Both to this and to the other reply above: yeah, you're right, I picked a bad pair of sets. I was actually specifically trying to find one that wasn't integers vs. reals. What can I say, I was tired and didn't bother following through verifying my initial thought process. =)
It may sound ridiculous initially (NULL != NULL, anyone?) but it's mathematically true. One can have two different infinite series (say "all even integers" and "all odd integers which are multiples of 7"). Clearly, both series are infinite. Just as clearly, there are "more" even integers than there are odd integer multiples of seven. All of this to say that, even with multiverse theory, unless they assume that every single possible iteration exists (which isn't unheard of but...), an infinite number of multiverse layers (universes) could exist and none of them need ever have the possibility of supporting life or even come close to it. Since we're working with infinite possibilities here, there's not even a reliable "it's pretty probable" principle. Just a thought to throw in there.
For the models which don't have the video chips integrated into the motherboard, Dell sells the video cards for their laptops. There's no universal standard for how to "do" laptop internal components (unfortunately), but I have personally replaced the video card with an updated one from Dell twice now. =) (then I got a notebook that you couldn't do that with, but that had good enough video that I didn't care. XPS M1210... tasty =))
This will lead to a whole new world of disgustingly bad graphics chips eating system RAM and claiming to have "256MB" or whatever but really having little or none and just munching on (slow) system memory as needed... and that never works as well as it should.
Seems to me that I recall these exact questions being asked about 3D accelerator cards a number of years ago. Why program for it if you're going to have to make it work without it anyway? For a few games, they just simply made the game not run if you didn't have the particular piece of hardware (this memory is tied directly to a version of a BattleTech-based 3D game that relied directly on you having a Matrox Mystique card, though I read about other things which relied on various Voodoo or... what was it... eh, it was another discrete 3D card that didn't even interface with the normal graphics card. I had one at one point. It was neat when it worked and sort-of supported Glide but with interesting distortions and broken-ness-es...
The place where I work is actually set up with a pretty comprehensive physical security system involving access cards. The departments with more critical... stuff I guess for the sake of not divulging overly... are even separately alarmed. The swipe cards are uniquely numbered and assigned per employee. Each employee is authorized only for particular doors. The big downfall is that the system is actually several different systems that ultimately just have the same employee "user interface" as it were. There are actually, per site, several separate full security systems built by several different vendors and tied together by a VAR we had contracted to do this for us. Apparently this is fairly standard practice (we checked with numerous security system vendors before selecting one of course). It's also pretty standard for it to cost between $3000 and $8000 USD per door depending on a number of variables (mostly building electrical wiring/backup power wiring/etc.). It works well, but the people in charge of maintaining it and maintaining employee access have a world of headaches for when there's a job change and a bigger one when an employee leaves (as they basically have to remove that employee's access from all of these different systems *now*). I'm not giving any suggestions one way or another, just throwing some information out there.
I once worked for a company that had a computer closet on top of a mountain.It would often get -25 to -50F and sometimes much much lower. If you can find a way to enclose the computers they will keep themselves warm. We just put up some 1"-thick insulation inside the walls of the little shed and the two computers kept it at 40-50F in there at the worst times.
So I realize it's not the rule, but it is a notable exception. In this one case, specific to the Castlevania series, they made a truly great modern-ish (Playstation 1, but compared to the NES that's incredibly new and super awesome) extension. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Their first attempt at a 3D Castlevania failed miserably among the series's fans, then they went back a step and found a way to make a better more engrossing game without bothering with the uselessly applied 3D graphics. Symphony is a side-scroller and a damned good one. The main character was very easy to like and felt like he had depth without needing the third dimension to provide it. The story, though simple-ish, wasn't stupidly childish and managed to maintain the feel of something deep and urgent throughout the game. It's one of the last console games I bother keeping around.
I hate being marketed at as much as the next one, but I do have to think something along the lines of "at least they won't be trying to sell me things I'll never want ever"... it's sad, but that would actually be better.
The problem I've personally found with this setup is that all someone has to do is guess your local user's password (or, God forbid, walk up to your computer while you're off in the bathroom or getting coffee when you've accidentally left yourself logged in... whoops). It seems unlikely maybe, but that doesn't negate the fact that it's happened to people that I know.
