That's the only bug I've found - and I didn't write the code either. It was an automatic code generator which generated the code. I've got better things to do than cut and paste from header files and extension specifications.
Scientists have announced that they have bred a new strain of plants that can leech the explosives out of buried land-mines. However, they are advising that people should stay well away from these plants during an electrical storm, and that they should not light cigarettes or start camp fires at any other time.
I disagree. If what Saudi citizens find out about other places via the Internet causes them to reject their Islamic culture and heritage, then perhaps it's a culture and heritage not worth preserving in the first place.
In this case, having a country run by a ruling royal family may not be very democratic, but it's probably better than having an anti-western fundamentalist state.
OK, here's one I've had to work around. I've got a class object (OpenGL Extension handler that lists all the functions, and flags for each OpenGL extension and OpenGL version present). Because the class object is over 4K in size, VCC seems to get confused and places the results in the wrong locations (wrong offsets), thus overwriting adjacent objects in memory.
The bill of rights attempts to give you the right to live your life in safety and without fear. Since many infectious diseases would take away this freedom, having a health care system to combat these diseases is required. Having free access to clean (hot and cold) water and sanitation is also required to achieve this goal. Starvation or malnutrition also allows such diseases to propagate (and may prevent people from working in the future), so welfare is required.
In an ideal world, people would take advantage of these benefits, and would make a contribution once they had turned their lives around. But there are those who are capable of working, but just don't want to.
But can you install Linux on it?
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The problem is, science *TEACHERS* are not kid-friendly. Most of them, no matter how compassionate and pro-children they believe they are, are inherently vicious and sadistic people.
That's a terrible generalization. From experience in high school, there are good teachers and bad teachers. The best teacher I had (who was the head of department) had designed these laminated work cards that every student had access to. Each card contained all the instructions required to complete a complete lesson (copy this down, copy this and fill in the blanks, perform this experiment and note the following results). If you didn't complete the work in class, you could sign out and take the cards home. You really couldn't go wrong (I got 'A's in Biology and APH from this method).
The worst teacher I had was a Mathemetics teacher who had transferred from a different school and came with glowing references. The worst aspect was that she chose to use her own personal mathematical notation when explaining basic concepts. Within a year, she had gone back to her own school.
Although, we were never actually taught science in elementary school. Arts, crafts and sport were deemed more important.
That brings back memories - I received a Mykit System 80(?) which had all the components (resistors, capacitors, solar cell, microphone, morse code switch) mounted on two plastic frames. Yellow wires were used for long connections, red wires for medium length connections and blue for the short connections. Simple circuits were fun and easy to make, but complex circuits required something like 40+ wires of all lengths, and you would always end up pulling out one wire as you tried to make a new connection.
I remember seeing another system (maybe a later model) where all the components were in little plastic cubes with the symbols on the top, and little metal prongs at the sides and base, so they could be plugged into a plastic case to build projects. Constructing a project simply involved replicating a curcuit diagram rather than stringing together wires.
Although software simulators seem to be what schools are using now.
As I skimmed over the abstract, I first imagined the solution involved placing a set of gyroscopes on each ski.
Two blue screens of death for the price of one...
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I'd like 'tempo' base shuffling, to find songs of a similar beat. Suppose I'm working out, want a fast beat to do some running, I'd like to continue listening to similar speed songs (ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down", FatBoySlim's "Right About Now", Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild").
Then for other exercises, I'd want something slower. There's nothing worse than frantically trying to scan through the track list or radio stations, only to find slow-beat tracks, since they're playing to the traffic-jammed segment of the population.
Donuts most definitely. There are two things to note. The first is that we don't know what's at the end of the horn. For all we know, there could be another horn facing in the exact opposite direction. The other is that we don't know what's outside the open end either. But it must wrap around and go somewhere. If there are two horns end-to-end and they wrap-around, you've got a bagel or donut depending on what's filling the universe. Then the galaxies are like raisins in a raisin donut, and the remnants of the big bang are like the icing on the top of the donut or sesame seeds on the top of a bagel. Either way the universe is a yummy place to be.
If you turn the picture sideways, it really looks like the space-time distortion caused by an extremely massive object, like a black hole.
This reminds me of the theories that the universe is inside a black hole. The apparent expansion of the universe would be caused by the stretching of the space-time continuum.
So, could you have black holes embedded inside the distorted space of another (huge) black hole (almost fractally?).
Although it's rather sad for anyone who remembers the mid 1990's when the game indstry was starting to move into 3D and SGI was still growing in every direction; Microsoft bought up SoftImage in order to push Windows NT into the workstation market, SGI responded by buying up Alias and Wavefront for millions of dollars in shares.
At that time, SGI had a near monopoly on 3D development systems, but management weren't willing to develop competitive PC-priced desktop systems (An Indy cost around $10,000), even though their engineers could see this happening (SGI's engineers designed Nintendo's Ultra-64).
Selling Alias|Wavefront really marks the end of that era.
The Toronto Star reported this as well: (BUSINESS, Wednesday, February 8, 1995, p.B1)
As part of a three-company merger, Silicon Graphics Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., is expected to pay the equivalent of about $500 million (Canadian) in shares for Toronto-based Alias when the deal closes in June.
