Even worse, most of the posts here are discussing whether "Europe is a country" as opposed to Brazil's space program or the tragedy itself.
This launch site is actually well situated, since it is near the equator. Brazil is trying to leverage the advantages that geography has given them to get to space cheaper. I wish them luck, and mourn their loss.
Couldn't get in, huh? And this from someone who has admitted that Cal was a mistake, "I regret coming to the US and paying so much money for an inferior education." Right?
I have to admit that I have always admired the "Stanfurd" attacks. The ability to blot out one small part of a letter and make the word into something so stupid sounding was initially at least, a work of genius. Even now when you repeat it for the millionth time it has a certian flair.
I live in Boston and speak with people that go/went to MIT and Harvard all the time. I asked them what they thought of their undergrad experience and they say things like, "it was ok, but..." and they then list complaints about the weather, their classmates, etc.
I am probably hugely biased since I went to Stanford (as did my wife) but we LOVED it and can only think of a few of our classmates that didn't love it as well. The weather is near-perfect, you have a choice of great techie and great fuzzy classes and majors, and the people aren't a bunch of preppy snobs. 98% of the undergrads live on campus so there is a sense of community and there are always lots of things happening on campus. You will be amazed by what you learn from your classmates.
Find as many people as you can from each school that you are considering and ask them about the whole package: academics, weather (I swear this is important after living in Boston), dorm life, athletics (if you are interesting in that), religious life (if applicable), etc. Ask them what their complaints were about each of those aspects.
My only complaint about Stanford is the cost, and the student loans are bearable. Especially if you are going into a tech field.
fyi, I majored in CS and minored in Portuguese and really enjoyed both programs.
Yes, but even if he likes the extended version of FOTR, he shouldn't watch TTT. He will despise TTT, since it lacks the feel of autheticity that FOTR had, which is exactly what he thought it was lacking. I hope that RotK picks things back up.
IBot will be a huge seller. The government will bear much of the cost as doctors will prescribe them and they will be covered by Medicaid. The approval process has been long and slow. The Segway served to generate public interest in the technology and get people used to it. If it weren't for awareness of the Segway and how safe it is touted to be it would have been harder to get approval of the IBot. You think the Segway is expensive, wait until you see the sticker price on these things.
This is a the real revolutionary device and it will make lots of money. I still have my doubts about whether the Segway itself will be a sucess in the next few years. That doesn't matter though, it paved the way for IBot in the court of public opinion. Imagine the reaction of people to IBot if they had never seen the Segway, "You're going to give a wheelchair-bound person what?!?" Now, with the public acclimated to the balancing technology, the reaction will be one of amazement instead of concern.
Take the pill long enough to get smarter without regard to whether that happens prior to butt enlargement, then decide. Since you are now smarter you will make a better decision. Hopefully the least desirable of the effects of the pill wear off if/when you decide to stop taking it.
I understood that Transmeta's goal was high performance. The plan was to beat Intel on both power consumption and performance. When they realized that it wasn't to be they concetrated on the power saving aspects. But way back when the market for these was going to be performance workstations and servers.
Is it a dirty trick to defend yourself? Do you think that IBM is running around suing companies for patent violations? Would they have sued SCO if SCO hadn't started this mess?
As a publicly traded company, isn't IBM obligated to do everything it can to defend itself and act in the interests of its shareholders?
I took a smart card, ran it over several times with my truck, turned it over and ran it over a few more times.
After doing that it was pretty dirty so I put it in the dishwasher with a load of dirty dishes and ran it on the "Pots & Pans" cycle. Noting that it still functioned perfectly after doing this, I put it in amy jeans pocket and ran the jeans through the wash and the dryer. Still works perfectly.
There are plenty of ways to kill a card, but most of them require some intent. I have never encountered a card that has failed through normal wear and tear. I am not saying that such a thing does not exist.
You've got that backwards. If your VCR flashes 12:00 then you aren't qualified to shop at Fry's. You need to have your hand held, and Fry's isn't the place for you.
If you are capable of setting the time on your VCR, you might find Fry's to be really useful. They have an amazing selection of electronics for very low prices. But you have to know what you want without hoping for help.
