We've also written applications with concurrent requests. The callback function takes an index into a request array, but the array is still global. Still, the limitation to concurrent XMLHttpRequests is the number of persistant connections the client's browser allows to a single server. If this is 2 (default in Firefox, supposed default in IE) then subsequent requests block until one of the first two finishes.
My work computer has 1GB of RAM. Once in a while I catch Firefox using over 400MB of RAM, and I have to close it to release the memory. Is that "normal" as well? I haven't seen it happen yet with 1.5.0.1, but that may be because I've been conditioned to regularly restart the browser....
Yes, EOB2 is definite the best of the trilogy. I still prefer Lands of Lore, though that might be because it's actually the first game of that type I've ever played. I remember when it's 20MB install seemed awfully huge on a 110MB hard drive...
By the way, most, if not all, of the VGA DOS games you mentioned can be played using the DOSBox emulator. With a decent computer and proper scaling (hq2x from a DOSBox patch does wonders for games that don't have a lot of scrolling) the games keep all their gameplay and look better than they ever did!
I wouldn't be surprised if, in order to be considered for the prize, the scientists needed to write a short essay on how their work contributed to The President's plan to explore and colonize space.
Here's something interesting that happened to me. I interviewed for a company, and 2 days after my second interview I got a call from the recruiter saying that it wouldn't work out, as well as the reason why. Of course I was disapponted, but I was glad to find out so soon.
Fast forward 2-3 weeks and I get the following letter from the company, bolding added by me for emphasis:
Dear [my name]
Thank you so much for taking the time to interview with [company]. We appreciate your effort and want to send you our best with your future endeavor.
We enjoyed getting to know you, and hope that in the future you will keep [company] in mind when you are continuing to advance in your career.
We continue to seek qualified J2EE developers and project leaders. Please feel free to pass along our company information to any candidates or colleagues that you are familiar with.
Thank you again and if your situation changes and you still might consider our career options at [company], please do not hesitate to contact us.
Now is it just me, or does it sound like I rejected them? I mean normally when a company rejects you, they tell you some B.S. like "we will keep your resume on file in case we need you". The do not say "contact us if your situation changes" and "recommend your friends to apply with us." Or maybe I'm just not experienced enough in job searching, and this type of thing is normal.... More likely the wrong Word template was loaded by accident, but it still suggests carelessness on the side of the recruiters.
1) The objection is simply the image of Mohammed. The cartoons that were published weren't that bad by any standards.
The reason Islam forbids images of their Prophet is to prevent him becoming a false idol for worship (i.e. like they believe happened with Jesus.) I don't think any of the cartoons in question would inspire idolatry. But this, again, is one of those "higher reasoning" problem an ancestor post mentioned.
what happened during and immediately after the Bang is considered extremely solid and proven.
From everything I've read, there is quite a bit of a debate as to what happened during and immidiately after the big bange (as in the first seconds.) One of the more popular theories of what happened, is the Inflationary Theory, but it's hardly the only one.
What they've said is you can't make a blatantly homosexual guild, as in the name, and you can't recruit on the general board based on that. They impose similar restrictions on religions, politics, straight sex, etc.
Except that from what I've read, there are several blatantly Christian guilds who recruit on the general board based on that, and they haven't been told "you can't do that."
Perhaps, but that's like saying that "Do unto others before they do unto you" is a mutation of "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." The message is really quite different. Peter's Principle involves promoting good employees to positions they're unqualified for, while Dilbert's Principle involves promoting bad employees to those position. jkauzlar's post talked about the latter case. It's true, though, that in both cases you wind up with unqualified managers.
Actually what he's talking about seems to be more along the lines of "The Dilbert Principle" - incompetent people get promoted to positions where the higher ups feel they can do the least damage.
Wow, never heard of this bird before, so I wikipedia'd it. Of particular interest:
The Southern Cassowary is the second-largest bird in Australia and the third-largest remaining bird in the world (after the ostrich and emu). Adult Southern Cassowaries are 1.5 to 1.8 m (5½ feet) tall and weigh about 60 kilograms (130 pounds). They have a bony casque on the head that is used to batter through underbrush, making them the only armoured bird in the world. Females are bigger and more brightly coloured.
A cassowary's three-toed feet have sharp claws; the dagger-like middle claw is 120 mm (5 inches) long. This claw is particularly dangerous since the Cassowary can use it to kill an enemy, disemboweling it with a single kick. They can run up to 50 km/h (32 mph) through the dense forrest, pushing aside small trees and brush with their boney casques. They can jump up to 1.5 m (5 feet) and they are good swimmers.
