When I was in - ahem - driver education, the instructor told us about an RV driver who needed to pee, and he did not want to stop because his wife was sleeping in the back, so he secured the sterring wheel with his belt and made his way back to the head (is it a head on an RV?)
He didn't make it
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Notice the article talks about "exuberance" not "irrational exuberance".
So there's the key distinction:
If the exuberance is irrational its a bubble.
If the exuberance is not irrational (NB: double negative intended since presumably "not irrational" is less strong rational) then its a boom.
What are the observables? If you see people drinking champagne or buying new BMWs its still a boom. When you see them drinking champagne in their BMWs its a bubble.
I am surprised anybody can take MOND seriously since it breaks the principle of equivalence. Just introduce a mass that causes the acceleration (of the original test mass) to exceed a0, or else reduces the acceleration below a0. If you explain this away by saying its the individual contributions that matter not the total acceleration you have got an even bigger mess.
Presumably this new theory breaks the principle too (anybody know) but finding that the principle of equivalence is a classical limit is not nearly as bad as throwing it away altogether.
Just redirect stdin and stdout to your script, fire up the program in debug mode and have your script feed it debug commands until something interesting (which of course you have predetermined) happens, or in response to your own input (you have of course saved the original stdin and stdout handles so you can still do io to your own program).
Actually, I have only ever done this with gdb but I expect it will work with perl debug too.
Why does the BBC report 28,000 pounds spent on flash clothes and learning to fly a helicopter as one line item?
Did he need the flash clothes so he would be appropriately dressed for helicopter lessons? Were the clothes and helicopter lessons purchased at the same store?
How come you can't buy Helicopter Lessons at Marks & Sparks, or Tescos, instead having to go to some poshish booteek?
When are we going to be able to walk into our local McDonalds and hear the magic words "Would you like helicopter lessons with that?"
Note that the case does not disturb the copyright. It gives the "owner" of a legitimate copy certain rights. Its really more a question of fair use. For the purposes of the case, you can certainly make the case that you own the binary copy and are therefore entitled to modify it.
You still would not be able to do anything you liked with it. For example, if there were portions of the code that were not enabled without payment of an extra fee, you probably could not modify the code to enable those portions. You certainly cannot distribute your changed versions. You probably cannot distribute the changes say, as a patch file, except under restricted conditions that would have to be elaborated by case law.
Notice that Microsoft is claiming ownership of the rights in the software, not the ownership of the software itself. Their lawyers have probably already thought about this issue at length.
So why do they ship the stuff to you in a plain brown paper wrapping? As soon as the neighbors see you picking something in a plain brown paper wrapping from your letter box they know you are up to no good.
I can't resist griping that the phrase is "strike while the iron is hot" not "strike the iron...". Someone needs to go read George Orwell's lecture on dead metaphors.
Also, at no time in its passage will Mars "hover". It will just continue on its merry way in its orbit, oblivious of all those humans staring at the bottom side of clouds on earth while churning out grangrous English.
Perhaps the fact that it never approaches much closer shows a deep wisdom.
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Just driver's licence tests I suppose when one moves state, and anybody who has to cheat on one of those probably can't find the on switch on a computer to start with.
One that comes to mind was for my power boat operators test. The theoretical part of the test contained one question (I swear on a stack of K&Rs this is true):
"What's the pointy end of the boat called"
I couldn't cheat on that exam if I tried.
Last time I programmed an IBM mainframe it was running OS/360.
The article claims that the problem is no-one remembers how to program this old stuff but the truth seems to be that the given mainframe OS is not old enough for there to be a bunch of people out there who have programmed it.
What if the searches that showed Yahoo to search more pages (assuming for the moment that this is in fact the case) were those that blew the 1000 hit limit?
In other words there are a bunch of pages that are unlikely to ever appear in one of their accepted searches and I don't think it is a reasonable assumption that the sizes of these sets is comparable for each engine.
(Which does not mean I believe their result is wrong, just that I think they have failed to prove it is correct)
Actually there were translations into the Venacular of the Bible before the King James version but they were suppressed by the Church. There was a Lollard one, for example, in the 15th century - one is extant (its in a New York library if memory serves) that is thought to have belonged to Richard III.
