I was thinking along the same lines, but it was more. Hook up with girl B when you have the chance because girl A is going to break up with you anyway.
I'm still pissed about that. Girl B was smokin'...
good point. My statement still holds true if you consider that a politician is a slimmier lawyer. Yes, I know it's hard to believe, but they have all the sh*ttiness of a lawyer AND they waste tax money on expensive toilet seats and more cars for themselves.
"You mean it's been written with the latest design and coding ideas, to a high quality, tested, documentated..."
I have to respectfully disagree with you that this is a good thing. All too often students will learn a new design or coding idea and want to apply it even when it is not neccessary or the best tool for the job. Furthermore, students, in my experience, are way too ambitious to test much. The just want to code, code, and then code.
Finally, have you read much of the kernel? Documentation is sparse (though getting a little better in 2.5.x).
Office politics no. Dorm politics - e.g. my stack is better than yours? Maybe.
"And the Columbia itself lost more than 100 tiles from its nose area on one flight and still made it home fine."
The point I think NASA is making is the wheel well section is the mostly vulnerable (perhaps because it has to open and close?). They said it is common to lose tiles, but a lost tile from the wheel section is a completely different ballgame because it exposes the most vulnerable part of the ship.
Not that I believe them...I'm just telling you what they said. Personally, I have trouble believing a piece of foam knocked off a tile that can with stand the pressue/vibration from launch and the massive temperatures.
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"Could the damage have been investigated with satellites? Perhaps, but that was tried during a 1998 mission and the pictures were of little use."
I found this quote from the article odd. We can take pictures of license plates from space and we can see the divits from meteors on the hubble telescope, but we couldn't look at the shuttle? As far as the 1998 reference, satellite picture technology has come quite far since then.
>why don't we worry about weaning the cancer-causing >part of the habit first?
After n years of a pack a day, a few weeks of Quest is not going to change much. Wearing the patch keeps the nicotine level up, but there is soooo much more to smoking. People who believe otherwise have never smoked. To this day I cannot have a beer w/o a smoke. Hey, if I could do that and not get hooked for the 11-teenth time - sweet.
You missed the point completely. There are two addictions when smoking: mental associations and physical addictions. Breaking both addictions at the same time is very, very hard. Breaking one and then the other, I bet makes quitting much easier.
Some people, btw, like to smoke socially - not for nicotine but because cigs (not sigs) go grrreat with beer. I hate that desire for a smoke after being out drinking all night just because I bummed a few smokes. I think this product is great for the part timer who loves the taste but doesn't want the nic-fit the next morning.
The question makes me wonder if most/. comments are *really* posted by Taco, et al.
"Hey, 'Neal check out this MS bashing comment I wrote under the name Balbazare prince of darkness. hahaha" - Taco "I'll mod that as +5 funny!" -CowboyNeal
"so if noone ever broke any rules, but still caused an accident"
According to a friend that is a cop, for a collision to occur a formal or informal rule MUST have been broken. He does not always give a ticket at a collision scene, but a rule is always broken.
The military, I assert, is an necessary expenditure. (Yes we can bicker and argue about whether or not they spend tax money correct, etc) The Space Station, as cool as it may be, is not necessary (from a Government point of view).
It may be a drop in the bucket, but an extra $5 a month of food stamps is also a drop in the bucket but buys a crap load of food. (yes, yes, we can debate the validity/quality of this program too.)
Much need to be done to lower taxes. let us start with those that are not necessary (from a Government point of view) - i.e. the ISS.
I am all for Research, but as a taxpayer, I have never really liked the idea of the ISS. As others have already noted, the cost to knowledge ratio displays what a huge waste of money this is.
Personally, I'd rather tax money go towards internal problems: homeless, child health care, you know the list. We already pay TOO much in taxes, and I think a real cost benefit analysis should be done with the ISS.
I think you are forgetting that while tuning Linux for such a large system, they are contributing to it as well. I have seen posts by IBMers to the LKML.
Let IBM profit, it can only help. The more they make, the more they will contribute.
"The satellite signal travels right through soft-tops, so the antenna can be mounted on the trunk lid or rear deck."
I chose the two vehicles I mentioned for a reason: no deck lid. Where would you mount it - on the hood? Then you might be concerned about how the car looks.
The XM antenna I looked at (6 mos ago) was shaped like a shark fin. It was hideous. Can you paint the trek or does it have to be black?
I refuse to put that ugly shark fin on my new sports car! Too bad they could not figure out a way to just replace/reuse/recycle the old antenna. Since the shark fin has to be at the highest point of a car, where would you mount such a thing on a Jeep Wrangler or VW Cabriolet anyway?
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I was thinking along the same lines, but it was more. Hook up with girl B when you have the chance because girl A is going to break up with you anyway.
I'm still pissed about that. Girl B was smokin'...
good point. My statement still holds true if you consider that a politician is a slimmier lawyer. Yes, I know it's hard to believe, but they have all the sh*ttiness of a lawyer AND they waste tax money on expensive toilet seats and more cars for themselves.
What about politicians? I rank them below geeks and lawyers.
"You mean it's been written with the latest design and coding ideas, to a high quality, tested, documentated..."
I have to respectfully disagree with you that this is a good thing. All too often students will learn a new design or coding idea and want to apply it even when it is not neccessary or the best tool for the job. Furthermore, students, in my experience, are way too ambitious to test much. The just want to code, code, and then code.
