These days all businesses are required to have doors that open outward, primarily due to the Cocoanut Grove fire way back in 1942, which killed 492 people.
Effectively what occurred is many of the exit signs were obscured, and there were no doors that opened outward. This caused massive traffic jams as people futilely attempted to escape the fire.
Or they just don't change the formula all that much no matter where you go.
Around here (Seattle) we're lucky to see it snow once or twice a year, and there's only one or two months a year where it gets really cold. I've never seen it get colder than the 20's.
Of course, this is also the city where they decided when we got almost two feet of snow this winter (a very rare event) that they weren't going to use salt because it might 'hurt the environment.' That plan didn't work out so well...
This is why at my work place our pair programming stations have mirrored monitors (with two sets of keyboards and mice).
There can certainly be some contention when both programmers try to do something simultaneously, but most of the time you simply trade off doing things.
This prevents utter boredom from enveloping either developer. If one of us wants to do something, we just do it.
Caveats include having the video card power necessary to drive a mirrored monitor setup.
That's why I found it interesting when looking through the settings for Left 4 Dead that they provide a 'color blind' option. Switching it on apparently swaps the color of the health bars etc. to a color that's more easily visible for these people.
This is the first time I've seen such an option in a game, and I think it's a cool trend I'd like to see continue.
I was treating this article seriously until I came to point where it claimed that "We know that many of our emails never reach their destination." Huh? When was the last time you had an email that failed to deliver? I know it's possible, and I've seen it once in awhile, but it's so rare nobody complains about it.
I suppose it depends on where you live, but the outages I've seen in other basic services (cable tv/internet, cellphone) over the last year and a half have been virtually nonexistent.
I feel like this is another clueless journalist trying to yank people's chains. Maybe he's just living in an entirely different universe. Maybe he's personally had outages recently that have driven him to write this rant.
Because it's a parody of the opening introduction for Babylon 5:
Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair: It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
As I replied to a different post, the car acts as a Faraday Cage - the current from the lightning bolt stays on the outside of the car, and doesn't go through.
That, of course, relies on the assumption that you don't have random wires/crap hanging around in your car for Mr. Lightning Bolt to jump out and give you a 'shocking' touch with.:)
You're partially correct. What you see moving down from the cloud and up from the ground are called leaders. When they meet each other, charge flows UPWARDS during the return stroke. Relevant link here
A car acts as a Faraday Cage, allowing the charge from the lightning to travel around the outside of the car (without traveling through the middle of the car, frying occupants).
I'm not sure precisely HOW they do it, but our college "null-routes" machines.
Taken directly from one of the University of Washington's web sites, reguarding recent virus attacks:
"If a system becomes infected, it is null-routed to prevent them from causing damage to other systems on campus. A null-routed system continues to have access to all of its software, and access to resources on campus. All off-campus resources, such as commercial web pages, are not available."
In my experience, the suckiness of the Internet connection is almost directly related to the competence of your university's CAC (Computing and Communications) department.
I am currently a student at the University of Washington.
The UW uses a packet shaper on their network, so they can pretty easily tell what traffic looks suspicious. If such supicious traffic is noted, the machine from which that traffic is coming is null-routed.
Null-routed means the machine is not able to access the outside network (but can still access the intranet, such as www.washington.edu). This allows us to patch our machines and follow a an on-line script on our Computing and Communications web site to get back up and running.
The UW also does not accept any incoming connections - your computer must initiate contact with outside sources.
The difference is the fact that the New Testament pretty much rewrites the rules from the Old Testament.
If you take the Old Testament by itself, the rule would be "the wages of Sin are death." Not very pleasant, as any little sin you commit would automatically condemn you.
In the New Testament we have Jesus, who died for our sins. This basically means that He took upon himself all of our sins when He died upon the cross, so now we aren't automatically condemned for all time when we commit a sin.
This isn't supposed to give you licence to commit sins indescriminately, however...
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"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon
Silly us, we thought the President had to follow the laws. Clearly, we were wrong.
So what does that make this? Libyagate? Wargagate?
These days all businesses are required to have doors that open outward, primarily due to the Cocoanut Grove fire way back in 1942, which killed 492 people.
Effectively what occurred is many of the exit signs were obscured, and there were no doors that opened outward. This caused massive traffic jams as people futilely attempted to escape the fire.
Quite a sad story.
Here's the wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoanut_Grove_fire
Here's an example of such a law from the Oregon state fire code: https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/479.150.html
Probably about the same they thought about it a thousand years ago, perhaps?
Or they just don't change the formula all that much no matter where you go.
Around here (Seattle) we're lucky to see it snow once or twice a year, and there's only one or two months a year where it gets really cold. I've never seen it get colder than the 20's.
