Some past results may be, but even without fires I often heard stories about people losing years of work when their hard disk crashed or laptop was stolen.
Edinburgh University had their Cybernetic Library consumed in a nightclub fire in 2002 (They were located in a city centre office block which had student flats, nightclubs and offices built up together). Around 17 years of papers and books were lost - A good incentive to scan and store everything digitally on separate sites.
At least in Soton, the facility was in a custom built building. Hopefully it will have been something electrical that failed due to old age, rather than someone who left some equipment switched on or overcooked their dinner.
You think that's bad? Somebody keeps drinking the water out of the mug on my desk, even when the cleaner was on holiday and the door was locked. And a web-cam set to record any motion didn't detect anyone or anything!
Have a look at the ACORN classification for the distribution of wealth in the UK. Marketing people seems to like to have nicknames for each segment of the population.
Affluent Greys, Flourishing Families, Prosperous Professionals, Educated Urbanites. Struggling Families, Burdened Singles, High Rise Hardship, Inner City Adversity.
And the current British government is known to target policies that attract swing voters.
We've had a couple of Chinese students in our research lab. One guy was really good and did some really good cutting edge research that managed to get him a research position in good university back in China.
And there's another guy who gained his PhD and published a good dozen papers and created his web site listing all his achievements. Yet he blows all this away by copying some crufty source code from the department, removing the copyright/author fields headers and making it appear as if he wrote it. About the same time he pestered me by E-mail to hand over the source code to my research as he "wanted to show it to somebody". I refused, and then he proceeds to pester my supervisor. I look at his website and there's a blank section related to my research titled "under construction".
Depending upon the state/country, it might be illegal to receive/make a mobile phone call while in control of vehicle. The last thing you want is a fine or to have your vehicle impounded while somewhere remote.
In the UK, taxation for small companies is ruled more by case law than by any set of fundamental rights. This leads the to inland revenue very often trying to apply tax rulings retrospectively back through time. So a company which thought it was obeying the law five years ago, suddenly finds itself liable for hefty tax bill. The reaction to this situation is for small company owners to liquidate their company every five years and restart trading under a new name.
If your customer is claiming travelling expenses against tax, they this may be brought into dispute if he receives a call from a family relative while travelling.
Yes, it was the whole caboodle - everything from programming API's to the standard include files. Since SGI had the monopoly on 3D graphics hardware, they could force application developers to pay such high rates, which in turn gave application developers an effective monopoly.
SGI charged for their optimising compiler, so Sun figured they could do the same. And the academic users figured they might as well write their own C compiler, especially since they wrote papers on writing C compilers.
If you think that is paranoid, read this...
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Two and a half months after a Freedom of Information request was filed, a 376 document was produced, but with 149 pages completedly blacked out and 102 pages partially blacked out.
For me, it is good because it allows you to design dialog windows that can be resized, but without the complexity of having to manually define attachments in source code (like X-Windows/Motif) or write your resize code routines (like MFC). You can set preferences that determine whether a widget can be resized vertically and/or horizontally, maximum and minimums sizes etc...
The definition of each dialog window is kept in a separate.ui file, which is also used to generate the corresponding widget initialisation source code. This allows you to reuse existing dialog windows with new applications without having to scoop out and dissect the interface.
You can also create your widgets through the use of 'plugins' which can be used directly through designer. And there is support for OpenGL, although SDL is much more efficient.
And there is also qmake which allows you to build Makefiles without having to go through the pain of manually defining every single dependency between files.
Well come on. When I was a kid my down sat my down in front of Apple BASIC on our IIgs.
Having line numbers really helped me focus on getting the architecture of a program first, because there wasn't any easy way of changing line numbers (apart from some extra assembly language routines that could be loaded into spare memory).
The editor of Visual Studio isn't too bad, but the MFC/.NET dialog editor is terrible. You should move him onto Trolltech's designer for Qt.
Given that length of cable, wouldn't there be some electric current running through it anyway? There was that experiment where the space shuttle released a long length of cable, which consequently melted and snapped due to the electric currents from the local magnetic field/solar wind.
Too bad that 50% roof coverage only generates 25% of the power they need. Perhaps they could get the rest from geothermal energy, although at some plants that would certainly be out of the question.