I have found that no matter how much screen real estate you have, it isn't too much. Once you get used to it is really rarely even "enough". The desktop setup I've come up with and use universally across all of my machines has become by far the most useful and usable of any I've ever used on any OS. It's sawfish, straight sawfish (sawfish used to be used as the default underlying window manager in a lot of distros' gnome builds) with a custom (and readily availabe on the internet) theme called "Lines" that loses you all of your borders and all of your widgets and replaces them with a single pixel border. Sawfish is crazily configurable and scriptable. The user config file is written in Scheme (really easy to figure out just from looking at it but also frighteningly powerful once you start trying things). Everything's a keystroke for me, I have a keystroke to pop up an X-term, one for a web browser, one for an email client, one for my favorite media player, one for gaim, one to increase the volume, one to decrease it, etc. ad infinitum. I have a keystroke set up that lets me hold control and click any window to drag it (from anywhere in the window, not limited by borders here), another to resize it (again from anywhere in the window). Want a keystroke that does a whole series of things? Fine, it's all perfectly legible in the config file. Font stuff, printing stuff, it's all in my setup. Setting it up requires a little work the first time around after which point you just keep a tarball of your settings backed up somewhere so you can just unpack them when you have to migrate between boxes. Sawfish has no no taskbars of its own(in the context menu one of the submenus is an open window list that includes minimized things, etc and if you really need a taskbar you can choose any number of ones that are available out there. A friend of mine with a similar setup uses xfce4's taskbar whatsit... I personally hate taskbars taking up my screen real estate).
Yup, can't have too much screen space. Always have to make the best use of it that you can. I often end up with many 10s of xterms open doing various things and any number of browser windows each of which contains a various number of tabs, etc. I've really never been more productive.
I recently spent some time in Namibia (southwestern Africa) and can confirm this from firsthand experience. Almost no one has a land line, even in places where they're available (and that's pretty rare). Everyone uses GSM... and they all use prepaid plans too rather than monthly-fee plans. It's pretty wild.
A justice system is (albeit loosely) nothing more than exactly what you describe, I think. A cycle of revenge... suit and countersuit... especially in civil matters... sometimes less so in criminal matters of course. That is of course not to mention that in many cases like these the perpetrators are outside the realm of our justice system... Just a thought really and I was expressing my feelings on the issue. Those who do such things should be punished or at least scared into not doing it anymore. I agree that ultimately it will probably just lead to the "bad guys" getting smarter, but so would legitimately pursuing them through any legal system that governs both them and us...
Supposedly (and apparently) they used a combination of styles. My primary experiece is with kenjutsu (katana style as you put it) with some secondary work in european fencing... I must say they very often used stances and strokes from both, though very often at extremely high speeds that wouldn't be possible with a weapon with a blade that weighed more than nothing. I saw the kenjutsu upper attitude Jodan no Kamae used no fewer than three times by a sabre duelist in episode III
If I recall correctly the empire originally commissioned three. The manufacturer couldn't build all three at the same time though so they started on one, then started on another when enough of the first one was done to move it to an alternate facility, etc. So effectively the death star in A New Hope was the second one, the first having been either lost in some sort of accident involving a black hole or some such or hidden in a place SURROUNDED by black holes... it was something like that... the third was already well under construction when the one in Episode IV was destroyed.
There is a doctor in western CO whose name is 9. She's actually quite a nice person and usually goes by her middle name if I recall (which is something much more generic). A close friend of mine goes to her when she has to have doctor "stuff" done.
Don't forget that Nickelodeon is the only station that still runs Daria regularly (on "the N"). Though you have to avoid hours upon hours of Degrassi and Radio Free Roscoe daily, a good hour or two of Daria will be your reward depending on the day. Daria's worth more than a buck a month to me, even if it is all reruns (of course it is... been out of production for forever and ever).
I used to work for the big H&R Block Taxcut tech support center in Kansas City, MO. I essentially worked tech support for their tech support... made sure their computers kept operating properly and such. Anyway, my real purpose for posting is this: only switch to Taxcut if you absolutely have to. Even the people who wrote Taxcut openly admitted that TurboTax was by far the better software. Taxcut went into production largely untested at that point anyway (2001 tax year). Just my two cents I guess.
