The research paper saying that cars consume the biomass equivalent to a year's worth of plants growth leaves out that only a very small portion of each ancient years growth eventually became usable fossil fuel. Just the fact that oil is concentrated in certain regions shows that it didn't come from the concentration of entire continents but from the plants growing in that region. The biggest argument for this is that it seems pretty clear that we aren't finding anything close to 13,000 years worth of gasoline.
Of bigger impact than just running out of fuel is the release of millions of years worth of stored CO2 directly into the atmoshphere.
The archive is intentionally crippled. A search brings back not text, but pictures -- pictures of pages. You can find the page that responds to your query, read it on your screen, and browse a few pages backward and forward. But you cannot download, copy, or read the book from beginning to end. There is no way to link directly to any page of a book. If you want to read an extensive excerpt, you must turn to the physical volume -- which, of course, you can conveniently purchase from Amazon. Users will be asked to give their credit card number before looking at pages in the archive, and they won't be able to view more than a few thousand pages per month, or more than 20 percent of any single book.
When the swinging patent was featured on slashdot, there was a post claiming that this was submitted by a patent lawyer, on a lark, for his seven year old son.
I haven't heard them, but my boss has those headphones and swears that they're worth every penny. He told me he saw them on the Today show, so I found the review where the Today Show 'consumer correspondant' claims these things are incredible. To quote: What do the Etymotics sound like? Like no other headphone I've ever heard. Because they seal out all surrounding noise, you hear the music so purely and cleanly that's it's almost unnerving at first. But listen to these headphones for a few songs and you'll be spoiled for the rest of your life. The Etymotics sound so much more natural and free of distortion and coloration than even the most expensive audiophile speakers and headphones it's silly.
It installs, but does it work? My company had a number of correctly hand-patched SP2 machines where McAfee stopped the Nachi worm after it had already performed the RPC exploit (no IIS or WebDAV), meaning that the patch was ineffective. The incident was reported, but the issue is moot now that 039 supercedes and is supported on SP2.
The reason we had problems to begin with was that we instructed telecommuters with laptops to disable DCOM and install the latest patches on Windows Update except for SP4. Unfortunately, SP2 machines did not show the MS03-026 patch on the Windows Update page (neither did HFNetCheck for that matter), and Microsoft hadn't yet realized that the disabling DCOM does nothing on SP2.
It seems like every non-techie that I talk to here has heard about the lawsuits and 'Clean Slate'. It's been in all the local papers and in most online news sources. You can get an idea of how many stories there have been on Yahoo! news and Google News.
He's a content manager, not a developer. He just wants a browser with a more usable text area, which seems like a reasonable request. Perhaps his development team could make things much easier by adding a web-based WYSIWYG editor. Many of them are IE only, but the beta of this free one works in Mozilla and looks easy to implement.
I was trying to get one more run out of Splinter Cell by trying to make it all the way through on the hard skill level without killing anyone, but even though it's much harder I still start feeling claustrophobic with the lack of options. I started playing the PC version of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 last week which, although in a completely different genre, is so completely open that I find myself having a much better time. All the reviews I've seen agree with me and this review compares it favorably to GTA III and covers the replay aspect quite well.
This is very interesting to me since my wife has Crohn's with frequent pain and has had 10 inches of intestine removed. There's quite a bit of recent news including that British researchers suspect that MAH has entered the water supply.
How did you file a complaint? The page for filing complaints doesn't even do anything, it just says that telemarketers must stop calling you on October 1st and that complaints may begin being filed at that time.
There is now an updated article that says that the plane that was spotted was not the missing plane after all. The article also provides fuller background information.
Just looked this up because the claim that the entire popluation could live in Texas sounded funky and found that it's actually 1217 sq feet per person.
It was announced earlier that FFXII is slated for the second half of this fiscal year, so perhaps the game is farther along than Square Enix is letting on. As soon as we know more, you'll know more.
But that'd just mean someone on the ground would have to be in on the plan, which isn't farfeteched.
