That's standard practice. Lots of businesses use credit to make payroll, e.g. those that make most of their profits during a specific part of the year. Some employers make a steady stream of profits, but we can't all work at McDonalds.
It must feel good to be able to sit there, saying that the best solution is to let a section of the economy totally fail. I mean, its not like you're the one taking the hit, right? You're not losing your job or your house. You're not the one who actually has to endure hardship. And neither am I.
Most of the time you can't even be sure of that. Lots of people have been surprised when some random bank fails somewhere and their employers suddenly have trouble drawing credit to cover payroll.
Let's say some corporation applies for a patent on garbage collection or XML or image editors or something like that. Someone has to prevent them from doing it.
Who would be in a better position to present prior art? Who has obvious standing in this case at all? And which one has legal parity that would be obvious to any Windows user charged with making a judgment on this? A corporation with a similar patent, or a loosely-knit but idealistic bunch of Slashdot lawyers?
In principle it goes against everything to be relying on a single private party to shield obvious processes from frivolous patent claims on things we do every day. It places too much trust in one party. But legally and in a pragmatic sense I would be inclined to let Red Hat deal with these people. They have patent lawyers. Otherwise geeks have to keep coming out of the woodwork to make prior art claims.
Send a mission to Mars one week, find the next week that it's overrun by heat-loving bacteria that spread like mad and cover the planet. It's not impossible, and then where would our search for the origins of life be?
You've obviously never been to Mars; it's not a place for heat lovers. And it's becoming quite apparent that nothing lives there. Covering Mars with bacteria or lichens or kudzu or something would be doing it a big favor. In fact it would be a significant accomplishment for humanity during this brief time while we're still able to launch crap into space. If we manage to ignite Mars with its own biosphere, in a billion years the germs will evolve into intelligent bats.
I try this at meetings sometimes... I draw a 3D object like a cube or a car or a face or whatever next to an exact copy about two inches to the right, having a slightly more forward-facing appearance. Then I look at them slightly cross-eyed, so that the left eye sees the right image and the right eye sees the left image. If I draw them carefully enough (and since my vision is good in both eyes) I can get them to acquire a 3D-perspective. I doodled a stereoscopic pair of dice a few days ago that practically jumped off the page, into a new dimension, normal to the paper surface. One of the dangerous aspects of doodling during meetings is the need to stifle your joy upon penetrating new spatial dimensions. Or when you doodle something that's actually funny.
But thinking that "you'll probably be on you next job by the time it has a million elements", isn't a terribly good work ethic. What if the requirements explode while you are still on that job... you're gonna look like a twat then, after your 10ms becomes 10 minutes and the boss is leanign on you for a fix.
Everyone's always down on bubble sort. It's a shame- bubble sorting is easy to write and it's actually the best sorting method to use when your list has ten elements or less.
Plus by the time it has a million elements you'll probably be on your next job.
Although I have doubted myself at times, I must say that I am glad I never started a Facebook account. Nor did I register on Myspace when that was hip. I made all my Internet mistakes when I was much younger.
Why are we so scared of doing anything that might "help terrorists"? If you install a drinking fountain and a terrorist takes a sip, you just helped a terrorist. If you write a software program downloaded by a terrorist, you just helped a terrorist. Many of you reading this have held doors open for terrorists. Things that help everybody help terrorists. And trying to prevent helping terrorists usually means being unhelpful to everybody. "I don't want California to be helping map out future targets for terrorists" is the kind of thing idiots worry about.
I remember because I was alive in 1987 and I felt it too when it happened. It was just as that star was exploding as a matter of fact. But it was hard to notice and you had to be paying really close attention. I take a lot of mind-altering drugs so I was able to sit still and concentrate on the physics.
Basically gravitational waves have a quadrupole moment so you feel your ears move apart slightly and your face contracting vertically. Then your face expands vertically as your ears move together. This happens a bunch of times and the effect is very slight- just a few femtometers- so you might not notice. But once you feel that cool wind of neutrinos flowing up from the floor and blowing through your hair, that should be a fairly obvious hint that a star is exploding somewhere and deserving of your attention.
