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Why is that everytime an article of international scope is posted someone turns it into an attack against the US. The issue is not an unliked TLD, it is an oboslete TLD. Suppose that the Palestinians won in Israel (as far-fetched as it is) and Israel ceased to exist. Would you suggest not throwing out the Israeli TLD?
So you promise a user 1/6th a T1 for $29.95 a month, but it costs you $130 a month. In order for P2P to be a problem you must be lying to customers. What you are really doing is saying you are paying for a 256k symmetric service but if you exceed 47k in your actually usage, we will either A) kick you off our service, or B) block the program that is using bandwidth, or now by your proposal C) charge you more. So why promise 256k when you are really a 47k provider. Oh, but then they might as well go to a dial-up that actually promises real 53k speeds.
You have no right to promise a line that you are not willing to deliever.
Um.... the article clearly says it is an SLR... now interchangable lenses are most likely also part of it. As for under $1000 you'd be lucky to buy ANY digital SLR for under $1000
Cornstarch is a processed corn by-product consisting only of the starches in corn (hence cornstarch) It is an emulsifying agent (thickener), and used alot in making sauces. Unlike flour, cornstarch once it thickens the sauce is clear.
Cornflour, however is just ground corn in to a powder. It is used just as wheat flour. But it's major usages are in cornbread and corn tortillas.
I am an American, and I always despised the boredom that is American Football and Baseball.
While I was studying abroad, I was lucky to be in Europe during the World Cup season. I discovered that European Football is an exciting sport. It is truly the beautiful sport. Even after America lost, I still watched until the very end.
There used to be a LAN game place in San Antonio, but the demand was too low and their prices too high, so they got rid of the LAN gaming part and just bought more Arcade machines. Since then however (this was like Quake I days) the places have gone out of business.
Additionally, most Internet Cafes in Poland and have games installed so that you and your friends can go LAN game on their machines. Generally, Half Life, and Q3 are the games of choice.
I recieved assistance from Adrian Thompson with a Genetic Programming project I did for school a few years ago, he gave me several of his papers to read as background information.
One of his papers told about circuits that seemed impossible, until one realized that the circuits where manipulated the physics of silicon. Electrons would jump bridges between seemingly discontinuous circuitry.
Unforatunately, if the temperature was decreased the distance an electron could jump was smaller, and the circuit would not work.
Since when does the frequency of operations have anything to do with the number of transitors? I can make a 1 transitor chip that runs it's 1 operation (say a NAND-Gate) at 1 Terrahertz. But what good would that be?
Users with slow connections deserve to pay. Broadband is cheaper in most places in the US now then getting a second phone line and an ISP esp. if you are one of those people still using MSN or AOL.
First off, the NASA problem was not NASA's fault, the supplier did their mesaurements in Standard and did not label their units. NASA operated in Metric and assumed that their contractors would be complying to NASA's metric policy.
Now as for the Anti-American bashing this seems to be the standard response from most people when a conversation about anything that occurs inside America is struck up on/.
When you get down on it, 1) Most Americans don't give a damn what you think about them, because you do not live there. 2) Why should Americans care about other internal problems they are others not theirs. 3) The American media system focuses on domestic issues. While the rest of the world focuses on international issues.
Now back to the real issue here: Metric is SI English is also known as Standard. I know you are coming from the standpoint that "oh, only the Americans use standard therefore the traditional name of English doesn't apply."
But to call Metric, English is ridiculous since the system was invented by the French during the Revolution as a way to distance the Republic from their Imperial past. While the Standard system was invented by the English.
Additionally, the idea that America alone has not fully converted (and America has converted in some aspects but is still mostly Standard) is not true either. Some Imperial measurements are still in use in Canada. And, if you ever watch British television, frequently people speak of Standard measurements, such as the yard or foot or inch.
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I was just wondering how Piers Anthony's switch to Linux and SO would affect me?
If some insightful reason is given, it is probably not much diffrent than any of the number of reasons in "In The Beginning There Was Command Line..." by Stephenson. Additionally, although I am a SO user and I do run a Redhat 7.2 box next to my WinXP box. I am a Computer Scientist and have my own reasons to use alternative software.
But I guess the point is if someone reads this article and switches to Linux because "Piers Anthony says so." How is that any diffrent from buying a Intel-based Compaq with Windows XP because the Commercial says it is the best.
