The Democrats now run Congress; why aren't they impeaching Bush?
Three Words....
Vice President Cheney
I finally understand why he was chosen by Bush. It's a reverse Dan Quayle. No one wanted George H Bush removed because Dan Quayle was an idiot. Now no one want George W Bush removed because Dick Cheney is EVIL.
Perhaps it was made for Saudi Arabia and it did not have the emissions systems of American Cars? My Cousin moved to California and had to spend a bunches of money to get her car up to CA standards and her mileage sucked thereafter.
I'm sure Detroit could improve their CAFE standards if they could dump the environmental requirements.
The single combination of pressure and temperature at which pure water, pure ice, and pure water vapour can coexist in a stable equilibrium occurs at exactly 273.16 kelvins (0.01 C) and a pressure of 611.73 pascals (ca. 6.1173 millibars, 0.0060373057 atm). At that point, it is possible to change all of the substance to ice, water, or vapour by making infinitesimally small changes in pressure and temperature.
OR -- IBM could take a page from the RIAA playbook. Buy SCO for pennies in bankrupcy, establish the legal precidents it wants by finishing the SCO-IBM lawsuit, then turn around and have the SCO shell sue the pants off of their current legal team for malpractice. That's what happened to MP3.com.
Reminds me of an episode of The West Wing (or the Left Wing for you red staters) where Josh spends an entire episode recitiing a poll statistic that 67% of americans think we spend too much on foreign aid, and 59% of americans think foreign aid should be cut meaning that 8% of americans are too stupid to understand the question.
If you need to distribute Perl Applications, check out Perl PAR. It comes with a tool called PP (PAR Packager) that allows you to combine your script and all dependent modules into a standalone exectable for any platform.
Paying for review? My experience with acedemic publishing at a major research university was that professors would be asked to review papers for submission to major journals in their area of expertise. This was preformed gratis. It is the essence of "peer review". Of course most of that work was actually performde bny grad students, but that is the nature of the beast. The only ones who stand to lose under an open system are the publishers.
IF everyradio station used the RDS system. Here in Chicago I can name 2 (two) stations that broadcast the artist and song title. And another 2 that use the RDS to identify the station. Thats in the chicago radio market.
Anything in the service arena. With the huge savings my company received from offshoring development, I finally got that new lexus I wanted. What I'm noticing, is that the lack of quality amoung local car wash workers is really terrible. I think we could retain some of the VB code monkeys into excellent window washers and wipe-down workers. In fact I think we should return to the days of the full-service gas station. It annoys me to have to keep getting out of my big SUV and fill it with permium gas. There should be people who do that for us.
So we need an organization like UL (Underwriters Laboratory) to say this is an OK product. The problem with such a system is that there are no consequences for non-compliance. I'd like a system where a software creaters rights to sue under DCMA, EULA etc are limited if they don't have the Good Software Seal of Approval. If we had such a seal, then the other problem would be getting business to buy into it.
Hmmmm... If the government mandated that all software purchased by them or used to conduct business with them required the GSSA, then you can bet that change would happen real quick.
Ok Bad Idea. This will be like the Sonny Bono copyright extension Act. Forget what I said.
It gets better. I had Zumdahl back when the second edition was in use. FYI - His hobby is collecting and restoring old cars. He started with corvettes and moved on to 1930's era Rolls-Royces. I found it to be useful book though.
Best FORTRAN bug I've every seen. On one machine it would run and converge on to a solution. The same compiled program on a different machine would crash with division by zero.
I eventually found the bug. A team member cut and pasted twice into a routine.
Do 10 i=1....... 10 Continue....
Do 10 i=1...... 10 Continue
(it was a cheesey version of Fortan for the MacIntosh)
Sometimes the code made the correct jump, sometimes it didn't.
Nothing like a quality compliler for acedemic use.
If you have read any of his other work, don't waste the time on this one. It is the same plot as Angles & Demons and The DaVinci Code. Same character types (Liberal Arts Professor type and incredible hot 150+ IQ science chick). At least A&D and TDVC had interesting premises. I found the background information far more interesting than the plots though. (Did you know that you can be elected Pope if the college of cardinals all exclain your name as though inspired by God?)
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I agree. I read the Wizard of Oz and the Tin Man of Oz to my son and found I had to "edit" some of the action and descriptions.
The Democrats now run Congress; why aren't they impeaching Bush?
Three Words....
Vice President Cheney
I finally understand why he was chosen by Bush. It's a reverse Dan Quayle. No one wanted George H Bush removed because Dan Quayle was an idiot. Now no one want George W Bush removed because Dick Cheney is EVIL.
OK, I'll bite.
Perhaps it was made for Saudi Arabia and it did not have the emissions systems of American Cars? My Cousin moved to California and had to spend a bunches of money to get her car up to CA standards and her mileage sucked thereafter.
I'm sure Detroit could improve their CAFE standards if they could dump the environmental requirements.
