Er, that hydrogen heats up and expands quite a bit when you combust it. That's not to say anybody was killed by the hydrogen in the Hindenburg, but it's also not perfectly safe to stand next to a hydrogen explosion.
It's pretty rough if you want to keep a clean record though. The rules are clear, if you fight back, you get suspension. If you don't fight back, maybe you can avoid suspension. Unfortunatly this leads to the rise of people with marginal grades paying off the bullies to get the curvebreakers suspending right before a big test. Even though that sort of abuse is rare, it basically puts the power of suspension in the hands of whoever has the least to loose (IE, most big dumb bullies).
I only ever fought back once, and learned the lesson well. Unfortunatly, it took me years to realize that nobody except the school system cares about your permanent record card.
Fortunately, once you get out of middle school/junior high most of those problems drop out, and sometimes you get lucky and they're sent off to private school (especially with the military).
Yeah. I mean while they're at it, why not just arrest Rosa Parks? She was clearly in violation of the law and thus obviously morally wrong. Legal grey areas don't really exist, if the law says it's wrong, it's wrong. The people who make and interpret laws are infallable. Why doesn't Slashdot understand this?
Try the usenet, they have a whole alt.binaries.erotica section. At least it isn't all the same stuff over and over again (I'm looking at you autopr0n).
Damn, I blew my last mod point earlier today, otherwise you'd get a funny. That's one of the most hilarous spoofs of the right's view of the left I've seen in ages. You forgot to include the line about requiring everybody to participate in homosexual marrages.
That's because those other cards are 32 bit "PC Cards", while the Lucent/Algere/whatevertheycallthemselvesthisweek cards are older style 16 bit PCMCIA cards. Basically, the old ones are an ISA bus in a small form factor, while the other ones are a PCI bus in the same small form factor. 802.11b only supports 11mbps, so the ISA bus speed is plenty. One way you can tell is by looking at the voltage requirements, old cards are 5v, while the new ones are 3.3v.
AFAICT, unless you're wealthy enough to rent big jets to accumulate enough hours of flying time, the only way to obtain credentials is through military experience.
Well, you can get experiance flying mail around the country. Apparently a lot of pilots do this for free just to get the hours. Becoming a professional pilot is not easy, which is one reason the salaries are so high.
If you hire a bargain-basement photographer's assistant, you might get stunning Annie-Liebowicz-level artwork. But the chances are that you'll get fifty images that are ill-timed, ill-posed, ill-conceived, ill-focused or ill-processed. You pay the money to someone who will get the best possible angle on the critical moments that the wedding couple will want to remember for the rest of their lives. Sometimes that requires a nudge to move Aunt Marge out of the way. It's not an occasion you're going to want to repeat if the photographer got it all wrong.
Actually, the author made this point right at the beginning of the article. People pay a lot for wedding photographers because they don't want it screwed up, but in the end what they get is a set of mediocre photographs from guys who aren't all that motivated. It's not like your wedding photographs are going to win them any awards, it's just another day at the job, yet they still command outrageous salaries.
Maybe some of these guys are good enough to pull down that kind of money, but every time I've seen them in action they just don't try very hard. A lot of them don't even do much work beyond the few posed shots you always get at the ceremony and a few shots of the bride and groom walking out of the church.
Maybe I'm biased after my cousin's photographer accidentally lost/destroyed their wedding photos before they even had a chance to look at them.
Are you sure you don't have some other problem (flaky hardware for instance, or bad configuration)? NVidia's FreeBSD drivers (very similar to the Linux drivers) are quite stable. The only complaint I had was that in certain configurations it was possible to have a misbehaving 3d application trash the main memory bad enough to reboot the machine.
Lower the radio signal power to a level that isn't broadcasting any farther than is necessary. If you have a good solid signal at half power, it's not going to make your downloads any faster by having the power all the way up. But if you start dropping connection, then you might have to turn the signal up.
Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Besides the fact that most 802.11b cards and APs don't support this, it will actually slow down your connections in real life. 802.11b has four "modes" which it chooses based on the signal strength: 11mb, 5.5mb, 2mb, and 1mb. If you somehow limit your cards down to the point where you're getting 50% signal strength, then you'll be down in the 2 to 5.5mb range, and whats worse, you're killing any safety margin you had on the signal (it will drop down to 1mb and may drop out as you move around). If you're getting drops, then even when the network is working you're going to get lousy transfer rates.
Opera for the Zaurus does something like this. There's a master "zoom" lever that scales the entire screen up and down. It is essental considering how the Zaurus has a 640x480 screen on a PDA, and those website that start off the day with FONT SIZE="-2" are unreadable unless you blow them up.
