I don't know. The OS in my (quite old and non-upgradable) TI-85 is actually buggy. Specifically, they screwed the Fahrenheit to Celcius (and vice versa) conversion, it does handle negative temperatures correctly. Fortunatly it only takes a few lines of basic to implement correctly, but the interface is not as nice. I wish I could upgrade the OS, but it's burned in ROM and I'm not about to start pulling chips off of the thing to fix one minor bug.
E-Voting, when correctly designed, can be empowering to diabled (blind) voters who no longer need a friend to read off the ballot and tell them how to vote. While I'm sure you could get braile ballots printed, it is a lot easier on the disabled person if they can just put on a set of headphones and have the choices read off to them by the computer.
You might be interested in the Nikon DX series. There are actually many digital SLR cameras on the market. Be prepared to say "ouch" when you check out the price tag though.
Charlie Chaplan hated talkies because he had a terrible stage voice. He knew that synchronized sound was going to be the end of his film career. All the talk about "appropriate art form" was a smoke screen.
What about the interface? Does it have an elegant easy to use interface like the iPod, or is it more like most MP3 players with some horrible hack job of an interface?
Perfect, now devise a mechanism that allows millions of people to access that content while still keeping it safe from hackers.
Another method of protecting something from hackers is to delete it, then burn the hard drive and scatter the ashes into the sun. That'll keep it from being hacked.
If you read the article, you'd notice the point where Oracle just implemented something developed by IBM, a funny thing called a relational database. Turns out it was something of a hit.
If this were true, wouldn't volcanos be far more radioactive than they are today? I woudn't think the uranium would make a 100% pure seperation in the core.
Besides, doesn't uranium refract sound waves differently than iron? That seems like something we could test somehow. Perhaps reading the article will be enlightening...
Uh, you may be surprised to hear this, but minivans have been around since the late 80s (earlier if you count the VW Microbus/Eurovan). They've never been small or particularly efficent vehicles, but they aren't considerably worse than the average 8 seat station wagon as far as pollution and gas milage go. It's not like a family with 6 kids will fit in a Prius.
There is also the matter of the fact that the housing market is very tight, so there just might not be many homes on the market with adequate sound protection. Not that you would have time to find out anyway, since the homes sell in about three days after going on the market. If you find a good deal, it's not like you have a lot of time to research every aspect of the house before someone else snatches it up. The world is brutal, and sometimes unfair; that's life.
Try sitting back a bit further from the monitor. It sounds like you have your nose almost pressed against the screen. LCDs have to be viewed at just the right angle to work. If you are sitting too close, the edges will be at too great of an angle. The advice I usually see is to sit at least one arm length away from the monitor.
Most people who had "broadband" in 1996 had.edu in their domain. I was sadly not one of those people. All my school had was a digital PBX (ROLMphones) that allowed you to make a 19200 baud PPP connection through the serial port on the back of the phone. The 28800 (and 33600) baud modems that were common at the time were faster.
Isn't that pretty much the history of all warfare? Usually it goes the other way first though, with armor perpetually losing against better cannons/shells.
The difference here is that to execute a bit of mail in a regular mail client, you have to go through some work (and it's somewhat technical, many computer illiterate users would have a difficult time doing it). In fact, it is those very users that cause the most problems with these email distributed viruses. By the time someone is literate enough to know how to excute an attachment, they should be (hopefully) savvy enough to realize why it is not a good idea. This is one of those cases where ease of use is actually detrimental (you don't see that very often).
The reason everybody said that the internet survived was that they were able to visit most of the sites they cared about during the blackout. The chart seems to show that many links and servers were down (presumably without power) during the blackout (including some major components of the internet), yet most people basically unaffected. This seems to suggest that as long as the server itself isn't in the middle of a blackout, the Internet can survive rather well. How many of your learned about the blackout from Slashdot or some other online news source?
