I would like to point out that MS did not make Dungeon Siege nor are they making DS2. Dungeon Siege is made by Gas Powered Games and distributed by Microsoft. Just like NWN is made by Bioware and distributed by Infogrames/Atari
But you knew it was the Daily Show right? If they had hidden the fact that they were the Daily Show from you, then I think it would be the same. Even if you didn't know beforehand what the Daily Show was, you could easily find out.
Just because there havn't been any new standards for functional languages doesn't mean that they are dying out. When you see that the last version of Haskell was 98, that means the last Standard Definition of the language was established then. Haskell environments like Hugs, ghc, etc... continue producing new versions, and providing extensions to the 98 standard. The same holds true for most other functional languages. Also F# isn't simply a rumor, you can use it if you want. It is based on Objective Caml, so if you know OCaml syntax, you should have little problem with F#. It can be found at: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp. aspx
If you hit an animal in the road, that animal doesn't die immediately and leave a red splat mark. That animal thrashes about for 20 minutes crying in pain dying - and watching that animal die a slow and painful thrashing death is a particularly horrible sight because you know you caused it. Those sounds will haunt you forever, even if it was just a cat.
Your right, although this reminded me of the last accident with a deer I was in (although I wasn't driving.) I was driving home from college with a buddy of mine and he was doing about 120 down a deserted country road in his Corvette, when a deer jumped out in front of us. Now THAT kind of impact does kill the animal instantly, and in fact we found, literally folds the animal in half. Amazingly damage to the car was suprisingly minimal, the tires were shredded from braking, and there was a crack running down the hood. I didn't even realize we hit something until after the fact, since I was dozing in the passenger seat...
Since you read the article you know Eugenia was talking about the BeFS, which is still one of my favorite filesystems. I love the MIME-based filetypes. Instead of having to worry about extensions each file has a MIME-type that tells Tracker what to do with it.
Actually it isn't just the MIME-types, it was the entire attribute system, and the pseudo-db filesystem made it so you hardly had to worry about filesystem structure. If I want all my pictures between date x and date y I just write a query, and the result is sort of like a database view that I can use for dealing with those files without worrying about where they are. Set up a bunch of query icons and you never have to worry about where the files are.
Well I don't see why the price jumps for these things should be linear at all. The complexity of a 16 CPU machine is > 2 * the complexity of an 8 CPU machine. Massively parallel machines face enourmous engineering challenges when it comes to memory and IPC.
Well, for the sake of argument here I will assume Plato wasn't just writing fiction when he wrote about Atlantis, I think he was, but we don't know for sure. Anyways Plato described Atlantis (In one of his dialogs, Citias I think?) with quite a bit of detail. Talking about the rings, and temples, and giving measurements for these things. So if a city was found matching these descriptions in exacting detail, we might as well call it "Atlantis"
Of course I doubt such a place really existed. I havn't read the dialogue where he talks about this in a long time, but I seem to remember that he was supposedly telling a story he had learned from a Greek named Solon, who had learned the story from an Egyptian priest. So even if Plato thought he was telling the truth, I'm not sure I would trust such a third hand account.
They are very hard to see in the top picture, but it was fairly obvious to me after a couple seconds, although you can only really see the ring pattern well on the right hand side, my brain simply extrapolated(sp?) the other side. Of course I don't think the jump from "a group of rings with two rectangles" to "ITS ATLANTIS!" is justified even if the measurements are close. Actual groundwork will have to be done to see what is really there, if artifacts indicate that there were two temples there to the correct gods (can't remember which ones even though I just read the friggin article) it may well have been the basis for Plato's Atlantis.
Maybe my college archaeology classes did pay off, I remember looking at arial RS photos back then and wondering how the hell my prof saw the things he did, but by the end I could see them too.
But once they got those discs to shatter, they just went to town! It was great seeing how deeply the shrapnel embedded in their ballistics dummy. It can serve as a warning to all you case modders, don't remove the covering of your CD-ROM to see what is going on inside, if your drive actually reaches 52x + it could seriously maim, if not kill you.
My personal favorite myth they did though was the third rail myth, where they asked "If you pee on the electrified rail of the subway, will you die?" I beleive the result was you would have to have a very, uh... robust stream of urine to actually get killed.
Yup, and no science EVER proves anything. But knowing what we do about cell phones, it is EXTREMELY unlikely that it is the cause. The much more likely cause is static electricity, which is why you should not get in an out of your car while filling gas. Get out, ground yourself and then pump the gas.
