On a recent trip to Ireland I spent a great deal of time in the internet cafes to remind them what a great time I was having in Ireland, and they weren't. However, my emails and chats were full of typos because of the european layout for the keyboard.
It was interesting that I was using a keyboard designed for an english-speaking (okay, and Gaelic) country, but the keyboard could be that different. Of course the many pints of Guinness wasn't helping matters...
According to the article on CNN's web site, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, who rules in this case, is the most liberal and the most overturned appeals court in the U.S.
Aliens have finally realized that New Mexico is not a great vacation spot
Actually, NM is an excellent vacation spot. Lots of mountains and lakes and cool desert places. (Hot in the summer, but still nifty).
My guess is that that the aliens went to Scotland to eat all that bland Scottish cooking after blowing their stomachs out from eating the green chile in NM!
You don't even need to learn morse code !
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I grew up with two Hams, and of course I was expected to get my Ham license, as well, but I was was disinclined to learn Morse code, which was a requirement for your novice class license.
IIRC, the morse code requirement has been dropped, I'm sure to replenish the attrition of Hams by old age.
ICANNs attorneys letters are no better...
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since it seems to go on and on with all sorts of legalese and other crap for miles and miles as if he (the attorney) is quite pleased with the look or more likely the sound as he was dictating these letters.
Also, why solar power rather than the (cheaper, more reliable and higher-output) nuclear option?
Well, for one thing it requires moving a lot of (heavy) plutonium and/or uranium.
Also, in defense of the solor option, the moon doesn't have that annoying atmosphere to get in the way. Well it does have a tenuous atmosphere, if you want to split hairs...
To me the largest factor in determining whether the 1.0 release of something will be acceptable is time.
Given enough time for proper design and testing, a 1.0 release could be acceptable, but companies hiring consultants do not want to pay for the time, and companies that produce software for the general public have to rush products to market to beat company X, whose competing product is due for release, and (more importantly?) they need to please their stockholders.
Once in a while you get a Mozilla-type thing that takes forever, but puts out somthing worthwhile with 1.0.
The topic of rumor spreading through the Internet is one of the main topics in a sci-fi-ish novel, "Killing Time", by Caleb Carr. His characters try to create such outlandish rumors on the Internet that the world's population will realize that you can't believe everything you read. Predictably, this leads to disaster...;)
An interesting quote from the book is: "Information is not knowledge."
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You use this concept quite often in calculus with limits, i.e. 1/x approaches 0 as x approaches infinity.
I suspect what he meant was: as c approches infinity , the current thinking (equations) get all screwy. Or something technical like that.
what's simple to you is incredibly difficult for a computer
I think what's difficult is writing the actual program. It's easy for the computer once you give it the correct instructions.
One caveat, however, being processor speed.
I bow my head in shame....
the world's first TiVo for radio
It creates MP3s from CDs that you play, not from the radio.
Indeed.
On a recent trip to Ireland I spent a great deal of time in the internet cafes to remind them what a great time I was having in Ireland, and they weren't. However, my emails and chats were full of typos because of the european layout for the keyboard.
It was interesting that I was using a keyboard designed for an english-speaking (okay, and Gaelic) country, but the keyboard could be that different. Of course the many pints of Guinness wasn't helping matters...
I respect the old guard at CBS news. They still hold the line on credibility.
Are you kidding? Dan Rather is the biggest publicity whore.
some sort funky case mod?
According to the article on CNN's web site, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, who rules in this case, is the most liberal and the most overturned appeals court in the U.S.
Costas DOTSLASH usdsers 6 0 billions mouse clics per yearly
We all want a piece of that 60 billion to fix the bugs!
Aliens have finally realized that New Mexico is not a great vacation spot
Actually, NM is an excellent vacation spot. Lots of mountains and lakes and cool desert places. (Hot in the summer, but still nifty).
My guess is that that the aliens went to Scotland to eat all that bland Scottish cooking after blowing their stomachs out from eating the green chile in NM!
I grew up with two Hams, and of course I was expected to get my Ham license, as well, but I was was disinclined to learn Morse code, which was a requirement for your novice class license.
IIRC, the morse code requirement has been dropped, I'm sure to replenish the attrition of Hams by old age.
since it seems to go on and on with all sorts of legalese and other crap for miles and miles as if he (the attorney) is quite pleased with the look or more likely the sound as he was dictating these letters.
:P
Or have I just described all attorneys?
Also, why solar power rather than the (cheaper, more reliable and higher-output) nuclear option?
Well, for one thing it requires moving a lot of (heavy) plutonium and/or uranium.
Also, in defense of the solor option, the moon doesn't have that annoying atmosphere to get in the way. Well it does have a tenuous atmosphere, if you want to split hairs...
If it helps...
I'm just curious why Wal-Mart all of the sudden has this affinity to sell computers without MS OSes or competing OSes....
And we could see products based on this during my grandchildrens lifetimes.
If the telcos buy the frequencies (likely), for sure.
To me the largest factor in determining whether the 1.0 release of something will be acceptable is time.
Given enough time for proper design and testing, a 1.0 release could be acceptable, but companies hiring consultants do not want to pay for the time, and companies that produce software for the general public have to rush products to market to beat company X, whose competing product is due for release, and (more importantly?) they need to please their stockholders.
Once in a while you get a Mozilla-type thing that takes forever, but puts out somthing worthwhile with 1.0.
Kick 'em when they're down, I say....
Leave out the middleman when it comes to distibuting viruses! Give it straight to your customers!
No, it doesn't support linix as an OS, but uses a parallel port to use an ATX motherboard using Linux as a disk drive.
Where is the obligatory Linux port?
Well, it's not like Linux-ers download everything else, rather than buy boxed versions.
Who buys the boxed version of RedHat or Mandrake or SuSE? I suppose a few people do, but the rest download the freakin' ISOs.
I guess it is nice to have a paper manual with glossy printing and all that...
Not coffee, BEER!
The topic of rumor spreading through the Internet is one of the main topics in a sci-fi-ish novel, "Killing Time", by Caleb Carr. His characters try to create such outlandish rumors on the Internet that the world's population will realize that you can't believe everything you read. Predictably, this leads to disaster...;)
An interesting quote from the book is: "Information is not knowledge."