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Most of those files that use # for a comment do have a single parser in common:/bin/sh
Most of the time those "config files" are actually just little scripts that get sourced into whatever startup script needs the information. The variables you're setting are actually environment variables. Interestingly enough, if you changed the/etc files to XML, you would have to add the step to parse the variables in the XML files into (most likely) environment variables so your scripts could use them.
Besides, if your configuration files include the default value and a comment, they are very easy (relatively speaking) to configure. When you see something like:
defaultrouter="NO" # Set to default gateway (or NO).
Family Guy had moments of pure comedic gold...along with an endless supply of fart and gross out jokes. I mean the episode where Stewie mind controlled Chris and attempted to purchase power tools while being panhandled. Priceless. The scene immediatly after where Peter tries to seduce Luke Perry. Vile.
Futurama certainly delved into the potty humor on occasion as well, but they knew when to go easy on the cheap humor.
I don't know how they got any ratings at all, since they didn't show it most of the time. You can't get viewership on a show if you never air it. At least Adult Swim is letting me see all of those episodes that were pre-empted or otherwise lost in the shuffle.
You're mistaking what advertisers look at versus what people look at. Advertisers like numbers that are easy to quantify (number of valves, amps consumed) and are bigger than their competition. For the most part, people don't care (or don't even really understand the significance of) these numbers. If you were to tell your average car shopper that this car does 0-60 in 5 seconds, they would have no idea if that is good or bad. They're more likely to choose the one that has the comfortable seat or has four wheel drive or whatever they find valuable.
Your light bulb comparison is a little flawed, since even flourescant bulbs are sold in "equivelent light to an X watt incandasent bulb" packaging. It should be obvious why. Ask your person if a 1000 lumen bulb is bright, and they'll have no idea, however they do know about how much light they get from a 60 watt bulb. There is no need to complicate the matter for Joe Schmoe.
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Certainly there are other Samuel Beckett fans on Slashdot. It's not like the entire crowd is made of 14 year old Linux crazed basement nerds.
Of course I ment to say it _doesn't_ handle negative (below 0C) conversions correctly.
I don't know. The OS in my (quite old and non-upgradable) TI-85 is actually buggy. Specifically, they screwed the Fahrenheit to Celcius (and vice versa) conversion, it does handle negative temperatures correctly. Fortunatly it only takes a few lines of basic to implement correctly, but the interface is not as nice. I wish I could upgrade the OS, but it's burned in ROM and I'm not about to start pulling chips off of the thing to fix one minor bug.
E-Voting, when correctly designed, can be empowering to diabled (blind) voters who no longer need a friend to read off the ballot and tell them how to vote. While I'm sure you could get braile ballots printed, it is a lot easier on the disabled person if they can just put on a set of headphones and have the choices read off to them by the computer.
You might be interested in the Nikon DX series. There are actually many digital SLR cameras on the market. Be prepared to say "ouch" when you check out the price tag though.
Charlie Chaplan hated talkies because he had a terrible stage voice. He knew that synchronized sound was going to be the end of his film career. All the talk about "appropriate art form" was a smoke screen.
If he's in the states, then he's being ripped off. $12 for 10 CDrs is horribly overpriced. I've seen 100 disc spindles that are cheaper than that.
What about the interface? Does it have an elegant easy to use interface like the iPod, or is it more like most MP3 players with some horrible hack job of an interface?
Who said it has to be less? 3/2 is a fraction.
Perfect, now devise a mechanism that allows millions of people to access that content while still keeping it safe from hackers.
Another method of protecting something from hackers is to delete it, then burn the hard drive and scatter the ashes into the sun. That'll keep it from being hacked.
If you read the article, you'd notice the point where Oracle just implemented something developed by IBM, a funny thing called a relational database. Turns out it was something of a hit.
If this were true, wouldn't volcanos be far more radioactive than they are today? I woudn't think the uranium would make a 100% pure seperation in the core.
Besides, doesn't uranium refract sound waves differently than iron? That seems like something we could test somehow. Perhaps reading the article will be enlightening...
