This was common even in the early 1900's -cocaine was used in veritable amounts most children's and adults' cough medicines, sleeping aids (!), some headache medicines and -I believe- in some tuberchulosis medicines. The use of cocaine was banned after some of the harsher withdrawal and side-effects had started manifesting in a considerable part of the population. Coca-cola, also, had a considerable quotient of cocaine in it.
I don't see a point in starting with an 'easy' distro. It'll just get you in trouble when you need to do something under the hood.
First, if you haven't used Linux (properly, more than a few hours), I suggest you download either Knoppix or the Gentoo LiveCD and play around with it, get used to the CLI (and you can load a GUI as well.) You should get one of these anyway, preferrably in two copies, in case something goes wrong at any time.
For a permanent installation I second Gentoo -it's simple enough to get started with the manual and Portage (the software package manager) is better than any of the alternatives.
If Linux isn't really what you want, go with FreeBSD.
The original Solaris is absolutely one of the best movies in the genre -as was the book in its. The remake is actually not *that* bad, considering it has GC and it was made in Hollywood. But given the choice..
Well fuck you, you just spoiled the movie for about 600,000 people. I mean, who could have guessed THAT's what's going to happen in the end. Mark your spoilers, earth-dweller!
The US public transportation system is atrocious, even in the larger cities with supposedly good coverage, and it's mostly buses. The only decent mode around here is the subway and that's only an option in certain lucky cities.
The mileage difference between a Mountie horse and a traditional patrol cruiser is often less than it is thought to be -in certain instances, the horse may even be better. However, the communication between a horse and a manufactured machine is still at infant stages, often including the horse, being the more intelligent of the two, nudging the patrol car to get a response.
The drift of the story -undoubtedly submitted by one of the industrious Achaea PR folks- seems to be that Achaea invented the drug addiction code. This is incorrect -there have been many instances of similar implementations in the past.
I am, frankly, sick and tired of reading advertisements for Achaea on/. shallowly disguised as news or articles -there are many as good and even more better MUDs out there (not that Achaea is particularly bad), with better code, better storylines, better administration and better players. 'd rather read about MUDs in general rather than these moronic innuendos.
Achaea uses the same questionable advertising style on many forums. It is one of the few apparently commercially successful text-based game companies of the time, but this is entirely unnecessary.
>For example, the speed of a bubble sort is O(n^2). A trivial bubble sort has to iterate over a list for every element in that list. So, assuming n items in the list, the bubble sort needs to go through the list n times, each time going through the list (in a nested loop) n times. Giving you a speed of n*n, or n^2. Anyway, a merge sort is O(n*log(n)), but it requires 2n memory, whereas a bubble sort is done in n memory. So, which would be better for your application?
This is how you conceive the sorts to operate. You understand them in math. I understand them in a more -I don't want to say visual- conceptual fashion. There are many ways to program and not all of them involve thinking in mathematical terms -yes, one needs to understand the implications of the mathematics, but I've found that this can be done without even considering the process as mathematics. I'm not a great programmer but I'm by no means a bad one, either.
Linux isn't atheist. It's just that no-one has written good kernel modules for theism yet. All the decent implementations are proprietary and you don't really want to steal from God even when He has been so unforthcoming about releasing the Source Code -even though the Bible is around, it only really describes the interface, so the hard details of implementation are left to the poor coders.
Agnosticism and gnosticism are not related like atheism and theism. The word gnostos is Greek for 'known' -it follows that the a-qualifier makes the word 'unknown'. Gnosticists chose the word for their sect because they were in the know, so to speak.
Bah. Moderators. How many Joe Sixpacks know what the actual value of Google is? How many actually know anything apart from what Fox news says -like, for example, how the stock market works, how a stock should be valued, what to look for in predicting the actual value?
They don't know that. All they know is that everyone else is paying $26 for it and soon it'll be $30 and then I will have $4 profit when I sell!
The stock market isn't about investing in companies. It's not about investing in the futures of companies. It's about investing in futures of stocks, guessing which one will be favoured and which not.
I see. You've seen lots of KKK, Nazi and Communist rhetoric lately? I seem to recall that US specifically suppresses certain groups from voicing their opinion. I seem to recall that some highschoolers were interrogated by the FBI because of anti-Bush art? I seem to recall McCarthy had a thing about communists? I seem to recall that there are 'national security' issues that can't be talked about? I seem to recall an initiative banning gays from marrying -or indeed being together at all in some cases.
It's not the law, it's how it's enforced. In this respect, most of the EU countries are ahead of the US in civil liberties.
Well, it's not that the 'fringe' is necessarily more innovative, it's rather that a dominant company can streamline and cut back on research costs because they have a steady customer base. This also enables the 'embrace and extend' paradigm in a larger scale: when a small company comes up with an innovation, the dominant market share means that 1) clients won't jump the ship right away and 2) when it's established that a given feature is a good one, it can be incorporated into the company's product.
