I always found Alpha Centauri to be a disappointment compared to Civ2. That and I got ticked off when they released a book based off of it, seeing how the game was based off a book to begin with.
I was reading a book on a train headed into downtown Brooklyn, and had a similar reaction. I looked out the window, saw the towers burning, and thought "that sucks, I wonder what happened", and then went back to reading my book.
You'd also need something in place to check if a post you're replying to has been edited since you clicked on the 'Reply' button (or the 'moderate' button) so that you don't get this sequence:
Poster: "I like dogs!"
Another poster clicks reply, and starts to type.
OP clicks edit, and changes to: "I like sex with dogs!"
The 2nd poster now clicks on submit with "It's good to find someone with the same interests as me."
Patent holders should be required to notify manufacturers about a believed infringement within the first year of an allegedly infringing product hitting the market, or else lose their patent.
The problem there is, what if I hold a valid patent, and I don't know you're infringing? I may not realize or find out about it until well after you've started production and sales.
As long as you don't mind living in NYC - home of the $4 pizza slice and the $20 cocktail...
When I worked in downtown Manhattan (until late 2002), I usually paid $2.25 for a large pepperoni slice, and my favorite place had a special which was 2 slices with any topping + a medium soda for $6.
Absolutely. I just started playing it last week, and while the graphics engine could use some tweaking, the game design and flow is great. I can't wait for future versions.
It varies per chain, but most of the retailers I've dealt with use a database to hold things like manufacturer ID, and just keep the sku as a product ID. Having an extra digit for someone who still only needs 10 digits is simply a matter of dropping the extra info in the pre-processing phase.
I doubt much software will have a problem. The bulk of the digits in a barcode are unnecessary. 10 are actually significant, and the rest are check digits / filler. Within those 10, often only 4 or 5 have real meaning to a retailer, and the rest are just padding to fill out to 10 digits.
Space habitats are closed ecosystems, so an industrial one that DOES NOT AFFECT residential ones can be created, and that industrial habitat (habitat can't be the right word here, I guess 'module' is better) does not need to concern itself over pollution in the same way that an earth-based factory would.
On Solaris Sytems (and probably others, but I only know for sure about Solaris) you have two files containing user/login information./etc/passwd has most of that information, such as login name, actual name, home directory, login shell, etc. Any user can read the contents of/etc/passwd.
The shadow file contains the login name, the hashed password, and some other stuff that I don't recall. This file is readable by root only.
Don't talk about Star Trek, Slashdot, Linux, or quote Monty Python.
I think this one might belong at the top of the list. I've been at parties where some of my nerdier friends have shown up and it's painful to watch these topics kill a conversation. One of them was doing fairly well talking with a girl, and then another guy in the room said something about Star Trek. The two guys just launched into a debate, and the chick lost interest. It was saddening, because I was trying to help the guy get laid, and he really got close.
And to completely contradict myself, there's a chick I work with who surprised the hell out of me when she started firing off Holy Grail quotes. So they DO exist. Just don't count on the one you're talking to being one of them.
The scene is in the book Starship Titanic (defusing a bomb and distracting the computer while it counts down) but I don't remember the 'smartass' line.
I didn't miss the point, I've just never liked the analogy. One woman ALWAYS takes 9 months (for a normal pregnancy, no twins, etc) to produce a baby. It isn't something that can change. Adding people to a software project can increase the speed with which it gets developed. It just isn't a linear increase, and you eventually lose any benefit from adding people. This is very different from childbirth.
IIRC, treaties often have a withdrawal clause that requires a certain amount of advance notification (say, 6 months). If you don't wait it out, consequences depend largely on what the international community thinks it can do to you for it.
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I always found Alpha Centauri to be a disappointment compared to Civ2. That and I got ticked off when they released a book based off of it, seeing how the game was based off a book to begin with.
This is rhetorical and wishful: when are we going to get some anti-virus software that protects us before an outbreak?
Are you sure it doesn't already for some new viruses? We wouldn't even notice if that hapened.
insist on adding a's and g's
I've seen Athalon, but where does the 'g' go? Athlong? Or maybe just in combo with the 'a' to get Athalong?
The mods must be hitting the $2 crack today.
I know I've been doing too much shell scripting when I read that and try to figure out what $2 might represent.
Why is a kilobyte 1024 bytes?
With a wonderfully ugly color scheme too.
I was reading a book on a train headed into downtown Brooklyn, and had a similar reaction. I looked out the window, saw the towers burning, and thought "that sucks, I wonder what happened", and then went back to reading my book.
