This is explained by Stephen Hawking in 'A Brief History of Time' (although I can't remember the details offhand), and is the same reason that the Big Bang produced more matter than antimatter, instead of equal quantites of each. I think it is to do with whether the particle and antiparticle are spinning left or right (P-symmetry).
They buy the merchandise, print their own receipts, and return it. They buy two watches - an expensive one and inexpensive one, and then swap them and return the one with the highest price.
The merchant should compare the receipt with his transaction history, and if it doesn't match, cal the cops.
If you have a PC POS then it's easy to keep a complete transaction history. And any jeweller that doesn't record all of its sales of expensive items is a fool.
Do you have a soul? Do you believe in God? To many people, their ethics are more important than science or cars or money. You might be able to tell me at what speed an object falls to the earth, but can you tell me why it falls? Something as simple as gravity?
YES !
Science is observing events and trying to predict what will happen. Science does not purport to understand why something happens.
YES, IT DOES.
This may be hard for your pinhead brain to comprehend, but "God said so" is not the only possible answer to "Why?".
Every single objection to stem-cell research is hypocritical crap. For example, "they are alive". They have no brain. They're a 1% on the Schiavo scale. Next please.
DEBKAfile was always incisive, accurate, and very up-to-date during the Iraq and Afghan wars and September 11, so I'll trust their reporting on this story!
2) To remove the incredibly annoying pUOPs - Personally, it drives me to near rage when I put a movie into my player, and it tells me I can't skip right to the main menu.
Huh? Doesn't it take longer to rip a DVD than it does to just wait for those things to finish?
...so the water wont warm up by exchanging heat with the outside water Insulate the pipe?
...the fact that cold water is slightly less dense
Cold water is MORE DENSE than warm water. In fact the point of maximum density is about 4 degrees C, below that it gets less dense again (unlike most substances). But I didn't see the article mention the actual temperature of the water that's being extracted here, so maybe it is sub-4.
My concern is, what if the pipe sucks up all these exotic bottom-dwelling fish?
Yes, they always trot out the same argument. Too many half-bacon'd ideas.
Shouldn't they have done this 10 years ago?
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One of the changes in 4.0.0 is autovectorization optimizing. One _ancient_ compiler (10+ years) I have to use, already has this feature -- and on a large scale: it'll do it over several screensful of code. What took GCC so long?
Unfortunately, this compiler I mention also has a bug: once it's factored out 'i' in a piece of code like that below, it then complains that 'i' is an unused variable. So you have to do something with 'i' to suppress that warning, which kinda defeats the purpose of the autovectorization.
If the sole reason you want a space program is paranoid fear that we might be hit by a rock, that's a pretty sad reason.
I'd like to visit the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
Hello, reality check. 99.9% of people don't give a flying fuck about the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and wouldn't donate five cents to the project even if donuts were 1c each.
The point of the original comment is that most people WOULD care if they were about to be annihilated by an asteroid.
Getting off this planet requires a lot of money, and raising a lot of money requires public support. (Just look at the media campaign waged by the US Government to drum up support for invading Iraq, so that they could allocate funds and not get voted out).
I read how to make blue carnations in a book 20 years ago, it is much simpler than gene therapy. You put a white carnation in a glass of blue ink, and wait.
To those in the South Pacific (USA) and certain parts of the Americas
The USA isn't in the South Pacific, as far as I know, unless it's referring to American Samoa, or the US naval fleet. Or is this some new use of parentheses that I'm not familiar with?
My fiancee says that, and it's not an attempt to sound sophisticated -- it's just that she always thought that's what it was. (I haven't bothered to correct her yet, as it's amusing:))
I do agree that mistakes in an attempt to be pretentious are the worst. For example, "He is the guy whom gave me the ball", or "He gave it to you and I".
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Well, they play about as much a part as "road safety" does.
By that logic, everyone who currently drives at 100 in a 100 zone, should now drive at 70 or 50.
Please fix this hole in your argument before using it again.
This is explained by Stephen Hawking in 'A Brief History of Time' (although I can't remember the details offhand), and is the same reason that the Big Bang produced more matter than antimatter, instead of equal quantites of each. I think it is to do with whether the particle and antiparticle are spinning left or right (P-symmetry).
They buy the merchandise, print their own receipts, and return it. They buy two watches - an expensive one and inexpensive one, and then swap them and return the one with the highest price.
