Yes but I do contend the idea that Archimedes was possibly smarter than the Mythbusters and hence may have had a solution to the problem that the Mythbusters couldnt think of..
Thats exactly what they ae doing: "Selling stupid people scanners" ie Selling (virus) scanners to stupid people. Oh wait. You meant that some other way...
For those that complain about crappy Ask Slashdot Stories and reply "Use Google!!!!1", the above answer shows exactly why asking slashdot really pays off.
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The CSS would be coming from the images domain as a measure to assist in caching. The css can be cached in a similar manner to the images, and it makes it easier to be able to configure it in a domain basis.
Just to be picky, is there really a such beast as "near perfect". From where I see it, if it has had any failures at all, then it is NOT perfect. Something is either perfect, or not perfect. Anything that you call 'near perfect' isnt perfect at all.
This is what annoys me about laywers... Their mistakes directly cost you (in time and money). And there is nothing you can do about it. They make a mistake in filing, and you have to pay the price. What can you do about it? Its not like you can sue them...
Not true at all. There have been cases in history where hardware could fail because of a certain execution in software. So, what if your Operating System causes a hardware fault.. Say a flaw in windows causes a certain part of the motherboard to over heat and it causes a fire which burns a house down and kills two adults and 3 children. Should they be liable then?
My final year project was a java applett based voice recording system. It was commercially sponsored and had to record and perform basic editing options on audio, compress it to a variety of compressed formats and then upload it to a server. Its used mainly for recording prompts to Interactive Voice Response Systems..
Unfortunately I cant credit where it came from, but its an awesome story.
Bill Weaver : SR-71 BREAKUP
Among professional aviators, there's a well-worn saying: Flying is simply
hours of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror. And yet, I don't
recall too many periods of boredom during my 30-year career with Lockheed,
most of which was spent as a test pilot.
By far, the most memorable flight occurred on Jan. 25, 1966. Jim Zwayer, a
Lockheed flight test reconnaissance and navigation systems specialist, and I
were evaluating those systems on an SR-71 Blackbird test from Edwards AFB,
Calif. We also were investigating procedures designed to reduce trim drag
and improve high-Mach cruise performance. The latter involved flying with
the center-of-gravity (CG) located further aft than normal, which reduced
the Blackbird's longitudinal stability.
We took off from Edwards at 11:20 a.m. and completed the mission's first leg
without incident. After refueling from a KC-135 tanker, we turned eastbound,
accelerated to a Mach 3.2-cruise speed and climbed to 78,000 ft., our
initial cruise-climb altitude.
Several minutes into cruise, the right engine inlet's automatic control
system malfunctioned, requiring a switch to manual control. The SR-71's
inlet configuration was automatically adjusted during supersonic flight to
decelerate air flow in the duct, slowing it to subsonic speed before
reaching the engine's face. This was accomplished by the inlet's center-body
spike translating aft, and by modulating the inlet's forward bypass doors.
Normally, these actions were scheduled automatically as a function of Mach
number, positioning the normal shock wave (where air flow becomes subsonic)
inside the inlet to ensure optimum engine performance.
Without proper scheduling, disturbances inside the inlet could result in the
shock wave being expelled forward--a phenomenon known as an "inlet unstart."
That causes an instantaneous loss of engine thrust, explosive banging noises
and violent yawing of the aircraft--like being in a train wreck. Unstarts
were not uncommon at that time in the SR-71's development, but a properly
functioning system would recapture the shock wave and restore normal
operation.
On the planned test profile, we entered a programmed 35-deg. bank turn to
the right. An immediate unstart occurred on the right engine, forcing the
aircraft to roll further right and start to pitch up. I jammed the control
stick as far left and forward as it would go. No response. I instantly knew
we were in for a wild ride.
I attempted to tell Jim what was happening and to stay with the airplane
until we reached a lower speed and altitude. I didn't think the chances of
surviving an ejection at Mach 3.18 and 78,800 ft. were very good. However,
g-forces built up so rapidly that my words came out garbled and
unintelligible, as confirmed later by the cockpit voice recorder.
The cumulative effects of system malfunctions, reduced longitudinal
stability, increased angle-of-attack in the turn, supersonic speed, high
altitude and other factors imposed forces on the airframe that exceeded
flight control authority and the Stability Augmentation System's ability to
restore control.
