It was, at least according to beardy weirdy Bryson. Aluminum was the original spelling and the British chose to make it sound more like other elements and call it Aluminium. In order to make their spelling stick, the British then colonised one quarter of the world.
Further you are comparing apples with oranges comparing a Mac to a PC
I object to your comparison between apples and oranges and Macs and PCs. Equating apples compared to oranges with Macs compared to PCs is like comparing comparisons between euphemisms with comparisons between idioms.
As to being register-starved... Again, that doesn't seem to hurt the performance of these chips that much.
I am pretty sure that in any modern x86 design the actual operation of the processor's registers is virtualized and accessing them is no faster or slower than accessing cached stack memory.
The SD Times is intelligently embracing a controversy in order to attract attention and increase its brand value. Getting a story on Slashdot mean they hit the jackpot.
I doubt anyone at the site actually considers SCO to be a worthy company. Editors really should be more aware of this kind of manipulation.
The US Army is world-famous for its ability to shoot down its allies and its own forces. It even invented the phrases "friendly fire" and "blue on blue" to describe it. I mean, what army needs two euphemisms for trigger-happiness?
Case in point: during D-Day all allied planes were marked with thick black and white stripes in the hope of reducing the level of fratricide.
You should not reinvent the wheel on user interface.
Imagine if the wheel had been square when it was first invented. Everything would be terrible. Cars would shake themselves apart. Bicycles would kill their riders. But people would say "don't re-invent the wheel" and so you'd be stuck with it.
Even if Aliens know the difference between right and wrong
I think the difference might be more fundamental than that. Human culture has come to adopt a structural system of meaning based on dichotomies such as right and wrong. This is a human construction - animals don't have dichotomies.
The reason the computer you are using right now is based on binary logic is our culture's prediliction for dichotomies.
There is no reason to assume that an alien civilisation would be based on dichotomies. They might - for example - be fuzzy logic thinkers who would not understand "right" and "wrong" as absolutes.
Also if you unwittingly give a trojan your username and password it might be a good idea to change them at the earliest opportunity. You don't know what else it has done with them.
NASA (ie: the Freemasons) wants people to believe the moon landings were faked. It's just like the whole tinfoil helmet hoax - the tinfoil actually makes it easier to read/control your thoughts.
Why did NASA want to get to the moon first? Because there was something there that both the Freemasons and the Knights Templar (ie: the Soviet Union) wanted. You think that the collapse of the USSR was just economics? Once the Freemasons had made it to the moon and retrieved the artifacts there, there was no longer any use for the Soviet Union and the Knights Templar abandoned it.
Why does NASA want you to think the moon landings were faked? Classic cover-up.
I don't even know what the sport is. I read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, so I do have a vague idea about balls, 'hammers'(?) and poles and such, but...
And I don't think I know people here in the Netherlands, Germany or Belgium that play or view cricket.
If you want to make a point you're really going to have to do better than list the things you don't know.
4. NTSC color was adopted due to the need to be backward-compatible with black and white TV sets in the 1950's. The Europeans never considered black and white compatibility with older sets when PAL and SECAM color was developed in the 1960's.
I missed one arbitrary difference: US mains is 60Hz, while most of the rest of the world is 50Hz. This ensured that - even if the whole world had agreed on a single TV specification - it would still be incompatible with the US.
Why is the US 110V 60Hz instead of 220V 50Hz? Because of Thomas Edison and his bizarre attempts to foist a DC system on the country.
The underlying aspect is that in America it is capitalism which determines standards and that capitalism often involves sticking it to your competitors and their customers. Look at the New York City subway map to see what happens when you rely on free-market competition to deliver a solution. See all those lines between the financial district and Brooklyn Heights? Those were the valuable routes, so you now have six parallel lines with virtually no interconnection. Ditto US cellphones in the 1990s.
In a BBC newsroom somewhere in west London:
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He also hopes that in the future it will be more widely used in architectural design and art restoration to make virtual buildings leap out of the computer screen.
