Curiously, there is no consensus for who invented the screw propeller (U.S. and several Europeans plus one Canadian make the claim, all circa 1900), but everyone seems to agree it was/is based on the Archimedes screw http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Scre w/SourcesScrew.html
"did the author go overboard with the adjectives in the openening paragraph (crepuscular, mote-strewn, glowering)?"
Agreed, definitely over-written. That's the sort of prose that garners a rejection (from magazine editors, not necessarily/. editors).
SWAG = "Scientific Wild-Ass Guess." A wholly American thing, I think.
As for the sig, think of it this way: Beauty is transient, ugly is forever. Yeah, you could say "ugliness," but it is (a) unnecessary, (b) less "tight" prose, and (c) just doesn't "sound" as good.;)
I am not an Aussie (IANAA?) and therefore no authority on colloquialisms, but "compo" intuitively translates to a person on "compensation" from the state for a disability. My best SWAG for "Pom" would be "pensioner."
"Anyone who falls for this deserves to be stripped of all assets."
Bullshit. This post is another glaring example of ignorance and insensitivity.
Quite frequently, scam targets and victims are the elderly, often poor in a relative sense, sometimes desperate and lonely. They fall for the scam not out of greed, but out of need.
Sure, many victims are in fact victims of their own greed, but to paint all with the same brush is absurd and just plain wrong.
...I can tell you there is nothing better. For the past 5 years, I get up in the morning, get a cup of coffee, scratch my butt, sit down at my computer, and I am "at work." Our primary office site is 300+ miles away in Houston.
Logistical issues are infrequent and minor, usually comfortably and efficiently addressed by FedEx or UPS.
Telecommuting is not the wave of the future, it is the reality of now--at least for me.
You read my mind, or stole my thunder...or mabe stole my mind...what were we discussing?
Seriously, I had the same thought, and even though I do not belong to the tinfoil hat brigade (well, maybe just a little), liasons between seemingly conflicting yet mutually serving interests always make me suspicious.
He could accomplish the same thing with a much-smaller heater core (which might actually fit inside the case). It works on the same principle as a radiator (actually is a small radiator), but is mounted inside the car's duct work to siphon heat from the engine coolant to heat the interior.
"Bug zappers in the grocery sections of the pilot stores also caused interference. "When you have a bug that hits the zapper, the RF power generated by the interaction with the bug produces noise in the coax cables," says Douglas Martin, executive consultant at IBM Global Services."
Ah, the good old days. CPM worked, was simple yet powerful, fit on a floppy, and required just a few K of memory. Bells and whistles? That's what apps were for.
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What pisses me is the whole "opt-out" approach. Have spammers and CANSPAM proponents taken over ICANN?
ICANN screw you over unless you explicitly tell me no?
Jeez.
I agree with your sig, though I voted for Bush.
Curiously, there is no consensus for who invented the screw propeller (U.S. and several Europeans plus one Canadian make the claim, all circa 1900), but everyone seems to agree it was/is based on the Archimedes screw http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Scre w/SourcesScrew.html
Curiously, there is no concensus for who invented the screw propeller, but everyone seems to agree it was/is based on the Archimedes screw http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Scre w/SourcesScrew.html
"did the author go overboard with the adjectives in the openening paragraph (crepuscular, mote-strewn, glowering)?" Agreed, definitely over-written. That's the sort of prose that garners a rejection (from magazine editors, not necessarily /. editors).
SWAG = "Scientific Wild-Ass Guess." A wholly American thing, I think.
;)
As for the sig, think of it this way: Beauty is transient, ugly is forever. Yeah, you could say "ugliness," but it is (a) unnecessary, (b) less "tight" prose, and (c) just doesn't "sound" as good.
Jeez, wonder who pissed in his Post Toasties.
Well, jeez. Now you've gone and stolen my thunder and rendered my post "redundant." Good post nonetheless.
I am not an Aussie (IANAA?) and therefore no authority on colloquialisms, but "compo" intuitively translates to a person on "compensation" from the state for a disability. My best SWAG for "Pom" would be "pensioner."
"Anyone who falls for this deserves to be stripped of all assets."
Bullshit. This post is another glaring example of ignorance and insensitivity.
Quite frequently, scam targets and victims are the elderly, often poor in a relative sense, sometimes desperate and lonely. They fall for the scam not out of greed, but out of need.
Sure, many victims are in fact victims of their own greed, but to paint all with the same brush is absurd and just plain wrong.
"I thought it was pretty well-established that the dinosaurs were already in decline by the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago."
Simple: they farted themselves to death.
All those millions of dinos and what-all eating and farting, thus producing methane (greenhouse gas). Result: global warming, and the rest is obvious.
And there you go.
I was building a bullshit meter, but abandoned it after reading this post. I now know it would melt down on its first exposure to /.
"The CLI actually isn't a 'garbage collected language'. First, it isn't a language - it is a language infrastructure (the LI in CLI)."
Gawd. I thought the discussion was about a Command Line Interpreter.
I'm so old...
...I can tell you there is nothing better. For the past 5 years, I get up in the morning, get a cup of coffee, scratch my butt, sit down at my computer, and I am "at work." Our primary office site is 300+ miles away in Houston.
Logistical issues are infrequent and minor, usually comfortably and efficiently addressed by FedEx or UPS.
Telecommuting is not the wave of the future, it is the reality of now--at least for me.
"The theat of terrorism is greatly exagerated and sensationalized in nearly every aspect of our daily lives these days. It's quite unfortunate."
Why do I suspect you do not live in a country hard-hit by terrorists?
Damn, I wish I had mod points right now to give this off-topic drivel what it deserves.
I didn't know until now you could do that. The only reason I got BitTorrent was to download Knoppix.
"What you possibly meant to say is that they don't have a sentient soul."
What YOU meant to say is that animals have a soul (life force), but it is not constituted by a spirit.
Tried to RTFA--it was SBAR (Slashdotted Beyond All Repair).
You read my mind, or stole my thunder...or mabe stole my mind...what were we discussing?
Seriously, I had the same thought, and even though I do not belong to the tinfoil hat brigade (well, maybe just a little), liasons between seemingly conflicting yet mutually serving interests always make me suspicious.
He could accomplish the same thing with a much-smaller heater core (which might actually fit inside the case). It works on the same principle as a radiator (actually is a small radiator), but is mounted inside the car's duct work to siphon heat from the engine coolant to heat the interior.
...does this mean we now have to change the oil every 3 billion machine cycles?
The more things change, the more they stay the same http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug
Ah, the good old days. CPM worked, was simple yet powerful, fit on a floppy, and required just a few K of memory. Bells and whistles? That's what apps were for.
Fore once I'd like to mod an AC "Friend" and can't.