Why were there two Cylon operatives onboard a ship that was about to be decommissioned?
Why was there ONE and ONLY ONE Cylon operative at the munitions dump? Why was he just hanging out? He'd obviously been there long enough to blow the whole thing to Kingdom Come. Why leave ammo lying around for your enemy to scoop up?
Why was Boomer, a Cylon operative, so intimately involved in rescue operations - loading up survivors from Caprica, searching for other ships to join the convoy? Isn't the Cylon goal extermination of the Human race?
Maybe these are plot holes. Or, maybe Cylon motivation is not so simple. Maybe some Cylon faction deliberately left the door open for the Galactica.
Maybe all will be revealed if this is picked up as a series.
Just think about it for a second. If someone on the upper floors of the Twin Towers had had their wits about them, they could have ripped enough 10base5 cable from above the dropped ceilings to rappel all the way down to the ground.
The gun deaths per annum may be inflated. I haven't looked at the numbers lately. The traffic fatality number is accurate. Frightening, isn't it?
Google or search CNN for the most hazardous jobs in the United States. Long distance truck drivers and sales reps/delivery drivers are both up there in the top 10, because of their traffic exposure.
Traffic deaths and maimings (millions per year) are the giant purple elephant standing in the middle of the living room that nobody talks about.
I am quite certain that many people care about whether you were trying to kill them or if it was an accident.
Dead people don't care much about anything.
And how do you propose to commute fifty miles on a bike?
If you're not willing to accept the responsibilities and restrictions involved in driving a motor vehicle, then how you get to work is your problem, not society's. Maybe you could try not living so damned far away?
Who gives a flying fuck about the intent. Certainly the victims don't care whether you intended for them to die or were just too busy yacking on the cell phone, drinking a beer, eating a Whopper and changing CDs while steering with your foot at 80 mph to actually look at the road in front of you. Instead, let's look at the result.
10,000 people intentionally killed by guns a year.
40,000 people killed as a "side-effect" by motor vehicles a year. Most of these "accidents" were in fact crashes caused by drunk, reckless or just plain careless drivers. The remainder were insane, homicidal maniacs.
Using the highway for travel is a basic right under the Constitution and English Common Law (cites available if pressed.) However, driving an automobile is not a Constitutionally guaranteed mode of travel. It is sufficiently dangerous that the State has has a compelling interest in its regulation. That's why you need a LICENSE to drive. That's why you must REGISTER your vehicle. That's why in most localities you must be INSURED. If it will help lock up the scofflaws and put a brake on everyone's behavior on the PUBLIC roads, then I'm all for a black box that records vehicle dynamics during the minutes leading up to a collision.
Don't like it? Don't use two tons of hurtling metal to haul your ever-enlardening buttcheeks around town when a 30 lb bike does the job just fine. </RANT>
It's the test page for "anti-theft." Make sure you allow popups first. Right click on the image in the center of the screen, and select "block images from this server." Turn popup-blocking back on, and reload the page. Take that, Anti-Leech! *finger!*
The image source is a script that displays the image, pops up a popup, and then attempts to access the popup window through javascript. If that fails, then it kicks you to the denied page. However, if the "image" isn't fetched, the script doesn't run.
Anti-HTML "html encrypting"? Sure, you can't see the source using "view source," so Edit -> Select All, then right click on the highlighted area and select View Selection Source. Oops! There it is!
Anti-Image? Right-click, View Image, or Save Image As.
Do you really want a 1 cubic inch sized cell phone that you loose once a week and spend $200 to replace?
Yes. I want a 1 cubic inch sized cell phone with a watch strap. Then I won't ever lose it.
The Motorola T193 (a GSM Voicestream phone) I have is nicely sized - fits in the palm of my hand and pretty unobtrusively in my jacket pocket. It's not ridiculously small like the Nokia 8290. But I know I'm going to leave it somewhere and walk off without it eventually. I've never bought a PDA because I know it would suffer the same fate.
But put all of that (phone, PDA) in a watch case with decent voice recognition software, and you have a product that I'll sell your soul to buy.
Suppose I send a plain ol' text message, in which I mention http://www.kpmg.com in plain text, but the recipient's email client renders the url as a link. Who needs to get a link agreement - me, the recipient, or the company that wrote the email client?
Re:auto-shifting bicyle gears?
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GodSpiral writes:
who manufactures that?
Lots of manufacturers, but the products are all cheap, heavy and shift poorly. Having ridden one, I can tell you that they shift at the wrong times, and operate dangerously when you stand up out of the saddle. The newer push-button activated shifters manufactured by Shimano, Campagnolo and SRAM are far superior.
