Actually, they often wouldn't even bother with consultants. I got to tour the set of Voyager while it was shooting (S01E13, "Cathexis"), and many of the shooting scripts would simply says [TECH] instead of the technical term, and it was up to the ACTORS to fill in the blank. For example, you'd see a line like: "We've got to [TECH] the [TECH] before the [TECH] [TECHS]". They just relied on the actors using a consistent set of gibberish to fill in the blanks.
That's bull. You cannot recover lost wages incurred by appearing in small claims court. The only lost wages you can sue for in small claims court are those lost because the defendant physically prevented you from working (i.e. Sony came to your house and smashed your fingers, preventing you from working as a coder). Suing someone is voluntary. To quote the website of one cities small claims court:
3. THE AMOUNT OF YOUR CLAIM: You may ask for money only. No other recovery is permitted in the Small Claims Division. You may not recover "punitive damages", nor lost wages, traveling expenses, costs of obtaining evidence, baby-sitting and the like, incidental to your filing, preparing, or trial appearance. You may recover court fees and interest from the defendant if you win your case.
Waterworld is probably the best example of that in recent memory (and yes, it was Sci-Fi). It cost $175 Million in 1995, making it the most expensive film ever made at the time. The movie was terrible, and only made back $88 million.
And of course, you can't go near a tropical fish tank without hearing some parent saying "Look! It's Nemo!"
I was at the smithsonian recently, and saw off in the distance a tropical fish display. I bet the person with me that if we went over there we would hear a parent say "Look! Nemo!" within 15 seconds. It only took 4.
Technically, the company does exist. Nuvomedia, the maker of the Rocket, was purchased by Gemstar, who merged with TV Guide to become Gemstar TV Guide, who then merged with Macrovision Corp to become Macrovision Solutions Corp, and finally, just this past month, changed its name to Rovi Corp ( http://www.rovicorp.com/ ).
Sprint DOES prorate the ETF for all contracts signed after November 2008. However, there is still a minimum of $50, so your ETF after 18 months would be $87.50
The added factor in the second case is that a couple with two daughters has twice as many opportunities to name a daughter "Mary" as a couple with only one daughter does.
The reason there is a greater chance in the Mary case, as opposed to the girl case, is that a family with two girls is twice as likely to name a child Mary as a family with only one girl (since they have two opportunities to name a child Mary instead of one).
In the first case, if we choose 1000 couples, on average we get: 250 with Boy/Boy 250 with Boy/Girl 250 with Girl/Boy 250 with Girl/Girl
Since we can eliminate the 250 Boy-Boy couples, the odds of Girl-Girl are 250/750 or ~33%
In the second case, lets assume that 10% of girls get named Mary. In this case we have: 250 Boy/Boy, of which 0 are Mary/NotMary and 0 are NotMary/Mary 250 Boy/Girl, of which 0 are Mary/NotMary and 25 are NotMary/Mary 250 Girl/Boy, of which 25 are Mary/NotMary and 0 are NotMary/Mary 250 Girl/Girl, of which 25 are Mary/NotMary and 25 are NotMary/Mary
Therefore, the odds of a Girl/Girl couple having a Mary is 50/100, or 50%
It's not Penske vs. U-HAUL, it's anyone vs U-HAUL. The last few U-HAUL trucks I've been in have had between 300,000 and 400,000 miles on them, and they were just cut-down pickup trucks with a box crudely welded on (they even still had the rear-view mirror on the windshield, pointing at nothing). The AC didn't work in any of them, and the shocks were long, long gone. However, when I've rented from Penske or Budget, I've gotten purpose-built trucks with under 30,000 miles that were clean, in great condition, had working AC and radio, and drove as well as the average van would. The guy at Penske told me that like most rental car companies they sell their rental trucks once they reach 36,000 miles, so their stuff is always in good condition.
