How about talking about a recent non-technical book you've read
What's a non-technical book?
the latest play you saw
What's a play? Is that one of them cult-choor-al things?
summer expedition
Expedition??? Wouldn't that involve going OUTSIDE????? What are you, some kind of freak?
PS:;)
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Its often easy to blame the arrogance of Gary for blowing off IBM
I don't necessarily think it was arrogance. There are variations on the story floating around about him deciding to go out flying that day, etc; but from what I have read, he probably wouldn't have signed anyway. IBM at the time required people to sign ridiculously stringent Eternal Soul contracts with them, and he probably wouldn't have liked it.
I'm sitting here trying to envision the architecture and detailed design documents that a large software project requires when so many languages are involved.
Luckily for me, I've never seen a design document where I work.:-b
With dial-up, you'll still have to pay for an extra phone line if you want to talk.
That's OK, I don't want to talk.:) The only phone calls I get are from people trying to sell me something. The people I *want* to talk to either send me email, or call while I'm at work and leave a message on the machine.
Wodehouse is very widely read. I would be amazed if this year's global sales of Terry Pratchet came anywhere near the global sales of Wodehouse.
Actually, I'd be surprised if sales of Wodehouse were even 10% of Pratchett's. But I can't find any solid figures on the web. The best I can offer are the sales rankings at amazon.com:
The Truth, Pratchett (2001) - sales rank 2497
Life With Jeeves, Wodehouse (1983) - sales rank 16,234
Not scientific I know, but illustrative.:) I also remember reading somewhere that fully 1% of all books sold in Europe are/were Pratchett books. Considering how many authors are out there, that's pretty impressive.
Does anyone else see a time when movable, tear-off docking and automated full-time tiling completely take over from the free-floating manually arranged desktops of today?
God, I hope not. Whenever I have to use Visual Studio those bloody docking toolbars drive me crazy. And if I want my windows tiled I'll do it myself, thank you.
My opinion is that is you can't find the right window in your stack then you have too many windows open.:) I try to limit myself to 3 or 4 on one screen. If I need more, I go to another workspace. But, YMMV.
and then goes on to say that the maximum amount of dust that could possibly have collected on the moon is some 64cm. Which is exactly 64 times the amount that I saw the lunar rover making tracks in.
So, if you go to the beach and sink 1 inch into the sand, then the sand must be only 1 inch deep?
and 99.9999% of mutations are fatal or disadvantageus to the organism. For this level of evolution to have happened in the given (scientific) age of the Earth, it must have had help.
The real bottom line is, the theory of evolution is sound, but unprovable
Sigh. NO scientific theory is "provable". Theories can only be disproven. This is why the "theory" of creation isn't even a theory, as it can never be disproved; because you can always just say that God made it look that way.
Give me an easy, complete install and sensible, safe defaults.
Everyone keeps saying this, but the last time I installed Linux it was much simpler than the last time I installed NT (both were within the last year). I haven't tried 2000 or XP, so I can't speak for those.:)
Well, this might not help much, but I just bought a Sony Cybershot DSC-S85, and I think it's pretty cool.:) It comes with a driver disk, but I don't know if you really need it -- it might just work with a standard USB driver. When you plug it in under Windows, it just shows up as a removable drive, and you can copy files to and from the camera the way you would any other media. It also comes with a cable which lets you plug it into an RCA jack to display the pictures on a TV.
As for memory, the Sony cameras take a (proprietary) "memory stick", which are available up to 128 MB capacity, which at 640x480 can store over 700 images. The max resolution is 2200 something by 1700 something. You get a 16 MB stick with the camera, but that's pretty small if you plan to take high res pictures.
It has some "special effects", like black and white, sepia tone, and solarized. It can record mpeg video in two sizes. If you want to get into it, you can manually set the shutter speed, aperture, and all that other stuff that I don't know anything about.:)
Battery life is about 3 hours on a full charge (taking pictures with the LCD on). It works well in low-light, even without the flash. I have some pictures online that I took with it. If you really want to see them, mail me and I'll give you the URL.
As for programability, well, if someone could figure out how to h4x0r it, there's obviously a lot of stuff you could mess around with.
Mind you, I imagine a lot of other cameras have these features, but I'm happy with the overall package. The bad news is, with the 128 MB stick, it cost me right around $1000. Give it a few months though and it'll probably be half that.:)
Depends on what the systems are for as well. I work for a Navy contractor and we are deploying systems to the fleet running on dual-processor Linux boxes. We used to deliver Silicon Graphics systems, because our software is very graphic-intensive. However, the graphics cards for PCs have come a long way.:)
How many light-years across is the universe? If this light is really 13.6 billion years old, why didn't it pass the earth a long time ago?
AFAIK (I could be wrong), the radius of the observable universe is thought to be somewhere around 15-20 billion light years. So to answer your question, the reason it didn't pass us is that it hadn't gotten here yet.:)
If you are interested there is a spectacular book entitled _The_Big_Bang_Never_Happened_ that describes an alternate (and far more rational) cosmology
What does "far more rational" mean? In any case, the Big Bang theory has a lot going for it. It explains why space is expanding, it explains the relative abundance of elements in the universe, and it explains the 3K background radiation.
