You meant this, certainly. It was impenetrable at its time and it had a reinforced structure so the ship could just ram over its enemies, cutting them into half.
In other news, the Swedish Navy came up with this. Its probably a very bad idea to try to cut enemy vessels nowadays, but you get the idea....
Good one. By the way, on the subject of things not parsing right:
In French, some verbs alone express a certain meaning, but if emphasized with an adverb, the original meaning of the verb is attenuated or even inverted!
The best example I can think of is the verb "aimer" (to love). The phrase "Je t'aime" translates as "I love you", in a rather romantic way. However, if written as "Je t'aime beaucoup" (beaucoup = "very much", literally "I love you a lot") the adverb changes the meaning of the phrase from the unambiguous "I love you" into the very neutral and diplomatic "I like you".
Not exactly a double negative, but the adverb doesn't parse intuitively, either.
Maybe he was very serious about keeping scientific correction standards.
But since the subject of the discussion is fame and merit, well, gotta agree: f**k scientific procedure. If you *think* you've got something new, just publish it away. You might be right and, in that case, you'll have fame and fortune. If not, lay low for a year or so, until people forget, and do it again, ad nauseam.
Microsoft's Yates said the company agrees with the adoption of XML but does not agree that the solution to "public records management is to force a single, less functional document format on all state agencies."
Yes, because OLE documents are a blessing to everyone and their superb design and architecture will last forever.
By integrating these two novel forms of carbon together at the nanoscale a new material is produced that
combines the material properties of both diamond and nanotubes.
So... is it like tieing a piece of bread with butter on it to the back of a cat?
We all know that bread with butter always falls with the butter face down and that the cat always falls on its paws, so one will cancel the other and the cat will be able to defy gravity, being suspended in mid-air?
So, judging from all comments so far (MCSE prejudice "MS it teh suck!", excessive self-confidence "certification is for wimps" and the traditionally bureaucratic, litigation-scared CYA), who the heck takes the Linux Professional Institute certification?
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If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop (lie: what about frequent BSODs?)
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
I've been running hot (incidentally, I started OC'ing with W95)
You got me ticking gonna blow my top (DLL hell anyone?)
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
You make a grown man cry (definitely)
Spread out the oil, the gasoline (when I burned these damn install floppies)
I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine
Start it up
If you start it up
Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got (really, W95 didn't give much)
I can't compete with the riders in the other heats (Linux still beats the crap out of it)
If you rough it up
If you like it you can slide it up, slide it up (hmm... pr0n?)
Don't make a grown man cry
My eyes dilate, my lips go green ("so, I *need* winsock?)
My hands are greasy (doing repeated scandisks is tiresome)
She's a mean, mean machine (mean to users, I guess)
Start it up
If start me up
Give it all you got (it took a lot to keep it from BSOD'ing)
You got to never, never, never stop (hopefully)
Never, never
Slide it up
You make a grown man cry
Ride like the wind at double speed (ha! OC'ing or doubledsk?)
I'll take you places that you've never, never seen (indeed, that was my first experience with tech support)
Start it up
Love the day when we will never stop, never stop (when I got my hand into Linux)
Never stop, never stop
Tough me up (longhorn reference, maybe?)
Never stop, never stop, never stop
You, you, you make a grown man cry
You, you make a dead man come (this one left as an exercise to the reader)
You, you make a dead man come
I'll burn my mod points on this discussion, because I think you hit the nail on this one:
Maybe the age of intelligent innovations will never come to the US until a major patent system overhaul becomes reality.
Have you ever realized that most of the companies that target the US market have been doing mostly incremental development? Everything just gets bigger and fatter, but not necessarily better.
Innovation is being encumbered in so many places due to the threat of random blanket patent enforcement that most companies end up choosing the easy way: building on top of things they already know it's safe to work with.
Mach 25 at orbit doesn't mean anything. Isn't the astronaut's relative speed to the spacecraft the only measure of speed that matters to the astronaut?
After all, the Earth itself travels at about mach 87.
"Normal people don't get up in the morning and wonder how they can steal or trick someone. I won't rest until we can eliminate wrongdoing," says eBay''s Alastair MacGibbon."
I always thought the way DJs overcome the abrupt reversal of direction was to put a piece of felt, shaped as an LP between the LP and the disk platter.
I saw that before, but I keep thinking if the friction of the LP against the felt disk wouldn't damage the LP.
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Exactly!
The Government is spending billions to conquer and protect its monopoly on cheese!
Actually, the BBC is engaged in a highly secret conspiracy orchestrated by 10 Downing Street and the British Crown to standardise spelling and pronunciation around the British English, putting to an end over than 20 years of American English domination in the global media, in the most un-American way ever conceivable: by giving stuff freely via Internet.
Want proof? If you go abroad, take a look at CNN International. It uses British English as an attempt to present theirselves as a neutral news outlet, in a trend that began around the late '90s
Well, I'm not impressed about this new functionality. At all.
Actually, it might become yet another monstruous security hole, given MS's <sarcarsm> amazing security record </sarcarsm>.
