In kindergarten, my daughter's teacher asked them to name the largest number they knew, and my daughter answered a googol. The teacher said no, there was no such number. She came home disappointed. We talked about it at dinner and sent a nice note back to the teacher, referring her to a dictionary and pointing out that it was, in fact, a child who had come up with the name.
In my school that would be grounds for detention. I remember back in the day when my 10th grade math teacher declared, unequivicobly, that a particular type of quadratic trinomal equation could not be solved in your head without the intermediate steps, so anyone who did no "show thier work" was a cheater. I disagreed, as such I was forced to prove my assertation on the blackboard in front of the class. When I successfully worked it out in my head and wrote the answer I was given detention for insubbordination.
Holy fuck! I make that much in two weeks, and so do many of the people who read slashdot... Breakeven on those 500 CDs would be something like $6.40. Charge $10 each and that's $1,800 profit, easy. I, and many people like me, would'd be more than willing to pay $3,200 for production costs on a band that we like if we got an even 50/50 split of the profits... (Aw heck, how about a 95/5 split and you are still better off than going with a recording label!)
Rather than try to bring Microsoft to its knees so that others can compete, why don't we put more effort into actually creating competition?
I think Bill Gates himself has proven that it only takes someone in a garage with a damn good idea...
Ha ha ha ha ha... I haven't laughed so hard in a long, long time... Phew. Yes indeed, Bill Gates himself showed it only takes one guy in a garage with a damn good idea... and one other guy to bilk him out of it and liscense it to IBM.
I wouldn't mind a little sticker detailing how many local workers (whever the country) lost thier jobs to produce the product. Not becuase I give a shit about the jobs, just because I've found cheap, offshore work to be fairly shoddy and want to stay away.
Very simple... Choose a single platform, and stick to it... such as the following platform: "Should I win, all of the money in the treasury will go to the people who create electronic voting machines, and thier families"...and you are bound to win. People admire such focused ideals, and will vote for you. In fact, with such a platform, when the polls were tallied up, I can't imagine even a single person in the universe who would vote against you.
If there are suddenly 10 million tons of new gold or other minerals/metals available to the market from asteriod mining, the price will fall dramatically and you no longer have the economic incentives that you once perceived.
DeBeers would disagree.
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The only argument that manned spaceflight must be undertaken is that the Sun will eventually go nova and destroy the Earth
Because that is a far more likely event in the near future than total nuclear war or a rouge biological weapon decimating of human kind... Those things would just NEVER happen ever and since gum drops rain from the sky, why don't we just stay on earth and eat them forever?
Nice, law making officials have been put on the same level of discerning information as a class of high school freshman. This gives me great confidence in our legaslative bodies.
I KNOW! Isn't it great!?! I never in my life expected them to be as on the ball as high school kids.
I believe they do in fact help. I have been an avid quake rail gunner for years, and recently went to the shooting range for the first time. My aiming technique that I have developed over the years on the game turns out to work remarkably well in real life. My frist time at the range I consistantly showed perfect grouping and accuracy on a variaty of weapons from.45 handguns to 9mm rifles (didn't even need the scope). Either there is such a thing as a "natual" shot, or the game helped me a lot.
It's only Champagne if it's bottled in Champagne, France. Otherwise, it's sparkling wine.
Says who? The French who live in Champagne, France? What if I live in Champagne, Texas? What i I just wan to call my motor oil Champagne for the hell of it? Kleenex is "tissue" even if it's made by Puffs.
Just waiting for the day that a big crate of GTA CDs falls off a truck and crushes some little hatian boy to death... The "games kill" people will go nuts.
Wow! That is so cool that you were actually there to measure the length of a day! So, like, you've got a really good pension plan, right? Do you still have the same clock?
Or is this just more uniformitarian assumptions masquerading as science?
Oh no, he was there... I saw him. He was a total ass back then... knocking out all the hot women and dragging them back to his cave without even killing them dinner first. And, sonney, you think your leap-seconds are bad these days? Well, in my day, on the way to school we had to literally leap in the air for more than ten minutes to avoid the snapping jaws of the dinoraptors... and this was UP HILL leaps, in the SNOW... both ways!
Quake symbolizes mankind's need to repress the animal tendancies of the id and sub-ego with colorful high velocity projectiles fired from the rooftops of castles.
Ok, I'll bite - why not just insert a "sleep (10);" line into the connection response of sendmail (or qmail, or whatever MTA you are using)? By making the sender wait 10 seconds before delivery can begin, you get the same effect as a tar-pit...
Wouldn't work because usually a spammer isn't sending 10,000,000 emails to the same host, but instead 1 email to 10,000,000 hosts. While the spammer is waiting the ten seconds for the first host to finish, his CPU is now free to go and contact the second one, and the third, etc. MAYBE there would be a tiny slowdown when all 10,000,000 ten second pauses finish at roughly the same time and all of the spammers's threads begin to context switch each other, but really it's a very small price.
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In kindergarten, my daughter's teacher asked them to name the largest number they knew, and my daughter answered a googol. The teacher said no, there was no such number. She came home disappointed. We talked about it at dinner and sent a nice note back to the teacher, referring her to a dictionary and pointing out that it was, in fact, a child who had come up with the name.
In my school that would be grounds for detention. I remember back in the day when my 10th grade math teacher declared, unequivicobly, that a particular type of quadratic trinomal equation could not be solved in your head without the intermediate steps, so anyone who did no "show thier work" was a cheater. I disagreed, as such I was forced to prove my assertation on the blackboard in front of the class. When I successfully worked it out in my head and wrote the answer I was given detention for insubbordination.
