Name the last album you listened to that had a theme Coincidentally, 3 out of 5 CD's in my car right now are concept albums. Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Out of over 300 CD's the only other concepts I think I have are Spock's Beard - Snow and Pink Floyd - The Wall. You could possibly also count Dream Theater - 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Its a 2CD set with one of the CD's being a large concept song.
I'm sure there are a few more that aren't really concepts but seem to have a general reoccurring theme. Rush - Vapor Trails seems to have a general theme about dealing with loss (Neil Peart's only daughter died in car accident, then his wife died of cancer less than 1 year later) and pulling yourself back up onto your feet. Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity seems to have a recurring theme (though not in every song)about them being fed up with being controlled by the record companies.
Then of course, I guess you could also say Kid Rock's CD's have a recurring them of talking about himself, and seeing if he can remember to say his own name in every song.
Is The Company Publicly Traded? Is the project going to form a major percentage of their revenue?
Short the company's stock.
Huh?? This was rated "Insightful"? I'm no expert in this field, but I am almost positive this would constitute trading-on-insider-information. A most excellent way to get the SEC on your back and end up with a large fine, and possibly a generous prison sentence to go with it.
try getting any new release here in NYC for 13 bucks Don't know what it's like in NY, but here in MI if you go to Best Buy or Circuit City they routinely have new releases under $13 (in fact, most CD's stay under $13 permanently). In fact, I saw the new POS CD from Metallica was advertised for $9.99 at one of those stores the week it came out.
Of course, if you go to a "record store" (one of the few that are left, since most have gone out of business), then yes you would end up paying $16-$18.
His life savings was $12,000. $13 is about 0.1083% of that.
I think he was saying that the $12000 is about.00000001% of the RIAA's wealth, so.00000001% of that $13 you got came out of Jesse's life savings. His numbers were off or maybe he was exaggerating (because I don't think the RIAA has $120 trillion in revenues), but I believe that's what he meant.
Those who don't need to use it (because they already use unambiguous date formats) will.
That's a pretty silly argument if you ask me. Just because the format used is unambiguous doesn't necessarily make it easy for a person in another time to figure out when that time is in their time zone, and whether daylight savings or standard time means add an hour, subtract an hour, or leave it alone.
I don't know...even with the latest versions of Defrag and ScanDisc, I still think they are pretty sucky compared to Norton Utilities. Same thing with the WinXP ZIP integration...almost any 3rd party ZIP utility beats the snot out of it. However, being that AV is a more crucial technology (as web browsers were), there is always the possibility that they could make something to rival their competition (as they did with IE).
I think you can say goodbye to both PKWare and WinZip, since the zip format is supported natively by Windows XP
True, it is supported in XP, but the support is horridly basic. For most purposes, I find the XP Zip support to be useless. I still use a 3rd party ZIP program (BitZipper). However, give Windows a couple more versions, and I'm sure it will have much better ZIP support that can rival most of the 3rd party tools.
Auctually you can call assembly DLLs in visual basic Yes. But the DLLs are written in something other than VB. With Delphi, you can write inline assembly. No need to learn or use another language so you can write an assembly DLL.
What were they talking about when they said "Find the alien"
Which 1 doesn't match the other 3.
I thought the Flash puzzles kinda sucked. The "alien" workding was awkward. For the one where you had to figure the 2 numbers in the middle of the sequence, there were no instructions on how to solve it. What was I supposed to do? Click one, type a number, click the other, type the other number? Or was it multiple choice and the graphics I was supposed to click on didn't load? I didn't know. And the "Displace one match" puzzle? It took me the entire 30 seconds just to figure out that those little LCD-looking bars were supposed to be match sticks. I had like 1/2 second to solve it once I figure out what the heck they wanted.:( I didn't even bother trying to finish them all.
Esso Canada (gas station chain) has been using keychain-dongles for rapid payment for about a year now.
Yeah, Mobil here in the US has been doing that for over 5 years. It's called Speedpass. You can use it right at the pump, or you can use it at the register inside to pay for whatever goods you buy. Just looking at the speedpass website, it looks like its now accepted at Exxon and even some McDonalds (probably those ones that are located at gas stations) and Stop & Shop(?) stores. The keychain-dongle is what they've always used, but it looks like the web site is advertising a speedpass watch now too.
For me, a credit card at the pump works just as well, but I can see how it would be handy. If you lose it, its only good at a few places for whoever finds it (as opposed to a credit card).
So now what happens for people in Michigan (and perhaps other states)? We are required to report any online purchases (and pay Michigan tax on those purchases) when we file our state income tax returns each year. This includes purchases from other states. How does this get handled if I buy from California?
but I stopped buying [HP] printers a few years ago. There's just too many little quirks. The last one I had ran the paper through at a slight angle
I know what you mean. My Deskjet 1000C does the exact same thing. It's really annoying since I can't use it to print out anything I wan't to look respectable (a crooked printout just screams "low quality").