Back on topic, for short distances I'd rather walk. For longer distances, I'd rather ride my bike. I'm a longtime bicycle commuter who has ridden in the worst traffic in Albuquerque, Phoenix, El Paso and northwest England (Manchester). I know that I can legally use the roads on my bicycle, as a vehicle driver, more quickly and safely than I could as a "rolling pedestrian" on a Segway.
I'll accept your assertion that the chances of winning either case are negligable. However, consider that if you win a suit against xemacs/gdb you get Jamie Zawinski's couch and Richard Mlynarik's nose-goblin collection. If sue because Visual Studio is a steaming pile, and win, you get
ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!
</DR EVIL>
The iteration function in both Calc and Excel allow you to set a bound on the value change per iteration. In Calc, when the value of a cell changes less than the set bounding value, it stops at the previous value. In Excel, it shows the changed value even though the change is smaller than the specified bound.
Run this experiment. In Excel 2000, Go to Tools -> Options -> Calculations and set the Maximum Change value to 100, and use the values from the previous poster's spreadsheet. Even though any change is going to be smaller than 100, Excel will run one calculation and print the results anyway. You can "singlestep" (repeatedly hitting F9) through 20 iterations or so until you get 0 -.25 -.5 - 1.
In StarOffice Calc, it will run until you reach the boundary. It will not step past. That's why it doesn't converge any further when you hit recalculate.
I think the StarOffic behavior is better, because it allows you tighter control over the incremental values. If the last value where the change is > x is n, you have no idea how large the change at n+1 will be!
It would help if you actually knew how to use StarOffice. In the dialog box where you turned on iterations, set the smallest allowable change to
1*10^-20 or so instead of 0.0001, and then run your test case again.
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My bad - missed that. My kid kept interrupting me, wanting to play "Don't break the Ice" or "Ants in the Pants"
Damned kids, always distracting you from what's really important.
Why were there two Cylon operatives onboard a ship that was about to be decommissioned?
Why was there ONE and ONLY ONE Cylon operative at the munitions dump? Why was he just hanging out? He'd obviously been there long enough to blow the whole thing to Kingdom Come. Why leave ammo lying around for your enemy to scoop up?
Why was Boomer, a Cylon operative, so intimately involved in rescue operations - loading up survivors from Caprica, searching for other ships to join the convoy? Isn't the Cylon goal extermination of the Human race?
Maybe these are plot holes. Or, maybe Cylon motivation is not so simple. Maybe some Cylon faction deliberately left the door open for the Galactica.
Maybe all will be revealed if this is picked up as a series.
Check my history, dude. I never make tpyos.
Who mentioned Cat5 Cable? 10base5. You know - ThickNet, shielded coaxial cable? You could probably lift a pickup truck with that stuff.
Just think about it for a second. If someone on the upper floors of the Twin Towers had had their wits about them, they could have ripped enough 10base5 cable from above the dropped ceilings to rappel all the way down to the ground.
The gun deaths per annum may be inflated. I haven't looked at the numbers lately. The traffic fatality number is accurate. Frightening, isn't it?
Google or search CNN for the most hazardous jobs in the United States. Long distance truck drivers and sales reps/delivery drivers are both up there in the top 10, because of their traffic exposure.
Traffic deaths and maimings (millions per year) are the giant purple elephant standing in the middle of the living room that nobody talks about.
Dead people don't care much about anything.
And how do you propose to commute fifty miles on a bike?
If you're not willing to accept the responsibilities and restrictions involved in driving a motor vehicle, then how you get to work is your problem, not society's. Maybe you could try not living so damned far away?
Who gives a flying fuck about the intent. Certainly the victims don't care whether you intended for them to die or were just too busy yacking on the cell phone, drinking a beer, eating a Whopper and changing CDs while steering with your foot at 80 mph to actually look at the road in front of you. Instead, let's look at the result.
10,000 people intentionally killed by guns a year.
40,000 people killed as a "side-effect" by motor vehicles a year. Most of these "accidents" were in fact crashes caused by drunk, reckless or just plain careless drivers. The remainder were insane, homicidal maniacs.
Using the highway for travel is a basic right under the Constitution and English Common Law (cites available if pressed.) However, driving an automobile is not a Constitutionally guaranteed mode of travel. It is sufficiently dangerous that the State has has a compelling interest in its regulation. That's why you need a LICENSE to drive. That's why you must REGISTER your vehicle. That's why in most localities you must be INSURED.
If it will help lock up the scofflaws and put a brake on everyone's behavior on the PUBLIC roads, then I'm all for a black box that records vehicle dynamics during the minutes leading up to a collision.
