The first reason to be in space is to be in space.
The second reason is the one that was completely forgotten in the Challenger accident: to have the adaptability of the human mind and body available to react to any contingency.
Instead, we left those people in the dark, did nothing to try to save them, and reaped what we sowed.
So the bigger question is, why do we need the people who made those decisions in the positions they're in?
Without Sens. Lieberman and the other guy, I wouldn't be able to tell exactly which kind of violence I'm getting in my games. This will make it much easier to feed my psychosis on a budget. Who says the government doesn't know what it's doing?
Charities that cold-call do make it pay, by sticking to the federally mandated minimum of 5% effective delivery of the funds collected to the putative recipients.
I'll say that again: 5%.
The other 95% is gravy for the "charity's" employees.
Umpires will emphatically not be losing their jobs because of QuesTec.
The Rules of Baseball are complex and arcane. The strike zone is a mundanity embedded within them. There are nuances on swinging and tipped strikes, plus batters-box infractions, catcher's interference, dead balls, etc.
Few humans understand the Balk Rule; forget about teaching such recognition procedures to a machine.
If the QuesTec system is not testably 100% reliable on called balls and strikes, then the umpires are right, it does not improve the situation at all, and could make it significantly worse.
but what are the alternatives in this down economy, where jobs are hard to find?
1. Quit on principle and give your job to someone who doesn't have one.
2. Keep your job and lower wages for everyone.
You probably only have your job because you're salaried and cheaper than your hourly colleagues of equal skill. You made the concession long ago that you would take security over cash.
During the boom, labor will rule. During the bust, management will rule. Them's the rules.
There's a six-month "click", and it coincides with the most ferocious part of the market bubble. They popped because they existed. Then they crashed, and have failed to keep up.
Predicting when AMD will jump, attract buyers, then crash and bankrupt them, is a fool's game. Predicting that they will is an easy bet.
Don't let your prejudices against Intel blind your vision to reality.
Still doesn't allow a native 1080-pixel high picture (about 1900 wide). That's the top resolution of HDTV, and there is maybe one monitor manufacturer in the world actually designing to put that many pixels on the screen. The rest are selling 768-high screens and pretending they're the bee's nads.
If the native resolution is 1024x768, then it's still not the perfect HDTV. You'd think once they scaled up to that size screen, they'd fit it to the 1080-line standard and really blow out some eyeballs.
Microsoft was rumored to have implemented a non-synching TCP stack in early versions of IE in order to reduce delays. In fact, I couldn't tell you they don't still use it.
Yes, it's faster if you ignore the safety interlocks, but when it goes bad, it goes really bad, because the rest of the system was designed with the presumption that the safety interlocks are on so *they* can run balls-out. They depend on that carefully modelled reigning-in of their inherent instability.
So this new method, it could end up being far slower in many cases. Like typing on a manual typewriter is faster than writing by hand, but if you try to type too fast you slow way down always untangling the keys.
Corporations will automate the process of offering $100 for the rights to every item about to go off-copyright, then pay the buck, and then nothing will pass into the public domain.
How about a law that limits copyrights to life of the author and leave it at that. Why should anyone inherit something they didn't create?
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The first reason to be in space is to be in space.
The second reason is the one that was completely forgotten in the Challenger accident: to have the adaptability of the human mind and body available to react to any contingency.
Instead, we left those people in the dark, did nothing to try to save them, and reaped what we sowed.
So the bigger question is, why do we need the people who made those decisions in the positions they're in?
Without Sens. Lieberman and the other guy, I wouldn't be able to tell exactly which kind of violence I'm getting in my games. This will make it much easier to feed my psychosis on a budget. Who says the government doesn't know what it's doing?
Charities that cold-call do make it pay, by sticking to the federally mandated minimum of 5% effective delivery of the funds collected to the putative recipients.
I'll say that again: 5%.
The other 95% is gravy for the "charity's" employees.
It senses when I cause motion in the buttons, when my voice causes motion of air molecules, and when RF energy causes motion of electrons.
