Next to where I used to work, there was, (and I mean was), a woman who decided that gabbing on her cell phone was more important than obeying train signals. She was promptly jammed between the floor and dash, her damn SUV flipped 5 or so times, cracked through a telephone/power pole, mangled a chain link fence (which is still mangled) and landed, wheel-side-down, in an alley. Cell phones are dangerous as hell, not only for the reasons listed, but because your perpiheral vision is limited on the side that your hand/cellphone is on.
I know that if you attempt to attend most orchestral performances with a child you will be asked to leave. They give you cough drops at the door so that you don't disturb the performers, and a small cough is nothing compared to the screech of an infant.
I've heard that the reason humans can't walk before (or directly after) they're born is because the female has to give birth to what is basically a undeveloped child. Due to our large heads and female's not-as-large hips, the baby has to be birthed BEFORE it is fully developed (hence the soft spot in the skull and the inability to accurately control hands/feet), or else it wouldn't fit through the pelvic cavity. Although I could be wrong.
This isn't that new.
My school was funded by IBM. They gave the university like $5 million, and some computers. I had to learn IBM S/390 Assmebler and COBOL. Absolutely worthless. I learned NOTHING about technology developed after 1979. At least C# is new, and will be USEFUL in the future. Lucky, I say.
Not that I know too much about it, but isn't IBM finding ways around that with their teleportation project?
Using entangled pairs to read the information instead of examining the actual information itself, keeps the original intact, I think. I'd love a good explanation if I'm wrong.
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So then by your logic, we should have no laws against crime? Laws scare people into not doing stupid or morally questionable things. If it stops a few, then I say all the better. People will never stop shooting each other (at least in the forseeable future), but Joe SixPack won't go hunting humans for sport. Why? Laws. To a lesser degree, if a law against spam was enacted, a good portion of spammers would probably stop, if even a minimal jail sentence was imposed, or perhaps a stringent fine.
I have a 17" CRT that peaks at 110W and a 15" LCD that peaks at 24W. I turned on the CRT and ran outside to look at the meter. Boy did that make the dial spin. Both have about the same viewable area too.
Yeah, I got rooted once because I left my firewall down after I had recovered fom playing with my router (a measly 486/40 w/ 8MB RAM). The rat bastard left my machine a mess. Everything seg faulted. But now I got my logs and someone from RR in Columbus decided to try bashing against FTP, RPC, HTTP, IMAP and some others trying to get in. I emailed RR support, he stopped bashing...
Road Runner, via Time Warner. It's probably the best cable modem setup I've seen (personally, at least). And their service in the Milwaukee area is phenominal.
Hell yeah,
In Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, I have a basically Static IP, no downtime EVER. I've pushed 55KBps (440kbit) upstream, And have pulled stuff in at 400+KBps (3200kbit). I can't stress enough how cool this modem is. And for $47 (after tax) I am not wanting for more. They are even cool about me having a bunch of servers behind a NAT.
Or if you have a small enough place (or are very diligent), your DHCP server will know the MAC addresses of all the machines that SHOULD be connected, and deny/log all others. Unless you have a machine that can change its MAC address AND you know the MAC address of a registered machine on the network, you're not getting in.
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Don't think so. The MASS of Earth, which is what's keeping it in it's orbit, due to gravity, isn't going to change. If we turn the earth in to a super-heated wasteland, so be it, but Earth's orbit won't change unless a significant amount of mass were to be added/subtracted to either it, or the Sun and surrounding planets. Now, go ahead and expand all the air you want, the mass won't change a bit.
I just wish they would use a software translator for the IA-32 crap, then streamline the hell out of the 64-bit stuff. You make a good point about supporting 286 instructions, but when you can basically RISC most of the good ones (ADD SUB MUL LEA on and on) then have the other ones (ENTER AAA all those goodies that are NEVER used, at least not by me) in some sort of software wrapper that will translate them into good 'ol RISC instructions, then support is there (with minimal overhead) and you have your RISC set of good necessary HARDCODED instructions. Maybe I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, but as far as I know, the software overhead of pulling AAA out and replacing it with a function of some sort wouldn't really be noticeable on a 1GHz+ computer (and these things will be much faster than that).
Yeah, That's also the same reason you never get hired hourly as a sys admin. I have a buddy who came in and repaired the mess at a shrinks office, and now he has nothing to do. He gets about $20/hr. When he was in the midst of repairing everything, he was making good money. Now he isn't. Funny thing, being rewarded for shoddy work.
