When Perl is well written, including indents and not jamming multiple lines all together on one line, it looks very similar to Python, but with a semicolon at the end at each line.
Well, it looks very similar to Python with a semicolon at the end of each line written by a Python programmer who went over to Costco and bought a year's supply of punctuation and it was nearing its expiration date.
Have the lawyer send the letter for you. I'm sure he was trying to work within the structure of the company; in hindsight, that seems to have been a mistake, but hindsight is both very accurate and almost completely useless.
Yes, and CBC does offer an Ogg stream, although it's only for the Toronto Radio 1 feed. When do you suppose they might start offering other Ogg feeds? I doubt there would be much call for an Ogg feed relaying CBC Yellowknife or CBC Iqaluit, but I'd listen to an Ogg feed from Vancouver Radio One. Reception is pretty awful here in Seattle, especially since there's a big muckin' 50,000 watt Seattle station practically next door on the dial.
The CBC is not as closely run by the Canadian government as Radio North Korea, and it does criticize the government, but it's a lot more closely run by the government than say CNN.
Isn't part of the point of speculative fiction to play "what if"? If Card wants to use Joseph Smith's story as a frame to build an alternative America around, and people think the alternative America is interesting and compelling, what of it? That doesn't mean they're going to buy into the Mormon worldview out here in the Real World.
As for the angle, your guess is as good as mine. In the Alvin Maker books, it's not uncommon for people to set out and create a community for themselves in an alternative frontier America ca. 1840. Perhaps the game will be built around that. Maybe people will in some way be helping Alvin to build his Crystal City. Maybe they'll choose to go fight against Our Mutual Friend a.k.a the Devil. Or maybe they'll choose to join up with the Cavil Planters of the world. Who knows?
The tone of your question suggests that you aren't really seriously interested in the answer.
Trailers are routinely 90 seconds to 3 minutes long, and there's no rule that says an ad has to be 30 seconds. 30 minutes of ads and trailers does seem like a lot, and I haven't timed it either, but I'll bet it's close to 20 minutes and probably more.
Boy, I bet the people at Dreamworks are pissed off. Here they go and create a movie like Shrek 2, and then a totally different studio forces you to watch ads on their DVD.
I can't find it on the web to verify it, but I believe it was newspaper icon H. L. Mencken, some seventy years ago, who said, "I asked the bellhop to bring me a newspaper. The poor fellow must have been deaf, as he brought me a copy of the Los Angeles Times."
Our debt is based on the "full faith and credit of the United States." If we repudiate our debt no one is going to let us borrow any more, which means we can't finance Bush's insane deficit spending plan, which means a collapsing dollar and hyperinflation.
Plus, they hold enough of our debt that if we start saber rattling they can threaten to unpeg the yuan from the dollar and tie it to the euro or a basket of currencies instead. Now I'm not an international economist but as I understand it that would also send the US dollar into a tailspin.
Hell, the dollar is dicey enough as it is. We've recently hit new lows against the euro and the yen. Good for European visitors who spend money because it's relatively cheap here. Bad news for us who import just about anything but food.
As for Wal-Mart, they are intent on minimizing every last cent out of their costs they can, which is why they're so tied in with China. They can afford to sell to you at "Low prices always" or whatever their slogan is because they buy a massive percentage of their merchandise (over 80% I think) from China. You don't move that much industrial capacity in a heartbeat. Plus, if Wal-Mart did decide they wanted to move to Mexico their labor costs are going to go up by a factor of 4, which will be reflected in the checkout price. I imagine if Sam Walton's greedy heirs want to raise prices they would much rather the price hike went into their own pockets instead of some wage slave in Mexico.
Sorry, you just don't get it. We are too dependent on China right now to risk any kind of rift with them. They are also somewhat dependent on us, but they are working hard to lower that dependency by diversifying their markets into the EU and increasing their own domestic consumption.