What?
This time it wasn't just /. it was also the AP.
So yes, the registry is massively hosed right now.
They are supposed to send out a pair of emails "within a few minutes" to be used to confirm the registration, but I haven't seen any.
This is why they should have had an "opt-in" registry instead. The user volume would have been 30 per day instead of 30 million.
Massive Multiclicker Offline Due To Slashdotting Game.
It's slashtilted...
Umpires will emphatically not be losing their jobs because of QuesTec.
The Rules of Baseball are complex and arcane. The strike zone is a mundanity embedded within them. There are nuances on swinging and tipped strikes, plus batters-box infractions, catcher's interference, dead balls, etc.
Few humans understand the Balk Rule; forget about teaching such recognition procedures to a machine.
If the QuesTec system is not testably 100% reliable on called balls and strikes, then the umpires are right, it does not improve the situation at all, and could make it significantly worse.
but what are the alternatives in this down economy, where jobs are hard to find?
1. Quit on principle and give your job to someone who doesn't have one.
2. Keep your job and lower wages for everyone.
You probably only have your job because you're salaried and cheaper than your hourly colleagues of equal skill. You made the concession long ago that you would take security over cash.
During the boom, labor will rule. During the bust, management will rule. Them's the rules.
I never follow the rules, but you're not me.
...does it include any code from CP/M?
No, it is a risky company. It only exists because Intel doesn't want to have to come up with an alibi.
30 years of hindsight doesn't make this crippled pigeon an "anchor" in any risk analysis.
Buy some municipal bonds instead.
What AMD were you looking at?
Cuz it warn't this one.
There's a six-month "click", and it coincides with the most ferocious part of the market bubble. They popped because they existed. Then they crashed, and have failed to keep up.
Predicting when AMD will jump, attract buyers, then crash and bankrupt them, is a fool's game. Predicting that they will is an easy bet.
Don't let your prejudices against Intel blind your vision to reality.
It's hype, even if it is a real breakthrough.
AMD's stock price hasn't left its trading range in 30 years, and there's a sound business reason for that.
They stink at turning technology into money.
Metamods, everyone who read that post misunderstood it. It's about probabilities. So much for being reasonable.
That's it. That's the list.
Except you're wrong. SCO has evidence. This is a rumor. The probabilities differ by orders of magnitude.
You expect Microsoft to be ahead of the spammers.
Here's a much better UNIX timeline
and lots of links on the case. Everybody read before posting.
Still doesn't allow a native 1080-pixel high picture (about 1900 wide). That's the top resolution of HDTV, and there is maybe one monitor manufacturer in the world actually designing to put that many pixels on the screen. The rest are selling 768-high screens and pretending they're the bee's nads.
Let me show you how squeeze the fish.
(*Squeeeeech!*)
If the native resolution is 1024x768, then it's still not the perfect HDTV. You'd think once they scaled up to that size screen, they'd fit it to the 1080-line standard and really blow out some eyeballs.
Microsoft was rumored to have implemented a non-synching TCP stack in early versions of IE in order to reduce delays. In fact, I couldn't tell you they don't still use it.
Yes, it's faster if you ignore the safety interlocks, but when it goes bad, it goes really bad, because the rest of the system was designed with the presumption that the safety interlocks are on so *they* can run balls-out. They depend on that carefully modelled reigning-in of their inherent instability.
So this new method, it could end up being far slower in many cases. Like typing on a manual typewriter is faster than writing by hand, but if you try to type too fast you slow way down always untangling the keys.
Corporations will automate the process of offering $100 for the rights to every item about to go off-copyright, then pay the buck, and then nothing will pass into the public domain.
How about a law that limits copyrights to life of the author and leave it at that. Why should anyone inherit something they didn't create?
Any EE student who arrives at the Toot without having worn-out one of these or something similar is already a couple of years behind his peers.
Of course, if Radio Shyster can't keep the farking things in stock, what hope is there for humanity?
Right.
You have 100 hours of archived Dr. Phil, and you don't think that's embarassing?