Writer: Did you read that computer graphics piece? Editor: Hrmph. Writer: Is it going in? Editor: Does it mention things leaping out of the computer screen? Writer: No, it's about a rendering technique. Editor: The style book says, and I quote, "All stories refering to 3D computer graphics must include the phrase 'leaping out of the screen'" Writer: I guess I could tack it on at the end. It really wouldn't make sense though. Editor: No one will notice.
As a naive guy running a website before, I used to verify passwords that way. How do you avoid using an sql query that doesn't open the door for nasty hacks like this?
Yes, but if aother gyroscope fails, and both those modules fail, and any other measures to prevent the station from being doomed fail, then the station is doomed.
Second of all, I'd like to see a movie/series about the beginings of the borg. That would be a *GREAT*.
OK, here's my pitch:
Captain Data and Seven Out Of Ten are on their way to some long-deserved shore leave on an apparently paradise-like planet. A special anomaly suddenly appears and they travel into an alternative dimension - an evil one - where everyone has beards. Just as they are about to solve everything by using cronaton particles and a polaron beam, they get stuck on the holodeck in wild west outfits. They are captured by the evil sheriff - Q - who threatens them with a long telling off. It turns out that Q is possessed by the ghost of a long-dead (but English-speaking) civilisation. Just as time is about to run out - and they will be viciously shouted at - the Borg (ie: the good guys in this dimension) turn up and rescue them. Data and Seven return home by making a communicator out of sulphur, charcoal and potassium nitrate. The final words are "beam me up, spocky".
I have some drawings of Seven in a sexy wild west outfit if you think they would help.
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Or it may have been the other way around.
It was, at least according to beardy weirdy Bryson. Aluminum was the original spelling and the British chose to make it sound more like other elements and call it Aluminium. In order to make their spelling stick, the British then colonised one quarter of the world.
Excuse me, but can they stop overdesigning HTML? Its a freaking pseudo-layout language.
I agree with the pseudo part.
Further you are comparing apples with oranges comparing a Mac to a PC
I object to your comparison between apples and oranges and Macs and PCs. Equating apples compared to oranges with Macs compared to PCs is like comparing comparisons between euphemisms with comparisons between idioms.
As to being register-starved... Again, that doesn't seem to hurt the performance of these chips that much.
I am pretty sure that in any modern x86 design the actual operation of the processor's registers is virtualized and accessing them is no faster or slower than accessing cached stack memory.
"Mitigating" means reducing in severity.
The SD Times is intelligently embracing a controversy in order to attract attention and increase its brand value. Getting a story on Slashdot mean they hit the jackpot.
I doubt anyone at the site actually considers SCO to be a worthy company. Editors really should be more aware of this kind of manipulation.
Patent 4058738294:
Prevention of sleep apnea by means of a large sign affixed above the patient's bed bearing the message "REMEMBER TO BREATHE"
The US Army is world-famous for its ability to shoot down its allies and its own forces. It even invented the phrases "friendly fire" and "blue on blue" to describe it. I mean, what army needs two euphemisms for trigger-happiness?
Case in point: during D-Day all allied planes were marked with thick black and white stripes in the hope of reducing the level of fratricide.
You should not reinvent the wheel on user interface.
Imagine if the wheel had been square when it was first invented. Everything would be terrible. Cars would shake themselves apart. Bicycles would kill their riders. But people would say "don't re-invent the wheel" and so you'd be stuck with it.
Even if Aliens know the difference between right and wrong
I think the difference might be more fundamental than that. Human culture has come to adopt a structural system of meaning based on dichotomies such as right and wrong. This is a human construction - animals don't have dichotomies.
The reason the computer you are using right now is based on binary logic is our culture's prediliction for dichotomies.
There is no reason to assume that an alien civilisation would be based on dichotomies. They might - for example - be fuzzy logic thinkers who would not understand "right" and "wrong" as absolutes.
Also if you unwittingly give a trojan your username and password it might be a good idea to change them at the earliest opportunity. You don't know what else it has done with them.
