ummm... Mensa's what are perfect? It is a possesive. It could have also been a contraction, for instance of Mensa is or Mensa has, except that the next word is "are". If I seem like a punctuation Nazi, I apologize. I just read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: the Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation:-)
Any english speaker would put a full stop after "NO" before moving onto "table,"
Ummm, no. A "Full Stop" is what Americans call a period, ie the punctuation at the end of a sentence. Even in the US you occasionally hear the phrase full stop being used to describe the end of a sentence.
IIRC the problem was that it was actually illegal to possess/sell/distribute any map showing the territory in question as not belonging to India, and I think some Microsoft employees were actually jailed. So, no, I don't think just giving a discount version with a sticker would be a good idea.
my biggest beef with XFS and JFS is that they don't have any shrink capability. Ext2 and reiser can be resized in both directions, growing and shrinking. XFS can be resized, but only to grow. The strange thing is that while ext2/3 must be resized offline (not mounted), reiserfs (3, I don't know about 4) can be grown online, but has to be umounted to shrink, and xfs *has* to be mounted to resize! I don't know about growing JFS though.
My idea is this: put the server and the client on a hub (not a switch), and put another couple computers on the hub ping flooding each other. The collisions will make the average latency increase.
I don't know if a bunch of collision will affect the latency, or just the bandwidth though.
I don't know what you hated about Bicentennial Man, but I thought it was fairly close to the original Asimov story and novel, and I liked it for that reason. I also think the acting was good, and the special effects were very nice without being in-your-face.
500,000 - Combined Plush Tank & Manhole - Jun 20, 1893
<blink>... OK, that's a very interesting title... I have this great vision of a big plush toy (like one that you win at a carnival) in the shape of a Tank, stuffed down into an opening in the street leading down to the sewers.
The DMCA might (might**) prevent me from reverse engineering the encoding scheme on the memory to extract my pictures, but it certainly doesn't stop me from reusing the LCD screen.
** "might" is important. As the owner of the photographs I took, I have the rights to those pictures. It's not illegal to circumvent copy protections if you own the rights to copy the materials in question.
It is true that you have the rights to those photographs, but where the DMCA comes in is that the manufacturer of the camera owns the rights to the firmware operating system that is storing your pics in memory. If you hack that software (eg to download your own pics), that is where the DMCA might come in.
every few years, there is a vote in Puerto Rico, on whether they should sever ties to the US, and be independent, or join the US and become a territory/state. The usual result is "None of the Above/Status Quo"
One of the most obvious examples of a jump -> jump is in the interrupt vector table, back in the DOS days. Also, some processors (such as intel 386, which I learned assembly programming on) have short and long jump instructions, so you might need something like a conditional short jump to a location that contains an unconditional long jump. IIRC, i386 didn't have conditional long jump instructions.
and for that matter, what about other databases such as SAPdb, which was open sourced, without much fanfare, and is still not very popular? How will Ingres be different?
My biggest complaint about firefox is that the tabbed browsing extension is not included by default, since it allows tab groups and other cool tab behavior.
Reminds me of a story, Down Under Crater Billy by Stephen L. Burns. In it, it is discovered that certain people have a genetic predisposition for technology to fail around them!
I have gotten shocked with standard 120V AC at 60 Hz, and for me, the weirdest thing was my brain trying to cope with the fact that a signal that it would normally recognize as a sound was actually not coming in through the ear, but instead from the skin/muscles. It was not really painful to my body, but my brain intensly disliked the sensation.
I was once renting a house, and was about to plug in all my gear, when I noticed the "power fault" light was lit on my tripp-lite isotel surge protector. I fired up my multimeter, and noticed that while the ac voltage between hot and neutral was 120 like it was supposed to be, there was only 85 between hot and ground. I found that to be highly suspicious, so I measured between ground and neutral. Not surprisingly, it was 35 volts. I was very worried, but I just ran everything through a UPS and it all worked fine. I found out later that the local cable company, who a friend of mine once correctly described as "a bunch of freaking skrew-ups", had REMOVED the house grounding rod in order to ground the cable. All the ground in the house wiring was being diverted through (presumably) the cable box, which didn't apparently mind having 35 volts of leakage.
