Pringles are a product of Proctor & Gamble, currently #31 on the Fortune 500 list--no small potatoes!
The movie does it both ways!
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Review: Solaris
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The "So-LAHR-iss" pronunciation dominates the movie, but several times characters say it "So-LAIR-iss"; whether that's a case of directorial sloppiness by Soderbergh or some kind of too-clever-by-half hidden message, I leave to people with even more time to waste than I have...
Corel bought out Micrografx about a year ago, it seems primarily to extinguish them.
Not at all. Corel has no intention of "extinguishing" Micrografx Designer; rather, its high-end technical drawing niche is an integral part of Corel's play for enterprise-level process-management vertical markets. Note the high profile of designer on this automotive and aerospace enterprise solutions profile.
It's obviously uncertain whether they can do it, but Corel is making a pretty convincing attempt to become a credible source of some really fancy XML-driven combinations of graphics and data. Technical or creative illustrations with built-in live ties to a database, that sort of thing. It's both in cooperation and competition with.NET.
Easily implemented solution: don't share your information, but access your own PC from anywhere and use it as you would elsewhere. This is easily available now for PC's, and could be extended to PDA's, phones, etc. with a little more work. Start with a web-centric remote administration product like GoToMyPC or Radmin.
GoToMyPC is terrific; it uses a central server to connect you from a browser through firewalls to your PC regardless of its current IP address. The software currently cross-platform only on the client end; the server is still Windows-only, but that could change. The go-between server software can be licensed, so it's not even necessary to have a third party broker the connection to the home PC.
I disagree--I'm reluctantly beginning to agree with the crowd that says "MHz don't matter for most of us." I used to think they were idiots--more power was always better. I bought a Dell Precision 420 dual-capable PIII-733 in September 2000 with Win2K and 256MB of RDRAM. I've since added the second processor, 512MB more RDRAM, and assorted minor toys. I'm still using a beautiful 19" Mitsubishi 900u monitor I bought in 1999. In twenty years, I've never before had a two-year old machine with so much life in it. I barely even drool over a dual-2.8GHz Xeon, even though it would almost triple the clock speed. Compare that to past two year upgrades:
1995: Pentium 120 1997: Pentium II 300 2000: Pentium III 733
I'm still throwing huge computing projects at this machine (complex maximum-likelihood statistical models with 100,000+ records), and nothing can choke up the combination of dual processors and plenty of RAM. This in spite of the fact that I had grave doubts about the Intel 840 platform and RDRAM given the public criticism at the time.
The bottom line: buy the best machine you can now, and you may be happy to keep it a very long time.
I am a social, not physical, scientist, and I often read Discover magazine for science news (my wife subscribes). Scientists may not be as credulous and speculation-prone as the average American, but Discover sure makes them seem that way. Almost every discovery is sensationalized beyond all reason: this tiny microbe found in Alaska points the way to human colonization of the planets, this psychological trigger found in the brain could end suffering and pave the way to utopia, this environmental snafu will melt the ice caps and drown us all. No wonder people think the paranormal is normal--scientists and their paparazzi groupies are selling outlandish visions of the future in the name of science. Hold them accountable, forcefully.
I use GoToMyPC regularly. It's a fairly platform-independent (on the client; host is still Windows only) remote web-based access solution. Like PCAnywhere or Timbuktu or whatever, it communicates using only the GDI, keyboard and mouse.
I'd like a wireless pad with at least 1024x768, using the thin GoToMyPC client to view any PC host on my account; switch between PCs on the fly but never have to configure the pad itself for anything. Would anyone else go for that?
Give me a break. Legos are maximally social, if you have any ambition. You can't build a truly inspiring moonbase or a decent ski resort or a reasonable cityscape without all of your friends' Legos alongside your own. And the base/resort/city planning stage requires a degree of collective problem-solving and negotiation skills you won't find in any snow fort or football team. Don't generalize from your own twisted childhood.
My next-door neighbor and I used to play Monopoly in the middle of a Lego wonderland, using Lego vehicles to move around the board, Lego stands to hold our property cards and a powered Lego conveyor belt to pass money across the wide table to each other. Top that!
A single person could easily count several thousand ballots per day, which is well more than the number of voters at most polling places.
BS backatcha. How many candidates and issues are being decided by your imaginary hand-counted ballot? If you're an advocate of popular democracy, you probably admire California's "bedsheet ballots" with literally dozens of offices and propositions to vote on. No hand-counted ballot is going to handle those swiftly AND accurately.