I was just going to post that. Assuming power consumption/light output is linear, a 1.75 increase in luminosity is equivalent to a 42.9% reduction in power since (1.75-1)/1.75 =.429
On further study, it NSS DOES use process IDs and many, many other factors to generate the seeds. Searching the additional file locations ("C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\History", "C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files", "C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\My Recent Documents", "C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Temp\", "Recycle Bin", and "Network Neighborhood") were added because some older OSs (Win2k and WinCE) didn't have strong enough build-in pseudo-random number generators.
This patch changed NSS to use the built-in PRNG in Windows XP and up which uses "process ID and thread ID, the system clock, the system time, the system counter, memory status, free disk clusters, andthe hashed user environment block".
NSS (Network Security Services) 3.12.3 is using IE temporary internet files to generate seeds. Sounds thoroughly stupid to me, as it means that if you never use Internet Explorer, your cryptographic seeds won't change. How about using the process list or something not Hard Drive dependent to generate the seeds instead?
The word you are looking for is an "initialism", which is like an acronym that you pronounce as individual letters.
However, I'm not sure about ones like JPEG or MSDOS that are part initialism and part acronym.
You also have ones like SQL which some people treat as an initialism (S-Q-L) and others as an acronym (sequal).
Finally, you have ones like AAA, IEEE, or NAACP which are neither pronounced as a word or as the individual letters (triple-A, I-triple-E, N-double-A-C-P, etc.).
How about we just call them all acronyms and get over it. Do we really need single words to describe each case?
The last few moving trucks I rented (Penske -- I wouldn't touch U-HAUL with a 10 foot poll) had the basic box frame made of metal, but the walls and roof were fiberglass reinforced with wooden studs.
If you like news, yes. If you think the $19 bucks is high, just visit 4 of the Smithsonian museums (some of the best museums in the world) first, and since they're free your average admission is just $4.
I used the Trackman Wheel in CAD/CAM at my last job, and by the time I left I found that I had lost most of the strength in my right thumb from using it with the trackball. Even 6 months after I stopped using it, my left thumb is still slightly stronger than my right (I'm right handed). I'm using the Logitech Marble now, which, while it's missing the crucial scroll wheel and middle button, has really helped my thumb.
OpenDNS is just as bad -- they do the same thing. The real solution is to change your DNS servers to use the L3 DNS servers at 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.3, 4.2.2.4, 4.2.2.5, or 4.2.2.6, which are often faster than Comcast's anyway.
It's not intuitive, but you can get access to ANY folder. You just need to give yourself ownership first.
Open a Windows Explorer window, navigate to the directory, right click on the it, select Properties, go to the resulting Security tab, and click the Advanced button contained there.
Click Edit, select "Administrators" from the list of potential owners, click the Replace owner on subcontainer and objects checkbox, then click the OK button.
After a couple minutes you'll be presented with a Window informing you that you need to close all property dialogs for the ownership changes to be visible. Follow this advice by clicking the OK button in the File Properties window and you should now be back at the Windows Explorer window you originally opened.
Right Click on the directory again and select Properties one additional time. Go to the Security tab, and click the Advanced button again also.
Click the Add.. button in the Permissions tab, type in Administrators as the name (ensure your Local Computer domain is selected), and select Full control from the list of available permissions. Click OK out of the Permission Entry dialog, select Replace all existing inheritable permissions on all descendants... then click OK from the Advanced dialog.
After a couple minutes you should once again be back at the File Properties dialog. Feel free to click OK and close Windows Explorer.
I never really liked the "Netbook" name all that much (especially since I use mine more for note taking and word processing, not surfing), and I think "Laptot" fits a whole lot better. Plus, since "Laptots" were African colonial troops in the service of France between 1750 and the early 1900s, it is unlikely to be trademarked.
Would it have killed the submitter to clue us in to what Enlightenment is? All I can get from the summary is that it is Linux related and now runs on cell phones. This isn't a telegraph, you're not paying by the letter, and there is nothing wrong with saying "the Enlightenment window manager" instead of just "Enlightenment".
