In '84, I was lucky enough to get tickets to the Men's Team Sabre prelims and the Women's Team Foil finals. I even got to meet Peter Westbrook (The only US medalist ever - I think - in Fencing) and got him to sign my program! Excuse me, I think I'll go dig around in the garage and find that...
I know what you mean. My sport is NEVER shown on NBC (I'm a fencer). And NBC's coverage sucks... I was surfing in '96 and came across the rowing competition, and the camera crew kept on the US rowers, even though they were way out of the running... The announcers for all sports were something like:
Look! There's the Americans. Oh yeah, there's some furriners over there, but look at those Americans, even if they are in 5th place. Oh yeah, some furriners are also competing.
And I thought ABC's coverage in '84 was bad... Where's Jim McKay when you need him? (For those who are too young to remember, McKay did a brilliant job when pressed into service as a "real" reporter on the '72 Munich hostage crisis).
UC Santa Cruz. 1984. There was ONE 11/780 running 4.2BSD for all CIS class accounts. Late in the semester, everyone's final projects were coming due, and a lot of people were using the Modula-2 compiler that was a dog...
I recall seeing load averages of over 80. That puppy slowed to a crawl, but IT DID NOT CRASH. It limped along until the load lightened up a bit. Not a chance in hell of that happening with todays architectures.
The '386 protected mode is also somewhat based on the VAX architecture. And yes, VAX stands for "Virtual Address Extension"... Somewhere around my home office, I have my ancient (vintage '84) VAX Architecture handbook...
But back to the 386. The four level protection mechanism in the 386 is very similar to that of the VAX.
I've used VMS, and while I had trouble with the learning curve (I cut my teeth on Unix), I did appreciate the power. EDT anyone?
Wouldn't you use Ada(r) for Lemon-ada?
Wouldn't you use C for fruit punch? Specifically MetaWares Hi-C?
Wouldn't you use LISP for a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich?
Wouldn't you use Basic for Spaghetti? (somebody had to say it!)
Wouldn't you use Python for Rattlesnake Chili?
Wouldn't you use SNOBOL for Hostess(tm) snack cakes?
From reading Contentville's statements, and the (various) agreements people writing theses have to sign that...
1) You still hold copyright.
2) You give UMI the right to resell/redistribute your thesis.
3) Contentville is NOT UMI, but reselling stuff from their database.
4) You did not give UMI the rights to authorize others to distribute your thesis.
5) Contentville is in the wrong.
Look at Britney, N*Sync, Backstree Boys, etc. A free market would have never allowed these performers to sell, let alone be sensations.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much of the "Oops I did it Again" price goes to The Rolling Stones?
Note: I have a 10 year old daughter, hence my knowledge of B.S.'s CDs. She did a remake of "Satisfaction". When I heard it, my first comment was, "Mick Jagger, she ain't!"
If the guy from 2600 REALLY is in jail on $0.5M - $1M bail for a misdemeanor, I think he has a nice lawsuit for violation of his civil rights, since the Eighth Amendment specifically states:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Half a mil for walking down the street with a cellphone seems like excessive bail to me.
So where are our big commercial allies now? IBM purports to be basing a big chunk of its strategy on Linux, so why isn't an IBM marketroid out there in front to deflate MS (and MS-shill) FUD? I'm sure we'll hear from the various distros on this point, but what about the big guns?
So... Does anyone know the address for IBM's PR department? Maybe we could drop them a line and ask them to pretty-please-with-sugar-on-top do something about it, like cancel the FUD?
I really wish they had used the swedish book analogy at the trial... You know, I purchased this book. It's written in swedish. To read it, I need to translate it from swedish to english. I can copy it without any translation. DeCSS is the equivalent of translating from swedish to english.
Chill out dude. I was posting from work, and all my physics references are at home. You are of course, correct that the full theory is SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) (I've never heard the Z6 part before). I thought that the Standard Model had been accepted as a GUT.
Forgive me oh wise troll, for obviously you are an fscking genius and I am a lowly wuss. FSCK YOU, YOU SH*THEAD.