Farnsworth also invented the Time Machine, thus allowing his 1935 invention to predate John Yogi Bear's 1927 patent.
NASA (ie: the Freemasons) wants people to believe the moon landings were faked. It's just like the whole tinfoil helmet hoax - the tinfoil actually makes it easier to read/control your thoughts.
Why did NASA want to get to the moon first? Because there was something there that both the Freemasons and the Knights Templar (ie: the Soviet Union) wanted. You think that the collapse of the USSR was just economics? Once the Freemasons had made it to the moon and retrieved the artifacts there, there was no longer any use for the Soviet Union and the Knights Templar abandoned it.
Why does NASA want you to think the moon landings were faked? Classic cover-up.
I don't even know what the sport is. I read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, so I do have a vague idea about balls, 'hammers'(?) and poles and such, but...
And I don't think I know people here in the Netherlands, Germany or Belgium that play or view cricket.
If you want to make a point you're really going to have to do better than list the things you don't know.
4. NTSC color was adopted due to the need to be backward-compatible with black and white TV sets in the 1950's. The Europeans never considered black and white compatibility with older sets when PAL and SECAM color was developed in the 1960's.
I missed one arbitrary difference: US mains is 60Hz, while most of the rest of the world is 50Hz. This ensured that - even if the whole world had agreed on a single TV specification - it would still be incompatible with the US.
Why is the US 110V 60Hz instead of 220V 50Hz? Because of Thomas Edison and his bizarre attempts to foist a DC system on the country.
The underlying aspect is that in America it is capitalism which determines standards and that capitalism often involves sticking it to your competitors and their customers. Look at the New York City subway map to see what happens when you rely on free-market competition to deliver a solution. See all those lines between the financial district and Brooklyn Heights? Those were the valuable routes, so you now have six parallel lines with virtually no interconnection. Ditto US cellphones in the 1990s.
He also hopes that in the future it will be more widely used in architectural design and art restoration to make virtual buildings leap out of the computer screen.
Writer: Did you read that computer graphics piece?
Editor: Hrmph.
Writer: Is it going in?
Editor: Does it mention things leaping out of the computer screen?
Writer: No, it's about a rendering technique.
Editor: The style book says, and I quote, "All stories refering to 3D computer graphics must include the phrase 'leaping out of the screen'"
Writer: I guess I could tack it on at the end. It really wouldn't make sense though.
Editor: No one will notice.
As a naive guy running a website before, I used to verify passwords that way. How do you avoid using an sql query that doesn't open the door for nasty hacks like this?
Compare the hash.
I've never understood why you use a for loop for something like that and not a "while (1)". Can someone clue me in?
while(1) sounds like the Queen talking.
Whether patents like this are the chicken or the egg[...]
Unless you're a creationist, the chicken came after the egg.
The art's in selling it, baby.
Yeah, but who decides what the major applications are?
On Windows: General Protection.
On OS X: Colonel Panic.
Yes, but if aother gyroscope fails, and both those modules fail, and any other measures to prevent the station from being doomed fail, then the station is doomed.
Will this be Star Trek 0? And thus not subject to the even/odd curse?
Zero is an even number.
Second of all, I'd like to see a movie/series about the beginings of the borg. That would be a *GREAT*.
OK, here's my pitch:
Captain Data and Seven Out Of Ten are on their way to some long-deserved shore leave on an apparently paradise-like planet. A special anomaly suddenly appears and they travel into an alternative dimension - an evil one - where everyone has beards. Just as they are about to solve everything by using cronaton particles and a polaron beam, they get stuck on the holodeck in wild west outfits. They are captured by the evil sheriff - Q - who threatens them with a long telling off. It turns out that Q is possessed by the ghost of a long-dead (but English-speaking) civilisation. Just as time is about to run out - and they will be viciously shouted at - the Borg (ie: the good guys in this dimension) turn up and rescue them. Data and Seven return home by making a communicator out of sulphur, charcoal and potassium nitrate. The final words are "beam me up, spocky".
I have some drawings of Seven in a sexy wild west outfit if you think they would help.