I wish the world would switch to GMT, it would make everything so much easier. No it wouldn't. It would make it much more difficult to figure out when people in other parts of the world were sleeping or at work.
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When did gypsies get their own race? You need to do some reading. Start here.
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What part of not giving you a raise is theft? If pirating a song I would never have paid for is theft then clearly not giving me a raise is also theft.
Not only is it extremely provocative from the average persons TV-level awareness of bomb gadgetry, but personally with a EE background I'd be even more alarmed by it's context. I disagree. Not only does it not look anything like the sort of stuff you see on TV (and therefore should not be "extremely provocative from the average persons TV-level awareness of bomb gadgetry"), but if you have a EE background you should instantly recognize it for what it is - a collection of simple electronic components on a breadboard, none of which are threatening.
The purpose of drawing guns is not to shoot but to immediately control a situation that could be deadly. Shut it down and sort it out in a safe place. I have no problem with how security reacted prior to determining the nature of the device. But once they did find out what the device was they still arrested her and charged her. That was unwarranted IMO.
When an employee asked about the device, she "walked away without responding" according to the article. She may have been already walking away when the employee asked and simply not heard. The employee may have asked in an insulting manner. The article does provide enough information to judge what happened at this point. In any case failure to answer a question from someone working at an airport information desk isn't particularly suspicious (would be different had she failed to answer an inquiry from security personnel).
but they arrested her without incident and later released her on bail once they verified that there was no real threat. They charged her with possessing a hoax device. That was an over reaction in my opinion. They should have simply let her go with a warning.
Since when has any random collection of electronic components qualified as hoax bomb? Post Sept 11 we've had real bombs in shoes and concern about liquid explosives - does that mean you risk receiving the same charge anytime you're in an airport with shoes or carrying a drink?
The symmetry in SMP does not refer to the capabilities of the processors. It refers to the relation between the processors and memory. The symmetry refers to all the capabilities of the processors, including their access to memory. SMP means that all processors in the system are interchangable from the OS's point of view - that cannot be the case if any characteristic varies between the processors. A system with different processors that have the same access to memory (such as an unexpanded Amiga 1000) is not considered an SMP system.
The symmetry in SMP has nothing to do with the number of processors. It simply means that all the processors are treated identically (and therefore should be identical in terms of capabilities). With asymmetric multiprocessing certain processors are used for certain tasks and are therefore often specialised for them.
If you go to the source, you can compare the southern and northern anomolies. Those graphs show that while the antarctic ice coverage is about 1.25 million square kms higher than the 1979-2000 mean, the artic ice coverage is over 2 million square kms lower than the 1979-2000 mean. The antarctic increase is not making up for the artic decrease: there is a net loss of ice worldwide. This data points to higher average temperatures and more extreme seasonal variations. Neither of those are good news.
FYI, rangers and such take their jobs very seriously. So far as I know, everyone reported missing in the wilderness gets a full spare-no-expense search and rescue effort. They look for "nobodies" just as hard as they're looking for Fossett, and the dedicated folks who do those tough jobs would take great offense at your ignorant suggestion otherwise. You are right, of course. However it is interesting that (AFAIK) no one has tried this sort of public search using satellite images before. And it will be interesting to see if is is used for other people missing in the wilderness.
I suppose there are already trained people looking at the images. From the Police, Fire-Department, or whatever organization handles these kinds of emergencies in Nevada. I stress the word trained because the satellite data definetely needs experienced eyes to look out for the right stuff. There are only so many trained people available and time is of the essence. Having untrained people looking as well probably won't improve the odds overall, but it will improve the odds of finding him quickly.
2007 YTD market share doesn't tell the whole story though. When you look at the totals since 2000 the picture is not so clear. Paramount leads, but it's close:
1 Paramount / Dreamworks 15.5% $10,014.20
2 Buena Vista 14.4% $9,278.90
3 Sony / Columbia 14.1% $9,090.70
4 Warner Bros. 14.0% $9,012.80
5 20th Century Fox 11.9% $7,687.10
Sony also owns MGM, if you add that (3.1% $2029.5) Sony leads.
By camp we have:
Blu-ray (Sony, MGM, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate exclusive): 46.2% $29.8B
HD DVD (Paramount, Dreamworks, Universal, Dimension, Weinstein): 28.5% $18.4B
Both (Warner Bros., New Line, Miramax): 25.3% $16.3B
Note that a number of Warner Bros. titles have been released only on HD DVD and also that Spielberg films are not going to be HD DVD exclusive.
Before this deal HD DVD looked very shaky. Now they look down but not out.
See, I noticed the link from Microsoft, but I'm not saying it should be possible, I'm saying I've done it. Many times actually. It works perfectly.
If an meteorologist told you the sky was orange, would you then say it must be because a reliable source said so? Not unless you're blind. Some guy on the net claims to have done it, vs Microsoft, the creators of the software saying it can't be done. And I know for a fact it can't be done from the desktop - I've tried it. So who would you believe in my place?
Goddamn, will people stop saying this?!? I've formatted a 200GB hard drive as FAT with the Windows XP installer. There is no 32GB limit. Did you not read the link in the parent post? The people saying there is a 32GB limit are Microsoft themselves. From the page: "You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process." XP will not let you format a partition larger than 32GB with FAT32 from the desktop either - you simply don't get FAT as an option. Win 2000 also refuses, though it at least tells you what the problem is.
Point to some dictionary or other usage guide that supports your view. Because I've only seen such authorities state that this usage is incorrect.
