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The microwave can be a tool for good food. Barbara Kafka's Microwave Gourmet is a great book on foods where the microwave is actually a good cooking method. Pate, for example....
According to the article, they made a change last month to allow them to be transported.
Last month, CCP announced changes to allow PLEX to be transported in a ship's cargo. This meant that if a ship was transporting pilot's licenses when it was destroyed, the killers could literally find game time codes in amongst the loot. Last night, players from Method Of Destruction corporation became the first to prove just how dangerous it can be to transport PLEX in a ship's cargo hold. After scanning the cargo of a lone Kestrel in Jita, "slickdog" and "Viktor Vegas" discovered that the ship was carrying a whopping 74 PLEX. Unfortunately for the trigger-happy duo, all 74 were destroyed when they blew the ship up.
So this was all by design. Interesting form of gambling.
Actually, in this case, Macs have been doing it since Snow Leopard was released, with Airport base stations. The base station will act as a proxy for any Bonjour-advertised service. If the Mac is asleep, the Airport will continue to advertise the bonjour offers. If another machine tries to connect to one of those services, the router will see it and will send the WOL packet to the mac.
So this does satisfy the basic need. It looks like the MS solution goes a bit further to making it work in an enterprise environment. With Apple's Wake On Demand, you need to be using Apple router, while with MS's you can use anything. It also looks like it could span routers, which Apple's can't do (with the exception of Back to My Mac with MobileMe). MS's paper does mention Apple's sleep proxy in its section on prior work, though it doesn't go into details on the differences.
The article is talking about programming classes in the UK equivalent of high school, so it's unlikely that these guys would be trying to get a job based on those skills once they'd graduated. It seems to be about the same as the AP classes in the US. These are introductory classes, intended to lead into college work. They're intended to teach you the fundamentals, not make you job-ready your freshman year. When I was in college, our first semester was Scheme, although I ended up using ASM, C, C++, Java, Awk, Lisp and some other languages along the line before I graduated.
The reason they're dropping the other languages is that there wasn't enough demand for the exams, which means that the various schools weren't teaching them.
No, they work with T-Mobile's EDGE coverage in the US. AT&T and T-Mobile use different frequencies for 3G, and the iPhone is not capable of using the 3G frequency T-Mobile uses.
Polarity glasses only work if you have a polarized display. With an LCD or Plasma TV, there's no convenient way to flip the polarization 30 times a second or so. Instead, you need the active glasses which can block the correct eye in sync with the TV.
Active glasses could also work with a dvd player or game system without requiring support from the TV. I knew someone who had them for an Amiga 25 years ago.
For a while now, you can block applications on your news feed, by going to the hide menu next to the post and selecting "Hide [This Stupid App]." You can't hide it from the iPhone App, or from the list on _their_ profile page, but it's better than nothing.
Unfortunately, almost every quiz shows up as a new app.
I don't know how much they charge third party mfrs to make compatible devices, but they aren't flatly stopping third parties from making things. The dock ecosystem is a great part of having an iPod. I've got a Kenwood car receiver that you can plug in a USB device. It'll work with USB Mass Storage devices, but with an iPod it'll keep the same place you were in when you listened before, you'll have your last played synced, you can use the smart playlists you have on your iPod. Then I can take it out and plug it into a portable set of speakers and it can remote control the ipod, etc. Some HD radios can tag songs and drops the tags on your iPod so iTunes can show you what they were and let you buy them.
It's true, all of this is controlled by Apple, but they allow all sorts of compatible accessories, often at really cheap prices. I can get a third-party dock cable off amazon for about $6, which I don't find excessive.
It's interesting that you've had more problems with your computer than with your service. My experience has been the opposite. There was the time another computer on the same segment of my cable modem was using the IP address DHCP assigned me... so whichever computer got a packet in first after the arp cache refreshed got internet for a while. There was the one DSL provider that went out of business. There have been a couple several hour outages on the current DSL, and a couple on an old cable modem. Oh, and another DSL provider which messed up an upgrade in their infrastructure and had to issue people new static IPs. All except the last eventually were fixed without changes on my end.
If you had RTFA, you'd have found that the difference they've made is they've developed a compression scheme that doesn't have the huge performance penalty that old techniques had. (Specifically, they claim "0.2 percent on average and 9.2 percent in the worst case.")
