The old $20's are still accepted everywhere, and have not become harder to forge.
But it has gotten a lot less ususal to see the old-style $20s... And forgery is one of those crimes that only works if the victims don't realize it's happening. As the population of legit old-school 20s in circulation dwindles, the harder it's going to be to pass counterfits.
People's faith in our currency is one of the basic underpinnings of our economy (both in the US and around the world). It's critical to the health of our economy that counterfitting is not just "not very rampant"; it must be unheard of.
outsiden. that big room with the high gray ceiling (some also report a big room with a high blue ceiling and a bright yellow light, but these remain unconfirmed).
VSS accesses the code DB directly (i.e. there is no active "VSS Server"). That means you have to be able to mount the volume the code DB is on. Which is no problem if it's on the local LAN, but requires extra work to be visible outside the firewall.
[file sharing] was there before napster, especially on IRC, napster just brought it to the masses with a pretty interface.
Don't minimize the importance of mass popularity. Having the ability to do something (like share files across the internet) is one thing. Having it become popular across a large population, to the point it changes the way people think about intellectual property is quite different, and far more powerful.
Ripping to mp3s is only possible via the line-in jack, and has horrible quality (compared with ripping from my cd-rom, that is).
How careful were you about setting your audio levels? Unlike a direct rip (which is just grabbing bits off of the CD), you have to take time to get the audio level right when you're doing audio sampling. If you just crank the level up, you get lots of clipping, which sounds terrible.
I've done this with some vinyl I have, and I've managed to get very respectable results. Even under the best circumstances, you will lose some fidelity resampling the audio, but if you're just doing it for mp3s, who cares?
I'm sorry, but if continual and frequent layoffs are occuring, you are a) affraid of losing your job, reguardless of how good a worker you are,
Why be afraid? If you don't get laid off, there's no point, and if you do get laid off, being afraid doesn't make it any better.
(N.B. doing stuff in preperation of the possibility of being laid off (like paying off debts, cutting back on spending, building up savings) is not being afraid -- in times like these, it's just good sense)
That alone is reason to complain.
Consider the following hypothetical situation: a manager has to lay off someone. He's got a choice between two more-or-less equal people, except one is afraid of being laid off (and consequently complaining and looking over his shoulder), and the other one is just doing his best. Guess which one gets the axe? If you're not careful, being afraid of getting laid off becomes a self-fufilling prophecy.
It's not easy to keep up your morale (else everyone would be doing it), but it's definitely worth it, even if you do get laid off.
Microsoft will make it possible for any owner of a Microsoft Operating System to hack into a computer using Microsoft's new "Unauthorized Acess Wizard"
It looks like you're trying to Cr4><0r IIS. Would you like some tips?
bowling ball up to the top of a local residential road that travels down a long, steep hill for about a mile or two
Assuming for the moment that one were to actually try this, the bowling ball would almost certainly find its way into one ditch or the other in fairly short order, because
Roads are very uneven, and full of random crud which would tend to deflect the bowling ball from a straight course, and
Roads are typically designed to be convex (high in the middle, low on the sides) so that rain drains off. Even if the ball wasn't deflected by debris, it would tend to roll to the side anyway.
Even if you don't have those problems to deal with, imagine how hard it would be to avoid rolling a gutter ball on a bowling alley 2 miles long.
The reason there was nothing in the paper is that the ball is in the ditch, probably a few hundred feet from where they started it.
Is there a corporate conspiracy to limit recording time of camcorder to about an hour (like DVD-R camcorders)?"
Gimmie a break. Some of you see corporate consipiracy under every rock.
Did you ever consider the possibility that they put a small HDD in so they could lower the price point? And that once there's a proven demand for the product, they can use economies of scale to provide better features at a better price (cf, just about every technological innovation ever).
The GOF book gives an example of using the Bridge pattern to provide a platform-independent interface to a GUI api.
Disclaimer: I don't have any real-world experience with the Bridge pattern, so I can't say how easy it is to make work, or how it performs in performance critical situations.
Java's token regex is, iirc,[_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z1-9]+
Not really. Remember, Java supports Unicode, including the source code.
Check out the documentation on Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() and Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart().
Does the instruction set agnostic nature of gcc severely impede how optimizing the compiler can be?
It turns out that compiler optimizations divide nicely into two categories:
Optimizations on the Intermediate Representation (i.e. not specific to any platform)
Optimizations on the generated (CPU sepcific) code
So the only drawback is that optimizations for a specific CPU may or may not be appropriate for other CPUs. However, even at the CPU-specific level, there's a lot of stuff (e.g. register allocation, instruction scheduling) that could use the same code base, just using CPU-specific callbacks as needed (i.e. use the Framework Pattern).
When I saw this, I screamed like a little girl. I mean it was like Uncle Tony grabbed my pantied ass. I jumped about 12 feet up in the air and squealed. WHAT A THRILL!
When people say "too much information", this is exactly what they're talking about.
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People's faith in our currency is one of the basic underpinnings of our economy (both in the US and around the world). It's critical to the health of our economy that counterfitting is not just "not very rampant"; it must be unheard of.
outside n. that big room with the high gray ceiling (some also report a big room with a high blue ceiling and a bright yellow light, but these remain unconfirmed).
Slashdot is experiencing a Denial-of-content attack!
2^3-1 is prime! Now checking 2^3+1...
I've done this with some vinyl I have, and I've managed to get very respectable results. Even under the best circumstances, you will lose some fidelity resampling the audio, but if you're just doing it for mp3s, who cares?
It's not easy to keep up your morale (else everyone would be doing it), but it's definitely worth it, even if you do get laid off.
If Microsoft has any intelligence at all, they'll realize that letting Timeline (or anyone else) beat up on their customers is a really bad idea.
- Roads are very uneven, and full of random crud which would tend to deflect the bowling ball from a straight course, and
- Roads are typically designed to be convex (high in the middle, low on the sides) so that rain drains off. Even if the ball wasn't deflected by debris, it would tend to roll to the side anyway.
Even if you don't have those problems to deal with, imagine how hard it would be to avoid rolling a gutter ball on a bowling alley 2 miles long.The reason there was nothing in the paper is that the ball is in the ditch, probably a few hundred feet from where they started it.
Did you ever consider the possibility that they put a small HDD in so they could lower the price point? And that once there's a proven demand for the product, they can use economies of scale to provide better features at a better price (cf, just about every technological innovation ever).
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The GOF book gives an example of using the Bridge pattern to provide a platform-independent interface to a GUI api.
Disclaimer: I don't have any real-world experience with the Bridge pattern, so I can't say how easy it is to make work, or how it performs in performance critical situations.
(-1; doesn't follow the party line)
Just a thought...
Look what it's done to your brain!
- Optimizations on the Intermediate Representation (i.e. not specific to any platform)
- Optimizations on the generated (CPU sepcific) code
So the only drawback is that optimizations for a specific CPU may or may not be appropriate for other CPUs. However, even at the CPU-specific level, there's a lot of stuff (e.g. register allocation, instruction scheduling) that could use the same code base, just using CPU-specific callbacks as needed (i.e. use the Framework Pattern).