Weird. No, I wouldn't shower in something like that. But electric showers are usually a damn-sight safer than that over here (UK); more like this.
And there are big advantages; if you rely on a hot water tank, sucks if you don't currently have hot water and have to wait for it to heat up. My biggest gripe about non-electric (or 'mixer') showers is the water pressure. Electric (or 'power') showers usually have a pump in so you get a nice, strong, massaging stream of water.
In the third lecture of the intro course, the teacher discussed spending all night coding for labs and so forth, and mentioned that it would prepare us for real life.
After a quick google session, I never went to the class again.
Well the manual with the Asus board I got specifically says that "The Asus EZ Flash 2 feature allows you to update the BIOS without having to go through the long process of booting from a floppy disk and using a DOS-based utility."
Indeed -- you can. And often you have to, to upgrade BIOSs and firmwares and such.
I'd be surprised if any mobo manufacturer in this day and age required DOS to upgrade the BIOS. My last 3 motherboards (from AOpen, Gigabyte, and Asus) have had updates that could be run from Windows, or just directly from a bootable device like a CD or USB dongle.
If he went to jail, at least he'd have better accommodation. It appears he can't afford an office at the moment; from The Inquirer:
However writing in his bog here, Karsten Kusche, who works for another Apple software maker Briksoftware, says that if you try to use a pirated serial number with Display Eater, the software will delete your home file, which in Mac land is the same as killing your computer.
What Aero does is for the first time give you a truly 2.5D desktop in Windows. Speaking as someone who writes computational geometry software for a living, I'm pretty sure that statement is just a load of words strung together to sound cool, while having absolutely no real meaning whatsoever. What it means is that all the windows as still 2d, but when you press alt-tab, you get rotated 3d windows passing by instead of inferior icons.
I mean, I know Bethesda Softworks and Valve and people have been making advanced 3d engines for a while now, but Microsoft managed to rotate windows in Vista. I don't know about you but I think that's pretty damn amazing.
And where the hell is Firefox 2 for Fedora anyway? They decided that we don't need it and they're going to hold out for Firefox 3? What the hell's that all about anyway?
I never quite understood this; can't you compile FF2 on your Fedora? Is it just the issue of the fact that it can't be installed using a package manager?
The two things that come to mind: 1) You can't put more than 1 statement on the same line as an 'if' or 'else'. "if (increment_them) {a++; b++;}" won't fly. Some people might think that's good, I think it's limiting. 2) Mixing spaces and tabs for indentation is a MAJOR no-no. If my text editor has tabsize 4, and somebody used 4 spaces to indent one block, if I try and indent the next block down with 2 tabs (8 spaces on my text editor), what does Python do? Someone else's text editor might display tabs as 2 spaces. Sure, you can try and mandate that everyone use tabs or spaces for indentation, but it's just a potential headache that wouldn't be there if Python weren't so stupid.
Well, I was bullied for most of my school life, and told (for the most part) to 'ignore' it. The bullying often took the form of exclusion, so it wasn't even physical bullying. There was a lot of name-calling, though.
I feel that that bullying has seriously contributed to be having rather severe social anxiety disorder today. This is a serious, negative consequence. I sure as hell would like something to have been done about that bullying, even if it was just me being encouraged to stand up for myself. You seem to be suggesting we should just shrug, say "c'est la vie", and be on our merry way. Bad attitude.
If only Python didn't require the use of whitespace for defining blocks. It is indeed tragic that an otherwise fine language is so goddamn retarded in that one aspect.
Sounds like you're buying crappy RAM. I always buy Crucial non-ECC, and have never had any RAM failure. Buy Crucial's ECC, and the stuff is reliable as anything.
The good folks over at Storage Review [storagereview.com] seem to be of the opinion [storagereview.com] that the shocks and bumps that happen to a drive between the factory and the final installation are the most significant factor in drive reliability (much more than brand, for example).
So, perhaps there's an opportunity for a brand to get an increased reputation for itself in reliability by researching ways of protecting drives against knocks and bumps?
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Awww. I was hoping it was gonna be a carburetor made out of a fish.
Weird. No, I wouldn't shower in something like that. But electric showers are usually a damn-sight safer than that over here (UK); more like this.
And there are big advantages; if you rely on a hot water tank, sucks if you don't currently have hot water and have to wait for it to heat up. My biggest gripe about non-electric (or 'mixer') showers is the water pressure. Electric (or 'power') showers usually have a pump in so you get a nice, strong, massaging stream of water.
