Close - it was Numbers Richter's reality measuring device from Moving Pictures.
Re:Mac mini is the next TiVo unit?
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Although it'll need a TV card
How about a firewire adapter....and when people are actually buying this stuff an onboard apater on the next not-quite-so-obviously-an-adapted-ibook-mini in, say, a year.
Next generation iPod Photo will probably be iPod Video
How about a bluetooth enabled iPod (plus bluetooth enabled airport express) that can be used as a remote for thie iTiVO
My God, people in Africa might actually start thinking that a trial by jury is a human right not luxury of the state and people in Europe might start thinking that they actually do have a right to speak their minds without being attacked by the politically correct police
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
No seriously - I think you should have a little chat with inmates in cuba or those quarantined in 'free speech zones'. I think there's something to be said for wresting control as something as important as the internet from a government who has so callously trodden on such ideals. Certainly they can't police themselves.
I wonder if the fact that this is not an American publication has anything to do with it.
That or, perhaps, the subject's amazing array of bewildering array mental/developmental/emotional idiosyncrasies simply overwhelmed the (relatively) mundane nature of his sexuality. Perhaps.
A general statement like "it makes sense to use XML when dealing with text files" is pure stupidity.
Yeah I can see how such gneralization would be *ahem* stupid
XML increases the data size which increases the time it takes to transfer, the disk space, and the memory space it uses. Further, XML parsers are rather slow.
b/w is cheap, disk space is cheap, ram is cheap, cpu time is cheap, developer time well maybe not so much. If one is looking at a problem and the solution seems to be text files then non of your concerns are likely to a consideration. Engineering time and tool compatability are though.
XML? I wouldn't.
Never said you did but methinks someone has prematurely jumped on the XML bashing wagon. There are many problem domains where the _best_ solution isn't necessarily the most elegant or the most efficient one.
What I don't understand is why many projects use MySQL or Postgres AT ALL.
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Same goes for XML, people use this stuff everywhere and anywhere they can
Why replicate database functionality when you don't have to? Esp if there a good chance there's a server in widespread use, probably already installed, available? Same thing goes for text file parsers. If you're going to store, transmit or import text files it makes sense to use XML. There's no point in wasting time, effort and encouraging engineering gotchyas be writing your own parser when a perfectly good tool is available. Leverage the tools and build something worth taking an interest in, don't waste those resources builing yet another $tool.
With that said...what does the spin of the star (or, more importantly to your question, the resulting spin) have to do with its linear motion, which happens to have been changed by an outside force? I'm not bashing you, I just don't see how it's relevant.
Not that one effects the other that much but spin can be very destructive. That being said gyroscopes are funny about acceleration.
We're (supposedly) talking about a super-massive black hole, which would be expected to have an enormous gravitational field which would be able to act at a great distance. (In fact, it's got quite a few spiral arms zooming around the cosmos, although they're trapped in orbit around it.:)
I'm thinking that a single star, gauged against the size I think we'd have to be talking about to avoid destructive tides, is pretty small.
I could be a little off in the math but I'm thinking of a couple of things, namely tides and spin. My back of the envelope thoughts include:
89/mph fast ball == 40m/s
d=3m (armspan and abit), a = 533m/s^2 and t = 0.075s
that baseball would need to accelerate for more than 20minutes to reach 670000m/s
Our sun is relatively stationary with respect to the plane of the galaxy but it's already spinning and, I gather, not all at the same time. it's not a solid body and the poles don't keep time with the equator. It cleary doesn't behave like a solid body, unlike the baseball. So to move such an object without inducing tides or significantly deformation the gravitational field, one would think, must be enormous and acting at quite some distance. So why is there just one star and not a whole bloody spiral arm zooming across the cosmos?
Even if my grav field assumptions are wrong what are the chances that you could accelerate any object, solid or not, that's already spinning without changing that spin?
I can't help but think that either my assumptions are wrong or there's something really really strange about a big blob of gas accelerating to a non trival fraction of light speed over a short enough duration that it's done so and still remained in the neighboorhood.
Is there *really* a difference, physically, on an object moving at 1.5MM mph and one standing completely still, if they're not interacting with anything else? No. Their inertias are the same, so their physical properties and interactions are the same.
Except that is was part of the galaxy and now it's moving away at some.2% of C. This would sugest some rather significant acceleration at some point, no?
