Ahem.
But seriously, who wouldn't love Space Quest revisited?
I think they should also turn the series into a movie franchise with Bruce Campbell as he hero.
As far as the ecological impacts are concerned, you are running the risk of blowing up a NUCLEAR (republicans read nucular) submarine if the loudspeakers don't do their job.
The military had no comment because the spokesperson narrowly resisted calling the reporter that asked that question a "fucking inbred"
If XORP truly is the routing platform of the future. Then why shouldn't Cisco, a hardware company, ship their routers with XORP instead of IOS.
I don't see what the big deal is. As stated earlier by a couple people, they are a hardware company that produces some serious iron dedicated to routing and network management. A new OS doesnt stand to hurt them at all. The prospect of it doesnt even warrant an article. Nor any response to that artic...
>>> a = set('abracadabra') # form a set from a string >>> 'z' in a # fast membership testing False >>> a # unique letters in a set(['a', 'r', 'b', 'c', 'd']) >>> ''.join(a) # convert back into a string 'arbcd'
At first I was excited to learn that set was a built in type. But for the life of me I cant figure out what good it is when it only operates on characters. Except for perhaps argument checking, it seems rather useless if you cant operate on sets of words and objects rather than letters.
I have psoriasis too, and it took several dermatologists months to diagnose this rather common ailment. I was given prescriptions for bacterial skin infections, fungal infections, even ringworm.
I had it in rather sensitive areas, and I must say that the prescription for ringworm (iodine) was not very fun for an 8 year old to apply on a psoriasis rash in these locations.
I live 15 miles away from the edge of the hanford reservation and do a considerable amount of work there. While there are certainly issues with an accelerated cleanup schedule, it is better than the alternatives.
Yes there is a tritium plume that may be threatening the ground water. It is being monitored using state of the art technologies. In fact this very issues has driven the technology of groundwater contamination tracking forward as millions of dollars is being spent on this topic: http://www.pnl.gov/cse/subsurface/sitescale.htm
The hanford nuclear reservation is about 560 square miles of desolate eastern washington desert. The contamination is coming from the furthest areas from civilization, the 100 and 200 areas. I know first hand the regulations that are in place for the safety of the workers and the nearby areas, and I am confident that they are as safe as can be achievable.
And this is notable, why ?
Maya has been a mainstay for movie production involving 3D elements for a long time now. Or is this supposed to conjure images of Maya-on-Linux and thus make it relevant to Slashdot somehow ?
How does a mainstay for movie production involving 3D elements relate to disney who uses pen and ink for movie production involving "3d" elements.
Yea! There was this "Marvin the Martian" character that had this funny voice. He had a big telescope he looked at the earth with. But he was going to blow up the earth, not study it. Then there was this rabbit that kept doing cooky things and foiling his plans.
Mod the above to redundant.
I already flamed myself for it.;)
.. I like that though.. asshats.
Re:deliberate pacing?
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Jesus, how the hell can you comment on literary content with a message that looks like that?
This would be better: I really liked the deliberate pacing of the book (I can understand that some might find it slow), following the characters through a carefully constructed story.
Slow? It makes Ayn Rand novels look like a choose your own adventure.
deliberate pacing?
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I really liked the deliberate pacing of the book (I can understand that some might find it slow), following the characters through a carefully constructed story.
Slow? It makes Ayn Rand novels look like a choose your own adventure.
As for them paying taxes, how much tax do you think they could possibly pay? They don't earn very much, and so can't pay very much. Most probably don't work on the books.
True. Most are agriculteral workers who get paid are not subject to FICA(they have no citizenship) so they generally have no tax withheld by the farmers that pay them.
However, the reason groceries prices are as low as they are is the low cost of labor when harvesting. If ag employers they had to pay minimum wage and pay taxes on that, produce may cost 2-3x what it does now.
I'm glad I do not work where you work.
