It's much easier to predict the past, however, if you've been paying attention. Early computers blended their cooling system with the heating system of the surrounding building. They were sometimes designed together that way.
Inflammable and flammable obviously have the same Latin root, but via different routes. Something that is "inflammable" is something that can be "inflamed", such as a rash, flammable liquids, tempers, and so on. Being flammable merely means that it burn
I think the term "inflammable" is a corruption of "enflammable" myself. A morphological transform similar to the confusion certain writers have between "their", "there" and "they're". Sometimes errors in grammar are just to* sticky.
but seriously things like this in which someone expresses delight at someone else's plight show YOUR foolishness and immaturity.
Actually, there's a word for it - schadenfreude. In fact there's a song by that name. Taking joy in the sorrow of others.
Now, imagine a scene where an unpleasant group of people; say, a bunch of RIAA lawyers (just to pick an example) got roundly sued and torted and baked into a pie. How would you feel about that?
Sillyheart -- could you please give me the reference to that? I went through two internal "whoooshes" before I realised you were both on the same rail. If that's a quote, I want to look up the original reference. If that dialogue is original, i would like to invite you into my guild. We're family friendly, have two bank tabs and a tabard.
I, for one, fear the eventual introduction of the Taiwanese semiconductor beetle. Not only do its feeding tunnels encourage premature ion migration, it carries the fungus that causes bit rot.
Actually that fungus that causes bit rot is caused by the lack of lead in the solder that causes "whiskering". Lead kept the whiskering down in circuits; it's removal means now that many forms of electronics will simply "wear out" over time. The whiskers are little tiny cylinders of tin, a conductor, and they tend to grow on new circuits over time. http://archive.evaluationengineering.com/archive/articles/0606/0606lead-free.asp has a good description and accompanying photomicrographs. Lead has been legislated out of solder by RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances) acts in various countries under a variety of names.
IMHO it should *all* be legal, so long as you limit its use to your own house. If I'm sitting here watching Simpsons, what does it matter if I shoot-up?
Just out of curiosity, how do you "shoot-up" marijuana? Do you eat the syringe?
2. I am assuming Pike gave him the codes, which apparently let him deactivate the defenses.
Remembering that Earth and Vulcan were part of the same Federation, and that they were Federation officers controlling Federation defenses, the same codes may have worked anywhere in said Fed. Although I probably would have structured the security a little differently, a case could be made that the codes were the same.
The end of the movie did not only destroy canon. It destroyed all future Star Treks. As a TNG and DS9 fan I felt betrayed...
You may resume breathing through your nose. There is no way an alternate timeline can destroy future anythings. They're one of a number of possible alternates and that's pure canon.
Star Trek was the team, the technology and the memes. The drawing together of the original bridge crew was brilliant, and that's the important bit - the pure character definition was (ahem) Spock-on.
As far as your comment "No regard for what made Star Trek" goes, I'm pretty sure you have built an entirely different ST universe in your head. You're welcome to that alternative time line.
I was a big fan of the original series (yes, I'm old). I thought it completely rocked. Character development was brilliant, the pulling together of the team was brilliant and the dependency the expertise of each of the main characters on the (sorry, must use an old word here) synergy of the Trek experience, the better portrayal of Captain Pike, the...
Just out of curiosity, would taking your file and doing a simple end-around shift work as a simple yet quick encryption? Take each group of three bits, for example, and do an end around left shift of 1 bit. Easy, fast, reversible. No product of primes calcs necessary. Pick your grouping and number of bits to shift.
It's not as robust as normal cryptographic methods perhaps, but it does put encryption into the hands of ordinary coders and the low amount of actual computation (it's just simple register operations, really) involved makes it quick.
Keep in mind that having mp3 files is not illegal, downloading mp3 files is not illegal, but sharing them is.
(Sigh) And I wish that purse-seine gill net methods were illegal too. In the middle of all that tuna, good bottle nosed dolphins die in bulk. Similarly I wish that purse-seine methods for writing civil lawsuits in bulk were also illegal, as in "cause for court-ordered punishment" instead of simple violations of court procedure that threaten sanctions but only if you're very, very naughty.
