I've used this system in the past. One problem is the way in which they handle out of stock items - either a substitute item can be provided or the out of stock item ignored. It's a good idea in theory, but in practise, things can go wrong. Ordered onion seasoning powder for a barbecue, and you may end up with onion salt. Or order a pack of six white rolls, and end up with six kitchen rolls. Refuse substitutions and you end up with missing major ingredients (lean beef mince for Spaghetti Bolognaise) and purchasing the other items for no purpose (spaghetti, bolognaise sauce, cheese).
Undoubtably, it's an excellent system for someone who's trapped indoors (parent with kids and no car). But the disadvantage is you have to book 24 hours in advance, and be prepared to stay indoors for two hours for the booked delivery time. Delivery change is an extra five pounds, although that may be cheaper than driving or booking a taxi for the return journey.
There was a soccer-mom/admin in our work who had the first name Marsha and the surname started with an 'H'. She would get all these weird Middle-Eastern newsletters spammed to her work account. I bet she's probably made to the dodgy persons list.
Why bother going to a campground if you are just going to be online? Why not "camp" in a hotel suite?
Because they did that last year, and the hotel manager hasn't forgiven them for setting off the fire-alarms after they tried to have a traditional barbecue in the conference hall.
But what if they could? If google cached, online, the location of MP3s and MPEGs loaded on your system, then allowed others access (with your permission of course). Hmm... sounds like a P2P file sharing system...
Gee, I just accidently left my "share system with network" option on, and placed the main index in the root directory:)
Summer blend of gasoline?? What is this? Never heard of seasonal blends for gas....
Here's an explanation.The difference seems tobe the number of hydrogen-carbon bonds. By increasing these by a third for winter and reducing these for summer, the fuel compensates for the difference in operating temperatures.
Of course, this does lead me to ask: Do you really need such different fuels in places like California/Florida/Texas?
% by weight; gasoline is a distilled mixture with M=0.10..0.12 kg/mol, Tb=300..440 K (10% and 90% boiled), pv(38 C)=60 kPa for the summer blend and pv(40 C)=90 kPa for the winter blend, 90..100 motor octane number, and sulphur content
EA signs exclusive contracts with sports stars, so that they can only appear in EA games.
It would be trickier with a movie star. Would you force them to sign an exclusive deal just to allow EA to use their likeness, or would they be able to license their likeness to other publishers. Would the image only cover a particular set of clothes/hairstyle or would it cover all possibilities?
Better still, send unencrypted streams of data collected from a pure random source (white noise from a microphone placed next to the cooling fan is my favorite). Although, I'm sure they'll be able to decipher this, and find some meaningful message.
Too right. I'm in the market for a new PC with a high-performance graphics card. While Dell system's are cheap, their sales and customer support is now unusable. While AlienWare's systems are extremely attractive, the prices start at 3500 pounds (5000 dollars) for a gaming system. I also looked at the various retail stores and the standard systems available through mail order (Dabs.com), but they only seem to sell the low-end desktops or server systems. There must be some other manufacturers in-between?
I've got an old PC which had the hard disk drive chock full of stuff. With Windows 98SE and 64Mbytes of system memory, the firewall will on occasions just stop running.
You've got a real-time operating system, a basic file-system, the TCP/IP and all the other protocol stacks, the SNMP/MIB support and proprietary routing algorithms. Presumably, the source code would be documented to some extent, along with SCCS archiving. All of this could easily add up to over 800 Megabytes.
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If you just project the line out, LNUX goes to zero around late summer.
The rise and fall of stock prices generally follow the Normal Distribution. So the value will tend to level off to zero as time approaches infinity.
No, there were conference rooms and offices on the floors above. The staircase was covered by receptionists and other keycard doors anyway. If only the food were that good:)
My impression was that in the UK you have to do an MSc/MPhil/etc. first regardless and that requires some coursework.
