My friend recently purchased a new computer (in pieces, so that he assembled it from the components) and he purchased on 128 megabytes of RAM (despite my natterings). He still insists that he doesn't need any more and that he almost never uses very much of it.
He has a 1.4 Ghz Athlon. Perhaps 256 mb would be necessary for a 2.53 Ghz Pentium 4, but unless you get a higher-end system it is not strictly necessary.
I believe that the shuttle was actually built as a pseudo-airplane so that they could reduce the distance required for re-entry. At that time, the political situation with Russia was tense and they wanted a spacecraft that would re-enter and safely land without leaving American airspace.
One thing that I have always found amusing is the quip that attacks the concept of the gliding Shuttle: if you were able to jump out of the window of the Shuttle as it entered the atmosphere, you would hit the ground after the Shuttle had landed.
(Of course, you wouldn't land at all, you would probaby disintegrate in midair. You would also have to magically lose the Shuttle's momentum. There are some physical problems, but I digress.)
You will note that he only included the first seven books in his recommendation. The Path of Daggers, Winter's Heart, and Crossroads of Twilight did not make the list, and rightly so.
The theorists believe that Robert Jordan has put out a few books because he is trying to position all of his characters before the action of the Last Battle really starts. The last few books have not been very eventful, I will agree.
I think it would be absolutely amazing if the series ever ends, so I think it's a good thing that it seems like the end is near.
The site has a major problem. It lists the Suicides per Capita in several different regions as being greater than one.
This is, unfortunately, somewhat impossible. Maybe they are taking the suicides for the entire year, divided by the survivors, but that's just bad statistics. Furthermore, if 86% of the population of several states had committed suicide, it would have been on Slashdot.
It doesn't matter whether or not the products work as advertised. It matters whether or not the products are selling.
There are an incredible amount of idiots falling for Nigerian banking schemes. So what, to the spammers, if the idiots who fall for them schemes aren't making any money off of them.
Cease your nostalgic rambling, oh great white-haired one! I would advise you to depart for your medicine cabinet at once, so that you may ingest your medications so as to alleviate the terrible pains caused by the arthritis from which you suffer.
My Physics teacher really dislikes interruptions. He torments people who come in and who interrupt him now by making them explain Physics problems, but he used to be much, much worse. A few years ago, the people who carry notes from the office apparently were terrified of entering his class room. One brave courier had a message and knocked on his door while he was explaining mass versus weight to his students. He was using the example of massing the same on other planets but having different weights.
He walks toward the door... "So, you can imagine what a one kilogram mass would weigh on Earth, but what would it weigh on SATURN OR UR-(opens door)-ANUS?"
We're forced to use Mozilla at work 'cause IE has more holes than a Peter North fan club. On a Win32 platform it's unstable with many instances running (I suspect they're all the same process), crashes for no apparent reason, takes forever to load and is fugly.
Wow. Are we using the same browser? It sounds like you're talking about IE here (fits well), but context says you're talking about Mozilla.
I currently have 45 tabs open, divided among 10 windows of Mozilla. It hasn't crashed on me in months. With quicklaunch it doesn't take long to load, and the modern skin actually looks pretty cool (a friend once uses the Mozilla widgets for his programs and pages =]).
Mozilla is stable, though it could probably be faster.
I wish the "Web of Wars" had been a globe and not a flat, mercator projection....
It would be interesting to see how the lines wrapped around the world. Right now it looks like Europe was the epicenter of war, but maybe that's just because of wars that span the Pacific being routed through Europe on the map.
Hm, actually I think it would be especially interesting to see a globe with an intensity down to about magnitude 2 or 3 or lower.
It would be interesting to look at, and to show to guests, if nothing else. =]
The reason for dark matter is that by using our models, the universe ought to fling itself apart pretty quickly. The delicate strands of galaxies... they're simply not dense enough.
Thus the reason for the theoretical extrapolation of dark matter. If 90% of the universe's mass was unseen, THEN the universe would have enough density to keep itself together.
Another theory, MOND is that Newton's Law of "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" does not apply to extremely low accelerations.
Some credence was lent to MOND by the Boomerang findings last year. The amplitude of the second peak [in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background] was that predicted by Stacy McGaugh, to fit with MOND, and too low to match the theories of Dark Matter.
Tribes 2 was developed by Dynamix. Sierra released Tribes 2 before Dynamix was satisfactorarily finished with it. Once Dynamix got most of the problems out of Tribes 2 (with generous aid from Loki).
Then about 6 months after release, Sierra realized (maybe because of legal problems?) that people who met the minimum requirements were getting unacceptable framerates... thus Dynamix was forced to ruin most of the really cool maps to accomodate the Voodoo (3) people.