I carry around an extra battery for my HTC Apache phone, because it won't make it from morning to bedtime without it. So, on the Shift, it's probably a good idea to have an extra....
That depends on the company and the culture. With the amount of extra hours my company expects us to work, if we were forced to do all that work in the office (and come in 7 days a week) we'd all revolt. It's clearly best for the company to give us laptops so we can give them our time.
Actually, the IDEs (or at least Eclipse) seems to fall down in our department when dealing with larger applications. It's great for toy apps, but a lot of the plugins have problems scaling. The core ones are usually adequate, but third party ones are dreck.
It's an implementation detail relating to their lisp implementation. I think fixing it hasn't been a huge deal since we've all thought we'd have been on 64-bit platforms for years now....
There are a few reasons that Science and Nature prefer Word to TeX. First, they are not nearly as equation-heavy as a pure physics or mathematics journal would be. Second, they've got a publishing workflow that takes Word as an input and ties into the rest of their technology. They don't care how well Word typesets documents, they want common input formats that they can rip information out of and edit themselves.
TeX and LaTeX are great if you've got substantial finicky needs (esp around equations) that you really need the author to get right, and to be able to carry that through. However, to support that comes at a price. As the TUGBoat editors experience on an ongoing basis, publishing a journal composed of arbitrary TeX content from different authors is difficult. Different authors may use conflicting macro packages, or it may be harder to coerce each into the house style.
I, and I am guessing the earlier poster, are what you'd call "two-fingered touch typists". I don't have to look at the keyboard, and I can type in the dark, with my eyes closed, or while reading something else. Somehow, I've learned to fairly decently preposition fingers, although I don't use all the fingers.
It's really pretty interesting. Any typing coach would be horrified, but I'm fairly efficient.
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The microwave can be a tool for good food. Barbara Kafka's Microwave Gourmet is a great book on foods where the microwave is actually a good cooking method. Pate, for example....
According to the article, they made a change last month to allow them to be transported.
Last month, CCP announced changes to allow PLEX to be transported in a ship's cargo. This meant that if a ship was transporting pilot's licenses when it was destroyed, the killers could literally find game time codes in amongst the loot. Last night, players from Method Of Destruction corporation became the first to prove just how dangerous it can be to transport PLEX in a ship's cargo hold. After scanning the cargo of a lone Kestrel in Jita, "slickdog" and "Viktor Vegas" discovered that the ship was carrying a whopping 74 PLEX. Unfortunately for the trigger-happy duo, all 74 were destroyed when they blew the ship up.
So this was all by design. Interesting form of gambling.
Actually, in this case, Macs have been doing it since Snow Leopard was released, with Airport base stations. The base station will act as a proxy for any Bonjour-advertised service. If the Mac is asleep, the Airport will continue to advertise the bonjour offers. If another machine tries to connect to one of those services, the router will see it and will send the WOL packet to the mac.
So this does satisfy the basic need. It looks like the MS solution goes a bit further to making it work in an enterprise environment. With Apple's Wake On Demand, you need to be using Apple router, while with MS's you can use anything. It also looks like it could span routers, which Apple's can't do (with the exception of Back to My Mac with MobileMe). MS's paper does mention Apple's sleep proxy in its section on prior work, though it doesn't go into details on the differences.
Apple does. Look at the App Store.
The article is talking about programming classes in the UK equivalent of high school, so it's unlikely that these guys would be trying to get a job based on those skills once they'd graduated. It seems to be about the same as the AP classes in the US. These are introductory classes, intended to lead into college work. They're intended to teach you the fundamentals, not make you job-ready your freshman year. When I was in college, our first semester was Scheme, although I ended up using ASM, C, C++, Java, Awk, Lisp and some other languages along the line before I graduated.
The reason they're dropping the other languages is that there wasn't enough demand for the exams, which means that the various schools weren't teaching them.
No, they work with T-Mobile's EDGE coverage in the US. AT&T and T-Mobile use different frequencies for 3G, and the iPhone is not capable of using the 3G frequency T-Mobile uses.
Polarity glasses only work if you have a polarized display. With an LCD or Plasma TV, there's no convenient way to flip the polarization 30 times a second or so. Instead, you need the active glasses which can block the correct eye in sync with the TV.
Active glasses could also work with a dvd player or game system without requiring support from the TV. I knew someone who had them for an Amiga 25 years ago.
