To be fair, this was put in so the emperor could toss people down it as he pleased. He knew it was a risk someone could toss him down it too, but he was crazy that way.
(*) By good, I mean clear and legible. The way we were taught when I was a kid was essentially a flowing version of "plain" lettering, which is quite similar to the way I still do it. (**) Copperplate and old-fashioned "pretty" handwriting might be aesthetically pleasing to some people, but we shouldn't kid ourselves that it's anything more than that, and it certainly doesn't make your writing any easier to read- quite the opposite.
My mum still uses the Palmer method for everyday use-- grocery lists, postcards, letters, recipes. She probably drafts Fortran subroutines in it... It's very legible, when done correctly, although it takes a great deal of practice to get there. Palmer handwriting is neat, but not elegant.
When you can walk into an Apple Store and all you see are monitors, with wires running into holes in the counter where the mysterious computers are hidden
The only possible justification for parental controls is give the easily offended an outlet for the ridiculous demands they make on the rest of society. Don't like something? Censor it yourself.
Parental Controls in addition to baseline level of bowdlerism is just absurd.
Forget sex offenders. I'd rather not know. However, if someone could develop an mashup of google maps and the terrorist watch list, that would be great. It would let me know whether my snitching is taken seriously, for one thing.
Only a programmer well versed in orbital mechanics could make it "interesting." The average slashdot commenter apparently isn't. see http://jontihorner.com/index.php?p=1_10_Publications> Horner, J., & Jones, B. W for the results of (non-brain-dead) modeling.
Jonti Horner and BW Jones have written a series of papers on this, summarized in this Astronomy and Geophysics article The first paper deals with the Asteroids. The second, in press, considers the Centaurs The third, of perhaps most relevance to this discussion, considers the Oort Cloud objects.
(To simplify the simulations, Earth was inflated to one million times its actual size. A juicy target indeed)
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To be fair, the space combat scenes were inspired by other films.
To be fair, this was put in so the emperor could toss people down it as he pleased. He knew it was a risk someone could toss him down it too, but he was crazy that way.
Overconfidence was his weakness.
39.1 light years. Gravity "travels" at the speed of light, though, so I'm not sure that quick reactions and trick piloting are that important.
t's really just a classic medieval knights-and-dragons-and-ladies fairy tale.
By way of Japan.
Old people write out words in perfect script, and see if they "look right". Youngsters type them in, and look for a red squiggly line underneath.
(*) By good, I mean clear and legible. The way we were taught when I was a kid was essentially a flowing version of "plain" lettering, which is quite similar to the way I still do it. (**) Copperplate and old-fashioned "pretty" handwriting might be aesthetically pleasing to some people, but we shouldn't kid ourselves that it's anything more than that, and it certainly doesn't make your writing any easier to read- quite the opposite.
My mum still uses the Palmer method for everyday use-- grocery lists, postcards, letters, recipes. She probably drafts Fortran subroutines in it... It's very legible, when done correctly, although it takes a great deal of practice to get there. Palmer handwriting is neat, but not elegant.
pdftex builds a pdf, which can easily be distributed to students, or even printed at the copy shop into spiral bound books. What's the link?
When you can walk into an Apple Store and all you see are monitors, with wires running into holes in the counter where the mysterious computers are hidden
Those aren't monitors. Those are imacs.
The day Fox start reporting actual NEWS is the day Satan goes to work in a snowplow.
In Dante's Inferno Satan is trapped in a frozen lake, surrounded by traitors of all description.
The only possible justification for parental controls is give the easily offended an outlet for the ridiculous demands they make on the rest of society. Don't like something? Censor it yourself.
Parental Controls in addition to baseline level of bowdlerism is just absurd.
Damn it, all this time I was thinking it used 0-9 like everyone else does.
You're probably thinking of ENIAC
When I was a kid, I used to hate the sight of hair being cut
When perusing astronomical predictions (i.e, orbit calculations), pay attention to the uncertainties.
Look at how quickly Apple ported Mac OS to Intel.
Apple maintained an internal cross platform port.
Forget sex offenders. I'd rather not know. However, if someone could develop an mashup of google maps and the terrorist watch list, that would be great. It would let me know whether my snitching is taken seriously, for one thing.
Little bits? like tweets?
Only a programmer well versed in orbital mechanics could make it "interesting." The average slashdot commenter apparently isn't.
see http://jontihorner.com/index.php?p=1_10_Publications> Horner, J., & Jones, B. W for the results of (non-brain-dead) modeling.
Jonti Horner and BW Jones have written a series of papers on this, summarized in this Astronomy and Geophysics article The first paper deals with the Asteroids. The second, in press, considers the Centaurs The third, of perhaps most relevance to this discussion, considers the Oort Cloud objects.
(To simplify the simulations, Earth was inflated to one million times its actual size. A juicy target indeed)
Would that be the Russian Business Network?
That's why I run prospective leaks through a grammar checker before releasing them into the wild.
Could it be that some people prefer one language to another (modified) language?
Didn't HP make an Ipod? What vendor did they use?
One person "rips" the book (what a bad phrase)
Ever hear of shotgun sequencing? Shred the book, scan all the shreds, and have a computer reassemble.
Notes on Nursing is a bad example. I'm pretty sure that it's been in print continuously since the 19th century.
Agreed. And in other news: Hell is still hot.
Cocytus
I repeat, it is NOT Christmas time in hell.
Australians would beg to differ.