Dalhousie's CS department has a Sun Fire 12K (though it may be a 15K; not entirely positive because I haven't been in the server room since frosh week) serving all the undergrads enrolled in a CS course. Granted, right now (4:04 AM ADT) it's only serving 58 logins, but I seem to recall that during peak demand it can go way into the hundreds and nobody'll feel a thing unless some clown decides to compile/execute some really poorly-done code.
Because that's worse. It's all over PBXen in Canada and it pisses me off. The first time it happens to you, you'll think it's your Call Waiting going off.
Considering how many times Microsoft has "tweaked" their API without regard for backward compability in recent years, it's getting painful for any vendor to keep up. Every other year, Microsoft's been coming out with a "new and better" API that doesn't support the previous one and we're building into our latest and greatest OS, so what if it won't be out for four years, get on the bandwagon, get on the bandwagon, you don't want to be left behind with that miserable, out-of-date OS, do you?
Well, actually, it's gonna take about four years post-release for your latest-and-greatest to reach the market acceptance level where we'll actually need to release products for it... so we'll stay here with Windows98, thank you very much.
The Vogons carried out the destruction. Sure, the Grebulons are ultimately responsible, but it was the Vogons doing the dirty work. As far as the Vogons knew, the hyperspace bypass was rather quite important and the Earth was in the way of progress.
Actually, the end of Mostly Harmless has the Vogons eliminating Earth from not only space, but also probability. The Plural Zones provide dubious oddities in the probablity stream -- which explains how it reappeared after Arthur pretty much witnessed its first end -- so the Vogons had to prevent it from reappearing unceremoniously in the midst of their hyperspace bypass. So, they wiped it out from probability. At that point in time, a Vogon Constructor Fleet arrived above every possible Earth, no matter how improbable, and destroyed it. Floom.
I don't have my copy of the trilogy sitting here (lent it to a friend in first term and forgot to get it back at the beginning of summer), but I also seem to recall that everyone who had any vested interest in Earth's continued existence was destroyed in the blast. Arthur, Tricia, Random, Ford.. I'm fairly certain Zaphod was there as well. Even if someone were to get their hands on the Heart of Gold, they'd have, really, no reason to set it to infinite improbability in order to restore the Earth... unless they were from the same race that created Deep Thought.. then they'd be mighty upset.. but still. It ain't gonna happen. DNA made quite sure of that.
Makes me wonder what happened to "Excalibore", the machine used to dig the second rail tunnel underneath the St. Clair River between Sarnia, ON and Port Huron, MI. Entirely satellite-controlled. It was built and used because the old tunnel, dug in the late 1800s, was too short for the double-high cargo cars and they had to be ferried across the river, just like they were before the original tunnel was in place.
-shrugs- I don't know how it's done... all I know is a 15- or 25-watt halogen bulb can produce as much light as a 100-watt incandescent, if not more, but gets the entire lamp very hot to the touch. Probably not as hot as a light socket, but then again, we don't worry about those tipping over onto your bed and lighting your sheets aflame, now do we?
Halogen lights are banned in a number of university residences because they burn ridiculously hot. We're talking fire hazard here. Yeah, it's more light for the wattage, but it's a lot more heat too.
Just about any building built within the past few decades in Canada is insulated using STYROFOAM SM. Probably the States, too.
Another Dow product that's pretty much ubiquitous in Canada -- refrigerator door seals. That seal is a Dow product.
"Styrofoam" cups? No, of course not. Dow STYROFOAM SM, however, is completely different story. Unfortunately, my information source regarding all things Dow Chemical isn't currently available, so I can't tell you whether or not Styrofoam SM is designed to break down in water.
They only really key difference here is that most people use the term "styrofoam" to describe any injected-molded foam product, whereas Styrofoam technically only refers the polystyrene-based insulation created by Dow Chemical, Inc.
Nothing like arguing semantics on/. to incite a flame war.
Why not just append P.Eng. to your title? According to PEO (and probably a number of other engineering boards) you need at least four years work in the field before you get to call yourself a Professional Engineer... and more to the point, you can't even call yourself an engineer in some jurisdictions without that P.Eng. You might be have a Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Applied Sciences, but unless you've done the work, you are not an engineer.
