person could really benefit from. And every time you take a vacation, you are spending time that could have donated to a local charity. And...
Entertainment is nonproductive. Deal with it.
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isn't the force two objects excert on eachother called gravity?
Uhh...yeah...gravity. That's right, kid, it's just gravity. Head back to your classroom, now. I think the teacher's finished reading "Charlotte's Web" and is starting a lesson on decimal addition. Don't worry too much; you'll learn all about gravity when you get to high school. You might even learn about magnetism./sarcasm Seriously...what has happened to science education? I'd read about the four forces when I was in junior high (and there were still four...electroweak hadn't been proved/discovered/demonstrated yet). I knew that magnets had nothing to do with gravity before I was ten. I'm nobody special, so what gives?
This disagrees with a National Geographic article I read a few years back...the dead buddhist becomes the center of his own heaven, or something...I'll have to see if I can find it.
Of course, speaking of "Buddhism" is a bit silly; it's rather like speaking of "Christianity." There is no uniformity of belief in any religion.
...lawyers whose primary concern is not with "justice" but with "legality."
Not even legality but complexity. The lawyers are the only real guild left (possibly excepting the AMA). Try to practice law without joining the guild. They won't kill you or burn your shop down but they will send you to jail. They elect their own members to Congress and get their own members appointed to judgeships. They create and interpret the law. They profit only if the legal system is too complex for laymen to understand. I know of no productive ones. IANAL, but I work at a large law firm...
Possible answers...
- It was a quantum bit. It had no state until you observed it.
- It had five states: blank, "YES", "NO", "YESYESYESYESYES", and "NONONONONO"
- It was a beta version of the magic eight ball
The MCP controlled access to the I/O system, or tried to. It died when a program got direct access to I/O. While it seemed to have the potential for much more, it spent a lot of its time on games. It obliterated other programs by absorbing their functionality. At its core, when everything else was stripped away, it had a teletype interface. Without it, the system had a lot more power (think CPU cycles). What it feared most was a debugging tool and it was destroyed by source code. (This last bit is clearly prophetic =)
The point of civil disobedience is to break laws in a public way and so call attention to the absurdity of the law. It's still a crime, you still go to jail, you still get a criminal record. If you want to take several hundred dollars from Wal Mart and hold a press conference in the parking lot, go right ahead; but remember that without the press conference - it's just theft.
So, to all you Napsterites, where's your web page listing all the songs you've downloaded illegally?
Not quite true. 100% oxygen at 3 atm has been used to treat patients whose red blood cell count was way, way low. At that pressure and concentration, the blood plasma dissolves enough oxygen to keep your tissues alive - you no longer need the red blood cells.
It IS toxic, though, and bad things can happen if this is kept up too long.
Kinda. You can take a block of TNT and set it on fire. It won't explode. IANAC (chemist) but I believe the difference is that fire requires fuel, oxygen, and heat to ignite while a high explosive required fuel and a good shockwave to detonate. This is why dynamite requires a blasting cap - the blasting cap explodes, creating a sufficient shockwave to detonate the dynamite. Black powder, on the other hand, burns rather than detonates.
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Yup. There was a D&D module that was published that contained dawizard tables. Because the guy that wrote the module wrote about mages but the editor decided to call them wizards and did a search-and-replace.
30 minutes times the number of constituents is an impossible amount of time. And unless Bill Gates is a constituent, he has no business speaking with my congresscritter.
listen to and represent the views of their constituents (and no one else)
Did you know that corporations cannot vote? Did you know that congresscritters listen to corporations? Do you think you could get 30 minutes alone with your congresscritter? Do you think Bill Gates could? Of course he could. Unless you live in Washington state, Bill Gates is not a constituent of your congresscritter. This is wrong.
But it's true! For example, those flash-animation ads suck up a LOT of CPU, and a newer processor would render them faster. Flash ads are the primary reason why I'm thinking about upgrading...from my P-166.
=)
"It's the first article of the Betan Constitution - 'Access to information shall not be abridged.'" - Lois McMasters Bujold, Cordelia's Honor
She didn't quite realize how much fiction there would be in her science fiction. Sad.
I can see the alien's posting now...
+4 Hrarfug
Kruig chxofp lnyuvtezna en BEOWULF CLUSTER boj plorndles? %&)
Go rent "This Is Spinal Tap."
Or google for "these go to eleven"
Yup...good old Swynth. Used to zone out on it for 20-30 minutes ata time. IIRC, it was a combination of two other programs: Swish and Synth Sample (thus the spelling of the name). I've not heard it in fifteen years and can still close my eyes, see the lines, and hear the music. Google doesn't turn up anything useful; anyone got a copy somewhere?