Some of the most successful and respected, PMs, programmers and designers I've had the pleasure of working with, from exceptionally large (think major aerospace corporation based out of Seattle) corporations down to mom and pop chop shops, were the ones who could accurately nail down the resources required for whatever the analysts and marketers dreamt up. It seems the more critical the person doing the resource analysis was, and the more controversial their ruling, the more everyone loved them. In many cases, all it took was a single miscalculation towards the optimistic end that resulted in a project going over time and budget that stripped the people of their credibility.
If a person is going to take flak for dashing the unrealistic fancies of a company before it loses $2M on that project, then the environment they work in seems more like a medivial barony and less like a successful corporation. (the term killing the messenger comes to mind)
"Moreover, otherwise carefree and pampered
children may become motivated to go out and get a job, thereby contributing to societal productivity, by the prospect of earning money to buy games."
Jeez yea. I remember when I was in middle and high school my mom would bribe me with sega master system (and eventually genesis) games for getting above a 3.0 average. I took up a paper route as soon as I was able to afford my hourly charges for Gemstone3 on GEnie.
The only available Graphics library that works on 10+ platforms. Be the GL of choice for 99.9 percent of the scientific community.
Well I got news for you pal, it already is. The 2.0 architecture will only increase its power. Will it become the most widely used API for games on the windows platforms? not right away, but if you'll notice, there are far more tutorials for OpenGL than there are for DirectX out there. The interest is there and the OGL dependent talent base is growing.
Even then, who really cares if OGL doesn't dominate the windows market, what it does is create an incredibly powerful platform for game developers on linux. I could care less about DX's success or lack therof, I want good linux games.
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Ahem. But seriously, who wouldn't love Space Quest revisited? I think they should also turn the series into a movie franchise with Bruce Campbell as he hero.
I thought it was already argued successfully that Babelfish proved the existence of god.
Just ask China to blow it up for us.
As far as the ecological impacts are concerned, you are running the risk of blowing up a NUCLEAR (republicans read nucular) submarine if the loudspeakers don't do their job.
The military had no comment because the spokesperson narrowly resisted calling the reporter that asked that question a "fucking inbred"
If XORP truly is the routing platform of the future. Then why shouldn't Cisco, a hardware company, ship their routers with XORP instead of IOS.
I don't see what the big deal is. As stated earlier by a couple people, they are a hardware company that produces some serious iron dedicated to routing and network management. A new OS doesnt stand to hurt them at all. The prospect of it doesnt even warrant an article. Nor any response to that artic...
http://merjis.com/developers/ocaml_tutorial/
At first I was excited to learn that set was a built in type. But for the life of me I cant figure out what good it is when it only operates on characters. Except for perhaps argument checking, it seems rather useless if you cant operate on sets of words and objects rather than letters.
I have psoriasis too, and it took several dermatologists months to diagnose this rather common ailment. I was given prescriptions for bacterial skin infections, fungal infections, even ringworm.
I had it in rather sensitive areas, and I must say that the prescription for ringworm (iodine) was not very fun for an 8 year old to apply on a psoriasis rash in these locations.
They already have that, it's called NyQuil :P
m -floor
Ahh yes.
The Sniffling,
sneezing,
headache,
stuffy-nose,
take-it-in-bed-or-you'll-wake-up-on-the-bathroo
medicine.
Wouldn't it be easier to make the gloves velcro?
I agree completely.
I live 15 miles away from the edge of the hanford reservation and do a considerable amount of work there. While there are certainly issues with an accelerated cleanup schedule, it is better than the alternatives.
Yes there is a tritium plume that may be threatening the ground water. It is being monitored using state of the art technologies. In fact this very issues has driven the technology of groundwater contamination tracking forward as millions of dollars is being spent on this topic: http://www.pnl.gov/cse/subsurface/sitescale.htm
The hanford nuclear reservation is about 560 square miles of desolate eastern washington desert. The contamination is coming from the furthest areas from civilization, the 100 and 200 areas. I know first hand the regulations that are in place for the safety of the workers and the nearby areas, and I am confident that they are as safe as can be achievable.