I just think the Linux community should convince people to switch because they have a compelling reason or superior product that meets a person's needs, not because a famous writer uses it.
Last time I checked South Africa was not a 3rd world nation. In fact I have heard the term "regional superpower" used many times. I just spent a month in Poland, which is a second world nation (although quickly approaching first), the only real diffrence that I saw was that the proliferation of industrialization and modernization ended when you went to the countryside or with the poor as opposed to America where even people living below the "poverty line" have a car and a television set. Additionally, infrastructure was diffrent. Poland is still lacking a extensive highway system, unlike the rest of Europe.
> Only a few of the first year courses (where you > learn MS Office or Java) are done on windows.
You learn Office in a computer science program? You must be joking.
>If we (students) tried to do some sort of major >design project at my school using windows as the >platform to run it, we would be fried to a crisp >by the profs for it. This prof often talked >about how he avoids MS products like the plague >because of unreliability and bugs.
The prof's at A&M tend to be the same way. My Databases class was tought using Oracle 8i in Solaris without X. Our Intro Class and Data Structures class are Java and C (no ++) under Solaris. Later on we take an OS class where we are required to write our own OS. The majority of the time the OSes turn out to be nothing but another flavor of Linux or BSD.
Americans may be many things but we are a very clean people actually. Most Americans shower at least once a day, some out their shower twice. Thats one thing the Americans are if nothing else, clean. Well except if your refurring to pollution. And then we are average.
Bonus Army = Broken up by tanks
Strikes = Broken up by Marines and Strikebeakers
Unions = Broken up by litigation
At least we're only using tear gas now.
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Why is that everytime an article of international scope is posted someone turns it into an attack against the US. The issue is not an unliked TLD, it is an oboslete TLD. Suppose that the Palestinians won in Israel (as far-fetched as it is) and Israel ceased to exist. Would you suggest not throwing out the Israeli TLD?
So you promise a user 1/6th a T1 for $29.95 a month, but it costs you $130 a month. In order for P2P to be a problem you must be lying to customers. What you are really doing is saying you are paying for a 256k symmetric service but if you exceed 47k in your actually usage, we will either A) kick you off our service, or B) block the program that is using bandwidth, or now by your proposal C) charge you more. So why promise 256k when you are really a 47k provider. Oh, but then they might as well go to a dial-up that actually promises real 53k speeds.
You have no right to promise a line that you are not willing to deliever.
My university has the most common P2P ports throttled thanks to a home brew firewire that allows them to set the max transfer rate on specific ports.
The United States has a law that obligates all Americans abroad to follow U.S. Law.
I have never seen this happen with a DeskJet printer. Maybe those are faulty printers. Or more likely are you recycling your cartridges?
Um.... the article clearly says it is an SLR... now interchangable lenses are most likely also part of it. As for under $1000 you'd be lucky to buy ANY digital SLR for under $1000
So what do they call flour made out of corn?
Cornstarch is a processed corn by-product consisting only of the starches in corn (hence cornstarch) It is an emulsifying agent (thickener), and used alot in making sauces. Unlike flour, cornstarch once it thickens the sauce is clear.
Cornflour, however is just ground corn in to a powder. It is used just as wheat flour. But it's major usages are in cornbread and corn tortillas.
I am an American, and I always despised the boredom that is American Football and Baseball.
While I was studying abroad, I was lucky to be in Europe during the World Cup season. I discovered that European Football is an exciting sport. It is truly the beautiful sport. Even after America lost, I still watched until the very end.
What really matters is where did all of their wonderful programmers, engineers, and designers go.
Did they stay on with the new owners?
Did they start their own companies?
Does anyone know?
There used to be a LAN game place in San Antonio, but the demand was too low and their prices too high, so they got rid of the LAN gaming part and just bought more Arcade machines. Since then however (this was like Quake I days) the places have gone out of business.
Additionally, most Internet Cafes in Poland and have games installed so that you and your friends can go LAN game on their machines. Generally, Half Life, and Q3 are the games of choice.
In San Antonio, TX the Nickle Arcade of choice is "Larz Land"
I recieved assistance from Adrian Thompson with a Genetic Programming project I did for school a few years ago, he gave me several of his papers to read as background information.
One of his papers told about circuits that seemed impossible, until one realized that the circuits where manipulated the physics of silicon. Electrons would jump bridges between seemingly discontinuous circuitry.