You can move straight onto doing a PhD if you have a 2.1 or 1st class Honours degree. However, since many supervisors/departments have been burnt by students accepting a program and then leaving within three months, a MSc/MPhil is now the preferred qualification. A MSc/MPhil is also required to top up a 2.2 class Honours degree. A MSc can bec completed part-time in three-years or full-time in a year.
You might need a security badge to get by a security desk, and a key card to get onto the floor. But people sometimes loose their badges and keycards and will be let by just this once.
And there is always the problem of tailgating. I've gone this myself. Our restaurant was in a separate building from the other offices. Access required swiping the keycard. But since there were so many people going in and out the door was more or less open all the time. In the end, security decided it was simpler to keep these doors unlocked.
And at the company I used to work for you could probably steal hadware just by putting it on a cart.
Our university computer labs have an alarm system built into the network system. If the network card is disconnected from the system, then a bulding wide alarm is sounded. A page message is also sent to the admin's.
(This apparently came about because we once had a thief who broke into a computer lab, stole a PC and attempted to leave the premises through a bathroom window. Unfortunately, the window was so narrow he couldn't take the PC with him. Security then decided the best way to catch the thief was to set up a concealed camera in the bathroom cubicle, with the video monitor and recorder stored in the room of a professor who was on holiday at the time. Needless to say, the professor wasn't exactly happy when he returned back, invited some students who were wanting advice on a coursework into his office, and found a live video feed on his desk.)
That reminds me of the scene in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy where Arthur Dent manages to get the entire crew out of some tricky situation by finding the right button to activate the improbabilty drive.
Asked by Zaphod Beeblebrox if he was responsible, Arthur replies "Oh, it was nothing". The entire crew take his statement literally and continue on with their previous conversation; much to Arthur's annoyance.
Perhaps Darl's wearing his DuoGenta, Superchromatic, Pyro-sensitive sunglasses, which have just turned black.
I'm also curious about this idea that mathematics opens no career paths. My peers now work in finance, IT, bio-tech, engineering R&D, and numerous other interesting and/or well paid fields. A few did go on to do PhDs, but certainly not the majority.
This was definitely the perception in the UK back the mid-1980's. A quick job search reveals that there are around 85+ jobs requiring mathematics skills, with only one or two requiring Ph.D's.
The other positions are for junior accounting assistants, admins and teachers. Not very inspiring.
Mathematics was my favorite subject at high school, and it was my first choice to study at university. However, following the advice of an mathematics teacher who had a "pure mathematics" degree, was on a low salary and couldn't find employment anywhere else, I chose to study Computer Science instead. Also, at that time, the UK government responded to the number of unemployed "pure subject" graduates, by insisting that universities focus on applied subjects. Now we have a shortage of mathematics and science teachers (I believe just above every teacher who had a pure degree, ended up going back to university to do a Ph.D. and become a lecturer/professor).
Bottom line is: people are only going to study a subject if they can see that the people ahead of them are doing something they enjoy and can afford to live somewhere they like.
Now we can do so much more with so much less (replace much of the mechanical stuff with electronic systems, etc).
Wasn't there an article some time back which said that the combined computing power of all the shuttle computers system could be handled by a single laptop?
It gives me great hope for the future to think that a good percentage of slashdot commentators will eventually be working on projects where they will be required to convert between different measurement systems on a daily basis.
I thought the main index page was a photograph of everyone who had contributed to the movie.
I could imagine the director making a speech -"This movie is dedicated to every ancestor who has contributed DNA to my family tree, with special consideration to my great-great-great grandfather who contributed the gene TGHA-3 in Chromosome 6, and my great-great-great-great-grandmother who contributed the genes OXGH-5 and SRGH-3 in Chromosome 20."
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I've used this system in the past. One problem is the way in which they handle out of stock items - either a substitute item can be provided or the out of stock item ignored. It's a good idea in theory, but in practise, things can go wrong. Ordered onion seasoning powder for a barbecue, and you may end up with onion salt. Or order a pack of six white rolls, and end up with six kitchen rolls. Refuse substitutions and you end up with missing major ingredients (lean beef mince for Spaghetti Bolognaise) and purchasing the other items for no purpose (spaghetti, bolognaise sauce, cheese).