The problem I have with MS is that they're so eager to give power to users -- in a haphazardly way -- that it completely overlooks security. Or corporate IT policy compliance, depending of where you work at.
For an evidence of this behavior, take a look at this comment on MS hiring practices and the respective reply. Basically, they're loaded with marketeers, who grasp some of IT, enough to sell stuff and are, somehow, empowered to make technical decisions at the expense of standards.
At this point, I have to praise Apple. IMHO they make good calls on the question of how to give power to users without seriously compromising security. Heck, I really believe that if Apple became a cell phone operator they could make cell phones and network more secure and more powerful.
Perhaps. But keep in mind that Microsoft can still publish stuff in XML and keep data proprietary, encoding binary data in a ASCII-or-something-like-it-encoded XML field.
The *format* will be open (it's just plain XML), but the data it contains (the binary thing) is not. What if that ASCII-encoded-binary-field contains key formatting data? How do you expect to properly view the document?
See the trend? Microsoft is continuously trying to charge access for your *own* data! Just like DRM!
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In other news, the Swedish Navy came up with this. Its probably a very bad idea to try to cut enemy vessels nowadays, but you get the idea....
In Korea, only humans get KIA.
I remember laughing at people who claimed that it was possible to get a computer infected via JPG files....
In French, some verbs alone express a certain meaning, but if emphasized with an adverb, the original meaning of the verb is attenuated or even inverted!
The best example I can think of is the verb "aimer" (to love). The phrase "Je t'aime" translates as "I love you", in a rather romantic way. However, if written as "Je t'aime beaucoup" (beaucoup = "very much", literally "I love you a lot") the adverb changes the meaning of the phrase from the unambiguous "I love you" into the very neutral and diplomatic "I like you".
Not exactly a double negative, but the adverb doesn't parse intuitively, either.
But since the subject of the discussion is fame and merit, well, gotta agree: f**k scientific procedure. If you *think* you've got something new, just publish it away. You might be right and, in that case, you'll have fame and fortune. If not, lay low for a year or so, until people forget, and do it again, ad nauseam.
I'm feeling a little competitive today, so I think I better keep my tricks to myself. As the saying goes, "my win, your loss", right?
Have a nice day.
Yes, because OLE documents are a blessing to everyone and their superb design and architecture will last forever.
So... is it like tieing a piece of bread with butter on it to the back of a cat?
We all know that bread with butter always falls with the butter face down and that the cat always falls on its paws, so one will cancel the other and the cat will be able to defy gravity, being suspended in mid-air?
Which is a lot different than having no alternatives at all when it comes to generating MS Office documents.
If someone wants to pay, given that they have a choice to use free software, that's OK, then.
In other words, is it any good?
There's always Mylar.
Maybe the age of intelligent innovations will never come to the US until a major patent system overhaul becomes reality.
Have you ever realized that most of the companies that target the US market have been doing mostly incremental development? Everything just gets bigger and fatter, but not necessarily better.
Innovation is being encumbered in so many places due to the threat of random blanket patent enforcement that most companies end up choosing the easy way: building on top of things they already know it's safe to work with.
But we can always clone..... why bother?
This test could ultimately prove that the USPTO is not properly assessing prior art, if the patent application is smartly worded!
By the way, Slashdot could patent dupes as well. Slashdot could then sue Reuters, AFP, CNN or Bloomberg if they come up with a dupe themselves!!!
I still do not believe, but I am willing to pay whatever fees just to see that!
After all, the Earth itself travels at about mach 87.
Does it get more communist than this? :^P
Yes. That confirms it: he thinks he's Batman.
I saw that before, but I keep thinking if the friction of the LP against the felt disk wouldn't damage the LP.
The Government is spending billions to conquer and protect its monopoly on cheese!
Take that, France!
The only problem I see is how to retain the bytes in the hard disks for any extended period of time. Other than that, It surely sounds cool!
Want proof? If you go abroad, take a look at CNN International. It uses British English as an attempt to present theirselves as a neutral news outlet, in a trend that began around the late '90s
Actually, it might become yet another monstruous security hole, given MS's <sarcarsm> amazing security record </sarcarsm>.
The problem I have with MS is that they're so eager to give power to users -- in a haphazardly way -- that it completely overlooks security. Or corporate IT policy compliance, depending of where you work at.
For an evidence of this behavior, take a look at this comment on MS hiring practices and the respective reply. Basically, they're loaded with marketeers, who grasp some of IT, enough to sell stuff and are, somehow, empowered to make technical decisions at the expense of standards.
At this point, I have to praise Apple. IMHO they make good calls on the question of how to give power to users without seriously compromising security. Heck, I really believe that if Apple became a cell phone operator they could make cell phones and network more secure and more powerful.
The *format* will be open (it's just plain XML), but the data it contains (the binary thing) is not. What if that ASCII-encoded-binary-field contains key formatting data? How do you expect to properly view the document?
See the trend? Microsoft is continuously trying to charge access for your *own* data! Just like DRM!