The 2004 edition of the Guiness Book of Records lists the cassowary as the world's most dangerous bird. Normally cassowaries are very shy but when disturbed can lash out dangerously with their powerful legs. During World War II American and Australian troops stationed in New Guinea were warned to steer clear of the birds. They are capable of inflicting serious injuries on an adult human, even causing death, but these instances usually result from provocation by the human, or are due to the involvement of dogs; wounded or cornered birds are particularly dangerous. Humans are well advised to stay away from Cassowaries in their natural environment as the bird can easily outmaneuver even an armed person. Cassowaries, deftly using their surroundings to conceal their movements, have been known to out-flank organized groups of human predators. Cassowaries are considered to be one of the most dangerous animals to keep in zoos, based on the frequency and severity of injuries incurred by zookeepers.
An unprovoked attack on a Papua New Guinea village has also been documented, but was the result of a bird previously raised in captivity being released into the wild. At least two people, a man and his mother, were confirmed to have died as a result of this attack.
More recently, Cassowaries have been known to lose their natural fear of man. As a result, large areas of Australian National Parks have been temporarily closed to avoid human contact with the bird.
I remember receiving a "security patch" from the Microsoft Security Center on my college email account. I almost executed it too, before thinking "why in the hell would microsoft be sending security patches over email???" Later I found out that several professors in the university's Computer Science department fell for it....
Now I wonder if it's possible for the brain to develop some kind of redundancy so that the skills area could be utilized for at least some fact retention...
My guess is, you either used bugmenot at some point in the past and forgot about it, or someone's been using your computer (and profile.) Either way, there's a cookie on your computer that NYT likes.
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We've also written applications with concurrent requests. The callback function takes an index into a request array, but the array is still global. Still, the limitation to concurrent XMLHttpRequests is the number of persistant connections the client's browser allows to a single server. If this is 2 (default in Firefox, supposed default in IE) then subsequent requests block until one of the first two finishes.
My work computer has 1GB of RAM. Once in a while I catch Firefox using over 400MB of RAM, and I have to close it to release the memory. Is that "normal" as well? I haven't seen it happen yet with 1.5.0.1, but that may be because I've been conditioned to regularly restart the browser....
I've closed all of my tabs before, and the darn thing was still using 400+MB. What kind of a feature is that????
Yes, EOB2 is definite the best of the trilogy. I still prefer Lands of Lore, though that might be because it's actually the first game of that type I've ever played. I remember when it's 20MB install seemed awfully huge on a 110MB hard drive...
By the way, most, if not all, of the VGA DOS games you mentioned can be played using the DOSBox emulator. With a decent computer and proper scaling (hq2x from a DOSBox patch does wonders for games that don't have a lot of scrolling) the games keep all their gameplay and look better than they ever did!
My P3-800 with a TNT2 card can easily render Quake3 at 1024x768. Man, I really should upgrade one of these years...
I wouldn't be surprised if, in order to be considered for the prize, the scientists needed to write a short essay on how their work contributed to The President's plan to explore and colonize space.
That episode was the first thing I thought of after reading the topic title.
Here's something interesting that happened to me. I interviewed for a company, and 2 days after my second interview I got a call from the recruiter saying that it wouldn't work out, as well as the reason why. Of course I was disapponted, but I was glad to find out so soon.
... More likely the wrong Word template was loaded by accident, but it still suggests carelessness on the side of the recruiters.
Fast forward 2-3 weeks and I get the following letter from the company, bolding added by me for emphasis:
Dear [my name]
Thank you so much for taking the time to interview with [company]. We appreciate your effort and want to send you our best with your future endeavor.
We enjoyed getting to know you, and hope that in the future you will keep [company] in mind when you are continuing to advance in your career.
We continue to seek qualified J2EE developers and project leaders. Please feel free to pass along our company information to any candidates or colleagues that you are familiar with.
Thank you again and if your situation changes and you still might consider our career options at [company], please do not hesitate to contact us.
Now is it just me, or does it sound like I rejected them? I mean normally when a company rejects you, they tell you some B.S. like "we will keep your resume on file in case we need you". The do not say "contact us if your situation changes" and "recommend your friends to apply with us." Or maybe I'm just not experienced enough in job searching, and this type of thing is normal.
1) The objection is simply the image of Mohammed. The cartoons that were published weren't that bad by any standards. The reason Islam forbids images of their Prophet is to prevent him becoming a false idol for worship (i.e. like they believe happened with Jesus.) I don't think any of the cartoons in question would inspire idolatry. But this, again, is one of those "higher reasoning" problem an ancestor post mentioned.
Maybe one day I'll be able to play a space sim where you can actually walk around on your ship, do EVAs in zero G, hijack other ships, etc.
