Just think if they made mice with all these abilities. They'd some kind of race of atomic super-mice! I guess all that time as playthings of science had some beneficial effect.
So, these atomic supermice could go in one of three directions: "Here I come to save the day!," "Same thing we do every night...," or "At last we shall have our revenge!"
I know which one I'm betting on. Anybody else scared?
And this last paragraph is so Slashdot will stop complaining about characters-per-line. I give you this summary of the excellent book, The Mouse that Roared:
The tale concerns the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a tiny European nation which "lies in a precipitous fold of the northern Alps." It was founded in 1370 by British soldier of fortune Roger Fenwick, under not altogether honorable circumstances. Practically the only thing that is produced there, and the only reason anyone has ever heard of it, is a fine wine called Pinot Grand Fenwick. Other than this one export, the nation remains happily isolated, a medieval remnant in the modern world, ruled over by Duchess Gloriana XII--"a pretty girl of twenty-two"--and her prime minister, the Count of Mountjoy (also played by Peter Sellers).
As the story begins, crisis has descended upon the Grand Duchy in the form of revenue shortfalls. It is determined that the most effective way of raising money is to declare war on the United States, the pretext for which is the introduction of a San Rafael, California winery of a wine called Pinot Grand Enwick, a provocation that can not be allowed to stand.
As Gloriana explains the aims of the war: "The fact is that there are few more profitable undertakings for a country in need of money than to declare war on the United States and be defeated.... And in a matter of months, or at most years, the United States is first requesting and then begging its former enemies to raise an army to defend their own territory. It is not unheard of that these defeated foes are able to state the terms under which they will raise an army for their own policing and defense. Those terms have involved the payment of large sums of money by the United States, or the extension of generous credits, revision of trade agreements in favor of the defeated nation, return of shipping, rehabilitation of factories destroyed in the war,
No, in a right to work state being fired is cause for you to lose your unemployment benefits. There is no "without sufficient cause". You can be fired for any reason or NONE AT ALL.
Employment security departments know that companies might fire you just 'cause you look at 'em funny, and under those circumstances, you are still eligible for unemployment. Here's a quote from Washington State's Employment Security Department website:
The second eligibility item involves the reason you're unemployed. If your employer laid you off for lack of work, you are likely eligible. If you voluntarily quit your job or were discharged by your employer, we will have to make a formal decision about your eligibility. We will get information from both you and your employer. Both you and your employer will have an opportunity to rebut each other's version of the separation. Following that, we will issue the written decision.
Washington state law says that if you are fired for any reason less than misconduct, you are still eligible for unemployment benefits. The law says "mere inefficiency, unsatisfactory conduct, failure in good performance as the result of inability or incapability, inadvertencies or ordinary negligence in isolated instances, or good faith errors in judgment or discretion" are not misconduct.
One dental employee accidentally gave out the salary of a dentist. She was fired (actually, allowed to quit), but still got unemployment. Here's the ruling.
The rear of the inside does not have any major surprises, just the exhaust fan, expansion slots, and I/O shield. The 120mm fan does havea 3-pin motherboard connector, whereas the intake fan uses a 4-pin molex connector so you can tell than Lian Li was putting some thought into their choices.
...even gave out $100 MetroMoney coupons with paid developer accounts to buy MetroWerks shwag.
Well, MetroWerks did have good swag. I still wear my "Blood, Sweat, and Code" t-shirt, and I love the "factory floor" scenes they put on some of their stuff.
It's more useful than you think, though still not very useful. Basically, a simple key combo to access the start menu, to the desktop, to the password-protect screen, etc.
You take normal trout eggs, which are very plentiful, run them through a process, and grow giant trout, which you eat. You'd have eaten them anyway if they were normal, though I don't know whether the normal trout would have been collected before or after reproducing.
If normal trout are collected before reproducing, then the situation with the giant trout would result in no net change in trout population over the situation with normal trout. And in that case, the only concern is whether the extra money you get from giant trout covers the cost of the process.
Windows scripting is shit. It is poorly organized, poorly documented, and as inaccessable as the ex-Seal's virginal daughter.
You are right that it is not Windows' fault that the scripting is shit. The responsibility for that lies squarely on the app developers. But that doesn't make a difference. It's still shit.
I think the point was, that the licensing works like metered utilities. You get charged based on how often and "strongiy" (in the case of dual-core, etc.) the program is running. With variations like rolling peak usage or whatever to make book-keeping easier.
And I think this is the right way to do licensing, for enterprise, web, small companies, individuals, whatever. It makes sense, and scales absolutely.
The rate will be determined by market forces. Just because mainframe software is expensive to run doesn't mean than PC software will be anywhere near as expensive.
But in order for this model to take off, some sort of metering faciilty will have to be added to the various operating systems. If one does not already exist, I see an opportunity for a third-party developer to write it and get it licensed and incorporated in every other major product!
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Such a pity that the US government ignores those amendments. At least the UN is up-front about putting its own interests ahead of the law.
It would be neat to take this a step further and make a treadmill out of cobblestone textured rubber.
I don't think this will work out. When you are running on real cobblestones, you can keep track of the ground ahead of you to avoid stumbling. You can't do that on a treadmill, it isn't long enough. And if the pseudo-cobblestones are shallow or regular enough to prevent stumbling, won't that also remove much of the benefit?