You're right. It was Boltzmann. IIRC (all my quantum books are at home, and I'm at work) Einstein was the one who proposed to look at QM effects with statistical mechanics, and not to bother with the individual particles. Of Course, I Could Be Wrong(tm).
Einstein's problem with Quantum theory was the indeterminacy. IIRC, he introduced concept of statistical mechanics. But he was never happy with the fact that (in theory) you couldn't predict what would happen to an individual particle. Hence his famous comment about G-d playing dice with the universe.
The other reason we (as humans) don't directly feel the strong and weak forces is because they have limited range, being carried by particles with mass. EM is carried by massless particles and therefore has an infinite range. Gravitons are postulated to be massless as well.
Crap. The EM, weak nuclear and strong nuclear forces have not been explained by a single unified phenomena.
Salam, Weinberg and Glashow won the Nobel prize for combining the EM and Weak forces into the Electoweak force.
I forget who the main theorists behind SU(3)theory - that's the GUT that combines the Electroweak and Strong forces - are, but EM/Weak/Strong have all been proven to be aspects of the same primal force. They unify at high energy levels.
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In '84, I was lucky enough to get tickets to the Men's Team Sabre prelims and the Women's Team Foil finals. I even got to meet Peter Westbrook (The only US medalist ever - I think - in Fencing) and got him to sign my program! Excuse me, I think I'll go dig around in the garage and find that...
I know what you mean. My sport is NEVER shown on NBC (I'm a fencer). And NBC's coverage sucks... I was surfing in '96 and came across the rowing competition, and the camera crew kept on the US rowers, even though they were way out of the running... The announcers for all sports were something like:
Look! There's the Americans. Oh yeah, there's some furriners over there, but look at those Americans, even if they are in 5th place. Oh yeah, some furriners are also competing.
And I thought ABC's coverage in '84 was bad... Where's Jim McKay when you need him? (For those who are too young to remember, McKay did a brilliant job when pressed into service as a "real" reporter on the '72 Munich hostage crisis).
Ah yes...
UC Santa Cruz. 1984. There was ONE 11/780 running 4.2BSD for all CIS class accounts. Late in the semester, everyone's final projects were coming due, and a lot of people were using the Modula-2 compiler that was a dog...
I recall seeing load averages of over 80. That puppy slowed to a crawl, but IT DID NOT CRASH. It limped along until the load lightened up a bit. Not a chance in hell of that happening with todays architectures.
The '386 protected mode is also somewhat based on the VAX architecture. And yes, VAX stands for "Virtual Address Extension"... Somewhere around my home office, I have my ancient (vintage '84) VAX Architecture handbook...
But back to the 386. The four level protection mechanism in the 386 is very similar to that of the VAX.
I've used VMS, and while I had trouble with the learning curve (I cut my teeth on Unix), I did appreciate the power. EDT anyone?
Ada (shudder)
procedure F(foo : in integer; bar : in integer; baz : in out integer);
--...
F( bar => 3; baz => the_result ; foo => 7);
or Visual Basic (shudder again), which also has a variant on named parameters.
I think Sanskrit and Finnish might be distant relatives.
:-)?
Are you sure? IANALinguist, but I would assume both of the following:
1) Sanskrit is Indo-European,
2) Finnish is Finno-Ugric.
Totally different families.
Just out of curiosity, who were the Finno-Ugres
Wouldn't you use Ada(r) for Lemon-ada?
Wouldn't you use C for fruit punch? Specifically MetaWares Hi-C?
Wouldn't you use LISP for a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich?
Wouldn't you use Basic for Spaghetti? (somebody had to say it!)
Wouldn't you use Python for Rattlesnake Chili?
Wouldn't you use SNOBOL for Hostess(tm) snack cakes?
If time IS discreet, then the Planck Time would be a good candidate for the quantum.
I believe it's sqrt(Gh/(c^5))
Don't flame my math if I have the formula wrong.