The funny thing is that the url, attrion.org, works just fine.
ahh.. the joys of getting to your misspelled urls before the squatters do.
stdcallsign
That's all we need! Cell phones sending out radio signals.. what will they think of next?
WTF, Mates?
Read the article and then tell me that anyone in their right mind would defend this web designer.
And this is notable, why ? Maya has been a mainstay for movie production involving 3D elements for a long time now. Or is this supposed to conjure images of Maya-on-Linux and thus make it relevant to Slashdot somehow ?
How does a mainstay for movie production involving 3D elements relate to disney who uses pen and ink for movie production involving "3d" elements.
Alas we find the interesting and notable part.
Yea! There was this "Marvin the Martian" character that had this funny voice. He had a big telescope he looked at the earth with. But he was going to blow up the earth, not study it. Then there was this rabbit that kept doing cooky things and foiling his plans.
... I never did consider that sci-fi though.
Mod the above to redundant. ;)
.. I like that though.. asshats.
I already flamed myself for it.
Jesus, how the hell can you comment on literary content with a message that looks like that?
This would be better:
I really liked the deliberate pacing of the book (I can understand that some might find it slow), following the characters through a carefully constructed story.
Slow? It makes Ayn Rand novels look like a choose your own adventure.
I really liked the deliberate pacing of the book (I can understand that some might find it slow), following the characters through a carefully constructed story. Slow? It makes Ayn Rand novels look like a choose your own adventure.
Finally, infinite peace in the cardboard. This cardboard has seen war and strife for over a century. But finally, there will be peace. Infinite Peace.
As for them paying taxes, how much tax do you think they could possibly pay? They don't earn very much, and so can't pay very much. Most probably don't work on the books.
True. Most are agriculteral workers who get paid are not subject to FICA(they have no citizenship) so they generally have no tax withheld by the farmers that pay them.
However, the reason groceries prices are as low as they are is the low cost of labor when harvesting. If ag employers they had to pay minimum wage and pay taxes on that, produce may cost 2-3x what it does now.
I'm glad I do not work where you work.
Some of the most successful and respected, PMs, programmers and designers I've had the pleasure of working with, from exceptionally large (think major aerospace corporation based out of Seattle) corporations down to mom and pop chop shops, were the ones who could accurately nail down the resources required for whatever the analysts and marketers dreamt up. It seems the more critical the person doing the resource analysis was, and the more controversial their ruling, the more everyone loved them. In many cases, all it took was a single miscalculation towards the optimistic end that resulted in a project going over time and budget that stripped the people of their credibility.
If a person is going to take flak for dashing the unrealistic fancies of a company before it loses $2M on that project, then the environment they work in seems more like a medivial barony and less like a successful corporation. (the term killing the messenger comes to mind)
stdcallsign
"Moreover, otherwise carefree and pampered children may become motivated to go out and get a job, thereby contributing to societal productivity, by the prospect of earning money to buy games."
Jeez yea. I remember when I was in middle and high school my mom would bribe me with sega master system (and eventually genesis) games for getting above a 3.0 average. I took up a paper route as soon as I was able to afford my hourly charges for Gemstone3 on GEnie.OpenGL 2.0 while promising, is destined to fail.
Woa, what do you by fail? If you mean fail to be:
The only available Graphics library that works on 10+ platforms.
Be the GL of choice for 99.9 percent of the scientific community.
Well I got news for you pal, it already is. The 2.0 architecture will only increase its power. Will it become the most widely used API for games on the windows platforms? not right away, but if you'll notice, there are far more tutorials for OpenGL than there are for DirectX out there. The interest is there and the OGL dependent talent base is growing.
Even then, who really cares if OGL doesn't dominate the windows market, what it does is create an incredibly powerful platform for game developers on linux. I could care less about DX's success or lack therof, I want good linux games.
stdcallsign (aka LanRover)