Why doesn't GM just go ahead and build a motorcycle. It's cheaper to produce gets better range and probably takes about the same amount of energy to push. Oh, and it goes a lot faster. They can make it electric if they want. If I needed to evade some dangerous situation, I'd much rather be on a bike than that death trap. It looks like GM is grasping at straws. I wonder what the insurance of the PUMA would be like.
I don't think you can just call in the repairman on this one. How much spare capacity will it take to give you time to schedule a space repair mission? How much cargo would need to go up to make the repair?
Are we talking math or physics? Math can only approximate physics. Good luck reaching any absolute zero in physics, therefore since you're always approaching zero, you're never actually there. Hence Calculus, which allows for the real world to be measured by assuming you're approaching zero but not actually there. By your definition, how do you put something into 0.5 groups? It's like saying you have 2.5 children. Children only come in whole numbers. This is physics not math. Physics uses math as a tool not a rule.
I had 3 working RS6000s in my home office. To keep from getting confused about which one I was ssh'ing into, I called them ibm_left, ibm_middle and ibm_right. I gave two of them away, so now I only have the one named ibm_left.
One PC is named after a location in Lord of the Rings. The other is named after my wife.(her idea) She wanted me to spend more time with her.
I was a kid in Eugene(sp), Oregon when Mt. St. Helens blew. I was too young to know what was going on at the time, but I remember hearing 2 very loud booms followed by rattling windows. I thought maybe it was a sonic boom, but didn't see any airplanes. Also, it was a bright sunny day with no thunderclouds.
Later that year, I flew out of Portland Oregon to St. Louis. It was kind of a gray orangish sky with a thin film of ash on the ground.
"Of the 12 patients being treated, eight can currently be evaluated for overall survival, while four are still receiving treatment. Seven out of the eight patients have exceeded the historical median benchmark of 6.5 months survival from time of recurrence. The investigators will continue to follow the patients for overall survival. Based on these results, a larger, multi-center phase 2 study is planned for late 2007."
What I get from that is that they can't include 4 of them in the results yet. I don't see anywhere in the article anything that suggests any patients in the study passing. I would think that they would want to be clear on that in a study. You can get sued for giving people false hope.
These statistics mean a great deal to me. Even if it's 7/8 out of 100, that's still better than 0 out of 100. If it turns out to be a 60% chance, I'll take that over 0% any day, month or year. I was diagnosed with a glioma after my wife found me at midnight having multiple seizures on the living room floor. My kidneys shut down and the doctors were talking transplant. Fortunately they started back up again, but I think I would rather die than go through chemo again. It was furtunate(God), also, that my tumor was low grade. I'm hoping that when it comes back it will still be low grade. I'm due for an MRI. The first couple MRIs after I stopped chemo were very stressful(scary).
This is the type of tumor I had. If you read the article you'll notice that it says the recurrence is always fatal. My tumor was treated with chemo two years ago. I've readjusted my 401K plan because I don't know how much longer I'll be around. Forgive me if I don't share your opinion.
I'm assuming that metastatic cancer is already high on the priority list anyways.
The best thing to do is to convince the decision making bean counter that everyone in your dept. that does similar work would get more done if they had the extra monitor. If you need multiple large panels open (like I do) then they have to see in person how it will or does help you be more productive. Companies have this bad habit of wanting to treat everyone fairly. They don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it to keep departmental political battles down to a minimum. My company doesn't like giving one person two machines, so you either get an AIX workstation or a PC. My work requires both. So, rather than having to share either an AIX workstation (which doesn't work when everyone needs it) or a PC (the other engineering dept. has that problem), we run the AIX programs with a virtual machine along with our oracle based program and outlook. I may not like my VP of Engineering, but even he could see that two monitors was much cheaper than two machines and way more efficient than trying work do the work of two machines on one monitor. We had to prove to him that we needed to see both at once. I was the lucky one to show him the work we had to do and how it would really help us to work faster. I only had one monitor at the time and he saw just how tedious it was to switch between programs on one monitor. He wasn't convinced until he saw it in action. Soon after, everyone was getting dual monitor video cards and dual flat screen monitors. To paraphrase he said, "now that I see it in action I understand what you're talking about". Anyone who has worked with VPM knows that you really need two monitors for it. There are three panels, one for drafting, one for graphical file system trees and one for the main search window. I really could use three monitors. I have VPM and the wire harness program.