I've also had a ton of trouble with this printer grabbing multiple pages at a time. Actually, its slightly worse...it often grabs 3 or 4 pages slightly offset from each other, so that most of my printout is on the top page, but then the last few lines are spread across the bottoms of the other pages. Not only do I not get a usable printout, but I've wasted 3 or 4 pages of paper in the process. I've tried different brands and weights of paper (including HP's own premium inkjet paper) and nothing helps.
On the other hand, when I tried to print out christmas cards the first few years, it would grab the card but then start slipping and fail to pull it all the way though. The stupid thing would start spraying ink before the card even reached the print head. Then it would continue feeding through and print half the text at the top edge of the card. I end up having to throw away a wasted card, then I have to get a cloth and wipe down the inside of the printer to get rid of the ink.
I used to like HP printers, but never again. In fact, about the only thing of theirs I haven't been disappointed with in the last 5 years is my Scanjet 3300C.
The fan on the "stock heatsink" they talk about is less than quiet, but more importantly is poor enough that in many cases it will not even last the life of the warranty on the CPU.
Ummmm...lets think about this for a minute. The fan fails while under warranty. The whole point of a warranty is to cover failures within the warranty period. You don't want to make a warranty claim and would rather resolve the problem yourself without involving the manufacturer. I don't see the problem here, as it sounds to me like you have no interest in invoking the warranty.
That's alright. Your odds probably weren't too great to begin with. I've been entering to participate in the Phillips betas for about 2 years now, and I never once got picked.
Sure, much of that info can come out of your garbage, but there are a few differences. First, I can take steps to control what gets put in my garbage. If there is something I really don't want people to know, I can take steps to dispose of it more securely (ex: burn it).
Another difference is that collecting info by going through a garbage can takes active steps on the government's part. They don't have the resources to go through everyone's garbage, so they focus on those they are really interested in. When they are actively focusing on a particular individual, they are more likely to get the data correct (if a mistake is made, someone is focusing on it and is more likely to notice it). On the other hand, with a passive data collection system like this, they just throw bulk data into the database. Nobody is paying any attention to 99% of the data that comes in. If it contains bad info, nobody really notices. Then when your name erroniously comes up in a search later (due to bad data), nobody knows anything about that data. Nobody knows the context in which it was entered (you only bought Catcher in the Rye as an English class reading assignment), or whether you actually did buy the Anarchist's Cookbook (that wasn't you). Next thing you know, before you even have a chance to sort things out, you're a "material witness" in solitary confinement in a federal lockup.
I hope that statement wasn't directed at me, as it appeared it was. I certainly am NOT a Clinton-hater. I like the majority of what the guy did as President. I was just trying to take an impartial look at that data and say that the direction of the line on that chart says little about the names at the bottom of it.
I know that chart makes Clinton look good and Bush look really bad, but I'm not quite sure you can assign the blame/credit quite so easily. Clinton had the benefit of a very good economy in the 90's. You will notice that even Clinton's record surplus started declining in 2000, the same time as the economy.
OK. So it needs a memory card that can connect to USB. This isn't a standard item. So instead of the modchip being the circumvention device, the USB memory card becomes one. Distributing the USB memory cards is now in violation of the DMCA.
Of course, these memory cards seem more legit. They were created for a totally different purpose (supposedly, so are modchips, but the courts see through that argument). Perhaps these would at least stand a chance of being found legal. Then again, given how backwards this whole issue is in regards to the DMCA, I won't hold my breath.
That means nothing except that you probably didn't have SQL Server configured properly or had it on a system with improperly configured hardware or software. I can say I've experienced the reverse scenario, where SQL Server worked reliably but Oracle had to be restarted often. Of course, I'm not about to jump on Oracle for it. It was probably a config/admin issue.
Your terminology is wrong. State space refers to the number of possible states a game can be in. If you play the entire game moving your knight back and forth between 2 spaces, you can make an infinite number of moves, but that is still only 2 states. To "solve" the game of chess, all you need to know are all the different states and which states transition to which (this is implied by the rules set). You can then process it in whatever fashion necessary(minimax).
Of course, this is all easier said then done. Not only do you have the huge storage requirements for the set of states, but the minimax tree is much much bigger than even that (but it is not infinite). And the time to process that tree would be huge. I'm not holding my breath for it, but it is at least theoretically possible.
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Name the last album you listened to that had a theme
Coincidentally, 3 out of 5 CD's in my car right now are concept albums.
Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Out of over 300 CD's the only other concepts I think I have are Spock's Beard - Snow and Pink Floyd - The Wall. You could possibly also count Dream Theater - 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Its a 2CD set with one of the CD's being a large concept song.
I'm sure there are a few more that aren't really concepts but seem to have a general reoccurring theme. Rush - Vapor Trails seems to have a general theme about dealing with loss (Neil Peart's only daughter died in car accident, then his wife died of cancer less than 1 year later) and pulling yourself back up onto your feet. Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity seems to have a recurring theme (though not in every song)about them being fed up with being controlled by the record companies.
Then of course, I guess you could also say Kid Rock's CD's have a recurring them of talking about himself, and seeing if he can remember to say his own name in every song.
Is The Company Publicly Traded? Is the project going to form a major percentage of their revenue?
Short the company's stock.
Huh?? This was rated "Insightful"? I'm no expert in this field, but I am almost positive this would constitute trading-on-insider-information. A most excellent way to get the SEC on your back and end up with a large fine, and possibly a generous prison sentence to go with it.
try getting any new release here in NYC for 13 bucks
Don't know what it's like in NY, but here in MI if you go to Best Buy or Circuit City they routinely have new releases under $13 (in fact, most CD's stay under $13 permanently). In fact, I saw the new POS CD from Metallica was advertised for $9.99 at one of those stores the week it came out.
Of course, if you go to a "record store" (one of the few that are left, since most have gone out of business), then yes you would end up paying $16-$18.
His life savings was $12,000. $13 is about 0.1083% of that.
.00000001% of the RIAA's wealth, so .00000001% of that $13 you got came out of Jesse's life savings. His numbers were off or maybe he was exaggerating (because I don't think the RIAA has $120 trillion in revenues), but I believe that's what he meant.
I think he was saying that the $12000 is about
Those who don't need to use it (because they already use unambiguous date formats) will.
That's a pretty silly argument if you ask me. Just because the format used is unambiguous doesn't necessarily make it easy for a person in another time to figure out when that time is in their time zone, and whether daylight savings or standard time means add an hour, subtract an hour, or leave it alone.
How will Norton, McAfee, etc. survive this?
I don't know...even with the latest versions of Defrag and ScanDisc, I still think they are pretty sucky compared to Norton Utilities. Same thing with the WinXP ZIP integration...almost any 3rd party ZIP utility beats the snot out of it. However, being that AV is a more crucial technology (as web browsers were), there is always the possibility that they could make something to rival their competition (as they did with IE).
I think you can say goodbye to both PKWare and WinZip, since the zip format is supported natively by Windows XP
True, it is supported in XP, but the support is horridly basic. For most purposes, I find the XP Zip support to be useless. I still use a 3rd party ZIP program (BitZipper). However, give Windows a couple more versions, and I'm sure it will have much better ZIP support that can rival most of the 3rd party tools.
Auctually you can call assembly DLLs in visual basic
Yes. But the DLLs are written in something other than VB. With Delphi, you can write inline assembly. No need to learn or use another language so you can write an assembly DLL.
What were they talking about when they said "Find the alien"
:( I didn't even bother trying to finish them all.
Which 1 doesn't match the other 3.
I thought the Flash puzzles kinda sucked. The "alien" workding was awkward. For the one where you had to figure the 2 numbers in the middle of the sequence, there were no instructions on how to solve it. What was I supposed to do? Click one, type a number, click the other, type the other number? Or was it multiple choice and the graphics I was supposed to click on didn't load? I didn't know. And the "Displace one match" puzzle? It took me the entire 30 seconds just to figure out that those little LCD-looking bars were supposed to be match sticks. I had like 1/2 second to solve it once I figure out what the heck they wanted.
Esso Canada (gas station chain) has been using keychain-dongles for rapid payment for about a year now.
Yeah, Mobil here in the US has been doing that for over 5 years. It's called Speedpass. You can use it right at the pump, or you can use it at the register inside to pay for whatever goods you buy. Just looking at the speedpass website, it looks like its now accepted at Exxon and even some McDonalds (probably those ones that are located at gas stations) and Stop & Shop(?) stores. The keychain-dongle is what they've always used, but it looks like the web site is advertising a speedpass watch now too.
For me, a credit card at the pump works just as well, but I can see how it would be handy. If you lose it, its only good at a few places for whoever finds it (as opposed to a credit card).
Microsoft buys the right to sue everyone that pushes Linux.
No. In order to do that, they would have to buy it, not license it.
So now what happens for people in Michigan (and perhaps other states)? We are required to report any online purchases (and pay Michigan tax on those purchases) when we file our state income tax returns each year. This includes purchases from other states. How does this get handled if I buy from California?