(X) Holds Enough Of Our National Debt To Cause Us Major Problems If We Try Anything They Don't Like (X) Source Of Most Of Wal-Mart's Low Priced Everyday Goods Which Means Wal-Mart Would Use Economic Clout To Prevent It From Happening
I don't remember what the spec was on battery life when I bought my Tungsten E, but in practical terms I'm lucky to get more than a couple of hours of life out of my Palm. I use it as an Ogg player (with the highly recommended Pocket Tunes) on my commute to work, about an hour each way, and by the end of the day the battery has gone from fully charged to about 30%. I'm SOL if I don't remember to put it on the charger as soon as I get home at night.
Granted a lot of that may be the extra stress on the battery from driving the amplifier that powers the headphones, but I'd settle for replacing the batteries every day or so if it would solve the problem. In fact, if you could charge replacable batteries inside the Palm, that would be great.
As for memory, I'm OK with the SD cards my Tungsten takes. They're the same ones my camera uses, and you can get a 1 gig SD card at Newegg for $75 or so. I think I paid about that for the 256 MB card I'm using now back in February.
There's still development going on, but not as much as there used to be. Hams of the 50s and 60s decried the advent of the "appliance operator" who bought his gear off the shelf rather than building it himself. I've built a couple of projects -- a 30-meter direct conversion receiver, for instance -- mostly to be able to say "I've done it" and to internalize some of that theory I had to learn to get that Extra ticket. But by and large, I don't have the leisure time to spend wiring up a circuit, testing it, troubleshooting it, and tweaking it to get it to work. I'm sure most hams these days are in the same situation.
Now for the good news. Most of the development in ham radio these days seems to be software driven. Look at modes like PSK31 and WSJT, which couldn't exist without a computer. Look at software-controlled radios. Ham radio might not be What It Used To Be in terms of experimentation and innovation, but it ain't dead yet.
Radio Amateurs, HAMs, have played critical roles in almost every large disaster that has happened in this country.
Really? What role did Amateur Radio play in the Bush administration??
(We narrowly diverted another potential Amateur Radio disaster, you know. Barry Goldwater is to date the only licensed radio amateur to run for the Presidency.)
Odds are good that for the majority of people here, that's exactly how they did learn about sex.
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And you're right. Learning go from a computer, or a book, will only get you so far, and in my experience with go that isn't very far. You can learn something about fuseki, joseki, tesuji, life and death, ko fights and the like, but that won't do you much good until you sit down with a live opponent and start seeing how it all fits into the structure of a game.
That includes live opponents over the Net to some extent, but the best way to learn is to sit down at the table with a better player than you and have them give you instruction as you play. Or, to go back to your original analogy, to meet someone face-to-face and, um, learn how all the parts fit together.
You described the problem yourself. The system is simple, efficient and reasonably fool-/fraud-proof. What elected official is going to be in favor of that?
OK, let's assume the worst thing possible happens and Microsoft actually does get a standard like this implemented and built into every new computer out there.
What's to stop some enterprising device manufacturer from creating a USB bridge that has a trusted connection on the "B" side that goes to the machine, and an "A" side with four regular old-style completely-writable ports? The bridge would take the write requests from the machine, acknowledge that "yes I am a trusted device" and then send the write requests on to the legacy ports.
Or you might be able to drop an old-style USB PCI card into a new-fangled machine and just use the ports on that card to do legacy USB interaction.
Or have BIOSes designed so the necessity for the hardware handshake can be turned on and off, like CPU IDs.
Personally I think that as software problems go this one isn't much.
Sorry, I was too distracted by the skeletons, atom sculpture, giant Lego and what looks like the butt end of one of the Star Tours vehicles to get much of a look at the people involved.
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When Perl is well written, including indents and not jamming multiple lines all together on one line, it looks very similar to Python, but with a semicolon at the end at each line.
Well, it looks very similar to Python with a semicolon at the end of each line written by a Python programmer who went over to Costco and bought a year's supply of punctuation and it was nearing its expiration date.
Have the lawyer send the letter for you. I'm sure he was trying to work within the structure of the company; in hindsight, that seems to have been a mistake, but hindsight is both very accurate and almost completely useless.