You wouldn't even need someone on the plane if a person on the ground could alter the restricted space coordinates. Just arrange the restricted space areas in such a way to force the pilot to hit the ground or the target.
Marjorie: Well, that certainly answered the question fully. I must admit I didn't expect you to go back as far as the beginning of the Universe.:-) How'd you come up with that name?
Larry: I wanted a short name with positive connotations. (I would never name a language ``Scheme'' or ``Python'', for instance.) I actually looked at every three- and four-letter word in the dictionary and rejected them all. I briefly toyed with the idea of naming it after my wife, Gloria, but that promised to be confusing on the domestic front. Eventually I came up with the name ``pearl'', with the gloss Practical Extraction and Report Language. The ``a'' was still in the name when I made that one up. But I heard rumors of some obscure graphics language named ``pearl'', so I shortened it to ``perl''. (The ``a'' had already disappeared by the time I gave Perl its alternate gloss, Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.)
Another interesting tidbit is that the name ``perl'' wasn't capitalized at first. UNIX was still very much a lower-case-only OS at the time. In fact, I think you could call it an anti-upper-case OS. It's a bit like the folks who start posting on the Net and affect not to capitalize anything. Eventually, most of them come back to the point where they realize occasional capitalization is useful for efficient communication. In Perl's case, we realized about the time of Perl 4 that it was useful to distinguish between ``perl'' the program and ``Perl'' the language. If you find a first edition of the Camel Book, you'll see that the title was Programming perl, with a small ``p''. Nowadays, the title is Programming Perl.
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The research paper saying that cars consume the biomass equivalent to a year's worth of plants growth leaves out that only a very small portion of each ancient years growth eventually became usable fossil fuel. Just the fact that oil is concentrated in certain regions shows that it didn't come from the concentration of entire continents but from the plants growing in that region. The biggest argument for this is that it seems pretty clear that we aren't finding anything close to 13,000 years worth of gasoline.
Of bigger impact than just running out of fuel is the release of millions of years worth of stored CO2 directly into the atmoshphere.
The previously noted and much more informative Wired article explains how this is prevented:
The archive is intentionally crippled. A search brings back not text, but pictures -- pictures of pages. You can find the page that responds to your query, read it on your screen, and browse a few pages backward and forward. But you cannot download, copy, or read the book from beginning to end. There is no way to link directly to any page of a book. If you want to read an extensive excerpt, you must turn to the physical volume -- which, of course, you can conveniently purchase from Amazon. Users will be asked to give their credit card number before looking at pages in the archive, and they won't be able to view more than a few thousand pages per month, or more than 20 percent of any single book.
When the swinging patent was featured on slashdot, there was a post claiming that this was submitted by a patent lawyer, on a lark, for his seven year old son.
Especially since the explanation underneath the original picture was quickly updated to include the airplane hypothesis.
I haven't heard them, but my boss has those headphones and swears that they're worth every penny. He told me he saw them on the Today show, so I found the review where the Today Show 'consumer correspondant' claims these things are incredible. To quote: What do the Etymotics sound like? Like no other headphone I've ever heard. Because they seal out all surrounding noise, you hear the music so purely and cleanly that's it's almost unnerving at first. But listen to these headphones for a few songs and you'll be spoiled for the rest of your life. The Etymotics sound so much more natural and free of distortion and coloration than even the most expensive audiophile speakers and headphones it's silly.
It installs, but does it work? My company had a number of correctly hand-patched SP2 machines where McAfee stopped the Nachi worm after it had already performed the RPC exploit (no IIS or WebDAV), meaning that the patch was ineffective. The incident was reported, but the issue is moot now that 039 supercedes and is supported on SP2.
The reason we had problems to begin with was that we instructed telecommuters with laptops to disable DCOM and install the latest patches on Windows Update except for SP4. Unfortunately, SP2 machines did not show the MS03-026 patch on the Windows Update page (neither did HFNetCheck for that matter), and Microsoft hadn't yet realized that the disabling DCOM does nothing on SP2.