Silicon Graphics said it would pay for Alias and Wavefront with shares. The Wavefront purchase price is estimated at about $150 million (U.S.).
Alias stockholders will receive the equivalent of 0.90 of a Silicon Graphics share for every share of Alias stock. Wavefront shareholders will get 0.49 of a share, the announcement added.
The new subsidiary will team with Silicon Studio, a unit formed last year by Silicon Graphics to focus on the entertainment market and to develop software tools.
The software will be used by film makers, game developers and others in the entertainment industry to create interactive titles.
Analysts were largely supportive.
"It's a marriage made in heaven," said Charles Finnie, of Volpe Welty & Co.
and even turned away kids with cameras in their cell phones
Would a cell phone have enough juice to record and transmit 90 minutes worth of video? Even if it did, the call charge would probably be more than the cost of buying the DVD when it came out. And the resolution is going to be rather low, not forgetting the reduction in frame rate, plus the loss of stereo let alone Dolby surround sound.
Reminds me of the time a school board of governors decided to try and ban sandals along with the usual types of clothing (baggy jeans, short T-shirts). As one governor pointed out that only trouble-makers with no respect for authority would want to wear such clothing, another governor nods her head solemnly and comments "Yes, Jesus wore sandals - look at what he managed to do".
The most annoying sound is people who have holiday songs turned all the way up. For instance - we wish you a merry christmas going off
Supermarkets do that as well... they call that Muzak.
Even worse was that while shopping just before one Christmas, I kept hearing this most annoying...jingle... jingle... jingle... increasing and decreasing in volume regardless of where I went, but constantly out of sight. It turns out, store management wanted all the customers to know where the nearest sales agent was... so they all had to dress up as elves (red/green) and wear a ring of small bells around their necks if not on their shoes.
If you stop employees from using PC's to access the web, they'll use laptops/PDA's with wireless communications.
If you stop employees from using telephones, they'll use mobile phones or use VoIP.
Restrict all forms of communication, and you won't keep/recruit the best staff.
In a research environment, having access to the Internet is essential. Not only is accessing IEEE, ACM portals useful in accessing papers, but a Google search can also root out other papers, and check to see where the commercial and undergraduate knowledge has reached.
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That's the only bug I've found - and I didn't write the code either. It was an automatic code generator which generated the code. I've got better things to do than cut and paste from header files and extension specifications.
Scientists have announced that they have bred a new strain of plants that can leech the explosives out of buried land-mines. However, they are advising that people should stay well away from these plants during an electrical storm, and that they should not light cigarettes or start camp fires at any other time.
I disagree. If what Saudi citizens find out about other places via the Internet causes them to reject their Islamic culture and heritage, then perhaps it's a culture and heritage not worth preserving in the first place.
In this case, having a country run by a ruling royal family may not be very democratic, but it's probably better than having an anti-western fundamentalist state.
OK, here's one I've had to work around. I've got a class object (OpenGL Extension handler that lists all the functions, and flags for each OpenGL extension and OpenGL version present). Because the class object is over 4K in size, VCC seems to get confused and places the results in the wrong locations (wrong offsets), thus overwriting adjacent objects in memory.
The bill of rights attempts to give you the right to live your life in safety and without fear. Since many infectious diseases would take away this freedom, having a health care system to combat these diseases is required. Having free access to clean (hot and cold) water and sanitation is also required to achieve this goal. Starvation or malnutrition also allows such diseases to propagate (and may prevent people from working in the future), so welfare is required.
In an ideal world, people would take advantage of these benefits, and would make a contribution once they had turned their lives around. But there are those who are capable of working, but just don't want to.
... that's what eager minds want to know.
The problem is, science *TEACHERS* are not kid-friendly. Most of them, no matter how compassionate and pro-children they believe they are, are inherently vicious and sadistic people.
That's a terrible generalization. From experience in high school, there are good teachers and bad teachers. The best teacher I had (who was the head of department) had designed these laminated work cards that every student had access to. Each card contained all the instructions required to complete a complete lesson (copy this down, copy this and fill in the blanks, perform this experiment and note the following results). If you didn't complete the work in class, you could sign out and take the cards home. You really couldn't go wrong (I got 'A's in Biology and APH from this method).
The worst teacher I had was a Mathemetics teacher who had transferred from a different school and came with glowing references. The worst aspect was that she chose to use her own personal mathematical notation when explaining basic concepts. Within a year, she had gone back to her own school.
Although, we were never actually taught science in elementary school. Arts, crafts and sport were deemed more important.
That brings back memories - I received a Mykit System 80(?) which had all the components (resistors, capacitors, solar cell, microphone, morse code switch) mounted on two plastic frames. Yellow wires were used for long connections, red wires for medium length connections and blue for the short connections. Simple circuits were fun and easy to make, but complex circuits required something like 40+ wires of all lengths, and you would always end up pulling out one wire as you tried to make a new connection.
I remember seeing another system (maybe a later model) where all the components were in little plastic cubes with the symbols on the top, and little metal prongs at the sides and base, so they could be plugged into a plastic case to build projects. Constructing a project simply involved replicating a curcuit diagram rather than stringing together wires.