Hmmm...(babelfish)
"The, Leader, the"
I don't get it...
...ungtil the law changes. Two things are necessary to fix corporate America:
1. Corporate death penalty. Hey, shareholders! Your stock certificates are now toilet paper, because you gave your money to criminals! This will encourage stockholder responsibility; no longer will they be able to focus on the bottom line to the exclusion of all else, unless they LIKE seeing their assets on an auction block.
2. Jail time for executives in civil cases. Demanding that I give you my wallet is a crime, but cheating someone out of $100,000,000 is business as usual? I don't think so. Just because the loss of cash results from a contractual disagreement doesn't mean that FRAUD is not occurring.
Look at the time stamps on the replies on the same level as mine. Several people had already nicely explained the situation. I chose to vent my spleen about the that either eleven-year-olds are posting on slashdot or somebody had been the victim of a lobotomized science education.
Right...and every time you buy a CD or go to a movie, you are spending money that school or non-profit could really benefit from. And every time you eat at a restaurant, you are spending money that some hungry person could really benefit from. And every time you take a vacation, you are spending time that could have donated to a local charity. And...
Entertainment is nonproductive. Deal with it.
isn't the force two objects excert on eachother called gravity?
/sarcasm
Uhh...yeah...gravity. That's right, kid, it's just gravity. Head back to your classroom, now. I think the teacher's finished reading "Charlotte's Web" and is starting a lesson on decimal addition. Don't worry too much; you'll learn all about gravity when you get to high school. You might even learn about magnetism.
Seriously...what has happened to science education? I'd read about the four forces when I was in junior high (and there were still four...electroweak hadn't been proved/discovered/demonstrated yet). I knew that magnets had nothing to do with gravity before I was ten. I'm nobody special, so what gives?
This disagrees with a National Geographic article I read a few years back...the dead buddhist becomes the center of his own heaven, or something...I'll have to see if I can find it.
Of course, speaking of "Buddhism" is a bit silly; it's rather like speaking of "Christianity." There is no uniformity of belief in any religion.
rolling on the floor busting a gut laughing
...lawyers whose primary concern is not with "justice" but with "legality."
Not even legality but complexity. The lawyers are the only real guild left (possibly excepting the AMA). Try to practice law without joining the guild. They won't kill you or burn your shop down but they will send you to jail. They elect their own members to Congress and get their own members appointed to judgeships. They create and interpret the law. They profit only if the legal system is too complex for laymen to understand. I know of no productive ones. IANAL, but I work at a large law firm...
That's a good quote. What's the source?
Your objection is just semantics. Didn't you read the article? Michael obviously meant to say that glass doesn't flow.
I may have missed a few here and there, or gotten some wrong. I just did a dozen search and replaces or so...
D00D, WHY 4RE Y0U P05T1NG 0N 5145HD0T? I WITH MY '1337 5K1LLS U5ED 5ED...Y0U 4RE N0T W0RTHY.
Possible answers...
- It was a quantum bit. It had no state until you observed it.
- It had five states: blank, "YES", "NO", "YESYESYESYESYES", and "NONONONONO"
- It was a beta version of the magic eight ball
The MCP controlled access to the I/O system, or tried to. It died when a program got direct access to I/O. While it seemed to have the potential for much more, it spent a lot of its time on games. It obliterated other programs by absorbing their functionality. At its core, when everything else was stripped away, it had a teletype interface. Without it, the system had a lot more power (think CPU cycles). What it feared most was a debugging tool and it was destroyed by source code. (This last bit is clearly prophetic =)
The point of civil disobedience is to break laws in a public way and so call attention to the absurdity of the law. It's still a crime, you still go to jail, you still get a criminal record. If you want to take several hundred dollars from Wal Mart and hold a press conference in the parking lot, go right ahead; but remember that without the press conference - it's just theft.
So, to all you Napsterites, where's your web page listing all the songs you've downloaded illegally?
...odorless, colorless...
...and completely safe for human consumption.
Iocaine powder!
Oops...never mind.
Not quite true. 100% oxygen at 3 atm has been used to treat patients whose red blood cell count was way, way low. At that pressure and concentration, the blood plasma dissolves enough oxygen to keep your tissues alive - you no longer need the red blood cells.
It IS toxic, though, and bad things can happen if this is kept up too long.
Kinda. You can take a block of TNT and set it on fire. It won't explode. IANAC (chemist) but I believe the difference is that fire requires fuel, oxygen, and heat to ignite while a high explosive required fuel and a good shockwave to detonate. This is why dynamite requires a blasting cap - the blasting cap explodes, creating a sufficient shockwave to detonate the dynamite. Black powder, on the other hand, burns rather than detonates.
I'm sure google is your friend at this point...