According to a Chicago Tribune Article today, the assignment directions were to write stream of consciousness and to not judge or filter your writing.
Seems to me this was a smart kid playing games with a stupid touchy feely assignment for a blow-off class his senior year.
Should the kid have been referred to a counselor? Sure.
Should the kids parents been contacted? Absolutely.
Arrested because his thoughts are disturbing? No.
Back in 93 at the U of M IO got my Gopher-Space T-Shirt listing all of the Gopher Server installs around the world.
I wonder if they wrote it in COBOL?
I've always wondered how many promising drugs have never seen the light of day because they performed poorly in animal models.
From the Wikipedia:
The single combination of pressure and temperature at which pure water, pure ice, and pure water vapour can coexist in a stable equilibrium occurs at exactly 273.16 kelvins (0.01 C) and a pressure of 611.73 pascals (ca. 6.1173 millibars, 0.0060373057 atm). At that point, it is possible to change all of the substance to ice, water, or vapour by making infinitesimally small changes in pressure and temperature.
Red Dawn was the Movie that spawed the PG-13 rating and the first to have it.
OR -- IBM could take a page from the RIAA playbook. Buy SCO for pennies in bankrupcy, establish the legal precidents it wants by finishing the SCO-IBM lawsuit, then turn around and have the SCO shell sue the pants off of their current legal team for malpractice. That's what happened to MP3.com.
Reminds me of an episode of The West Wing (or the Left Wing for you red staters) where Josh spends an entire episode recitiing a poll statistic that 67% of americans think we spend too much on foreign aid, and 59% of americans think foreign aid should be cut meaning that 8% of americans are too stupid to understand the question.
You are correct. The Author is David Brin and the story is The Crystal Spheres.
If you need to distribute Perl Applications, check out Perl PAR. It comes with a tool called PP (PAR Packager) that allows you to combine your script and all dependent modules into a standalone exectable for any platform.
Paying for review? My experience with acedemic publishing at a major research university was that professors would be asked to review papers for submission to major journals in their area of expertise. This was preformed gratis. It is the essence of "peer review". Of course most of that work was actually performde bny grad students, but that is the nature of the beast. The only ones who stand to lose under an open system are the publishers.
Actually, I can see them trading the laptop for a kick ass set of speakers :)
Actually any good printshop/printer/ prepress house wants a PDF X/1a . Essentially a PDF with all of the link and web nonsense removed.
AutoCAD comes to mind. You can use the Point and Drool interface, and it just builds a command for you on the command line.
You mean like VRML?
IF everyradio station used the RDS system. Here in Chicago I can name 2 (two) stations that broadcast the artist and song title. And another 2 that use the RDS to identify the station. Thats in the chicago radio market.
Anything in the service arena. With the huge savings my company received from offshoring development, I finally got that new lexus I wanted. What I'm noticing, is that the lack of quality amoung local car wash workers is really terrible. I think we could retain some of the VB code monkeys into excellent window washers and wipe-down workers. In fact I think we should return to the days of the full-service gas station. It annoys me to have to keep getting out of my big SUV and fill it with permium gas. There should be people who do that for us.
So we need an organization like UL (Underwriters Laboratory) to say this is an OK product. The problem with such a system is that there are no consequences for non-compliance. I'd like a system where a software creaters rights to sue under DCMA, EULA etc are limited if they don't have the Good Software Seal of Approval. If we had such a seal, then the other problem would be getting business to buy into it.
Hmmmm... If the government mandated that all software purchased by them or used to conduct business with them required the GSSA, then you can bet that change would happen real quick.
Ok Bad Idea. This will be like the Sonny Bono copyright extension Act. Forget what I said.
Hell, anymore I assume all of my mail is spam and I filter for non-span exceptions. Made my filters easier to construct...
It gets better. I had Zumdahl back when the second edition was in use. FYI - His hobby is collecting and restoring old cars. He started with corvettes and moved on to 1930's era Rolls-Royces. I found it to be useful book though.
Best FORTRAN bug I've every seen. On one machine it would run and converge on to a solution. The same compiled program on a different machine would crash with division by zero.
... .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
I eventually found the bug. A team member cut and pasted twice into a routine.
Do 10 i=1
10 Continue
Do 10 i=1
10 Continue
(it was a cheesey version of Fortan for the MacIntosh)
Sometimes the code made the correct jump, sometimes it didn't.
Nothing like a quality compliler for acedemic use.
If you have read any of his other work, don't waste the time on this one. It is the same plot as Angles & Demons and The DaVinci Code. Same character types (Liberal Arts Professor type and incredible hot 150+ IQ science chick). At least A&D and TDVC had interesting premises. I found the background information far more interesting than the plots though. (Did you know that you can be elected Pope if the college of cardinals all exclain your name as though inspired by God?)
If it Jams, force it.
If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
(Apologies to the Murphy's Law Folks)