I wouldn't normally feed trolls, but this thread is somewhat allegorical to system design problems, so I'll respond to what you've said.
The cat has a door of his own, a simple flap that he pushes open when he wants in or out. The problem with this very utilitarian, simple to implement solution is that it's not very discriminating. Another cat in the neighborhood, an un-neutered tom, figured out that he could come and go through the same door and get the same food as our cat. Along the way, he decided that it was a good idea to mark this new-found territory as his own.
Now, in a twisted bit of irony, this very indescriminate port of access is installed in a window. Most neighborhood cats don't seem to care about it, and politely pass it by. But there's this one that sneaks in and wrecks the place, steals resources, and then leaves before we can do anything about it. We can't entirely close the access point because then our cat couldn't get in and out when he needs to, and there's no litterbox (his process requires a remote resource, you might say).
So, I was searching for something of a firewall for cats, but found that the system I had in place didn't support that kind of upgrade. Different infrastructure is required. So now I'm monitoring the technology market for developments that will support what I'm trying to do and dealing with the situation at hand as best I can in the short term.
The chip is already in him, between his shoulder blades. It's the standard PetID chip that's implanted in thousands of cats and dogs. I suppose I could get another one put in ($30), but after watching the vet use a reader to get the info, it just doesn't seem practical to use this particular type of chip. She had to rub the reader back and forth a couple times to read the chip, and it's not hard to find.
Case in point: I wanted to build a cat door that would read the chip embedded in my cat's skin before opening to let him in. The range on reading that thing is a matter of a centimeter or so, so I'd have to teach him to rub a reader in just the right way to get the door open, which seemed like more of a PITA than it was worth. His feline nature makes him virtually untrainable. He doesn't wear a collar, so the larger antenna versions that look like a name tag were out. This thing might help matters. Of course, if it could read his tag while he was out in the yard and open the door for some neighborhood cat peering in the door, that would be bad, too.
Maybe TFAOTFA (the *** author of the *** article) should have pointed that out. Of course, that would have watered his point, and pursuasion seems to be the thrust of his article. For this audience, though, full disclosure is supposed to be preferred. I'm glad we got things cleared up.
After reading TFA, I'm under the impression that Parallels is a VM-only distribution. They compare it to the higher priced "$129...Virtual PC standalone package" that, AFAIK, comes with a copy of Windows XP. If you need to run Windows, and you pay for the software you use, buying Virtual PC seems cheaper to me.
It's a lesson learned. The stock devaluation was hard to swallow, but, as you say, made by greed. What about the part where we were locked out of our 401K accounts when the stock was worth $22 a share and plummeting? We could have recovered some, or at least stopped the bleeding. By the time we were allowed back into our accounts to redistribute the money, there wasn't any left.
I suspect what the parent was saying is that Lay caused a lot of problems for the GOP. The economic crisis that he touched off, as well as his ties to the current administration, have caused a lot of heartburn for a party trying to maintain their controlling position.
I, for one, won't really mourn his passing except in the abstract sense (the humanist in me). I'm not a Republican or a Democrat (or a member of any other party), though I am an employee of a company formerly owned by the big E.
Everyone's probably afraid I'd respond with some smarmy story about things that have gone on in our self-erecting tent (indeed, you take off the strap and it pops right up).
Unless they're talking about new colors, it looks identical to what we've had for about a decade. The one depicted here is smaller than ours, but the same thing.
Number 16, the self-erecting tent, is an exact duplicate of the PopTent. My wife and I have had one for years and love it. They were featured in the (bad) movie Congo.
Furthermore, they award Lenovo for a cheeseball "all in one" design desktop when the tried and true iMac (flatscreen model) has been around for two years or more? Who are these people?
The structural steel could... meet nearly half of the annual requirements of the American auto industry.
The sad part is when you look at it the other way: The American auto industry would only survive six months on all the steel in all the Interstate highways in the entire United States. Do we really need that many cars?