If the RIAA lawyers were liable for the same costs when they abused the court system as they seek to impart on their victims, the situation would come into balance I think. And really, isn't violation of court procedure - in bulk, in a corrupted way -- a more significant violation of public trust than nicking a few songs?
Last I heard the RIAA were supplying lawyers to the medical laboratories. Apparently there are some things rats won't do...
Well it would be dangerous for someone like me to allow my hatred for them to 'cloud my thinking', since it is part of my professional life to fight this enemy. But I can't see why everyone else can't just kick back, relax, and hate the RIAA as much as it deserves to be hated.
Remember that the content, the artwork, lives mostly on the client. To run an MMORPG you're passing messages back and forth that essentially provide location and status such as keypresses. You're passing messages back and forth, not graphics (except during updates of course). So most (if not all) of the artwork is indeed generally available.
Yes, yes! That's **exactly** the sound a pound of feathers makes!
Yes, I caught the $0.07 vs 0.07 cents trick. I just saw it as an opportunity to pay homage to an old Huckleberry Hound cartoon. There was a bit of buried wit in some of them, once you got past the bongo feet.
"He was an absolute genius," Dennis Papadopoulos, a physicist at the University of Maryland, said in an interview. "He conceived of things in 1900 that it took us 50 or 60 years to understand. But he did not appreciate dissipation. You can't start putting a lot of power" into an antenna and expect the energy to travel long distances without great diminution.
"It is absolute folly to imagine a rocket working in outer space, with no air to push against."(quote inexact)
But, as more learned folk have said, the energy doesn't really have to travel long distances, so inverse square doesn't apply. Wardenclyff was not a radio transmitter; it was more along the lines of one coil of a rather elaborate transformer that basically used the Earth and its atmosphere as a giant capacitor and drew power from there.
I dunno, bloody Atlanteans, coming back and expecting us to forgive and forget...
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It's much easier to predict the past, however, if you've been paying attention. Early computers blended their cooling system with the heating system of the surrounding building. They were sometimes designed together that way.
Inflammable and flammable obviously have the same Latin root, but via different routes. Something that is "inflammable" is something that can be "inflamed", such as a rash, flammable liquids, tempers, and so on. Being flammable merely means that it burn
I think the term "inflammable" is a corruption of "enflammable" myself. A morphological transform similar to the confusion certain writers have between "their", "there" and "they're". Sometimes errors in grammar are just to* sticky.
*yes, that was meant.
that was REALLY mature of you!
but seriously things like this in which someone expresses delight at someone else's plight show YOUR foolishness and immaturity.
Actually, there's a word for it - schadenfreude. In fact there's a song by that name. Taking joy in the sorrow of others.
Now, imagine a scene where an unpleasant group of people; say, a bunch of RIAA lawyers (just to pick an example) got roundly sued and torted and baked into a pie. How would you feel about that?
point is, is it wasn't "random". Perhaps some sort of nefarious intent was involved.
It wasn't me. Besides, I have an alibi.
Might be fun to watch though. Australia has vexatious litigant rules.
Sillyheart -- could you please give me the reference to that? I went through two internal "whoooshes" before I realised you were both on the same rail. If that's a quote, I want to look up the original reference. If that dialogue is original, i would like to invite you into my guild. We're family friendly, have two bank tabs and a tabard.
He distinctly said, "To blaaaaave", and as we all know, to blave means to bluff!
Only one thing to do if they're *really* dead; go through their pockets looking for loose change.
I, for one, fear the eventual introduction of the Taiwanese semiconductor beetle. Not only do its feeding tunnels encourage premature ion migration, it carries the fungus that causes bit rot.
Actually that fungus that causes bit rot is caused by the lack of lead in the solder that causes "whiskering". Lead kept the whiskering down in circuits; it's removal means now that many forms of electronics will simply "wear out" over time. The whiskers are little tiny cylinders of tin, a conductor, and they tend to grow on new circuits over time. http://archive.evaluationengineering.com/archive/articles/0606/0606lead-free.asp has a good description and accompanying photomicrographs. Lead has been legislated out of solder by RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances) acts in various countries under a variety of names.
Is that you, Kilgore Trout?
IMHO it should *all* be legal, so long as you limit its use to your own house. If I'm sitting here watching Simpsons, what does it matter if I shoot-up?
