You're a bunch of prissy prima donnas. Guess what, princess: coding is a hell of a lot easier to do, is simpler to test, and has less inherent risk than any other kind of engineering. Unlike a software bug, you can't put out a patch to fix a collapsed bridge, or release a service pack for a unbalanced rotor shaft that destroys a generator.
You do get the chance however to, say, recall a few million of your Toyotas. I would also argue the fact that a real-time embedded control system for a helicopter is inherently more difficult to test than a rotor shaft.
You're a bunch of prissy prima donnas. Guess what, princess: coding is a hell of a lot easier to do, is simpler to test, and has less inherent risk than any other kind of engineering. Unlike a software bug, you can't put out a patch to fix a collapsed bridge, or release a service pack for a unbalanced rotor shaft that destroys a generator.
You do get the chance however to, say, recall a few million of your Toyotas. I would also argue the fact that a real-time embedded control system for a helicopter is inherently more difficult to test than a rotor shaft.
It's closer to 400,000.
Which is significantly less than "a few million".
That's right - he still had access to the books he purchased.
But he would not have had access to any newspaper or blog subscriptions that would have been delivered over the wireless daily.
Well, I would consider not being able to use the wireless mode on a device sold as having one, as being bricked.
The fact that he could read the books already on his kindle does not matter - since the kindle is also sold as something that can read the daily paper and blogs.
Also your claim that the moon shot will address poverty comes from the same school of thought that believes in the discredited "trickle down" theory of development which essentially says that if you continue to pamper the rich that the money will somehow magically reach the poor.
Technological development (like the moon shot) has nothing to do with trickle down economics (tax cuts for the rich). As a matter of fact, India's space research has thrown up quite a few benefits.
See this New Scientist article for a few specifics. I remember reading about how their research into manufacturing solid fuel translated to a cheaper process for making fertiliser and how manufacturing technologies for the high-tech casings and motors "trickled down" to safer pumps/vehicles. Can't find that article on the web though - my google-fu is failing me.
It looks like you don't have the right understanding for what led to the collapse. See Barry Ritholtz's detailed explanation for how the mess was created.
Stop spreading someone else's talking points around. It does not reflect well on you when it turns out that those talking points are wrong.
Also, a difference between 'dumb' and 'uneducated about financial matters.' Is there a class on ARMS in high school people can take? I don't think those are covered in home ec.
Also, don't forget that Alan Greenspan was going around the country telling us that Hey, ARMs are a great deal.
It's so easy to blame the victim.
Well, there's no real need to flame - all you have to do is look at the chorus of indignation from artists that had their songs ripped off by the Republicans and used ("pirated"?) without permission.
Starting with John Hall sending a cease and desist, Van Halen having to say Permission was not sought or granted and the latest spat with Heart
That should tell you right away how much commitment there is to protecting intellectual property.
here and scroll down to the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) Expansion section.
The thing is that NTFS expands the MFT when you add files and folders to an NTFS volume, and does not reclaim the space when you delete files. This means that if you have or add a lot of small files, enough to fill up your disk and then delete them, you will end up with less usable space than you started with.
Note that you either need to re-format or use a third party defrag tool to get that space back.
You seem to be confused between Ketosis and Ketoacidosis. They are not the same. One's a disease, the other's not.
And while there, also read up on the Ketogenic diet
"India, for example, allowed knockoff drugs for a very long time on the grounds that it was immoral to value western company's exploitive drug pricing schemes above human life."
That's not true. India had what were called 'process patents'. What that meant was that you could not patent the chemical formula of a drug, you had to patent the 'process' by which it was manufactured. Of course, this meant that any manufacturer could then make that drug by using a process that was not patented....
If you can get your hands on the windows nt resourse kit, there's a utility called VDesk.exe.
One of the best desktop managers I've come across.
Maintains separate login sessions for each desktop. 12 desktops maximum.
Only annoyance: cannot change the hotkey - linked to CTRL+Fn.
Best feature: hooks into the virtual screen, so xp terminal services mode does not work. Bliss:)
That's not quite true is it? After all, the lion tamer that runs into the cage armed with nothing but an innocent air and a blindfold, might just possibly remain a lion tamer for the rest of his/her life!:)
There's however a big difference between Bush's usage and Carter's/Regaan's/Clinton's:
Carter/Regan/Clinton required that the attorney general certify that the warrantless search would meet FISA requirements.