Northern Illinois University. Worst Compsci dept EVER. I mean mainframe assembler was hard, but not fun at all. When your final project is to basically write a program that updates a database, the question "WHY?!?!?" always popped into my head.
I'd bet you could make a simple game in COBOL. But we used "Virtual Punchcards". No interactive input for us. And don't get me started on JCL.... There's a reason it is hardly ever used.
You bastard...
I went to a uni with IBM S/370 Equipment. We programmed COBOL and Assembler. There WAS C++ but it was extremely easy (matricies were the "hard topic" of the course). Considering IBM funds the university, it's not too hard to see why the ENTIRE CS department was geared towards Mainframe development. But I missed out on a LOT of the technology after, say, 1979. (And I took these classes in 2000/2001, so there are like 22 years of technology missed). I really wanted to code "game-like" things, but show me the man who made a COBOL game and I'll show you a miracle worker.
I figure the best bet is a giant LCD shutter (like the digits of a watch) over the whole plate. At the push of a button, there goes the LP. Can't be filmed, or seen. Best part is if you get in trouble, the fuzz will have a hard time understanding why they souldn't see your plate, but now they can.
But you don't need a sustained 20KW. An ignition coil can pump out 50,000V using one of Faraday's principles. Just manage to push a half an amp through that and recharge some capacitors while you have a "cool-down" time and it'll work. When they fire lasers based in a lab, I highly doubt they draw 20KW from the power grid. It's all about capacitors and funny electrical laws.
I guess it depends on your (or VB's) definition of NOT. I would bet that anyone who's familiar with assembler or boolean logic would choke on this error too. I certainly would and have been programming ass for 5 years. There is no nice way of saying it but VB is not good. I think it's sole purpose is to piss off programmers who are more advanced than Mr. Gates by locking them into a shitty implementation. Just a thought. -Me
I've seen some poor German guy mistake $250 for $2.50. He tipped a buddy of mine $100 because he thought it was a dollar. That's a bigger problem, Currency like the Yen, where it's a couple thousand yen to buy anything is better in my opinion, because it's impossible to mistake that confounded decimal for a larger sum of money. That's where the real problem is.
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Next to where I used to work, there was, (and I mean was), a woman who decided that gabbing on her cell phone was more important than obeying train signals. She was promptly jammed between the floor and dash, her damn SUV flipped 5 or so times, cracked through a telephone/power pole, mangled a chain link fence (which is still mangled) and landed, wheel-side-down, in an alley. Cell phones are dangerous as hell, not only for the reasons listed, but because your perpiheral vision is limited on the side that your hand/cellphone is on.
I know that if you attempt to attend most orchestral performances with a child you will be asked to leave. They give you cough drops at the door so that you don't disturb the performers, and a small cough is nothing compared to the screech of an infant.
I think he's going to be doing this over multiple weekends. While it is still sorta on the sad side, it's not a bad as it sounds.
I've heard that the reason humans can't walk before (or directly after) they're born is because the female has to give birth to what is basically a undeveloped child. Due to our large heads and female's not-as-large hips, the baby has to be birthed BEFORE it is fully developed (hence the soft spot in the skull and the inability to accurately control hands/feet), or else it wouldn't fit through the pelvic cavity. Although I could be wrong.
This isn't that new.
My school was funded by IBM. They gave the university like $5 million, and some computers. I had to learn IBM S/390 Assmebler and COBOL. Absolutely worthless. I learned NOTHING about technology developed after 1979. At least C# is new, and will be USEFUL in the future. Lucky, I say.
Or you'll see one of these things with a camera on it flying around and snapping pictures or anything the RC pilot wishes.
Not that I know too much about it, but isn't IBM finding ways around that with their teleportation project?
Using entangled pairs to read the information instead of examining the actual information itself, keeps the original intact, I think. I'd love a good explanation if I'm wrong.
So then by your logic, we should have no laws against crime? Laws scare people into not doing stupid or morally questionable things. If it stops a few, then I say all the better. People will never stop shooting each other (at least in the forseeable future), but Joe SixPack won't go hunting humans for sport. Why? Laws. To a lesser degree, if a law against spam was enacted, a good portion of spammers would probably stop, if even a minimal jail sentence was imposed, or perhaps a stringent fine.
I have a 17" CRT that peaks at 110W and a 15" LCD that peaks at 24W. I turned on the CRT and ran outside to look at the meter. Boy did that make the dial spin. Both have about the same viewable area too.