: The important bit is: money now is a lot better
than money later... This is what "Return on
Investment (ROI)" is all about
Actually this is "Discounted Cash Flow". Its part of ROI but ROI is more than you need to compare alternative payment plans.
Plus money now is better than money later if you are receiving it. If you are spending it the opposite is true.
A couple of things to be careful of.
Unrealistic residual values can bight you depending upon the terms of the lease.
If you have to guarantee the residual value and its too high you end up paying the lessor an unexpected sum at the end of the contract. This is a technique used by unscrupulous operators to con people.
If its too low and you get to own the equipment at end of lease, you may up with taxable profit on the difference.
For vehicles be very careful about the mileage allowance. These contracts sometimes contain unrealistically low mileage allowances and high per mile penalties if you exceed them. What looks like a good deal ends up being horribly expensive.
This comparison would only work if there was only one car company and they owned the satelite that transmitted the signals to the car radios.
The two key issues are (i) that the company has an effective monopoly in one market and (ii) is using that monopoly as leverage in other markets.
As the real issue here is that MS is using their OS monopoly to extend the monopoly to the provision of programming, the EU were correct to address this (and the Justice Department in the US should have done so too) but the remedy is totally ineffective - an effective remedy would have been to require opening of the interfaces.
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One reason they do this is so if you lose your parking ticket they know how long you have been there and can charge you appropriately.
But the airport I use goes round and records all plates and where they are parked. I know this because once I forgot where I had parked and when I went up to the gate and said "I can't find my car" they were able to find it based on the license plate.
Tried one of those. Stopped working after one night.
First morning I hit the snooze button and it ran off. Cat ran after it. Clock turned on cat. Cat jumped on bed and peed on it. I lept out of bed and kicked cat. Clock went off a second time. Unfortunately it had chosen a poor hiding spot. I kicked clock downstairs and it hasn't worked since.
Slashdot Mirror
I know information cannot travel faster than the speed of light, but what about government white papers?
And he did find a ring in his pocket.
When I was in - ahem - driver education, the instructor told us about an RV driver who needed to pee, and he did not want to stop because his wife was sleeping in the back, so he secured the sterring wheel with his belt and made his way back to the head (is it a head on an RV?)
He didn't make it
Notice the article talks about "exuberance" not "irrational exuberance".
So there's the key distinction:
If the exuberance is irrational its a bubble.
If the exuberance is not irrational (NB: double negative intended since presumably "not irrational" is less strong rational) then its a boom.
What are the observables? If you see people drinking champagne or buying new BMWs its still a boom. When you see them drinking champagne in their BMWs its a bubble.
I am surprised anybody can take MOND seriously since it breaks the principle of equivalence. Just introduce a mass that causes the acceleration (of the original test mass) to exceed a0, or else reduces the acceleration below a0. If you explain this away by saying its the individual contributions that matter not the total acceleration you have got an even bigger mess. Presumably this new theory breaks the principle too (anybody know) but finding that the principle of equivalence is a classical limit is not nearly as bad as throwing it away altogether.
Should be a commercial success though - they'll just make up the volume with batter.
Judging from that artists impression perhaps it was actually a strike from a batter pudding http://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/scripts/batter.html.
You can write a perl script to do that!
Just redirect stdin and stdout to your script, fire up the program in debug mode and have your script feed it debug commands until something interesting (which of course you have predetermined) happens, or in response to your own input (you have of course saved the original stdin and stdout handles so you can still do io to your own program).
Actually, I have only ever done this with gdb but I expect it will work with perl debug too.
Why does the BBC report 28,000 pounds spent on flash clothes and learning to fly a helicopter as one line item?
Did he need the flash clothes so he would be appropriately dressed for helicopter lessons? Were the clothes and helicopter lessons purchased at the same store?
How come you can't buy Helicopter Lessons at Marks & Sparks, or Tescos, instead having to go to some poshish booteek?
When are we going to be able to walk into our local McDonalds and hear the magic words "Would you like helicopter lessons with that?"
Note that the case does not disturb the copyright. It gives the "owner" of a legitimate copy certain rights. Its really more a question of fair use. For the purposes of the case, you can certainly make the case that you own the binary copy and are therefore entitled to modify it. You still would not be able to do anything you liked with it. For example, if there were portions of the code that were not enabled without payment of an extra fee, you probably could not modify the code to enable those portions. You certainly cannot distribute your changed versions. You probably cannot distribute the changes say, as a patch file, except under restricted conditions that would have to be elaborated by case law. Notice that Microsoft is claiming ownership of the rights in the software, not the ownership of the software itself. Their lawyers have probably already thought about this issue at length.