As for the Mad Penguin article, they were upset that Fry's was offering to install Windows (for a fee) on the Linux machine they were selling. I think it is obvious what they are doing. They slapped a crappy distro on it so that MS doesn't come after them for selling a machine without an OS. They figure that those who want to pirate Windows can do so themselves and those who want to install another version of Linux can do so as well. For those who don't get it and figure that they'll save money by buying the machine, buying WinME in a box, and paying Fry's to install it, Fry's is offering that service. This seems simple enough to understand. Fry's is selling a box with Linux on it, but Fry's is not evangelizing for Linux. Do you really want Fry's to promote Linux anyhow?
This is some serious journalism here. Slander an entire state because of one company. IBM probably has more employees in Utah than SCO does. Does that do anything to water down this flood of idiocy? Does it overflow into Colorado?
It would be more of a box than a cube. A cube implies that the center is solid. In this case you could have 4 walls, each with an image. Also, it wouldn't work too well during the day.
IBM has sold mice with a TrackPoint placed between the buttons. This allows for you to scroll up/down and side to side. I always thought that it was hard to use as you had to exert some force to press the pointer and at the same time oppose that force to keep the mouse from moving. A scroll wheel seems more natural to me.
/.ers lucky enough to use IBM Thinkpads can use the third mouse button to activate scrolling capability for the keyboard mounted TrackPoint. Interestingly, this works better than mouse mounted TrackPoint because you don't have to work to keep the keyboard still as you scroll.
As others have noted elsewhere in this discussion, there isn't nearly as much use for the side to side scrolling as the up/down. It is useful for navigating spreadsheets and large graphics files.
PS I know there is no such mod as CORRECT. However, that doesn't mean that there shouldn't be.
Is there a difference between reasonable doubt and "the[sic] shadow of a doubt"? Because our legal system requires one of the two, and I think that the other one, the term you used, is a much stronger term.
Oddly enough Cleanflicks, the company that many/.ers love to hate, is paving the way for the mutal ownership argument. They loan out edited videos to members who own the videos collectively. Since they own them, they are free to edit the as they wish, or so the argument goes.
Interestingly, if you rent a DVD from them you get an edited DVD and a copy of the original DVD in a tamper-evident container which you are not to open. That way they ensure that they own one original copy for each edited copy and that you can't watch both at the same time. More importantly, you can't watch the edited one while your neighbor watches the origianl that you lent him. This is very similar to the ideas that Cringely puts forth in the Snapster 2.0 idea, except for the editing part. The fair use and mutal ownership aspects though are identical.
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This launch site is actually well situated, since it is near the equator. Brazil is trying to leverage the advantages that geography has given them to get to space cheaper. I wish them luck, and mourn their loss.
Couldn't get in, huh? And this from someone who has admitted that Cal was a mistake, "I regret coming to the US and paying so much money for an inferior education." Right?
I have to admit that I have always admired the "Stanfurd" attacks. The ability to blot out one small part of a letter and make the word into something so stupid sounding was initially at least, a work of genius. Even now when you repeat it for the millionth time it has a certian flair.
I am probably hugely biased since I went to Stanford (as did my wife) but we LOVED it and can only think of a few of our classmates that didn't love it as well. The weather is near-perfect, you have a choice of great techie and great fuzzy classes and majors, and the people aren't a bunch of preppy snobs. 98% of the undergrads live on campus so there is a sense of community and there are always lots of things happening on campus. You will be amazed by what you learn from your classmates.
Find as many people as you can from each school that you are considering and ask them about the whole package: academics, weather (I swear this is important after living in Boston), dorm life, athletics (if you are interesting in that), religious life (if applicable), etc. Ask them what their complaints were about each of those aspects.
My only complaint about Stanford is the cost, and the student loans are bearable. Especially if you are going into a tech field.
fyi, I majored in CS and minored in Portuguese and really enjoyed both programs.
Yes, but even if he likes the extended version of FOTR, he shouldn't watch TTT. He will despise TTT, since it lacks the feel of autheticity that FOTR had, which is exactly what he thought it was lacking. I hope that RotK picks things back up.
Cal Sucks!
that quiz is rigged and you know it. What % of the people that take it come out as libertarian?