Bush's usage does not require this certification and is therefore illegal.
re: eviscerate the press (if it hasn't rolled over already)
And given that the New York Times sat on this story for a *year*, I think the press has rolled over a long time ago and has now learned to like it.
Precedent? Oh, you mean a warrantless search not involving a US citizen or anyone inside the US? That one?
<quote> Section 1. Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) [50 U.S.C. 1822(a)] of the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance] Act, the Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order, to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year, if the Attorney General makes the certifications required by that section. </quote>
The Fed has recd more money? You're joking right? Why don't you take your own advice and google it? Go over to the treasury web site at look at the summary of monthly receipts. Here's a brief summary:
Federal govt receipts:
1998 : 1.747 B
1999 : 1.857 B
2000 : 2.043 B (Last year of Clinton's presidency)
2001 : 1.994 B
2002 : 1.814 B
2003 : 1.795 B
2004 : 1.926 B
IANAE, but it looks to me that if the tax cuts had not been implemented, there wouldn't have been such a dramatic fall in revenues.... Laffer curve? I'm laughing so hard, I'm begining to cry....
Re:Is it just me, or why not explain it better?
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Borland has announced their technical roadmap for JBuilder. Later this year Borland will ship JBuilder 2006 which will add shared code and shared debugging features. In the first half of 2006, JBuilder will ship a new version, code-named "Peloton", which will be completely Eclipse-based and add better dependency analysis features.
Let's illustrate this with an example. Imagine a Texas municipality decides to implement broadband. Let's even say that they hold a referrendum to determine whether or not to do it. 75% of the population decides they want it. The problem is that 100% of the population gets taxed to pay for it. Those 25% who voted against it are just plain screwed - they're paying for a service that they didn't want.
So, you're saying that once the broadband network is built, the 25% that voted against it will never be using it?
You're right that the 25% who voted against it don't want the service now. But you're wrong in assuming they will never want it.
Once the service is deployed, there's nothing preventing good old American ingenuinity from developing killer applications making the network indespensable!
A private company can't get force a community to use a service that they don't want.
Oh yes they can. Examples: local cable company (only one in town + need to buy (or pay for) basic cable if you want cable internet). Local phone company (need to buy unneeded 'phone service' if you want dsl).
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You're a bunch of prissy prima donnas. Guess what, princess: coding is a hell of a lot easier to do, is simpler to test, and has less inherent risk than any other kind of engineering. Unlike a software bug, you can't put out a patch to fix a collapsed bridge, or release a service pack for a unbalanced rotor shaft that destroys a generator.
You do get the chance however to, say, recall a few million of your Toyotas. I would also argue the fact that a real-time embedded control system for a helicopter is inherently more difficult to test than a rotor shaft.
You're a bunch of prissy prima donnas. Guess what, princess: coding is a hell of a lot easier to do, is simpler to test, and has less inherent risk than any other kind of engineering. Unlike a software bug, you can't put out a patch to fix a collapsed bridge, or release a service pack for a unbalanced rotor shaft that destroys a generator.
You do get the chance however to, say, recall a few million of your Toyotas. I would also argue the fact that a real-time embedded control system for a helicopter is inherently more difficult to test than a rotor shaft.
It's closer to 400,000. Which is significantly less than "a few million".
I think he's working in the cubicle next to me. Please come and take him back!
That's right - he still had access to the books he purchased. But he would not have had access to any newspaper or blog subscriptions that would have been delivered over the wireless daily.
Well, I would consider not being able to use the wireless mode on a device sold as having one, as being bricked. The fact that he could read the books already on his kindle does not matter - since the kindle is also sold as something that can read the daily paper and blogs.
Well, I would want to use VLC if I want to skip that annoying FBI warning or the mandatory unskippable movie previews before the main feature.
At least, he didn't accidentally the whole one.
There's also the public transportation mod. But it's not available in all locations and is buggy to boot.