[This, of course, is rather amusing because the largest problem that the Voodoo 3 suffered from in Tribes 2 was vehicle smoke... which stayed with the game, i believe]
After the map change fiasco, the Dynamix team was axed and the update they were working on was released... and as of this writing, that's the last of the Tribes 2 updates.
WIPO is the World Intellectual Property Organization. I don't know exactly what it is, it just sounds evil =].
Although the treaties were adopted in 1996, they are only ratified now with the signature of Honduras. The WTTP is basically the DMCA for the rest of the world. It exists to "provide protection for companies in the cultural and information industries".
*waves* We kinda, like, y'know, started the war against Iraq? We told them that their actions in Kuwait were fine by us [regional dispute we would not become involved in], and then we built up in Saudi Arabia and invaded.
Naturally, we created massive destruction and suffering in our wake and punished the nation for nearly a decade after that.
"If we were fighting this war with "An eye for an eye" as our doctrine, the commensurate response (both in terms of symbolism and needless civilian casualties) would have been to reduce Mecca to little more than a smudge in the middle of a 20-mile-wide glowing green glass plate."
WTF??
That such a ridiculous statement was given a +2 annoys me. You're trying to say that the elimination of a holy city is equivalent to two trade buildings. You're trying to say that a single American life is worth 184++ foriegn lives (that is, in Mecca alone).
That is not eye for an eye. That is perpetrator + spouse + children + extended family + friends + coworkers + church + suburb for an eye.
I personally believe that there must have been a lot more Afghani casualties than American casualties. Hm, but who cares, they're just foriegners.
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My friend recently purchased a new computer (in pieces, so that he assembled it from the components) and he purchased on 128 megabytes of RAM (despite my natterings). He still insists that he doesn't need any more and that he almost never uses very much of it.
He has a 1.4 Ghz Athlon. Perhaps 256 mb would be necessary for a 2.53 Ghz Pentium 4, but unless you get a higher-end system it is not strictly necessary.
I didn't really think you were from adequacy.org - I thought you were mocking them.
However, the third paragraph definitely confirmed that you are from Adequacy.org
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Dude! Cool idea!
Hehe. I have. I have tried to convince women not to wear makeup (although I've usually failed).
I would go for that.
I have some friends in Oregon; they might be easily persuaded to join in.
I believe that the shuttle was actually built as a pseudo-airplane so that they could reduce the distance required for re-entry. At that time, the political situation with Russia was tense and they wanted a spacecraft that would re-enter and safely land without leaving American airspace.
One thing that I have always found amusing is the quip that attacks the concept of the gliding Shuttle: if you were able to jump out of the window of the Shuttle as it entered the atmosphere, you would hit the ground after the Shuttle had landed.
(Of course, you wouldn't land at all, you would probaby disintegrate in midair. You would also have to magically lose the Shuttle's momentum. There are some physical problems, but I digress.)
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Linux also needs a better command line.
Maybe they should try to clone the Bourne shell?
I absolutely hated them.
I didn't get all that far, but Hyperion just seemed to be stupid.
Apparently other people like these books better than I did.
You will note that he only included the first seven books in his recommendation. The Path of Daggers, Winter's Heart, and Crossroads of Twilight did not make the list, and rightly so.
The theorists believe that Robert Jordan has put out a few books because he is trying to position all of his characters before the action of the Last Battle really starts. The last few books have not been very eventful, I will agree.
I think it would be absolutely amazing if the series ever ends, so I think it's a good thing that it seems like the end is near.
The site has a major problem. It lists the Suicides per Capita in several different regions as being greater than one.
This is, unfortunately, somewhat impossible. Maybe they are taking the suicides for the entire year, divided by the survivors, but that's just bad statistics. Furthermore, if 86% of the population of several states had committed suicide, it would have been on Slashdot.
I'm afraid this is a fraud.
Myself, I can't remember a damn thing about the eruption from my own experiences, only what my parents have told me.
It doesn't matter whether or not the products work as advertised. It matters whether or not the products are selling.
There are an incredible amount of idiots falling for Nigerian banking schemes. So what, to the spammers, if the idiots who fall for them schemes aren't making any money off of them.
Cease your nostalgic rambling, oh great white-haired one! I would advise you to depart for your medicine cabinet at once, so that you may ingest your medications so as to alleviate the terrible pains caused by the arthritis from which you suffer.
My Physics teacher really dislikes interruptions. He torments people who come in and who interrupt him now by making them explain Physics problems, but he used to be much, much worse. A few years ago, the people who carry notes from the office apparently were terrified of entering his class room. One brave courier had a message and knocked on his door while he was explaining mass versus weight to his students. He was using the example of massing the same on other planets but having different weights.
