Actually, the less area a chip takes up, the less likely it is to have a defect in it. It yields more chips per wafer because their are more chips on a wafer and each individual chip is less likely to have a defect.
Good point, but once you're more than 10 rows up it is pretty hard to see what is going on with his face, while the Tree's faces are visible from the entire stadium. Plus, our band could beat up your band...
That was truely a classic Tree. That was the one with several layers of mouth, so that the Tree could choose to open an angry mouth or a happy mouth. Only mascott that I know of that can display a wide range of emotions. Cal hasn't had the Axe in what, six years now?
I was looking around online for the Happy Hacker keyboard recently and I can't find them for sale anywhere. The links to the manufacturer that I found were all dead. Is there any place to purchase these?
I bought a bunch of 80-in-1 Super Mega Joy (or somthing like that) systems in Taiwan last year and gave them as Christmas presents. Tetris and Super Mario Bros went over big with everybody. I think that only releasing 10 games might be a mistake, plus you need to have two-players for Combat to be fun.
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coupla thousand feet above sealevel, so figure some hp loss there
Wouldn't there be a significant drop in wind resistance as well due to the thinner air? I would think that this is more important at the speeds you are talking about than the hp loss. Plus at that speed your engine is probably getting sufficient air intake, don't you think?
I could be wrong, I feel no need to drive a fast car, so I don't know too much about this.
And how often were those terms used by the "fuzzies" themselves?
All the time. The terms were not seen as being perjorative. I am sorry if I have hurt your feelings. It was not my intention to do so. These terms were ubiquitous were I went to school, which was a place that was considered "extremely PC". They were used as a distinction, not an insult. I am sorry if you don't know the difference.
Fuzzies and techies are terms that were freely used and considered non-derogatory shorthand where I went to school. Your experience might have varied, but I have never before heard of anyone being offended by either term.
I was frustrated at Stanford by the administration's efforts to make easy math and science courses for the fuzzies. They actually put together a one year math and science overview course that would fulfill all requirements for say, English majors. Yet fuzzy students still complained about the burden placed upon them. Yet techies would have to take tons of real fuzzy courses, there were no simplified language courses or dummied-down African literature course. The distribution requirements were so one sided towards fuzzy courses it was a joke. Why shouldn't fuzzies have to take a real intro to programming course (106) instead of the Logo-based 105? Why should they get to take a physics class that was so simplified that no engineering student could recieve credit towards their major for it?
That said, I had plenty of wonderful discussions about all sorts of things at Stanford. Just because someone hasn't had two years of math and science doesn't make them inferior.
Of course, MIT probably doesn't have that many fuzzies going there, does it? So your peer group at MIT has already self selected when they decided to apply.
Yeah and Stanford had it as a major when I was there (I even took a one year course in it) but the point of the article was that the K of K&R is teaching it.
What you think Alan Greenspan doesn't use Excel??????
I have no idea what Alan uses personally, but I can tell you that the Fed uses IBM's IMS to keep track of where all the green pieces of paper are going.
I thought that was the capivara (not sure of the english spelling) which seems to have been the inspiration for the ROUS in The Princess Bride. I saw a team of firefighters spend a good 90 minutes trying to get one out of an open sewer one day in Brazil. That was one tough giant rat.
Is it just me, or does that site have a background that makes text very hard to read? Maybe it is an anti-piracy effort. "You can't read it, so you couldn't possibly copy it!"
In high school we had lots of explosions in physics class. Only one was unintentional. The teacher was demonstrating Ohm's law hooked a tungsten wire to a car battery. It glowed red hot. He then added two more wires (nine times the power) in parallel and the wires glowed white hot and then turned to liquid and dropped onto the battery. Seeing the fire, one of the kids yelled, "She's gonna blow" as a joke, but it seemed likely so many of us covered our faces. The battery exploded at that moment. I was on the front row and didn't notice any ill effects. The next day my pants came out of the washer missing the entire front of them. My shirt was in a similar condition. The chalkboard in the classroom was white except for the outline of the teacher's profile. You could see that he held his arms up to cover his face.
The article was talking about OS 9 when it said that, not OS X. Whining about OS 9 is absurd, its dead.
I am assuming that you mean the part about mods becoming part of the OS. I don't see how this doesn't apply to OS X as well. Are you saying that all the good UI ideas have already been covered by Apple and there isn't anything that someone else could add to make some sort of minor improvement?
I am not saying that these sorts of modifications won't affect stability, what I am saying is that purposely breaking them seems shortsighted. I'm not even sure they are being broken on purpose.
Standardized controls are what makes OS X much easier for newbies to use than other operating systems.