The merchant should compare the receipt with his transaction history, and if it doesn't match, cal the cops.
If you have a PC POS then it's easy to keep a complete transaction history. And any jeweller that doesn't record all of its sales of expensive items is a fool.
Do you have a soul? Do you believe in God? To many people, their ethics are more important than science or cars or money. You might be able to tell me at what speed an object falls to the earth, but can you tell me why it falls? Something as simple as gravity?
YES !
Science is observing events and trying to predict what will happen. Science does not purport to understand why something happens.
YES, IT DOES.
This may be hard for your pinhead brain to comprehend, but "God said so" is not the only possible answer to "Why?".
Every single objection to stem-cell research is hypocritical crap. For example, "they are alive". They have no brain. They're a 1% on the Schiavo scale. Next please.
DEBKAfile was always incisive, accurate, and very up-to-date during the Iraq and Afghan wars and September 11, so I'll trust their reporting on this story!
I was just aboot to say the same thing!
If you know the library function isn't going to modify the object, use a const_cast:
char const *ptr = "abc";
puts( const_cast(ptr) );
Huh? Doesn't it take longer to rip a DVD than it does to just wait for those things to finish?
Insulate the pipe?
Cold water is MORE DENSE than warm water. In fact the point of maximum density is about 4 degrees C, below that it gets less dense again (unlike most substances). But I didn't see the article mention the actual temperature of the water that's being extracted here, so maybe it is sub-4.
My concern is, what if the pipe sucks up all these exotic bottom-dwelling fish?
You should make 'ok' volatile, otherwise the compiler may optimise the function to return as soon as one character is wrong.
They're all varieties of Palatablus Withketchupii
And when the printer malfunctions or runs out of paper?
Microsoft should add a new button to the extended keyboard. This button would dismiss any Screen Of Death that occurs.
I propose that this be named the "SOD Off" button.
No, you press Start to switch it off.
Thankyou!
Amiga 500 scrolling is smoother than any PC I've ever seen. I've always wondered why, and more importantly, why PCs haven't been able to emulate it.
Does this mean that PCs could get smoother scrolling by adding some blank lines at the top and bottom of the screen?
Yes, they always trot out the same argument. Too many half-bacon'd ideas.
One of the changes in 4.0.0 is autovectorization optimizing.
One _ancient_ compiler (10+ years) I have to use, already has this feature -- and on a large scale: it'll do it over several screensful of code. What took GCC so long?
Unfortunately, this compiler I mention also has a bug: once it's factored out 'i' in a piece of code like that below, it then complains that 'i' is an unused variable. So you have to do something with 'i' to suppress that warning, which kinda defeats the purpose of the autovectorization.
Sample code:
int a[256], b[256], c[256];
foo () {
int i;
for (i=0; i256; i++){
a[i] = b[i] + c[i];
}
}
If the sole reason you want a space program is paranoid fear that we might be hit by a rock, that's a pretty sad reason.
I'd like to visit the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
Hello, reality check. 99.9% of people don't give a flying fuck about the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and wouldn't donate five cents to the project even if donuts were 1c each.
The point of the original comment is that most people WOULD care if they were about to be annihilated by an asteroid.
Getting off this planet requires a lot of money, and raising a lot of money requires public support. (Just look at the media campaign waged by the US Government to drum up support for invading Iraq, so that they could allocate funds and not get voted out).
I thought this was going to be a discussion on remote-controlling computer files
That's a few stories up (see the title "Microsoft Releases 8 New Security Patches").
Is this what people are referring to when they say "Duke sucks" (usually in regard to American sports, I think)?
Sort of like spinning your car into a wall when you misjudge a drift?
I read how to make blue carnations in a book 20 years ago, it is much simpler than gene therapy. You put a white carnation in a glass of blue ink, and wait.
The USA isn't in the South Pacific, as far as I know, unless it's referring to American Samoa, or the US naval fleet. Or is this some new use of parentheses that I'm not familiar with?
My fiancee says that, and it's not an attempt to sound sophisticated -- it's just that she always thought that's what it was. (I haven't bothered to correct her yet, as it's amusing :))
I do agree that mistakes in an attempt to be pretentious are the worst. For example, "He is the guy whom gave me the ball", or "He gave it to you and I".