...you're right, your kids won't be coming to my house to play any time soon. They'd probably end up shooting one of my family since you haven't taken the time to raise them with the same respect I was raised with...
You seem to really believe the ridiculous notion that if a 5-year-old got access to your unlocked gun and killed someone, it would be someone's fault other than your own.
Personally I'd keep loaded weapons away from any child I didn't know for a fact was trained to either keep away from or properly use a weapon. But if I knew a 5yo had the proper respect for what a gun can do, I'd not think twice about leaving a pistol on the nightstand.
Have you ever had a serious conversation with a 5 year old? He will know it's "bad" to play with the gun, but he cannot understand "accidental death", "shattered families", etc.
Kids do "bad" things sometimes, on purpose. That 5 year old will not be able to understand the consequences of his actions for a few years yet. My kids won't ever be playing at your house.
The fatal single point of failure in a RAID array is the filesystem. No matter how many redundant disks, mirroring systems, etc. you have going, a corrupted allocation table will still junk the whole thing.
Digital conversion != compression. More to the point, however: when I first heard someone exalting lossless audio compression for consumer use, I too thought it to be overkill. Later, though, someone gave me a valid reason: the people that use.SHN and what-not tend to trade in live shows, etc. and tend to be the same people that traded a lot of tapes before digital technology became common. Hearing enough nth generation copies of an analog tape, these people want to prevent the same degradation from happening today. "But MP3s can be copied with no degradation", you say . . . of course they can. The real danger, however, is when person A gets the MP3, burns it to CD-R and gives it to person B, who rips it to MP3 (further degradation) and puts it on Kazaa where it's picked up by person C, who burns it to CD-R and gives it to person D, who rips it to MP3 (even more degradation), etc. etc. It's a valid concern.
How's this for an experiment. Turn your stereo speakers up to the loudest (that's maybe 110dB if you have a killer stereo) and try to build a soundproof box around it that's smaller than your fridge.
Better yet, just stick the speaker in your fridge and crank it up.
Someday I may tell you how 13 men took on an Empire, and altared history (for the better), forever, 2000 years ago.
Gimme a break. One guy called himself God, convinced 12 other guys of that, and told them how to think and act. Once the shit started to hit the fan, they betrayed and denied the guy. Wait, come to think of it, this sounds a lot like some corporations . . .
The project will begin with M. genitalium, a minuscule organism that lives in the genital tracts of people and may cause or contribute to some cases of urethritis, an inflammation of the urethra.
If they had to choose a bacteria to do unpredictable and possible dangerous experimentation with, why did they choose one that is known to cause crotch-burn in humans?!
Yeah, why would any one name a rocket after an animal that doesn't even fly.
Or an operating system for that matter . . . sheesh.
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Not a joke. I'm talking about this kind of pen, and it doesn't "levitate" . . . but it does clearly show some lift. Try it.
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...lift from a rotating cylinder...
This effect is easy to see yourself:
Take a cheap ballpoint pen (the kind that's just a light white uniform plastic cylinder with plugs at each end for the pen part and end part).
Take it apart, so you're just left with the empty cylinder.
Place the cylinder on a table, and press down on it hard with 8 fingers.
Allow the cylinder to slip out from under your fingers, away from you. If it's done right, it will be moving away from you, but with a very fast rotational motion towards you. The rotation will cause it to lift and float gently across a room.
Not having seen the book, I'm assuming much of it is dedicated to relational database concepts, explained via SQL. 834 pages is about right for an introduction. "Real" relational database design is a lot more complicated than most people (programmers particularly) realize.
You could list and explain all of the syntax for C++ in just a few pages, but I wouldn't call you a C++ programmer after reading it.
On the other hand they might read your dard drive, extract your outlook email list and send it to MS so that the list could be used for spam.
Yeah! Or they might find out which company you buy your tinfoil from, and buy that company, and put nanomachines in all the tinfoil so that your tinfoil hat actually reads your brain!!
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You seem to really believe the ridiculous notion that if a 5-year-old got access to your unlocked gun and killed someone, it would be someone's fault other than your own.
never mind.
Have you ever had a serious conversation with a 5 year old? He will know it's "bad" to play with the gun, but he cannot understand "accidental death", "shattered families", etc.
Kids do "bad" things sometimes, on purpose. That 5 year old will not be able to understand the consequences of his actions for a few years yet. My kids won't ever be playing at your house.
This is not an oversight in most cases. Incoming phone calls are WAY more expensive than page views or incoming email.
Sheetrock has had a far greater impact on the world than the theory of relativity, regardless of its comparative simplicity.
The fatal single point of failure in a RAID array is the filesystem. No matter how many redundant disks, mirroring systems, etc. you have going, a corrupted allocation table will still junk the whole thing.
. . . My name is Jim and I'm a college professor.
But Hey Hey What Can I Do? Besides, the Song Remains the Same.
Digital conversion != compression. More to the point, however: when I first heard someone exalting lossless audio compression for consumer use, I too thought it to be overkill. Later, though, someone gave me a valid reason: the people that use .SHN and what-not tend to trade in live shows, etc. and tend to be the same people that traded a lot of tapes before digital technology became common. Hearing enough nth generation copies of an analog tape, these people want to prevent the same degradation from happening today. "But MP3s can be copied with no degradation", you say . . . of course they can. The real danger, however, is when person A gets the MP3, burns it to CD-R and gives it to person B, who rips it to MP3 (further degradation) and puts it on Kazaa where it's picked up by person C, who burns it to CD-R and gives it to person D, who rips it to MP3 (even more degradation), etc. etc. It's a valid concern.
Better yet, just stick the speaker in your fridge and crank it up.
This is wrong in so many ways, I don't even have time to go into it now.
Gimme a break. One guy called himself God, convinced 12 other guys of that, and told them how to think and act. Once the shit started to hit the fan, they betrayed and denied the guy. Wait, come to think of it, this sounds a lot like some corporations . . .
If they had to choose a bacteria to do unpredictable and possible dangerous experimentation with, why did they choose one that is known to cause crotch-burn in humans?!
Or an operating system for that matter . . . sheesh.
Not a joke. I'm talking about this kind of pen, and it doesn't "levitate" . . . but it does clearly show some lift. Try it.
This effect is easy to see yourself:
And please forward this to 20 of your closest friends.
Was putting a spelling error and multiple grammatical errors in the same sentence an attempt at being ironic?
When did "paperback books" replace "Libraries of Congress"? Is this part of the U.S. metric system changeover?
Come on, Scooby/GNU has a much better ring to it!
"Linn uks" would be the closest American accent equivalent. In Torvalds' accent, it's "Leen ooks".
You could list and explain all of the syntax for C++ in just a few pages, but I wouldn't call you a C++ programmer after reading it.
Yeah! Or they might find out which company you buy your tinfoil from, and buy that company, and put nanomachines in all the tinfoil so that your tinfoil hat actually reads your brain!!
Why did the chicken cross the turnpike?
To go down the shore for a grinder.
He didn't specify funny Joisy joke . . .
Done. It now has a desktop icon and hotkey shortcut too. And as soon as a PalmOS port is done, it'll take its place there beside the others as well.