The other people have already got you corrected on the 386/486 thing.
OT, but what the hell... I just wish Intel had released a 286 bus/pincompatible version of the 386SX. At the time, I wouldn't have cared about the performance loss of clocking at 10MHz, I wanted the instruction set!
The battle scenes with all the pirates changing back and forth as they stepped in and out of the moonlight were excellently done. Doing that on a battle-sized scale is incredible.
Some idiot was stupid enough to leave her name, company and phone number on my answering machine. I was tempted to call her back and tell her that she had just had $11,000 taken out of her salary, but that might have caused a "business relationship" to exist...
I wonder, though... in those days, did they think that there was something special about the line through Paris as opposed to, say, a line through the Atlantic ocean? Or was mentioning Paris just a political gimme?
I believe it was defined by a Frenchman... Sort of the way the Brits got to define the Prime Meridian as going through Greenwich.
It refers to the meter as 1/10,000,000 the distance from the pole to the equator through Paris, which is the same definition I had. Not a flame though, I'm glad we weren't sure, and I was able to find a (semi-) definitive answer!
ecause an original definition of a km was that 10,000 of them was the average distance from the earth's pole to the equator.
I thought the original km wasn't defined as an average, but specifically as 1/10000th of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, along the line of longitude passing through Paris.
Red herring. Isn't Canada R1? Don't they need French versions for Canada? And I live in SoCal, and trust me... they need Spanish versions (and probably Korean, Chinese, and every other language you can think of) for here.
Disclaimer: I did not vote for Bush. I am not particularly fond of Bush as the President. That sais...
The US basically had a fake election ending up with a fake president. Its time the US citizens start making themselves the country they want, especially when your democratic process breaks down like it did back in your 2000 elections.
I call bullshit. Florida was so fscking close that statistically it could have gone either way. There were legal deadlines to meet, and SOMEBODY had to make a decision. SCOTUS made one. You may not like the decision -- I certainly didn't -- but it had to be made. I'd like to point out that in 90% of the world's countries, an election such as ours in 2000 would have led to years of armed conflict. In our case, it didn't. It seems to me that our democratic process didn't break down. if it did, we'd be up to our armpits in civil war.
But it would be a mistake to think that with touch screen voting we are necessarily giving up an auditing capability that we traditionally have had. The old lever voting machines that were used in the U.S. for most of the last century produced no paper trail, just lists of total votes.
Although the older machines left no paper trail the one thing they did leave is physical paper, we all remember the moronic media following chad ballots on the highway. With e-voting there are far too many variables to whole heartedly trust a machine as opposed to turning on the news to see a trailer being escorted with paper.
He's talking about New York style voting machines.
It's also in the same collection as "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", and "And He Built a Crooked House". I believe the collection shares a title with the Hoag story.
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A Sperry/Univac machine programmed in Fortran IV (WATFOR) with bubble cards?
Maybe that's how they make liquid Schwartz?
The other people have already got you corrected on the 386/486 thing.
OT, but what the hell... I just wish Intel had released a 286 bus/pincompatible version of the 386SX. At the time, I wouldn't have cared about the performance loss of clocking at 10MHz, I wanted the instruction set!
DISCLAIMER: I haven't read it, but based on the genre, it has to be up there...
Either of the LeBron James "instant biographies".
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NetWare is dying
:-)
I thought it was *BSD that was dying?
It wasn't the army of the skeletons in Pirates, but the seamless changing back and forth in "real-time" (yes, I know it's not real-time) that got me.
The battle scenes with all the pirates changing back and forth as they stepped in and out of the moonlight were excellently done. Doing that on a battle-sized scale is incredible.
I filed a complaint about those guys!
Some idiot was stupid enough to leave her name, company and phone number on my answering machine. I was tempted to call her back and tell her that she had just had $11,000 taken out of her salary, but that might have caused a "business relationship" to exist...
You've got to walk before you can run.
LEO is on the order of 120 miles (or roughly 600,000) feet.
Remember, the first two manned US spaceflights were sub-orbital (Shepard and Grissom).
I wonder, though... in those days, did they think that there was something special about the line through Paris as opposed to, say, a line through the Atlantic ocean? Or was mentioning Paris just a political gimme?
I believe it was defined by a Frenchman... Sort of the way the Brits got to define the Prime Meridian as going through Greenwich.
Found a source for my claim.
It refers to the meter as 1/10,000,000 the distance from the pole to the equator through Paris, which is the same definition I had. Not a flame though, I'm glad we weren't sure, and I was able to find a (semi-) definitive answer!
ecause an original definition of a km was that 10,000 of them was the average distance from the earth's pole to the equator.
I thought the original km wasn't defined as an average, but specifically as 1/10000th of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, along the line of longitude passing through Paris.
AFAIK, They had a POSIX layer in NT4, deprecated it in 2K, and removed it completely in XP.
Red herring. Isn't Canada R1? Don't they need French versions for Canada? And I live in SoCal, and trust me... they need Spanish versions (and probably Korean, Chinese, and every other language you can think of) for here.
Explanation: I was responding to the OP's claim that "oh, I get it, your made because you can't steal something. Gotcha, I understand now."
I was pointing out that there were many uses that weren't "stealing".
(and yes, I know copyright infringement is not theft).
What show is this?
You have to opt-out from each spammer. Sounds like something the DMA would like.
Maybe, just maybe he's going on vacation and wants to record the next episode of [INSERT YOUR FAVORITE SHOW HERE], so he won't miss it?
That, my friend, is time-shifting, a legal fair use, as defined under the Betamax desision.
Disclaimer: I did not vote for Bush. I am not particularly fond of Bush as the President. That sais...
The US basically had a fake election ending up with a fake president. Its time the US citizens start making themselves the country they want, especially when your democratic process breaks down like it did back in your 2000 elections.
I call bullshit. Florida was so fscking close that statistically it could have gone either way. There were legal deadlines to meet, and SOMEBODY had to make a decision. SCOTUS made one. You may not like the decision -- I certainly didn't -- but it had to be made. I'd like to point out that in 90% of the world's countries, an election such as ours in 2000 would have led to years of armed conflict. In our case, it didn't. It seems to me that our democratic process didn't break down. if it did, we'd be up to our armpits in civil war.
10 SCO says "X is confidential"
20 IBM appeals to the judge
30 The court rules on whether X is not
40 GOTO 10
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But it would be a mistake to think that with touch screen voting we are necessarily giving up an auditing capability that we traditionally have had. The old lever voting machines that were used in the U.S. for most of the last century produced no paper trail, just lists of total votes.
Although the older machines left no paper trail the one thing they did leave is physical paper, we all remember the moronic media following chad ballots on the highway. With e-voting there are far too many variables to whole heartedly trust a machine as opposed to turning on the news to see a trailer being escorted with paper.
He's talking about New York style voting machines.
That would be cool, wouldn't it?
It's also in the same collection as "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", and "And He Built a Crooked House". I believe the collection shares a title with the Hoag story.