I see: it's wrong for him to call people names but it's OK for you to call him names. Hypocrite!
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You're assuming that the circumference of a circle will always have an irrational length. Not so. There's no reason you couldn't have a circle with a circumference of exactly one meter. Of course, to do so it would have to have a radius of irrational length, but you can't have everything.
If the computer were really smart, it would say, "Interesting. Yes, I can do that, but it will take some time. Seven and a half million years." Then it will relax while appearing to give the problem deep thought.
Don't bet on it. I remember when I was studying Geometry in High School and we got to the Pythagorean Theorem. There was a mention in the text book that there are hundreds of different proofs of it, including one by President Garfield.
Considering how many computers are behind router on non-routable subnets, that's not going to work. Just have it check to see what the time zone is. Of course, that lets out Canada, but that's just minor collateral damage to somebody as big as Microsoft.
If, as I expect, you're working with Windows, there's an obvious naming convention for workstations: Start with Titanic, Yamato, Musashi, Edmund_Fitzgerald, Arizona, Yorktown, Bismark, Monitor and go from there. The theme? Sunken ships. There's an endless supply, and somehow, it seems appropriate for computers that are expected to "go down" several times a day.
Whenever information spreads, it helps to topple dictators.
You mean the way it just did in Iran? People like to say that free and unfettered access to information is deadly to dictatorships, but there's a remarkable shortage of real-world examples.
But two wrongs don't make a right does it? Or if one president ignores the constitution, is it open game for all the others after him?
That's exactly my point. Also, how can Obama give us "change you can believe in" when he's doing the same type of thing he objected to when Bush did it?
The federal government has no authority to control and provide health care unless you either ignore the constitution, stretch some clause well beyond it's intent, or ignore the entire structure and limitations plus role the federal government is constitutionally allowed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that exactly the type of thing President Bush was constantly accused of doing?
Defense against zombies is actually trivial if you know what you're doing. All you need to do is put out bowls of potato chips, popcorn, pork rinds and other salty snacks. Once they eat them and taste the salt, they'll remember that they're dead and go back to their graves forever.
If you're using a combination registrar and hosting service, of course they will. If, however, you're expected to set up your own hosting and so on, they probably don't. Good point, though, in any case.
"Setting up DNS records" is (in some ways) vague and is relatively hard to enforce.
Not at all. Every day during the grace period, ICANN (or whoever) does an automated DNS query on the new domain until either the grace period ends or it gets a response showing that the domain exists. In the latter case, a note is made on the domain's record that DNS records have been set up. If you back out during the grace period, you get a refund if and only if that note doesn't exist.
I'm sure it did, exactly the way you described. But then, things like that happen at private hospitals too, because this isn't a perfect world, and people make mistakes.
I spent several years taking care of a friend who'd lost his vision to diabetes. At one point, about six months after his kidneys failed and he started dialysis, he got some sort of stomach flu. He had Kaiser, so I took him to Urgent Care at the nearest Kaiser facility. The "doctor" who saw him was a complete twit who spent several hours studying and tweaking his various medications, then released him without doing one, damned thing for the symptoms we'd brought him in for. I had to ask a nurse what to do, and she went back to the "doctor," pointed out that the patient was still vomiting just like he was when he came in, and got a proper prescription. Less than twenty-four hours later, my friend was admitted. Not as serious as your story, of course, but similar in principle.
Everything I've read and seen about the actual bill (as opposed to stuff like that vacuum skulled Palin's fictional death panels) is quite reasonable.
Does this include the fact that it's over a thousand pages long, and the fact that Obama is trying to get it passed without giving anybody in Congress a chance to read it, or even have their staff read it for them? Do you think that voting to get a pig in a poke is reasonable?
Yes, the VA does a great job; I should know, because if it weren't for them, I'd probably have died when I lost my job because I'm Type II and couldn't possibly have afforded my medicines otherwise. However, they do that great job for a small percentage of the population. What makes you think that their system could scale up enough to cover the entire population of the USA? Maybe it could; I honestly don't know. However, I do know that AFAICT, not even the biggest proponents of BO's plan are even hinting at a practical way of paying for it.
If your trip brings you out to the West Coast, be sure and spend a day at Exposition Park. The Museum of Natural History there has, among other things, some great dinosaur exhibits. And, of course, there's the California Science Center, the best hands-on science museum in the West.
"The problem is how to keep radioactive waste in storage until it decays after hundreds of thousands of years."
I don't have a degree in physics, but I do know that those isotopes that remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years (or more) do so because they aren't very radioactive, and those that are highly radioactive don't last that long. Not only that, the highly radioactive isotopes emit less and less radiation as time goes by because there's less and less of it. Alfvén may be a Nobel laureate in physics, but I wonder if he's taken the above into account in this case. I'm just a layman, but I have my doubts about what he says. Checking, I see that his work was in magnetohydrodynamics, meaning that he's talking here outside of his specialty.
Can you copyright an API such that a black box implementation can not be made without violating the copyright? I don't know.
I certainly hope not. In general, you can't copyright an idea, just the expression of that idea. As an example, you can't copyright the idea of a school for wizards and/or witches, although you can copyright a specific story built around that idea. And a good thing, too, or the Harry Potter books would have run afoul of the earlier series, The Worst Witch.
Until fairly recently (as such things go) we kept cats for exactly the same reason the ancient Egyptians did: pest control. Cats hunt (and eat) mice, rats, small birds and large insects, all of which eat grain to some extent. In fact, in Saxon England, a cat's value was considered to rise considerably when it took its first mouse. Thus, instead of changing the cat's behavior as was done with dogs, the cat's instincts were left intact.