A brief interview with RMS would surely have cleared this up as a non-issue.
I don't think there is such a thing as a brief interview with RMS.
How many times do we have to say, we don't have any links to paramilitary organizations?
Yes, and CBC does offer an Ogg stream, although it's only for the Toronto Radio 1 feed. When do you suppose they might start offering other Ogg feeds? I doubt there would be much call for an Ogg feed relaying CBC Yellowknife or CBC Iqaluit, but I'd listen to an Ogg feed from Vancouver Radio One. Reception is pretty awful here in Seattle, especially since there's a big muckin' 50,000 watt Seattle station practically next door on the dial.
The CBC is not as closely run by the Canadian government as Radio North Korea, and it does criticize the government, but it's a lot more closely run by the government than say CNN.
I think you misspelled "Fox News."
Isn't part of the point of speculative fiction to play "what if"? If Card wants to use Joseph Smith's story as a frame to build an alternative America around, and people think the alternative America is interesting and compelling, what of it? That doesn't mean they're going to buy into the Mormon worldview out here in the Real World.
As for the angle, your guess is as good as mine. In the Alvin Maker books, it's not uncommon for people to set out and create a community for themselves in an alternative frontier America ca. 1840. Perhaps the game will be built around that. Maybe people will in some way be helping Alvin to build his Crystal City. Maybe they'll choose to go fight against Our Mutual Friend a.k.a the Devil. Or maybe they'll choose to join up with the Cavil Planters of the world. Who knows?
The tone of your question suggests that you aren't really seriously interested in the answer.
"Rheyghyab"? Pfffft! Who isn't going to be able toremember the capital of Cabanastan?
Trailers are routinely 90 seconds to 3 minutes long, and there's no rule that says an ad has to be 30 seconds. 30 minutes of ads and trailers does seem like a lot, and I haven't timed it either, but I'll bet it's close to 20 minutes and probably more.
Boy, I bet the people at Dreamworks are pissed off. Here they go and create a movie like Shrek 2, and then a totally different studio forces you to watch ads on their DVD.
I can't find it on the web to verify it, but I believe it was newspaper icon H. L. Mencken, some seventy years ago, who said, "I asked the bellhop to bring me a newspaper. The poor fellow must have been deaf, as he brought me a copy of the Los Angeles Times."
People look to it for government reporting.
Honestly I can't think of any other paper you might want to consider as a "national newspaper."
Our debt is based on the "full faith and credit of the United States." If we repudiate our debt no one is going to let us borrow any more, which means we can't finance Bush's insane deficit spending plan, which means a collapsing dollar and hyperinflation.
Plus, they hold enough of our debt that if we start saber rattling they can threaten to unpeg the yuan from the dollar and tie it to the euro or a basket of currencies instead. Now I'm not an international economist but as I understand it that would also send the US dollar into a tailspin.
Hell, the dollar is dicey enough as it is. We've recently hit new lows against the euro and the yen. Good for European visitors who spend money because it's relatively cheap here. Bad news for us who import just about anything but food.
As for Wal-Mart, they are intent on minimizing every last cent out of their costs they can, which is why they're so tied in with China. They can afford to sell to you at "Low prices always" or whatever their slogan is because they buy a massive percentage of their merchandise (over 80% I think) from China. You don't move that much industrial capacity in a heartbeat. Plus, if Wal-Mart did decide they wanted to move to Mexico their labor costs are going to go up by a factor of 4, which will be reflected in the checkout price. I imagine if Sam Walton's greedy heirs want to raise prices they would much rather the price hike went into their own pockets instead of some wage slave in Mexico.
Sorry, you just don't get it. We are too dependent on China right now to risk any kind of rift with them. They are also somewhat dependent on us, but they are working hard to lower that dependency by diversifying their markets into the EU and increasing their own domestic consumption.
