If anybody in Canada is having a problem with this using Primus, you should give them a call and see if they can't fix it for you. I have never had such a good experience with a *phone* company, of all things.
When I was having some line quality problems with their long distance, I called them and was immediately handed off to a tech who was able to test the line and resolve the problem for me (probably just changed my routing protocol, but still...). Whenever I've had other problems (questions about billing, or extra services or what have you) I am talking with a human within minutes after dialing. No "Annie the Automated Attendant" or voice mail hell. Their techs have even called me back to make sure that things working correctly!
I was initially interested in Primus because of the price of the service, but being able to talk to humans who could *do something* about the issue has made me a loyal customer. (Don't get the idea that I'm having problems all the time, because I'm not... But it's nice to get someone on the line when you do.)
Disclaimer: I have no relationship to Primus except that I pay them CDN$80/month when I used to pay Bell $120...;-)
I'm glad to know that Atmel is on the good side... They also make one of the most hacker friendly embedded processors around (the AVR series). My experience with them has always been positive.
Assuming that this is the same guy, here's what John Walker (one of the founders of AutoDesk (AutoCAD, AutoLisp, 3DStudio, etc.)) had to say about his run-in with G. Pascal Zachary as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal:
Eh, I wouldn't read too much into this without more data...
I used to live near a large chemical plant in TN. People often found mutant frogs in the river nearby -- two heads, an extra limb, etc. I'm pretty sure that wasn't evolution in action -- unless of course the poor thing just couldn't decide which way to go to get *out* of there.
Perhaps they should rig the tags so they explode if the wearer tries to remove them.
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Actually...
On specific instructions from the Chuck E. Cheez top management, a large number of these had their fur disposed of and their endoskeletons/mechanics cut up with blowtorches. A friend of mine used to work at one of these places when the order came down. He managed to rescue one of them (sans fur) from the cutter and I wound up with it when he no longer had space for it. It's a very interesting device, all pneumatically actuated using a low pressure air line. He also managed to grab a programming console for it, which you can use to drive it manually. All you need is an air source (a truck inner tube will do) and you can drive it around. Since this one was the lead guitar player (I think), it has a reasonable number of degrees of freedom.
The most striking thing about it is the beautiful blue eyes. Seeing it for the first time is quite a shock since the rest of it is quite Terminator-esque.
It's currently standing guard in my basement, waiting for the rise of Goog... I mean SkyNet...
If anything, C is a so-called mid level language. If it wasn't, you'd be using an assembler instead of a compiler.
I don't know... Haven't people generally considered C to be kind of a cross platform assembler? That certainly seems to be the attitude of the Scheme crowd...
I don't know if you've looked into language learning software, but there is a lot of it available for Windows and it does a lot of the flashcard type stuff. I've also found that nothing stretches my brain like trying to wrap it around another language (human or computer)...
OK... So I myself am interested in Japanese...;-)
However, it does seem to exercise a lot of different portions of your brain, from the pictographic script to the weird (to me!) grammer stuff. However, you should have her pick what she's most interested in, since interest is vital to keeping with a foreign language self-study program.
Another thing you might look at is the game of Go. It seems to be well thought of by various people who should know, and I believe it's even claimed to be effective in staving off such things as Alzheimers. However, the good players say that there's no good computer implementation, so you might have to find her a human opponent.
That would explain why I have a family doctor now, when I never had one in the States.
That would explain why a friend of mine was able to have diagnostics and surgery done quickly and for free -- a procedure which would have cost over USD$30K in the States, of which, private insurance would have paid about half.
That would explain why, when my wife needed it, she got the best care from one of the foremost neurosurgeons in the country. Another woman in the States, suffering a similar injury, with private insurance, was refused admittance by the local hospital and had to be driven four hundred miles to one that would accept her.
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", but some trade offs are better than others. I like it up here just fine (depite the long winters;-) and of all the nice things, the health care is the main thing that makes me question whether I will ever return to the States.
...Sony are planning to officially reveal the PlayStation 3 at the E3 Expo in May 2005. They're obviously not wanting to be outdone by Nintendo, who announced the same plans for the GameCube successor, as well as Xbox 2's rumored debut around that time. Looks like E3 2005 is going to be a biggy.
Hmmm... All that new hardware. I suspect that it's more likely that E3 2005 is going to be a buggy...
> If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a
> duck, and you cut off it's head and there's a
> fully functional biological cranium, maybe it's
> not a clockwork toy resembling a duck and is in
> fact a duck.
Uh. Dude. By the time you've done all that cutting, there won't be anything functioning. Much less fully.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity...
Microsoft's result counter is only 23 bits, so it's just overflowed and started again... Who in their right mind would ever need more than 8.3 million results anyway?
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Funny, when I read that, I thought "that sounds like Ray..." And so it was! Jos'h
If anybody in Canada is having a problem with this using Primus, you should give them a call and see if they can't fix it for you. I have never had such a good experience with a *phone* company, of all things.