Uggggh, you can't go more than 2 players with Ballblazer. Such a thing would go against everything Ballblazer was about.
Xbox Live-enabled, though.. that could be interesting. As long the interface isn't altered. Ballblazer's beauty was entirely in its simplicity. Updated graphics, some FMV, but no change in gameplay.
Obviously, you don't live in the Maritimes. I moved to New Brunswick in July and I still don't have a fscking doctor. Have to take advantage of the rare times I return to Ontario to talk to my old doctor.
My cell phone already has that... Motorola 120e. Let's see... Menu... Settings... Location... and I'm given a choice between "Location On" and "911 Only".. the manual clearly describes that this feature will either broadcast my physical location to the network so that I can be informed about specials at restaurants I'm passing, or just so that 911 Emergency Response will know where I am without having to ask.
Hah hah. I meant that in that the power supply wasn't going to dissuade the electricity in any way... and I think it got overloaded. How it recovered is beyond me.
One: Any Mackie soundboard. Mackie sales reps will smash the boards off the floor as hard as they can, then proceed to perform their sales pitch using the same board.
Two: The PSU for an old 486/66 of mine... left it plugged in and running when the electric company's guys had to come by an fix the power... power switch was on both when the power was cut and when it came back. The PSU didn't work for a year and a half, but it's running as well as ever, now!
-opens his copy of The Lord of The Rings and reads from the Foreword to the Second Edition-
As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical.
Tolkien was affected by his experiences in World War I when he began The Lord of the Rings, but he disliked allegory in all its forms. Stop assigning meaning to literary works when none is there! The Lord of the Rings is a story and nothing more!
$1025 a month on rent and water? How much water do you use?! Most apartments around where I grew up were below $500 a month -- how do you you spend $500 a month on water?
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Dalhousie's CS department has a Sun Fire 12K (though it may be a 15K; not entirely positive because I haven't been in the server room since frosh week) serving all the undergrads enrolled in a CS course. Granted, right now (4:04 AM ADT) it's only serving 58 logins, but I seem to recall that during peak demand it can go way into the hundreds and nobody'll feel a thing unless some clown decides to compile/execute some really poorly-done code.
Ahhh, four-year-olds aren't toddlers. Just thought I'd fill you in.
Because that's worse. It's all over PBXen in Canada and it pisses me off. The first time it happens to you, you'll think it's your Call Waiting going off.
Considering how many times Microsoft has "tweaked" their API without regard for backward compability in recent years, it's getting painful for any vendor to keep up. Every other year, Microsoft's been coming out with a "new and better" API that doesn't support the previous one and we're building into our latest and greatest OS, so what if it won't be out for four years, get on the bandwagon, get on the bandwagon, you don't want to be left behind with that miserable, out-of-date OS, do you?
Well, actually, it's gonna take about four years post-release for your latest-and-greatest to reach the market acceptance level where we'll actually need to release products for it... so we'll stay here with Windows98, thank you very much.
The Vogons carried out the destruction. Sure, the Grebulons are ultimately responsible, but it was the Vogons doing the dirty work. As far as the Vogons knew, the hyperspace bypass was rather quite important and the Earth was in the way of progress.
Actually, the end of Mostly Harmless has the Vogons eliminating Earth from not only space, but also probability. The Plural Zones provide dubious oddities in the probablity stream -- which explains how it reappeared after Arthur pretty much witnessed its first end -- so the Vogons had to prevent it from reappearing unceremoniously in the midst of their hyperspace bypass. So, they wiped it out from probability. At that point in time, a Vogon Constructor Fleet arrived above every possible Earth, no matter how improbable, and destroyed it. Floom.
I don't have my copy of the trilogy sitting here (lent it to a friend in first term and forgot to get it back at the beginning of summer), but I also seem to recall that everyone who had any vested interest in Earth's continued existence was destroyed in the blast. Arthur, Tricia, Random, Ford.. I'm fairly certain Zaphod was there as well. Even if someone were to get their hands on the Heart of Gold, they'd have, really, no reason to set it to infinite improbability in order to restore the Earth... unless they were from the same race that created Deep Thought.. then they'd be mighty upset.. but still. It ain't gonna happen. DNA made quite sure of that.