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Actually, they often wouldn't even bother with consultants. I got to tour the set of Voyager while it was shooting (S01E13, "Cathexis"), and many of the shooting scripts would simply says [TECH] instead of the technical term, and it was up to the ACTORS to fill in the blank. For example, you'd see a line like: "We've got to [TECH] the [TECH] before the [TECH] [TECHS]". They just relied on the actors using a consistent set of gibberish to fill in the blanks.
I know it's Slashdot and we don't read the articles, but at least read the first sentence of the summary:
That's bull. You cannot recover lost wages incurred by appearing in small claims court. The only lost wages you can sue for in small claims court are those lost because the defendant physically prevented you from working (i.e. Sony came to your house and smashed your fingers, preventing you from working as a coder). Suing someone is voluntary. To quote the website of one cities small claims court:
Waterworld is probably the best example of that in recent memory (and yes, it was Sci-Fi). It cost $175 Million in 1995, making it the most expensive film ever made at the time. The movie was terrible, and only made back $88 million.
And of course, you can't go near a tropical fish tank without hearing some parent saying "Look! It's Nemo!"
I was at the smithsonian recently, and saw off in the distance a tropical fish display. I bet the person with me that if we went over there we would hear a parent say "Look! Nemo!" within 15 seconds. It only took 4.
Technically, the company does exist. Nuvomedia, the maker of the Rocket, was purchased by Gemstar, who merged with TV Guide to become Gemstar TV Guide, who then merged with Macrovision Corp to become Macrovision Solutions Corp, and finally, just this past month, changed its name to Rovi Corp ( http://www.rovicorp.com/ ).
Sprint DOES prorate the ETF for all contracts signed after November 2008. However, there is still a minimum of $50, so your ETF after 18 months would be $87.50
See http://nextelonline.nextel.com/en/services/termination_fee/early_termination_fee.shtml
The added factor in the second case is that a couple with two daughters has twice as many opportunities to name a daughter "Mary" as a couple with only one daughter does.
The reason there is a greater chance in the Mary case, as opposed to the girl case, is that a family with two girls is twice as likely to name a child Mary as a family with only one girl (since they have two opportunities to name a child Mary instead of one).
In the first case, if we choose 1000 couples, on average we get:
250 with Boy/Boy
250 with Boy/Girl
250 with Girl/Boy
250 with Girl/Girl
Since we can eliminate the 250 Boy-Boy couples, the odds of Girl-Girl are 250/750 or ~33%
In the second case, lets assume that 10% of girls get named Mary. In this case we have:
250 Boy/Boy, of which 0 are Mary/NotMary and 0 are NotMary/Mary
250 Boy/Girl, of which 0 are Mary/NotMary and 25 are NotMary/Mary
250 Girl/Boy, of which 25 are Mary/NotMary and 0 are NotMary/Mary
250 Girl/Girl, of which 25 are Mary/NotMary and 25 are NotMary/Mary
Therefore, the odds of a Girl/Girl couple having a Mary is 50/100, or 50%
It's not Penske vs. U-HAUL, it's anyone vs U-HAUL. The last few U-HAUL trucks I've been in have had between 300,000 and 400,000 miles on them, and they were just cut-down pickup trucks with a box crudely welded on (they even still had the rear-view mirror on the windshield, pointing at nothing). The AC didn't work in any of them, and the shocks were long, long gone. However, when I've rented from Penske or Budget, I've gotten purpose-built trucks with under 30,000 miles that were clean, in great condition, had working AC and radio, and drove as well as the average van would. The guy at Penske told me that like most rental car companies they sell their rental trucks once they reach 36,000 miles, so their stuff is always in good condition.
I was just going to post that. Assuming power consumption/light output is linear, a 1.75 increase in luminosity is equivalent to a 42.9% reduction in power since (1.75-1)/1.75 = .429
On further study, it NSS DOES use process IDs and many, many other factors to generate the seeds. Searching the additional file locations ("C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\History", "C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files", "C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\My Recent Documents", "C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Temp\", "Recycle Bin", and "Network Neighborhood") were added because some older OSs (Win2k and WinCE) didn't have strong enough build-in pseudo-random number generators.