If you think China and Russia are some kind of benevolent white knights riding to rescue the world from US oppression
Hmmm there might be a few people here and there with something to say on the subject. This country was founded by a coalition of the God fearing who felt they had the mandate of said deity to, well, systematically mince the world and reform it in their image. Yum - tastes like McNuggets.
Native Tribe of Kanatak, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, The Stikine Tribes, Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribe, Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama, The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, United Cherokee Ani-Yun-Wiya Nation, Akimel O'odham Gila River Community, The Hopi Tribe, The Navajo Nation, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Yavapai-Apache Nation , Agua Caliente Band of Cahullia Indians, Barona Band of Mission Indians, Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians, Costanoan-Ohlone Indians (www.indiancanyon.org), Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe of Chino California, Esselen Tribe of Monterey County, Gabrieleno-Tongva Tribe of San Gabriel, Hoopa Valley Tribe, Kashaya Band of Pomo Indians, Konkow Valley Band of Maidu, Kumeyaay Nation, Muwekma Ohlone Indian Tribe, Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation, Pala Band of Mission Indians, Pinoleville Band of Pomo Indians, Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, Tsnungwe Council, Wiyot Tribe, The Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, , The Golden Hill Indians of the Paugussett Indian Nation, The Mohegan Tribe, Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Indian Tribal Nation, The Nanticoke People, The Seminole Tribe of Florida, Coeur d'Alene Indians, Delawares of Idaho, The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Lemhi-Shoshone Indian Community, Nez Perce Tribe, Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, United Tribe of Shawnee Indians, Wyandot Nation of Kansas, Sovereign Nation of the Chitimacha, Sovereign Nation of the Coushatta Tribe, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, The Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point, Pocomoke Indian Nation, Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Indian Community, The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians , Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Sandy Lake Band of Ojibwe, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Blackfeet Nation of Montana, Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey, Powhatan Renape Nation, Ramapough Mountain Indians, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Pueblo of Sandia, Oneida Indian Nation, The Seneca Nation of Indians, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Lumbee Tribe, , Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Munsee Delaware Indian Nation - USA, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, The Cherokee Nation, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Comanche Nation, Delaware (Lenni Lenape) Tribe of Indians, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Osage Nation of Oklahoma, Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, The Shawnee Tribe, Wichita and Affilliated Tribes, Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua & Siuislaw, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community, Confederated Tribes of Siletz, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, The Klamath Tribes, Narragansett Indian Tribe, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Traditional Abenaki of Mazipskwik & Related Bands, Monacan Indian Nation, Wicocomico Indian Nation, The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis, The Confederated Tribes of the Colvill
(active civil rights abuse)-(usurping of power and perogative to acitvely commit civil rights abuses) = 1/(NOW()-1984).
I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain. The sig below, although it has been chosen for a rather different reason, must then suffice.
Worthless punting by Cringely - obvious predictions about obvious things, useless predictions about useless things. Just like a "Best of year X", everybody needs to do a "Predictions for year X+1" - and Cringely's predictions are as good as anyone else's (i.e. worthless).
Except, of course, that they aren't - they're just obvious. Actually they're only obvious to those already informed and following developments in the industry. What makes them usefull is the fact that Cringly has exposure outside of the industry and, therefor, significantly more influence upon the mindshare of the general population. Something I can't (and assume you can't) claim.
If you're in the position to hire personnel and are looking to staff a position... take your stack of applications and divide them in half at random. Take one stack and throw it into the trash.
Avoid hiring unlucky people.
Ha ha. I'm guessing, though, that Teela would be far _too_ lucky to be found working for you;).
Don't want to restate the obvious so I will restate what may not be so obvious:
A 1" thick headless unit fits nicely in my A/V cabinet.
Yeah, you heard me - network connection - audio line out (or atleast USB/Firewire for 3rd party)
This is the new Media server for my den.
I think you're heading in the right direction, but let's take it a step further.... What about a 1" AV cabinet-able unit plus a mythtv port. Oh and an.mac upgrade with supported tivo like listings?
"...if you join the company as a contractor, you can set out your hourly rate as $0. This is legally enforceable under contract law..."
In most legal systems derived from English Common law the idea of a contract requires 'due consideration' meaning that both sides have to recieve something from the deal. If a contract basically gives anything of value away for nothing it is (usually) considered unenforcable
Even worse is if you're born on January 31th. He got rid of your birthday forever.
Meh. From up here in the frozen north I feel that sacrificing the odd person's birthday is def a small price to pay for obliterating even 3.2% of the Whorrific month.
