C'mon, that's crazy. It's like suggesting we should've brought Mir down in pieces in a shuttle or something. Hubble's an old space telescope, and we've thrown many old space telescopes away.
Yep... and plus, we won't get another chance for a free taco otherwise.:)
As of right now, researchers have determined that the universe is still expanding, if my memory serves me correctly.
Yes, the universe is still expanding, but that's not the controversy. The problem is that the rate of expansion is accelerating, and so far, physicists have been unable to explain this unless they introduce dark matter/energy. I don't really understand too much more about this, but it does seem like a kludge. Perhaps there is a more elegant solution out there.
...is that companies generally spend a lot of money just in the recruiting process just to find you (depending on the size of the company, it may be upwards of several tens of thousands of dollars). When you get the offer, as long as your request is reasonable, they're not going to throw it away and spend another chunk of money just to find and hire someone else.
They'll work with you to settle the disagreement in wording until both sides are happy. This happens more often than people think.
This is a big misconception about the funds. Federal highway funds are used for funding interstate highways. However, during the 50s, 60s, and 70s, Massachusetts didn't see any of that while most other states were able to receive the funds. All of the interstate highways built during that period were funded using Massachusetts money.
When the Big Dig was conceived in the 80s, the only reason why Congress voted for it (and overrode Reagan's veto) was because of the fact that Massachusetts never received any federal highway funding in the first place.
Also, the cost overruns were mostly due to two factors:
The decision of former Governor Weld to reopen the environmental impact study even though it was already completed. When Weld came to power, he gutted the entire transportation administration that oversaw the project under Dukakis. This ended up delaying the project for several years (making up the majority of the cost overruns) and in the end, the conclusion was exactly the same as the original impact study.
The installation of several high-speed optical communications lines. This I feel was a justified cost overrun. During the late 90s, there was intense demand for high-speed communications lines to downtown and they had the opportunity to install them while constructing the Big Dig. If they had not done this, most likely the entire thing would have needed to be torn up again a couple years later to install the lines at an even greater cost.
If people are doing open source IE patches, would somebody please fix this sucker? Thousands of people are complaining about this bug online, yet MS hasn't even officially admitted its existence. Now that's inept!
If you had read your own link, you would seen the response:
oops - i didnt see the other pages... apparently this is "known" at m$ and will be fixed soon...
Exactly what I was going to ask. How do you "patch" software without the original code? You'd basically have to reverse engineer the software, back to some other form of programming language - probably ASM.
Now, just as a quick check, isnt reverse engineering any M$ product against the EULA? I seriously expect a lawsuit about this.
Actually they didn't have to do that... they just redirect the URLs you click on into their own cgi script off on their server to determine if it's a valid URL.
I don't know about you, but I prefer that the URLs I go to not be sent to some random server out there. Isn't this basically the definition of spyware!? Also, what happens if their server goes down? Does that mean I'm unable to browse the web at all?
Wait for Microsoft to come out with a better fix that properly addresses this issue.
Umm... no. The problem of DLL hell is because programs (including Windows) all throw their DLLs into the winnt\system folder. New versions of DLLs overwrite old versions, files get left behind during uninstalls, etc. All this contributes to the long-standing problem of "DLL hell". Simply allowing multiple/separate copies in memory is something that all OSes (including Windows) have been able to do for many, many, many years.
Umm... no. If you had done your own research, you would have found out that Windows XP does not allow random programs to overwrite DLL files in the system folder using System File Protection (SFP). Instead it will write the file to another location and keep track of the separate DLL through was is known as a manifest. When the application requests for that specific version of the DLL, the manifest will provide it for the application.
Would you hire someone who stated they were studying 'Mechatronics Engineering' on their resume? The reason im asking this is because I want to know if it sounds like a fake word/profession.
Mechatronics is an actual field. A mechatronic system combines electrical, mechanical, and/or thermal subsystems under the coordination of an embedded microcontroller to achieve precise mechanical or thermo-mechanical control of a process.