Makes me wonder what happened to "Excalibore", the machine used to dig the second rail tunnel underneath the St. Clair River between Sarnia, ON and Port Huron, MI. Entirely satellite-controlled. It was built and used because the old tunnel, dug in the late 1800s, was too short for the double-high cargo cars and they had to be ferried across the river, just like they were before the original tunnel was in place.
I've never seen PHP choke before the TCP/IP stack... just be glad the server's still accepting connections!
-shrugs- I don't know how it's done... all I know is a 15- or 25-watt halogen bulb can produce as much light as a 100-watt incandescent, if not more, but gets the entire lamp very hot to the touch. Probably not as hot as a light socket, but then again, we don't worry about those tipping over onto your bed and lighting your sheets aflame, now do we?
Halogen lights are banned in a number of university residences because they burn ridiculously hot. We're talking fire hazard here. Yeah, it's more light for the wattage, but it's a lot more heat too.
Just about any building built within the past few decades in Canada is insulated using STYROFOAM SM. Probably the States, too. Another Dow product that's pretty much ubiquitous in Canada -- refrigerator door seals. That seal is a Dow product.
Check out the Securikey on ThinkGeek. I'm not sure if someone's written Linux drivers for it, but there's your hardware level -- and it's two-factor.
They only really key difference here is that most people use the term "styrofoam" to describe any injected-molded foam product, whereas Styrofoam technically only refers the polystyrene-based insulation created by Dow Chemical, Inc.
Nothing like arguing semantics on
Why not just append P.Eng. to your title? According to PEO (and probably a number of other engineering boards) you need at least four years work in the field before you get to call yourself a Professional Engineer... and more to the point, you can't even call yourself an engineer in some jurisdictions without that P.Eng. You might be have a Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Applied Sciences, but unless you've done the work, you are not an engineer.
Uggggh, you can't go more than 2 players with Ballblazer. Such a thing would go against everything Ballblazer was about.
Xbox Live-enabled, though.. that could be interesting. As long the interface isn't altered. Ballblazer's beauty was entirely in its simplicity. Updated graphics, some FMV, but no change in gameplay.
Obviously, you don't live in the Maritimes. I moved to New Brunswick in July and I still don't have a fscking doctor. Have to take advantage of the rare times I return to Ontario to talk to my old doctor.
My cell phone already has that... Motorola 120e. Let's see... Menu... Settings... Location... and I'm given a choice between "Location On" and "911 Only".. the manual clearly describes that this feature will either broadcast my physical location to the network so that I can be informed about specials at restaurants I'm passing, or just so that 911 Emergency Response will know where I am without having to ask.
Well, I guess it depends on where you're coming from... bum-barge-yay is close to how my family pronounces it... bomb-bard-yay, maybe?
My brother snagged my grandmother's old Asahi about.. a year ago. This is just some of the best stuff he's done since.
Actually, it's by Quebecois rules (The French and the Quebecois speak different kinds of French) and it's pronounced closer to "bum-BARGE-yay"
Hah hah. I meant that in that the power supply wasn't going to dissuade the electricity in any way... and I think it got overloaded. How it recovered is beyond me.
One: Any Mackie soundboard. Mackie sales reps will smash the boards off the floor as hard as they can, then proceed to perform their sales pitch using the same board. Two: The PSU for an old 486/66 of mine... left it plugged in and running when the electric company's guys had to come by an fix the power... power switch was on both when the power was cut and when it came back. The PSU didn't work for a year and a half, but it's running as well as ever, now!
-opens his copy of The Lord of The Rings and reads from the Foreword to the Second Edition-
As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical.
Tolkien was affected by his experiences in World War I when he began The Lord of the Rings, but he disliked allegory in all its forms. Stop assigning meaning to literary works when none is there! The Lord of the Rings is a story and nothing more!
$1025 a month on rent and water? How much water do you use?! Most apartments around where I grew up were below $500 a month -- how do you you spend $500 a month on water?
No, wait. $700. That $500 is Canadian.
Yeah, I've heard of OnStar being able to disable stolen vehicles at traffic lights, too, just as the police are pulling up behind them.