Perhaps, perhaps.... another thought though:
'Round here finding a half decent cup of coffee 10-15 years ago was pretty tough. *$ might not be _great_ coffee but it brought with it the expectation for _better_ coffee and a much improved profile and chic for the beverage.
Today, in my small little town, the one coffee shop that was around in the 'dark ages' is still open and they still roast their own beans (quite well) but now they're open more than 10 hours a week and employ staff that have some knowledge about service. They do quite well.
In addition, though, there's 2 *$, 2 more independants, at least 3 other chain stores and even the fast food joints can't get away with selling hot water as 'coffee'.
Do I like *$? Well, not terribly but I do like spending time there when I stop in at Chapters and I'm gratefull for the opportunity to buy a half decent cup I didn't have to brew myself.
Not really, because it uses Linux technology instead of NT technology.
Oh well since you put it that way I can totally see how this file system (F)ile(S)ystem(C)hec(K) comment offers no redundancy whatsoever. Thanks for clearing that up.
Hmmm - I guess, if you consider all 0x10 digits as fingers. I'm afraid 2 of mine are rather substandard and will be sticking to my O10 fingers and 10b thumbs....
*correction - a water skiing resort... in hawaii... working on an ascii front end for a diiodide metering device...
Just a though:/usr/share/dict $ grep -ic ii words
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Re:Who needs splash screens anyway?
Re:Who needs splash screens anyway? (Score:4, Interesting)
by Handyman (97520) Alter Relationship on Thursday December 09, @06:25AM (#11041193)
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Yes, a long delay without a splash screen is irritating as well. But there is nothing as irritating as a splash screen that is always-on-top. What were they THINKING making the OOo splash screen always-on-top? They already have a reputation for being the slowest starting office product out there, must they rub it in your face then?
Oh my - OO starts in 9-11 seconds on my rather anemic system. Heaven forbid they should have taken maybe 2 more seconds than abs necessary to get things going. In case you missed it the preceding sentence was laced with enough sarcasm that it threatens imminent collapse into a biting singularity of incredible destructive power.
Slower? Yes I can see that but it's certainly not slow.
Oh and BTW - OO was fast enough to boot simply to spell check this post.
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Close - it was Numbers Richter's reality measuring device from Moving Pictures.
No seriously - I think you should have a little chat with inmates in cuba or those quarantined in 'free speech zones'. I think there's something to be said for wresting control as something as important as the internet from a government who has so callously trodden on such ideals. Certainly they can't police themselves.
- 89/mph fast ball == 40m/s
- d=3m (armspan and abit), a = 533m/s^2 and t = 0.075s
- that baseball would need to accelerate for more than 20minutes to reach 670000m/s
Our sun is relatively stationary with respect to the plane of the galaxy but it's already spinning and, I gather, not all at the same time. it's not a solid body and the poles don't keep time with the equator. It cleary doesn't behave like a solid body, unlike the baseball. So to move such an object without inducing tides or significantly deformation the gravitational field, one would think, must be enormous and acting at quite some distance. So why is there just one star and not a whole bloody spiral arm zooming across the cosmos?Even if my grav field assumptions are wrong what are the chances that you could accelerate any object, solid or not, that's already spinning without changing that spin?
I can't help but think that either my assumptions are wrong or there's something really really strange about a big blob of gas accelerating to a non trival fraction of light speed over a short enough duration that it's done so and still remained in the neighboorhood.
Hmmm there might be a few people here and there with something to say on the subject. This country was founded by a coalition of the God fearing who felt they had the mandate of said deity to, well, systematically mince the world and reform it in their image. Yum - tastes like McNuggets.