To make a long story short. The bean counter needs to see, in person, the need for two. Sometimes even they can see the benefit even if it's not quantifiable. My VP of Engineering asked if it will help our design to have zero errors. That left a few people mumbling.:-D
Any time someone at work asks me how to set permissions on XP, I tell them it's too complicated for me. That's why I use Linux (Debian Sarge). Setting up permissions in Linux is much simpler for me. After all, I learned part of the concept in 2nd grade. 1+2+4=7 It's very easy to figure out how to make something executable or to restrict write permissions. In Windows XP, I don't have a clue. Every time I try to restrict something, I lock myself out, too. If you set something read only, anyone can change that. I know it's possible, I'm just saying it's too complicated for me. Linux is easy. Set permissions or modify a text file. In good distros, the text files even have comments that help you decide what settings to use. I can turn a service on or off just by setting the permissions in the rc file/folder. It's simple once you learn it.
I'm not some neophyte that can't operate complex systems either. At work, I use Hummingbird Exceed to log into an AIX server to sign into a VPM based file system to create electrical schematics. On that same PC, I use an Oracle based program to put together a part list of connectors containing wire harness numbers. For the life of me I still can't figure out why we're using PC's for this. There is a text based hosts file to tell Hummingbird where the server(s) is(are). I failed to mention the much simpler Legacy file system and part list program.
That was a couple of days after openning a port in my router for ftp. I thought it was cool to be able to transfer files to and from work. I set it up so that only users could sign in and the user would be locked into their home folder. I saw a couple of attempts to get in in the log. I was watching the monitor of my internet traffic when someone got in and instantly data was going both ways. That's when I turned the DSL router off, closed all ports on the router behind it and disabled ftp on the box. I won't be openning up ports again. When I turned the DSL router back on, I made sure that it got a new address. I need to learn a lot more before I try to run a server again. I also changed the permissions on the other partitions because they had different UID's making them available to the distro I'm currently running. Bad habits will bite you. If you leave a port open, you will get rooted.
My wife needs a phone, I'll take the Nokia. In fact, I took a Nokia, but it does flip open and have a cheap camera. I bought it because it wasn't an LG and because it had a great run time. Of course, I wasn't told the run time was good because the volume was so low. It's an ok phone though and I'm going on a year with it. We went to get my wife's mother a phone on the family plan with a used one that decided not to work when we got there, but the sales person found a used one for us that works better than mine. It was a non-flip Nokia. One thing I do know is that Cingular has better coverage away from the highway and even on the highway in Arkansas than Sprint. The Sprint phone was nearly useless on the way to Tulsa or St. Louis. The Cingular phone has free roaming and the Altel network is pretty good in this state. I'm planning on getting a phone for my wife for Christmas. Any suggestions on the best phone because I do want a quality phone for a good price?
You can't technically devide by zero, but you can approach it. The closer you get to it the larger the result. You'll never get all the way there, though. In electronics, there's a high and a low. For a car that would be 12V or 0V. If we forget for a moment that math does things the physical world can't, we realize that math is just a tool to help understand the physical world and that some of these laws of math just don't apply to reality. Try to divide by zero and you get the high limit of your system. You're not really dividing by zero, you're dividing by a number that is always approaching but never reaching zero. For an electrical engineer, if you try to divide by zero, you'll end up blowing a circuit breaker because eventually the current will get too high for the wire or power supply to handle. What does infinite current look like? Can you really ever reach 0 ohms? What about zero Kelvins? Are you going to reach that? Zero can't be reached any more than infinity can. You can approach or approximate it, though.
Microsoft never "owned" the technology for what they call "windows". After MS finished pulling DOS out from under IBM's feet, they stole the GUI idea from someone. That someone was Apple. Apple owned it because they acquired it from Xerox. So, maybe it's time for Xerox to put out a distro.
Anyways, Linux is the kernel and the kernel isn't a GUI. I can't imagine any part of the kernel coming from MS but it's quite possible the kernel got help from MS employees or former employees. Would Ballmer even know a piece of code if he saw it? If he did, he would "know" there was infringement if he was willing to admit that MS'es IP was stolen in the first place.
Does it make anyone else nervous that Linus lives a stones throw from Redmond. Portland, OR is just south of Washington.
Your rights are only protected if you have lots of money to begin with. The law only seems to work for people making an example out of someone. I've lost all faith in the legal system. The law is manipulated by money and doesn't serve the people that really need it. Protect yourself. The law won't.
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1. Keep measurements for 2 different systems
2. Sell twice as many sockets
3. Profit!
Why doesn't GM just go ahead and build a motorcycle. It's cheaper to produce gets better range and probably takes about the same amount of energy to push. Oh, and it goes a lot faster. They can make it electric if they want. If I needed to evade some dangerous situation, I'd much rather be on a bike than that death trap. It looks like GM is grasping at straws. I wonder what the insurance of the PUMA would be like.
I'm trying to sleep. That's a lot of light pollution for the astronomers on the ground. There's potential here for annoying a great many people.
