'laser' is actually an acronym, which stands for light amplification (through) stimulated emission (of) radiation.
'lasor' then might be light amplification (through) stimulated omission (of) radiation, which basically sounds like a powerful light sucker, instead of a the powerful dark sucker that a laser is.
to further clarify, sometimes the instruction you want to push into the pipeline depends on the result of another instruction that's still in the pipeline. when this happens, you have to basically close the entrance to the pipeline and wait for that instruction to come out of the pipeline before opening it up again. there are ways to minimize this effect, but still you will not see a 16-fold improvement over not having the pipeline.
after a while i stop caring what's on my main windows machine because it's messed it self up enough that i need to wipe it out and start over again. i made sure to wait until the cable guy came to do his thing before wiping it out.
on a side note, he had to collect a lot of information about my computer, including total hard drive space and free hard drive space. i don't know what they needed this for, but the cable guy concluded that i know a lot about computers since i had a total of 80 gig and had about 10% of it free
i've never heard of ESD zapping a disk either, except from this guy. he said that a few people had gotten the disk home and then it didn't work so he decided to ground everybody before handing them a disk. this was the only time i've ever worried about that, and i never zapped any of the many disks i handled
interesting . . . 8 or so years ago when my dad brought me along to sign up for internet access, the guy from the isp made me ground myself before he gave me the setup (floppy) disk. this was because of "ESD," which back then was bad for software!
uh . . . this might be my fault. i told a bunch of people i tutored that electrons moved down a wire just like water moved down a pipe. it seemed to be the most effective analogy. but now someone has taken it too far!
unfortunately you have failed to discount the tradition of the wake, while being redundant about dead ringer! please see this post which managed to be informative without trying to bash someone elses post
the meaning of the word "wake" is a different thing from the tradition of the wake at funerals. if someone actually finds something credible that says the wake never had anything to do with seeing if the presumed dead person would wake up (the other post actually DID say that this was part of the wake), i would be very interested!
as for "dead ringer," i never thought that made sense and probably shouldn't have posted that considering i never believed it either. also, i don't read e-mail forwards (actually anything with fwd: or fw: gets trashed before i see it) and heard this from a friend (who very well may have read it in an e-mail forward).
It must have seemed like a great idea at the time: an alarm to be fitted inside a coffin, just the thing to guard against premature burials.
a long time ago there actually was a problem with burying people who weren't dead but seemed to be dead. thus somebody came up with what is still called "the wake," where everyone sits around to see if the person they're going to bury wakes up.
the phrase "dead ringer" has a similar origin: they'd set up a bell above ground and tie a string or something to it when they buried someone, who could ring the bell and alert everyone that they would like to be dug up as they weren't dead . . .
and yes i realize that it's for million and not mega (or milli), as well as the fact that it's ironic to see this coming from a guy who doesn't like to capitalize
in a related note, my girlfriend experienced a freaky butterfly icon chasing her mouse cursor around the weather channel site last night. i was annoyed that they sell about half their page real estate for advertising, but after this i'm going to have to find a different source of weather!
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after reading that i got a mental picture of cowboyneal that rivaled goatse!
d'oh! i was sure i'd deleted that 'a' in 'of a the' . . . oh well.
'laser' is actually an acronym, which stands for light amplification (through) stimulated emission (of) radiation.
'lasor' then might be light amplification (through) stimulated omission (of) radiation, which basically sounds like a powerful light sucker, instead of a the powerful dark sucker that a laser is.
to further clarify, sometimes the instruction you want to push into the pipeline depends on the result of another instruction that's still in the pipeline. when this happens, you have to basically close the entrance to the pipeline and wait for that instruction to come out of the pipeline before opening it up again. there are ways to minimize this effect, but still you will not see a 16-fold improvement over not having the pipeline.
they could very well be jealous of people they know who have mp3 players and want to screw them over . . .
on a side note, he had to collect a lot of information about my computer, including total hard drive space and free hard drive space. i don't know what they needed this for, but the cable guy concluded that i know a lot about computers since i had a total of 80 gig and had about 10% of it free
i've never heard of ESD zapping a disk either, except from this guy. he said that a few people had gotten the disk home and then it didn't work so he decided to ground everybody before handing them a disk. this was the only time i've ever worried about that, and i never zapped any of the many disks i handled
interesting . . . 8 or so years ago when my dad brought me along to sign up for internet access, the guy from the isp made me ground myself before he gave me the setup (floppy) disk. this was because of "ESD," which back then was bad for software!
microsoft sends a representative to something that's making fun of them?
well, at least this sounds better than when i decided to translate the windows binaries into sound . . .
i, on the other hand, upon reading this story have to put my klingon forehead back in the closet.
dude, i had the mp3s of this a month ago!
uh . . . this might be my fault. i told a bunch of people i tutored that electrons moved down a wire just like water moved down a pipe. it seemed to be the most effective analogy. but now someone has taken it too far!
(look at the pictures)
it's not a shortcoming--it's a choice, which you indicate by using the word 'intentional'
bashing e-mail forwards though . . . that stuff is practically "spam your friends"
the meaning of the word "wake" is a different thing from the tradition of the wake at funerals. if someone actually finds something credible that says the wake never had anything to do with seeing if the presumed dead person would wake up (the other post actually DID say that this was part of the wake), i would be very interested!
as for "dead ringer," i never thought that made sense and probably shouldn't have posted that considering i never believed it either. also, i don't read e-mail forwards (actually anything with fwd: or fw: gets trashed before i see it) and heard this from a friend (who very well may have read it in an e-mail forward).
i still think it'd be fun to wake up at my funeral now that nobody expects it :)
the phrase "dead ringer" has a similar origin: they'd set up a bell above ground and tie a string or something to it when they buried someone, who could ring the bell and alert everyone that they would like to be dug up as they weren't dead . . .
and yes i realize that it's for million and not mega (or milli), as well as the fact that it's ironic to see this coming from a guy who doesn't like to capitalize
hmm, i think you have to be "lucky" to get the butterfly chasing your mouse--try the local weather for madison, wi
yeah it seems the cursor-chasing butterfly is gone, but yeah it's nice how they have a flash ad that covers up the weather i'm trying to look at!
in a related note, my girlfriend experienced a freaky butterfly icon chasing her mouse cursor around the weather channel site last night. i was annoyed that they sell about half their page real estate for advertising, but after this i'm going to have to find a different source of weather!
all your ______ are belong to ______!
1. thing (singular)
2. person/group of people
the fact that it has cp-*number* makes me think it's a gun for the james bond / perfect dark games