Also your claim that the moon shot will address poverty comes from the same school of thought that believes in the discredited "trickle down" theory of development which essentially says that if you continue to pamper the rich that the money will somehow magically reach the poor.
Technological development (like the moon shot) has nothing to do with trickle down economics (tax cuts for the rich). As a matter of fact, India's space research has thrown up quite a few benefits. See this New Scientist article for a few specifics. I remember reading about how their research into manufacturing solid fuel translated to a cheaper process for making fertiliser and how manufacturing technologies for the high-tech casings and motors "trickled down" to safer pumps/vehicles. Can't find that article on the web though - my google-fu is failing me.
Stop spreading someone else's talking points around. It does not reflect well on you when it turns out that those talking points are wrong.
Also, a difference between 'dumb' and 'uneducated about financial matters.' Is there a class on ARMS in high school people can take? I don't think those are covered in home ec.
Also, don't forget that Alan Greenspan was going around the country telling us that Hey, ARMs are a great deal. It's so easy to blame the victim.
Well, there's no real need to flame - all you have to do is look at the chorus of indignation from artists that had their songs ripped off by the Republicans and used ("pirated"?) without permission. Starting with John Hall sending a cease and desist, Van Halen having to say Permission was not sought or granted and the latest spat with Heart That should tell you right away how much commitment there is to protecting intellectual property.
The thing is that NTFS expands the MFT when you add files and folders to an NTFS volume, and does not reclaim the space when you delete files. This means that if you have or add a lot of small files, enough to fill up your disk and then delete them, you will end up with less usable space than you started with.
Note that you either need to re-format or use a third party defrag tool to get that space back.
You seem to be confused between Ketosis and Ketoacidosis. They are not the same. One's a disease, the other's not. And while there, also read up on the Ketogenic diet
"India, for example, allowed knockoff drugs for a very long time on the grounds that it was immoral to value western company's exploitive drug pricing schemes above human life." That's not true. India had what were called 'process patents'. What that meant was that you could not patent the chemical formula of a drug, you had to patent the 'process' by which it was manufactured. Of course, this meant that any manufacturer could then make that drug by using a process that was not patented....
House and job in another state: $PAYCHECK
Cars : $WHATEVER
Leaving town without turning off your water: $REALLY_BIG_NUMBER
If you can get your hands on the windows nt resourse kit, there's a utility called VDesk.exe. One of the best desktop managers I've come across. Maintains separate login sessions for each desktop. 12 desktops maximum. Only annoyance: cannot change the hotkey - linked to CTRL+Fn. Best feature: hooks into the virtual screen, so xp terminal services mode does not work. Bliss :)
the Mozilla Archive Format....
That's not quite true is it? :)
After all, the lion tamer that runs into the cage armed with nothing but an innocent air and a blindfold, might just possibly remain a lion tamer for the rest of his/her life!
And don't forget: Bic..u..bic..u..bic..u...bic camera. Thank you very much. I will be here all year. :)
There's however a big difference between Bush's usage and Carter's/Regaan's/Clinton's: Carter/Regan/Clinton required that the attorney general certify that the warrantless search would meet FISA requirements .
Bush's usage does not require this certification and is therefore illegal.
re: eviscerate the press (if it hasn't rolled over already)
And given that the New York Times sat on this story for a *year*, I think the press has rolled over a long time ago and has now learned to like it.
That one?
Federal govt receipts:
1998 : 1.747 B
1999 : 1.857 B
2000 : 2.043 B (Last year of Clinton's presidency)
2001 : 1.994 B
2002 : 1.814 B
2003 : 1.795 B
2004 : 1.926 B
IANAE, but it looks to me that if the tax cuts had not been implemented, there wouldn't have been such a dramatic fall in revenues.... Laffer curve? I'm laughing so hard, I'm begining to cry....
Funny, I recall something about JBuilder moving to Eclipse...
You're right that the 25% who voted against it don't want the service now. But you're wrong in assuming they will never want it.
Once the service is deployed, there's nothing preventing good old American ingenuinity from developing killer applications making the network indespensable!
Oh yes they can.Examples: local cable company (only one in town + need to buy (or pay for) basic cable if you want cable internet).
Local phone company (need to buy unneeded 'phone service' if you want dsl).