It's a pretty cool field. I took some classes on it while in college. It's a good field for CS people who have some interest in electronics but don't particularly enjoy all the nitty-gritty details of EE.
Except the Green Line isn't a subway- it's a surface line...and there's no such thing as a subway conductor.
The MBTA does consider the green line as part of its subway system. Also, there are significant parts of it that go underground, especially as you get closer to downtown/government center.
And yes, there is such thing as a subway conductor, though it's usually more commonly referred to as just an operator. On the green line specifically, the guy's job does resemble more of a train conductor than of a subway operator since on the sections where the train is on the surface, he collects fares and announces stops.
Furthermore, MBTA employees cannot be understood by anyone, have a circumference at least their height, and have no sense of humor. The man was clearly an impostor.
I've moved out of Boston 6 months ago, but if the guy is still around, you can probably catch him if you ride the C branch of the green line. I've rode on his train twice and both of them were in the evening.
The guy's pretty funny and cracks jokes every now and then. The most hilarious incident was at the Park Street station. It was rush hour and the platform was pretty crowded. He stopped the train a little earlier than he was supposed to, but everyone outside was still crowding around the door waiting for it to open. Then he announced, "See what happens when I inch the train forward." Everyone outside started shuffling as the door moved forward. "See that? Lemmings... all of them..." The people inside the train were all laughing as the door opened.
I've heard other friends talk about him and it does seem he reuses his jokes. The conductor joke was heard by one of my friends when he boarded another time.
This sort of thing has been going on for at least a hundred and fifty years. The only thing "news" about it is that computers are being used to work out the districts, not working them out by hand. I don't see it doing any more to kill off democracy than it ever has.
Well, not quite. The thing that sparked the whole controversy lately is that the redistricting was done outside of the normal census period. Before, there was a sort of "gentlemen's agreement" that redistricting would only be done after the census every 10 years. This was followed for the past hundred and fifty years until just recently, when Tom DeLay decided that Texas should be redistricted again just so Republicans could gain more seats, despite the fact that the redistricting was already done in 2001 after the 2000 census. Though it may be technically legal, it flies in the face of past precedents and makes everyone uneasy, resulting in the controversy we have today.
You can find a list of all 23 problems here. Some of them have already been solved.
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The story is fiction. The author, Simson Garfinkel is a grad student at MIT. Do a search in slashdot's archives and you'll see him mentioned in the past on all sorts of stories. He's also written a bunch of O'Reilly books.
I've had Win XP on my PII-400 MHz for a while now and it runs great. There's no real noticeable performance issues with web browsing or Office apps, which is what I usually use it for, and I generally have 4-6 apps open at once (The 384 MB RAM helps of course). As for games, even WarCraft III runs without a hitch (though that's probably due to my kickass video card).
If this guy is going to claim that this is his property, he better start paying taxes for it. Gee... Mr. Nemitz, how much did you say it's worth?
Typically iron found in Space is contaminated with platinium, normally by about.005 or one-half of one percent. Assuming that 433 Eros is only 5% iron, there are 22.5 billion tons of platinium on the asteroid. The current price for platinium is about $750 per troy ounce. There are 29,167 troy ounces per short ton for a total 656,250,000,000,000 troy ounces. At today's price, that is $492,187,500,000,000,000 (~1/2 quintillion dollars).
OK this is cool You send the coachroaches out into an area where there is WMD. How do you check the yeast? Have the coachroacges on a really long leash?:)
I believe you're thinking of Afganistan (s/Baath/Taliban). Iraq was actually one of the most modern countries in the middle east until its economic downturn in the 1990s. Many people there have consumer electronics and the government didn't ban them.
Having said that, this Longhorn build is a big deal for developers and such, because in two years, Longhorn (probably called Windows.NET) will be a huge step forward.