You wanna do EVAs? That's some weird tastes you have, sir.
what happened during and immediately after the Bang is considered extremely solid and proven.
From everything I've read, there is quite a bit of a debate as to what happened during and immidiately after the big bange (as in the first seconds.) One of the more popular theories of what happened, is the Inflationary Theory, but it's hardly the only one.
Are they looking for a Time Machine Operator as well?
What they've said is you can't make a blatantly homosexual guild, as in the name, and you can't recruit on the general board based on that. They impose similar restrictions on religions, politics, straight sex, etc. Except that from what I've read, there are several blatantly Christian guilds who recruit on the general board based on that, and they haven't been told "you can't do that."
Perhaps, but that's like saying that "Do unto others before they do unto you" is a mutation of "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." The message is really quite different. Peter's Principle involves promoting good employees to positions they're unqualified for, while Dilbert's Principle involves promoting bad employees to those position. jkauzlar's post talked about the latter case. It's true, though, that in both cases you wind up with unqualified managers.
Actually what he's talking about seems to be more along the lines of "The Dilbert Principle" - incompetent people get promoted to positions where the higher ups feel they can do the least damage.
Wow, never heard of this bird before, so I wikipedia'd it. Of particular interest:
The Southern Cassowary is the second-largest bird in Australia and the third-largest remaining bird in the world (after the ostrich and emu). Adult Southern Cassowaries are 1.5 to 1.8 m (5½ feet) tall and weigh about 60 kilograms (130 pounds). They have a bony casque on the head that is used to batter through underbrush, making them the only armoured bird in the world. Females are bigger and more brightly coloured.
A cassowary's three-toed feet have sharp claws; the dagger-like middle claw is 120 mm (5 inches) long. This claw is particularly dangerous since the Cassowary can use it to kill an enemy, disemboweling it with a single kick. They can run up to 50 km/h (32 mph) through the dense forrest, pushing aside small trees and brush with their boney casques. They can jump up to 1.5 m (5 feet) and they are good swimmers.
The 2004 edition of the Guiness Book of Records lists the cassowary as the world's most dangerous bird. Normally cassowaries are very shy but when disturbed can lash out dangerously with their powerful legs. During World War II American and Australian troops stationed in New Guinea were warned to steer clear of the birds. They are capable of inflicting serious injuries on an adult human, even causing death, but these instances usually result from provocation by the human, or are due to the involvement of dogs; wounded or cornered birds are particularly dangerous. Humans are well advised to stay away from Cassowaries in their natural environment as the bird can easily outmaneuver even an armed person. Cassowaries, deftly using their surroundings to conceal their movements, have been known to out-flank organized groups of human predators. Cassowaries are considered to be one of the most dangerous animals to keep in zoos, based on the frequency and severity of injuries incurred by zookeepers.
An unprovoked attack on a Papua New Guinea village has also been documented, but was the result of a bird previously raised in captivity being released into the wild. At least two people, a man and his mother, were confirmed to have died as a result of this attack.
More recently, Cassowaries have been known to lose their natural fear of man. As a result, large areas of Australian National Parks have been temporarily closed to avoid human contact with the bird.
If the AI is superintelligent enough, you will not have the chance to disconnect it. Reminds me of the one page story Answer by Fredric Brown.
I remember receiving a "security patch" from the Microsoft Security Center on my college email account. I almost executed it too, before thinking "why in the hell would microsoft be sending security patches over email???" Later I found out that several professors in the university's Computer Science department fell for it....
Ah yes, the game that gave me the carpal tunnel syndrome...
Now I wonder if it's possible for the brain to develop some kind of redundancy so that the skills area could be utilized for at least some fact retention...
My guess is, you either used bugmenot at some point in the past and forgot about it, or someone's been using your computer (and profile.) Either way, there's a cookie on your computer that NYT likes.
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* DirectX® 9 compatible graphics adapter with Pixel Shader 2.0 support or later, and graphics memory of 256 MB minimum*
* 1GB of system RAM or more - 1.5GB of free hard disk space
* Windows® XP 32bit operating system with latest Service Packs and updates installed
* DirectX® 9.0c December 2005 or later
* Microsoft Excel® 2003 or XP for some 3DMark functionality
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for some 3DMark functionality
And if army training doesn't work out, they can always be retrofitted for school hall monitor duty.
SECOND REQUEST, PRESENT HALL PASS.
Is it sad that I can't tell whether parent is being sarcastic or just moronic?
Closing down all U.S. ISPs will be way more effective than any filters, and that seems to be what the government really wants, no matter the cost.