...shit. Forgot to tick the "Post Anonymously" box...
And you typed this BEFORE you clicked Submit. This joke aint funny.
In the third lecture of the intro course, the teacher discussed spending all night coding for labs and so forth, and mentioned that it would prepare us for real life.
After a quick google session, I never went to the class again.
Where you working now? McDonalds?
You'd be surprised how easy it is for people to give up TV once they find something better to do.
Yeah. That is a tricky one.
or they will be dropped like a hot potatoe by datacenters
Ah... another graduate from the Dan Quayle school of spelling.
Well the manual with the Asus board I got specifically says that "The Asus EZ Flash 2 feature allows you to update the BIOS without having to go through the long process of booting from a floppy disk and using a DOS-based utility."
Indeed -- you can. And often you have to, to upgrade BIOSs and firmwares and such.
I'd be surprised if any mobo manufacturer in this day and age required DOS to upgrade the BIOS. My last 3 motherboards (from AOpen, Gigabyte, and Asus) have had updates that could be run from Windows, or just directly from a bootable device like a CD or USB dongle.
I mean, I know Bethesda Softworks and Valve and people have been making advanced 3d engines for a while now, but Microsoft managed to rotate windows in Vista. I don't know about you but I think that's pretty damn amazing.
I'm not going to use Windows, DoS is just fine.
Actually, using Windows probably leads to MORE incidents of DoS.
Well, that's one hella big state, considering it's larger than the first 50 combined.
Then they'll mow down an 18 year old and get off scot free.
You can't really predate something that claims to be the truth from the beginning of the world.
And where the hell is Firefox 2 for Fedora anyway? They decided that we don't need it and they're going to hold out for Firefox 3? What the hell's that all about anyway?
I never quite understood this; can't you compile FF2 on your Fedora? Is it just the issue of the fact that it can't be installed using a package manager?
No, I think you need marsbase.com.mars.sol.milky.universe.human
Just in case we find a way to break our brains out of the jar and delve into another existence.
What do you dislike about it?
The two things that come to mind:
1) You can't put more than 1 statement on the same line as an 'if' or 'else'. "if (increment_them) {a++; b++;}" won't fly. Some people might think that's good, I think it's limiting.
2) Mixing spaces and tabs for indentation is a MAJOR no-no. If my text editor has tabsize 4, and somebody used 4 spaces to indent one block, if I try and indent the next block down with 2 tabs (8 spaces on my text editor), what does Python do? Someone else's text editor might display tabs as 2 spaces. Sure, you can try and mandate that everyone use tabs or spaces for indentation, but it's just a potential headache that wouldn't be there if Python weren't so stupid.
Well, I was bullied for most of my school life, and told (for the most part) to 'ignore' it. The bullying often took the form of exclusion, so it wasn't even physical bullying. There was a lot of name-calling, though.
I feel that that bullying has seriously contributed to be having rather severe social anxiety disorder today. This is a serious, negative consequence. I sure as hell would like something to have been done about that bullying, even if it was just me being encouraged to stand up for myself. You seem to be suggesting we should just shrug, say "c'est la vie", and be on our merry way. Bad attitude.
Final Fantasy 6 is arguably the greatest RPG ever created, you idiot.
Sure, apart from Dragon Quest IV, Crono Trigger, Secret of Mana, SD3, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion...
If only Python didn't require the use of whitespace for defining blocks. It is indeed tragic that an otherwise fine language is so goddamn retarded in that one aspect.
Perhaps the government should be looking into anti-trust
Let's go round again!
Ballmer doesn't know his intertubes from his whatchamadoodads.
Maybe, but he certainly knows how to squirt you a picture of his kids.
Sounds like you're buying crappy RAM. I always buy Crucial non-ECC, and have never had any RAM failure. Buy Crucial's ECC, and the stuff is reliable as anything.
The good folks over at Storage Review [storagereview.com] seem to be of the opinion [storagereview.com] that the shocks and bumps that happen to a drive between the factory and the final installation are the most significant factor in drive reliability (much more than brand, for example).
So, perhaps there's an opportunity for a brand to get an increased reputation for itself in reliability by researching ways of protecting drives against knocks and bumps?
Don't worry. It shouldn't be a problem if you don't smash up your CFLs, and pour the contents down your throat.
I wouldn't recommend them for those stunt people who eat lightbulbs, though.