I doubt they will call it Windows.NET. That's what they originally named Windows 2003 Server, but changed it because the.NET name ended up taking on several meanings and confused people (kind of like what happened to Java -- do you mean Java the platform? Java the language? etc.).
Sorry to be sarcastic, but maybe you just didn't SEE the screws?
The screws are there to hold the sandwich together, but they certainly don't hold it to the case, unless he happened to drill holes into his case to hold them down (and nothing in the article indicates that he did any such thing). Another reply to my post mentioned that he may have used tape or glue, which is probable, but again the article never mentioned it.
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He beat it 11 minutes... (rumors are that he used an emulator and saved game state every now and then, but it's still amazing)
They'll work with you to settle the disagreement in wording until both sides are happy. This happens more often than people think.
When the Big Dig was conceived in the 80s, the only reason why Congress voted for it (and overrode Reagan's veto) was because of the fact that Massachusetts never received any federal highway funding in the first place.
Also, the cost overruns were mostly due to two factors:
I don't know about you, but I prefer that the URLs I go to not be sent to some random server out there. Isn't this basically the definition of spyware!? Also, what happens if their server goes down? Does that mean I'm unable to browse the web at all?
Wait for Microsoft to come out with a better fix that properly addresses this issue.
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It's a pretty cool field. I took some classes on it while in college. It's a good field for CS people who have some interest in electronics but don't particularly enjoy all the nitty-gritty details of EE.
And yes, there is such thing as a subway conductor, though it's usually more commonly referred to as just an operator. On the green line specifically, the guy's job does resemble more of a train conductor than of a subway operator since on the sections where the train is on the surface, he collects fares and announces stops.
I've moved out of Boston 6 months ago, but if the guy is still around, you can probably catch him if you ride the C branch of the green line. I've rode on his train twice and both of them were in the evening.The guy's pretty funny and cracks jokes every now and then. The most hilarious incident was at the Park Street station. It was rush hour and the platform was pretty crowded. He stopped the train a little earlier than he was supposed to, but everyone outside was still crowding around the door waiting for it to open. Then he announced, "See what happens when I inch the train forward." Everyone outside started shuffling as the door moved forward. "See that? Lemmings... all of them..." The people inside the train were all laughing as the door opened.
I've heard other friends talk about him and it does seem he reuses his jokes. The conductor joke was heard by one of my friends when he boarded another time.
"I caught my daughter playing with the electrical outlet, and she gave herself quite a shock. I had to ground her."
*Groans elicted from the crowd*
"Hey, what do you expect? I'm a conductor."
This also means we can slashdot the thing. :)
Primate Programmers? Taking code monkeys to the next level. :)
You can find a list of all 23 problems here. Some of them have already been solved.
The story is fiction. The author, Simson Garfinkel is a grad student at MIT. Do a search in slashdot's archives and you'll see him mentioned in the past on all sorts of stories. He's also written a bunch of O'Reilly books.
I've had Win XP on my PII-400 MHz for a while now and it runs great. There's no real noticeable performance issues with web browsing or Office apps, which is what I usually use it for, and I generally have 4-6 apps open at once (The 384 MB RAM helps of course). As for games, even WarCraft III runs without a hitch (though that's probably due to my kickass video card).
Typically iron found in Space is contaminated with platinium, normally by about .005 or one-half of one percent. Assuming that 433 Eros is only 5% iron, there are 22.5 billion tons of platinium on the asteroid. The current price for platinium is about $750 per troy ounce. There are 29,167 troy ounces per short ton for a total 656,250,000,000,000 troy ounces. At today's price, that is $492,187,500,000,000,000 (~1/2 quintillion dollars).
Thanks for calculating it for us... now pay up. :)
I believe you're thinking of Afganistan (s/Baath/Taliban). Iraq was actually one of the most modern countries in the middle east until its economic downturn in the 1990s. Many people there have consumer electronics and the government didn't ban them.