Meaning that the temperature increase was not caused by the energy source they know about, so something else provided the energy necessary for a temperature increase. We might choose to refer to this as an unknown energy source.
I believe it was a Mod for Quake as well (Clanring IIRC), though that was out in either 96 or 97. Unless my memory is totally hosed. It could be. I can't remember now if it was a mod or not.
First, the disclaimer: I come from a middle class family. We weren't hard up for cash, but most of the other kids in the neighborhood had more stuff than us. Except legos, because I was obsessed. That said, 20 years ago:
We had a computer. A cheesy Atari 800XL, but a computer. No cell phones, but we had a phone in the basement, 2 on the main floor, and 1 upstairs. We had cable TV. We didn't have a giant 60" TV, and I still don't have one, but it was bigger than 13". Probably about 20".
You sound more like you're describing 20 years ago, 20 years ago.
I work in a small office not far outside NYC. We have a staff around 60. I've overheard the following languages, spoken by fluent speakers, from my co-workers:
English French Italian Spanish Greek Russian Persian Yiddish Vietnamese
There are two guys that speak Farsi, but I haven't heard them talk to each other in anything but English.
We're a small segment of the population. Those same people speak English with varying degrees of fluency. Good luck finding a practice that has doctors who speak all those languages.
When I clicked reply, no one had asked. When I clicked submit, I was the third or fourth one (don't remember now). I'm actually surprised I haven't been hit with a redundant mod yet.
To your point though, if you had asked me yesterday, I would have assumed it was FBI territory.
I once tried to get a competition going where each contestant would have the course of a month to put his pet phrase into our boss's head, mainly by either casual conversation or work related discussion. Actually revealing to the boss that you wanted him to think about these words was forbidden. Then, at our end-of-month meeting, whoever's phrase was said first (if at all) would win the pot.
The guy got termed before it could really go anywhere. New boss is less jargon prone.
Correlation does not equal causation. It doesn't mean that there's never a connection between the two, or even that there's necessarily rarely a connection between the two. It just means that there's not ALWAYS a connection between the two.
The rise and fall of a job market is not a simple thing. The very valid point the post you replied to had was that outsourcing didn't necessarily help things. He didn't say the the supposition was wrong. He merely pointed out that two things that happened in the same time frame don't always have something to do with each other.
I worked for a company which deployed (among other things) an IVR* solution to banks and trading houses of varying sizes. At least one of them is an extremely well known name. It turned out at some point that there was a (probably submarine) patent on the technology we were using. We never got sued. We weren't that big, and we'd probably go under if we were sued. Us going under would have been BAD for the patent holder, because they were making a fortune suing all of our clients instead.
Disclaimer: I wasn't directly involved in any of the proceedings, so I probably botched some detail in there. It was a fairly small company though so it was hard to avoid picking up some of the details.
*IVR == Interactive Voice Response, or basically, "Press 1 for account balance" and stuff like that.
My brother once complained to me about the misuse of the word 'literally'. It was about something along the lines of "literally shoving it down my throat". When he was done venting, I told him "That literally sucks balls."
Except this guy has put together a top 10 list. Maybe Verhoeven would have been the best fit Doom could find, but that doesn't mean it would have been enjoyable.
But I don't think it would qualify in anyone's list of top 10 movies. He might have been able to do okay with Doom, but it would never have been a good movie.
I immediately thought, "of Showgirls fame. He's the guy who ruined Starship Troopers."
Then I read a little further and get to:
Have you seen Verhoeven's Starship Troopers? Imagine that film without all the political bullshit that nobody involved understood anyway.
WHAT?
The political bullshit was the whole damn novel! He took a political commentary and made it into an episode of 90210 in space, with some nudity and explosions thrown in to keep up the Verhoeven image.
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Meaning that the temperature increase was not caused by the energy source they know about, so something else provided the energy necessary for a temperature increase. We might choose to refer to this as an unknown energy source.
ars technica != Anandtech
Good summary of the Anandtech article though.
The trend has usually been more wealth/education == fewer children (in the last century at least). Natural intelligence doesn't really factor in.
First link I found on the subject via google.
I believe it was a Mod for Quake as well (Clanring IIRC), though that was out in either 96 or 97. Unless my memory is totally hosed. It could be. I can't remember now if it was a mod or not.
First, the disclaimer: I come from a middle class family. We weren't hard up for cash, but most of the other kids in the neighborhood had more stuff than us. Except legos, because I was obsessed. That said, 20 years ago:
We had a computer. A cheesy Atari 800XL, but a computer.