(X) Holds Enough Of Our National Debt To Cause Us Major Problems If We Try Anything They Don't Like
(X) Source Of Most Of Wal-Mart's Low Priced Everyday Goods Which Means Wal-Mart Would Use Economic Clout To Prevent It From Happening
I don't remember what the spec was on battery life when I bought my Tungsten E, but in practical terms I'm lucky to get more than a couple of hours of life out of my Palm. I use it as an Ogg player (with the highly recommended Pocket Tunes) on my commute to work, about an hour each way, and by the end of the day the battery has gone from fully charged to about 30%. I'm SOL if I don't remember to put it on the charger as soon as I get home at night.
Granted a lot of that may be the extra stress on the battery from driving the amplifier that powers the headphones, but I'd settle for replacing the batteries every day or so if it would solve the problem. In fact, if you could charge replacable batteries inside the Palm, that would be great.
As for memory, I'm OK with the SD cards my Tungsten takes. They're the same ones my camera uses, and you can get a 1 gig SD card at Newegg for $75 or so. I think I paid about that for the 256 MB card I'm using now back in February.
have you actually listened to some of that stuff? I mean, really, that's a pretty accurate description.
There's still development going on, but not as much as there used to be. Hams of the 50s and 60s decried the advent of the "appliance operator" who bought his gear off the shelf rather than building it himself. I've built a couple of projects -- a 30-meter direct conversion receiver, for instance -- mostly to be able to say "I've done it" and to internalize some of that theory I had to learn to get that Extra ticket. But by and large, I don't have the leisure time to spend wiring up a circuit, testing it, troubleshooting it, and tweaking it to get it to work. I'm sure most hams these days are in the same situation.
Now for the good news. Most of the development in ham radio these days seems to be software driven. Look at modes like PSK31 and WSJT, which couldn't exist without a computer. Look at software-controlled radios. Ham radio might not be What It Used To Be in terms of experimentation and innovation, but it ain't dead yet.
Radio Amateurs, HAMs, have played critical roles in almost every large disaster that has happened in this country.
Really? What role did Amateur Radio play in the Bush administration??
(We narrowly diverted another potential Amateur Radio disaster, you know. Barry Goldwater is to date the only licensed radio amateur to run for the Presidency.)
The ash cloud shut down the mall I was working in in Billings, Montana at 2 in the afternoon.
:)
The manager of the store tried to file an insurance claim for loss of business and the insurance company wouldn't accept it.
We didn't get it nearly as bad as, say, Spokane, but it was pretty gray for a day or so.
Do you count Iceland? The Althing has been around since something like 987.
It's only illegal if the performer doesn't consent to the recording. Some, but not all, do.
Odds are good that for the majority of people here, that's exactly how they did learn about sex.
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And you're right. Learning go from a computer, or a book, will only get you so far, and in my experience with go that isn't very far. You can learn something about fuseki, joseki, tesuji, life and death, ko fights and the like, but that won't do you much good until you sit down with a live opponent and start seeing how it all fits into the structure of a game.
That includes live opponents over the Net to some extent, but the best way to learn is to sit down at the table with a better player than you and have them give you instruction as you play. Or, to go back to your original analogy, to meet someone face-to-face and, um, learn how all the parts fit together.
You described the problem yourself. The system is simple, efficient and reasonably fool-/fraud-proof. What elected official is going to be in favor of that?
OK, let's assume the worst thing possible happens and Microsoft actually does get a standard like this implemented and built into every new computer out there.
What's to stop some enterprising device manufacturer from creating a USB bridge that has a trusted connection on the "B" side that goes to the machine, and an "A" side with four regular old-style completely-writable ports? The bridge would take the write requests from the machine, acknowledge that "yes I am a trusted device" and then send the write requests on to the legacy ports.
Or you might be able to drop an old-style USB PCI card into a new-fangled machine and just use the ports on that card to do legacy USB interaction.
Or have BIOSes designed so the necessity for the hardware handshake can be turned on and off, like CPU IDs.
Personally I think that as software problems go this one isn't much.
Sorry, I was too distracted by the skeletons, atom sculpture, giant Lego and what looks like the butt end of one of the Star Tours vehicles to get much of a look at the people involved.