He walks toward the door... "So, you can imagine what a one kilogram mass would weigh on Earth, but what would it weigh on SATURN OR UR-(opens door)-ANUS?"
Rendering.
It takes me 10 minutes to render a useful preview so that I can see what needs tweaking.
On the other hand, that lets me browse Slashdot quite a bit.
We're forced to use Mozilla at work 'cause IE has more holes than a Peter North fan club. On a Win32 platform it's unstable with many instances running (I suspect they're all the same process), crashes for no apparent reason, takes forever to load and is fugly.
Wow. Are we using the same browser? It sounds like you're talking about IE here (fits well), but context says you're talking about Mozilla.
I currently have 45 tabs open, divided among 10 windows of Mozilla. It hasn't crashed on me in months. With quicklaunch it doesn't take long to load, and the modern skin actually looks pretty cool (a friend once uses the Mozilla widgets for his programs and pages =]).
Mozilla is stable, though it could probably be faster.
I wish the "Web of Wars" had been a globe and not a flat, mercator projection....
It would be interesting to see how the lines wrapped around the world. Right now it looks like Europe was the epicenter of war, but maybe that's just because of wars that span the Pacific being routed through Europe on the map.
Hm, actually I think it would be especially interesting to see a globe with an intensity down to about magnitude 2 or 3 or lower.
It would be interesting to look at, and to show to guests, if nothing else. =]
The reason for dark matter is that by using our models, the universe ought to fling itself apart pretty quickly. The delicate strands of galaxies... they're simply not dense enough.
Thus the reason for the theoretical extrapolation of dark matter. If 90% of the universe's mass was unseen, THEN the universe would have enough density to keep itself together.
Another theory, MOND is that Newton's Law of "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" does not apply to extremely low accelerations.
Some credence was lent to MOND by the Boomerang findings last year. The amplitude of the second peak [in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background] was that predicted by Stacy McGaugh, to fit with MOND, and too low to match the theories of Dark Matter.
correction:
Tribes 2 was developed by Dynamix. Sierra released Tribes 2 before Dynamix was satisfactorarily finished with it. Once Dynamix got most of the problems out of Tribes 2 (with generous aid from Loki).
Then about 6 months after release, Sierra realized (maybe because of legal problems?) that people who met the minimum requirements were getting unacceptable framerates... thus Dynamix was forced to ruin most of the really cool maps to accomodate the Voodoo (3) people.
[This, of course, is rather amusing because the largest problem that the Voodoo 3 suffered from in Tribes 2 was vehicle smoke... which stayed with the game, i believe]
After the map change fiasco, the Dynamix team was axed and the update they were working on was released... and as of this writing, that's the last of the Tribes 2 updates.
This isn't necessarily a good thing.
Sure, it may seem like a good thing now, but you just wait five years, when suddenly all of the good Linux jobs will be taken by those darned Spanish!
That's how I read it the first, second, and third times, how I read it aloud to a visiting friend and what I thought I was clicking on.
Remember the Navy Smartships running NT? I thought someone was finally smart enough to do a similar thing with a submarine running Linux!
"Software glitches resulted in system failures and crippled ship operations, according to Navy officials."
You call IDE vulgar, but you use floppies?
Hehe.
WIPO is the World Intellectual Property Organization. I don't know exactly what it is, it just sounds evil =].
Although the treaties were adopted in 1996, they are only ratified now with the signature of Honduras. The WTTP is basically the DMCA for the rest of the world. It exists to "provide protection for companies in the cultural and information industries".
*waves* We kinda, like, y'know, started the war against Iraq? We told them that their actions in Kuwait were fine by us [regional dispute we would not become involved in], and then we built up in Saudi Arabia and invaded.
Naturally, we created massive destruction and suffering in our wake and punished the nation for nearly a decade after that.
"If we were fighting this war with "An eye for an eye" as our doctrine, the commensurate response (both in terms of symbolism and needless civilian casualties) would have been to reduce Mecca to little more than a smudge in the middle of a 20-mile-wide glowing green glass plate."
WTF??
That such a ridiculous statement was given a +2 annoys me. You're trying to say that the elimination of a holy city is equivalent to two trade buildings. You're trying to say that a single American life is worth 184++ foriegn lives (that is, in Mecca alone).
That is not eye for an eye. That is perpetrator + spouse + children + extended family + friends + coworkers + church + suburb for an eye.
I personally believe that there must have been a lot more Afghani casualties than American casualties. Hm, but who cares, they're just foriegners.