The vomiting could have been the result of medication. I had something that sure felt like the flu back in the mid '80s and my brother the doctor gave me two different things out of his sample collection, one of which introduced me to a level of stomach spasm I had no idea was humanly possible.
There is no right to an education, and nobody except your parents is obligated to provide you with one. The reason public schools exist, and the reason there's a law that says you have to go, is that that is society's way of preventing the neighborhood from filling up with illiterates. This helps to protect property values.
If you want an astonishingly prophetic look at where television programming was going to go, read Arthur C. Clarke's short story "I Remember Babylon", and just change the bad guys from Red China to corporations.
...said that it was all about Oracle getting their hands on MySQL to keep IBM from doing so.
I wonder if they're going to turn around and start trying to unload the parts of Sun that they don't want. I look forward to seeing what Robert X. has to say about it.
Re:Calibrate Per Use? (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Sat Apr 11, '09 01:47 PM (#27543179)
It might work for the zombie-like grandma who would also gladly draw a triangle and a flower with her left hand if asked to, but some grandmas are not obedient sheeps and like to understand what the hell they're doing.
Grandma is showing up to vote, not to play whack-a-mole. What if I told you you have to remove your shoes to vote? After all, why should anybody be incapable of removing their shoes?
Calibrating a screen makes sense to you because you know that touchscreen technology needs calibration, and you know that linear algebra can be used to extrapolate positions from the 3 points you touched. If you don't know these two things, then the ordeal doesn't make any more sense than having to remove your shoes to vote.
They were saying "gigawatt" correctly, it comes from "gigantic", and it was only in the '80s and '90s that a lot of people saw the "giga" prefix in print, probably in relation to computers, without having ever heard it, unlike people who dealt with radio frequencies in the billions of Hertz (cycles per second) or power in the billions of Watts had done, and proceeded to mispronounce it and spread that mispronounciation to others.
If not for The Original Series it would never occur to scientists to use the word "warp" in reference to faster than light travel unless acheiving that speed involved "warping" something (fabric of space-time, perhaps).
More likely would be "n" times "c", as in 2c equals twice the speed of light. (I'll be impressed if they ever achieve {1+[any fraction at all]}c)
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So, basically, you're saying that a trip to Radio Shack for these resistors is likely to be a waste of time?
So it's like most other trips to Radio Shack?
You misunderestimate the power of idiocy.
The vomiting could have been the result of medication. I had something that sure felt like the flu back in the mid '80s and my brother the doctor gave me two different things out of his sample collection, one of which introduced me to a level of stomach spasm I had no idea was humanly possible.
So basically this strain is one that was only expected to emerge "when pigs fly"?
There is no right to an education, and nobody except your parents is obligated to provide you with one. The reason public schools exist, and the reason there's a law that says you have to go, is that that is society's way of preventing the neighborhood from filling up with illiterates. This helps to protect property values.
I can't quite put it into words, either, but I know exactly what you mean.
The same reason that he calls what he does now governing?
If you want an astonishingly prophetic look at where television programming was going to go, read Arthur C. Clarke's short story "I Remember Babylon", and just change the bad guys from Red China to corporations.
...said that it was all about Oracle getting their hands on MySQL to keep IBM from doing so.
I wonder if they're going to turn around and start trying to unload the parts of Sun that they don't want. I look forward to seeing what Robert X. has to say about it.
After a year or so, they'll "upgrade" whatever version of Flash is used and expect you to go out and buy yet another new television.
Is that due to the bandwidth demands of downloading an entire building, or just a commentary on the quality of his work?
As opposed to the Predator Visual Basic Avenger which mostly just crashed a lot.
You cannot argue that this interface is unacceptable.
Why not? :-)
But seriously, folks, I'm nearly certain that you meant to include only one negative in that sentence.
Never have mod points when I really need them.
Re:Calibrate Per Use? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sat Apr 11, '09 01:47 PM (#27543179)
It might work for the zombie-like grandma who would also gladly draw a triangle and a flower with her left hand if asked to, but some grandmas are not obedient sheeps and like to understand what the hell they're doing.
Grandma is showing up to vote, not to play whack-a-mole. What if I told you you have to remove your shoes to vote? After all, why should anybody be incapable of removing their shoes?
Calibrating a screen makes sense to you because you know that touchscreen technology needs calibration, and you know that linear algebra can be used to extrapolate positions from the 3 points you touched. If you don't know these two things, then the ordeal doesn't make any more sense than having to remove your shoes to vote.
Or Gen. Sherman in the Civil War, who pioneered the concept of "total war" by destroying the South's economy and burning as he went.
"Carthago delenda est"
Didn't you get the memo? Obama is now officially to blame for anything and everything. Just ask any Republican.
And then wonder why the next PCI card or DIMM you plug in to a previously empty socket isn't working right.
Well, I heard RF techs saying "jigaHertz" back in the early '70s.
They were saying "gigawatt" correctly, it comes from "gigantic", and it was only in the '80s and '90s that a lot of people saw the "giga" prefix in print, probably in relation to computers, without having ever heard it, unlike people who dealt with radio frequencies in the billions of Hertz (cycles per second) or power in the billions of Watts had done, and proceeded to mispronounce it and spread that mispronounciation to others.
...those who kiss multiple girls simultaneously.
A concept which is both science fiction and fantasy, assuming the usual definitions of "kiss" and "lips".
Make that "...unless achieving...".
If not for The Original Series it would never occur to scientists to use the word "warp" in reference to faster than light travel unless acheiving that speed involved "warping" something (fabric of space-time, perhaps).
More likely would be "n" times "c", as in 2c equals twice the speed of light. (I'll be impressed if they ever achieve {1+[any fraction at all]}c)
I would still consider Star Wars a blend of sci fi and fantasy, but definitely more in the future fantasy camp.
Lots of people consider Star Wars campy. :-)
House painting brush, perhaps augmented with pipe cleaners or Q-tips, or very skinny artist's brush.
So whether moving air creates static electricity depends on which direction it moves? Regardless of relative motherboard orientation?
Use a soft, natural bristle brush to loosen the stuff and a vacuum to remove it.