Changing the material of the windows is unlikely to help unless you incorporate the material into the design of the building. The windows are likely going to be designed for easy access and replacement, so it's unlikely to add to the structural integrity of the building unless they are actually designed to do so.
As to fires, the problem is that if alumina is stronger, it'll be harder for the firefighters to break the windows to let smoke out, gain access to portions of the building, or rescue people (I can't imagine watching people clawing at the windows from inside as they slowly burn to death, while you're helpless to stop it--or maybe I can, but just don't want to).
Sigh--the *only* things that are similar to MiB are the music--the french horns and tubas, and the cellos--and some of the camera movements, which are similar to the movements in the stinger from MiB (you know, with the marbles).
The rest has almost nothing to do with MiB or action films.
Besides, you've gotta remember--this preview is running before I, Robot and The Bourne Supremacy and all of the other summer action films. I doubt that testosterone-fueled moviegoers would be likely to see a film based on thirty seconds of Marvin the Maniacally-depressed Robot whinging on about life, or Slartibartfast yammering on about fjords.
I've been booting with PLD on a 533 MHz Alpha, and it goes from boot hdd1 to login in less than a minute. I suspect that it has more to do with my kernel--2.6.3, but even then, I compiled most everything right into the kernel, so it should take tons of RAM, but it doesn't.
It takes a little longer to get X up (but XFce is really quite fast and good), and I'm using the Rox-Filer for my file manager, because of Nautilus's bloat.
I don't have any ugly twm crap, or crippled interfaces, and it seems plenty fast to me.
A while back, I picked up a used X-box which had a CD ripped to the hard drive. They didn't even bother to format it.
So I was thinking--if I needed a secure channel to transfer data, I might sell an X-box and then tell the intended recipient to buy an X-box from that shop.
It should be clear to anyone and everyone that Dennis Ritchie did not create the C Programming language.
Check out `man bc`. You will discover that there was a previous programming language that was written by a man named Brian Kernighan which bears striking similarities to what Mr. Ritchie would later call C.
Mr. Ritchie obviously copied wholesale from this language, with the intent to destroy the American economy, and was obviously in collusion with al-Qaeda.
Subsequent interactions between these two men were most likely based on the fact that Mr. Kernighan was ``conflicted and tense'' while in the presence of such a dangerous terrorist, and due to the fact that Mr. Kernighan was worried that his own language theft from B's predecessor, BCPL, and Martin Richards' language theft from CPL.
(Note, if you mod this, please don't mod it funny.)
As anyone familliar with typesetting and Latin can tell you, the ampersand is actually a ligature for the Latin digraph et (examples of ampersands can be found here). As such, the proper abbreviation for et cetera, etc., should be rendered as &c.
&tc. would expand to the nonsense et tcetera. You just can't trust AdTI!
I'm (seriously) considering changing my last name to a footnote. I don't like being associated with my parents, and intend to take my wife's name when I get married, but until then, I need something--a placeholder. So I want to change my last name to a footnote, specifically [1].
Has anyone ever tried this?
(oh, and for those who care, here's what the note points to)
no restrictions for a set of packages that must be included in the distribution. The user can have access to every package already prepared for PLD. If something had been prepared in conjunction with other packages, it means somebody did need it, and maybe someone will need that package in the future
Now, this is not to suggest that PLD does this well, or that it does this actually implements what Progeny is suggesting, but it's still a starting point.
Yes, he's a moron, and I feel sorry for him for that reason. Were he my grandfather, I'd be very upset with him, but I don't really know this guy. So I'm allowed to feel pity.
Anyways, I mainly agree with you. It's not a matter of age; this thing is older than most of Europe.
David Mankins tells a story about a German tourist who needed to buy dinner and only had 50 marks. He explained that he only had $5, and that the exchange would be unfair to the tourists. They needed to eat, though, and so he exchanged it.
Turned out it was a *Weimar* note (you know, German Hyperinflation during the 20's)
I'm noticing that the Register article doesn't quote the Microsoft source that it claims characterizes the Israeli government as ``tight-fisted.''
A little more searching and I can't find web sites for the Daily Mail or the Israeli Ministry of Commerce (if they're not on the internet, they must not exist <G>), and I can't find a MS press release.
Yet prior to that, there was apparently an article from the 1959 Scientific American where someone did the same graft. It was reprinted in Bio-Organic Chemistry 1968 pg. 170 ISBN 0-7167-0974-0
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Changing the material of the windows is unlikely to help unless you incorporate the material into the design of the building. The windows are likely going to be designed for easy access and replacement, so it's unlikely to add to the structural integrity of the building unless they are actually designed to do so.
As to fires, the problem is that if alumina is stronger, it'll be harder for the firefighters to break the windows to let smoke out, gain access to portions of the building, or rescue people (I can't imagine watching people clawing at the windows from inside as they slowly burn to death, while you're helpless to stop it--or maybe I can, but just don't want to).
Sigh--the *only* things that are similar to MiB are the music--the french horns and tubas, and the cellos--and some of the camera movements, which are similar to the movements in the stinger from MiB (you know, with the marbles).
The rest has almost nothing to do with MiB or action films.
