the widespread Internet Explorer security exploit last week and CERT's subsequent recommendation that IE users should consider switching to another browser has resulted in a large spike in downloads of the Mozilla Organization's Mozilla and Firefox web browsers
only has a driver's license (which, in the USA, doesn't require any type of competence test at all)
What bizarre state do you live in that doesn't require an actual driving test (or a driver's ed class with a driving component) before issuing a license. I know that FL, WA, MI, & MA certainly all require this.
Granted, you only have to take it once, but it still weeds out the truly incompetent drivers. (Still leaves a lot of the clueless ones and $@#holes on the road though.)
Remember that police can usually get away with holding you for up to 48 hours for no particularly good reason, and if they happen to bust you on a Thursday and the 48 hours expires on Saturday and there's no judge around til Monday, well bummer for you, 'cause John Doe doesn't get out on bail or on his own unrecognized recognizance. I've always heard that this is the way it works in Louisiana because it's under French Common Law, but in the rest of the U.S. they are under British Common Law and therefore the 48 hours is regardless of holidays, weekends, etc. (This is often cited in reference to events at Mardi Gras as related by hungover college students.:)
Ummm, they were British citizens. Just as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, etc. were British citizens until the revolution. Canada was still a British colony at the time (until 1867).
If this tiny smidgen of what the FCC does is so important, Congress can always pass laws mimicking the current FCC regulations that prohibit devices from outputting enough power to interfere with other devices.
And who, exactly, would implement and enforce these laws? You would need a regulatory agency similar in nature to...Well, the FCC!
Yes, and some of that is quite possibly due to an increased knowledge of autism and therefore increased diagnosis.
In the case of Silicon Valley, I read an article that talked about the fact that there are an unusually high number of children with Asperger syndrome (a mild form of autism). Since people with Asperger are still fairly functional in society but have some quirks (like the inability to understand that not everyone sees things the same way they do), some scientists believe that a lot of geeks may actually have undiagnosed Asperger's. Once you concentrate enough people with this syndrome/genetic predisposition for it and then they start raising families of their own...
Which is not to say that there are no other causes, just that they may not be environmental. The fact of the matter is that no one really understands autism.
You know, I just had a co-worker say that to me the other day when they were trying to use my TI-89. Of course, they also tried to use RPN on it too...
Except that the Mongols managed to cross "impassable deserts" and ride around the Himalayas to spread from China all the way to Persia. There were a lot of factors involved, not just geography. Also, Chinese has a number of major dialects not to mention a number of other Asian languages from bordering countries.
For a book that explores why Western Europeans ended up being so successful, I would highly recommend Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Geography plays a big part in his argument, but not just because of mountains.
According to the EPA, the official fuel economy for a Chevrolet Avalanche 2WD is 14/18 City/Highway. Also from the EPA, a 1993 Toyota Tercel gets between 26/29 and 32/36 depending on the exact model. That difference adds up.
And while the emissions standards have tightened (less so for SUVs than for smaller cars), you still have to remember that finding, drilling, processing, and shipping oil creates its own pollution...
And FWIW, the previous poster was referring to Landrover Freelander. A 2003 Freelander is rated at 17/20, which is still not great.
Randal: Which did you like better? Jedi or The Empire Strikes Back? Dante: Empire. Randal: Blasphemy. Dante: Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father. Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.
Baseball is filled with random reinforcers which contributes to the superstitious behaviour. You have ppl, doing all of these nervous ticks, spitting, scratching, hand signals, random fights, wiggling around at the plate and mound, and apparently the numbers at the bottom of the screen have affected you and others as well.
Well, to quote from Bull Durham: "If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, then you ARE!"
As much as we may want to get down to the hard science of a sport, there's still a lot of soft psychology involved with the players...
"Know why they put those valves on sealed coffee bags? IT'S TO LET THE FLAVOR OUT! Seriously, the escaped gas that contains almost all the varietal distinction and aroma has to go somewhere or the bag will explode."
When I did some consulting work for Starbucks a number of years ago, I was told that the ground beans off-gassed nitrogen. And they are well aware that it also bleeds off the flavor and aroma. That's why they still sell the whole beans rather than going the Folgers route. The fact of the matter is that most people (myself included) are too lazy to grind their own beans. Especially at 5am when I get up and make the coffee.
"Brilliant observation of the day. Please mod up the parent of this reply."
Mod parent down for cluelessness and knee-jerk conpiracy theories.
As another poster pointed out, there is almost 100 MHz between channels 6 & 7, with the FM broadcast bands occupying about 20MHz of that. By comparison, each TV signal occupies 6MHz. There is little direct intereference because of channel spacings.