For any other theory to supplant the BB, it has to explain the data equally well. I haven't read the book you mentioned, but the active plasma idea sounds like BS to me.:-b
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But there are mentions of BC3000AD back in 1994. Although I didn't search for the first occurrence of "Jesus Christ this game sucks!!!!111"
Dr. Alexander Abian (crackpot who posted some bizarre self-centered theories in the sci.* newsgroups), and many others
Don't forget Archimedes Plutonium.
Pfft, picture. I saw the real thing. For a while they had it on display at the Smithsonian.
Pieces of ENIAC are on display at the Smithsonian American History Museum.
- look at all the troubles with exotic and multichar encodings: de facto this reducees mail to the least common encoding.
Good.
BASIC 7.0 on the Commodore 128 was also from Microsoft.
How about talking about a recent non-technical book you've read
;)
What's a non-technical book?
the latest play you saw
What's a play? Is that one of them cult-choor-al things?
summer expedition
Expedition??? Wouldn't that involve going OUTSIDE????? What are you, some kind of freak?
PS:
I don't necessarily think it was arrogance. There are variations on the story floating around about him deciding to go out flying that day, etc; but from what I have read, he probably wouldn't have signed anyway. IBM at the time required people to sign ridiculously stringent Eternal Soul contracts with them, and he probably wouldn't have liked it.
You mean stick around for the next 40 years?
Luckily for me, I've never seen a design document where I work.
That's OK, I don't want to talk.
Actually, I'd be surprised if sales of Wodehouse were even 10% of Pratchett's. But I can't find any solid figures on the web. The best I can offer are the sales rankings at amazon.com:
The Truth, Pratchett (2001) - sales rank 2497
Life With Jeeves, Wodehouse (1983) - sales rank 16,234
Not scientific I know, but illustrative.
God, I hope not. Whenever I have to use Visual Studio those bloody docking toolbars drive me crazy. And if I want my windows tiled I'll do it myself, thank you.
My opinion is that is you can't find the right window in your stack then you have too many windows open.
So, if you go to the beach and sink 1 inch into the sand, then the sand must be only 1 inch deep?
Wrong. Read this.
The real bottom line is, the theory of evolution is sound, but unprovable
Sigh. NO scientific theory is "provable". Theories can only be disproven. This is why the "theory" of creation isn't even a theory, as it can never be disproved; because you can always just say that God made it look that way.
As a once Baltimore Colts fan (until Irsay stole them), and now Ravens fan
;)
Now that Modell stole them from Cleveland you mean?
It discusses in scientific detail what is wrong with the radioactive dating methods both theoretically and in their application.
There are ways to get better answers.
Everyone keeps saying this, but the last time I installed Linux it was much simpler than the last time I installed NT (both were within the last year). I haven't tried 2000 or XP, so I can't speak for those.
As for memory, the Sony cameras take a (proprietary) "memory stick", which are available up to 128 MB capacity, which at 640x480 can store over 700 images. The max resolution is 2200 something by 1700 something. You get a 16 MB stick with the camera, but that's pretty small if you plan to take high res pictures.
It has some "special effects", like black and white, sepia tone, and solarized. It can record mpeg video in two sizes. If you want to get into it, you can manually set the shutter speed, aperture, and all that other stuff that I don't know anything about.
Battery life is about 3 hours on a full charge (taking pictures with the LCD on). It works well in low-light, even without the flash. I have some pictures online that I took with it. If you really want to see them, mail me and I'll give you the URL.
As for programability, well, if someone could figure out how to h4x0r it, there's obviously a lot of stuff you could mess around with.
Mind you, I imagine a lot of other cameras have these features, but I'm happy with the overall package. The bad news is, with the 128 MB stick, it cost me right around $1000. Give it a few months though and it'll probably be half that.
I wasn't aware that one case constituted an attack.
God bless you.
If God really existed, and he appeared in front of me right now, I'd spit in his eye.
Depends on what the systems are for as well. I work for a Navy contractor and we are deploying systems to the fleet running on dual-processor Linux boxes. We used to deliver Silicon Graphics systems, because our software is very graphic-intensive. However, the graphics cards for PCs have come a long way. :)
Bzzt. Noon Sunday EDT is 8 PM Sunday in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is +9 from EST. If the attacks started noon EDT, that translates into 11 AM EST, which means it was 8 in the evening on Sunday in Kabul.
Dumbass.
AFAIK (I could be wrong), the radius of the observable universe is thought to be somewhere around 15-20 billion light years. So to answer your question, the reason it didn't pass us is that it hadn't gotten here yet.
What does "far more rational" mean? In any case, the Big Bang theory has a lot going for it. It explains why space is expanding, it explains the relative abundance of elements in the universe, and it explains the 3K background radiation.
For any other theory to supplant the BB, it has to explain the data equally well. I haven't read the book you mentioned, but the active plasma idea sounds like BS to me.