there used to be a poster crusading around these parts doing nothing but point out the loose/lose thing to posters who used loose instead of lose. Sadly, he went on hiatus for a few months, came back, then left again, and will reach two years of being MIA next month.
easy and free: figure out a few words in sequence, enter them into google using quotes, add the word lyrics outside teh quotes, and you can usually get the full song info quite easily.
if the song is stuck in your head, lyrics should be little trouble
i think the photos are at least 3 years behind current times. A park project on my old college campus that (IIRC) took place around spring 2002 shows up as the ugly mess it used to be. (ok, so the finished project is also ugly, but that's besides the point)
oh, this is just the start of it. CmdrTaco hasnt yet begun with the duplicate, triplicate, and quadruplicate posting. Just remember the best thing to do is to keep those memories repressed when the day ends. That includes the evil bit fiasco of 2003.
sadly, i hit tears once, and I'm computer savvy. I inadvertantly blew away an entire partition with years of stuff on it, including school work. Not quite sure how I did it, but it happened, and I had no backups. I actually succumed to calling my dad over it for parental-type comforting. (I couldnt call mom, she's not computer savvy)
In the end, I got a little lucky. My school work for the semester turned out to be stored on another partition (probably because the blown away part was getting full), and that this also happened during spring break. My work from previous semesters were gone (I never backed them up), but I was in my last semester and all that turned out to be unneeded. I also had stuff stored on the CS Dept's UNIX boxes, so was at least able to recover CS materials so that I can have them for reference if I do grad school someday.
All I had lost that was of value was an mp3 collection built up to about 3 gigs over 4+ years, most of it simply obtained directly from my CDs, the rest were songs that were starting to become dated anyway, so it wasnt anything close to a total loss.
Oh, and my g/f's stuff was lost too, but we had broken a month prior, so that wasnt really much of a loss anyway.
"Institution" was a phrase applied to a facility I had to visit as part of a college Criminology course - a prison. Interesting experience, if you ever have a chance to go (say, as part of a religious group or other volunteer group, preferably not as an inmate), do it.
MS has something like $40 billion in cash lying around in their bank accounts. $5m/day * 365 days/year = $1.825 billion/year. I think MS can afford it with little trouble, and the amount is small enough it'll get treated as cost of doing business. A _much_ larger amount per day might get their attention.
you only want to know how long, you say? easy. just look for the stamp or sticker that gives the date of insta... oh, wait, you said you were outside the US? nevermind then....
shortest license I ever saw was the "Beerware" license. Went something like this:
Copyright (c) xxxx Joe Q Programmer. Permission granted to use this thing however you want, subject to the condition that if you see me on the street, you buy me a beer.
I had downloaded a beta version many years ago (1999?) and got a BSOD style error, to which I reported to him the full error message and what I had done ahead of that. He emailed me back a day or two later saying he fixed it, and to download an updated (but still beta) version. First (and I think it's still the only) time I ever saw a BSOD source get eliminated.
yeah, parental groups can easily say there's 60%+ with violent "themes". Their definition includes anything where something blows up, gets killed, burned, etc. Even the original Super Mario Bros and Legend of Zelda fall under their definition. We all know why they do it, so I wont waste teh space here. But things like this 18% of all sales are of M games is something that needs to be brought up, especially since it's firm fact, whereas the 60-90% figures are based on subjective measures. Unfortunately, the propogandist isn't interested in fact, they're more interested in public opinion.
Ken Jennings? Well, his brain is kinda like software.
I'm not so sure. His brain appears to have the ability to recall information in a time better than O(1), although it does goof on occasion and return the incorrect response.
I dont think a computer bug is likely to be the cause of vials of poison being accidently sent to patients. Human error might strike first in the form of someone refilling the machine with the incorrect drugs. Instead of replacing a canister of Drug A with a new canister of A, an orderly accidently hooks up Drug G. Result could be a dead patient who needed Drug A and got G instead.
As an analogy - stores like Loews have a machine that mixes paint to the customer's desired color. The machine starts with a base color (eg, pure white) and adds various amounts of red, blue, yellow, black, etc to the can to get the desired color. A similar error here would be replacing an empty blue canister with a red canister. The error likely wont be noticed until someone gets a can of paint that required the blue mix. At least this would be easy to track down when the store employee goes to check the paint color before selling the paint.