$3200. That's a fucking FORTUNE to most people
Holy fuck! I make that much in two weeks, and so do many of the people who read slashdot... Breakeven on those 500 CDs would be something like $6.40. Charge $10 each and that's $1,800 profit, easy. I, and many people like me, would'd be more than willing to pay $3,200 for production costs on a band that we like if we got an even 50/50 split of the profits... (Aw heck, how about a 95/5 split and you are still better off than going with a recording label!)
Rather than try to bring Microsoft to its knees so that others can compete, why don't we put more effort into actually creating competition?
I think Bill Gates himself has proven that it only takes someone in a garage with a damn good idea...
Ha ha ha ha ha... I haven't laughed so hard in a long, long time... Phew. Yes indeed, Bill Gates himself showed it only takes one guy in a garage with a damn good idea... and one other guy to bilk him out of it and liscense it to IBM.
I wouldn't mind a little sticker detailing how many local workers (whever the country) lost thier jobs to produce the product. Not becuase I give a shit about the jobs, just because I've found cheap, offshore work to be fairly shoddy and want to stay away.
For the first time ascii images of the goatse guy are finally on topic!
In a republic, it is the public (Latin 'publica') that are ripped off.
But in a democracy, it is the people (Greek 'demos') that are ripped off.
If you had a classical education, you would understand these distinctions better.
Capitalism is man exploiting man. Socialism, however, is exactly the opposite.
is the U.S. a republic, or a democracy? whats the difference?
Tick question! Gotcha! It's a corporate oligarchy.
get the phone company to track it to the nearest tower and rive around that area for a few hours looking for something familar.
Very simple... Choose a single platform, and stick to it... such as the following platform: "Should I win, all of the money in the treasury will go to the people who create electronic voting machines, and thier families" ...and you are bound to win. People admire such focused ideals, and will vote for you. In fact, with such a platform, when the polls were tallied up, I can't imagine even a single person in the universe who would vote against you.
If there are suddenly 10 million tons of new gold or other minerals/metals available to the market from asteriod mining, the price will fall dramatically and you no longer have the economic incentives that you once perceived.
DeBeers would disagree.
The only argument that manned spaceflight must be undertaken is that the Sun will eventually go nova and destroy the Earth
Because that is a far more likely event in the near future than total nuclear war or a rouge biological weapon decimating of human kind... Those things would just NEVER happen ever and since gum drops rain from the sky, why don't we just stay on earth and eat them forever?
Nice, law making officials have been put on the same level of discerning information as a class of high school freshman. This gives me great confidence in our legaslative bodies.
I KNOW! Isn't it great!?! I never in my life expected them to be as on the ball as high school kids.
I believe they do in fact help. I have been an avid quake rail gunner for years, and recently went to the shooting range for the first time. My aiming technique that I have developed over the years on the game turns out to work remarkably well in real life. My frist time at the range I consistantly showed perfect grouping and accuracy on a variaty of weapons from .45 handguns to 9mm rifles (didn't even need the scope). Either there is such a thing as a "natual" shot, or the game helped me a lot.
and I'm nearly finished building a new wonder on the patio :)
Not if I finish it first!
for (int c=0;cMAX_BUFF;c++) {
That line was copied DIRECTLY from MY code!
He uses cheat codes!
... smaller is better.
This is quite possibly the only instance I can think of where this is true.
You've never been hit by a car.
It's only Champagne if it's bottled in Champagne, France. Otherwise, it's sparkling wine.
Says who? The French who live in Champagne, France? What if I live in Champagne, Texas? What i I just wan to call my motor oil Champagne for the hell of it? Kleenex is "tissue" even if it's made by Puffs.
Just waiting for the day that a big crate of GTA CDs falls off a truck and crushes some little hatian boy to death... The "games kill" people will go nuts.
Wow! That is so cool that you were actually there to measure the length of a day! So, like, you've got a really good pension plan, right? Do you still have the same clock?
Or is this just more uniformitarian assumptions masquerading as science?
Oh no, he was there... I saw him. He was a total ass back then... knocking out all the hot women and dragging them back to his cave without even killing them dinner first. And, sonney, you think your leap-seconds are bad these days? Well, in my day, on the way to school we had to literally leap in the air for more than ten minutes to avoid the snapping jaws of the dinoraptors... and this was UP HILL leaps, in the SNOW... both ways!
Quake symbolizes mankind's need to repress the animal tendancies of the id and sub-ego with colorful high velocity projectiles fired from the rooftops of castles.
Ok, I'll bite - why not just insert a "sleep (10);" line into the connection response of sendmail (or qmail, or whatever MTA you are using)? By making the sender wait 10 seconds before delivery can begin, you get the same effect as a tar-pit...
Wouldn't work because usually a spammer isn't sending 10,000,000 emails to the same host, but instead 1 email to 10,000,000 hosts. While the spammer is waiting the ten seconds for the first host to finish, his CPU is now free to go and contact the second one, and the third, etc. MAYBE there would be a tiny slowdown when all 10,000,000 ten second pauses finish at roughly the same time and all of the spammers's threads begin to context switch each other, but really it's a very small price.
Then you would lose it and it would be eaten by a snake.
I've heard of "Red touch yellow, kill a fellow. Red touch black, venom lack." But I'm not sure what to do about the color "syntactic white".
why do we *need* to do it, at least at this point in time?
For the exact same reason why we *needed* to jump into Iraq... i.e. we don't, but what the hell, it's something to do.
I'm sure it wouldn't take long, however I am sure it would be almost, but not entirely, unlike tea.