Good stuff. I must say, though, that while seminal, marxism is hopelessly outdated, mainly in its support for modern governmental issues and global economy. I support a fully labour-trade based economy.
It's astounding how often people relate marxism (or communism) with dictatorship. Marxism is not exactly a form of government, in the same way capitalism isn't, but both are tied tightly to and provide parts of the governing process. A working marxist model/requires/ democracy in order to function. This of course also means that marxism cannot be forced on a people, because this is likely to cause abuse of the system. This sort of an economy/government needs to be willed by the people.
Yes, a credit card is the absolute best (a debit card will do, too), as long as you have a valid reason to state the product is not what you expected (so take screen captures of their guarantees and save any e-mails, you can attach these to the affidavit the bank/cc company will be requesting from you.) This is because the merchant can be tracked down by their Visa/Mastercard merchant id. The difference between debit and credit is that credit cards have to give you the provisional (temporary) credit for the amount up front, and debit cards can take up to 10 business days (because govt. regulation E, electronic funds transfers.) The entire chargeback process can take up to 90 days in either case, so if you incur any fees, it'll be a while before those are reversed.
As an aside: if possible, choose Mastercard as your *debit* card (credit card doesn't make a difference) -Visa will allow purchases to be made even when you don't have money on your account (up to $30-$50) and your bank will charge you OD fees.
Oh geez. I think there's more to an application than the DB and the Presentation Layer.
Ideally, any system should have a Datalayer, the Engine and the Presentation.
Start from the assumption that you can do all this (and thereby do the BL in the Engine instead of the Dlayer), and modify only if it's necessary (e.g. boss won't give resources to write the necessary Engine components.) If all/most of the necessary logic is in the DB already, that's another thing to think about (you can also of course just rip off the code there:)
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The problem was that the game just wasn't There. Too much to do, but a lot of it was just the same as Here.
And, by the way, There are games out There that are not just your average D&D-ripoffs. They just don't have graphics.
Visit www.mudconnector.com, www.topmudsites.com or www.mudmagic.com.
This was common even in the early 1900's -cocaine was used in veritable amounts most children's and adults' cough medicines, sleeping aids (!), some headache medicines and -I believe- in some tuberchulosis medicines. The use of cocaine was banned after some of the harsher withdrawal and side-effects had started manifesting in a considerable part of the population. Coca-cola, also, had a considerable quotient of cocaine in it.
It was a satirical stab. Since you have apparently seen the movie, this should not have been a surprise to you. Gah.
I don't see a point in starting with an 'easy' distro. It'll just get you in trouble when you need to do something under the hood.
First, if you haven't used Linux (properly, more than a few hours), I suggest you download either Knoppix or the Gentoo LiveCD and play around with it, get used to the CLI (and you can load a GUI as well.) You should get one of these anyway, preferrably in two copies, in case something goes wrong at any time.
For a permanent installation I second Gentoo -it's simple enough to get started with the manual and Portage (the software package manager) is better than any of the alternatives.
If Linux isn't really what you want, go with FreeBSD.
The original Solaris is absolutely one of the best movies in the genre -as was the book in its. The remake is actually not *that* bad, considering it has GC and it was made in Hollywood. But given the choice..
Well fuck you, you just spoiled the movie for about 600,000 people. I mean, who could have guessed THAT's what's going to happen in the end. Mark your spoilers, earth-dweller!
The US public transportation system is atrocious, even in the larger cities with supposedly good coverage, and it's mostly buses. The only decent mode around here is the subway and that's only an option in certain lucky cities.
The mileage difference between a Mountie horse and a traditional patrol cruiser is often less than it is thought to be -in certain instances, the horse may even be better. However, the communication between a horse and a manufactured machine is still at infant stages, often including the horse, being the more intelligent of the two, nudging the patrol car to get a response.
The drift of the story -undoubtedly submitted by one of the industrious Achaea PR folks- seems to be that Achaea invented the drug addiction code. This is incorrect -there have been many instances of similar implementations in the past.
/. shallowly disguised as news or articles -there are many as good and even more better MUDs out there (not that Achaea is particularly bad), with better code, better storylines, better administration and better players. 'd rather read about MUDs in general rather than these moronic innuendos.
I am, frankly, sick and tired of reading advertisements for Achaea on
Achaea uses the same questionable advertising style on many forums. It is one of the few apparently commercially successful text-based game companies of the time, but this is entirely unnecessary.
Please, do not post this crap anymore.
