If this is harder than diamond then either the scale will have to be scaled to make this the new 10 or this will be set as some value greater than 10 depending on its relative hardness
If the war goes well and you get a quick victory, it's over before the election even matters and the boost in the polls could easily wear off.
The government in war-planning mode was not thinking as far ahead as the 2004 election - and even if they had, it wouldn't have changed a thing. They have no plan that includes losing this election. They'll win it even if they have to rig it like 2000 (which is likely the only way that such a dangerous, lying, stealing and murdering cabal can).
What we have here is not just Permanent War (which is the neo-cons' explicit agenda), but also Permanent Government. Hope y'all like it, because the rest of the world can't think of anything worse.
"(rising voice) A time of prosperity.... (lowering voice) A place of peace. (slow, heavily enunciated lower voice) Now.... one man... threatens.. it.. all."
done on a Mac is overstating it a bit. As a friend in the industry paraphrased Conran,
"I actually sat down to create a whole feature film, by myself, on a Mac IIsi," says Conran. "And I didn't care in a way how long it was going to take, because I knew it was possible.
"But I realized I was in wayyyy over my head when the studio threatened a lawsuit and the bond company was brought in to get all the shots finished and it was taken out of my control.
"So that's when artists using Maya and Softimage on other platforms saved my skin."
A couple months ago, I upgraded the motherboard and RAM, and took the opportunity to reinstall WinXP...
In the end, I had to call back and make up another reason.
As ridiculous as their refusal was, why couldn't you just say it was a motherboard and RAM upgrade? Did you say you changed the case by accident on the spur of the moment?
it would be possible to make things like installers completely atomic: interrupt the installer process and the whole thing rolls back
Sure, the filesystem could do it, but since an installer knows what it's changing, it can easily change it back if needed. (This can be done today, and it's not hard, just bookkeeping.)
Even with a filesystem transaction, you're hosed once it's committed. An installer working above the fs level can maintain rollback information indefinitely.
Unfortunately at this moment time does not permit me to revisit my notes on these speakers so I won't address specifics. Larson's paper seems to have received a lot of publicity but a rounded view of the field would include the published work of other experts, including Enneson. These experts are able to criticise Larson's methods and conclusions in ways that laymen cannot.
Ole Lund also presented a survey of legibility research at the Thessaloniki conference which may be useful.
Larson presented this paper at the 2nd international Conference on Typography and Visual Communication in Thessaloniki, July this year. Other speakers, in particular Peter Enneson, questioned some of his methods and conclusions, and the paper - as convincing as it appears at first glance - should definitely be taken with a grain of salt.
Following a day's sessions on legibility and word recognition, the Thessaloniki conference held a round table on legibility and the processes of word recognition, chaired by John Hudson and participants Mary Dyson, Hrant Papazian, Kevin Larson and Peter Enneson.
The UNIX server was likely a lot pricier than $2000.
For instance, here are real leasing figures dated 1 June 1993 for a MIPS RC3240 RISComputer, 16.7MHz, 8MB RAM+8MB expansion, RISC/os (UNIX), 766MB 5.25" SCSI drive.
Monthly lease cost was $551.84 over a 1 year term! (Australian dollars).
Yes, fair use works. It means you can quote a sentence or a paragraph from a book in a newsgroup posting (or in a sig) and not go to gaol. (Of course it's mainly meant to cover reviewers or academic writers, but I'm a habitual quoter of smarter people than me, so it helps me sleep at night. Uh wait, I live in Australia...)
Packard Bell did this. The original Packard Bell made television sets back in the 50s. When a computer entrepreneur wanted to start up in the mid-70s, he bought the name.
There's one difference that shouldn't be overlooked: Beny Alagem in 1986 probably wasn't pursuing scurrilous litigation, and the purchase probably wasn't intended to smokescreen the truth. Rather, harmless branding, like buying vanity plates.
However, the "new" Packard-Bell, by many reports, buried the originally well-reputed name under a cloud of shoddy product and poor service. (So perhaps there is something in common after all!)
I know this will be a major problem to people who like to read difficult works to impress their friends. "Wow, you finished Gravitys Rainbow? I never got past chapter 2!"
What is it with this thread? Open slather to the anti-intellectual non-elite? What a turn-off!
I'm not sure why you have posted here about the films titled "Lord of the Rings". The movies have little to do with the books, except for this accident of naming.
The experience of reading the book -- and literature in general -- cannot be transmuted into film; the delusion that the media are in some way convertible or compatible is fostered by Hollywood purely for its own profit. The result, apart from the staggering insult to all artists, is a tragic impoverishment of our culture.
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What we have here is not just Permanent War (which is the neo-cons' explicit agenda), but also Permanent Government. Hope y'all like it, because the rest of the world can't think of anything worse.
homebrewcpu.com
Chuck Dickman's cool hardware projects including a QBus-ATA adapter
Peter McCollum has just finished a great hack involving a PDP-11 microprocessor (T-11).
What the changes do prove is that Lucas is not an artist; he's a coward.
(Not what he really said. But funnier.)
Even with a filesystem transaction, you're hosed once it's committed. An installer working above the fs level can maintain rollback information indefinitely.
Ole Lund also presented a survey of legibility research at the Thessaloniki conference which may be useful.
Following a day's sessions on legibility and word recognition, the Thessaloniki conference held a round table on legibility and the processes of word recognition, chaired by John Hudson and participants Mary Dyson, Hrant Papazian, Kevin Larson and Peter Enneson.
For instance, here are real leasing figures dated 1 June 1993 for a MIPS RC3240 RISComputer, 16.7MHz, 8MB RAM+8MB expansion, RISC/os (UNIX), 766MB 5.25" SCSI drive.
Monthly lease cost was $551.84 over a 1 year term! (Australian dollars).
Yes, fair use works. It means you can quote a sentence or a paragraph from a book in a newsgroup posting (or in a sig) and not go to gaol. (Of course it's mainly meant to cover reviewers or academic writers, but I'm a habitual quoter of smarter people than me, so it helps me sleep at night. Uh wait, I live in Australia...)
However, the "new" Packard-Bell, by many reports, buried the originally well-reputed name under a cloud of shoddy product and poor service. (So perhaps there is something in common after all!)
Oh, wait, this is slashdot...
The experience of reading the book -- and literature in general -- cannot be transmuted into film; the delusion that the media are in some way convertible or compatible is fostered by Hollywood purely for its own profit. The result, apart from the staggering insult to all artists, is a tragic impoverishment of our culture.