I saw that....Utah had some amazing numbers recently also. I certainly don't agree with the kneejerk antiamericanisim of the AC above, I've been mocking other peoples 'ski hills' for a long time:-). Last season was good, with a great spring. We're still seeing 8 to 15 great dumps, 3 or 4 of them being 50cm+ champagne powder. The long term picture is worrying though, and all the old-timers tell me it's changed a lot. I didn't buy a seasons pass for the local mountain this year. I hope to get a few tours up where the snow is sure to be good and deeeep.
I'm going to try to convince a buddy to go up to Kokanee glacier tomorow, and see if we can't get some turns in. I don't really think it'll be any good, we've had some sun recently, but you know what I'm taking about:-) Have a great season!
I live in the Selkirk range in BC. Every summer the glaciers retreat a little further, and I've been making a point of trying to explore some of this newly uncovered land. I have found lots of pretty crystals and other mineral samples.
Still, global warming is not a plus for me. The ski season is getting shorter:-(
Heronas of Alexandria built it. There are references to it and other steam/hydraulic sytems being harnessed to move things, but only marvels (temple trumpets, automatic doors, etc), never coal mines or factories.
The other answer to my post from the AC above probably nailed it. "Why build a factory when you can have slaves do it?" The class of Greeks that had the time to dabble with steam engines had no incentive to build labour saving devices.
men and women are meaningfully different from one another, whereas "blacks" and "whites" are not
Except for IQ test scores, reaction times, gestation time, bone development, two-egg twinning, hormone levels, responsivness to certain drugs and ability to dance.
For all of these (I might have made up the last one) East Asians go the other direction.
You people are fucking amazing. Have you ever actually wrtten an algorithim in C and Java? Seemingly not, but you did read an article once that said Java is (on average) only 10% slower than an equivilant C++ application.
Doughtfull at best. The Antikythera Mechanism is probably only one of hudereds or thousands of devices that existed at the time, and many people could have been making, buying and useing similar items. Our knowledge of how the ancient Greeks (and others) actually lived is so fragmentary, and we tend to fill in all the blanks with the lowest common denominator answer, ie; we see no evidence of clockwork, therefore they had no clocks. Before the discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, the suggestion that the Greeks had clockwork would have been met with scorn.
Yes, Archimedes was a very smart cookie, but he was surrounded by other smart cookies, who were also geting up to interesting things. IMO, ancient Greece was pretty much as technologicly advanced as 15th century Europe. Why we ended up having the industrial revolution, and the Greeks did not, becomes a very interesting question.
Why, yes! It is legal. In fact, the right to reverse engineer a piece of software or hardware for interoperbility is protected in the US, IIRC. Hence Intel clones, PC clones, Samba, etc.
But the article poster has access to the source code, something not usually associated with 'reverse engineering'. Products are still protected by patents, copyright and trademarks, and writing Samba (for example) after seeing Microsofts code would open one up to legal woes.
It looks like I get to be the first one to call you on this. WTF are you talking about!? You don't 'reverse engineer' something you have the code for. Maybe you mean 'port' or 'complile'.
If you wish to start getting a handle on a chunk of code, start by reading main() along with a profilers output. Grep is your friend.
Dependig on conditions, sonic booms can be heard dozens of miles away. They can also reflect off the atmosphere and land formations and focus into hot spots, breaking the occaisional window pane etc. More than I would want to put up with.
It is quantifiable, and anyone can hear it. It is a form of distortion though, similar to vinyl, so it's arguable why you would want that happening in your stereo.
I didn't know who Carver was, although maybe a USian could be expected to. I certainly know who Robocop is, having seen the movie as a child, and countless spoofs, satires, and other cultural references to it over the years.
Some advice; Never give a reason why you might test for explosive residue. Agree. Nod. Be on your way. They have to look like they're doing something, remember, and there simply aren't that many terrerists to go around.
Maybe you're not a techie yet? O'Reilly publishes some of the most important books in the computer world. Unless the only books you buy are "How to program Visual Basic in 24 hours", how could you miss 'em?
Come to think of it, I have somewhat recently moved to a small town, and the bookstores here are very poor for technical books, so I can see reasons why you might not have been exposed earlier. Pity!
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I'm going to try to convince a buddy to go up to Kokanee glacier tomorow, and see if we can't get some turns in. I don't really think it'll be any good, we've had some sun recently, but you know what I'm taking about :-) Have a great season!
Still, global warming is not a plus for me. The ski season is getting shorter :-(
Gee, you're right. It does sound like a good idea now.
It's as round as your flat screen CRT is flat.
The other answer to my post from the AC above probably nailed it. "Why build a factory when you can have slaves do it?" The class of Greeks that had the time to dabble with steam engines had no incentive to build labour saving devices.
Except for IQ test scores, reaction times, gestation time, bone development, two-egg twinning, hormone levels, responsivness to certain drugs and ability to dance.
For all of these (I might have made up the last one) East Asians go the other direction.
Thirty years of research on race differences in cognitive ability.(pdf)
Some more examples.
Oh, wait....
And why did they mix it with C++? Was it for the better maintainability? Or portability? Ooo! I know! Was it generators?
You people are fucking amazing. Have you ever actually wrtten an algorithim in C and Java? Seemingly not, but you did read an article once that said Java is (on average) only 10% slower than an equivilant C++ application.
You're being an asshole.
Yes, Archimedes was a very smart cookie, but he was surrounded by other smart cookies, who were also geting up to interesting things. IMO, ancient Greece was pretty much as technologicly advanced as 15th century Europe. Why we ended up having the industrial revolution, and the Greeks did not, becomes a very interesting question.
More cowbell!!
But the article poster has access to the source code, something not usually associated with 'reverse engineering'. Products are still protected by patents, copyright and trademarks, and writing Samba (for example) after seeing Microsofts code would open one up to legal woes.
IANAL, or USian.
If you wish to start getting a handle on a chunk of code, start by reading main() along with a profilers output. Grep is your friend.
Since when has industry been the ones delivering new and exiting?
That's not the tools, but what was built with them.
Then we a disscusing a different thing.
Dependig on conditions, sonic booms can be heard dozens of miles away. They can also reflect off the atmosphere and land formations and focus into hot spots, breaking the occaisional window pane etc. More than I would want to put up with.
In a guitar amp, it's a different story...
I'm not even American and I can tell you why it's a problem, Constitutional refrences and all.
Some advice; Never give a reason why you might test for explosive residue. Agree. Nod. Be on your way. They have to look like they're doing something, remember, and there simply aren't that many terrerists to go around.
Come to think of it, I have somewhat recently moved to a small town, and the bookstores here are very poor for technical books, so I can see reasons why you might not have been exposed earlier. Pity!