I too have a Fujitsu Speedport for Verizon DSL; it doesn't get very hot at all (well, warm). Are you sure the one you have isn't still Orckit? Mine says "DSL by Orckit" right on the modem.
If we have any brains at all, the first thing this visitor will experience is total quarantine. Or did all of the recent Andromeda Strain ripoffs leave everyone jaded on extraterrestrial epidemics?
Either a hoax or a tragedy
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XBox Tidbits
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Either 1) Nintendo's VP of marketing is hopelessly unschooled in English grammar or 2) this is a hoax. The punctuation is worse that the average/. post. If this is all the better Nintendo can do in communicating with its retailers, they are already doomed.
T-tests and chi-squares are inappropriate for data not taken from a random sample. The Florida counties are not a sample, they are a population, so testing for random variation is meaningless.
Standard errors depend on the assumption that the error is due to a probability process; in this case, neither the selection of the observed counties nor the voting behavior of Florida residents can be described with these statistical methods. Stats as a tool have a limited range of applicability. Focus on the facts.
With all undue respect, the idea that the two products are "identical" is a colossal load of nonsense, and converting Word into WordPerfect is an impossibly complicated task. Word's data format is radically different from WordPerfect's (which explains why conversions are such a nightmare). Superficial similarity in feature sets conceals a yawning gap in typesetting capabilities and user control over type and graphics.
I GREATLY prefer WordPerfect because the data format is visible and similar to a script, with ordered "tags" a lot like HTML. Font change start in the wrong place? Just Reveal Codes, then cut and paste the tag where you want it. Word's idea of tags is a lot of silly tool tips that tell you very little about the actual underlying structure of the document and don't let you work with it.
In short, Mac:Linux::M$Word:WordPerfect; both sides have a pretty GUI, but only Linux/WordPerfect let you see and tweak the source. WordPerfect isn't Quark XPress, but it's light-years ahead of Word for precise and complex page-layout functions.
I sincerely hope this does not spell doom for WordPerfect, because it is a dramatically superior product to Word, at least for those willing to learn a few ropes. And it's a whole lot easier than LaTeX!
Hear, hear: "Live and let live"
I've just been reading John Locke, _A Letter on Toleration_ (1689). He basically argues that torture and persecution is fundamentally inconsistent with Christianity. Likewise, isn't FUD fundamentally inconsistent with the open-source movement's philosophy?
This thread reconvinces me that religious toleration in the twenty-first century will be as difficult for us enlightened nerds as for the Middle East. Them: Temple Mount vs. Dome of the Rock. Us: Open source vs. proprietary. Read Locke and learn.
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You used the correct you{r|'re}, proving Darkness404's point.
Yes, but he should've said "there're plenty of terrible comments", not "there's ...". Sigh.
Pringles are a product of Proctor & Gamble, currently #31 on the Fortune 500 list--no small potatoes!
The "So-LAHR-iss" pronunciation dominates the movie, but several times characters say it "So-LAIR-iss"; whether that's a case of directorial sloppiness by Soderbergh or some kind of too-clever-by-half hidden message, I leave to people with even more time to waste than I have...
Corel bought out Micrografx about a year ago, it seems primarily to extinguish them.
Not at all. Corel has no intention of "extinguishing" Micrografx Designer; rather, its high-end technical drawing niche is an integral part of Corel's play for enterprise-level process-management vertical markets. Note the high profile of designer on this automotive and aerospace enterprise solutions profile.
It's obviously uncertain whether they can do it, but Corel is making a pretty convincing attempt to become a credible source of some really fancy XML-driven combinations of graphics and data. Technical or creative illustrations with built-in live ties to a database, that sort of thing. It's both in cooperation and competition with .NET.
Easily implemented solution: don't share your information, but access your own PC from anywhere and use it as you would elsewhere. This is easily available now for PC's, and could be extended to PDA's, phones, etc. with a little more work. Start with a web-centric remote administration product like GoToMyPC or Radmin.
GoToMyPC is terrific; it uses a central server to connect you from a browser through firewalls to your PC regardless of its current IP address. The software currently cross-platform only on the client end; the server is still Windows-only, but that could change. The go-between server software can be licensed, so it's not even necessary to have a third party broker the connection to the home PC.