Somehow I don't think that it is the newbies that are doing these modifications. I hope that the private APIs are changing just for the sake of breaking 3rd party utlities that utilize them. The article made it clear that many of these "hacks" have, over the years, become a part of the standard OS. Getting rid of the capability to do this is like throwing away free ui research that the community is doing for fun.
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Congrats! I sure hope that you last another 5 five years. But is the site profitable? Could it stand on its own? Could you guys buy it back if VA decides to shut it down?
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Actually, the less area a chip takes up, the less likely it is to have a defect in it. It yields more chips per wafer because their are more chips on a wafer and each individual chip is less likely to have a defect.
I've seen it. Imitation is the sincerest form....
Now if only you could find a way to spam people while they are driving. I bet the response rate (as well as their insurance) would go way up.
Good point, but once you're more than 10 rows up it is pretty hard to see what is going on with his face, while the Tree's faces are visible from the entire stadium. Plus, our band could beat up your band...
BEAT CAL!
I was looking around online for the Happy Hacker keyboard recently and I can't find them for sale anywhere. The links to the manufacturer that I found were all dead. Is there any place to purchase these?
It is a scam. Extremely slight movements can cause water to swirl either way when near the equator. You just have to know how to do it.
I have never seen them sold in the USA, though I have seen them in Brazil in addition to Taiwan.
thanks, now I know something I didn't before
I bought a bunch of 80-in-1 Super Mega Joy (or somthing like that) systems in Taiwan last year and gave them as Christmas presents. Tetris and Super Mario Bros went over big with everybody. I think that only releasing 10 games might be a mistake, plus you need to have two-players for Combat to be fun.
the button layot in non-optimal for games.
Wouldn't there be a significant drop in wind resistance as well due to the thinner air? I would think that this is more important at the speeds you are talking about than the hp loss. Plus at that speed your engine is probably getting sufficient air intake, don't you think?
I could be wrong, I feel no need to drive a fast car, so I don't know too much about this.
All the time. The terms were not seen as being perjorative. I am sorry if I have hurt your feelings. It was not my intention to do so. These terms were ubiquitous were I went to school, which was a place that was considered "extremely PC". They were used as a distinction, not an insult. I am sorry if you don't know the difference.
Fuzzies and techies are terms that were freely used and considered non-derogatory shorthand where I went to school. Your experience might have varied, but I have never before heard of anyone being offended by either term.
That said, I had plenty of wonderful discussions about all sorts of things at Stanford. Just because someone hasn't had two years of math and science doesn't make them inferior.
Of course, MIT probably doesn't have that many fuzzies going there, does it? So your peer group at MIT has already self selected when they decided to apply.
Yeah and Stanford had it as a major when I was there (I even took a one year course in it) but the point of the article was that the K of K&R is teaching it.
I have no idea what Alan uses personally, but I can tell you that the Fed uses IBM's IMS to keep track of where all the green pieces of paper are going.
I thought that was the capivara (not sure of the english spelling) which seems to have been the inspiration for the ROUS in The Princess Bride. I saw a team of firefighters spend a good 90 minutes trying to get one out of an open sewer one day in Brazil. That was one tough giant rat.
Is it just me, or does that site have a background that makes text very hard to read? Maybe it is an anti-piracy effort. "You can't read it, so you couldn't possibly copy it!"
In high school we had lots of explosions in physics class. Only one was unintentional. The teacher was demonstrating Ohm's law hooked a tungsten wire to a car battery. It glowed red hot. He then added two more wires (nine times the power) in parallel and the wires glowed white hot and then turned to liquid and dropped onto the battery. Seeing the fire, one of the kids yelled, "She's gonna blow" as a joke, but it seemed likely so many of us covered our faces. The battery exploded at that moment. I was on the front row and didn't notice any ill effects. The next day my pants came out of the washer missing the entire front of them. My shirt was in a similar condition. The chalkboard in the classroom was white except for the outline of the teacher's profile. You could see that he held his arms up to cover his face.
then you are correct, and this isn't news
I am assuming that you mean the part about mods becoming part of the OS. I don't see how this doesn't apply to OS X as well. Are you saying that all the good UI ideas have already been covered by Apple and there isn't anything that someone else could add to make some sort of minor improvement?
I am not saying that these sorts of modifications won't affect stability, what I am saying is that purposely breaking them seems shortsighted. I'm not even sure they are being broken on purpose.
Somehow I don't think that it is the newbies that are doing these modifications. I hope that the private APIs are changing just for the sake of breaking 3rd party utlities that utilize them. The article made it clear that many of these "hacks" have, over the years, become a part of the standard OS. Getting rid of the capability to do this is like throwing away free ui research that the community is doing for fun.
Congrats! I sure hope that you last another 5 five years. But is the site profitable? Could it stand on its own? Could you guys buy it back if VA decides to shut it down?