Native Tribe of Kanatak, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, The Stikine Tribes, Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribe, Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama, The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, United Cherokee Ani-Yun-Wiya Nation, Akimel O'odham Gila River Community, The Hopi Tribe, The Navajo Nation, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Yavapai-Apache Nation , Agua Caliente Band of Cahullia Indians, Barona Band of Mission Indians, Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians, Costanoan-Ohlone Indians (www.indiancanyon.org), Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe of Chino California, Esselen Tribe of Monterey County, Gabrieleno-Tongva Tribe of San Gabriel, Hoopa Valley Tribe, Kashaya Band of Pomo Indians, Konkow Valley Band of Maidu, Kumeyaay Nation, Muwekma Ohlone Indian Tribe, Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation, Pala Band of Mission Indians, Pinoleville Band of Pomo Indians, Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, Tsnungwe Council, Wiyot Tribe, The Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, , The Golden Hill Indians of the Paugussett Indian Nation, The Mohegan Tribe, Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Indian Tribal Nation, The Nanticoke People, The Seminole Tribe of Florida, Coeur d'Alene Indians, Delawares of Idaho, The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Lemhi-Shoshone Indian Community, Nez Perce Tribe, Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, United Tribe of Shawnee Indians, Wyandot Nation of Kansas, Sovereign Nation of the Chitimacha, Sovereign Nation of the Coushatta Tribe, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, The Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point, Pocomoke Indian Nation, Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Indian Community, The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians , Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Sandy Lake Band of Ojibwe, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Blackfeet Nation of Montana, Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey, Powhatan Renape Nation, Ramapough Mountain Indians, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Pueblo of Sandia, Oneida Indian Nation, The Seneca Nation of Indians, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Lumbee Tribe, , Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Munsee Delaware Indian Nation - USA, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, The Cherokee Nation, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Comanche Nation, Delaware (Lenni Lenape) Tribe of Indians, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Osage Nation of Oklahoma, Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, The Shawnee Tribe, Wichita and Affilliated Tribes, Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua & Siuislaw, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community, Confederated Tribes of Siletz, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, The Klamath Tribes, Narragansett Indian Tribe, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Traditional Abenaki of Mazipskwik & Related Bands, Monacan Indian Nation, Wicocomico Indian Nation, The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis, The Confederated Tribes of the Colvill
(active civil rights abuse)-(usurping of power and perogative to acitvely commit civil rights abuses) = 1/(NOW()-1984). I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain. The sig below, although it has been chosen for a rather different reason, must then suffice.
Except, of course, that they aren't - they're just obvious. Actually they're only obvious to those already informed and following developments in the industry. What makes them usefull is the fact that Cringly has exposure outside of the industry and, therefor, significantly more influence upon the mindshare of the general population. Something I can't (and assume you can't) claim.
Ha ha. ;).
I'm guessing, though, that Teela would be far _too_ lucky to be found working for you
I think you're heading in the right direction, but let's take it a step further.... What about a 1" AV cabinet-able unit plus a mythtv port. Oh and an .mac upgrade with supported tivo like listings?
In most legal systems derived from English Common law the idea of a contract requires 'due consideration' meaning that both sides have to recieve something from the deal. If a contract basically gives anything of value away for nothing it is (usually) considered unenforcable
Meh. From up here in the frozen north I feel that sacrificing the odd person's birthday is def a small price to pay for obliterating even 3.2% of the Whorrific month.
Mmmm - i've though that 12 would be nice. It's highly composite and would make figuring fractions like 1/3 easier.
Perhaps, perhaps.... another thought though: 'Round here finding a half decent cup of coffee 10-15 years ago was pretty tough. *$ might not be _great_ coffee but it brought with it the expectation for _better_ coffee and a much improved profile and chic for the beverage. Today, in my small little town, the one coffee shop that was around in the 'dark ages' is still open and they still roast their own beans (quite well) but now they're open more than 10 hours a week and employ staff that have some knowledge about service. They do quite well. In addition, though, there's 2 *$, 2 more independants, at least 3 other chain stores and even the fast food joints can't get away with selling hot water as 'coffee'. Do I like *$? Well, not terribly but I do like spending time there when I stop in at Chapters and I'm gratefull for the opportunity to buy a half decent cup I didn't have to brew myself.
Not really, because it uses Linux technology instead of NT technology.
Oh well since you put it that way I can totally see how this file system (F)ile(S)ystem(C)hec(K) comment offers no redundancy whatsoever. Thanks for clearing that up.
Hmmm - I guess, if you consider all 0x10 digits as fingers. I'm afraid 2 of mine are rather substandard and will be sticking to my O10 fingers and 10b thumbs....
Hmm - I don't know about you but, at this time, I'm not looking for and derivatives (or sums, heaven forbid products) from sex.
Great - you used 183 words to complain about a greivous 7 seconds of lag for a nonrepetitive task with 5 year old equipment.
*correction - a water skiing resort... in hawaii... working on an ascii front end for a diiodide metering device... Just a though: /usr/share/dict $ grep -ic ii words
419
Oh my - OO starts in 9-11 seconds on my rather anemic system. Heaven forbid they should have taken maybe 2 more seconds than abs necessary to get things going. In case you missed it the preceding sentence was laced with enough sarcasm that it threatens imminent collapse into a biting singularity of incredible destructive power. Slower? Yes I can see that but it's certainly not slow. Oh and BTW - OO was fast enough to boot simply to spell check this post.