Just take those cards, hurl them in the air, pick them up, and boot the machine with them. Keep repeating until you successfully manage to shuffle the Vista out.
First you should do card knockout studies to get rid of the code bloat, the shareware that came preinstalled on the mainframe, etc. Keep rebooting Windows with one randomly selected punch card missing to see which deletions aren't fatal, until you manage to boot Windows with a card stack about 10% the size. This makes it easier to pick the cards up off the floor.
No; the gaseous H2 being produced carries most of the energy away. And the reaction is confined to a surface. Thermite supports its own combustion, so it can stay packed and airtight as it burns throughout. And the reactants stay in place right where they are- thermite sticks to itself as it burns which is why it gets so hot. A reaction that produces H2 isn't going to be as exothermic.
I would open another Netflix account and sell my old-school-player account on Ebay. New accounts now are Silverlight-only and the ability to use the old player has market value.
Hey, it doesn't say "A New Way To Produce Hydrogen For Free!"
I mean, I don't understand the reactions to this article. They just found out aluminum can be attacked by water via a sequence of Lewis acid-base reactions that result in a standard substitution reaction, depending on the geometry of the aluminum cluster.
It's a very interesting form of corrosion and people are acting like this is supposed to be a perpetual motion machine.
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That's standard practice. Lots of businesses use credit to make payroll, e.g. those that make most of their profits during a specific part of the year. Some employers make a steady stream of profits, but we can't all work at McDonalds.
It must feel good to be able to sit there, saying that the best solution is to let a section of the economy totally fail. I mean, its not like you're the one taking the hit, right? You're not losing your job or your house. You're not the one who actually has to endure hardship. And neither am I.
Most of the time you can't even be sure of that. Lots of people have been surprised when some random bank fails somewhere and their employers suddenly have trouble drawing credit to cover payroll.
Let's say some corporation applies for a patent on garbage collection or XML or image editors or something like that. Someone has to prevent them from doing it.
Who would be in a better position to present prior art? Who has obvious standing in this case at all? And which one has legal parity that would be obvious to any Windows user charged with making a judgment on this? A corporation with a similar patent, or a loosely-knit but idealistic bunch of Slashdot lawyers?
In principle it goes against everything to be relying on a single private party to shield obvious processes from frivolous patent claims on things we do every day. It places too much trust in one party. But legally and in a pragmatic sense I would be inclined to let Red Hat deal with these people. They have patent lawyers. Otherwise geeks have to keep coming out of the woodwork to make prior art claims.
I always assumed Bob would be giving DNA to Alice, not the other way around.
No problem. If you can't fire a gun at a block of wood, then get one of the students to stand on a skateboard so you can just shoot him instead.
I wonder why you got modded Troll.
Send a mission to Mars one week, find the next week that it's overrun by heat-loving bacteria that spread like mad and cover the planet. It's not impossible, and then where would our search for the origins of life be?
You've obviously never been to Mars; it's not a place for heat lovers. And it's becoming quite apparent that nothing lives there. Covering Mars with bacteria or lichens or kudzu or something would be doing it a big favor. In fact it would be a significant accomplishment for humanity during this brief time while we're still able to launch crap into space. If we manage to ignite Mars with its own biosphere, in a billion years the germs will evolve into intelligent bats.
Oh yeah? You just wait until Red Hat's patents expire and Microsoft comes out with Windows Ubuntu Server 2029!
I try this at meetings sometimes... I draw a 3D object like a cube or a car or a face or whatever next to an exact copy about two inches to the right, having a slightly more forward-facing appearance. Then I look at them slightly cross-eyed, so that the left eye sees the right image and the right eye sees the left image. If I draw them carefully enough (and since my vision is good in both eyes) I can get them to acquire a 3D-perspective. I doodled a stereoscopic pair of dice a few days ago that practically jumped off the page, into a new dimension, normal to the paper surface. One of the dangerous aspects of doodling during meetings is the need to stifle your joy upon penetrating new spatial dimensions. Or when you doodle something that's actually funny.