Undoubtably, it's an excellent system for someone who's trapped indoors (parent with kids and no car). But the disadvantage is you have to book 24 hours in advance, and be prepared to stay indoors for two hours for the booked delivery time. Delivery change is an extra five pounds, although that may be cheaper than driving or booking a taxi for the return journey.
There was a soccer-mom/admin in our work who had the first name Marsha and the surname started with an 'H'.
She would get all these weird Middle-Eastern newsletters spammed to her work account. I bet she's probably made to the dodgy persons list.
Get an American to say Aunt or Aluminium.
Don't forget Canadians...
I had this really funny English language lession at a supermarket from the checkout girl when I tried to buy a roll of Aluminium foil.
then print it all out on 10,000 pages
That's a bit wasteful - with the right command line options you can squeeze 16 A4 pages onto a single side.
The extra two speakers are for redundancy.
That's what the organisers said at the last conference I attended.
Why bother going to a campground if you are just going to be online? Why not "camp" in a hotel suite?
Because they did that last year, and the hotel manager hasn't forgiven them for setting off the fire-alarms after they tried to have a traditional barbecue in the conference hall.
But what if they could? If google cached, online, the location of MP3s and MPEGs loaded on your system, then allowed others access (with your permission of course). Hmm... sounds like a P2P file sharing system...
:)
Gee, I just accidently left my "share system with network" option on, and placed the main index in the root directory
This is as good idea, so long as it doesn't allow others to search my filesystem.
Summer blend of gasoline?? What is this? Never heard of seasonal blends for gas....
Here's an explanation.The difference seems tobe the number of hydrogen-carbon bonds. By increasing these by a third for winter and reducing these for summer, the fuel compensates for the difference in operating temperatures.
Of course, this does lead me to ask: Do you really need such different fuels in places like California/Florida/Texas?
% by weight; gasoline is a distilled mixture with M=0.10..0.12 kg/mol, Tb=300..440 K (10% and 90% boiled), pv(38 C)=60 kPa for the summer blend and pv(40 C)=90 kPa for the winter blend, 90..100 motor octane number, and sulphur content
EA signs exclusive contracts with sports stars, so that they can only appear in EA games.
It would be trickier with a movie star. Would you force them to sign an exclusive deal just to allow EA to use their likeness, or would they be able to license their likeness to other publishers. Would the image only cover a particular set of clothes/hairstyle or would it cover all possibilities?
Better still, send unencrypted streams of data collected from a pure random source (white noise from a microphone placed next to the cooling fan is my favorite). Although, I'm sure they'll be able to decipher this, and find some meaningful message.
But hopefully without the Alienware price tag.
Too right. I'm in the market for a new PC with a high-performance graphics card. While Dell system's are cheap, their sales and customer support is now unusable. While AlienWare's systems are extremely attractive, the prices start at 3500 pounds (5000 dollars) for a gaming system. I also looked at the various retail stores and the standard systems available through mail order (Dabs.com), but they only seem to sell the low-end desktops or server systems. There must be some other manufacturers in-between?
I've got an old PC which had the hard disk drive chock full of stuff. With Windows 98SE and 64Mbytes of system memory, the firewall will on occasions just stop running.
You've got a real-time operating system, a basic file-system, the TCP/IP and all the other protocol stacks, the SNMP/MIB support and proprietary routing algorithms. Presumably, the source code would be documented to some extent, along with SCCS archiving. All of this could easily add up to over 800 Megabytes.
If you just project the line out, LNUX goes to zero around late summer.
The rise and fall of stock prices generally follow the Normal Distribution. So the value will tend to level off to zero as time approaches infinity.
No, there were conference rooms and offices on the floors above. The staircase was covered by receptionists and other keycard doors anyway. If only the food were that good :)
My impression was that in the UK you have to do an MSc/MPhil/etc. first regardless and that requires some coursework.
