NetTrek too. Not an FPS, but did have 2d graphics, which is more complicated than something played "on a text terminal".
I think the author also used the word "entusiastically" (or similar), which is a quibble except that professors are expected to spellcheck things they put out for public inspection.
NYC drivers are only unsafe for folks who aren't used to NYC driving. NYC drivers are consistent, and so predictable; you know that everyone else is going to be as agressive as possible and will expect the same from you.
The key with driving (as with crossing the street as a pedestrian) in nyc is projection: if you can convincingly project your car into the space in front of itself, you are the one who is entitled to that space. If as a pedestrian, you can project the image of yourself in the middle of the street to all of the cars, YOU HAVE RIGHT OF WAY.
Unless you get hit. Then you clearly failed to project.
I had thought a long time ago that it would be cool (maybe even kewl) if I could stream radio stations from towns that I used to live in, while driving.
I tried to diagram this, but Slashdot said that I was lame.
If each pair of legs of a right triangle on the original chip were replaced with a hypotenuse on the new chip, this would indeed result in using less wire.
It is true that this algorithm would result in a design that's isomorphic to one that COULD be made with -| layout, but it's not strictly the same as the one obtained by rotating the original chip 45 degrees.
But isn't overseas the domain of the NSA? I thought that FBI was just for spying on people within the US, and NSA was for decoding the traffic of non-US citizens not on US soil.
Me, I find that my 1986 Tandy 102 makes a fine laptop--it has a decent text editor, it's very light, and it gets two or three months of fairly steady use to the pack of four AAs.
Well if the Telcos would get off their asses we could have real DSL (even rural it's easy to still live less than 15k' from a CO, I live at 5k' from mine) out here in rural areas... But we are seen as markets unable to support the cost of the equipment (which is not true, as the basic costs would only require 6 people for a year of service to pay for).
So call them. Every day for a month or two. Be a squeaky wheel and get greased.
Each day of suspension counts as an unexcused abscence
If that is true, that must depend on the system. In ours, each day counts as an/excused/ absence--the excuse is "I was suspended."
The catch is that most students who get suspended aren't the type that come in to get their makeup work. So for/that/ they tend fail the quarter.
Administrators tend not to want to suspend students during finals because that means that they have to proctor them during the first part of the summer, after grades have been turned in; which is awkward.
The beep reminds you that you have gotten a full pass even if there is still underlined misspelled words left.
(at least I want to leave the quoted text uncorrected -- I don't like to muck with someone else's words, plus it may make me look subtly smarter by having the only correctly spelled half of the argument....)
Of course, you have to check your own subject-verb agreement...
As I tell my students, "All of math is either trivial or impossible. Each problem is impossible until you understand how to do it, and then it's trivial."
This is a misquotation from one of my teachers, who was probably misquoting someone else.
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If I buy your house for $250K, and turn around that day and sell it to someone else for $325K, have I stolen anything from you?
Without any other restrictions on the purcahse, No. You paid the agreed upon price for said house. Once it's yours, you can do anything within legal reason your heart desires.
This practice is called "Property Flipping", and seems to be illegal in some cases. Do a search for "Property Flipping":
I can't see how this would work without Office storing the code on the HDD somewhere.
Your hard drive has a serial number, that isn't affected by initialization.
Wolfram's Mathematica uses a system that takes hardware and software information about your computer and uses this information to churn out a user id #, which you send to them to get an activation key. Microsoft is probably using something similar, minus the software info.
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NetTrek too. Not an FPS, but did have 2d graphics, which is more complicated than something played "on a text terminal".
I think the author also used the word "entusiastically" (or similar), which is a quibble except that professors are expected to spellcheck things they put out for public inspection.
While we're on it, can we mod the article ("Why not Ruby?") as a troll?
Before I went over to the dark side, there had been three commands (for a given drive) (I assume they each remain):
With the disk selected, command-y would put it away, that is, nicely eject it and forget that it existed;
command-e would eject it, but remember that the disk existed, causing much annoyance when something from the disk was wanted by the system;
and commmand-shift-1 and command-shift-2 would eject disk drives 1 and 2 respectively, in the second manner, whether anything were selected or not.
NYC drivers are only unsafe for folks who aren't used to NYC driving. NYC drivers are consistent, and so predictable; you know that everyone else is going to be as agressive as possible and will expect the same from you.
