I wouldn't trust a toaster oven to have a reliable heat setting. If the temperature isn't supposed to go over a set level, then you better have a damn good oven.
How exactly does one hold on to frictionless bearings? Do you use [http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?id=2 74]Johnson & Johnson plastic wraps to stick to them?
http://www.math.utah.edu/~cherk/mathjokes.html Several scientists were asked to prove that all odd integers higher than 2 are prime.
Mathematician: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, and by induction - every odd integer higher than 2 is a prime. Physicist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an experimental error, 11 is a prime. Just to be sure, try several randomly chosen numbers: 17 is a prime, 23 is a prime... Engineer: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an approximation to a prime, 11 is a prime,... Programmer (reading the output on the screen): 3 is a prime, 3 is a prime, 3 a is prime, 3 is a prime.... Biologist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 -- results have not arrived yet,... Psychologist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is a prime but tries to suppress it,... Chemist (or Dan Quayle): What's a prime? Politician: "Some numbers are prime.. but the goal is to create a kinder, gentler society where all numbers are prime... " Programmer: "Wait a minute, I think I have an algorithm from Knuth on finding prime numbers... just a little bit longer, I've found the last bug... no, that's not it... ya know, I think there may be a compiler bug here - oh, did you want IEEE-998.0334 rounding or not? - was that in the spec? - hold on, I've almost got it - I was up all night working on this program, ya know... now if management would just get me that new workstation tha just came out, I'd be done by now... etc., etc...."
EDS is the outsourcee of choice for my provincial government. In fact they are entirely willing to give a multi-million dollar contract to EDS, without a tender, because "no one locally can do the job".
I'd mod you as insightful, but the troll mods you will no doubt accumulate would outweigh me. Michael Moore may be outspoken, but he makes the same point you do. Games don't kill people, people kill people.
Games don't help unstable people, but they don't twist stable, healthy people looking for a fun evening with friends.
"Lawn Darts" You beat me to the joke. That'll teach me to do homework before reading/.
I suppose the offtopic mod is in regard to lawn darts never being fully implemented in the video game scene. Maybe they aren't dying, they just haven't been born on the computer or console yet.
I agree that Linux has the same problem now of giving up on working hardware. Red Hat 8.0 for instance is painfully slow on my MMX 166, where Red Hat 6.0 would fly, and still be significantly functional.
And as for Windows, there are few media players better than WMP 6.2
There are some problems. It is not as interesting as I'd hoped it would be, and there are so many re-runs that I can't bring myself to feel excited about next week's episode, especially since the teaser-trailer isn't played after the show. In some ways that is a blessing, because the teasers often give away important parts of the plot!
I like the pilot a lot! It had Earth and time travel, and everything that makes a really really good Trek show. But then they left Earth behind, and their potential story lines went away. They have to focus on Earth to make this a new and exciting show. Show us the problems at home, and that everything isn't as rosy on Earth as they make it seem. There are bound to be splinter groups unhappy with Starfleet, and they should get the ball rolling faster into making a "Federation" with people they are meeting. They are trying so hard to stay away from catching up to the other Trek show's timelines, that they are stagnant.
TOS came after Enterprise, and so it shows the Vulcans were not so high and mighty morally over humanity. They use the Vulcans as a lense on homophobic people today. A classic Trek story line and that show in particular was well done.
The Borg that went back and got "blown up" by Enterprise E were 100 years before Enterprise when they were "destroyed". Hint hint.
Microsoft is good at making both their old software, and old hardware obsolete, along with hacking.
When you can't read a file from the next version of MS Works in the previous one, or use MS.net on Windows 98, or read some CDs in a file system compatible with Win 98 but not NT 4+, then I'd say they are pretty darn good at making all sorts of things obsolete.
I was at a MS presentation of.net, all the while them spouting about how it would make.dll hell disapear, make software for any Microsoft operating system including obscure ones like Windows CE Tablet, and not once did they mention that it wouldn't run on Windows 98.
This is a really great idea. So far/. has only mentioned these kind of things for Europe and North Africa. I wonder if us North Americans will manage to catch up one day?;-)
So you are saying we have to wait until about the year 3000 [Futurama], before we have fuelcell powered robots? It makes sense now why Bender is so drunk all the time.
As for the moderator who marked my above comment as "overrated" you could see it was a perfectly valid question, with a perfectly "informative" answer waiting for it.
Fuel cells have been mentioned as becoming mainstream power sources for about 10 years now. My patience is being tried as a consumer to the point when it really does arrive I'll be skeptical about it.