So why do they ship the stuff to you in a plain brown paper wrapping? As soon as the neighbors see you picking something in a plain brown paper wrapping from your letter box they know you are up to no good.
I can't resist griping that the phrase is "strike while the iron is hot" not "strike the iron ...". Someone needs to go read George Orwell's lecture on dead metaphors.
Also, at no time in its passage will Mars "hover". It will just continue on its merry way in its orbit, oblivious of all those humans staring at the bottom side of clouds on earth while churning out grangrous English.
Perhaps the fact that it never approaches much closer shows a deep wisdom.
[/grump]
Just driver's licence tests I suppose when one moves state, and anybody who has to cheat on one of those probably can't find the on switch on a computer to start with. One that comes to mind was for my power boat operators test. The theoretical part of the test contained one question (I swear on a stack of K&Rs this is true): "What's the pointy end of the boat called" I couldn't cheat on that exam if I tried.
Last time I programmed an IBM mainframe it was running OS/360.
The article claims that the problem is no-one remembers how to program this old stuff but the truth seems to be that the given mainframe OS is not old enough for there to be a bunch of people out there who have programmed it.
I think it could be worse than that.
What if the searches that showed Yahoo to search more pages (assuming for the moment that this is in fact the case) were those that blew the 1000 hit limit?
In other words there are a bunch of pages that are unlikely to ever appear in one of their accepted searches and I don't think it is a reasonable assumption that the sizes of these sets is comparable for each engine.
(Which does not mean I believe their result is wrong, just that I think they have failed to prove it is correct)
Don't be so hard on Microsoft. They are just looking to improve mean time between failure.
Actually there were translations into the Venacular of the Bible before the King James version but they were suppressed by the Church. There was a Lollard one, for example, in the 15th century - one is extant (its in a New York library if memory serves) that is thought to have belonged to Richard III.
: The important bit is: money now is a lot better than money later ... This is what "Return on
Investment (ROI)" is all about
Actually this is "Discounted Cash Flow". Its part of ROI but ROI is more than you need to compare alternative payment plans.
Plus money now is better than money later if you are receiving it. If you are spending it the opposite is true.
A couple of things to be careful of.
Unrealistic residual values can bight you depending upon the terms of the lease. If you have to guarantee the residual value and its too high you end up paying the lessor an unexpected sum at the end of the contract. This is a technique used by unscrupulous operators to con people.
If its too low and you get to own the equipment at end of lease, you may up with taxable profit on the difference.
For vehicles be very careful about the mileage allowance. These contracts sometimes contain unrealistically low mileage allowances and high per mile penalties if you exceed them. What looks like a good deal ends up being horribly expensive.
I mean if you suspend disbelieve for a moment what part of the item as posted could not be part of an actual press release by a marketing type?
Lets face it the way Tiger is playing right now, this would guarantee the product was at least occasionally pushed right. :-(
The two key issues are (i) that the company has an effective monopoly in one market and (ii) is using that monopoly as leverage in other markets.
As the real issue here is that MS is using their OS monopoly to extend the monopoly to the provision of programming, the EU were correct to address this (and the Justice Department in the US should have done so too) but the remedy is totally ineffective - an effective remedy would have been to require opening of the interfaces.
But the airport I use goes round and records all plates and where they are parked. I know this because once I forgot where I had parked and when I went up to the gate and said "I can't find my car" they were able to find it based on the license plate.
Who was it who said giving somebody an award after they are dead does them no good and advertises your stupidity for being slow on the uptake.
Tried one of those. Stopped working after one night. First morning I hit the snooze button and it ran off. Cat ran after it. Clock turned on cat. Cat jumped on bed and peed on it. I lept out of bed and kicked cat. Clock went off a second time. Unfortunately it had chosen a poor hiding spot. I kicked clock downstairs and it hasn't worked since.
Darth Vader has to wear that mask following a narrow escape from the House of Wax. Sort of a latter day Phantom of the Paradise I guess.
Can you end a sentence in a "but" but?
(Yes, that sentence form is encountered in Australian English)