Yeah, I got rooted once because I left my firewall down after I had recovered fom playing with my router (a measly 486/40 w/ 8MB RAM). The rat bastard left my machine a mess. Everything seg faulted. But now I got my logs and someone from RR in Columbus decided to try bashing against FTP, RPC, HTTP, IMAP and some others trying to get in. I emailed RR support, he stopped bashing...
I actually work in the old TSR building, where they made Pool of Radiance (I think). Although TSR isn't here any longer, which kinda sucks.
Road Runner, via Time Warner. It's probably the best cable modem setup I've seen (personally, at least). And their service in the Milwaukee area is phenominal.
Hell yeah, In Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, I have a basically Static IP, no downtime EVER. I've pushed 55KBps (440kbit) upstream, And have pulled stuff in at 400+KBps (3200kbit). I can't stress enough how cool this modem is. And for $47 (after tax) I am not wanting for more. They are even cool about me having a bunch of servers behind a NAT.
Or if you have a small enough place (or are very diligent), your DHCP server will know the MAC addresses of all the machines that SHOULD be connected, and deny/log all others. Unless you have a machine that can change its MAC address AND you know the MAC address of a registered machine on the network, you're not getting in.
Don't think so.
The MASS of Earth, which is what's keeping it in it's orbit, due to gravity, isn't going to change. If we turn the earth in to a super-heated wasteland, so be it, but Earth's orbit won't change unless a significant amount of mass were to be added/subtracted to either it, or the Sun and surrounding planets. Now, go ahead and expand all the air you want, the mass won't change a bit.
I just wish they would use a software translator for the IA-32 crap, then streamline the hell out of the 64-bit stuff. You make a good point about supporting 286 instructions, but when you can basically RISC most of the good ones (ADD SUB MUL LEA on and on) then have the other ones (ENTER AAA all those goodies that are NEVER used, at least not by me) in some sort of software wrapper that will translate them into good 'ol RISC instructions, then support is there (with minimal overhead) and you have your RISC set of good necessary HARDCODED instructions.
Maybe I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, but as far as I know, the software overhead of pulling AAA out and replacing it with a function of some sort wouldn't really be noticeable on a 1GHz+ computer (and these things will be much faster than that).
This is one of the funniest things I have read on here. Keep up the good work...
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Yeah, That's also the same reason you never get hired hourly as a sys admin. I have a buddy who came in and repaired the mess at a shrinks office, and now he has nothing to do. He gets about $20/hr. When he was in the midst of repairing everything, he was making good money. Now he isn't. Funny thing, being rewarded for shoddy work.
Northern Illinois University. Worst Compsci dept EVER. I mean mainframe assembler was hard, but not fun at all. When your final project is to basically write a program that updates a database, the question "WHY?!?!?" always popped into my head. I'd bet you could make a simple game in COBOL. But we used "Virtual Punchcards". No interactive input for us. And don't get me started on JCL.... There's a reason it is hardly ever used.
You bastard... I went to a uni with IBM S/370 Equipment. We programmed COBOL and Assembler. There WAS C++ but it was extremely easy (matricies were the "hard topic" of the course). Considering IBM funds the university, it's not too hard to see why the ENTIRE CS department was geared towards Mainframe development. But I missed out on a LOT of the technology after, say, 1979. (And I took these classes in 2000/2001, so there are like 22 years of technology missed). I really wanted to code "game-like" things, but show me the man who made a COBOL game and I'll show you a miracle worker.
I figure the best bet is a giant LCD shutter (like the digits of a watch) over the whole plate. At the push of a button, there goes the LP. Can't be filmed, or seen. Best part is if you get in trouble, the fuzz will have a hard time understanding why they souldn't see your plate, but now they can.
But you don't need a sustained 20KW. An ignition coil can pump out 50,000V using one of Faraday's principles. Just manage to push a half an amp through that and recharge some capacitors while you have a "cool-down" time and it'll work. When they fire lasers based in a lab, I highly doubt they draw 20KW from the power grid. It's all about capacitors and funny electrical laws.
I guess it depends on your (or VB's) definition of NOT. I would bet that anyone who's familiar with assembler or boolean logic would choke on this error too. I certainly would and have been programming ass for 5 years. There is no nice way of saying it but VB is not good. I think it's sole purpose is to piss off programmers who are more advanced than Mr. Gates by locking them into a shitty implementation. Just a thought.
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I've seen some poor German guy mistake $250 for $2.50. He tipped a buddy of mine $100 because he thought it was a dollar. That's a bigger problem, Currency like the Yen, where it's a couple thousand yen to buy anything is better in my opinion, because it's impossible to mistake that confounded decimal for a larger sum of money. That's where the real problem is.