They have a long way to go in the marketing aspect of fuel cells, because we can already see the obligatory posts about fires and such. Power sources have the potential for fires and explosions, yes. I've heard ordinary computer power supplies blow up when the capacitors overheat, and we all know about lithium + water. For fuel cells it will be no different, so we'll just have to make sure that the designs are sound before welcoming them onto our laps and pockets.
"Please be aware the game you are purchasing will be delivered to you via electronic download. There WILL NOT be a hard copy of the game sent to you. Because of this, we STRONGLY recommend backing up the file after you download it.
NOTICE: Technical support is not available for this title. "
So, they overcharge for software, don't provide any version upgrades, and no technical support unless you pay. Sounds like buying software from Microsoft.
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Wouldn't Bounce shorten the life of the chips? I thought it was tiny granules of conductive material that is good at evenly distributing static charges in fabric by providing conductive paths. It could very well deliver the deadly charge you are trying to avoid.
Just don't drag your case across a carpet, or touch an component after the case, unless it is a metal grounded part.
Good point about the dust, but do you really think that giving your case "speed holes" will improve performance?;-) Simpsons plug inevitable.
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Looking at a class-'whatever' laser is bound to do wonders for your already CRT damaged eyesight. Look at lasers at your own risk, and stupidity.
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When they make a clear CPU and invisible hard drive, then I'll hop on the trend bandwagon.
A light and durable case is more important to me than one that you can see into. If I want to see my ribbon cables and motherboard, I can leave the side off.
The pie chart in the article suggests that the exploit can only take place about 30% of the time the attack is used. It is more likely that the memory error will go undetected by the hack. If the attack can be tried again, and again, and again, I suppose it would work.
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I think Taco's been playing too much Unreal and was going for the
Monster Kill with this story...
If I have to explain this joke to you all, then you must be Quake players.
I wouldn't trust a toaster oven to have a reliable heat setting. If the temperature isn't supposed to go over a set level, then you better have a damn good oven.
How exactly does one hold on to frictionless bearings? Do you use [http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?id=2 74]Johnson & Johnson plastic wraps to stick to them?
Several scientists were asked to prove that all odd integers higher than 2 are prime.
..."
http://www.math.utah.edu/~cherk/mathjokes.html
Mathematician: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, and by induction - every odd integer higher than 2 is a prime.
Physicist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an experimental error, 11 is a prime. Just to be sure, try several randomly chosen numbers: 17 is a prime, 23 is a prime...
Engineer: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an approximation to a prime, 11 is a prime,...
Programmer (reading the output on the screen): 3 is a prime, 3 is a prime, 3 a is prime, 3 is a prime....
Biologist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 -- results have not arrived yet,...
Psychologist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is a prime but tries to suppress it,...
Chemist (or Dan Quayle): What's a prime?
Politician: "Some numbers are prime.. but the goal is to create a kinder, gentler society where all numbers are prime... "
Programmer: "Wait a minute, I think I have an algorithm from Knuth on finding prime numbers... just a little bit longer, I've found the last bug... no, that's not it... ya know, I think there may be a compiler bug here - oh, did you want IEEE-998.0334 rounding or not? - was that in the spec? - hold on, I've almost got it - I was up all night working on this program, ya know... now if management would just get me that new workstation tha just came out, I'd be done by now... etc., etc.
Hydrogen Fuel Cells?
;-)
Surely they must be there, at least for another 10 years
long int foo = 87;
//???
long int foobar = 2;
long int foofoobar = 0;
foofoobar = (long int)foo / foobar;
EDS is the outsourcee of choice for my provincial government. In fact they are entirely willing to give a multi-million dollar contract to EDS, without a tender, because "no one locally can do the job".
Uh-huh, yeah. Right.
I'd mod you as insightful, but the troll mods you will no doubt accumulate would outweigh me. Michael Moore may be outspoken, but he makes the same point you do. Games don't kill people, people kill people.
Games don't help unstable people, but they don't twist stable, healthy people looking for a fun evening with friends.
"Also, note that all proceeds (after tax and print costs) are to be donated to charity."
It is nice that they are supporting Mandrake.
*ducks*
Laughing because you said "whip out" and "monkey" in the same sentence.
I wonder why all the games I played as a kid are listed in that list? Even Sticky Bear made the list, and I thought no one had even heard of it.
"Lawn Darts" /.
You beat me to the joke. That'll teach me to do homework before reading
I suppose the offtopic mod is in regard to lawn darts never being fully implemented in the video game scene. Maybe they aren't dying, they just haven't been born on the computer or console yet.