Uh, you may be surprised to hear this, but minivans have been around since the late 80s (earlier if you count the VW Microbus/Eurovan). They've never been small or particularly efficent vehicles, but they aren't considerably worse than the average 8 seat station wagon as far as pollution and gas milage go. It's not like a family with 6 kids will fit in a Prius.
There is also the matter of the fact that the housing market is very tight, so there just might not be many homes on the market with adequate sound protection. Not that you would have time to find out anyway, since the homes sell in about three days after going on the market. If you find a good deal, it's not like you have a lot of time to research every aspect of the house before someone else snatches it up. The world is brutal, and sometimes unfair; that's life.
Try sitting back a bit further from the monitor. It sounds like you have your nose almost pressed against the screen. LCDs have to be viewed at just the right angle to work. If you are sitting too close, the edges will be at too great of an angle. The advice I usually see is to sit at least one arm length away from the monitor.
Most people who had "broadband" in 1996 had .edu in their domain. I was sadly not one of those people. All my school had was a digital PBX (ROLMphones) that allowed you to make a 19200 baud PPP connection through the serial port on the back of the phone. The 28800 (and 33600) baud modems that were common at the time were faster.
Isn't that pretty much the history of all warfare? Usually it goes the other way first though, with armor perpetually losing against better cannons/shells.
The difference here is that to execute a bit of mail in a regular mail client, you have to go through some work (and it's somewhat technical, many computer illiterate users would have a difficult time doing it). In fact, it is those very users that cause the most problems with these email distributed viruses. By the time someone is literate enough to know how to excute an attachment, they should be (hopefully) savvy enough to realize why it is not a good idea. This is one of those cases where ease of use is actually detrimental (you don't see that very often).
I think he knows what it means. Check out the homepage, particularly the graphic on the top right.
Isn't this how X works for drawing the base primitives?
The reason everybody said that the internet survived was that they were able to visit most of the sites they cared about during the blackout. The chart seems to show that many links and servers were down (presumably without power) during the blackout (including some major components of the internet), yet most people basically unaffected. This seems to suggest that as long as the server itself isn't in the middle of a blackout, the Internet can survive rather well. How many of your learned about the blackout from Slashdot or some other online news source?
Most of those files that use # for a comment do have a single parser in common: /bin/sh
/etc files to XML, you would have to add the step to parse the variables in the XML files into (most likely) environment variables so your scripts could use them.
Most of the time those "config files" are actually just little scripts that get sourced into whatever startup script needs the information. The variables you're setting are actually environment variables. Interestingly enough, if you changed the
Besides, if your configuration files include the default value and a comment, they are very easy (relatively speaking) to configure. When you see something like:
defaultrouter="NO" # Set to default gateway (or NO).
Most administrators know what to do.
Family Guy had moments of pure comedic gold...along with an endless supply of fart and gross out jokes. I mean the episode where Stewie mind controlled Chris and attempted to purchase power tools while being panhandled. Priceless. The scene immediatly after where Peter tries to seduce Luke Perry. Vile.
Futurama certainly delved into the potty humor on occasion as well, but they knew when to go easy on the cheap humor.
I don't know how they got any ratings at all, since they didn't show it most of the time. You can't get viewership on a show if you never air it. At least Adult Swim is letting me see all of those episodes that were pre-empted or otherwise lost in the shuffle.
You're mistaking what advertisers look at versus what people look at. Advertisers like numbers that are easy to quantify (number of valves, amps consumed) and are bigger than their competition. For the most part, people don't care (or don't even really understand the significance of) these numbers. If you were to tell your average car shopper that this car does 0-60 in 5 seconds, they would have no idea if that is good or bad. They're more likely to choose the one that has the comfortable seat or has four wheel drive or whatever they find valuable.
Your light bulb comparison is a little flawed, since even flourescant bulbs are sold in "equivelent light to an X watt incandasent bulb" packaging. It should be obvious why. Ask your person if a 1000 lumen bulb is bright, and they'll have no idea, however they do know about how much light they get from a 60 watt bulb. There is no need to complicate the matter for Joe Schmoe.