yes, I can honestly say that MUDs were the reason for me basically failing a semester or two of college. Of course nowadays, I just spend all day at work reading slashdot which is not much better:-)
yes, the Handbook was a great bit of DNA's humo(u)r. I loved the bit about how nobody ever managed to finish more than about the first third, so the rest of the pages were left blank to save printing costs.
Yeah, this is the more annoying thing than the business with the $2 bills. Since they had a verbal agreement, he should take it to small claims court. They probably won't show up, and even if they do, the judge will probably find in his favor since they did say they would waive the fee.
Also in the metro Washington DC area, Verizon has cell sites for their CDMA-2000 network in the subway tunnels, so they are the only carrier that gets a signal in the trains when they are underground. Since I commute from MD to VA every day via the subway, it was very tempting for me to get a Verizon phone, but they are just so much more expensive than Cingular. Also, I stuck with Cingular because I can get a quad-band GSM phone and have pretty good coverage in most of the world.
Thank you. This is quite interesting to me, and I am almost 100% sure that the only proof I knew of was the Appel and Haken one then. I remember seeing a video on it, and it was all ancient computer tech.
If I recall correctly from my discrete math class, the Four Color Theorem was proved with a relatively simple proof. The computer was not really used for the proof itself, but instead to exhaustively enumerate all the possible cases. It was a proof by exhaustion of the entire problem space.
But even the Star is afforded protection under the law. They also can be sued for libel if they print something false and detrimental to somebody, the same as the Times.
Yes, it was pretty neat to watch the landing, because it was gliding so much that even with the chute, it would get close to the runway, and ground effect would pick it up a few feet.
as far as online gaming goes, I've been playing spades on http://pogo.com/ for a while, and am pretty happy with them. They have a lot of games, card and otherwise, and you don't have to get lynched for bringing up msn:-) Also, http://games.yahoo.com/ has a bunch of good games, but they seem to me to be not quite as poliched as the pogo ones.
PS: Humans have seven senses anyway: the optical sense (eye), the acoustic sense (ear), the taste sense (tongue), the smell sense (nose), the tactile sense (skin), the thermic sense (skin too) and the balance sense (inner ear). If you want to get pedantic, you can even difference the optical sense into the brightness sense and the color sense (which are recorded by different types of cells in the retina).
There is also a sense, I forget what the name is, of where your body's parts are. I think sometimes it is grouped in with the tactile sense (which itself also includes the pressure (touch) sense and the pain sense). I remember reading about a guy who lost this sense, and had to walk, sit, etc., by looking at his legs and conciously determining what to move where.
Insurance policies "make you whole" after some unforseen circumstance occurs. Your car insurance covers your liabilities in the event of an accident or other event. It does not fix your broken timing belt or leaky radiator.
It depends on the level of coverage. With my insurance company (USAA), I had the choice of a variety of coverage, ranging from minimum required liability, to collision, to comprehensive. The comprehensive coverage also includes such things as mechanical problems, etc.
Any time that you call and they say, "this call may be monitored or recorded for quality purposes" or something like that, they have explicitly given their consent for recording of the conversation. You (by remaining on the line) are giving implicit consent. Therefore, anytime they say that, you are legally permitted to record. They don't always say that, but when they do, go for it.
I once implemented a system like this, using a postgresql database as the "message queue". I had clients insert requests into the database, and the server watching the database to get the transactions out. I used postgresql's listen syntax, as well as triggers on insertion/update of the database. It worked pretty well, given the fact that I had basically no idea what I was doing. I decided to use a database so I didn't have to worry about concurrency, etc. It was completely asynchronous, and atomic. Either a request was totally inserted into the queue, or it wasn't, and the client would know that the insert failed (database down, etc.) In addition, once the server completed a task, it would mark the transaction as completed.
not to mention my personal favorite, Firefox's page info, which includes a media section with all the videos, images, objects, etc in a page that you can directly download.
well, it happened in basically the way you'd expect. I had set the glass of orange juice on top of the set and accidentally bumped the glass. As for the smell, no I am not sure, but I have never smelled that exact smell before or since.
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yes, I can honestly say that MUDs were the reason for me basically failing a semester or two of college. Of course nowadays, I just spend all day at work reading slashdot which is not much better :-)
makes sense to me. That's how radar-detector-detectors work. An RF receiver is a tuned harmonic oscillator after all.
yes, the Handbook was a great bit of DNA's humo(u)r. I loved the bit about how nobody ever managed to finish more than about the first third, so the rest of the pages were left blank to save printing costs.
It's not a PO box. It could be a Mailboxes Etc. type of business though.
However, to overcome entropy requires not just energy, but also information.
Yeah, this is the more annoying thing than the business with the $2 bills. Since they had a verbal agreement, he should take it to small claims court. They probably won't show up, and even if they do, the judge will probably find in his favor since they did say they would waive the fee.
Also in the metro Washington DC area, Verizon has cell sites for their CDMA-2000 network in the subway tunnels, so they are the only carrier that gets a signal in the trains when they are underground. Since I commute from MD to VA every day via the subway, it was very tempting for me to get a Verizon phone, but they are just so much more expensive than Cingular. Also, I stuck with Cingular because I can get a quad-band GSM phone and have pretty good coverage in most of the world.
Thank you. This is quite interesting to me, and I am almost 100% sure that the only proof I knew of was the Appel and Haken one then. I remember seeing a video on it, and it was all ancient computer tech.
If I recall correctly from my discrete math class, the Four Color Theorem was proved with a relatively simple proof. The computer was not really used for the proof itself, but instead to exhaustively enumerate all the possible cases. It was a proof by exhaustion of the entire problem space.
according to this article, 26 people have survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. So it is not guaranteed either.
exactly. It is illegal, not so they can execute you, but so they don't have to pay.
But even the Star is afforded protection under the law. They also can be sued for libel if they print something false and detrimental to somebody, the same as the Times.
Yes, it was pretty neat to watch the landing, because it was gliding so much that even with the chute, it would get close to the runway, and ground effect would pick it up a few feet.
I do know what a motie is (note my sig is a Niven quote), but just thought the hhgttg ref might be funnier. :-P
"Zaphod," he drawled, "great to see you, you're looking well, the extra arm suits you. Nice ship you've stolen."
as far as online gaming goes, I've been playing spades on http://pogo.com/ for a while, and am pretty happy with them. They have a lot of games, card and otherwise, and you don't have to get lynched for bringing up msn :-) Also, http://games.yahoo.com/ has a bunch of good games, but they seem to me to be not quite as poliched as the pogo ones.
Any time that you call and they say, "this call may be monitored or recorded for quality purposes" or something like that, they have explicitly given their consent for recording of the conversation. You (by remaining on the line) are giving implicit consent. Therefore, anytime they say that, you are legally permitted to record. They don't always say that, but when they do, go for it.
I once implemented a system like this, using a postgresql database as the "message queue". I had clients insert requests into the database, and the server watching the database to get the transactions out. I used postgresql's listen syntax, as well as triggers on insertion/update of the database. It worked pretty well, given the fact that I had basically no idea what I was doing. I decided to use a database so I didn't have to worry about concurrency, etc. It was completely asynchronous, and atomic. Either a request was totally inserted into the queue, or it wasn't, and the client would know that the insert failed (database down, etc.) In addition, once the server completed a task, it would mark the transaction as completed.
not to mention my personal favorite, Firefox's page info, which includes a media section with all the videos, images, objects, etc in a page that you can directly download.
well, it happened in basically the way you'd expect. I had set the glass of orange juice on top of the set and accidentally bumped the glass. As for the smell, no I am not sure, but I have never smelled that exact smell before or since.