Everything seemed to unfold in slow motion. I learned later the time from
event onset to catastrophic departure from controlled flight was only 2-3
sec. Still trying to communicate with Jim, I blacked out, succumbing to
extremely high g-forces. The SR-71 then literally disintegrated around us.
From that point, I was just along for the ride.
My next recollection was a hazy thought that I was having a bad dream. Maybe
I'll wake up and get out of this mess, I mused. Gradually regaining
consciousness, I realized this was no dream; it had really happened. That
also was disturbing, because I could not have survived what had just
happened. Therefore, I must be dead. Since I didn't feel bad--just a
detached sense of euphoria--I decided being dead wasn't so bad after all.
AS FULL AWARENESS took hold, I realized I was not dead, but had somehow
separated from the airpla
Great idea! If it doesnt have a driver for an NIC, then load one from the website! Awesome.. Pity it needs the network card working to get to the website..
Consider this: I have downloaded patches for more security flaws in Firefox than for IE in recent weeks
Your post is a blatent lie. The last Firefox update was the 25th of July. Its now the 22nd of August. There havent been ANY patches to download in the last MONTH
If Microsoft's wisdom, Mac Office is just as good (if not better) than office for windows, however place some images into Word for Mac and then try and open this document in windows, all the pictures are replaced with "Quicktime and a PNG decompressor are required to view this image."
At least with NeoOfficeJ, when the documents are opened in Windows, users can see the pictures.
It is a very very complex piece of programming following the majority of the income tax laws.. There would quite a few very very thick books worth of tax laws represented in this one program.
Two engineering students crossing the campus when one said, "Where did you
get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking
along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and
said, "Take what you want." The first engineer nodded approvingly, "Good
choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit."
Understanding Engineers - Take Two
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Understanding Engineers - Take Three
A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a
particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these
guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!" The doctor chimed in, "I
don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!" The pastor said, "Hey,
here comes the greens keeper. Let's have a word with him." "Hi George! Say,
what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?" The
greens keeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind firefighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime." The group was silent for a moment. The pastor said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight." The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them." The engineer said, "Why can't these guys play at night?"
Understanding Engineers - Take Four
What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers?
Mechanical Engineers build weapons and Civil Engineers build targets.
Understanding Engineers - Take Five
The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate
with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an
Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with an Arts
degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
Understanding Engineers - Take Six
"Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Engineers believe that "if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"
Understanding Engineers - Take Seven
An architect, an artist and an engineer were discussing whether it was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress. The architect said he enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring relationship. The artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because of the passion and mystery he found there. The engineer said, "I like both." "Both?" "Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume you are spending time with the other woman, and you can go to the lab and get some work done."
Understanding Engineers - Take Eight
An engineer was crossing a road one-day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over,
picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and
said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one year." The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket. The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you and do ANYTHING you want." Again the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket. Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, and that I'll stay with you for a year and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?" The engineer said, "Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that's cool."
Incidently, the toilet paper holders in Engineering at Adelaide Uni are all enscribed, "Pull here for an Arts Degree - Wipe for honours."
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Yes but I do contend the idea that Archimedes was possibly smarter than the Mythbusters and hence may have had a solution to the problem that the Mythbusters couldnt think of..
Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it. - Linux
Or some poor bastard stole your weather recording system!
Id love to see 30,000 PC's doing a distributed compilation of gentoo...
Bill Weaver : SR-71 BREAKUP
Among professional aviators, there's a well-worn saying: Flying is simply hours of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror. And yet, I don't recall too many periods of boredom during my 30-year career with Lockheed, most of which was spent as a test pilot. By far, the most memorable flight occurred on Jan. 25, 1966. Jim Zwayer, a Lockheed flight test reconnaissance and navigation systems specialist, and I were evaluating those systems on an SR-71 Blackbird test from Edwards AFB, Calif. We also were investigating procedures designed to reduce trim drag and improve high-Mach cruise performance. The latter involved flying with the center-of-gravity (CG) located further aft than normal, which reduced the Blackbird's longitudinal stability. We took off from Edwards at 11:20 a.m. and completed the mission's first leg without incident. After refueling from a KC-135 tanker, we turned eastbound, accelerated to a Mach 3.2-cruise speed and climbed to 78,000 ft., our initial cruise-climb altitude. Several minutes into cruise, the right engine inlet's automatic control system malfunctioned, requiring a switch to manual control. The SR-71's inlet configuration was automatically adjusted during supersonic flight to decelerate air flow in the duct, slowing it to subsonic speed before reaching the engine's face. This was accomplished by the inlet's center-body spike translating aft, and by modulating the inlet's forward bypass doors. Normally, these actions were scheduled automatically as a function of Mach number, positioning the normal shock wave (where air flow becomes subsonic) inside the inlet to ensure optimum engine performance. Without proper scheduling, disturbances inside the inlet could result in the shock wave being expelled forward--a phenomenon known as an "inlet unstart." That causes an instantaneous loss of engine thrust, explosive banging noises and violent yawing of the aircraft--like being in a train wreck. Unstarts were not uncommon at that time in the SR-71's development, but a properly functioning system would recapture the shock wave and restore normal operation.
