Plus how many times can you watch the same movie? I don't care what the resolution is, dull is dull.
Bingo! Now if it is a movie I've never seen on a "big screen" then I could understand the desire but again, how many of those are there? Certainly not enough to justify the cost. Someone else in this thread mentioned sporting events which is a great point but at the $2k mark I could buy season tickets to a couple venues... or just go to a bar and watch in on their big ass TVs with my friends at much less the cost.
Why is it Bush's fault when salaries go down, but a magical coincidence when they go up?
Obviously Bush is to blame for causing the problem resulting in salaries going down and someone else is to be lauded for fixing the problem and making them go up.
I appreciate that viewing a movie like The Matrix on a 30" 4:3 tube would be less desireable than viewing it on a 43" 16:9 DLP. The same argument stands that the 43" 16:9 DLP would be less than a high-end commerical movie theater which is where I saw The Matrix. I still don't see the value added. I can see these movies in the theater which is better than anything I can put in my home... for a lot less money: $9 vs $10k or even $2k.
While a 42-inch Sony Wega LCD TV retails for $10,000, a 42-inch plasma set can be had for about $4,500. LCD TVs accounted for a measly 3 percent of all sets sold in the United States in 2003.
I am a well-documented TV hater. One thing I could never understand were all the ads for TVs that cost $2k, $5k, and even $10k for the last couple of years. I thought that if they are advertising them people must be buying them. I'm interested to read that this isn't the case. But still, $4.5k for a TV? OMGWTFBBQ. Is Joey that much funnier on a $4.5k or even a $10k set?
It was a lesson taught to us by the former Great Powers of Europe, and one we learned well.
Buckle up and get ready for what happens to Great Powers that become former Great Powers. Empire deconstruction isn't pretty. It is a lesson taught by the former Great Powers of Europe, and one the US will learn well.
All these search engines are great but they are nothing without content. Whoever successfully wins the race to get between the transaction of searching for content and the content itself is going to make a dookload of money. On your marks, get set.. GO!
Use perl to scan for all 10 digit primes and then look for the first one in e
I don't know what size projects you've worked on but brute force (while it might work here, eventually) isn't a very elegant or quickly repeatable solution. There are a couple of tricks you can use to reduce the number of possible 10 digit primes in e. For example, look to e as the source of test cases, not all 10 digit primes. Use some quick common sense: test cases ending in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 aren't going to be prime... stuff like that. Enjoy!
I'm not the original poster but I did solve the puzzles this afternoon without "cheating". I'm a psychology/philosophy major that hasn't seen a math book in 10 years and I was able to figure it out. What I find interesting is that the answer to the first question (at least how I solved it) was an indirect hint at how to solve the second puzzle. Good luck, it was fun to work through it.
I recall that things got pretty bad for awhile, but I still have a hard time with the concept of price fixing, when I clearly remember paying $150 for 8MB of ram, and how good of a deal that was.
ME TOO. Sorry to get all AOL up on yo ass but you totally sparked my noodle. I remember saving for months to get $300 for two 8mb chips for my Pentium 100mhz Micron. At 32mb I was the shiznite!
It's been typed and you understood.
Why is it bad ?
Your post is insightful beyond your cloak of anonymity. Language does indeed evolve with subtle usage changes over time. This is only possible if the reader/listener understands the changes. However most languages progress into new forms rather than digress back to old. Taking a plurality rule from a dead language and applying it to word with a tenuous link to the dead language circumventing the modern language's established plurality rule is digression -- unnecessary conflict. This form of decay is not beautiful or progressive. The writer did communicate their idea but the subtle change does not add any meaning, intended or otherwise, to the context.
It is a grammatical hack... told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
i was under the impression we still had troops there regularly battling "insurgents" or whatever theyre being called
Correct. What the US called a war is over. The occupation is ongoing and what you are referring to is what other people outside the US call resistance, perhaps even a revolution since Iraq has an interim government. If they are indeed fighting themselves it could possibly be referred to as a civil conflict. Only when the entire history can be observed in whole from the future it will perhaps be described as a singular war... if it ever achieves something resembling an end.
My crystal ball tells me that September 11th 2001 was the large step in the start of a global conflict over religious extremism and oil. Since the inappropriate word crusade is already taken, I can see the whole conflict labeled something romantically unoriginal like World War 4. Truthfully, I've been referring to it as the Arabic War because that's what it is.