This patch changed NSS to use the built-in PRNG in Windows XP and up which uses "process ID and thread ID, the system clock, the system time, the system counter, memory status, free disk clusters, andthe hashed user environment block".
NSS (Network Security Services) 3.12.3 is using IE temporary internet files to generate seeds. Sounds thoroughly stupid to me, as it means that if you never use Internet Explorer, your cryptographic seeds won't change. How about using the process list or something not Hard Drive dependent to generate the seeds instead?
The word you are looking for is an "initialism", which is like an acronym that you pronounce as individual letters.
However, I'm not sure about ones like JPEG or MSDOS that are part initialism and part acronym.
You also have ones like SQL which some people treat as an initialism (S-Q-L) and others as an acronym (sequal).
Finally, you have ones like AAA, IEEE, or NAACP which are neither pronounced as a word or as the individual letters (triple-A, I-triple-E, N-double-A-C-P, etc.).
How about we just call them all acronyms and get over it. Do we really need single words to describe each case?
The last few moving trucks I rented (Penske -- I wouldn't touch U-HAUL with a 10 foot poll) had the basic box frame made of metal, but the walls and roof were fiberglass reinforced with wooden studs.
If you like news, yes. If you think the $19 bucks is high, just visit 4 of the Smithsonian museums (some of the best museums in the world) first, and since they're free your average admission is just $4.
I used the Trackman Wheel in CAD/CAM at my last job, and by the time I left I found that I had lost most of the strength in my right thumb from using it with the trackball. Even 6 months after I stopped using it, my left thumb is still slightly stronger than my right (I'm right handed). I'm using the Logitech Marble now, which, while it's missing the crucial scroll wheel and middle button, has really helped my thumb.
OpenDNS is just as bad -- they do the same thing. The real solution is to change your DNS servers to use the L3 DNS servers at 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.3, 4.2.2.4, 4.2.2.5, or 4.2.2.6, which are often faster than Comcast's anyway.
The article says that the electricity will cost $0.129/kWh and that the system will provide 200 MW for 15 years. Some quick google math shows that:
(12.9 (U.S. cents / kWh)) * (15 years) * (200 megawatts) = 3.392 billion U.S. dollars
That's the total mass for all satellites launched in a year, not a single payload.
It's not intuitive, but you can get access to ANY folder. You just need to give yourself ownership first.
Open a Windows Explorer window, navigate to the directory, right click on the it, select Properties, go to the resulting Security tab, and click the Advanced button contained there.
Click Edit, select "Administrators" from the list of potential owners, click the Replace owner on subcontainer and objects checkbox, then click the OK button.
After a couple minutes you'll be presented with a Window informing you that you need to close all property dialogs for the ownership changes to be visible. Follow this advice by clicking the OK button in the File Properties window and you should now be back at the Windows Explorer window you originally opened.
Right Click on the directory again and select Properties one additional time. Go to the Security tab, and click the Advanced button again also.
Click the Add.. button in the Permissions tab, type in Administrators as the name (ensure your Local Computer domain is selected), and select Full control from the list of available permissions. Click OK out of the Permission Entry dialog, select Replace all existing inheritable permissions on all descendants... then click OK from the Advanced dialog.
After a couple minutes you should once again be back at the File Properties dialog. Feel free to click OK and close Windows Explorer.
I never really liked the "Netbook" name all that much (especially since I use mine more for note taking and word processing, not surfing), and I think "Laptot" fits a whole lot better. Plus, since "Laptots" were African colonial troops in the service of France between 1750 and the early 1900s, it is unlikely to be trademarked.
Would it have killed the submitter to clue us in to what Enlightenment is? All I can get from the summary is that it is Linux related and now runs on cell phones. This isn't a telegraph, you're not paying by the letter, and there is nothing wrong with saying "the Enlightenment window manager" instead of just "Enlightenment".
Don't you mean Ethernet over Power?
Which is exactly why anyone who goes skydiving suffocates and dies, right?
For your information, I have no problems breathing while falling at 120mph. Goggles help though if you want to open your eyes.