They're still capable of observation and understanding the scientific process, perhaps even more so than those who blindly adhere to a theory because they keep their minds open to the possibility that it is wrong.
If you click on this bookmark in Mozilla, it will zoom through the currently loaded document tree and wipe out all TD and TABLE widths between 300 and 800. Edit the regex there in the middle to apply it to other tags. It doesn't work in Konqueror, but it might work in Opera or IE.
... and Konqueror. Actually, Opera *introduced* tabbed browsing with their first public version several years ago. I didn't like it then, but for some reason I really got addicted to it when Multizilla came out.
Heh. Yeah, actually I work in a used bookstore with a SF/F section that's as large as a small bookstore, so I have quite a selection to choose from.:-)
I haven't read any Niven (I've been meaning to, it's on the list, somewhere), but the other books you mention all involve species that breathe, walk on legs, etc. The communal-mind creatures in _A Fire Upon the Deep_ were basically normal wolves with intelligence and ultrasound telepathy. Pretty much all SF I've read, especially hard SF, sticks to three concepts of intelligences: animal life analogous to that on Earth, AI, and godlike nonmaterial beings. One of the exceptions was a story (I wish I could remember the author; might be Joe Haldeman but I can't find it) involved a species that reproduced with spores which grew into little fingerling fish things, which grew into something else, and finally after several stages reached a land-walking octopus-like thing that did nothing but eat seeds and think. When it reproduced, it encoded its experiences into its spores. It eventually became a sort of energy-mind. Greg Bear's _Blood Music_ is another good exception. It involved totally alien beings, but they came from humanity. I don't want to give too much away.:-)
Anyway, my point is, stories about creatures that aren't like humans in any way are really hard to write convincingly. There aren't many out there.
I have a 21" NEC MultiSync that, while it has a few annoying but tolerable age-related illnesses, still has a very good picture quality once it warms up. I bought it 3 years ago for $400. It was made in 1995.:-)
The sidebar here will (among other things) auto-format the HTML for the current state of the page, after any Javascript document.write() or DHTML operations. It's rather slow though.
I reckon they thought they were using "hacker" in the sense that we would consider the "wrong" way, and got it right by accident. Besides, "globetechnology.com" sounds like a techie news site to me, even if it is a part of a general news outlet.
If they were thinking about it, they did a crappy job. Over my 56k modem, Google loads about twice as fast as search.yahoo.com. By my count, Google was usable after 1.5 seconds and completed loading at 3 seconds; yahoo was usable after 3 seconds and completed loading at 5 seconds, which is still pretty fast. Google's main page also is 1.2k and has no nested tables whereas Yahoo's is 6.6k and has tables nested three deep.
I think both sites would benefit from a pure CSS layout, though I'm sure they have good reason not to do so. To their credit, Yahoo does use CSS instead of FONT tags.
In vim, when the cursor is on a bracket, brace or paren, in command mode, you can hit "%" to move the cursor to the matching one. I can't find any docs on highlighting or blinking the matching paren though. I'm not a vi expert though.
What were you using prior to VS? Notepad? Nearly every programming editor, free or not, does some kind of parenthesis matching. Emacs has three or four different styles of paren matching. You should do more research before you decide what the cost of things is worth.:-)
According to the Discover article (which I read in the paper version) one of the outputs of the process is a clean-burning gas, which they use to power the heating stage. So it might not use too much energy from the utilities, but it won't produce as much output as theoretically possible.
Canticle might get you fired if you're in a very liberal school district. Someone who wouldn't blink at the pseudo-science-religion in Stranger in a Strange Land might get upset at what could be interpreted as Catholic apologetics.:-)
How could you leave out Wall Drug? Really, the place ain't much, but you can't fail to go there after seeing about nine billion billboards for it on I-80 through Montana.
I used to subscribe to that. Now that you reminded me, I think I will again.:)
Another good science magazine is Natural History, which combines excellent columns (Stephen Jay Gould wrote a regular column until 2000) with very good natural science reporting and most importantly, bloody gorgeous photos. Their articles are frequently written by the researchers and I find them quite approachable.
(I have to admit though, when I look at the pictures of monkeys in the current issue's article on Vietnam, all I can think of is the stewed monkey brains from the Temple of Doom.)
1. CVS does not constitute prior art against this patent. 2. Other products, like Zope, do more or less the same thing as what the patent claims. 3. Therefore, there is no prior art.
