Last time I checked, it's stupid to leave anything with a default password.
If you had all your personal papers in a safe, would you leave it set to the factory combination?
Yes, people do. Ever read Feynman's memoirs? He got a reputation in Los Alamos for being a master safecracker simply because he knew the default combinations the safes used there shipped with...and nobody ever changed them. In the middle of the Manhattan Project, nobody ever changed the combinations on their safes.
"I have seen WW-II era footage of soldiers ing tiny generators by hand or by legs to power their radio sets."
It sounds like they are going for something that would require no additional effort from the astronauts. [snip]
The problem is, they can't. You can't get something for nothing. If the suit generates electricity when the astronaut moves, then it will offer resistance to the astronaut's movement; that's basic conservation of energy. The question is, how *much* will it hamper the astronaut? If it's too small to be noticeable, than that's a good deal, but that seems a little too good to be true.
Duke of Normandy? How can any member of the British nobility hold that title when Normandy is owned by the French?
The titles were joined, of course, when Duke William of Normandy successfully invaded England and made himself King William I in 1066. King John lost the mainland of Normandy to the French in 1204, and the English conceded their rights to it by treaty in 1259. However, the Channel Islands have traditionally also been regarded as part of Normandy and the English never lost those. The Kings (and Queens) of England continued to style themselves the Dukes of Normandy, with the ducal lands being the Channel Islands. It's actually quite complicated and rather confusing: the islands are not even regarded as part of the United Kingdom but are kind of their own little quasi-independent country.
Should the current Monarch of England be called King Elizabeth II?
I might point out that while Elizabeth is the Queen and and not the King, she *is* the Duke of Lancaster and the Duke of Normandy (and not the Duchess) and the Lord of Mann (and not the Lady).
Anyone remember the original Homeworld? There was this one damn mission where you basically had to move your whole fleet down this effing "tube" of asteroids in order to avoid "solar radiation" which would basically pwn your ships if you weren't perfectly in the goddamn "tube". First time I got to that mission it was a deal breaker; I'd wasted too many resources early in the game. So I went back and started over; got to that point with (literally) every ship I could possibly have, and it was still a huge pain in the ass. Theoretically you could waypoint your ass down the "tube" but in practice it was nearly impossible, and forget trying to do it by eyeball.
The main deal here is that smaller ships are much more vulnerable to the radiation. So don't launch them. Before hyper jumping to this scenario, de-select the auto-deploy option so they stay in your hangars after you jump. Go through the tube with only your capital ships, which you'll find much more forgiving, not to mention easier to handle.
I'm surprised Max Payne gets mentioned here (and again by another poster down the thread). Not only did it load in a reasonable amount of time on a PII-350 level system,
I bet the guy complaining about the load times was playing on a PS2. Having to load from the DVD is much slower than loading from a hard disk.
Having to coordinate different resources is the *point*. Having only one resource is too simplistic. As far clicking on buildings are concerned, I don't like clicking on the map or on the menu; both are too slow. If I had my druthers for Starcraft, you'd have a hotkey to cycle through buildings, or better, several hotkeys to cycle though different classes of buildings.
On Google, at least, it *is* a correct way to find information about Florida's social services. Quite useful links for finding social services in Florida came up nicely; the first one was the webpage for Florida's Department of Children and Families' adult services.
> (c) Something like the defunct "Blue Frog", but with teeth. I > need a program which goes to spamvertised web sites and sucks > their bandwidth. Bandwidth isn't free.
You're behind the times. A lot of spam these days, instead of providing a soft target with a site to go to, simply touts rigged penny stocks.
> Any rational utility will only pay for at most, the avoided > cost of the power, maybe 30% of the retial price. Anything > else is madness.
Or required by law, as it is in this guy's state. It's actually fairly common for power companies to be legeally required to buy back power at the same rate they sell it for. The main reason this won't work is because you have to notify the power company that you're going to be generating and selling back power, and let them inspect your generation equipment. So our theoretical inventive energy traders get busted because the power company knows they don't have the generation facilities to create the power they're claiming to produce.
>> 1) Get stock spam 2) See if the price has gone up in the past week. If so, forget it. If not, continue o step 3 > > You could also short the stock at this point...
You've just sent anybody who understands stocks into gales of laughter. You don't understand how shorting a stock works. Shorting a stock requires that you borrow shares from a broker who has shares available to be borrowed. You then sell the shares and leave the money with the broker as collateral for the borrowed shares, plus a little more out of your own pocket as margin. If the stock goes up, you must supply the broker with more collateral money (that's called a margin call). When you decide to close out the short, or if you're forced to by a margin call when you don't want to come up with more cash, you buy the stock, give it to the broker to replace the borrowed shares, and reclaim your money. All this depends on a broker having shares he's willing to let you borrow. The chances of scam penny stocks like this being available to borrow from any broker is absolutely nil. These stocks simply cannot be shorted.
>> Hard links anyone? They've been around for nearly 40 years. > >Hard links don't work across filesystems (or drives, in Windows-speak. or Volumes, in Mac-speak).
But soft links work just fine. I dunno if you have those in Windows, but you do in decent OSes.
...because the Microsoft DRM will *never* activate inappropriately due to a bug, and the hospital workers will have *no* troubles flying through the hoops necessary to tell the software that this isn't DRMed material.
> a great developer who basically IS music games that aren't DDR
And is a good hunk of DDR as well, at least on the hardware side. Red Octane *owns* the mid-range DDR pad market. I have a Red Octane DDR pad myself and wouldn't lose it for anything.
