Information processing -- Documentation symbols and conventions for data, program and system flowcharts, program network charts and system resources charts
Looks like it will cost you $60 though.
Re:On correct use of apostrophes
on
God's Debris
·
· Score: 1
I would spell it Kris's and pronounce it Kris-iz.
Nb. I have an southern English accent. I find Kris's easy to say. I find Adams's hard to say.
It's probably something to do with whether a vowel or a consonant (involving the lips coming together like with 'M') is before the S.
Re:On correct use of apostrophes
on
God's Debris
·
· Score: 1
Yes, Lendrick and I took that option :
Adams' is correct.
Adams's is correct too, I didn't say it wasn't.
Adam's is wrong.
I prefer Adams' it's easier to say.
Thank you, good night.
Re:On correct use of apostrophes
on
God's Debris
·
· Score: 1
No, it is correct.
Following the rules you get Adams's, as you say, but since that is hard to say (Adams-es) the last s is dropped to give Adams'.
The form used in the article (Adam's) is completely wrong regardless because his name is Adams.
And with 6 billion people in the world, all not buying an XBox at $320 each, Microsoft will be out of pocket to the tune of nearly $2 trillion dollars.
Phew! I'm glad I'm not a shareholder!
Help! I'm 132000 feet up in the air.
on
Ballooning into Space
·
· Score: 0, Redundant
I just looked outside and the sky is black. Help! Save me!! I don't know how to get down!!!
If you're in the Vatican, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Andorra etc. you could see the whole country from the top of a tall building - if there were actually any tall buildings in these places.
Closeups of ugly jewellery : A shopping channel; I don't care which one.
Stock tickers and/or sports scores (News may be happening in one corner) : A news channel; I don't care which one.
Crap music : VH1 or the country music network
No music : MTV.
Adverts : The Sci Fi channel.
Not quite adverts : Oregon Public BroadcastingB (or your state's equivalent, obviously)
People in a contrived, yet curiously unamusing, situation : A situation comedy on channels 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,12 or 13 (this is specific to my TV and you may have to consult a TV guide to determine which channels show crap sitcoms 24/7)
Animals shagging : Discovery channel or channel 11 (see note above).
Slashdot Mirror
The classic example of this is the Notre Dame cathedral project. It is done using the Unreal engine.
Did you happen to read the above, or did you just post hoping to score some quick karma?
... and forwards log entries to a central server ...
As you can see from the MyNetWatchman page, this information is explicitly shown as being sent across the internet.
Regardless of that, MyNetWatchman makes this information public - with some attempt at obscuring sensitive info.
See the FAQ.
The Intel 4004 executes about 100,000 instructions per second
You can probably overclock to 101,000 i/s or so. But watch the heat! You can slighty warm the surrounding air with one of these monsters.
Can't be any worse than those site authors which seem to think a shite midi rendition of Britney will enhance my eXPerience.
Well at least we didn't get a Slashdot editor adding a witty comment about how terrible advertising is.
Some wierder stuff http://www.amasci.com/weird/const.html
Both those programs are buggy.
Neither produce the expected output.
The International Organization for Standardization deals with standards. Try
ISO 5807:1985
Information processing -- Documentation symbols and conventions for data, program and system flowcharts, program network charts and system resources charts
Looks like it will cost you $60 though.
I would spell it Kris's and pronounce it Kris-iz.
Nb. I have an southern English accent. I find Kris's easy to say. I find Adams's hard to say.
It's probably something to do with whether a vowel or a consonant (involving the lips coming together like with 'M') is before the S.
I prefer Adams' it's easier to say.
Thank you, good night.
No, it is correct.
m l
Following the rules you get Adams's, as you say, but since that is hard to say (Adams-es) the last s is dropped to give Adams'.
The form used in the article (Adam's) is completely wrong regardless because his name is Adams.
See Rule 4 at http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.ht
And with 6 billion people in the world, all not buying an XBox at $320 each, Microsoft will be out of pocket to the tune of nearly $2 trillion dollars.
Phew! I'm glad I'm not a shareholder!
I just looked outside and the sky is black. Help! Save me!! I don't know how to get down!!!
...look down on whole countries in one go...
If you're in the Vatican, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Andorra etc. you could see the whole country from the top of a tall building - if there were actually any tall buildings in these places.
Smith believes the most effective air security system is a low-tech solution: reinforced cockpit doors
So the information expert's recommendation is a hardware solution?
The people that are more knowledgable about such things think Anti-terrorist cockpit doors are dangerous
Anyone got a recording of his speech? I don't feel like readind today?
Add year to (at least some of) the dates.
Login.
Go to the homepage preferences.
Choose a time/date format with a 4 digit year.
Voila.
Karma doesn't matter - it's just a number in a database. There's no practical difference between 47 and 50.
And if you really are that insightful, interesting or funny then you'll soon get them back.
A 1 petabyte, say, file is still useful on a 100Mb drive if your file system supports sparse files.
A file with a logical size of 1Pb doesn't have to occupy 1Pb of space on the disk.
"It's like trying to compare two brains without letting education or experience skew the comparison. "
... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1 638000/1638755.stm
That's now easy
... moderation, meta-moderation, lameness filters, blocking ip-subnets, bitchslaps and putting [] around questionable material.
I've heard these can be quite effective.
(Just watch the moderation on this post for proof!)
Anything where people die if you get it wrong.
Microsoft's download is http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualj/jsharp/beta.asp.
And with an easily detectable fingerprint too : referer = slashdot.org