By the same token that Mythbusters didn't "prove" anything. What makes you think the cell phone use in this case was more than a coincedence? I see people on cells while filling gas EVERYWHERE. You would think if it were a problem that we would here about more cases wouldn't you.
Heh, that was a fun episode to watch. I'd love to have Adam and Jamie's job. *sigh* One of the few good shows left on the Discovery channel, I feel like it is going the way of The Learning Channel. Crappy programming on TLC in the distant past was generally restricted to the daytime (not counting crackpot UFOS UNCOVERED type shows) now TLC is no longer watchable, and Discovery is fast following suit.
My family used to have a deisel station wagon in the mid-80's. The only problem I had with it was that it stank. The deisel fumes seemed to permeate the car. I don't know if there was something wrong with the car, or if deisel's all smell worse, but driving cross-country in that thing was unbearable.
Actually I thought the first season of EFC was GOOD! It was really good actually. Then they killed Boone and the whole thing turned crap. I don't like any post-Boone EFC...
Umm, no offense, but don't you need those things even if you go with something other than Qt? Your will still need and editor, computers, build systems, etc.... I mean I understand when you buy something from a company they will pressure you to buy other things, but if they do just say no.
And personally I never had that experience with Trolltech, they pretty much sell their toolkit, and stick to that.
I don't think you would see any difference. The primary "bottleneck" in nerve signal propagation is the chemical signals. neurons are not hardwired to other neurons, there are gaps where the electical signal is converted to a chemical signal, gap is crossed, where the other side converts the chemical signal back to an electrical one (this is off the top of my head, I'm not sure how accurate it is, but that is the just of it) And you don't want to get rid of the gap for direct electical wiring because these chemical interactions are complex and probably contribute alot to brain functionality. Alot of drugs work by messing with chemical receptors.
Agh, pie in my face. I read through alot of the article but didn't read all the entries. Yes I would say that this constitutes censorship, and is definitely wrong.
I beleive the parent was making the point that someone wearing an NRA shirt shouldn't be censored either.
What religious views are you talking about that have been supressed? If the example is things like the Ten Commandments monuments you are wrong. Government display of such things constitutes an endorsment of religion which is prohibited. Where has a private citizen ever had their right to religious expression violated?
I'm not saying it doesn't happen but I'd like examples. If so, yes the people censoring them are deserve to be on that list.
Yeah, if you read further down the thread (luckily the video didn't load for me, not something I really want to see) There are tons of racist comments about how more "darkies" should do this.
Quite a disgusting display of the dark side of human nature.
Even the difference between NT4 and XP causes problems. When we were migrating from NT to XP at my old job we came across a problem with AutoCAD Architectural Desktop. The program ran, but certain program options didn't work properly (for adding things like light fixtures)
As I dug into what the problem was I was amazed at how poorly designed AutoCAD AD was! Everytime it runs it wants to write registry data into HKLM\Software\Autodesk\.... instead of HKCU\Software\Autodesk\.... where it belongs. Now I thought I could work around this problem, by simply giving users write permission on the Autocad tree. Nope, not only where they trying write to HKLM, but they were opening the Software key, and writing from there (Open Software for writing, write Autodesk\AutoCAD AD\example) But even though the data being written is below the software key, you still can't open the Software key explicitly for writing. ARGG! And of course this problem was with the upgrade that was bought specifically because it was an upgrade for Windows XP! Autodesk didn't even seem to care...
Modern calculators can evaluate derivatives and integrals. Or for the ones that don't they can usually be programmed to.
The only major problem I've seen, hasn't come from a calculators ability to do math, but the program editors ability to hold crib notes. I'd wager 2/3 of the calculators that were out for a physics test at my school weren't for doing calculations, but to lookup something on their crib notes.
Oh of course, no one is allowed to protest the war because not as many people have died as in Vietnam! Great argument. Do you think Vietnam was a justified war? I don't, and I don't think the Iraq war and occupation is either. Shall we drag out this occupation until the number dead == deaths in Vietnam? Then we can in good conscious bring our soldiers home, because a war can't be bad until its worse than Vietnam.
The point being I will complain about the hundreds of Americans dying in Iraq because it is wrong, just as Vietnam was wrong.
Yeah, if the church wants to pay taxes, they can go right ahead and preach whatever politics they want. However if they want tax exemption from the IRS, they have to follow certain rules. One of those is no partisan politics. Issues they can discuss, but not much else. For example they can say "Abortion is bad" but they cannot say "Abortion is bad, Kerry supports abortion and Bush doesn't" because that is partisan politics. They can even enumerate what a politicians views on certain issues are, as long as nowhere within the same context they enumerate the churches OWN views on these issues.