Although software simulators seem to be what schools are using now.
As I skimmed over the abstract, I first imagined the solution involved placing a set of gyroscopes on each ski.
... that's got to be a bargain!
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I'd like 'tempo' base shuffling, to find songs of a similar beat. Suppose I'm working out, want a fast beat to do some running, I'd like to continue listening to similar speed songs (ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down", FatBoySlim's "Right About Now", Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild").
Then for other exercises, I'd want something slower. There's nothing worse than frantically trying to scan through the track list or radio stations, only to find slow-beat tracks, since they're playing to the traffic-jammed segment of the population.
From Professor Simpson on donutology
Donuts most definitely. There are two things to note. The first is that we don't know what's at the end of the horn. For all we know, there could be another horn facing in the exact opposite direction. The other is that we don't know what's outside the open end either. But it must wrap around and go somewhere. If there are two horns end-to-end and they wrap-around, you've got a bagel or donut depending on what's filling the universe. Then the galaxies are like raisins in a raisin donut, and the remnants of the big bang are like the icing on the top of the donut or sesame seeds on the top of a bagel. Either way the universe is a yummy place to be.
If you turn the picture sideways, it really looks like the space-time distortion caused by an extremely massive object, like a black hole. This reminds me of the theories that the universe is inside a black hole. The apparent expansion of the universe would be caused by the stretching of the space-time continuum.
So, could you have black holes embedded inside the distorted space of another (huge) black hole (almost fractally?).
It's good for SGI - they need the money.
Although it's rather sad for anyone who remembers the mid 1990's when the game indstry was starting to move into 3D and SGI was still growing in every direction; Microsoft bought up SoftImage in order to push Windows NT into the workstation market, SGI responded by buying up Alias and Wavefront for millions of dollars in shares.
At that time, SGI had a near monopoly on 3D development systems, but management weren't willing to develop competitive PC-priced desktop systems (An Indy cost around $10,000), even though their engineers could see this happening (SGI's engineers designed Nintendo's Ultra-64).
Selling Alias|Wavefront really marks the end of that era.
The Toronto Star reported this as well:
(BUSINESS, Wednesday, February 8, 1995, p.B1)
As part of a three-company merger, Silicon Graphics Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., is expected to pay the equivalent of about $500 million (Canadian) in shares for Toronto-based Alias when the deal closes in June.
Silicon Graphics said it would pay for Alias and Wavefront with shares. The Wavefront purchase price is estimated at about $150 million (U.S.).
Alias stockholders will receive the equivalent of 0.90 of a Silicon Graphics share for every share of Alias stock. Wavefront shareholders will get 0.49 of a share, the announcement added.
The new subsidiary will team with Silicon Studio, a unit formed last year by Silicon Graphics to focus on the entertainment market and to develop software tools.
The software will be used by film makers, game developers and others in the entertainment industry to create interactive titles.
Analysts were largely supportive.
"It's a marriage made in heaven," said Charles Finnie, of Volpe Welty & Co.
Ability to watch porn uninterrupted 24 hours non-stop over the bank holiday weekend - priceless
and even turned away kids with cameras in their cell phones
Would a cell phone have enough juice to record and transmit 90 minutes worth of video? Even if it did, the call charge would probably be more than the cost of buying the DVD when it came out. And the resolution is going to be rather low, not forgetting the reduction in frame rate, plus the loss of stereo let alone Dolby surround sound.
I thought he was saying bells - I thought he was a professional church bell ringer.
Reminds me of the time a school board of governors decided to try and ban sandals along with the usual types of clothing (baggy jeans, short T-shirts). As one governor pointed out that only trouble-makers with no respect for authority would want to wear such clothing, another governor nods her head solemnly and comments "Yes, Jesus wore sandals - look at what he managed to do".
..Awarded to any web-site which can survive a slashdotting.
Follow the CyberKinetics link above: they've already implanted chips in monkeys and taught them to play video games with brainwaves alone.
But were they able to win Quake III levels at nightmare setting, and take out all the terrorists in Counterstrike?
The most annoying sound is people who have holiday songs turned all the way up. For instance - we wish you a merry christmas going off
...jingle ... jingle ... jingle ... increasing and decreasing in volume regardless of where I went, but constantly out of sight. It turns out, store management wanted all the customers to know where the nearest sales agent was ... so they all had to dress up as elves (red/green) and wear a ring of small bells around their necks if not on their shoes.
Supermarkets do that as well... they call that Muzak.
Even worse was that while shopping just before one Christmas, I kept hearing this most annoying
Sorry for the inconvenience - the car wash is closed - we're waiting for it to be defrosted.
If you stop employees from using PC's to access the web, they'll use laptops/PDA's with wireless communications.
If you stop employees from using telephones, they'll use mobile phones or use VoIP.
Restrict all forms of communication, and you won't keep/recruit the best staff.
In a research environment, having access to the Internet is essential. Not only is accessing IEEE, ACM portals useful in accessing papers, but a Google search can also root out other papers, and check to see where the commercial and undergraduate knowledge has reached.