You can move straight onto doing a PhD if you have a 2.1 or 1st class Honours degree. However, since many supervisors/departments have been burnt by students accepting a program and then leaving within three months, a MSc/MPhil is now the preferred qualification. A MSc/MPhil is also required to top up a 2.2 class Honours degree. A MSc can bec completed part-time in three-years or full-time in a year.
You might need a security badge to get by a security desk, and a key card to get onto the floor. But people sometimes loose their badges and keycards and will be let by just this once.
And there is always the problem of tailgating. I've gone this myself. Our restaurant was in a separate building from the other offices. Access required swiping the keycard. But since there were so many people going in and out the door was more or less open all the time. In the end, security decided it was simpler to keep these doors unlocked.
And at the company I used to work for you could probably steal hadware just by putting it on a cart.
Our university computer labs have an alarm system built into the network system. If the network card is disconnected from the system, then a bulding wide alarm is sounded. A page message is also sent to the admin's.
(This apparently came about because we once had a thief who broke into a computer lab, stole a PC and attempted to leave the premises through a bathroom window. Unfortunately, the window was so narrow he couldn't take the PC with him. Security then decided the best way to catch the thief was to set up a concealed camera in the bathroom cubicle, with the video monitor and recorder stored in the room of a professor who was on holiday at the time. Needless to say, the professor wasn't exactly happy when he returned back, invited some students who were wanting advice on a coursework into his office, and found a live video feed on his desk.)
That reminds me of the scene in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy where Arthur Dent manages to get the entire crew out of some tricky situation by finding the right button to activate the improbabilty drive.
Asked by Zaphod Beeblebrox if he was responsible, Arthur replies "Oh, it was nothing". The entire crew take his statement literally and continue on with their previous conversation; much to Arthur's annoyance.
Perhaps Darl's wearing his DuoGenta, Superchromatic, Pyro-sensitive sunglasses, which have just turned black.
I'm also curious about this idea that mathematics opens no career paths. My peers now work in finance, IT, bio-tech, engineering R&D, and numerous other interesting and/or well paid fields. A few did go on to do PhDs, but certainly not the majority.
This was definitely the perception in the UK back the mid-1980's. A quick job search reveals that there are around 85+ jobs requiring mathematics skills, with only one or two requiring Ph.D's. The other positions are for junior accounting assistants, admins and teachers. Not very inspiring.
..but i'll take a shitload of fuel to power a city.
I hate to imagine how much is required to power one of the latest high-performance graphics cards.
Mathematics was my favorite subject at high school, and it was my first choice to study at university. However, following the advice of an mathematics teacher who had a "pure mathematics" degree, was on a low salary and couldn't find employment anywhere else, I chose to study Computer Science instead. Also, at that time, the UK government responded to the number of unemployed "pure subject" graduates, by insisting that universities focus on applied subjects. Now we have a shortage of mathematics and science teachers (I believe just above every teacher who had a pure degree, ended up going back to university to do a Ph.D. and become a lecturer/professor).
Bottom line is: people are only going to study a subject if they can see that the people ahead of them are doing something they enjoy and can afford to live somewhere they like.
Now we can do so much more with so much less (replace much of the mechanical stuff with electronic systems, etc).
Wasn't there an article some time back which said that the combined computing power of all the shuttle computers system could be handled by a single laptop?
It gives me great hope for the future to think that a good percentage of slashdot commentators will eventually be working on projects where they will be required to convert between different measurement systems on a daily basis.
I thought the main index page was a photograph of everyone who had contributed to the movie.
I could imagine the director making a speech -"This movie is dedicated to every ancestor who has contributed DNA to my family tree, with special consideration to my great-great-great grandfather who contributed the gene TGHA-3 in Chromosome 6, and my great-great-great-great-grandmother who contributed the genes OXGH-5 and SRGH-3 in Chromosome 20."