;-)
When I was having some line quality problems with their long distance, I called them and was immediately handed off to a tech who was able to test the line and resolve the problem for me (probably just changed my routing protocol, but still...). Whenever I've had other problems (questions about billing, or extra services or what have you) I am talking with a human within minutes after dialing. No "Annie the Automated Attendant" or voice mail hell. Their techs have even called me back to make sure that things working correctly!
I was initially interested in Primus because of the price of the service, but being able to talk to humans who could *do something* about the issue has made me a loyal customer. (Don't get the idea that I'm having problems all the time, because I'm not... But it's nice to get someone on the line when you do.)
Disclaimer: I have no relationship to Primus except that I pay them CDN$80/month when I used to pay Bell $120...
I'm glad to know that Atmel is on the good side... They also make one of the most hacker friendly embedded processors around (the AVR series). My experience with them has always been positive.
Assuming that this is the same guy, here's what John Walker (one of the founders of AutoDesk (AutoCAD, AutoLisp, 3DStudio, etc.)) had to say about his run-in with G. Pascal Zachary as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal:
Reporter at Work
Eh, I wouldn't read too much into this without more data...
I used to live near a large chemical plant in TN. People often found mutant frogs in the river nearby -- two heads, an extra limb, etc. I'm pretty sure that wasn't evolution in action -- unless of course the poor thing just couldn't decide which way to go to get *out* of there.
Perhaps they should rig the tags so they explode if the wearer tries to remove them.
Actually...
On specific instructions from the Chuck E. Cheez top management, a large number of these had their fur disposed of and their endoskeletons/mechanics cut up with blowtorches. A friend of mine used to work at one of these places when the order came down. He managed to rescue one of them (sans fur) from the cutter and I wound up with it when he no longer had space for it. It's a very interesting device, all pneumatically actuated using a low pressure air line. He also managed to grab a programming console for it, which you can use to drive it manually. All you need is an air source (a truck inner tube will do) and you can drive it around. Since this one was the lead guitar player (I think), it has a reasonable number of degrees of freedom.
The most striking thing about it is the beautiful blue eyes. Seeing it for the first time is quite a shock since the rest of it is quite Terminator-esque.
It's currently standing guard in my basement, waiting for the rise of Goog... I mean SkyNet...
Speaking specifically about Israel's and neighbors current shenanigans, forget about the soldiers, let's save some civilians! Hmph.
If anything, C is a so-called mid level language. If it wasn't, you'd be using an assembler instead of a compiler. I don't know... Haven't people generally considered C to be kind of a cross platform assembler? That certainly seems to be the attitude of the Scheme crowd...
http://www.unixguru.com/ (Probabably a dead horse on /., but worth a cautionary mention.)
Bookware for various languages:
Living Language
A list of the 'Teach Yourself' Books.
Tuttle Kanji Cards - I have a set of these and they're very nice flashcards.
Free-ish software for Japanese:
Kanji Gold
Tile Tag - Drill game for Japanese kana.
Stuff to pay for:
Multi-Lingual Books - Seem to have a good selection of stuff.
OK... So I myself am interested in Japanese... ;-)
However, it does seem to exercise a lot of different portions of your brain, from the pictographic script to the weird (to me!) grammer stuff. However, you should have her pick what she's most interested in, since interest is vital to keeping with a foreign language self-study program.
Another thing you might look at is the game of Go. It seems to be well thought of by various people who should know, and I believe it's even claimed to be effective in staving off such things as Alzheimers. However, the good players say that there's no good computer implementation, so you might have to find her a human opponent.
American Go Association
Good luck!
Disclaimer: I've tried some of these resources, not all. Your mileage may vary. Contents may settle during shipment.
That would explain why I have a family doctor now, when I never had one in the States.
That would explain why a friend of mine was able to have diagnostics and surgery done quickly and for free -- a procedure which would have cost over USD$30K in the States, of which, private insurance would have paid about half.
That would explain why, when my wife needed it, she got the best care from one of the foremost neurosurgeons in the country. Another woman in the States, suffering a similar injury, with private insurance, was refused admittance by the local hospital and had to be driven four hundred miles to one that would accept her.
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", but some trade offs are better than others. I like it up here just fine (depite the long winters ;-) and of all the nice things, the health care is the main thing that makes me question whether I will ever return to the States.
http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/little_heroes.html
Hmmm... All that new hardware. I suspect that it's more likely that E3 2005 is going to be a buggy...
> If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a > duck, and you cut off it's head and there's a > fully functional biological cranium, maybe it's > not a clockwork toy resembling a duck and is in > fact a duck. Uh. Dude. By the time you've done all that cutting, there won't be anything functioning. Much less fully.
(I wish my German was as good as your English! -- Translated by Google since my German is terrible...)
Microsoft's result counter is only 23 bits, so it's just overflowed and started again... Who in their right mind would ever need more than 8.3 million results anyway?