Finally, have you read much of the kernel? Documentation is sparse (though getting a little better in 2.5.x).
Office politics no. Dorm politics - e.g. my stack is better than yours? Maybe.
"And the Columbia itself lost more than 100 tiles from its nose area on one flight and still made it home fine."
The point I think NASA is making is the wheel well section is the mostly vulnerable (perhaps because it has to open and close?). They said it is common to lose tiles, but a lost tile from the wheel section is a completely different ballgame because it exposes the most vulnerable part of the ship.
Not that I believe them...I'm just telling you what they said. Personally, I have trouble believing a piece of foam knocked off a tile that can with stand the pressue/vibration from launch and the massive temperatures.
"Could the damage have been investigated with satellites? Perhaps, but that was tried during a 1998 mission and the pictures were of little use."
I found this quote from the article odd. We can take pictures of license plates from space and we can see the divits from meteors on the hubble telescope, but we couldn't look at the shuttle? As far as the 1998 reference, satellite picture technology has come quite far since then.
>why don't we worry about weaning the cancer-causing >part of the habit first?
After n years of a pack a day, a few weeks of Quest is not going to change much. Wearing the patch keeps the nicotine level up, but there is soooo much more to smoking. People who believe otherwise have never smoked. To this day I cannot have a beer w/o a smoke. Hey, if I could do that and not get hooked for the 11-teenth time - sweet.
If you used to smoke, then you should understand the double addiction, mental and physical. This allows you to break one addiction at a time.
You missed the point completely. There are two addictions when smoking: mental associations and physical addictions. Breaking both addictions at the same time is very, very hard. Breaking one and then the other, I bet makes quitting much easier.
Some people, btw, like to smoke socially - not for nicotine but because cigs (not sigs) go grrreat with beer. I hate that desire for a smoke after being out drinking all night just because I bummed a few smokes. I think this product is great for the part timer who loves the taste but doesn't want the nic-fit the next morning.
she meant elevator to the moon, right?
...they used this brand new technique called caching to improve throughput.
Gawd, there are tons of papers about Web Caching and database caching. There are papers comparing the caches. This is hardly new or exciting.
Heirachical Internet Object Cache. Danzig et al.
World Wide Web Caching: Trends and Techniques. Barish et al
High-Performance Memory-Based Web Servers: Kernel and User-Space Performance. Joubert et al.
A Scalable System for Consistently Caching Dynamic Web Data. Challenger et al.
You think it's a good idea to share the road with people who used "braking assistance" and "auto reverse"????
The question makes me wonder if most /. comments are *really* posted by Taco, et al.
"Hey, 'Neal check out this MS bashing comment I wrote under the name Balbazare prince of darkness. hahaha" - Taco
"I'll mod that as +5 funny!" -CowboyNeal
"For the record, I also think there should be periodic, ie; every 3 years, mandatory written and road testing for all drivers"
In the next election, I'm adding Blkdeath as a write-in for President!
"and Linux Software Producer"
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Hence, giving credibility to this rumor seen on
"so if noone ever broke any rules, but still caused an accident"
According to a friend that is a cop, for a collision to occur a formal or informal rule MUST have been broken. He does not always give a ticket at a collision scene, but a rule is always broken.
The military, I assert, is an necessary expenditure. (Yes we can bicker and argue about whether or not they spend tax money correct, etc) The Space Station, as cool as it may be, is not necessary (from a Government point of view).
It may be a drop in the bucket, but an extra $5 a month of food stamps is also a drop in the bucket but buys a crap load of food. (yes, yes, we can debate the validity/quality of this program too.)
Much need to be done to lower taxes. let us start with those that are not necessary (from a Government point of view) - i.e. the ISS.
"So if we conclude that society itself--i.e., private citizens--is the best source of humanitarian aid, how do we fund them? By lowering taxes."
I'm fine with that approach too.
I am all for Research, but as a taxpayer, I have never really liked the idea of the ISS. As others have already noted, the cost to knowledge ratio displays what a huge waste of money this is.
Personally, I'd rather tax money go towards internal problems: homeless, child health care, you know the list. We already pay TOO much in taxes, and I think a real cost benefit analysis should be done with the ISS.
And me without Mod points. Well stated.
You can have device drivers that are not dependent on hardware. kHTTPd and Tux come to mind. I'm sure their are others.
I think you are forgetting that while tuning Linux for such a large system, they are contributing to it as well. I have seen posts by IBMers to the LKML.
Let IBM profit, it can only help. The more they make, the more they will contribute.
"The satellite signal travels right through soft-tops, so the antenna can be mounted on the trunk lid or rear deck."
I chose the two vehicles I mentioned for a reason: no deck lid. Where would you mount it - on the hood? Then you might be concerned about how the car looks.
The XM antenna I looked at (6 mos ago) was shaped like a shark fin. It was hideous. Can you paint the trek or does it have to be black?
I refuse to put that ugly shark fin on my new sports car! Too bad they could not figure out a way to just replace/reuse/recycle the old antenna. Since the shark fin has to be at the highest point of a car, where would you mount such a thing on a Jeep Wrangler or VW Cabriolet anyway?
"interest (which is TAX free!)"
um..no, interest is a tax deduction, not exemption. Some of your interest still gets taxed.