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Both to this and to the other reply above: yeah, you're right, I picked a bad pair of sets. I was actually specifically trying to find one that wasn't integers vs. reals. What can I say, I was tired and didn't bother following through verifying my initial thought process. =)
It may sound ridiculous initially (NULL != NULL, anyone?) but it's mathematically true. One can have two different infinite series (say "all even integers" and "all odd integers which are multiples of 7"). Clearly, both series are infinite. Just as clearly, there are "more" even integers than there are odd integer multiples of seven. All of this to say that, even with multiverse theory, unless they assume that every single possible iteration exists (which isn't unheard of but...), an infinite number of multiverse layers (universes) could exist and none of them need ever have the possibility of supporting life or even come close to it. Since we're working with infinite possibilities here, there's not even a reliable "it's pretty probable" principle. Just a thought to throw in there.
For the models which don't have the video chips integrated into the motherboard, Dell sells the video cards for their laptops. There's no universal standard for how to "do" laptop internal components (unfortunately), but I have personally replaced the video card with an updated one from Dell twice now. =) (then I got a notebook that you couldn't do that with, but that had good enough video that I didn't care. XPS M1210... tasty =))
This will lead to a whole new world of disgustingly bad graphics chips eating system RAM and claiming to have "256MB" or whatever but really having little or none and just munching on (slow) system memory as needed... and that never works as well as it should.
the original PowerVR card! that was it. Just a pci card with a blank back plate. =)
Seems to me that I recall these exact questions being asked about 3D accelerator cards a number of years ago. Why program for it if you're going to have to make it work without it anyway? For a few games, they just simply made the game not run if you didn't have the particular piece of hardware (this memory is tied directly to a version of a BattleTech-based 3D game that relied directly on you having a Matrox Mystique card, though I read about other things which relied on various Voodoo or... what was it... eh, it was another discrete 3D card that didn't even interface with the normal graphics card. I had one at one point. It was neat when it worked and sort-of supported Glide but with interesting distortions and broken-ness-es...
The place where I work is actually set up with a pretty comprehensive physical security system involving access cards. The departments with more critical... stuff I guess for the sake of not divulging overly... are even separately alarmed. The swipe cards are uniquely numbered and assigned per employee. Each employee is authorized only for particular doors. The big downfall is that the system is actually several different systems that ultimately just have the same employee "user interface" as it were. There are actually, per site, several separate full security systems built by several different vendors and tied together by a VAR we had contracted to do this for us. Apparently this is fairly standard practice (we checked with numerous security system vendors before selecting one of course). It's also pretty standard for it to cost between $3000 and $8000 USD per door depending on a number of variables (mostly building electrical wiring/backup power wiring /etc.). It works well, but the people in charge of maintaining it and maintaining employee access have a world of headaches for when there's a job change and a bigger one when an employee leaves (as they basically have to remove that employee's access from all of these different systems *now*). I'm not giving any suggestions one way or another, just throwing some information out there.
I suppose condensation could be a problem but we never ran into it (we had two P3 Deskpros up there along with a switch and a couple of IP-PDUs)
I once worked for a company that had a computer closet on top of a mountain.It would often get -25 to -50F and sometimes much much lower. If you can find a way to enclose the computers they will keep themselves warm. We just put up some 1"-thick insulation inside the walls of the little shed and the two computers kept it at 40-50F in there at the worst times.
So I realize it's not the rule, but it is a notable exception. In this one case, specific to the Castlevania series, they made a truly great modern-ish (Playstation 1, but compared to the NES that's incredibly new and super awesome) extension. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Their first attempt at a 3D Castlevania failed miserably among the series's fans, then they went back a step and found a way to make a better more engrossing game without bothering with the uselessly applied 3D graphics. Symphony is a side-scroller and a damned good one. The main character was very easy to like and felt like he had depth without needing the third dimension to provide it. The story, though simple-ish, wasn't stupidly childish and managed to maintain the feel of something deep and urgent throughout the game. It's one of the last console games I bother keeping around.
I hate being marketed at as much as the next one, but I do have to think something along the lines of "at least they won't be trying to sell me things I'll never want ever"... it's sad, but that would actually be better.
now THAT... THAT is a fun idea. I think I might start doing that just so I'll always have a use for my thumb drive. =)
The problem I've personally found with this setup is that all someone has to do is guess your local user's password (or, God forbid, walk up to your computer while you're off in the bathroom or getting coffee when you've accidentally left yourself logged in... whoops). It seems unlikely maybe, but that doesn't negate the fact that it's happened to people that I know.
