You can just imagine it, can't you... the multicoloured toolbox. A bit of Nitrogen in the drill bits, some boron in the chisels, much more interesting!
Most of the "in perl" haiku's just have semi-colons at the end of each line... i'm not a perl expert but it looks like few of them would compile... and almost none of them are in any way clever (putting the actual haiku in print statements is just stupid).
Who picked the winners, anyway? There are much better ones there...
That ISP will probably bring one website online first, so if you slashdot it before it can bring any more online, you will have slashdotted the whole planet.
If you could get enough speed (I would have to look up the laws to find out what speed), you would end up in an extremely low, and therefore unstable orbit, which would quickly degrade due to atmospheric friction (even at that altitude there would be enough), and you would crash. Not the most effective method of returning to Earth... (of course if you went even faster, you would reach escape velocity, but it would be much easier to go straight up, because you wouldn't need to keep the engines running so long)
I expect it would be the other way round. Maths and science people who need to be able to communicate with the rest of the world use the US system, and people who don't use such large numbers often still use the old system.
BTW, I am British, and I know for a fact that the official definition of a billion is 10^9, or a thousand million. I'm just less sure of what people generally use.
The definition of roast beef is not a contraversal issue. There is no real arguement for the clump of cells in question to be roast beef, there are however arguements both for and against it being an embryo.
"Mangers only vaguely understand technology, but they're good at relating it to people and to risks."
When they take the advice of those that do understand the tech they are, at least. A manager who can't take advice is a recipe for disaster.
People keep saying that it is too much work for the patent office to check every patent for prior art, so why not just put it up on a website somewhere saying so-and-so is claiming such-and-such and then if anyone has already done that they say so, and the patent is thrown out. They have similar things for planing permission on new buildings and suchlike, and it works fine.
Of course, it does rely on people checking this website regularly, but I expect big companies would be able to pay someone to check the relevent subjects once a week or so.
Do you really mean 0.07 cents, or do you mean 0.07 dollars which is 7 cents? 0.07 cents per meg means about 1.5 gig per dollar, which doesn't sound too bad to me.
I quiet often use a computer at the same time as surfing the net... are you sure you didn't mean surf the net and *exercise* at the same time? (Of course, it is a well known fact that exercise makes you weak.;-))
My classical languages knowledge is very limited, thanks for the lesson. I know enough to know they got the 113 right though, if they'd made the same mistake it would have been ununtetraium. Good job they didn't, because that is almost unpronounceable.
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You can just imagine it, can't you... the multicoloured toolbox. A bit of Nitrogen in the drill bits, some boron in the chisels, much more interesting!
Most of the "in perl" haiku's just have semi-colons at the end of each line... i'm not a perl expert but it looks like few of them would compile... and almost none of them are in any way clever (putting the actual haiku in print statements is just stupid). Who picked the winners, anyway? There are much better ones there...
That ISP will probably bring one website online first, so if you slashdot it before it can bring any more online, you will have slashdotted the whole planet.
It will be the same day. There will most likely be a single first offworld website, so you slashdot that, you've slashdotted the whole planet.
If you could get enough speed (I would have to look up the laws to find out what speed), you would end up in an extremely low, and therefore unstable orbit, which would quickly degrade due to atmospheric friction (even at that altitude there would be enough), and you would crash. Not the most effective method of returning to Earth... (of course if you went even faster, you would reach escape velocity, but it would be much easier to go straight up, because you wouldn't need to keep the engines running so long)
I expect it would be the other way round. Maths and science people who need to be able to communicate with the rest of the world use the US system, and people who don't use such large numbers often still use the old system.
BTW, I am British, and I know for a fact that the official definition of a billion is 10^9, or a thousand million. I'm just less sure of what people generally use.
The definition of roast beef is not a contraversal issue. There is no real arguement for the clump of cells in question to be roast beef, there are however arguements both for and against it being an embryo.
"No, it is not an aborted embryo, as it never implanted in a uterus."
Now you're just arguing over semantics... It all depends on your definition of abortion (and embryo, for that matter).
"Mangers only vaguely understand technology, but they're good at relating it to people and to risks." When they take the advice of those that do understand the tech they are, at least. A manager who can't take advice is a recipe for disaster.
Indeed. I should know better...
That would be logical, but since when has logic had anything to do with standard business practice?
A fifth of a second by my maths... (ignoring overheads)
These are the managers, not the techies. Do you really expect them to understand the numbers?
You have produce evidence of prior art, you can't just say "I did that ages ago". That's no different than now.
People keep saying that it is too much work for the patent office to check every patent for prior art, so why not just put it up on a website somewhere saying so-and-so is claiming such-and-such and then if anyone has already done that they say so, and the patent is thrown out. They have similar things for planing permission on new buildings and suchlike, and it works fine. Of course, it does rely on people checking this website regularly, but I expect big companies would be able to pay someone to check the relevent subjects once a week or so.
Do you really mean 0.07 cents, or do you mean 0.07 dollars which is 7 cents? 0.07 cents per meg means about 1.5 gig per dollar, which doesn't sound too bad to me.
I quiet often use a computer at the same time as surfing the net... are you sure you didn't mean surf the net and *exercise* at the same time? (Of course, it is a well known fact that exercise makes you weak. ;-))
We wouldn't need people to point out the security issues, if those same people weren't trying to exploit them, so it's a moot point really, isn't it?
Actually it would be a 10 dollar fine, which doesn't really hurt.
*hits self on head* Right you are...
It would if I had the maturity level of a ten year old, yes, but luckily I don't, so recent decisions make no difference.
My classical languages knowledge is very limited, thanks for the lesson. I know enough to know they got the 113 right though, if they'd made the same mistake it would have been ununtetraium. Good job they didn't, because that is almost unpronounceable.
Could that be because toruses (tori?) have very interesting topological properties?
That's about it, yes. Try reading the article, it explains it quite well.
Yes, I always thought that was kind of obvious, am I missing something?