So you're claiming:
A) More books are being published
B) People are buying more of these books (which is why B&N can afford to open more locations)
C) People are mysteriously not reading this excess of books that they're buying
I can't say I follow that logic.
B&N does not care how many books are published. They only care about how many they sell. They'll only expand when revenues increase.
You'd also need something in place to check if a post you're replying to has been edited since you clicked on the 'Reply' button (or the 'moderate' button) so that you don't get this sequence:
Poster: "I like dogs!"
Another poster clicks reply, and starts to type.
OP clicks edit, and changes to: "I like sex with dogs!"
The 2nd poster now clicks on submit with "It's good to find someone with the same interests as me."
Patent holders should be required to notify manufacturers about a believed infringement within the first year of an allegedly infringing product hitting the market, or else lose their patent.
The problem there is, what if I hold a valid patent, and I don't know you're infringing? I may not realize or find out about it until well after you've started production and sales.
As long as you don't mind living in NYC - home of the $4 pizza slice and the $20 cocktail...
When I worked in downtown Manhattan (until late 2002), I usually paid $2.25 for a large pepperoni slice, and my favorite place had a special which was 2 slices with any topping + a medium soda for $6.
Avoid Outlook virii, use carrier pidgeons...
nothing says I love you like bird poop on a keyboard...
If I had mod points right now, you'd get one just for that sig.
Absolutely. I just started playing it last week, and while the graphics engine could use some tweaking, the game design and flow is great. I can't wait for future versions.
It varies per chain, but most of the retailers I've dealt with use a database to hold things like manufacturer ID, and just keep the sku as a product ID. Having an extra digit for someone who still only needs 10 digits is simply a matter of dropping the extra info in the pre-processing phase.
I doubt much software will have a problem. The bulk of the digits in a barcode are unnecessary. 10 are actually significant, and the rest are check digits / filler. Within those 10, often only 4 or 5 have real meaning to a retailer, and the rest are just padding to fill out to 10 digits.
/me sighs
Space habitats are closed ecosystems, so an industrial one that DOES NOT AFFECT residential ones can be created, and that industrial habitat (habitat can't be the right word here, I guess 'module' is better) does not need to concern itself over pollution in the same way that an earth-based factory would.
The noise isn't the real issue, the pollution is. You don't need to worry at all about contaminating an atmosphere if you're in space.
On Solaris Sytems (and probably others, but I only know for sure about Solaris) you have two files containing user/login information. /etc/passwd has most of that information, such as login name, actual name, home directory, login shell, etc. Any user can read the contents of /etc/passwd.
The shadow file contains the login name, the hashed password, and some other stuff that I don't recall. This file is readable by root only.
Don't talk about Star Trek, Slashdot, Linux, or quote Monty Python.
I think this one might belong at the top of the list. I've been at parties where some of my nerdier friends have shown up and it's painful to watch these topics kill a conversation. One of them was doing fairly well talking with a girl, and then another guy in the room said something about Star Trek. The two guys just launched into a debate, and the chick lost interest. It was saddening, because I was trying to help the guy get laid, and he really got close.
And to completely contradict myself, there's a chick I work with who surprised the hell out of me when she started firing off Holy Grail quotes. So they DO exist. Just don't count on the one you're talking to being one of them.
Arguments on the quality of beer aside, Canadian beer is available in the US, so that's not really an issue.
So she reads slashdot, eh?
The scene is in the book Starship Titanic (defusing a bomb and distracting the computer while it counts down) but I don't remember the 'smartass' line.
I didn't miss the point, I've just never liked the analogy. One woman ALWAYS takes 9 months (for a normal pregnancy, no twins, etc) to produce a baby. It isn't something that can change. Adding people to a software project can increase the speed with which it gets developed. It just isn't a linear increase, and you eventually lose any benefit from adding people. This is very different from childbirth.
Except that the average number of babies per month will actually be 1 / month.
Nine women can actually produce nine times as many babies in the same time frame as one woman can.
IIRC, treaties often have a withdrawal clause that requires a certain amount of advance notification (say, 6 months). If you don't wait it out, consequences depend largely on what the international community thinks it can do to you for it.
Every half hour?? I don't think I've ever had that problem with either of my girls except when they're sick.
My 2nd daughter is almost 2 months old, and she's been sleeping through the night for about 2 weeks now. So at 6 weeks old this wasn't an issue.