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I would like to point out that MS did not make Dungeon Siege nor are they making DS2. Dungeon Siege is made by Gas Powered Games and distributed by Microsoft. Just like NWN is made by Bioware and distributed by Infogrames/Atari
But you knew it was the Daily Show right? If they had hidden the fact that they were the Daily Show from you, then I think it would be the same. Even if you didn't know beforehand what the Daily Show was, you could easily find out.
Just because there havn't been any new standards for functional languages doesn't mean that they are dying out. When you see that the last version of Haskell was 98, that means the last Standard Definition of the language was established then. Haskell environments like Hugs, ghc, etc... continue producing new versions, and providing extensions to the 98 standard. The same holds true for most other functional languages. Also F# isn't simply a rumor, you can use it if you want. It is based on Objective Caml, so if you know OCaml syntax, you should have little problem with F#. It can be found at: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp. aspx
Your right, although this reminded me of the last accident with a deer I was in (although I wasn't driving.) I was driving home from college with a buddy of mine and he was doing about 120 down a deserted country road in his Corvette, when a deer jumped out in front of us. Now THAT kind of impact does kill the animal instantly, and in fact we found, literally folds the animal in half. Amazingly damage to the car was suprisingly minimal, the tires were shredded from braking, and there was a crack running down the hood. I didn't even realize we hit something until after the fact, since I was dozing in the passenger seat...
Since you read the article you know Eugenia was talking about the BeFS, which is still one of my favorite filesystems. I love the MIME-based filetypes. Instead of having to worry about extensions each file has a MIME-type that tells Tracker what to do with it.
Actually it isn't just the MIME-types, it was the entire attribute system, and the pseudo-db filesystem made it so you hardly had to worry about filesystem structure. If I want all my pictures between date x and date y I just write a query, and the result is sort of like a database view that I can use for dealing with those files without worrying about where they are. Set up a bunch of query icons and you never have to worry about where the files are.
Well I don't see why the price jumps for these things should be linear at all. The complexity of a 16 CPU machine is > 2 * the complexity of an 8 CPU machine. Massively parallel machines face enourmous engineering challenges when it comes to memory and IPC.
Well after doing a quick google, it seems that it wasn't even supposed to be a third-hand story but more of a fifth or sixth hand story.
Well, for the sake of argument here I will assume Plato wasn't just writing fiction when he wrote about Atlantis, I think he was, but we don't know for sure. Anyways Plato described Atlantis (In one of his dialogs, Citias I think?) with quite a bit of detail. Talking about the rings, and temples, and giving measurements for these things. So if a city was found matching these descriptions in exacting detail, we might as well call it "Atlantis"
Of course I doubt such a place really existed. I havn't read the dialogue where he talks about this in a long time, but I seem to remember that he was supposedly telling a story he had learned from a Greek named Solon, who had learned the story from an Egyptian priest. So even if Plato thought he was telling the truth, I'm not sure I would trust such a third hand account.
They are very hard to see in the top picture, but it was fairly obvious to me after a couple seconds, although you can only really see the ring pattern well on the right hand side, my brain simply extrapolated(sp?) the other side. Of course I don't think the jump from "a group of rings with two rectangles" to "ITS ATLANTIS!" is justified even if the measurements are close. Actual groundwork will have to be done to see what is really there, if artifacts indicate that there were two temples there to the correct gods (can't remember which ones even though I just read the friggin article) it may well have been the basis for Plato's Atlantis.
Maybe my college archaeology classes did pay off, I remember looking at arial RS photos back then and wondering how the hell my prof saw the things he did, but by the end I could see them too.
For trademarks yes, for copyrights no. Although I don't see how this falls under the domain of copyright at all.
But once they got those discs to shatter, they just went to town! It was great seeing how deeply the shrapnel embedded in their ballistics dummy. It can serve as a warning to all you case modders, don't remove the covering of your CD-ROM to see what is going on inside, if your drive actually reaches 52x + it could seriously maim, if not kill you.
My personal favorite myth they did though was the third rail myth, where they asked "If you pee on the electrified rail of the subway, will you die?" I beleive the result was you would have to have a very, uh... robust stream of urine to actually get killed.
Yup, and no science EVER proves anything. But knowing what we do about cell phones, it is EXTREMELY unlikely that it is the cause. The much more likely cause is static electricity, which is why you should not get in an out of your car while filling gas. Get out, ground yourself and then pump the gas.
By the same token that Mythbusters didn't "prove" anything. What makes you think the cell phone use in this case was more than a coincedence? I see people on cells while filling gas EVERYWHERE. You would think if it were a problem that we would here about more cases wouldn't you.