I figure SCO has no techs left at this point; it's all lawyers and executives. There's nobody left who could even follow simple instructions on how to log on to a box.
Slashdot Mirror
And M.U.L.E. And Yeager Flight Sim. And...
Holy crap, they used to be such a great game company...
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Yes, people do. Ever read Feynman's memoirs? He got a reputation in Los Alamos for
being a master safecracker simply because he knew the default combinations the
safes used there shipped with...and nobody ever changed them. In the middle of
the Manhattan Project, nobody ever changed the combinations on their safes.
Chris Mattern
The problem is, they can't. You can't get something for nothing. If the suit generates electricity when the astronaut moves, then it will offer resistance to the astronaut's movement; that's basic conservation of energy. The question is, how *much* will it hamper the astronaut? If it's too small to be noticeable, than that's a good deal, but that seems a little too good to be true.
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Not to mention Alice Cooper!
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The titles were joined, of course, when Duke William of Normandy successfully invaded England and made himself King William I in 1066. King John lost the mainland of Normandy to the French in 1204, and the English conceded their rights to it by treaty in 1259. However, the Channel Islands have traditionally also been regarded as part of Normandy and the English never lost those. The Kings (and Queens) of England continued to style themselves the Dukes of Normandy, with the ducal lands being the Channel Islands. It's actually quite complicated and rather confusing: the islands are not even regarded as part of the United Kingdom but are kind of their own little quasi-independent country.
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I might point out that while Elizabeth is the Queen and and not the King, she *is* the Duke of Lancaster and the Duke of Normandy (and not the Duchess) and the Lord of Mann (and not the Lady).
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Having to coordinate different resources is the *point*. Having only one resource is too simplistic. As far clicking on buildings are concerned, I don't like clicking on the map or on the menu; both are too slow. If I had my druthers for Starcraft, you'd have a hotkey to cycle through buildings, or better, several hotkeys to cycle though different classes of buildings.
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"At critical times, when I needed to interface with Microsoft software or file formats, I couldn't. This is Linux's fault."
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On Google, at least, it *is* a correct way to find information about Florida's social services. Quite useful links for finding social services in Florida came up nicely; the first one was the webpage for Florida's Department of Children and Families' adult services.
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> Why should we think this is anythign but a scam?
So, what you're trying to say is:
[Morbo]
"Windmills do not work that way!"
[/Morbo]
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> (c) Something like the defunct "Blue Frog", but with teeth. I
> need a program which goes to spamvertised web sites and sucks
> their bandwidth. Bandwidth isn't free.
You're behind the times. A lot of spam these days, instead of providing a soft target with a site to go to, simply touts rigged penny stocks.
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They must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance.
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"Curse you Red Velociraptor!"
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> Any rational utility will only pay for at most, the avoided
> cost of the power, maybe 30% of the retial price. Anything
> else is madness.
Or required by law, as it is in this guy's state. It's actually
fairly common for power companies to be legeally required to buy
back power at the same rate they sell it for. The main reason
this won't work is because you have to notify the power company
that you're going to be generating and selling back power, and
let them inspect your generation equipment. So our theoretical
inventive energy traders get busted because the power company
knows they don't have the generation facilities to create the
power they're claiming to produce.
Chris Mattern
> Especially since the minimum share price to short a stock is $5, and the stock must be
> sold on an uptick regardless of share price.
Didn't know the minimum price rule; learn something new every day. I did know the uptick
rule but it didn't come to mind.
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>> 1) Get stock spam 2) See if the price has gone up in the past week. If so, forget it. If not, continue o step 3
>
> You could also short the stock at this point...
You've just sent anybody who understands stocks into gales of laughter. You don't understand how shorting a stock works. Shorting a stock requires that you borrow shares from a broker who has shares available to be borrowed. You then sell the shares and leave the money with the broker as collateral for the borrowed shares, plus a little more out of your own pocket as margin. If the stock goes up, you must supply the broker with more collateral money (that's called a margin call). When you decide to close out the short, or if you're forced to by a margin call when you don't want to come up with more cash, you buy the stock, give it to the broker to replace the borrowed shares, and reclaim your money. All this depends on a broker having shares he's willing to let you borrow. The chances of scam penny stocks like this being available to borrow from any broker is absolutely nil. These stocks simply cannot be shorted.
Chris Mattern
>> Hard links anyone? They've been around for nearly 40 years.
>
>Hard links don't work across filesystems (or drives, in Windows-speak. or Volumes, in Mac-speak).
But soft links work just fine. I dunno if you have those in Windows, but you do in decent OSes.
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...because the Microsoft DRM will *never* activate inappropriately due to a bug, and the hospital workers will have *no* troubles flying through the hoops necessary to tell the software that this isn't DRMed material.
Chris Mattern
> a great developer who basically IS music games that aren't DDR
And is a good hunk of DDR as well, at least on the hardware side. Red Octane *owns* the mid-range DDR pad market. I have a Red Octane DDR pad myself and wouldn't lose it for anything.
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I figure SCO has no techs left at this point; it's all lawyers and executives. There's nobody left who could even follow simple instructions on how to log on to a box.
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...when you can have oo-mox?
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> I think they mean deployment, unless the Navy knows something Congress doesn't.
> Which wouldn't surprise me.
Deployment implies use; the crews have to train on these things, y'know.
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> OOP belongs in business... not in Molecular Dynamics.
Because Molecular Dynamics doesn't deal at all with self-contained interacting entities!
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