Of course, this is also the city where they decided when we got almost two feet of snow this winter (a very rare event) that they weren't going to use salt because it might 'hurt the environment.' That plan didn't work out so well...
This is why at my work place our pair programming stations have mirrored monitors (with two sets of keyboards and mice).
There can certainly be some contention when both programmers try to do something simultaneously, but most of the time you simply trade off doing things.
This prevents utter boredom from enveloping either developer. If one of us wants to do something, we just do it.
Caveats include having the video card power necessary to drive a mirrored monitor setup.
That's why I found it interesting when looking through the settings for Left 4 Dead that they provide a 'color blind' option. Switching it on apparently swaps the color of the health bars etc. to a color that's more easily visible for these people.
This is the first time I've seen such an option in a game, and I think it's a cool trend I'd like to see continue.
I was treating this article seriously until I came to point where it claimed that "We know that many of our emails never reach their destination." Huh? When was the last time you had an email that failed to deliver? I know it's possible, and I've seen it once in awhile, but it's so rare nobody complains about it.
I suppose it depends on where you live, but the outages I've seen in other basic services (cable tv/internet, cellphone) over the last year and a half have been virtually nonexistent.
I feel like this is another clueless journalist trying to yank people's chains. Maybe he's just living in an entirely different universe. Maybe he's personally had outages recently that have driven him to write this rant.
Because it's a parody of the opening introduction for Babylon 5:
Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair: It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
Quoted from IMDB.Don't mind if I do. :)
As I replied to a different post, the car acts as a Faraday Cage - the current from the lightning bolt stays on the outside of the car, and doesn't go through.
That, of course, relies on the assumption that you don't have random wires/crap hanging around in your car for Mr. Lightning Bolt to jump out and give you a 'shocking' touch with. :)
You're partially correct. What you see moving down from the cloud and up from the ground are called leaders. When they meet each other, charge flows UPWARDS during the return stroke. Relevant link here
A car acts as a Faraday Cage, allowing the charge from the lightning to travel around the outside of the car (without traveling through the middle of the car, frying occupants).
I think that covers everything!
More like shooting to the left of a target, then to the right of a target, and claiming you hit the bullseye.
Gaim supports encryption too, via a plug-in.
You can get it here.
Those books you linked to are parodies, and therefore protected under law.
Therefore it is not an effective rebuttal to the parent's post.
I'm not sure precisely HOW they do it, but our college "null-routes" machines.
Taken directly from one of the University of Washington's web sites, reguarding recent virus attacks:
"If a system becomes infected, it is null-routed to prevent them from causing damage to other systems on campus. A null-routed system continues to have access to all of its software, and access to resources on campus. All off-campus resources, such as commercial web pages, are not available."
In my experience, the suckiness of the Internet connection is almost directly related to the competence of your university's CAC (Computing and Communications) department.
I am currently a student at the University of Washington.
The UW uses a packet shaper on their network, so they can pretty easily tell what traffic looks suspicious. If such supicious traffic is noted, the machine from which that traffic is coming is null-routed.
Null-routed means the machine is not able to access the outside network (but can still access the intranet, such as www.washington.edu). This allows us to patch our machines and follow a an on-line script on our Computing and Communications web site to get back up and running.
The UW also does not accept any incoming connections - your computer must initiate contact with outside sources.
It's so nice having a competent CAC department.
Because we can type in a simple conversion, such as "1 meter in feet," and get an answer of 3.2808399 feet.
If you're paranoid you can then go look up the conversion factors and make sure they are correct.
Ok. That's alright then. I was worried a for a little bit there.
Um, because it's a comment, perhaps?
It doesn't matter how much you misspell words in your comments.
If you would like to know what O(n) notation is, I suggest you look at this page.
These are slides taken directly from the CSE 143 class I took here at college recently.
If the people you're hiring don't even know THIS basic information, you really should be looking at which colleges these people graduate from.
The difference is the fact that the New Testament pretty much rewrites the rules from the Old Testament.
If you take the Old Testament by itself, the rule would be "the wages of Sin are death." Not very pleasant, as any little sin you commit would automatically condemn you.
In the New Testament we have Jesus, who died for our sins. This basically means that He took upon himself all of our sins when He died upon the cross, so now we aren't automatically condemned for all time when we commit a sin.
This isn't supposed to give you licence to commit sins indescriminately, however...
I will be leading an expedition to climb both peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro.
I'm hoping that we'll be successful in our quest to build a bridge between the two peaks.
Any takers?
...Posts the AC.
I was just curious about it, since I remembered reading the same thing before.
Stolen Post.