Don't like it? Don't use two tons of hurtling metal to haul your ever-enlardening buttcheeks around town when a 30 lb bike does the job just fine.
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You're not culpable for every minute of your life - just those minutes when you kill someone else.
It's the test page for "anti-theft." Make sure you allow popups first. Right click on the image in the center of the screen, and select "block images from this server." Turn popup-blocking back on, and reload the page. Take that, Anti-Leech! *finger!*
The image source is a script that displays the image, pops up a popup, and then attempts to access the popup window through javascript. If that fails, then it kicks you to the denied page. However, if the "image" isn't fetched, the script doesn't run.
Anti-HTML "html encrypting"? Sure, you can't see the source using "view source," so Edit -> Select All, then right click on the highlighted area and select View Selection Source. Oops! There it is!
Anti-Image? Right-click, View Image, or Save Image As.
What a steaming pile of crap Anti-Leech is.
So what is your reason? That might help with the answer.
... like the body or the subject!)
How about just putting a single space in your subject?
Slashdot wouldn't accept this without a subject. here's the error message:
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
I would have missed the Shuttle otherwise!
Do you really want a 1 cubic inch sized cell phone that you loose once a week and spend $200 to replace?
Yes. I want a 1 cubic inch sized cell phone with a watch strap. Then I won't ever lose it.
The Motorola T193 (a GSM Voicestream phone) I have is nicely sized - fits in the palm of my hand and pretty unobtrusively in my jacket pocket. It's not ridiculously small like the Nokia 8290. But I know I'm going to leave it somewhere and walk off without it eventually. I've never bought a PDA because I know it would suffer the same fate.
But put all of that (phone, PDA) in a watch case with decent voice recognition software, and you have a product that I'll sell your soul to buy.
jvance
A clueless troll.
And the only things worse than a clueless troll are the mouth-breathing idiots who take the bait. Click on User Info. Look at posting history. Duh.
Suppose I send a plain ol' text message, in which I mention http://www.kpmg.com in plain text, but the recipient's email client renders the url as a link. Who needs to get a link agreement - me, the recipient, or the company that wrote the email client?
who manufactures that?
Lots of manufacturers, but the products are all cheap, heavy and shift poorly. Having ridden one, I can tell you that they shift at the wrong times, and operate dangerously when you stand up out of the saddle. The newer push-button activated shifters manufactured by Shimano, Campagnolo and SRAM are far superior.
Back on topic, for short distances I'd rather walk. For longer distances, I'd rather ride my bike. I'm a longtime bicycle commuter who has ridden in the worst traffic in Albuquerque, Phoenix, El Paso and northwest England (Manchester). I know that I can legally use the roads on my bicycle, as a vehicle driver, more quickly and safely than I could as a "rolling pedestrian" on a Segway.
I'll accept your assertion that the chances of winning either case are negligable. However, consider that if you win a suit against xemacs/gdb you get Jamie Zawinski's couch and Richard Mlynarik's nose-goblin collection. If sue because Visual Studio is a steaming pile, and win, you get
ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!
</DR EVIL>
So if Microsoft is the Gatekeeper, who is the Keymaster?
The iteration function in both Calc and Excel allow you to set a bound on the value change per iteration. In Calc, when the value of a cell changes less than the set bounding value, it stops at the previous value. In Excel, it shows the changed value even though the change is smaller than the specified bound.
.25 - .5 - 1.
Run this experiment. In Excel 2000, Go to Tools -> Options -> Calculations and set the Maximum Change value to 100, and use the values from the previous poster's spreadsheet. Even though any change is going to be smaller than 100, Excel will run one calculation and print the results anyway. You can "singlestep" (repeatedly hitting F9) through 20 iterations or so until you get 0 -
In StarOffice Calc, it will run until you reach the boundary. It will not step past. That's why it doesn't converge any further when you hit recalculate.
I think the StarOffic behavior is better, because it allows you tighter control over the incremental values. If the last value where the change is > x is n, you have no idea how large the change at n+1 will be!
It would help if you actually knew how to use StarOffice. In the dialog box where you turned on iterations, set the smallest allowable change to
1*10^-20 or so instead of 0.0001, and then run your test case again.
*Ahem*
(17 + 67)/2 != 33
I'll just add in this spurious sentence to mollify the lameness filter, which thinks that the above comment has too many capital letters.
> ...its pilot will be ripped to shreds.
Just like all the X-15 pilots, right?
The X-15 regularly exceeded Mach 6. It just didn't have a scramjet (as far as we know.)
If only we'd had this technology back in the '50s and '60s. Why, we could have nipped this whole "civil rights" insurgency in the bud!