Heh, that was a fun episode to watch. I'd love to have Adam and Jamie's job. *sigh* One of the few good shows left on the Discovery channel, I feel like it is going the way of The Learning Channel. Crappy programming on TLC in the distant past was generally restricted to the daytime (not counting crackpot UFOS UNCOVERED type shows) now TLC is no longer watchable, and Discovery is fast following suit.
My family used to have a deisel station wagon in the mid-80's. The only problem I had with it was that it stank. The deisel fumes seemed to permeate the car. I don't know if there was something wrong with the car, or if deisel's all smell worse, but driving cross-country in that thing was unbearable.
I know, I made myself watch the whole series just to see if the storyline actually got any good. It didn't, and bringing Boone back didn't help....
Actually I thought the first season of EFC was GOOD! It was really good actually. Then they killed Boone and the whole thing turned crap. I don't like any post-Boone EFC...
Umm, no offense, but don't you need those things even if you go with something other than Qt? Your will still need and editor, computers, build systems, etc.... I mean I understand when you buy something from a company they will pressure you to buy other things, but if they do just say no.
And personally I never had that experience with Trolltech, they pretty much sell their toolkit, and stick to that.
I don't think you would see any difference. The primary "bottleneck" in nerve signal propagation is the chemical signals. neurons are not hardwired to other neurons, there are gaps where the electical signal is converted to a chemical signal, gap is crossed, where the other side converts the chemical signal back to an electrical one (this is off the top of my head, I'm not sure how accurate it is, but that is the just of it) And you don't want to get rid of the gap for direct electical wiring because these chemical interactions are complex and probably contribute alot to brain functionality. Alot of drugs work by messing with chemical receptors.
Agh, pie in my face. I read through alot of the article but didn't read all the entries. Yes I would say that this constitutes censorship, and is definitely wrong.
I beleive the parent was making the point that someone wearing an NRA shirt shouldn't be censored either.
What religious views are you talking about that have been supressed? If the example is things like the Ten Commandments monuments you are wrong. Government display of such things constitutes an endorsment of religion which is prohibited. Where has a private citizen ever had their right to religious expression violated?
I'm not saying it doesn't happen but I'd like examples. If so, yes the people censoring them are deserve to be on that list.
Yeah, if you read further down the thread (luckily the video didn't load for me, not something I really want to see) There are tons of racist comments about how more "darkies" should do this.
Quite a disgusting display of the dark side of human nature.
Even the difference between NT4 and XP causes problems. When we were migrating from NT to XP at my old job we came across a problem with AutoCAD Architectural Desktop. The program ran, but certain program options didn't work properly (for adding things like light fixtures)
As I dug into what the problem was I was amazed at how poorly designed AutoCAD AD was! Everytime it runs it wants to write registry data into HKLM\Software\Autodesk\.... instead of HKCU\Software\Autodesk\.... where it belongs. Now I thought I could work around this problem, by simply giving users write permission on the Autocad tree. Nope, not only where they trying write to HKLM, but they were opening the Software key, and writing from there (Open Software for writing, write Autodesk\AutoCAD AD\example) But even though the data being written is below the software key, you still can't open the Software key explicitly for writing. ARGG! And of course this problem was with the upgrade that was bought specifically because it was an upgrade for Windows XP! Autodesk didn't even seem to care...
Modern calculators can evaluate derivatives and integrals. Or for the ones that don't they can usually be programmed to.
The only major problem I've seen, hasn't come from a calculators ability to do math, but the program editors ability to hold crib notes. I'd wager 2/3 of the calculators that were out for a physics test at my school weren't for doing calculations, but to lookup something on their crib notes.
Oh of course, no one is allowed to protest the war because not as many people have died as in Vietnam! Great argument. Do you think Vietnam was a justified war? I don't, and I don't think the Iraq war and occupation is either. Shall we drag out this occupation until the number dead == deaths in Vietnam? Then we can in good conscious bring our soldiers home, because a war can't be bad until its worse than Vietnam. The point being I will complain about the hundreds of Americans dying in Iraq because it is wrong, just as Vietnam was wrong.
Yeah, if the church wants to pay taxes, they can go right ahead and preach whatever politics they want. However if they want tax exemption from the IRS, they have to follow certain rules. One of those is no partisan politics. Issues they can discuss, but not much else. For example they can say "Abortion is bad" but they cannot say "Abortion is bad, Kerry supports abortion and Bush doesn't" because that is partisan politics. They can even enumerate what a politicians views on certain issues are, as long as nowhere within the same context they enumerate the churches OWN views on these issues.