I don't think you can just call in the repairman on this one. How much spare capacity will it take to give you time to schedule a space repair mission? How much cargo would need to go up to make the repair?
Kill the Koala. Get a real name. Get this distro hopping.
I can already see the lawsuits from Novell coming.
Well, you got me there.
Are your sure you aren't Dr. David P. Anderson from the Boinc project?
You probably could get some kind of tax deduction by donating cycles or servers to some distributed computing charity.
I'll trade you one for my IBM 44P-170. It will be a collector's item someday.
Even worse. Tevatron wins the race and creates the Black Hole before September!!
In that case, I hope the French team wins the race.
Are we talking math or physics? Math can only approximate physics. Good luck reaching any absolute zero in physics, therefore since you're always approaching zero, you're never actually there. Hence Calculus, which allows for the real world to be measured by assuming you're approaching zero but not actually there. By your definition, how do you put something into 0.5 groups? It's like saying you have 2.5 children. Children only come in whole numbers. This is physics not math. Physics uses math as a tool not a rule.
I tested this out on a 32 bit Linux box and a 64 bit Linux box. My 32 bit box only went up to year 2038. My PPC64 went up to 2 million or so.
I had 3 working RS6000s in my home office. To keep from getting confused about which one I was ssh'ing into, I called them ibm_left, ibm_middle and ibm_right. I gave two of them away, so now I only have the one named ibm_left. One PC is named after a location in Lord of the Rings. The other is named after my wife.(her idea) She wanted me to spend more time with her.
I was a kid in Eugene(sp), Oregon when Mt. St. Helens blew. I was too young to know what was going on at the time, but I remember hearing 2 very loud booms followed by rattling windows. I thought maybe it was a sonic boom, but didn't see any airplanes. Also, it was a bright sunny day with no thunderclouds. Later that year, I flew out of Portland Oregon to St. Louis. It was kind of a gray orangish sky with a thin film of ash on the ground.
I assumed it was a slashdot effect, but I guess the site was down pre-slashdot. Perhaps it was the Drudge effect? That's where I tried from.
You want Wifi on out of the box and don't want to edit files in /etc? Why don't you just post a sign on your front door. "FREE INTERNET"
"Of the 12 patients being treated, eight can currently be evaluated for overall survival, while four are still receiving treatment. Seven out of the eight patients have exceeded the historical median benchmark of 6.5 months survival from time of recurrence. The investigators will continue to follow the patients for overall survival. Based on these results, a larger, multi-center phase 2 study is planned for late 2007."
What I get from that is that they can't include 4 of them in the results yet. I don't see anywhere in the article anything that suggests any patients in the study passing. I would think that they would want to be clear on that in a study. You can get sued for giving people false hope.
These statistics mean a great deal to me. Even if it's 7/8 out of 100, that's still better than 0 out of 100. If it turns out to be a 60% chance, I'll take that over 0% any day, month or year. I was diagnosed with a glioma after my wife found me at midnight having multiple seizures on the living room floor. My kidneys shut down and the doctors were talking transplant. Fortunately they started back up again, but I think I would rather die than go through chemo again. It was furtunate(God), also, that my tumor was low grade. I'm hoping that when it comes back it will still be low grade. I'm due for an MRI. The first couple MRIs after I stopped chemo were very stressful(scary).
This is the type of tumor I had. If you read the article you'll notice that it says the recurrence is always fatal. My tumor was treated with chemo two years ago. I've readjusted my 401K plan because I don't know how much longer I'll be around. Forgive me if I don't share your opinion.
I'm assuming that metastatic cancer is already high on the priority list anyways.
The best thing to do is to convince the decision making bean counter that everyone in your dept. that does similar work would get more done if they had the extra monitor. If you need multiple large panels open (like I do) then they have to see in person how it will or does help you be more productive. Companies have this bad habit of wanting to treat everyone fairly. They don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it to keep departmental political battles down to a minimum. My company doesn't like giving one person two machines, so you either get an AIX workstation or a PC. My work requires both. So, rather than having to share either an AIX workstation (which doesn't work when everyone needs it) or a PC (the other engineering dept. has that problem), we run the AIX programs with a virtual machine along with our oracle based program and outlook. I may not like my VP of Engineering, but even he could see that two monitors was much cheaper than two machines and way more efficient than trying work do the work of two machines on one monitor. We had to prove to him that we needed to see both at once. I was the lucky one to show him the work we had to do and how it would really help us to work faster. I only had one monitor at the time and he saw just how tedious it was to switch between programs on one monitor. He wasn't convinced until he saw it in action. Soon after, everyone was getting dual monitor video cards and dual flat screen monitors. To paraphrase he said, "now that I see it in action I understand what you're talking about". Anyone who has worked with VPM knows that you really need two monitors for it. There are three panels, one for drafting, one for graphical file system trees and one for the main search window. I really could use three monitors. I have VPM and the wire harness program.