The solution is simple. They just new to cover their car park with solar cells. The roofing would keeping cars cool by being in the shade, and they would get the additional power. But only during Sunny days.
This movie repeats the same orbit three times. At the third replay, when the camera zooms in, you can see that the star comes very close, but not exactly to, the theoretical centre of the black hole. Instead it speeds up, moves away and slows down again, which is standard Kepler motion.
This is a landmark that astronomers have finally managed to see this far into the centre of the galaxy.
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On a higher plane of existance, it's where the ANSI/IEEE Standard 754-1985 stipulated that all data values be represented by +/-Infinity.
You have three complete cycles. That is more then enough for the Nyquist Limit
This cycle is known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. The theory is that this is caused by interference effect between the sunspot cylces and El Nino/La Nina.
And this would seem to affect fishery catches fishery catches
I still don't see why they had to kill it instead of just recapturing it. I mean, after such heroic efforts, it surely deserved better?
That rat gained invaluable combat experience that it would have passed onto others. Taking out this rat became essential if we are to maintain control of these islands.
1. Write games in your own spare time. Visit websites like gamasutra to pick up hints and tips on AI, physics and rendering.
2. Do a related project as part of a university degree while learning Mathematics and Physics, AI and Software Design at the same time. You will have the advantage of being able to read the latest papers on AI and 3D rendering.
If this extends to PayPal as well as credit cards, then all you have to to do is think of a service that requires prepaid access then file a patent, and be an instant millionaire.
It's more than possible. Trains have regularly been delayed due to the wrong kind of heat.
Trains on the surface and underground tend to be overcrowded at rush hour, with each carriage containing at least 150 passengers (not including those standing). And "air-conditioning" only consists of an extractor fan activated when the carriage is in motion. On some trains, there are scrolling LED displays that give the time, temperature, final and next destination.
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Some past results may be, but even without fires I often heard stories about people losing years of work when their hard disk crashed or laptop was stolen.
Edinburgh University had their Cybernetic Library consumed in a nightclub fire in 2002 (They were located in a city centre office block which had student flats, nightclubs and offices built up together). Around 17 years of papers and books were lost - A good incentive to scan and store everything digitally on separate sites.
At least in Soton, the facility was in a custom built building. Hopefully it will have been something electrical that failed due to old age, rather than someone who left some equipment switched on or overcooked their dinner.
You think that's bad? Somebody keeps drinking the water out of the mug on my desk, even when the cleaner was on holiday and the door was locked. And a web-cam set to record any motion didn't detect anyone or anything!
Have a look at the ACORN classification for the distribution of wealth in the UK.
Marketing people seems to like to have nicknames for each segment of the population.
Affluent Greys, Flourishing Families, Prosperous Professionals, Educated Urbanites.
Struggling Families, Burdened Singles, High Rise Hardship, Inner City Adversity.
And the current British government is known to target policies that attract swing voters.
We've had a couple of Chinese students in our research lab. One guy was really good and did some really good cutting edge research that managed to get him a research position in good university back in China.
And there's another guy who gained his PhD and published a good dozen papers and created his web site listing all his achievements. Yet he blows all this away by copying some crufty source code from the department, removing the copyright/author fields headers and making it appear as if he wrote it. About the same time he pestered me by E-mail to hand over the source code to my research as he "wanted to show it to somebody". I refused, and then he proceeds to pester my supervisor. I look at his website and there's a blank section related to my research titled "under construction".
Depending upon the state/country, it might be illegal to receive/make a mobile phone call while in control of vehicle. The last thing you want is a fine or to have your vehicle impounded while somewhere remote.
In the UK, taxation for small companies is ruled more by case law than by any set of fundamental rights. This leads the to inland revenue very often trying to apply tax rulings retrospectively back through time. So a company which thought it was obeying the law five years ago, suddenly finds itself liable for hefty tax bill. The reaction to this situation is for small company owners to liquidate their company every five years and restart trading under a new name.
If your customer is claiming travelling expenses against tax, they this may be brought into dispute if he receives a call from a family relative while travelling.
Yes, it was the whole caboodle - everything from programming API's to the standard include files. Since SGI had the monopoly on 3D graphics hardware, they could force application developers to pay such high rates, which in turn gave application developers an effective monopoly.