This is a the real revolutionary device and it will make lots of money. I still have my doubts about whether the Segway itself will be a sucess in the next few years. That doesn't matter though, it paved the way for IBot in the court of public opinion. Imagine the reaction of people to IBot if they had never seen the Segway, "You're going to give a wheelchair-bound person what?!?" Now, with the public acclimated to the balancing technology, the reaction will be one of amazement instead of concern.
NUMA is not SMP. They are two different technologies for putting multiple processors in a machine.
Take the pill long enough to get smarter without regard to whether that happens prior to butt enlargement, then decide. Since you are now smarter you will make a better decision. Hopefully the least desirable of the effects of the pill wear off if/when you decide to stop taking it.
I understood that Transmeta's goal was high performance. The plan was to beat Intel on both power consumption and performance. When they realized that it wasn't to be they concetrated on the power saving aspects. But way back when the market for these was going to be performance workstations and servers.
Wouldn't it be better if it waited until after the DDOS on MS to shutdown your system? What good is a worm that declares its presence so quickly?
As a publicly traded company, isn't IBM obligated to do everything it can to defend itself and act in the interests of its shareholders?
I can accept that, but if that is true, then what exactly are they?
I took a smart card, ran it over several times with my truck, turned it over and ran it over a few more times.
After doing that it was pretty dirty so I put it in the dishwasher with a load of dirty dishes and ran it on the "Pots & Pans" cycle. Noting that it still functioned perfectly after doing this, I put it in amy jeans pocket and ran the jeans through the wash and the dryer. Still works perfectly.
There are plenty of ways to kill a card, but most of them require some intent. I have never encountered a card that has failed through normal wear and tear. I am not saying that such a thing does not exist.
If you are capable of setting the time on your VCR, you might find Fry's to be really useful. They have an amazing selection of electronics for very low prices. But you have to know what you want without hoping for help.
As for the Mad Penguin article, they were upset that Fry's was offering to install Windows (for a fee) on the Linux machine they were selling. I think it is obvious what they are doing. They slapped a crappy distro on it so that MS doesn't come after them for selling a machine without an OS. They figure that those who want to pirate Windows can do so themselves and those who want to install another version of Linux can do so as well. For those who don't get it and figure that they'll save money by buying the machine, buying WinME in a box, and paying Fry's to install it, Fry's is offering that service. This seems simple enough to understand. Fry's is selling a box with Linux on it, but Fry's is not evangelizing for Linux. Do you really want Fry's to promote Linux anyhow?
Does it then flow makes its way to Southern California?
This is some serious journalism here. Slander an entire state because of one company. IBM probably has more employees in Utah than SCO does. Does that do anything to water down this flood of idiocy? Does it overflow into Colorado?
It would be more of a box than a cube. A cube implies that the center is solid. In this case you could have 4 walls, each with an image. Also, it wouldn't work too well during the day.
You are a rare /.er indeed that can admit when you are wrong. Bully for you!
/.ers lucky enough to use IBM Thinkpads can use the third mouse button to activate scrolling capability for the keyboard mounted TrackPoint. Interestingly, this works better than mouse mounted TrackPoint because you don't have to work to keep the keyboard still as you scroll.
As others have noted elsewhere in this discussion, there isn't nearly as much use for the side to side scrolling as the up/down. It is useful for navigating spreadsheets and large graphics files.
PS I know there is no such mod as CORRECT. However, that doesn't mean that there shouldn't be.
The "shadow of a doubt" standard could almost never be met. A shadow of doubt is very easy to cast.
Is there a difference between reasonable doubt and "the[sic] shadow of a doubt"? Because our legal system requires one of the two, and I think that the other one, the term you used, is a much stronger term.
Here you go!
Interestingly, if you rent a DVD from them you get an edited DVD and a copy of the original DVD in a tamper-evident container which you are not to open. That way they ensure that they own one original copy for each edited copy and that you can't watch both at the same time. More importantly, you can't watch the edited one while your neighbor watches the origianl that you lent him. This is very similar to the ideas that Cringely puts forth in the Snapster 2.0 idea, except for the editing part. The fair use and mutal ownership aspects though are identical.