Satellite has very nice bandwidth, but it has horrible lag. This effects more than just gamers, it also hurts people using internet phones, terminal sessions, or anything else where interactivity is important. Besides, did you read the article on that satellite service? It's the pits. 1.6Mb/s down (great!), but a 500Mb/month limit and 64k up (ugh!). Forget grabbing the latest Debian ISO, that would barely get you through a month of Nimda attacks. It's not cheap either.
Unfortunatly, following the spirit of the law won't keep you from getting massive fines if the BSA decides to do a house call. They don't care about morals or ethics, all they care about is getting money from people using software withou the proper documentation.
The original example was text parsing a file! Maybe the example was not very good at showing why this is better than traditional shells, but it seemed like a lot of syntax to do a simple task.
I also step back and ask myself, what does making the shell object oriented buy me? Is it worth the extra trouble? These questions probably won't be answered until Longhorn actually comes out.
I always thought literate programming never caught on because it was just like regular programming, except you had to write reams of comments for every little function.
Er, to see the solar flare you would have to look directly at the Sun. Modern light pollution is not going to be a big concern. Needless to say, for your own safety, please only do this at night.
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I don't think there is quite as much of an assumption that mothers are "inferior", rather society as a whole does not recognize people in support positions. There is only so much attention to go around and it tends to fall on the people who do flashy and unusual things. For instance, we all know about Neil Armstrong, but how many people can name the names of the ground crew? Does this mean we consider the ground crew to be inferior? I don't think so, but there are just too many of them to recognize properly.
Newsflash: society must adapt to changes in its environment. This includes technological changes that render previous assumptions obsolete. At the bottom of the article, the columnist mentions how digital paper might kill the newspaper business, or how easily copied CDs affected the music business. He didn't mention how that motorized carrage invention killed the buggy whip business. If your line of work is being made obsolete by changes in the environment, then perhaps it is time to change your line of work. It is futile to try to change the world, although that doesn't stop people from trying, at best all you can do is slow down the rate of change. I know it will be painful for the people who don't adapt, but that is the way of the world.
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Er, that hydrogen heats up and expands quite a bit when you combust it. That's not to say anybody was killed by the hydrogen in the Hindenburg, but it's also not perfectly safe to stand next to a hydrogen explosion.
It's pretty rough if you want to keep a clean record though. The rules are clear, if you fight back, you get suspension. If you don't fight back, maybe you can avoid suspension. Unfortunatly this leads to the rise of people with marginal grades paying off the bullies to get the curvebreakers suspending right before a big test. Even though that sort of abuse is rare, it basically puts the power of suspension in the hands of whoever has the least to loose (IE, most big dumb bullies).
I only ever fought back once, and learned the lesson well. Unfortunatly, it took me years to realize that nobody except the school system cares about your permanent record card.
Fortunately, once you get out of middle school/junior high most of those problems drop out, and sometimes you get lucky and they're sent off to private school (especially with the military).
Yeah. I mean while they're at it, why not just arrest Rosa Parks? She was clearly in violation of the law and thus obviously morally wrong. Legal grey areas don't really exist, if the law says it's wrong, it's wrong. The people who make and interpret laws are infallable. Why doesn't Slashdot understand this?
Try the usenet, they have a whole alt.binaries.erotica section. At least it isn't all the same stuff over and over again (I'm looking at you autopr0n).
Damn, I blew my last mod point earlier today, otherwise you'd get a funny. That's one of the most hilarous spoofs of the right's view of the left I've seen in ages. You forgot to include the line about requiring everybody to participate in homosexual marrages.
That's because those other cards are 32 bit "PC Cards", while the Lucent/Algere/whatevertheycallthemselvesthisweek cards are older style 16 bit PCMCIA cards. Basically, the old ones are an ISA bus in a small form factor, while the other ones are a PCI bus in the same small form factor. 802.11b only supports 11mbps, so the ISA bus speed is plenty. One way you can tell is by looking at the voltage requirements, old cards are 5v, while the new ones are 3.3v.
If you hire a bargain-basement photographer's assistant, you might get stunning Annie-Liebowicz-level artwork. But the chances are that you'll get fifty images that are ill-timed, ill-posed, ill-conceived, ill-focused or ill-processed. You pay the money to someone who will get the best possible angle on the critical moments that the wedding couple will want to remember for the rest of their lives. Sometimes that requires a nudge to move Aunt Marge out of the way. It's not an occasion you're going to want to repeat if the photographer got it all wrong.