SGI charged for their optimising compiler, so Sun figured they could do the same.
And the academic users figured they might as well write their own C compiler, especially since they wrote papers on writing C compilers.
The war on pigeon doo-doo
Two and a half months after a Freedom of Information request was filed, a 376 document was produced, but with 149 pages completedly blacked out and 102 pages partially blacked out.
For me, it is good because it allows you to design dialog windows that can be resized, but without the complexity of having to manually define attachments in source code (like X-Windows/Motif) or write your resize code routines (like MFC). You can set preferences that determine whether a widget can be resized vertically and/or horizontally, maximum and minimums sizes etc...
.ui file, which is also used to generate the corresponding widget initialisation source code. This allows you to reuse existing dialog windows with new applications without having to scoop out and dissect the interface.
The definition of each dialog window is kept in a separate
You can also create your widgets through the use of 'plugins' which
can be used directly through designer. And there is support for OpenGL, although SDL is much more efficient.
And there is also qmake which allows you to build Makefiles without having to go through the pain of manually defining every single dependency between files.
Well come on. When I was a kid my down sat my down in front of Apple BASIC on our IIgs.
Having line numbers really helped me focus on getting the architecture of a program first, because there wasn't any easy way of changing line numbers (apart from some extra assembly language routines that could be loaded into spare memory).
The editor of Visual Studio isn't too bad, but the MFC/.NET dialog editor is terrible. You should move him onto Trolltech's designer for Qt.
It's obvious - you will be able to write much faster, but will take the same amount of time to read.
Given that length of cable, wouldn't there be some electric current running through it anyway?
There was that experiment where the space shuttle released a long length of cable, which consequently melted and snapped due to the electric currents from the local magnetic field/solar wind.
Too bad that 50% roof coverage only generates 25% of the power they need. Perhaps they could get the rest from geothermal energy, although at some plants that would certainly be out of the question.
The solution is simple. They just new to cover their car park with solar cells. The roofing would keeping cars cool by being in the shade, and they would get the additional power. But only during Sunny days.
This video is an animation reconstruction from a series of photographs, not a time-lapse movie.
The stars are represented by a Gaussian brightness distribution, because they cannot be completely resolved. These may not match the star in exact size, and at this scale in the movie, 1 pixel is going to be at least 1 million miles.
This movie repeats the same orbit three times. At the third replay, when the camera zooms in, you can see that the star comes very close, but not exactly to, the theoretical centre of the black hole. Instead it speeds up, moves away and slows down again, which is standard Kepler motion.
This is a landmark that astronomers have finally managed to see this far into the centre of the galaxy.
On a higher plane of existance, it's where the ANSI/IEEE Standard 754-1985 stipulated that all data values be represented by +/-Infinity.
You have three complete cycles. That is more then enough for the Nyquist Limit
This cycle is known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. The theory is that this is caused by interference effect between the sunspot cylces and El Nino/La Nina.
And this would seem to affect fishery catches fishery catches
I still don't see why they had to kill it instead of just recapturing it. I mean, after such heroic efforts, it surely deserved better?
That rat gained invaluable combat experience that it would have passed onto others. Taking out this rat became essential if we are to maintain control of these islands.
Standard Soho Clip Joint Scam
You can demonstrate your skills in many ways:
1. Write games in your own spare time. Visit websites like gamasutra to pick up hints and tips
on AI, physics and rendering.
2. Do a related project as part of a university degree while learning Mathematics and Physics, AI and Software Design at the same time. You will have the advantage of being able to read the latest papers on AI and 3D rendering.
Early TV's from the 1930's were mechanical. See Mechanical TV - How it works.
These are not the droids you are looking for....
Try a Magnetic Torque Bar
If this extends to PayPal as well as credit cards, then all you have to to do is think of a service that requires prepaid access then file a patent, and be an instant millionaire.
If that is the case, why is there "dark fibre" all over the place?
Why would companies install cable if they knew it isn't going to be used?
It's more than possible. Trains have regularly been delayed due to the wrong kind of heat.
Trains on the surface and underground tend to be overcrowded at rush hour, with each carriage containing at least 150 passengers (not including those standing). And "air-conditioning" only consists of an extractor fan activated when the carriage is in motion. On some trains, there are scrolling LED displays that give the time, temperature, final and next destination.