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schlockmercenary is a great comic, but Dr. Schlock is still a very froody character from sluggy :-)
also, as well as pricewatch, don't forget to check out pricegrabber, it is owned by osdn...
my favorite E theme has been Ganymeede for several years. Stuff looks cool, very functional, and not too dark or too light.
the article was using searchspy.com which is using results from the dogpile search engine
I had always seen that quote as:
blessed are the geek, for they shall internet the earth
DARK HELMET
You call this a radar? What's all this churning and bubbling?
COLONEL SANDERS
No sir, we call it *smack* Mr. Coffee.
DARK HELMET
I always have coffee when I'm watching radar.
COLONEL SANDERS
Of course you do sir!
IIRC the problem was that it was actually illegal to possess/sell/distribute any map showing the territory in question as not belonging to India, and I think some Microsoft employees were actually jailed. So, no, I don't think just giving a discount version with a sticker would be a good idea.
All's I can say is, the stories for Ep 7, 8, and 9 were already written by Timothy Vaughn (sp?)
Timothy Zahn.
my biggest beef with XFS and JFS is that they don't have any shrink capability. Ext2 and reiser can be resized in both directions, growing and shrinking. XFS can be resized, but only to grow. The strange thing is that while ext2/3 must be resized offline (not mounted), reiserfs (3, I don't know about 4) can be grown online, but has to be umounted to shrink, and xfs *has* to be mounted to resize! I don't know about growing JFS though.
My idea is this: put the server and the client on a hub (not a switch), and put another couple computers on the hub ping flooding each other. The collisions will make the average latency increase.
I don't know if a bunch of collision will affect the latency, or just the bandwidth though.
I don't know what you hated about Bicentennial Man, but I thought it was fairly close to the original Asimov story and novel, and I liked it for that reason. I also think the acting was good, and the special effects were very nice without being in-your-face.
actually, at Disney(tm) parks, the correct term is "Imagineer"
you don't need silicone, just Gummi Bears
every few years, there is a vote in Puerto Rico, on whether they should sever ties to the US, and be independent, or join the US and become a territory/state. The usual result is "None of the Above/Status Quo"
One of the most obvious examples of a jump -> jump is in the interrupt vector table, back in the DOS days. Also, some processors (such as intel 386, which I learned assembly programming on) have short and long jump instructions, so you might need something like a conditional short jump to a location that contains an unconditional long jump. IIRC, i386 didn't have conditional long jump instructions.
and for that matter, what about other databases such as SAPdb, which was open sourced, without much fanfare, and is still not very popular? How will Ingres be different?
My biggest complaint about firefox is that the tabbed browsing extension is not included by default, since it allows tab groups and other cool tab behavior.
I think there are some companies making something like this, battery backed ram that dumps to flash in the event of a power failure.
Reminds me of a story, Down Under Crater Billy by Stephen L. Burns. In it, it is discovered that certain people have a genetic predisposition for technology to fail around them!
I have gotten shocked with standard 120V AC at 60 Hz, and for me, the weirdest thing was my brain trying to cope with the fact that a signal that it would normally recognize as a sound was actually not coming in through the ear, but instead from the skin/muscles. It was not really painful to my body, but my brain intensly disliked the sensation.
I was once renting a house, and was about to plug in all my gear, when I noticed the "power fault" light was lit on my tripp-lite isotel surge protector. I fired up my multimeter, and noticed that while the ac voltage between hot and neutral was 120 like it was supposed to be, there was only 85 between hot and ground. I found that to be highly suspicious, so I measured between ground and neutral. Not surprisingly, it was 35 volts. I was very worried, but I just ran everything through a UPS and it all worked fine. I found out later that the local cable company, who a friend of mine once correctly described as "a bunch of freaking skrew-ups", had REMOVED the house grounding rod in order to ground the cable. All the ground in the house wiring was being diverted through (presumably) the cable box, which didn't apparently mind having 35 volts of leakage.