On the planned test profile, we entered a programmed 35-deg. bank turn to the right. An immediate unstart occurred on the right engine, forcing the aircraft to roll further right and start to pitch up. I jammed the control stick as far left and forward as it would go. No response. I instantly knew we were in for a wild ride. I attempted to tell Jim what was happening and to stay with the airplane until we reached a lower speed and altitude. I didn't think the chances of surviving an ejection at Mach 3.18 and 78,800 ft. were very good. However, g-forces built up so rapidly that my words came out garbled and unintelligible, as confirmed later by the cockpit voice recorder. The cumulative effects of system malfunctions, reduced longitudinal stability, increased angle-of-attack in the turn, supersonic speed, high altitude and other factors imposed forces on the airframe that exceeded flight control authority and the Stability Augmentation System's ability to restore control. Everything seemed to unfold in slow motion. I learned later the time from event onset to catastrophic departure from controlled flight was only 2-3 sec. Still trying to communicate with Jim, I blacked out, succumbing to extremely high g-forces. The SR-71 then literally disintegrated around us. From that point, I was just along for the ride. My next recollection was a hazy thought that I was having a bad dream. Maybe I'll wake up and get out of this mess, I mused. Gradually regaining consciousness, I realized this was no dream; it had really happened. That also was disturbing, because I could not have survived what had just happened. Therefore, I must be dead. Since I didn't feel bad--just a detached sense of euphoria--I decided being dead wasn't so bad after all. AS FULL AWARENESS took hold, I realized I was not dead, but had somehow separated from the airpla
Your post is a blatent lie. The last Firefox update was the 25th of July. Its now the 22nd of August. There havent been ANY patches to download in the last MONTH
At least with NeoOfficeJ, when the documents are opened in Windows, users can see the pictures.
The states of Australia:
South Australia
Victoria
New South Wales
Tasmania
Queensland
Western Australia
And the Territories:
Northern Territory
ACT (Australian Captial Territory.)
This is the exact point. An MD5 hash doesnt provide any security.. If you doctor the photo or details, just add a new MD5 hash.
Lol. Poor fool must have been running IE and windows...
It is a very very complex piece of programming following the majority of the income tax laws.. There would quite a few very very thick books worth of tax laws represented in this one program.
For me, the windows machine lasted 3 minutes (but this was 6 months ago.)
Two engineering students crossing the campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want." The first engineer nodded approvingly, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit."
Understanding Engineers - Take Two
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Understanding Engineers - Take Three
A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!" The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!" The pastor said, "Hey, here comes the greens keeper. Let's have a word with him." "Hi George! Say, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?" The greens keeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind firefighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime." The group was silent for a moment. The pastor said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight." The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them." The engineer said, "Why can't these guys play at night?"
Understanding Engineers - Take Four
What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers? Mechanical Engineers build weapons and Civil Engineers build targets.
Understanding Engineers - Take Five
The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with an Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
Understanding Engineers - Take Six
"Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Engineers believe that "if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"
Understanding Engineers - Take Seven
An architect, an artist and an engineer were discussing whether it was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress. The architect said he enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring relationship. The artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because of the passion and mystery he found there. The engineer said, "I like both." "Both?" "Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume you are spending time with the other woman, and you can go to the lab and get some work done."
Understanding Engineers - Take Eight
An engineer was crossing a road one-day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one year." The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket. The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you and do ANYTHING you want." Again the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket. Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, and that I'll stay with you for a year and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?" The engineer said, "Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that's cool."
Incidently, the toilet paper holders in Engineering at Adelaide Uni are all enscribed, "Pull here for an Arts Degree - Wipe for honours."