So who wants to join the .ORG at my place next friday .ORGY
You'll probably get more takers with a
This was from like 8 years ago, but coincidentally I just ran across it again last week:
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but I stopped buying [HP] printers a few years ago. There's just too many little quirks. The last one I had ran the paper through at a slight angle
I know what you mean. My Deskjet 1000C does the exact same thing. It's really annoying since I can't use it to print out anything I wan't to look respectable (a crooked printout just screams "low quality").
I've also had a ton of trouble with this printer grabbing multiple pages at a time. Actually, its slightly worse...it often grabs 3 or 4 pages slightly offset from each other, so that most of my printout is on the top page, but then the last few lines are spread across the bottoms of the other pages. Not only do I not get a usable printout, but I've wasted 3 or 4 pages of paper in the process. I've tried different brands and weights of paper (including HP's own premium inkjet paper) and nothing helps.
On the other hand, when I tried to print out christmas cards the first few years, it would grab the card but then start slipping and fail to pull it all the way though. The stupid thing would start spraying ink before the card even reached the print head. Then it would continue feeding through and print half the text at the top edge of the card. I end up having to throw away a wasted card, then I have to get a cloth and wipe down the inside of the printer to get rid of the ink.
I used to like HP printers, but never again. In fact, about the only thing of theirs I haven't been disappointed with in the last 5 years is my Scanjet 3300C.
The fan on the "stock heatsink" they talk about is less than quiet, but more importantly is poor enough that in many cases it will not even last the life of the warranty on the CPU.
Ummmm...lets think about this for a minute. The fan fails while under warranty. The whole point of a warranty is to cover failures within the warranty period. You don't want to make a warranty claim and would rather resolve the problem yourself without involving the manufacturer. I don't see the problem here, as it sounds to me like you have no interest in invoking the warranty.
That's alright. Your odds probably weren't too great to begin with. I've been entering to participate in the Phillips betas for about 2 years now, and I never once got picked.
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Sure, much of that info can come out of your garbage, but there are a few differences. First, I can take steps to control what gets put in my garbage. If there is something I really don't want people to know, I can take steps to dispose of it more securely (ex: burn it).
Another difference is that collecting info by going through a garbage can takes active steps on the government's part. They don't have the resources to go through everyone's garbage, so they focus on those they are really interested in. When they are actively focusing on a particular individual, they are more likely to get the data correct (if a mistake is made, someone is focusing on it and is more likely to notice it). On the other hand, with a passive data collection system like this, they just throw bulk data into the database. Nobody is paying any attention to 99% of the data that comes in. If it contains bad info, nobody really notices. Then when your name erroniously comes up in a search later (due to bad data), nobody knows anything about that data. Nobody knows the context in which it was entered (you only bought Catcher in the Rye as an English class reading assignment), or whether you actually did buy the Anarchist's Cookbook (that wasn't you). Next thing you know, before you even have a chance to sort things out, you're a "material witness" in solitary confinement in a federal lockup.
I hope that statement wasn't directed at me, as it appeared it was. I certainly am NOT a Clinton-hater. I like the majority of what the guy did as President. I was just trying to take an impartial look at that data and say that the direction of the line on that chart says little about the names at the bottom of it.
I know that chart makes Clinton look good and Bush look really bad, but I'm not quite sure you can assign the blame/credit quite so easily. Clinton had the benefit of a very good economy in the 90's. You will notice that even Clinton's record surplus started declining in 2000, the same time as the economy.
Also, don't forget that with a modchip you can't play on XBox Live. With this method, you don't have to worry about that.
OK. So it needs a memory card that can connect to USB. This isn't a standard item. So instead of the modchip being the circumvention device, the USB memory card becomes one. Distributing the USB memory cards is now in violation of the DMCA.
Of course, these memory cards seem more legit. They were created for a totally different purpose (supposedly, so are modchips, but the courts see through that argument). Perhaps these would at least stand a chance of being found legal. Then again, given how backwards this whole issue is in regards to the DMCA, I won't hold my breath.
That means nothing except that you probably didn't have SQL Server configured properly or had it on a system with improperly configured hardware or software. I can say I've experienced the reverse scenario, where SQL Server worked reliably but Oracle had to be restarted often. Of course, I'm not about to jump on Oracle for it. It was probably a config/admin issue.
Your terminology is wrong. State space refers to the number of possible states a game can be in. If you play the entire game moving your knight back and forth between 2 spaces, you can make an infinite number of moves, but that is still only 2 states. To "solve" the game of chess, all you need to know are all the different states and which states transition to which (this is implied by the rules set). You can then process it in whatever fashion necessary(minimax).
Of course, this is all easier said then done. Not only do you have the huge storage requirements for the set of states, but the minimax tree is much much bigger than even that (but it is not infinite). And the time to process that tree would be huge. I'm not holding my breath for it, but it is at least theoretically possible.