BTW, is this thread off topic if the original article is titled "War of the Worlds Remake Already Shot Overseas"? Chilling, isn't it?
The first clue is that the word scenario appears in English language dictionaries. The root is Latin like many of other English words that also appear in English language dictionaries. Are all Latin-rooted words that appear in English dictionaries not English words?
Back to the topic, even if the Latin root were used, scenarii is still a non-word. Please don't encourage them.
On a win2k box with Firefox 0.9.3 and some extensions like adblock and firesomething, I installed 1.0PR in separate folder and when I opened it up no buttons or menus would work, my bookmarks gone. After a couple clicks on stuff the whole app would lock up. After a couple of resintallaions and reboots I decided to rename my Mozilla preferences folder and now it works. I don't know what was preventing it from working but this is how I got it work. Backwards compatability isn't 100%.:(
in humanity's last big experiments with unregulated commerce (during the industrial revolution), we saw 60 hour work weeks, miniscule pay, inhumane working conditions, child labor, extensive investor fraud, and an appalling divide between the poor and wealthy
I know this is going to sound flippant from the US perspective but could someone explain how this is different from today's current world economy including the US.. or is that your point?
Unfortunately, I get more spam from snail mail than from email, and it's much harder to ignore, too.
At least the snail-mail-spammers are paying for it which is the micro-control. If sending snailmail costs as much as sending email (nothing) you'd have even more than you could possibly imagine because you say you cannot put filters on your mailbox. There's a sobering thought.
You know.. I did and I didn't. I don't think whitelists suck all that much. I think blacklists suck and since they are pretty much the same thing as whitelists I have mixed feelings. Whitelists win out with me because it is less work to maintain than blacklists. It helps to be unpopular too. That's why I left it unchecked.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (*) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it (*) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (*) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (*) Huge existing software investment in SMTP (*) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (*) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? (*) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
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Heh.
Plus how many times can you watch the same movie? I don't care what the resolution is, dull is dull.
Bingo! Now if it is a movie I've never seen on a "big screen" then I could understand the desire but again, how many of those are there? Certainly not enough to justify the cost. Someone else in this thread mentioned sporting events which is a great point but at the $2k mark I could buy season tickets to a couple venues... or just go to a bar and watch in on their big ass TVs with my friends at much less the cost.
Why is it Bush's fault when salaries go down, but a magical coincidence when they go up?
Obviously Bush is to blame for causing the problem resulting in salaries going down and someone else is to be lauded for fixing the problem and making them go up.
I appreciate that viewing a movie like The Matrix on a 30" 4:3 tube would be less desireable than viewing it on a 43" 16:9 DLP. The same argument stands that the 43" 16:9 DLP would be less than a high-end commerical movie theater which is where I saw The Matrix. I still don't see the value added. I can see these movies in the theater which is better than anything I can put in my home ... for a lot less money: $9 vs $10k or even $2k.
While a 42-inch Sony Wega LCD TV retails for $10,000, a 42-inch plasma set can be had for about $4,500. LCD TVs accounted for a measly 3 percent of all sets sold in the United States in 2003.
I am a well-documented TV hater. One thing I could never understand were all the ads for TVs that cost $2k, $5k, and even $10k for the last couple of years. I thought that if they are advertising them people must be buying them. I'm interested to read that this isn't the case. But still, $4.5k for a TV? OMGWTFBBQ. Is Joey that much funnier on a $4.5k or even a $10k set?
No? Now I get the real joke.
It was a lesson taught to us by the former Great Powers of Europe, and one we learned well.
Buckle up and get ready for what happens to Great Powers that become former Great Powers. Empire deconstruction isn't pretty. It is a lesson taught by the former Great Powers of Europe, and one the US will learn well.
How much does a front page press-release advertisement for pre-market goods on Slashdot cost these days? I want to buy one.
What I'd like to see in the vehicles of tomorrow are better drivers.
Someday these things will be wireless.
All these search engines are great but they are nothing without content. Whoever successfully wins the race to get between the transaction of searching for content and the content itself is going to make a dookload of money. On your marks, get set.. GO!
World War III happened and I missed it?
It is commonly referred to the Cold War (1945-1991).