Philadelphia I can guarantee does not have this thing, but they have done some things to help. Chestnut and Walnut Streets are each three lane one-way streets that span the city from Front St (aka 1st) all the way to 63rd. They're big throughways for rush hour traffic into and out of Center City.
The traffic lights in the city are just plain old and the vast majority still run off mechanical timers and switches. If you're standing near one (ie, about to cross on foot) you'll hear the clunk inside the box. Very few lights (if any) operate off sensory equipment.
Anyways, along Walnut and Chestnut, from about 38th to 63rd for Walnut, 63rd inbound to 29th for Chestnut, the lights are "timed" such that you can quickly go from one end to the other without hitting red more than once or twice. There's no central controller, each individual light is calibrated. It works great, except of course when power goes out or one of those mechanical switchs get jammed, thowing a timer out of whack.
agreed. It's one thing I was looking forward to yesterday on top of stepping into the booth. The negative ads were getting on my nerves back in September.
But even with all those ads - I read one article where a woman said the most important issue to her was the "war in Iran." I guess it's still possible in today's world to safely live under a rock.
Further (in the same article listing some election-day funnies) - a pre-recorded phone call with Bill Clinton asking people to vote "tomorrow" was still going out yesterday morning in parts of Pennsylvania.
You mentioned a website to be developed. One of best pieces of advice i've heard regarding websites (iirc, it was from the useit.com guy) - people (aka, customers) spend their most of their time on other websites. In other words, dont do anything that's out of the ordinary.
One way to do this is to identify a competitor of yours, check out their site. Make notes of what's good and what's bad about it, and what you can do to improve upon the bad.
You can also ride the Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags Great Adventure after riding the ride this article describes! When it was built - it was the tallest/fastest worldwide (Cedar Point took their title back the following year)
IMO - the change in launch allows speeds faster than those permitted by the forces of gravity required for traditional coasters. something tells me the physical space required for a tall incline and first drop are reaching their limits, thus limiting the speeds those coasters can produce.
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there used to be a poster crusading around these parts doing nothing but point out the loose/lose thing to posters who used loose instead of lose. Sadly, he went on hiatus for a few months, came back, then left again, and will reach two years of being MIA next month.
easy and free: figure out a few words in sequence, enter them into google using quotes, add the word lyrics outside teh quotes, and you can usually get the full song info quite easily.
if the song is stuck in your head, lyrics should be little trouble
i think the photos are at least 3 years behind current times. A park project on my old college campus that (IIRC) took place around spring 2002 shows up as the ugly mess it used to be. (ok, so the finished project is also ugly, but that's besides the point)
maybe they actually were taking aeriel satellite photos last Friday. Has google pulled another GMail-like fast one on us all?
it's bad enough waiting for traditional Gentoo to compile under normal circumstances, now I gotta wait for GeNToo to compile me a kernel too!?
Registration Required, but at least that's better than cash:
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http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial
oh, this is just the start of it. CmdrTaco hasnt yet begun with the duplicate, triplicate, and quadruplicate posting. Just remember the best thing to do is to keep those memories repressed when the day ends. That includes the evil bit fiasco of 2003.
sadly, i hit tears once, and I'm computer savvy. I inadvertantly blew away an entire partition with years of stuff on it, including school work. Not quite sure how I did it, but it happened, and I had no backups. I actually succumed to calling my dad over it for parental-type comforting. (I couldnt call mom, she's not computer savvy)
In the end, I got a little lucky. My school work for the semester turned out to be stored on another partition (probably because the blown away part was getting full), and that this also happened during spring break. My work from previous semesters were gone (I never backed them up), but I was in my last semester and all that turned out to be unneeded. I also had stuff stored on the CS Dept's UNIX boxes, so was at least able to recover CS materials so that I can have them for reference if I do grad school someday.
All I had lost that was of value was an mp3 collection built up to about 3 gigs over 4+ years, most of it simply obtained directly from my CDs, the rest were songs that were starting to become dated anyway, so it wasnt anything close to a total loss.
Oh, and my g/f's stuff was lost too, but we had broken a month prior, so that wasnt really much of a loss anyway.
"Institution" was a phrase applied to a facility I had to visit as part of a college Criminology course - a prison. Interesting experience, if you ever have a chance to go (say, as part of a religious group or other volunteer group, preferably not as an inmate), do it.