It seems like every non-techie that I talk to here has heard about the lawsuits and 'Clean Slate'. It's been in all the local papers and in most online news sources. You can get an idea of how many stories there have been on Yahoo! news and Google News.
He's a content manager, not a developer. He just wants a browser with a more usable text area, which seems like a reasonable request. Perhaps his development team could make things much easier by adding a web-based WYSIWYG editor. Many of them are IE only, but the beta of this free one works in Mozilla and looks easy to implement.
I was trying to get one more run out of Splinter Cell by trying to make it all the way through on the hard skill level without killing anyone, but even though it's much harder I still start feeling claustrophobic with the lack of options. I started playing the PC version of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 last week which, although in a completely different genre, is so completely open that I find myself having a much better time. All the reviews I've seen agree with me and this review compares it favorably to GTA III and covers the replay aspect quite well.
Oh c'mon, it's not like he looks like a mental patient every day.
This is very interesting to me since my wife has Crohn's with frequent pain and has had 10 inches of intestine removed. There's quite a bit of recent news including that British researchers suspect that MAH has entered the water supply.
How did you file a complaint? The page for filing complaints doesn't even do anything, it just says that telemarketers must stop calling you on October 1st and that complaints may begin being filed at that time.
There is now an updated article that says that the plane that was spotted was not the missing plane after all. The article also provides fuller background information.
The 727 was found on June 28.
Here's a way to disable uPnP. If that doesn't work it might just be Windows Messenger which sends uPnP traffic on port 1900 as described here.
Just looked this up because the claim that the entire popluation could live in Texas sounded funky and found that it's actually 1217 sq feet per person.
Am I the only one that can't get to this link or even to isc.sans.org?
This was actually on Slashdot last fall.
The two links within were pretty informative too.
Square Insider also mentioned this today as well as the following rumour:
It was announced earlier that FFXII is slated for the second half of this fiscal year, so perhaps the game is farther along than Square Enix is letting on. As soon as we know more, you'll know more.
Just because a doctor prescribes a drug doesn't mean that the patient can steal a load of Xanax and then use privacy laws to avoid prosecution.
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But that'd just mean someone on the ground would have to be in on the plan, which isn't farfeteched.
You wouldn't even need someone on the plane if a person on the ground could alter the restricted space coordinates. Just arrange the restricted space areas in such a way to force the pilot to hit the ground or the target.
Couldn't an attacker just change the restricted GPS coordinates in the avionics? Or even easier, they could they simply jam the GPS signal?
In the USA, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon all have plans that give you unlimited minutes to any other phone within each respective nationwide network.
From an interesting interview with Larry Wall - 1999..
:-) How'd you come up with that name?
Marjorie: Well, that certainly answered the question fully. I must admit I didn't expect you to go back as far as the beginning of the Universe.
Larry: I wanted a short name with positive connotations. (I would never name a language ``Scheme'' or ``Python'', for instance.) I actually looked at every three- and four-letter word in the dictionary and rejected them all. I briefly toyed with the idea of naming it after my wife, Gloria, but that promised to be confusing on the domestic front. Eventually I came up with the name ``pearl'', with the gloss Practical Extraction and Report Language. The ``a'' was still in the name when I made that one up. But I heard rumors of some obscure graphics language named ``pearl'', so I shortened it to ``perl''. (The ``a'' had already disappeared by the time I gave Perl its alternate gloss, Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.)
Another interesting tidbit is that the name ``perl'' wasn't capitalized at first. UNIX was still very much a lower-case-only OS at the time. In fact, I think you could call it an anti-upper-case OS. It's a bit like the folks who start posting on the Net and affect not to capitalize anything. Eventually, most of them come back to the point where they realize occasional capitalization is useful for efficient communication. In Perl's case, we realized about the time of Perl 4 that it was useful to distinguish between ``perl'' the program and ``Perl'' the language. If you find a first edition of the Camel Book, you'll see that the title was Programming perl, with a small ``p''. Nowadays, the title is Programming Perl.