IANAL and I'm betting YANAL either, so I would hesitate to take any advice such as this from someone of our ilk (non-lawyers). I wouldn't be willing to bet against an argument that the sending server and the receiving server were in different states, therefore it's interstate traffic. Given that Hotmail's servers could be just about anywhere, well...
It's not just Dell. A friend of mine bought his son a tricked-out HP laptop last week as a graduation present. The brick (external PS) was making a gurgling sound the whole time it was plugged in. He took the whole kit back and bought a Toshiba, which seems to be performing better.
Not to defend them, but Monty Python and Red Dwarf are both British. The British folks I know insist that they aren't European. AFAIK, the British "get" our American humor, but just don't think it's very sophisticated (I'm not sure I disagree). The continental Europeans just don't seem to get it at all, except maybe the Germans, who think it's funny but refuse to laugh.
Oh, I'm feeling quite finger-pointy this morning, aren't I?
Well, there's this guy. Granted it was a flying start, but four minutes at about 50 feet off the ground doing 115 mph is pretty impressive for some fold-up fairy wings and a couple of model airplane engines.
From TFA:
At 7:30pm on June 24, 2004 Rossy dropped from 4000m over the Yverdon airfield. After opening the wings, he glided to 2500m, ignited the engines and waited 30 seconds for them to be able to stabilize and begins to open the throttle. At 16m, he achieved horizontal flight for more than 4 minutes at 100 knots (115 mph).
We went to the moon and found something other than cheese; we've sent robots to Mars and found there were no Martians (yet); we think nothing of getting in an aircraft and flying to any named destination in the world; we have a permanenly-manned space station; we can shoot at each other from any where in the world; people commonly live underwater for months at a time; we cook things with radio waves...
Yup, the way that guy holds his camera while talking on the telephone and listening to music is about the weirdest thing.
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I wouldn't normally feed trolls, but this thread is somewhat allegorical to system design problems, so I'll respond to what you've said.
The cat has a door of his own, a simple flap that he pushes open when he wants in or out. The problem with this very utilitarian, simple to implement solution is that it's not very discriminating. Another cat in the neighborhood, an un-neutered tom, figured out that he could come and go through the same door and get the same food as our cat. Along the way, he decided that it was a good idea to mark this new-found territory as his own.
Now, in a twisted bit of irony, this very indescriminate port of access is installed in a window. Most neighborhood cats don't seem to care about it, and politely pass it by. But there's this one that sneaks in and wrecks the place, steals resources, and then leaves before we can do anything about it. We can't entirely close the access point because then our cat couldn't get in and out when he needs to, and there's no litterbox (his process requires a remote resource, you might say).
So, I was searching for something of a firewall for cats, but found that the system I had in place didn't support that kind of upgrade. Different infrastructure is required. So now I'm monitoring the technology market for developments that will support what I'm trying to do and dealing with the situation at hand as best I can in the short term.
The chip is already in him, between his shoulder blades. It's the standard PetID chip that's implanted in thousands of cats and dogs. I suppose I could get another one put in ($30), but after watching the vet use a reader to get the info, it just doesn't seem practical to use this particular type of chip. She had to rub the reader back and forth a couple times to read the chip, and it's not hard to find.
Case in point: I wanted to build a cat door that would read the chip embedded in my cat's skin before opening to let him in. The range on reading that thing is a matter of a centimeter or so, so I'd have to teach him to rub a reader in just the right way to get the door open, which seemed like more of a PITA than it was worth. His feline nature makes him virtually untrainable. He doesn't wear a collar, so the larger antenna versions that look like a name tag were out. This thing might help matters. Of course, if it could read his tag while he was out in the yard and open the door for some neighborhood cat peering in the door, that would be bad, too.
Did you notice that the total size for the two screenshots in the Wikipedia article were just shy of the total size for the game? Interesting.