Use perl to scan for all 10 digit primes and then look for the first one in e
I don't know what size projects you've worked on but brute force (while it might work here, eventually) isn't a very elegant or quickly repeatable solution. There are a couple of tricks you can use to reduce the number of possible 10 digit primes in e. For example, look to e as the source of test cases, not all 10 digit primes. Use some quick common sense: test cases ending in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 aren't going to be prime... stuff like that. Enjoy!
I'm curious what sort of person can do this
I'm not the original poster but I did solve the puzzles this afternoon without "cheating". I'm a psychology/philosophy major that hasn't seen a math book in 10 years and I was able to figure it out. What I find interesting is that the answer to the first question (at least how I solved it) was an indirect hint at how to solve the second puzzle. Good luck, it was fun to work through it.
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[My reply isn't necessarily directed at the parent poser]
The answer is meaningless (and dangerous) if you don't understand the question.
I recall that things got pretty bad for awhile, but I still have a hard time with the concept of price fixing, when I clearly remember paying $150 for 8MB of ram, and how good of a deal that was.
ME TOO. Sorry to get all AOL up on yo ass but you totally sparked my noodle. I remember saving for months to get $300 for two 8mb chips for my Pentium 100mhz Micron. At 32mb I was the shiznite!
It's been typed and you understood.
Why is it bad ?
Your post is insightful beyond your cloak of anonymity. Language does indeed evolve with subtle usage changes over time. This is only possible if the reader/listener understands the changes. However most languages progress into new forms rather than digress back to old. Taking a plurality rule from a dead language and applying it to word with a tenuous link to the dead language circumventing the modern language's established plurality rule is digression -- unnecessary conflict. This form of decay is not beautiful or progressive. The writer did communicate their idea but the subtle change does not add any meaning, intended or otherwise, to the context.
It is a grammatical hack ... told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
i was under the impression we still had troops there regularly battling "insurgents" or whatever theyre being called
Correct. What the US called a war is over. The occupation is ongoing and what you are referring to is what other people outside the US call resistance, perhaps even a revolution since Iraq has an interim government. If they are indeed fighting themselves it could possibly be referred to as a civil conflict. Only when the entire history can be observed in whole from the future it will perhaps be described as a singular war... if it ever achieves something resembling an end.
My crystal ball tells me that September 11th 2001 was the large step in the start of a global conflict over religious extremism and oil. Since the inappropriate word crusade is already taken, I can see the whole conflict labeled something romantically unoriginal like World War 4. Truthfully, I've been referring to it as the Arabic War because that's what it is.
BTW, is this thread off topic if the original article is titled "War of the Worlds Remake Already Shot Overseas"? Chilling, isn't it?
Since when is scenario an English word ?
The first clue is that the word scenario appears in English language dictionaries. The root is Latin like many of other English words that also appear in English language dictionaries. Are all Latin-rooted words that appear in English dictionaries not English words?
Back to the topic, even if the Latin root were used, scenarii is still a non-word. Please don't encourage them.
You might be interested in knowing that Gulf War2 started in 2003 and ended on May 1st, 2003. I don't know where you're getting 2004 from.
On a win2k box with Firefox 0.9.3 and some extensions like adblock and firesomething, I installed 1.0PR in separate folder and when I opened it up no buttons or menus would work, my bookmarks gone. After a couple clicks on stuff the whole app would lock up. After a couple of resintallaions and reboots I decided to rename my Mozilla preferences folder and now it works. I don't know what was preventing it from working but this is how I got it work. Backwards compatability isn't 100%. :(
in humanity's last big experiments with unregulated commerce (during the industrial revolution), we saw 60 hour work weeks, miniscule pay, inhumane working conditions, child labor, extensive investor fraud, and an appalling divide between the poor and wealthy
I know this is going to sound flippant from the US perspective but could someone explain how this is different from today's current world economy including the US.. or is that your point?
Unfortunately, I get more spam from snail mail than from email, and it's much harder to ignore, too.
At least the snail-mail-spammers are paying for it which is the micro-control. If sending snailmail costs as much as sending email (nothing) you'd have even more than you could possibly imagine because you say you cannot put filters on your mailbox. There's a sobering thought.
(*) Whitelists suck
You know.. I did and I didn't. I don't think whitelists suck all that much. I think blacklists suck and since they are pretty much the same thing as whitelists I have mixed feelings. Whitelists win out with me because it is less work to maintain than blacklists. It helps to be unpopular too. That's why I left it unchecked.
Breaking into someone else's computer without permission is illegal.
It isn't breaking in if you ask to be let in and they let you in.