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I see: it's wrong for him to call people names but it's OK for you to call him names. Hypocrite!
Note to the moderators. Just because you don't agree with me doesn't mean that I'm a troll, or this is flamebait. However, if that's what floats your boat, feel free to mod me down. My karma won't even notice.
You're assuming that the circumference of a circle will always have an irrational length. Not so. There's no reason you couldn't have a circle with a circumference of exactly one meter. Of course, to do so it would have to have a radius of irrational length, but you can't have everything.
If the computer were really smart, it would say, "Interesting. Yes, I can do that, but it will take some time. Seven and a half million years." Then it will relax while appearing to give the problem deep thought.
Don't bet on it. I remember when I was studying Geometry in High School and we got to the Pythagorean Theorem. There was a mention in the text book that there are hundreds of different proofs of it, including one by President Garfield.
Only if you allow it to. You can turn that off if you want, you know.
Considering how many computers are behind router on non-routable subnets, that's not going to work. Just have it check to see what the time zone is. Of course, that lets out Canada, but that's just minor collateral damage to somebody as big as Microsoft.
Submarines are designed to sink. Even Linux fanbois don't go so far as to claim that Windows is designed to crash.
If, as I expect, you're working with Windows, there's an obvious naming convention for workstations: Start with Titanic, Yamato, Musashi, Edmund_Fitzgerald, Arizona, Yorktown, Bismark, Monitor and go from there. The theme? Sunken ships. There's an endless supply, and somehow, it seems appropriate for computers that are expected to "go down" several times a day.
You mean the way it just did in Iran? People like to say that free and unfettered access to information is deadly to dictatorships, but there's a remarkable shortage of real-world examples.
That's exactly my point. Also, how can Obama give us "change you can believe in" when he's doing the same type of thing he objected to when Bush did it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that exactly the type of thing President Bush was constantly accused of doing?
Defense against zombies is actually trivial if you know what you're doing. All you need to do is put out bowls of potato chips, popcorn, pork rinds and other salty snacks. Once they eat them and taste the salt, they'll remember that they're dead and go back to their graves forever.
Oh, good! It's nice to see that I wasn't the only slashdotter to read the summary and think it referred to zombified PCs.
If you're using a combination registrar and hosting service, of course they will. If, however, you're expected to set up your own hosting and so on, they probably don't. Good point, though, in any case.
"Depends. Are you asking about before, during or after the blow job?"
Not at all. Every day during the grace period, ICANN (or whoever) does an automated DNS query on the new domain until either the grace period ends or it gets a response showing that the domain exists. In the latter case, a note is made on the domain's record that DNS records have been set up. If you back out during the grace period, you get a refund if and only if that note doesn't exist.
I'm sure it did, exactly the way you described. But then, things like that happen at private hospitals too, because this isn't a perfect world, and people make mistakes.
I spent several years taking care of a friend who'd lost his vision to diabetes. At one point, about six months after his kidneys failed and he started dialysis, he got some sort of stomach flu. He had Kaiser, so I took him to Urgent Care at the nearest Kaiser facility. The "doctor" who saw him was a complete twit who spent several hours studying and tweaking his various medications, then released him without doing one, damned thing for the symptoms we'd brought him in for. I had to ask a nurse what to do, and she went back to the "doctor," pointed out that the patient was still vomiting just like he was when he came in, and got a proper prescription. Less than twenty-four hours later, my friend was admitted. Not as serious as your story, of course, but similar in principle.
Does this include the fact that it's over a thousand pages long, and the fact that Obama is trying to get it passed without giving anybody in Congress a chance to read it, or even have their staff read it for them? Do you think that voting to get a pig in a poke is reasonable?
Yes, the VA does a great job; I should know, because if it weren't for them, I'd probably have died when I lost my job because I'm Type II and couldn't possibly have afforded my medicines otherwise. However, they do that great job for a small percentage of the population. What makes you think that their system could scale up enough to cover the entire population of the USA? Maybe it could; I honestly don't know. However, I do know that AFAICT, not even the biggest proponents of BO's plan are even hinting at a practical way of paying for it.
If your trip brings you out to the West Coast, be sure and spend a day at Exposition Park. The Museum of Natural History there has, among other things, some great dinosaur exhibits. And, of course, there's the California Science Center, the best hands-on science museum in the West.
I don't have a degree in physics, but I do know that those isotopes that remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years (or more) do so because they aren't very radioactive, and those that are highly radioactive don't last that long. Not only that, the highly radioactive isotopes emit less and less radiation as time goes by because there's less and less of it. Alfvén may be a Nobel laureate in physics, but I wonder if he's taken the above into account in this case. I'm just a layman, but I have my doubts about what he says. Checking, I see that his work was in magnetohydrodynamics, meaning that he's talking here outside of his specialty.
I certainly hope not. In general, you can't copyright an idea, just the expression of that idea. As an example, you can't copyright the idea of a school for wizards and/or witches, although you can copyright a specific story built around that idea. And a good thing, too, or the Harry Potter books would have run afoul of the earlier series, The Worst Witch.
Until fairly recently (as such things go) we kept cats for exactly the same reason the ancient Egyptians did: pest control. Cats hunt (and eat) mice, rats, small birds and large insects, all of which eat grain to some extent. In fact, in Saxon England, a cat's value was considered to rise considerably when it took its first mouse. Thus, instead of changing the cat's behavior as was done with dogs, the cat's instincts were left intact.
That comes out to 4 1/3 American football fields.
Not so. He won the Nobel Prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.