Actually, the author made this point right at the beginning of the article. People pay a lot for wedding photographers because they don't want it screwed up, but in the end what they get is a set of mediocre photographs from guys who aren't all that motivated. It's not like your wedding photographs are going to win them any awards, it's just another day at the job, yet they still command outrageous salaries.
Maybe some of these guys are good enough to pull down that kind of money, but every time I've seen them in action they just don't try very hard. A lot of them don't even do much work beyond the few posed shots you always get at the ceremony and a few shots of the bride and groom walking out of the church.
Maybe I'm biased after my cousin's photographer accidentally lost/destroyed their wedding photos before they even had a chance to look at them.
That's the same article. It seems to be making the rounds at all of the financial websites.
Well, it's no fair that you have voice recognition or something on your computer so you can start the application without clicking.
Yeah, the last page is pretty much: Nvidia is dead, all hail the new King ATI.
Are you sure you don't have some other problem (flaky hardware for instance, or bad configuration)? NVidia's FreeBSD drivers (very similar to the Linux drivers) are quite stable. The only complaint I had was that in certain configurations it was possible to have a misbehaving 3d application trash the main memory bad enough to reboot the machine.
Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Besides the fact that most 802.11b cards and APs don't support this, it will actually slow down your connections in real life. 802.11b has four "modes" which it chooses based on the signal strength: 11mb, 5.5mb, 2mb, and 1mb. If you somehow limit your cards down to the point where you're getting 50% signal strength, then you'll be down in the 2 to 5.5mb range, and whats worse, you're killing any safety margin you had on the signal (it will drop down to 1mb and may drop out as you move around). If you're getting drops, then even when the network is working you're going to get lousy transfer rates.
Er, I'm using a hacked Japanese Zaurus C750. Note the screen size and resolution, the dot pitch is around 0.12mm/pixel.
Opera for the Zaurus does something like this. There's a master "zoom" lever that scales the entire screen up and down. It is essental considering how the Zaurus has a 640x480 screen on a PDA, and those website that start off the day with FONT SIZE="-2" are unreadable unless you blow them up.
Why do you think that was his mailbox? That looks like a troll to fill someone else's mailbox to me.
Satellite has very nice bandwidth, but it has horrible lag. This effects more than just gamers, it also hurts people using internet phones, terminal sessions, or anything else where interactivity is important. Besides, did you read the article on that satellite service? It's the pits. 1.6Mb/s down (great!), but a 500Mb/month limit and 64k up (ugh!). Forget grabbing the latest Debian ISO, that would barely get you through a month of Nimda attacks. It's not cheap either.
Unfortunatly, following the spirit of the law won't keep you from getting massive fines if the BSA decides to do a house call. They don't care about morals or ethics, all they care about is getting money from people using software withou the proper documentation.
The original example was text parsing a file! Maybe the example was not very good at showing why this is better than traditional shells, but it seemed like a lot of syntax to do a simple task.
I also step back and ask myself, what does making the shell object oriented buy me? Is it worth the extra trouble? These questions probably won't be answered until Longhorn actually comes out.
Especially looking at the horrible syntax in the example. I mean what is wrong with:
foreach token ( `cat $file` )
do
do stuff with $token
done
Even worse, the example code only covered the first line of my example.
I always thought literate programming never caught on because it was just like regular programming, except you had to write reams of comments for every little function.
Er, to see the solar flare you would have to look directly at the Sun. Modern light pollution is not going to be a big concern. Needless to say, for your own safety, please only do this at night.
I don't think there is quite as much of an assumption that mothers are "inferior", rather society as a whole does not recognize people in support positions. There is only so much attention to go around and it tends to fall on the people who do flashy and unusual things. For instance, we all know about Neil Armstrong, but how many people can name the names of the ground crew? Does this mean we consider the ground crew to be inferior? I don't think so, but there are just too many of them to recognize properly.
Hey, I know I'd love to have the automatic bullshit detector. Too bad it was probably the device I'm least likely to see in my lifetime.
Newsflash: society must adapt to changes in its environment. This includes technological changes that render previous assumptions obsolete. At the bottom of the article, the columnist mentions how digital paper might kill the newspaper business, or how easily copied CDs affected the music business. He didn't mention how that motorized carrage invention killed the buggy whip business. If your line of work is being made obsolete by changes in the environment, then perhaps it is time to change your line of work. It is futile to try to change the world, although that doesn't stop people from trying, at best all you can do is slow down the rate of change. I know it will be painful for the people who don't adapt, but that is the way of the world.