>For example, the speed of a bubble sort is O(n^2). A trivial bubble sort has to iterate over a list for every element in that list. So, assuming n items in the list, the bubble sort needs to go through the list n times, each time going through the list (in a nested loop) n times. Giving you a speed of n*n, or n^2. Anyway, a merge sort is O(n*log(n)), but it requires 2n memory, whereas a bubble sort is done in n memory. So, which would be better for your application?
This is how you conceive the sorts to operate. You understand them in math. I understand them in a more -I don't want to say visual- conceptual fashion. There are many ways to program and not all of them involve thinking in mathematical terms -yes, one needs to understand the implications of the mathematics, but I've found that this can be done without even considering the process as mathematics. I'm not a great programmer but I'm by no means a bad one, either.
People who hire people like you?
Linux isn't atheist. It's just that no-one has written good kernel modules for theism yet. All the decent implementations are proprietary and you don't really want to steal from God even when He has been so unforthcoming about releasing the Source Code -even though the Bible is around, it only really describes the interface, so the hard details of implementation are left to the poor coders.
The Turtle Moves.
How is this off-topic?
Agnosticism and gnosticism are not related like atheism and theism. The word gnostos is Greek for 'known' -it follows that the a-qualifier makes the word 'unknown'. Gnosticists chose the word for their sect because they were in the know, so to speak.
I'm going to create a company the secret purpose of which is to unify all people against AOL shorthand. YMMV.
Bah. Moderators. How many Joe Sixpacks know what the actual value of Google is? How many actually know anything apart from what Fox news says -like, for example, how the stock market works, how a stock should be valued, what to look for in predicting the actual value?
They don't know that. All they know is that everyone else is paying $26 for it and soon it'll be $30 and then I will have $4 profit when I sell!
The stock market isn't about investing in companies. It's not about investing in the futures of companies. It's about investing in futures of stocks, guessing which one will be favoured and which not.
You have no idea how stupid people are, do you?
Ergo, there is no freedom of speech, only that which the current enforcers allow. QED.
I see. You've seen lots of KKK, Nazi and Communist rhetoric lately? I seem to recall that US specifically suppresses certain groups from voicing their opinion. I seem to recall that some highschoolers were interrogated by the FBI because of anti-Bush art? I seem to recall McCarthy had a thing about communists? I seem to recall that there are 'national security' issues that can't be talked about? I seem to recall an initiative banning gays from marrying -or indeed being together at all in some cases.
It's not the law, it's how it's enforced. In this respect, most of the EU countries are ahead of the US in civil liberties.
> I find it hard to believe that they'll find the Holy Grail from a 10 letter code.
I can do it in 8:
Rennes, France, Castle, East Tower, Attic, Behind Fireplace.
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Well, it's not that the 'fringe' is necessarily more innovative, it's rather that a dominant company can streamline and cut back on research costs because they have a steady customer base. This also enables the 'embrace and extend' paradigm in a larger scale: when a small company comes up with an innovation, the dominant market share means that 1) clients won't jump the ship right away and 2) when it's established that a given feature is a good one, it can be incorporated into the company's product.
Good stuff. I must say, though, that while seminal, marxism is hopelessly outdated, mainly in its support for modern governmental issues and global economy. I support a fully labour-trade based economy.
/requires/ democracy in order to function. This of course also means that marxism cannot be forced on a people, because this is likely to cause abuse of the system. This sort of an economy/government needs to be willed by the people.
It's astounding how often people relate marxism (or communism) with dictatorship. Marxism is not exactly a form of government, in the same way capitalism isn't, but both are tied tightly to and provide parts of the governing process. A working marxist model
Yes, a credit card is the absolute best (a debit card will do, too), as long as you have a valid reason to state the product is not what you expected (so take screen captures of their guarantees and save any e-mails, you can attach these to the affidavit the bank/cc company will be requesting from you.) This is because the merchant can be tracked down by their Visa/Mastercard merchant id. The difference between debit and credit is that credit cards have to give you the provisional (temporary) credit for the amount up front, and debit cards can take up to 10 business days (because govt. regulation E, electronic funds transfers.) The entire chargeback process can take up to 90 days in either case, so if you incur any fees, it'll be a while before those are reversed.
As an aside: if possible, choose Mastercard as your *debit* card (credit card doesn't make a difference) -Visa will allow purchases to be made even when you don't have money on your account (up to $30-$50) and your bank will charge you OD fees.
Oh geez. I think there's more to an application than the DB and the Presentation Layer.
Ideally, any system should have a Datalayer, the Engine and the Presentation.
Start from the assumption that you can do all this (and thereby do the BL in the Engine instead of the Dlayer), and modify only if it's necessary (e.g. boss won't give resources to write the necessary Engine components.) If all/most of the necessary logic is in the DB already, that's another thing to think about (you can also of course just rip off the code there:)
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Actually, it's Putonghua (for mainland China).