I disagree--I'm reluctantly beginning to agree with the crowd that says "MHz don't matter for most of us." I used to think they were idiots--more power was always better. I bought a Dell Precision 420 dual-capable PIII-733 in September 2000 with Win2K and 256MB of RDRAM. I've since added the second processor, 512MB more RDRAM, and assorted minor toys. I'm still using a beautiful 19" Mitsubishi 900u monitor I bought in 1999. In twenty years, I've never before had a two-year old machine with so much life in it. I barely even drool over a dual-2.8GHz Xeon, even though it would almost triple the clock speed. Compare that to past two year upgrades:
1995: Pentium 120
1997: Pentium II 300
2000: Pentium III 733
I'm still throwing huge computing projects at this machine (complex maximum-likelihood statistical models with 100,000+ records), and nothing can choke up the combination of dual processors and plenty of RAM. This in spite of the fact that I had grave doubts about the Intel 840 platform and RDRAM given the public criticism at the time.
The bottom line: buy the best machine you can now, and you may be happy to keep it a very long time.
I am a social, not physical, scientist, and I often read Discover magazine for science news (my wife subscribes). Scientists may not be as credulous and speculation-prone as the average American, but Discover sure makes them seem that way. Almost every discovery is sensationalized beyond all reason: this tiny microbe found in Alaska points the way to human colonization of the planets, this psychological trigger found in the brain could end suffering and pave the way to utopia, this environmental snafu will melt the ice caps and drown us all. No wonder people think the paranormal is normal--scientists and their paparazzi groupies are selling outlandish visions of the future in the name of science. Hold them accountable, forcefully.
I use GoToMyPC regularly. It's a fairly platform-independent (on the client; host is still Windows only) remote web-based access solution. Like PCAnywhere or Timbuktu or whatever, it communicates using only the GDI, keyboard and mouse.
I'd like a wireless pad with at least 1024x768, using the thin GoToMyPC client to view any PC host on my account; switch between PCs on the fly but never have to configure the pad itself for anything. Would anyone else go for that?
Give me a break. Legos are maximally social, if you have any ambition. You can't build a truly inspiring moonbase or a decent ski resort or a reasonable cityscape without all of your friends' Legos alongside your own. And the base/resort/city planning stage requires a degree of collective problem-solving and negotiation skills you won't find in any snow fort or football team. Don't generalize from your own twisted childhood.
My next-door neighbor and I used to play Monopoly in the middle of a Lego wonderland, using Lego vehicles to move around the board, Lego stands to hold our property cards and a powered Lego conveyor belt to pass money across the wide table to each other. Top that!
BS backatcha. How many candidates and issues are being decided by your imaginary hand-counted ballot? If you're an advocate of popular democracy, you probably admire California's "bedsheet ballots" with literally dozens of offices and propositions to vote on. No hand-counted ballot is going to handle those swiftly AND accurately.
Whatchutalkinabout?
I too have a Fujitsu Speedport for Verizon DSL; it doesn't get very hot at all (well, warm). Are you sure the one you have isn't still Orckit? Mine says "DSL by Orckit" right on the modem.
If we have any brains at all, the first thing this visitor will experience is total quarantine. Or did all of the recent Andromeda Strain ripoffs leave everyone jaded on extraterrestrial epidemics?
Either 1) Nintendo's VP of marketing is hopelessly unschooled in English grammar or 2) this is a hoax. The punctuation is worse that the average /. post. If this is all the better Nintendo can do in communicating with its retailers, they are already doomed.
Standard errors depend on the assumption that the error is due to a probability process; in this case, neither the selection of the observed counties nor the voting behavior of Florida residents can be described with these statistical methods. Stats as a tool have a limited range of applicability. Focus on the facts.
I GREATLY prefer WordPerfect because the data format is visible and similar to a script, with ordered "tags" a lot like HTML. Font change start in the wrong place? Just Reveal Codes, then cut and paste the tag where you want it. Word's idea of tags is a lot of silly tool tips that tell you very little about the actual underlying structure of the document and don't let you work with it.
In short, Mac:Linux::M$Word:WordPerfect; both sides have a pretty GUI, but only Linux/WordPerfect let you see and tweak the source. WordPerfect isn't Quark XPress, but it's light-years ahead of Word for precise and complex page-layout functions.
I sincerely hope this does not spell doom for WordPerfect, because it is a dramatically superior product to Word, at least for those willing to learn a few ropes. And it's a whole lot easier than LaTeX!
Hear, hear: "Live and let live" I've just been reading John Locke, _A Letter on Toleration_ (1689). He basically argues that torture and persecution is fundamentally inconsistent with Christianity. Likewise, isn't FUD fundamentally inconsistent with the open-source movement's philosophy? This thread reconvinces me that religious toleration in the twenty-first century will be as difficult for us enlightened nerds as for the Middle East. Them: Temple Mount vs. Dome of the Rock. Us: Open source vs. proprietary. Read Locke and learn.