Last I checked, those blocks didn't work on the iPhone App. That's why I stopped using the app... it got too full of game updates.
It's a poor Lisp in C's clothing. Give me LET already!
Since before 1994 in Emacs, at least.
For a while now, you can block applications on your news feed, by going to the hide menu next to the post and selecting "Hide [This Stupid App]." You can't hide it from the iPhone App, or from the list on _their_ profile page, but it's better than nothing.
Unfortunately, almost every quiz shows up as a new app.
I don't know how much they charge third party mfrs to make compatible devices, but they aren't flatly stopping third parties from making things. The dock ecosystem is a great part of having an iPod. I've got a Kenwood car receiver that you can plug in a USB device. It'll work with USB Mass Storage devices, but with an iPod it'll keep the same place you were in when you listened before, you'll have your last played synced, you can use the smart playlists you have on your iPod. Then I can take it out and plug it into a portable set of speakers and it can remote control the ipod, etc. Some HD radios can tag songs and drops the tags on your iPod so iTunes can show you what they were and let you buy them.
It's true, all of this is controlled by Apple, but they allow all sorts of compatible accessories, often at really cheap prices. I can get a third-party dock cable off amazon for about $6, which I don't find excessive.
It's interesting that you've had more problems with your computer than with your service. My experience has been the opposite. There was the time another computer on the same segment of my cable modem was using the IP address DHCP assigned me... so whichever computer got a packet in first after the arp cache refreshed got internet for a while. There was the one DSL provider that went out of business. There have been a couple several hour outages on the current DSL, and a couple on an old cable modem. Oh, and another DSL provider which messed up an upgrade in their infrastructure and had to issue people new static IPs. All except the last eventually were fixed without changes on my end.
If you had RTFA, you'd have found that the difference they've made is they've developed a compression scheme that doesn't have the huge performance penalty that old techniques had. (Specifically, they claim "0.2 percent on average and 9.2 percent in the worst case.")
I'm hoping. The lack of 16bpp color support was the factor that was bugging me most.
I carry around an extra battery for my HTC Apache phone, because it won't make it from morning to bedtime without it. So, on the Shift, it's probably a good idea to have an extra....
That depends on the company and the culture. With the amount of extra hours my company expects us to work, if we were forced to do all that work in the office (and come in 7 days a week) we'd all revolt. It's clearly best for the company to give us laptops so we can give them our time.
Actually, if you read DHH's blog (here's a google cache link, the original seems to have moved http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:B9zIVL4XR4sJ:www.loudthinking.com/arc/2005_09.html+single+layer+of+cleverness&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a) it looks like his intent is to pull all that logic from the database completely, and use it merely as a table-store.
Actually, the IDEs (or at least Eclipse) seems to fall down in our department when dealing with larger applications. It's great for toy apps, but a lot of the plugins have problems scaling. The core ones are usually adequate, but third party ones are dreck.
Sadly, Eclipse doesn't have any of those features that I can find...
It's an implementation detail relating to their lisp implementation. I think fixing it hasn't been a huge deal since we've all thought we'd have been on 64-bit platforms for years now....
If you're on a 64-bit computer, yes. If you're still on a 32-bit platform, no. Max filesize is something that didn't change this release.
Subversion does not do merge tracking. They're hoping to add it in svn 1.5, but....
There are a few reasons that Science and Nature prefer Word to TeX. First, they are not nearly as equation-heavy as a pure physics or mathematics journal would be. Second, they've got a publishing workflow that takes Word as an input and ties into the rest of their technology. They don't care how well Word typesets documents, they want common input formats that they can rip information out of and edit themselves.
TeX and LaTeX are great if you've got substantial finicky needs (esp around equations) that you really need the author to get right, and to be able to carry that through. However, to support that comes at a price. As the TUGBoat editors experience on an ongoing basis, publishing a journal composed of arbitrary TeX content from different authors is difficult. Different authors may use conflicting macro packages, or it may be harder to coerce each into the house style.
I, and I am guessing the earlier poster, are what you'd call "two-fingered touch typists". I don't have to look at the keyboard, and I can type in the dark, with my eyes closed, or while reading something else. Somehow, I've learned to fairly decently preposition fingers, although I don't use all the fingers.
It's really pretty interesting. Any typing coach would be horrified, but I'm fairly efficient.