I agree that Linux has the same problem now of giving up on working hardware. Red Hat 8.0 for instance is painfully slow on my MMX 166, where Red Hat 6.0 would fly, and still be significantly functional.
And as for Windows, there are few media players better than WMP 6.2
"Sherinnian leads a coalition of the will... no, an army of light... no, a FEDERATION!, in a war..."
Hey, do you write for CNN most of the time?
There are some problems. It is not as interesting as I'd hoped it would be, and there are so many re-runs that I can't bring myself to feel excited about next week's episode, especially since the teaser-trailer isn't played after the show. In some ways that is a blessing, because the teasers often give away important parts of the plot!
I like the pilot a lot! It had Earth and time travel, and everything that makes a really really good Trek show. But then they left Earth behind, and their potential story lines went away. They have to focus on Earth to make this a new and exciting show. Show us the problems at home, and that everything isn't as rosy on Earth as they make it seem. There are bound to be splinter groups unhappy with Starfleet, and they should get the ball rolling faster into making a "Federation" with people they are meeting. They are trying so hard to stay away from catching up to the other Trek show's timelines, that they are stagnant.
TOS came after Enterprise, and so it shows the Vulcans were not so high and mighty morally over humanity. They use the Vulcans as a lense on homophobic people today. A classic Trek story line and that show in particular was well done.
The Borg that went back and got "blown up" by Enterprise E were 100 years before Enterprise when they were "destroyed". Hint hint.
Microsoft is good at making both their old software, and old hardware obsolete, along with hacking. .net on Windows 98, or read some CDs in a file system compatible with Win 98 but not NT 4+, then I'd say they are pretty darn good at making all sorts of things obsolete. .net, all the while them spouting about how it would make .dll hell disapear, make software for any Microsoft operating system including obscure ones like Windows CE Tablet, and not once did they mention that it wouldn't run on Windows 98.
When you can't read a file from the next version of MS Works in the previous one, or use MS
I was at a MS presentation of
This is a really great idea. So far /. has only mentioned these kind of things for Europe and North Africa. I wonder if us North Americans will manage to catch up one day? ;-)
So you are saying we have to wait until about the year 3000 [Futurama], before we have fuelcell powered robots? It makes sense now why Bender is so drunk all the time.
As for the moderator who marked my above comment as "overrated" you could see it was a perfectly valid question, with a perfectly "informative" answer waiting for it.
What happens to your laptop though when it is done guzzling the booze? Does it stumble home, and puke?
Seriously though, what happens to the elements in the liquid that aren't Hydrogen? Is it drained, or evaporated?
Fuel cells have been mentioned as becoming mainstream power sources for about 10 years now. My patience is being tried as a consumer to the point when it really does arrive I'll be skeptical about it.
They have a long way to go in the marketing aspect of fuel cells, because we can already see the obligatory posts about fires and such. Power sources have the potential for fires and explosions, yes. I've heard ordinary computer power supplies blow up when the capacitors overheat, and we all know about lithium + water. For fuel cells it will be no different, so we'll just have to make sure that the designs are sound before welcoming them onto our laps and pockets.
"Please be aware the game you are purchasing will be delivered to you via electronic download. There WILL NOT be a hard copy of the game sent to you. Because of this, we STRONGLY recommend backing up the file after you download it.
NOTICE: Technical support is not available for this title.
"
So, they overcharge for software, don't provide any version upgrades, and no technical support unless you pay. Sounds like buying software from Microsoft.
Wouldn't Bounce shorten the life of the chips? I thought it was tiny granules of conductive material that is good at evenly distributing static charges in fabric by providing conductive paths. It could very well deliver the deadly charge you are trying to avoid.
Just don't drag your case across a carpet, or touch an component after the case, unless it is a metal grounded part.
Good point about the dust, but do you really think that giving your case "speed holes" will improve performance? ;-) Simpsons plug inevitable.
Looking at a class-'whatever' laser is bound to do wonders for your already CRT damaged eyesight. Look at lasers at your own risk, and stupidity.
When they make a clear CPU and invisible hard drive, then I'll hop on the trend bandwagon.
A light and durable case is more important to me than one that you can see into. If I want to see my ribbon cables and motherboard, I can leave the side off.
The pie chart in the article suggests that the exploit can only take place about 30% of the time the attack is used. It is more likely that the memory error will go undetected by the hack. If the attack can be tried again, and again, and again, I suppose it would work.