You would never finish exploring the world of the game because it would expand as you explored it.
Yeah, they could be retro-reference cool and paradoxical at the same time and call it "Ender's Game".
Maybe TFAOTFA (the *** author of the *** article) should have pointed that out. Of course, that would have watered his point, and pursuasion seems to be the thrust of his article. For this audience, though, full disclosure is supposed to be preferred. I'm glad we got things cleared up.
Okay, I'm done trolling...
Where are mod points when a guy needs them...?
After reading TFA, I'm under the impression that Parallels is a VM-only distribution. They compare it to the higher priced "$129...Virtual PC standalone package" that, AFAIK, comes with a copy of Windows XP. If you need to run Windows, and you pay for the software you use, buying Virtual PC seems cheaper to me.
It's a lesson learned. The stock devaluation was hard to swallow, but, as you say, made by greed. What about the part where we were locked out of our 401K accounts when the stock was worth $22 a share and plummeting? We could have recovered some, or at least stopped the bleeding. By the time we were allowed back into our accounts to redistribute the money, there wasn't any left.
I suspect what the parent was saying is that Lay caused a lot of problems for the GOP. The economic crisis that he touched off, as well as his ties to the current administration, have caused a lot of heartburn for a party trying to maintain their controlling position.
I, for one, won't really mourn his passing except in the abstract sense (the humanist in me). I'm not a Republican or a Democrat (or a member of any other party), though I am an employee of a company formerly owned by the big E.
Everyone's probably afraid I'd respond with some smarmy story about things that have gone on in our self-erecting tent (indeed, you take off the strap and it pops right up).
Unless they're talking about new colors, it looks identical to what we've had for about a decade. The one depicted here is smaller than ours, but the same thing.
Okay, but how does that make it a "best design of 2006" ??
Number 16, the self-erecting tent, is an exact duplicate of the PopTent. My wife and I have had one for years and love it. They were featured in the (bad) movie Congo.
Furthermore, they award Lenovo for a cheeseball "all in one" design desktop when the tried and true iMac (flatscreen model) has been around for two years or more? Who are these people?
The structural steel could ... meet nearly half of the annual requirements of the American auto industry.
The sad part is when you look at it the other way: The American auto industry would only survive six months on all the steel in all the Interstate highways in the entire United States. Do we really need that many cars?
How about Ruby?
IANAL and I'm betting YANAL either, so I would hesitate to take any advice such as this from someone of our ilk (non-lawyers). I wouldn't be willing to bet against an argument that the sending server and the receiving server were in different states, therefore it's interstate traffic. Given that Hotmail's servers could be just about anywhere, well...
I think the parent meant "anticipatory." There wasn't anything wrong with his word usage.
Ever heard of Photoshop? How about the GIMP? You decide.
It's not just Dell. A friend of mine bought his son a tricked-out HP laptop last week as a graduation present. The brick (external PS) was making a gurgling sound the whole time it was plugged in. He took the whole kit back and bought a Toshiba, which seems to be performing better.
Not to defend them, but Monty Python and Red Dwarf are both British. The British folks I know insist that they aren't European. AFAIK, the British "get" our American humor, but just don't think it's very sophisticated (I'm not sure I disagree). The continental Europeans just don't seem to get it at all, except maybe the Germans, who think it's funny but refuse to laugh.
Oh, I'm feeling quite finger-pointy this morning, aren't I?
From TFA:
Are they the company that makes Western Digital hard drives? That's just one product, right?
Pardon the pun, but it seems to be a takeoff on this.
We went to the moon and found something other than cheese; we've sent robots to Mars and found there were no Martians (yet); we think nothing of getting in an aircraft and flying to any named destination in the world; we have a permanenly-manned space station; we can shoot at each other from any where in the world; people commonly live underwater for months at a time; we cook things with radio waves...
Yup, the way that guy holds his camera while talking on the telephone and listening to music is about the weirdest thing.