The key with driving (as with crossing the street as a pedestrian) in nyc is projection: if you can convincingly project your car into the space in front of itself, you are the one who is entitled to that space. If as a pedestrian, you can project the image of yourself in the middle of the street to all of the cars, YOU HAVE RIGHT OF WAY.
Unless you get hit. Then you clearly failed to project.
I had thought a long time ago that it would be cool (maybe even kewl) if I could stream radio stations from towns that I used to live in, while driving.
Won't work until minutes get cheap though.
In asking the FAQ wizard, "Compile", I got (among less helpful hits): Can Python be compiled to machine code, C or some other language? If I were further confused, I would ask the tutor@python.org mailing list, which is extremely helpful to initiates.
It's on the internet that the Cortez /did/ accuse the Aztecs of cannibalism (so it must be true).
Aztec Motives for Mass Sacrifice
So maybe they did eat folks.
That or beans and corn.
That was a rhetorical question, as in,
What's a rhetorical question?
This was of course assuming that the original chip had a wretched design, and used two perpendicular wires for every connection.
I tried to diagram this, but Slashdot said that I was lame.
If each pair of legs of a right triangle on the original chip were replaced with a hypotenuse on the new chip, this would indeed result in using less wire.
It is true that this algorithm would result in a design that's isomorphic to one that COULD be made with -| layout, but it's not strictly the same as the one obtained by rotating the original chip 45 degrees.
when you mean no fewer than four.
But "less than" is valid on R, where "fewer than" is valid only on Z+.
Granted there are times when you might want to confine yourself to Z+, but still.
But isn't overseas the domain of the NSA? I thought that FBI was just for spying on people within the US, and NSA was for decoding the traffic of non-US citizens not on US soil.
Me, I find that my 1986 Tandy 102 makes a fine laptop--it has a decent text editor, it's very light, and it gets two or three months of fairly steady use to the pack of four AAs.
Well if the Telcos would get off their asses we could have real DSL (even rural it's easy to still live less than 15k' from a CO, I live at 5k' from mine) out here in rural areas... But we are seen as markets unable to support the cost of the equipment (which is not true, as the basic costs would only require 6 people for a year of service to pay for).
So call them. Every day for a month or two. Be a squeaky wheel and get greased.
In fact, Mike, he's going to kidnap YOU!
All your schiraldi are belong to us.
Somebody set up us the Penn!
Blame it on Dukes of Hazzard. Was fairly popular in the early '90s--don't know whether it still is.
Each day of suspension counts as an unexcused abscence
/excused/ absence--the excuse is "I was suspended."
/that/ they tend fail the quarter.
If that is true, that must depend on the system. In ours, each day counts as an
The catch is that most students who get suspended aren't the type that come in to get their makeup work. So for
Administrators tend not to want to suspend students during finals because that means that they have to proctor them during the first part of the summer, after grades have been turned in; which is awkward.
They call that a "lease".
The beep reminds you that you have gotten a full pass even if there is still underlined misspelled words left.
(at least I want to leave the quoted text uncorrected -- I don't like to muck with someone else's words, plus it may make me look subtly smarter by having the only correctly spelled half of the argument....)
Of course, you have to check your own subject-verb agreement...
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Birkenstocks are made in Germany (although heavily distributed in and through the US).
Interesting choice of the world's two most economically valuable products, though.
As I tell my students, "All of math is either trivial or impossible. Each problem is impossible until you understand how to do it, and then it's trivial."
This is a misquotation from one of my teachers, who was probably misquoting someone else.
This practice is called "Property Flipping", and seems to be illegal in some cases. Do a search for "Property Flipping":
http://www.appraisalinstitute.org/news/06-30-00_l
http://appraisalreviewsofmaryland.com/tools_to_co
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0102/harkavy.s
http://detnews.com/2000/realestate/0006/30/b07-83
for 40 years, which means he has many caches of food ... hidden throughout the country, just waiting for the U.S. to invade.
Wouldn't it have gone bad by now?
I can't see how this would work without Office storing the code on the HDD somewhere.
Your hard drive has a serial number, that isn't affected by initialization.
Wolfram's Mathematica uses a system that takes hardware and software information about your computer and uses this information to churn out a user id #, which you send to them to get an activation key. Microsoft is probably using something similar, minus the software info.