Prescriptivism is fucking stupid. Language is defined by how people use it, not by the illogical, contradictory edicts handed down by a moron who doesn't even understand them. Dictionaries and such follow usage. If your claim that this alternate usage is common is true you should be able to point to a reference that acknowledges the fact. Otherwise your claim is purely anecdotal - you think this usage is common.
you must also believe we should swap the meaning of "it's" and "its", make "loose" synonymous with "lose", and get rid of "too", right?
This is a straw man. There is a big difference between typing B instead of A whether by accident (as in the case of loose/lose) or due to laziness (it's/its) and intentionally using B to mean A, which is what is happening here. I disagree. "It's" vs "its" is not laziness, it's ignorance. "Loose" v "lose" may sometimes be accidental, but far more often it's again a mistake in understanding. The incorrect use of "begs the question" is the same: ignorance or a mistake in understanding. The use of a term incorrectly does not become valid just because the author deliberately used it that way.
This usage is well-established Point to some dictionary or other usage guide that supports your view. Because I've only seen such authorities state that this usage is incorrect. If you merely claiming to be right argumentum ad populum, then you must also believe we should swap the meaning of "it's" and "its", make "loose" synonymous with "lose", and get rid of "too", right?
I wouldn't. When I've walked through vegas casinos some of those games look pretty freagin complicated and I wouldn't think anything of it if I got $10 credits for $1, especially with all the stupid lights and bells going off all around me. I'd probably figure there was a ratio of "game dollars" to real dollars, or something like when you put a quarter in a video game and it says "1/3" credit (because the game costs 75 cents). Why not 1/4 credit for a quarter? I wouldn't think anything of it I'd just stick some money in and play the game for a bit, and consider myself lucky if I came out with more $$ than I started. Big deal. I don't think so. You put in say $10. You get $100 in credit, which you think is game money. Fine. You play for a while and then cash out and you get $50 in real money. You know you didn't win enough to be up $40. Unless you're really stupid you are not going to "consider yourself lucky", you are going to realise it was faulty.
Of course if you just pocketed the $40 and walked away the casino is not comming after you. But if you go back and put another $1000 dollars into it, play two hands and then cash out you're on pretty shaky ground - morally and probably legally.
Try attaching a 1M file to a gmail send... Its quite slow. Often I have to try several times before a successful send. Further, I have never ever been able to send an attachment of size around 10M. I just sent a message with a 15MB attachment. It was slow - took about 10 minutes to upload, which was about 3 times what I was expecting based on my ADSL connection upload speed, but it worked. Perhaps your connection is to blame for your issues?
They dont have any limit on the attachment size by policy. You can try to send any size... they just timeout. Yes they do: 20MB.
Oracle has been available for Windows for at least 10 years. I first used it on Windows with version 7. IIRC Oracle 7 was a bit of a pig to setup databases on but since version 8 it's a breeze.
I was particularly underwhelmed that I had to deal with stupid errors like tarballs that extracted onto themselves and assumptions
about the shell being used. Ok.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 ran great with no tuning at all, and took fifteen minutes to install. So you did have Windows boxes but didn't try Oracle under Windows? It's pretty easy to install - probably around the same 15 mins as SQL Server.
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Since when has any random collection of electronic components qualified as hoax bomb? Post Sept 11 we've had real bombs in shoes and concern about liquid explosives - does that mean you risk receiving the same charge anytime you're in an airport with shoes or carrying a drink?
The symmetry in SMP has nothing to do with the number of processors. It simply means that all the processors are treated identically (and therefore should be identical in terms of capabilities). With asymmetric multiprocessing certain processors are used for certain tasks and are therefore often specialised for them.
Furlong is not the right unit for length (or area). It should be Libraries of Congress per Football Field.
If you go to the source, you can compare the southern and northern anomolies. Those graphs show that while the antarctic ice coverage is about 1.25 million square kms higher than the 1979-2000 mean, the artic ice coverage is over 2 million square kms lower than the 1979-2000 mean. The antarctic increase is not making up for the artic decrease: there is a net loss of ice worldwide. This data points to higher average temperatures and more extreme seasonal variations. Neither of those are good news.
This is in the science section. Why?
Shouldn't that be "French Threaten to ID Secret US Satellites"?
It's pretty ironic given that Amazon made their money by making online shopping so simple. Why isn't this a one-click interface?
1 Paramount / Dreamworks 15.5% $10,014.20
2 Buena Vista 14.4% $9,278.90
3 Sony / Columbia 14.1% $9,090.70
4 Warner Bros. 14.0% $9,012.80
5 20th Century Fox 11.9% $7,687.10
Sony also owns MGM, if you add that (3.1% $2029.5) Sony leads.
By camp we have:
Blu-ray (Sony, MGM, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate exclusive): 46.2% $29.8B
HD DVD (Paramount, Dreamworks, Universal, Dimension, Weinstein): 28.5% $18.4B
Both (Warner Bros., New Line, Miramax): 25.3% $16.3B
Note that a number of Warner Bros. titles have been released only on HD DVD and also that Spielberg films are not going to be HD DVD exclusive.
Before this deal HD DVD looked very shaky. Now they look down but not out.
If an meteorologist told you the sky was orange, would you then say it must be because a reliable source said so? Not unless you're blind. Some guy on the net claims to have done it, vs Microsoft, the creators of the software saying it can't be done. And I know for a fact it can't be done from the desktop - I've tried it. So who would you believe in my place?
Of course if you just pocketed the $40 and walked away the casino is not comming after you. But if you go back and put another $1000 dollars into it, play two hands and then cash out you're on pretty shaky ground - morally and probably legally.
Completely different technology. RTFA.
Oracle has been available for Windows for at least 10 years. I first used it on Windows with version 7. IIRC Oracle 7 was a bit of a pig to setup databases on but since version 8 it's a breeze.