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Don't know many creationists, do you?
Yes. But it's not uncommon when you have scads of ram to have /tmp mounted on a ramdisk. I assumed that's what the author meant.
I'd give good money to see Steve Jobs tear his jacket apart and say "nothin' up my sleeve!" :-)
Awesome, thanks :-)
... and Konqueror. Actually, Opera *introduced* tabbed browsing with their first public version several years ago. I didn't like it then, but for some reason I really got addicted to it when Multizilla came out.
Heh. Yeah, actually I work in a used bookstore with a SF/F section that's as large as a small bookstore, so I have quite a selection to choose from. :-)
:-)
I haven't read any Niven (I've been meaning to, it's on the list, somewhere), but the other books you mention all involve species that breathe, walk on legs, etc. The communal-mind creatures in _A Fire Upon the Deep_ were basically normal wolves with intelligence and ultrasound telepathy. Pretty much all SF I've read, especially hard SF, sticks to three concepts of intelligences: animal life analogous to that on Earth, AI, and godlike nonmaterial beings. One of the exceptions was a story (I wish I could remember the author; might be Joe Haldeman but I can't find it) involved a species that reproduced with spores which grew into little fingerling fish things, which grew into something else, and finally after several stages reached a land-walking octopus-like thing that did nothing but eat seeds and think. When it reproduced, it encoded its experiences into its spores. It eventually became a sort of energy-mind. Greg Bear's _Blood Music_ is another good exception. It involved totally alien beings, but they came from humanity. I don't want to give too much away.
Anyway, my point is, stories about creatures that aren't like humans in any way are really hard to write convincingly. There aren't many out there.
Can you recommend something?
I have a 21" NEC MultiSync that, while it has a few annoying but tolerable age-related illnesses, still has a very good picture quality once it warms up. I bought it 3 years ago for $400. It was made in 1995. :-)
You *WILL* get a corrupted DB. Just a matter of time.
http://mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com/sidebars/
The sidebar here will (among other things) auto-format the HTML for the current state of the page, after any Javascript document.write() or DHTML operations. It's rather slow though.
If I develop any useful software, and I release it freely, that is damn well going in the license. :-)
I reckon they thought they were using "hacker" in the sense that we would consider the "wrong" way, and got it right by accident. Besides, "globetechnology.com" sounds like a techie news site to me, even if it is a part of a general news outlet.
I think both sites would benefit from a pure CSS layout, though I'm sure they have good reason not to do so. To their credit, Yahoo does use CSS instead of FONT tags.
In vim, when the cursor is on a bracket, brace or paren, in command mode, you can hit "%" to move the cursor to the matching one. I can't find any docs on highlighting or blinking the matching paren though. I'm not a vi expert though.
What were you using prior to VS? Notepad? Nearly every programming editor, free or not, does some kind of parenthesis matching. Emacs has three or four different styles of paren matching. You should do more research before you decide what the cost of things is worth. :-)
As it was realised that the post was a joke, the people responsible for sacking the original poster have been sacked.
According to the Discover article (which I read in the paper version) one of the outputs of the process is a clean-burning gas, which they use to power the heating stage. So it might not use too much energy from the utilities, but it won't produce as much output as theoretically possible.
Canticle might get you fired if you're in a very liberal school district. Someone who wouldn't blink at the pseudo-science-religion in Stranger in a Strange Land might get upset at what could be interpreted as Catholic apologetics. :-)
Sorry, nevermind, that's I-90. :-)
How could you leave out Wall Drug? Really, the place ain't much, but you can't fail to go there after seeing about nine billion billboards for it on I-80 through Montana.
I used to subscribe to that. Now that you reminded me, I think I will again. :)
Another good science magazine is Natural History, which combines excellent columns (Stephen Jay Gould wrote a regular column until 2000) with very good natural science reporting and most importantly, bloody gorgeous photos. Their articles are frequently written by the researchers and I find them quite approachable.
(I have to admit though, when I look at the pictures of monkeys in the current issue's article on Vietnam, all I can think of is the stewed monkey brains from the Temple of Doom.)
"Liberal", to the part of the world that does not include the US, means "free-market capitalist".
Nope... that's Netscape 4 :-)
:-( ... take your pick.
Or
Let me get your argument straight.
1. CVS does not constitute prior art against this patent.
2. Other products, like Zope, do more or less the same thing as what the patent claims.
3. Therefore, there is no prior art.
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