:-D
To make a long story short. The bean counter needs to see, in person, the need for two. Sometimes even they can see the benefit even if it's not quantifiable. My VP of Engineering asked if it will help our design to have zero errors. That left a few people mumbling.
Any time someone at work asks me how to set permissions on XP, I tell them it's too complicated for me. That's why I use Linux (Debian Sarge). Setting up permissions in Linux is much simpler for me. After all, I learned part of the concept in 2nd grade. 1+2+4=7 It's very easy to figure out how to make something executable or to restrict write permissions. In Windows XP, I don't have a clue. Every time I try to restrict something, I lock myself out, too. If you set something read only, anyone can change that. I know it's possible, I'm just saying it's too complicated for me. Linux is easy. Set permissions or modify a text file. In good distros, the text files even have comments that help you decide what settings to use. I can turn a service on or off just by setting the permissions in the rc file/folder. It's simple once you learn it.
I'm not some neophyte that can't operate complex systems either. At work, I use Hummingbird Exceed to log into an AIX server to sign into a VPM based file system to create electrical schematics. On that same PC, I use an Oracle based program to put together a part list of connectors containing wire harness numbers. For the life of me I still can't figure out why we're using PC's for this. There is a text based hosts file to tell Hummingbird where the server(s) is(are). I failed to mention the much simpler Legacy file system and part list program.
That was a couple of days after openning a port in my router for ftp. I thought it was cool to be able to transfer files to and from work. I set it up so that only users could sign in and the user would be locked into their home folder. I saw a couple of attempts to get in in the log. I was watching the monitor of my internet traffic when someone got in and instantly data was going both ways. That's when I turned the DSL router off, closed all ports on the router behind it and disabled ftp on the box. I won't be openning up ports again. When I turned the DSL router back on, I made sure that it got a new address. I need to learn a lot more before I try to run a server again. I also changed the permissions on the other partitions because they had different UID's making them available to the distro I'm currently running. Bad habits will bite you. If you leave a port open, you will get rooted.
My wife needs a phone, I'll take the Nokia. In fact, I took a Nokia, but it does flip open and have a cheap camera. I bought it because it wasn't an LG and because it had a great run time. Of course, I wasn't told the run time was good because the volume was so low. It's an ok phone though and I'm going on a year with it. We went to get my wife's mother a phone on the family plan with a used one that decided not to work when we got there, but the sales person found a used one for us that works better than mine. It was a non-flip Nokia. One thing I do know is that Cingular has better coverage away from the highway and even on the highway in Arkansas than Sprint. The Sprint phone was nearly useless on the way to Tulsa or St. Louis. The Cingular phone has free roaming and the Altel network is pretty good in this state. I'm planning on getting a phone for my wife for Christmas. Any suggestions on the best phone because I do want a quality phone for a good price?
You can't technically devide by zero, but you can approach it. The closer you get to it the larger the result. You'll never get all the way there, though. In electronics, there's a high and a low. For a car that would be 12V or 0V. If we forget for a moment that math does things the physical world can't, we realize that math is just a tool to help understand the physical world and that some of these laws of math just don't apply to reality. Try to divide by zero and you get the high limit of your system. You're not really dividing by zero, you're dividing by a number that is always approaching but never reaching zero. For an electrical engineer, if you try to divide by zero, you'll end up blowing a circuit breaker because eventually the current will get too high for the wire or power supply to handle. What does infinite current look like? Can you really ever reach 0 ohms? What about zero Kelvins? Are you going to reach that? Zero can't be reached any more than infinity can. You can approach or approximate it, though.
Microsoft never "owned" the technology for what they call "windows". After MS finished pulling DOS out from under IBM's feet, they stole the GUI idea from someone. That someone was Apple. Apple owned it because they acquired it from Xerox. So, maybe it's time for Xerox to put out a distro.
Anyways, Linux is the kernel and the kernel isn't a GUI. I can't imagine any part of the kernel coming from MS but it's quite possible the kernel got help from MS employees or former employees. Would Ballmer even know a piece of code if he saw it? If he did, he would "know" there was infringement if he was willing to admit that MS'es IP was stolen in the first place.
Does it make anyone else nervous that Linus lives a stones throw from Redmond. Portland, OR is just south of Washington.
Someone stole $300 from me.
They did it at an ATM.
Their picture was taken.
It was clearly identifiable.
They did not go to jail.
Your rights are only protected if you have lots of money to begin with. The law only seems to work for people making an example out of someone. I've lost all faith in the legal system. The law is manipulated by money and doesn't serve the people that really need it. Protect yourself. The law won't.