But thinking that "you'll probably be on you next job by the time it has a million elements", isn't a terribly good work ethic. What if the requirements explode while you are still on that job ... you're gonna look like a twat then, after your 10ms becomes 10 minutes and the boss is leanign on you for a fix.
WHOOSH ;)
Everyone's always down on bubble sort. It's a shame- bubble sorting is easy to write and it's actually the best sorting method to use when your list has ten elements or less.
Plus by the time it has a million elements you'll probably be on your next job.
Dude, he said it was discreet.
I have been granted a patent on staying home from work and hitting the bong.
To the office with all of you!
I never use hibernate. I can't recall ever seeing a Windows computer emerge from hibenate without needing to be rebooted, even brand new laptops.
Although I have doubted myself at times, I must say that I am glad I never started a Facebook account. Nor did I register on Myspace when that was hip. I made all my Internet mistakes when I was much younger.
Why are we so scared of doing anything that might "help terrorists"? If you install a drinking fountain and a terrorist takes a sip, you just helped a terrorist. If you write a software program downloaded by a terrorist, you just helped a terrorist. Many of you reading this have held doors open for terrorists. Things that help everybody help terrorists. And trying to prevent helping terrorists usually means being unhelpful to everybody. "I don't want California to be helping map out future targets for terrorists" is the kind of thing idiots worry about.
It's almost as dangerous as dihydrogen monoxide!
Dihydrogen monoxide? Oh you mean ozane.
I remember because I was alive in 1987 and I felt it too when it happened. It was just as that star was exploding as a matter of fact. But it was hard to notice and you had to be paying really close attention. I take a lot of mind-altering drugs so I was able to sit still and concentrate on the physics.
Basically gravitational waves have a quadrupole moment so you feel your ears move apart slightly and your face contracting vertically. Then your face expands vertically as your ears move together. This happens a bunch of times and the effect is very slight- just a few femtometers- so you might not notice. But once you feel that cool wind of neutrinos flowing up from the floor and blowing through your hair, that should be a fairly obvious hint that a star is exploding somewhere and deserving of your attention.
Just take those cards, hurl them in the air, pick them up, and boot the machine with them. Keep repeating until you successfully manage to shuffle the Vista out.
First you should do card knockout studies to get rid of the code bloat, the shareware that came preinstalled on the mainframe, etc. Keep rebooting Windows with one randomly selected punch card missing to see which deletions aren't fatal, until you manage to boot Windows with a card stack about 10% the size. This makes it easier to pick the cards up off the floor.
So does it still work after all this time or not?
Yeah I saw that commercial too. The Germans always make good stuff.
No; the gaseous H2 being produced carries most of the energy away. And the reaction is confined to a surface. Thermite supports its own combustion, so it can stay packed and airtight as it burns throughout. And the reactants stay in place right where they are- thermite sticks to itself as it burns which is why it gets so hot. A reaction that produces H2 isn't going to be as exothermic.
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I would open another Netflix account and sell my old-school-player account on Ebay. New accounts now are Silverlight-only and the ability to use the old player has market value.
Hey, it doesn't say "A New Way To Produce Hydrogen For Free!"
I mean, I don't understand the reactions to this article. They just found out aluminum can be attacked by water via a sequence of Lewis acid-base reactions that result in a standard substitution reaction, depending on the geometry of the aluminum cluster.
It's a very interesting form of corrosion and people are acting like this is supposed to be a perpetual motion machine.
My wife and I couldn't come to an agreement on what color to paint the nursery. I wanted red and she wanted green. We got tired of arguing about it, so we finally agreed just to have a red-green color blind kid and tell him the room's purple.