I was wondering if a large set of goggles could fool a person into thinking they're in a theater?
I don't think so. If I remember correctly, the problem is the eyes' focusing. There's no way for the image on the goggles to be in focus unless the eyes are actually focusing on it. And the image is, like, one inch from your nose, so that's where you have to focus. And that is major eyestrain.
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Wakka-wakka-wakka-wakka
Just think if they made mice with all these abilities. They'd some kind of race of atomic super-mice! I guess all that time as playthings of science had some beneficial effect.
So, these atomic supermice could go in one of three directions: "Here I come to save the day!," "Same thing we do every night...," or "At last we shall have our revenge!"
I know which one I'm betting on. Anybody else scared?
And this last paragraph is so Slashdot will stop complaining about characters-per-line. I give you this summary of the excellent book, The Mouse that Roared:
Employment security departments know that companies might fire you just 'cause you look at 'em funny, and under those circumstances, you are still eligible for unemployment. Here's a quote from Washington State's Employment Security Department website:
Washington state law says that if you are fired for any reason less than misconduct, you are still eligible for unemployment benefits. The law says "mere inefficiency, unsatisfactory conduct, failure in good performance as the result of inability or incapability, inadvertencies or ordinary negligence in isolated instances, or good faith errors in judgment or discretion" are not misconduct.
One dental employee accidentally gave out the salary of a dentist. She was fired (actually, allowed to quit), but still got unemployment. Here's the ruling.
The rear of the inside does not have any major surprises, just the exhaust fan, expansion slots, and I/O shield. The 120mm fan does havea 3-pin motherboard connector, whereas the intake fan uses a 4-pin molex connector so you can tell than Lian Li was putting some thought into their choices.
Why is this significant?
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Is that a sticker on the side?
Other people's information wants to be free. My information is private.
"Apple Computer does not comment on unreleased products."
The main point of my post was that Joel really didn't say anything new, except he had a very elitist way of saying it.
He did have something new to add to the discussion: statistics.
...even gave out $100 MetroMoney coupons with paid developer accounts to buy MetroWerks shwag.
Well, MetroWerks did have good swag. I still wear my "Blood, Sweat, and Code" t-shirt, and I love the "factory floor" scenes they put on some of their stuff.
That's the leader's advantage.
q.v. Power Law
What do you use it for on Windows, anyway?
It's more useful than you think, though still not very useful. Basically, a simple key combo to access the start menu, to the desktop, to the password-protect screen, etc.
You take normal trout eggs, which are very plentiful, run them through a process, and grow giant trout, which you eat. You'd have eaten them anyway if they were normal, though I don't know whether the normal trout would have been collected before or after reproducing.
If normal trout are collected before reproducing, then the situation with the giant trout would result in no net change in trout population over the situation with normal trout. And in that case, the only concern is whether the extra money you get from giant trout covers the cost of the process.
Windows scripting is shit. It is poorly organized, poorly documented, and as inaccessable as the ex-Seal's virginal daughter.
You are right that it is not Windows' fault that the scripting is shit. The responsibility for that lies squarely on the app developers. But that doesn't make a difference. It's still shit.
No, but he discovered an occult tome of forbidden incantations for summoning eldritch creatures.
I hope we get to see Diesel in some new sorts of roles in the future. He's not a bad actor and I'm eager to see how much range he's really got...
Not just how much range he has as an actor, but there are many things about Vin Diesel that few people know: Random Facts about Vin Diesel
Well, if Martian dust devils are going to be that bad, I vote we call them "dust demons" instead.
Who's with me?
I think the point was, that the licensing works like metered utilities. You get charged based on how often and "strongiy" (in the case of dual-core, etc.) the program is running. With variations like rolling peak usage or whatever to make book-keeping easier.
And I think this is the right way to do licensing, for enterprise, web, small companies, individuals, whatever. It makes sense, and scales absolutely.
The rate will be determined by market forces. Just because mainframe software is expensive to run doesn't mean than PC software will be anywhere near as expensive.
But in order for this model to take off, some sort of metering faciilty will have to be added to the various operating systems. If one does not already exist, I see an opportunity for a third-party developer to write it and get it licensed and incorporated in every other major product!
Such a pity that the US government ignores those amendments. At least the UN is up-front about putting its own interests ahead of the law.
It would be neat to take this a step further and make a treadmill out of cobblestone textured rubber.
I don't think this will work out. When you are running on real cobblestones, you can keep track of the ground ahead of you to avoid stumbling. You can't do that on a treadmill, it isn't long enough. And if the pseudo-cobblestones are shallow or regular enough to prevent stumbling, won't that also remove much of the benefit?
I was wondering if a large set of goggles could fool a person into thinking they're in a theater?
I don't think so. If I remember correctly, the problem is the eyes' focusing. There's no way for the image on the goggles to be in focus unless the eyes are actually focusing on it. And the image is, like, one inch from your nose, so that's where you have to focus. And that is major eyestrain.
Im from scotland, and ive never heard of it either. Im pretty sure anyone that said "wonga" would get punched as well.
Just on general principles, hm?
"What an awful nightmare! Ones and zeroes everywhere...and I think I saw a two!"
"It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as two."
Sleep in!
Cool. Thx.
I don't think I'd trust Number 6 on the SCOTUS. Too little empathy. My pick for the 2005 SCOTUS Cyborg Hottie draft is Android 18.