No cell phones, but we had a phone in the basement, 2 on the main floor, and 1 upstairs.
We had cable TV.
We didn't have a giant 60" TV, and I still don't have one, but it was bigger than 13". Probably about 20".
You sound more like you're describing 20 years ago, 20 years ago.
Yeah, but if they don't spend it on this investigation, they'd just blow it on loose women and alcohol.
I suspect the original was referring to "Megadollars" and "Gigadollars", or million and billion for the rest of us.
Personally, when I see $15G, I think 15 Grand, but that doesn't make sense in this context.
Post a comment to slashdot.
I work in a small office not far outside NYC. We have a staff around 60. I've overheard the following languages, spoken by fluent speakers, from my co-workers:
English
French
Italian
Spanish
Greek
Russian
Persian
Yiddish
Vietnamese
There are two guys that speak Farsi, but I haven't heard them talk to each other in anything but English.
We're a small segment of the population. Those same people speak English with varying degrees of fluency. Good luck finding a practice that has doctors who speak all those languages.
It's no biggie. I was expecting something along those lines once I saw so many others asking the same question.
When I clicked reply, no one had asked. When I clicked submit, I was the third or fourth one (don't remember now). I'm actually surprised I haven't been hit with a redundant mod yet.
To your point though, if you had asked me yesterday, I would have assumed it was FBI territory.
Always happy to hear about a spammer being busted, but why does this land in the Secret Service's turf?
The whistle-blower turned over the memos to the Oakland Tribune, which published the legal memos on its website in April 2004.
If he'd been working with police on an investigation he might be in the clear. Turning it over to a newspaper could present a problem for him though.
That sir is a brilliant comment.
BTW, I'll bet you could find a novelty set somewhere that has some (or even all) the pieces with parachutes attached.
I once tried to get a competition going where each contestant would have the course of a month to put his pet phrase into our boss's head, mainly by either casual conversation or work related discussion. Actually revealing to the boss that you wanted him to think about these words was forbidden. Then, at our end-of-month meeting, whoever's phrase was said first (if at all) would win the pot.
The guy got termed before it could really go anywhere. New boss is less jargon prone.
It was summarized in brief, but he did say this:
There's nothing to say the tech industry wouldn't be even more vibrant without the outsourcing.
Why is that the rallying cry of the ignorant?
Correlation does not equal causation. It doesn't mean that there's never a connection between the two, or even that there's necessarily rarely a connection between the two. It just means that there's not ALWAYS a connection between the two.
The rise and fall of a job market is not a simple thing. The very valid point the post you replied to had was that outsourcing didn't necessarily help things. He didn't say the the supposition was wrong. He merely pointed out that two things that happened in the same time frame don't always have something to do with each other.
Because that's just way too original. Most people don't have the creative juices to come up with that kind of stuff.
His wife... she's fucking Brilliant!
I worked for a company which deployed (among other things) an IVR* solution to banks and trading houses of varying sizes. At least one of them is an extremely well known name. It turned out at some point that there was a (probably submarine) patent on the technology we were using. We never got sued. We weren't that big, and we'd probably go under if we were sued. Us going under would have been BAD for the patent holder, because they were making a fortune suing all of our clients instead.
Disclaimer: I wasn't directly involved in any of the proceedings, so I probably botched some detail in there. It was a fairly small company though so it was hard to avoid picking up some of the details.
*IVR == Interactive Voice Response, or basically, "Press 1 for account balance" and stuff like that.
The cynic in me only need to read:
Democrats criticized Ehrlich
And I immediately think 'because he's Republican'.
Of course, I'd've had the same thought with a Dem govenor being criticized by Republicans too.
I edited that last line just so I could have a double contraction in it.
My brother once complained to me about the misuse of the word 'literally'. It was about something along the lines of "literally shoving it down my throat". When he was done venting, I told him "That literally sucks balls."
Except this guy has put together a top 10 list. Maybe Verhoeven would have been the best fit Doom could find, but that doesn't mean it would have been enjoyable.
But I don't think it would qualify in anyone's list of top 10 movies. He might have been able to do okay with Doom, but it would never have been a good movie.
No, Doom needs a Paul Verhoeven.
I immediately thought, "of Showgirls fame. He's the guy who ruined Starship Troopers."
Then I read a little further and get to:
Have you seen Verhoeven's Starship Troopers? Imagine that film without all the political bullshit that nobody involved understood anyway.
WHAT?
The political bullshit was the whole damn novel! He took a political commentary and made it into an episode of 90210 in space, with some nudity and explosions thrown in to keep up the Verhoeven image.
Couldn't read any more after that.