Besides, you've gotta remember--this preview is running before I, Robot and The Bourne Supremacy and all of the other summer action films. I doubt that testosterone-fueled moviegoers would be likely to see a film based on thirty seconds of Marvin the Maniacally-depressed Robot whinging on about life, or Slartibartfast yammering on about fjords.
I've been booting with PLD on a 533 MHz Alpha, and it goes from boot hdd1 to login in less than a minute. I suspect that it has more to do with my kernel--2.6.3, but even then, I compiled most everything right into the kernel, so it should take tons of RAM, but it doesn't. It takes a little longer to get X up (but XFce is really quite fast and good), and I'm using the Rox-Filer for my file manager, because of Nautilus's bloat. I don't have any ugly twm crap, or crippled interfaces, and it seems plenty fast to me.
A while back, I picked up a used X-box which had a CD ripped to the hard drive. They didn't even bother to format it.
So I was thinking--if I needed a secure channel to transfer data, I might sell an X-box and then tell the intended recipient to buy an X-box from that shop.
Sigh. I knew this, and was going to mention it in my message bu-- Hey! Is that a squirrel?
I think that this might be illegal unless you inform the party that the conversation is going to be recorded.
On the other hand, if the other party informs you that s/he is taping already, it might be legal.
I would consult your lawyer or friendly local slashdot paranoid type before taping conversations.
It should be clear to anyone and everyone that Dennis Ritchie did not create the C Programming language.
Check out `man bc`. You will discover that there was a previous programming language that was written by a man named Brian Kernighan which bears striking similarities to what Mr. Ritchie would later call C.
Mr. Ritchie obviously copied wholesale from this language, with the intent to destroy the American economy, and was obviously in collusion with al-Qaeda.
Subsequent interactions between these two men were most likely based on the fact that Mr. Kernighan was ``conflicted and tense'' while in the presence of such a dangerous terrorist, and due to the fact that Mr. Kernighan was worried that his own language theft from B's predecessor, BCPL, and Martin Richards' language theft from CPL.
(Note, if you mod this, please don't mod it funny.)
I don't recall most of my passwords, anyway.
After about ten or twenty times, I just wind up entering them by muscle memory.
I can enter most of my passwords in under a second, without even looking at a keyboard.
As anyone familliar with typesetting and Latin can tell you, the ampersand is actually a ligature for the Latin digraph et (examples of ampersands can be found here). As such, the proper abbreviation for et cetera, etc., should be rendered as &c.
&tc. would expand to the nonsense et tcetera. You just can't trust AdTI!
Um...I believe you have my terabyte?
Well, at least we'll be reducing our pollution rate...
Sigh. I'll take the bait:
I'm Henry the Eighth, I am!
Now let's get back to the tech.
I'm (seriously) considering changing my last name to a footnote. I don't like being associated with my parents, and intend to take my wife's name when I get married, but until then, I need something--a placeholder. So I want to change my last name to a footnote, specifically [1].
Has anyone ever tried this?
(oh, and for those who care, here's what the note points to)
[1] Geez, that brings back bad memories.
I recall that there was a company that had a similar policy--six letters of last name, first initial (but no middle) Brian Oldknow wasn't too happy.
I think PLD (Or in English) tries to be highly modularized:
no restrictions for a set of packages that must be included in the distribution. The user can have access to every package already prepared for PLD. If something had been prepared in conjunction with other packages, it means somebody did need it, and maybe someone will need that package in the future
Now, this is not to suggest that PLD does this well, or that it does this actually implements what Progeny is suggesting, but it's still a starting point.
Good idea, you don't want to get Agent Smith mad. Much better to tick off Elrond.
No, it'll say, ``low voltage! low voltage!''
(as an aside, why wasn't it named 883?)
Yes, he's a moron, and I feel sorry for him for that reason. Were he my grandfather, I'd be very upset with him, but I don't really know this guy. So I'm allowed to feel pity.
Anyways, I mainly agree with you. It's not a matter of age; this thing is older than most of Europe.
David Mankins tells a story about a German tourist who needed to buy dinner and only had 50 marks. He explained that he only had $5, and that the exchange would be unfair to the tourists. They needed to eat, though, and so he exchanged it.
Turned out it was a *Weimar* note (you know, German Hyperinflation during the 20's)
The Nigerian Scam, also known as the Spanish Prisoner scheme, has been around since 1588.
He may be old, but he's not *that* old.
(that said, I do feel sorry for him. Not particularly sorry, but sorry.)
...come great responsibility, as well.
I choose to ignore such responsibility.
ALL OUR SEGFAULT ARE BELONG TO SCO!
I'm noticing that the Register article doesn't quote the Microsoft source that it claims characterizes the Israeli government as ``tight-fisted.''
A little more searching and I can't find web sites for the Daily Mail or the Israeli Ministry of Commerce (if they're not on the internet, they must not exist <G>), and I can't find a MS press release.
Can anyone help?
Tsk. They use Roberts' Birds or Southern Africa, instead of the more appropriate Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds (the Expurgated Version)
Yet prior to that, there was apparently an article from the 1959 Scientific American where someone did the same graft. It was reprinted in Bio-Organic Chemistry 1968 pg. 170 ISBN 0-7167-0974-0