More importantly, one the major concerns about Wi-Fi is probably that the devices will operate under Part 15, where the users are not required to have a license from the FCC. Instead, they'll bitch and complain and not understand that they must not interfere with other licensed services and must accept any intereference they receive.
One of the screenplay writers, Karey Kirkpatrick, also was credited with working on the screenplay for Chicken Run, which was pretty good and original. So I think we can all continue to hold out hope for a while longer.
Well, this apple tree probably wasn't "growing wild" either. (Especially since apples are only native to someplace in Russia. Kazakhstan, maybe?) Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that the tree was intentionally planted. According to the other link I cited, "The plant must have resulted from cultivation, and may be the result of a sport, mutant or hybrid."
Burbank's first major success, the Burbank potato, was actually the result of just such a situation. He happened to find a seed ball in his potato field and one of the plants he grew from these seeds was successful.
Actually, unique varieties of plants have been patentable in the U.S. for over seventy years. Acoording to this site, the Plant Patent Act of 1930 says: "Whoever invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant, including cultivated sports, mutants, hybrids, and newly found seedlings, other than a tuber propagated plant or plant found in an uncultivated state, may obtain a patent therefor..."
The act was but in place in large part because of the works of famous plant hybridizers like Luther Burbank. Burbank was an incredibly prolific producer of new plant varieties, but I had a very hard time making money due to the lack of patents.
"1000+ systems" "Obviousally you run in a very tiny shop." " 500,000 desktops/ servers/ etc."
Something about this exchange just struck me as really odd. So let's be generous and assume that the companies in question have 2 computers for every employee (unlikely). According to this page, that would place the first company in the top 0.306% of businesses in the U.S. and and the second company in the very elite 0.016% of businesses in the U.S.! Tiny shop, my ass.
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the widespread Internet Explorer security exploit last week and CERT's subsequent recommendation that IE users should consider switching to another browser has resulted in a large spike in downloads of the Mozilla Organization's Mozilla and Firefox web browsers
I'm sure the spike in downloads has absolutely nothing to do with the recent release of new versions of Firefox & Thunderbird...
Umm, you do realize that the Polaris was actually a U.S. sub-launched missile that was sold to the Brits, right? (Check out wikipedia.)
Don't mock a country's phallic symbols!
only has a driver's license (which, in the USA, doesn't require any type of competence test at all)
What bizarre state do you live in that doesn't require an actual driving test (or a driver's ed class with a driving component) before issuing a license. I know that FL, WA, MI, & MA certainly all require this.
Granted, you only have to take it once, but it still weeds out the truly incompetent drivers. (Still leaves a lot of the clueless ones and $@#holes on the road though.)
Well, according to this page, a rod can also be 512 yards. And that 63 gallons is a bit nebulous as well.
Still, he must drive an SUV to get gas mileage like that.
Remember that police can usually get away with holding you for up to 48 hours for no particularly good reason, and if they happen to bust you on a Thursday and the 48 hours expires on Saturday and there's no judge around til Monday, well bummer for you, 'cause John Doe doesn't get out on bail or on his own unrecognized recognizance. :)
I've always heard that this is the way it works in Louisiana because it's under French Common Law, but in the rest of the U.S. they are under British Common Law and therefore the 48 hours is regardless of holidays, weekends, etc. (This is often cited in reference to events at Mardi Gras as related by hungover college students.
Can anyone with some knowledge comment on this?
Ummm, they were British citizens. Just as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, etc. were British citizens until the revolution. Canada was still a British colony at the time (until 1867).
If this tiny smidgen of what the FCC does is so important, Congress can always pass laws mimicking the current FCC regulations that prohibit devices from outputting enough power to interfere with other devices.
And who, exactly, would implement and enforce these laws? You would need a regulatory agency similar in nature to...Well, the FCC!
Yes, and some of that is quite possibly due to an increased knowledge of autism and therefore increased diagnosis.
In the case of Silicon Valley, I read an article that talked about the fact that there are an unusually high number of children with Asperger syndrome (a mild form of autism). Since people with Asperger are still fairly functional in society but have some quirks (like the inability to understand that not everyone sees things the same way they do), some scientists believe that a lot of geeks may actually have undiagnosed Asperger's. Once you concentrate enough people with this syndrome/genetic predisposition for it and then they start raising families of their own...
Which is not to say that there are no other causes, just that they may not be environmental. The fact of the matter is that no one really understands autism.
My favorite quote: "Where's the equals?"
You know, I just had a co-worker say that to me the other day when they were trying to use my TI-89. Of course, they also tried to use RPN on it too...
More like a porcupine. (I try to point them out to my wife whenever I see them in the hope she'll stop complaining about my single ATAS...)