Just out of curiosity, how do you "shoot-up" marijuana? Do you eat the syringe?
Haven't seen that stuff. Can you mine it with a skill of 450?
2. I am assuming Pike gave him the codes, which apparently let him deactivate the defenses.
Remembering that Earth and Vulcan were part of the same Federation, and that they were Federation officers controlling Federation defenses, the same codes may have worked anywhere in said Fed. Although I probably would have structured the security a little differently, a case could be made that the codes were the same.
The end of the movie did not only destroy canon. It destroyed all future Star Treks. As a TNG and DS9 fan I felt betrayed...
You may resume breathing through your nose. There is no way an alternate timeline can destroy future anythings. They're one of a number of possible alternates and that's pure canon.
Star Trek was the team, the technology and the memes. The drawing together of the original bridge crew was brilliant, and that's the important bit - the pure character definition was (ahem) Spock-on.
As far as your comment "No regard for what made Star Trek" goes, I'm pretty sure you have built an entirely different ST universe in your head. You're welcome to that alternative time line.
English("May I please have some chocolate?") -> Klingon(*) -> English("Tell me where the chocolate is now.")
I was a big fan of the original series (yes, I'm old). I thought it completely rocked. Character development was brilliant, the pulling together of the team was brilliant and the dependency the expertise of each of the main characters on the (sorry, must use an old word here) synergy of the Trek experience, the better portrayal of Captain Pike, the ...
Damn, I'm going to get out my old action figures.
Tasmanian Devils. Those suckers will eat the clothes right off your lines.
It's not as robust as normal cryptographic methods perhaps, but it does put encryption into the hands of ordinary coders and the low amount of actual computation (it's just simple register operations, really) involved makes it quick.
Keep in mind that having mp3 files is not illegal, downloading mp3 files is not illegal, but sharing them is.
(Sigh) And I wish that purse-seine gill net methods were illegal too. In the middle of all that tuna, good bottle nosed dolphins die in bulk. Similarly I wish that purse-seine methods for writing civil lawsuits in bulk were also illegal, as in "cause for court-ordered punishment" instead of simple violations of court procedure that threaten sanctions but only if you're very, very naughty.
If the RIAA lawyers were liable for the same costs when they abused the court system as they seek to impart on their victims, the situation would come into balance I think. And really, isn't violation of court procedure - in bulk, in a corrupted way -- a more significant violation of public trust than nicking a few songs?
Last I heard the RIAA were supplying lawyers to the medical laboratories. Apparently there are some things rats won't do...
Well it would be dangerous for someone like me to allow my hatred for them to 'cloud my thinking', since it is part of my professional life to fight this enemy. But I can't see why everyone else can't just kick back, relax, and hate the RIAA as much as it deserves to be hated.
That one caused sinus damage, Ray.
Quantum RAID with drive level parity.
Great -- except that now they'll take all the drives, not just the one.
Remember that the content, the artwork, lives mostly on the client. To run an MMORPG you're passing messages back and forth that essentially provide location and status such as keypresses. You're passing messages back and forth, not graphics (except during updates of course). So most (if not all) of the artwork is indeed generally available.
I think we should all move to three horsepower rubber cars with a planter in the back, and drop all speed limits to zero.
NYCL
Yes, I caught the $0.07 vs 0.07 cents trick. I just saw it as an opportunity to pay homage to an old Huckleberry Hound cartoon. There was a bit of buried wit in some of them, once you got past the bongo feet.
"He was an absolute genius," Dennis Papadopoulos, a physicist at the University of Maryland, said in an interview. "He conceived of things in 1900 that it took us 50 or 60 years to understand. But he did not appreciate dissipation. You can't start putting a lot of power" into an antenna and expect the energy to travel long distances without great diminution.
"It is absolute folly to imagine a rocket working in outer space, with no air to push against."(quote inexact)
But, as more learned folk have said, the energy doesn't really have to travel long distances, so inverse square doesn't apply. Wardenclyff was not a radio transmitter; it was more along the lines of one coil of a rather elaborate transformer that basically used the Earth and its atmosphere as a giant capacitor and drew power from there.
I dunno, bloody Atlanteans, coming back and expecting us to forgive and forget...