But Microsoft Quantum Windows 2020 (Service Pack 47) will still create 2049483 BSODs all at once!
From reading Contentville's statements, and the (various) agreements people writing theses have to sign that...
1) You still hold copyright.
2) You give UMI the right to resell/redistribute your thesis.
3) Contentville is NOT UMI, but reselling stuff from their database.
4) You did not give UMI the rights to authorize others to distribute your thesis.
5) Contentville is in the wrong.
This model has been in use for software for at least 2 decades. It is known as "Shareware".
You downloaded the software from the BBS, you sent a check to the author. On the honor system.
Get in line, buddy! I'm suing scott.com first, and then you!
Scott
Look at Britney, N*Sync, Backstree Boys, etc. A free market would have never allowed these performers to sell, let alone be sensations.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much of the "Oops I did it Again" price goes to The Rolling Stones?
Note: I have a 10 year old daughter, hence my knowledge of B.S.'s CDs. She did a remake of "Satisfaction". When I heard it, my first comment was, "Mick Jagger, she ain't!"
Subsystem vendor ID (SVID) interprocess communication (IPC) mechanisms: semaphores, message queues and shared memory
You really *DO* live in an MS Only house...
SVID is "System V Interface Definition", and the IPC mechanisms you refer to are often called the "SysV IPC".
Half a mil for walking down the street with a cellphone seems like excessive bail to me.
So where are our big commercial allies now? IBM purports to be basing a big chunk of its strategy on Linux, so why isn't an IBM marketroid out there in front to deflate MS (and MS-shill) FUD? I'm sure we'll hear from the various distros on this point, but what about the big guns?
So... Does anyone know the address for IBM's PR department? Maybe we could drop them a line and ask them to pretty-please-with-sugar-on-top do something about it, like cancel the FUD?
From George Carlin, I believe...
Q: Do you believe in God?
A: No.
BLAM!
Q: Do you believe in God?
A: Yes.
Q: Do you belive in my God?
A: No.
BLAM!
For the actual Ben Franklin quote, see the .sig.
I really wish they had used the swedish book analogy at the trial... You know, I purchased this book. It's written in swedish. To read it, I need to translate it from swedish to english. I can copy it without any translation. DeCSS is the equivalent of translating from swedish to english.
At the risk of stating the obvious...
Maddogsparky, YHBT!
Nope. Cancerman was in the Pilot. He put the nasal implant in that big storage room in the Pentagon.
Speaking of which, did anyone else catch William B. Davis on the SciFi channel's Poltergeist last night (or was it 2 nites ago).
Chill out dude. I was posting from work, and all my physics references are at home. You are of course, correct that the full theory is SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) (I've never heard the Z6 part before). I thought that the Standard Model had been accepted as a GUT.
Forgive me oh wise troll, for obviously you are an fscking genius and I am a lowly wuss. FSCK YOU, YOU SH*THEAD.
(there goes my karma)
You're right. It was Boltzmann. IIRC (all my quantum books are at home, and I'm at work) Einstein was the one who proposed to look at QM effects with statistical mechanics, and not to bother with the individual particles. Of Course, I Could Be Wrong(tm).
Einstein's problem with Quantum theory was the indeterminacy. IIRC, he introduced concept of statistical mechanics. But he was never happy with the fact that (in theory) you couldn't predict what would happen to an individual particle. Hence his famous comment about G-d playing dice with the universe.
The other reason we (as humans) don't directly feel the strong and weak forces is because they have limited range, being carried by particles with mass. EM is carried by massless particles and therefore has an infinite range. Gravitons are postulated to be massless as well.
Crap. The EM, weak nuclear and strong nuclear forces have not been explained by a single unified phenomena.
Salam, Weinberg and Glashow won the Nobel prize for combining the EM and Weak forces into the Electoweak force.
I forget who the main theorists behind SU(3)theory - that's the GUT that combines the Electroweak and Strong forces - are, but EM/Weak/Strong have all been proven to be aspects of the same primal force. They unify at high energy levels.