Yeah, especially stuff like sunlight and wind!
Except that the Mongols managed to cross "impassable deserts" and ride around the Himalayas to spread from China all the way to Persia. There were a lot of factors involved, not just geography. Also, Chinese has a number of major dialects not to mention a number of other Asian languages from bordering countries.
For a book that explores why Western Europeans ended up being so successful, I would highly recommend Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Geography plays a big part in his argument, but not just because of mountains.
According to the EPA, the official fuel economy for a Chevrolet Avalanche 2WD is 14/18 City/Highway. Also from the EPA, a 1993 Toyota Tercel gets between 26/29 and 32/36 depending on the exact model. That difference adds up.
And while the emissions standards have tightened (less so for SUVs than for smaller cars), you still have to remember that finding, drilling, processing, and shipping oil creates its own pollution...
And FWIW, the previous poster was referring to Landrover Freelander. A 2003 Freelander is rated at 17/20, which is still not great.
You probably enjoy the time you spend collecting stamps too! Hypocrite.
Randal: Which did you like better? Jedi or The Empire Strikes Back?
Dante: Empire.
Randal: Blasphemy.
Dante: Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father. Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.
Well, to quote from Bull Durham : "If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, then you ARE!"
As much as we may want to get down to the hard science of a sport, there's still a lot of soft psychology involved with the players...
"Know why they put those valves on sealed coffee bags? IT'S TO LET THE FLAVOR OUT! Seriously, the escaped gas that contains almost all the varietal distinction and aroma has to go somewhere or the bag will explode."
When I did some consulting work for Starbucks a number of years ago, I was told that the ground beans off-gassed nitrogen. And they are well aware that it also bleeds off the flavor and aroma. That's why they still sell the whole beans rather than going the Folgers route. The fact of the matter is that most people (myself included) are too lazy to grind their own beans. Especially at 5am when I get up and make the coffee.
Just for kicks, you can add to that list:
Paradyne (spun off from Lucent)
Globespan (spun off from Lucent and recently merged with Conexant)
"Brilliant observation of the day. Please mod up the parent of this reply."
Mod parent down for cluelessness and knee-jerk conpiracy theories.
As another poster pointed out, there is almost 100 MHz between channels 6 & 7, with the FM broadcast bands occupying about 20MHz of that. By comparison, each TV signal occupies 6MHz. There is little direct intereference because of channel spacings.
More importantly, one the major concerns about Wi-Fi is probably that the devices will operate under Part 15, where the users are not required to have a license from the FCC. Instead, they'll bitch and complain and not understand that they must not interfere with other licensed services and must accept any intereference they receive.
Well, according to , it looks like they've chosen an interesting cast. I think Martin Freeman is an excellent choice for Arthur. I suspect Warwick Davis is being cast as Marvin simply because he seemed so pessimistic for most of Willow.
One of the screenplay writers, Karey Kirkpatrick, also was credited with working on the screenplay for Chicken Run, which was pretty good and original. So I think we can all continue to hold out hope for a while longer.
If you read the post, you'll notice the line says:
Artist royalty (0.01)
This is a common way (especially in accounting) of saying -0.01. (It even one of the options for indicating negative numbers in Excel.)
That's because The Librarian could rip our heads off. I better start stocking up on bananas...
Ook.
Well, this apple tree probably wasn't "growing wild" either. (Especially since apples are only native to someplace in Russia. Kazakhstan, maybe?) Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that the tree was intentionally planted. According to the other link I cited, "The plant must have resulted from cultivation, and may be the result of a sport, mutant or hybrid."
Burbank's first major success, the Burbank potato, was actually the result of just such a situation. He happened to find a seed ball in his potato field and one of the plants he grew from these seeds was successful.
Actually, unique varieties of plants have been patentable in the U.S. for over seventy years. Acoording to this site, the Plant Patent Act of 1930 says: "Whoever invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant, including cultivated sports, mutants, hybrids, and newly found seedlings, other than a tuber propagated plant or plant found in an uncultivated state, may obtain a patent therefor..."
The act was but in place in large part because of the works of famous plant hybridizers like Luther Burbank. Burbank was an incredibly prolific producer of new plant varieties, but I had a very hard time making money due to the lack of patents.
"1000+ systems"
"Obviousally you run in a very tiny shop."
" 500,000 desktops/ servers/ etc."
Something about this exchange just struck me as really odd. So let's be generous and assume that the companies in question have 2 computers for every employee (unlikely). According to this page, that would place the first company in the top 0.306% of businesses in the U.S. and and the second company in the very elite 0.016% of businesses in the U.S.! Tiny shop, my ass.