I have found that no matter how much screen real estate you have, it isn't too much. Once you get used to it is really rarely even "enough". The desktop setup I've come up with and use universally across all of my machines has become by far the most useful and usable of any I've ever used on any OS.
It's sawfish, straight sawfish (sawfish used to be used as the default underlying window manager in a lot of distros' gnome builds) with a custom (and readily availabe on the internet) theme called "Lines" that loses you all of your borders and all of your widgets and replaces them with a single pixel border. Sawfish is crazily configurable and scriptable. The user config file is written in Scheme (really easy to figure out just from looking at it but also frighteningly powerful once you start trying things).
Everything's a keystroke for me, I have a keystroke to pop up an X-term, one for a web browser, one for an email client, one for my favorite media player, one for gaim, one to increase the volume, one to decrease it, etc. ad infinitum. I have a keystroke set up that lets me hold control and click any window to drag it (from anywhere in the window, not limited by borders here), another to resize it (again from anywhere in the window). Want a keystroke that does a whole series of things? Fine, it's all perfectly legible in the config file. Font stuff, printing stuff, it's all in my setup. Setting it up requires a little work the first time around after which point you just keep a tarball of your settings backed up somewhere so you can just unpack them when you have to migrate between boxes. Sawfish has no no taskbars of its own(in the context menu one of the submenus is an open window list that includes minimized things, etc and if you really need a taskbar you can choose any number of ones that are available out there. A friend of mine with a similar setup uses xfce4's taskbar whatsit... I personally hate taskbars taking up my screen real estate).
Yup, can't have too much screen space. Always have to make the best use of it that you can. I often end up with many 10s of xterms open doing various things and any number of browser windows each of which contains a various number of tabs, etc. I've really never been more productive.
I recently spent some time in Namibia (southwestern Africa) and can confirm this from firsthand experience. Almost no one has a land line, even in places where they're available (and that's pretty rare). Everyone uses GSM... and they all use prepaid plans too rather than monthly-fee plans. It's pretty wild.
A justice system is (albeit loosely) nothing more than exactly what you describe, I think. A cycle of revenge... suit and countersuit... especially in civil matters... sometimes less so in criminal matters of course. That is of course not to mention that in many cases like these the perpetrators are outside the realm of our justice system... Just a thought really and I was expressing my feelings on the issue. Those who do such things should be punished or at least scared into not doing it anymore. I agree that ultimately it will probably just lead to the "bad guys" getting smarter, but so would legitimately pursuing them through any legal system that governs both them and us...
I truly often wish that sort of justice were legal... When the law can't back itself up and the people can...
Supposedly (and apparently) they used a combination of styles. My primary experiece is with kenjutsu (katana style as you put it) with some secondary work in european fencing... I must say they very often used stances and strokes from both, though very often at extremely high speeds that wouldn't be possible with a weapon with a blade that weighed more than nothing. I saw the kenjutsu upper attitude Jodan no Kamae used no fewer than three times by a sabre duelist in episode III
If I recall correctly the empire originally commissioned three. The manufacturer couldn't build all three at the same time though so they started on one, then started on another when enough of the first one was done to move it to an alternate facility, etc. So effectively the death star in A New Hope was the second one, the first having been either lost in some sort of accident involving a black hole or some such or hidden in a place SURROUNDED by black holes... it was something like that... the third was already well under construction when the one in Episode IV was destroyed.
I realize you're joking, however things like NOAA still use java applets for their radar loops...
There is a doctor in western CO whose name is 9. She's actually quite a nice person and usually goes by her middle name if I recall (which is something much more generic). A close friend of mine goes to her when she has to have doctor "stuff" done.
well, first you go to the apple store...
Just a note, according to Dish, it's more like a >40% increase.
Don't forget that Nickelodeon is the only station that still runs Daria regularly (on "the N"). Though you have to avoid hours upon hours of Degrassi and Radio Free Roscoe daily, a good hour or two of Daria will be your reward depending on the day. Daria's worth more than a buck a month to me, even if it is all reruns (of course it is... been out of production for forever and ever).
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I used to work for the big H&R Block Taxcut tech support center in Kansas City, MO. I essentially worked tech support for their tech support... made sure their computers kept operating properly and such.
Anyway, my real purpose for posting is this: only switch to Taxcut if you absolutely have to. Even the people who wrote Taxcut openly admitted that TurboTax was by far the better software. Taxcut went into production largely untested at that point anyway (2001 tax year). Just my two cents I guess.