MS has something like $40 billion in cash lying around in their bank accounts. $5m/day * 365 days/year = $1.825 billion/year. I think MS can afford it with little trouble, and the amount is small enough it'll get treated as cost of doing business. A _much_ larger amount per day might get their attention.
what will become CmdrTaco's new reason to not use a macintosh?
you only want to know how long, you say? easy. just look for the stamp or sticker that gives the date of insta ... oh, wait, you said you were outside the US? nevermind then....
shortest license I ever saw was the "Beerware" license. Went something like this:
Copyright (c) xxxx Joe Q Programmer. Permission granted to use this thing however you want, subject to the condition that if you see me on the street, you buy me a beer.
the Dilbert Ultimate Cubicle
Complete with lighting that simulates the sun moving across the sky as the day goes along.
I had downloaded a beta version many years ago (1999?) and got a BSOD style error, to which I reported to him the full error message and what I had done ahead of that. He emailed me back a day or two later saying he fixed it, and to download an updated (but still beta) version. First (and I think it's still the only) time I ever saw a BSOD source get eliminated.
yeah, parental groups can easily say there's 60%+ with violent "themes". Their definition includes anything where something blows up, gets killed, burned, etc. Even the original Super Mario Bros and Legend of Zelda fall under their definition. We all know why they do it, so I wont waste teh space here. But things like this 18% of all sales are of M games is something that needs to be brought up, especially since it's firm fact, whereas the 60-90% figures are based on subjective measures. Unfortunately, the propogandist isn't interested in fact, they're more interested in public opinion.
wow. the mpaa discovered how to use ls and grep.
Ken Jennings? Well, his brain is kinda like software.
I'm not so sure. His brain appears to have the ability to recall information in a time better than O(1), although it does goof on occasion and return the incorrect response.
Really, any developer worth their weight
but what about them skinny developers? Dont they have any worth?
I dont think a computer bug is likely to be the cause of vials of poison being accidently sent to patients. Human error might strike first in the form of someone refilling the machine with the incorrect drugs. Instead of replacing a canister of Drug A with a new canister of A, an orderly accidently hooks up Drug G. Result could be a dead patient who needed Drug A and got G instead.
As an analogy - stores like Loews have a machine that mixes paint to the customer's desired color. The machine starts with a base color (eg, pure white) and adds various amounts of red, blue, yellow, black, etc to the can to get the desired color. A similar error here would be replacing an empty blue canister with a red canister. The error likely wont be noticed until someone gets a can of paint that required the blue mix. At least this would be easy to track down when the store employee goes to check the paint color before selling the paint.
Philadelphia I can guarantee does not have this thing, but they have done some things to help. Chestnut and Walnut Streets are each three lane one-way streets that span the city from Front St (aka 1st) all the way to 63rd. They're big throughways for rush hour traffic into and out of Center City.
The traffic lights in the city are just plain old and the vast majority still run off mechanical timers and switches. If you're standing near one (ie, about to cross on foot) you'll hear the clunk inside the box. Very few lights (if any) operate off sensory equipment.
Anyways, along Walnut and Chestnut, from about 38th to 63rd for Walnut, 63rd inbound to 29th for Chestnut, the lights are "timed" such that you can quickly go from one end to the other without hitting red more than once or twice. There's no central controller, each individual light is calibrated. It works great, except of course when power goes out or one of those mechanical switchs get jammed, thowing a timer out of whack.
agreed. It's one thing I was looking forward to yesterday on top of stepping into the booth. The negative ads were getting on my nerves back in September.
But even with all those ads - I read one article where a woman said the most important issue to her was the "war in Iran." I guess it's still possible in today's world to safely live under a rock.
Further (in the same article listing some election-day funnies) - a pre-recorded phone call with Bill Clinton asking people to vote "tomorrow" was still going out yesterday morning in parts of Pennsylvania.
You mentioned a website to be developed. One of best pieces of advice i've heard regarding websites (iirc, it was from the useit.com guy) - people (aka, customers) spend their most of their time on other websites. In other words, dont do anything that's out of the ordinary.
One way to do this is to identify a competitor of yours, check out their site. Make notes of what's good and what's bad about it, and what you can do to improve upon the bad.
YABT. YHL. HAND.
You can also ride the Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags Great Adventure after riding the ride this article describes! When it was built - it was the tallest/fastest worldwide (Cedar Point took their title back the following year)
IMO - the change in launch allows speeds faster than those permitted by the forces of gravity required for traditional coasters. something tells me the physical space required for a tall incline and first drop are reaching their limits, thus limiting the speeds those coasters can produce.