Unforatunately, if the temperature was decreased the distance an electron could jump was smaller, and the circuit would not work.
So is a Suicidial human not alive? Since they do not have a desire for self-preservation.
Since when does the frequency of operations have anything to do with the number of transitors? I can make a 1 transitor chip that runs it's 1 operation (say a NAND-Gate) at 1 Terrahertz. But what good would that be?
One Word: MIPS
What matter is quality of computations not quality.
It is easy to defeat the epistemic problem you are trying to provide with you .sig
.sig is false, since the line is false it does not imply that all lines with a > are false just that particular line.
It just happens that the
such as the statement: "Everyone is Male"
Is not true if everyone in the room is Male.
Users with slow connections deserve to pay.
Broadband is cheaper in most places in the US now then getting a second phone line and an ISP esp. if you are one of those people still using MSN or AOL.
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First off, the NASA problem was not NASA's fault, the supplier did
their mesaurements in Standard and did not label their units. NASA
operated in Metric and assumed that their contractors would be
complying to NASA's metric policy.
Now as for the Anti-American bashing this seems to be the standard
response from most people when a conversation about anything that
occurs inside America is struck up on
When you get down on it, 1) Most Americans don't give a damn what you
think about them, because you do not live there. 2) Why should
Americans care about other internal problems they are others not
theirs. 3) The American media system focuses on domestic issues.
While the rest of the world focuses on international issues.
Now back to the real issue here:
Metric is SI
English is also known as Standard.
I know you are coming from the standpoint that "oh, only the
Americans use standard therefore the traditional name of English
doesn't apply."
But to call Metric, English is ridiculous since the system was
invented by the French during the Revolution as a way to distance the
Republic from their Imperial past. While the Standard system was
invented by the English.
Additionally, the idea that America alone has not fully converted
(and America has converted in some aspects but is still mostly
Standard) is not true either. Some Imperial measurements are still in
use in Canada. And, if you ever watch British television, frequently
people speak of Standard measurements, such as the yard or foot or
inch.
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I was just wondering how Piers Anthony's switch to Linux and SO would affect me?
If some insightful reason is given, it is probably not much diffrent than any of the number of reasons in "In The Beginning There Was Command Line..." by Stephenson. Additionally, although I am a SO user and I do run a Redhat 7.2 box next to my WinXP box. I am a Computer Scientist and have my own reasons to use alternative software.
But I guess the point is if someone reads this article and switches to Linux because "Piers Anthony says so." How is that any diffrent from buying a Intel-based Compaq with Windows XP because the Commercial says it is the best.
I just think the Linux community should convince people to switch because they have a compelling reason or superior product that meets a person's needs, not because a famous writer uses it.
Last time I checked South Africa was not a 3rd world nation. In fact I have heard the term "regional superpower" used many times. I just spent a month in Poland, which is a second world nation (although quickly approaching first), the only real diffrence that I saw was that the proliferation of industrialization and modernization ended when you went to the countryside or with the poor as opposed to America where even people living below the "poverty line" have a car and a television set. Additionally, infrastructure was diffrent. Poland is still lacking a extensive highway system, unlike the rest of Europe.
PLBogen
Or perhaps they are from an English speaking 3rd world nation like South Africa.
> Only a few of the first year courses (where you > learn MS Office or Java) are done on windows.
You learn Office in a computer science program? You must be joking.
>If we (students) tried to do some sort of major >design project at my school using windows as the >platform to run it, we would be fried to a crisp >by the profs for it. This prof often talked >about how he avoids MS products like the plague >because of unreliability and bugs.
The prof's at A&M tend to be the same way. My Databases class was tought using Oracle 8i in Solaris without X. Our Intro Class and Data Structures class are Java and C (no ++) under Solaris. Later on we take an OS class where we are required to write our own OS. The majority of the time the OSes turn out to be nothing but another flavor of Linux or BSD.
Americans may be many things but we are a very clean people actually. Most Americans shower at least once a day, some out their shower twice. Thats one thing the Americans are if nothing else, clean. Well except if your refurring to pollution. And then we are average.
I beg to differ I am a NIN fan and I keep my room at a wonderful 68 degrees. Everyone else thinks it's freezing though
Bonus Army = Broken up by tanks Strikes = Broken up by Marines and Strikebeakers Unions = Broken up by litigation At least we're only using tear gas now.