As the Liberal Media have been pointing out, the prosecutors here were the corrupt and politically biased Bush Administration Justice Department, which was led by the corrupt Alberto Gonzalez, who Stevens had voted to confirm a few years before. So if there was intentional misconduct, well, nyahh nyahh.
Of course, if there was prosecutorial misconduct, and they have to drop those charges, chances are good that they've blown their Double Jeopardy roll and can't try him again and can't throw the old man in jail.
But that doesn't mean Stevens wasn't corrupt enough to deserve not to get re-elected, even though the Republicans are now trying to pretend that since they're the minority party, they should get a do-over on the election.
A couple of decades ago, an acquaintance of mine and his druggie friends decided to try smoking caffeine. After all, cocaine and opiates and THC all have some what different effects if you're smoking it as opposed to eating purified powder or eating the raw plant form (typically higher impact for a shorter period of time, but it's often qualitatively different as well.) So they crunched up some caffeine pills and smoked them..
You *really* do not want to do this! He said that all the nasty effects of caffeine happen all at once - the jitters, headaches, nausea - and it was Not Fun.
Decaffeinated coffees have finally gotten to taste pretty good over the last couple of decades; it's much better than the evil days of powdered Sanka. Rather than cutting off cold-turkey, you can start brewing your coffee with half decaf, and gradually decreasing the amount of real stuff.
I've done cold turkey on occasion - I'd been working on a death-march programming project, and by a couple of days before we had to ship our demo, I'd reached the point that coffee wasn't making me more awake, it was just making me more jittery, so I quit. Bad headaches for two weeks - it was a couple of years before I started caffeine again. Normally if I'm doing too much caffeine I'll cut back gradually.
Unfortunately, I picked up a tea habit a couple of years ago, and decaffeinating tea takes out most of the tea flavor. Herbal teas are fine some of the time, but black tea tastes good and gives me a nicer buzz than coffee because it's a somewhat different mix of alkaloids.
Assuming people don't know what they're taking shows you as a noob. Yes, there are pain remedies out there other than aspirin (ASA for you non-US folks), and some of them like Excedrin contain caffeine. But many of us grew up with old-fashioned aspirin, and when we want it we buy bottles that say "Aspirin" on them; if we mean Acetaminophen we'd probably say Tylenol. It's particularly important to people who have high blood pressure because aspirin helps reduce risk of strokes and heart attacks (and low-dose aspirin is generally recommended for old people even if they don't have high blood pressure, so get off my lawn, punk!) On the other hand, hospitals primarily use acetaminophen (aka paracetamol) because many people have aspirin allergies or stomach irritations, so the risks of aspirin are usually higher than the risks of liver and kidney damage from acetaminophen.
Aspirin developed by Bayer in Germany, and after the War To End All Wars, the US, France, Russia, and a few other countries ripped off their patents and trademarks as part of war reparations, so Aspirin and Heroin are not trademarks of Bayer in the US. Bayer's still the best-known brand here.
Well of course most people live in multi-person households. That just means that the average cost of connecting a household is A$2022*N, not just A$2022*1. The CIA World Factbook doesn't say how many households there are in Aus, but does say that 89% of the population is urban, so it should be relatively cheap to connect it.
so obviously dinosaurs are descended from beer yeasts.
It's much more likely that you'll find a *(%^*& veliciraptor in your fermenter (unless of course the bluejay just flew in their by accident, or because it was trying to retrieve a dropped coconut or something.
Here in Northern California, the English-language TV shows usually have optional subtitles in English, and the Spanish-language TV shows usually don't have them, or if they do they're in Spanish. (It's frustrating that most of them aren't subtitled - that'd make it much easier to follow.) The one Chinese-language channel I get has Chinese subtitles; I think most of the audio is Mandarin as opposed to Cantonese or occasionally other dialects, but I'm not sure.
Unfortunately, used notebooks tend to have used-up batteries.
Also, you need to check the resolution of external monitor it can support - my T41 can only do up to 1280x1024, though it can dual-screen that along with its built-in.
If you're going to seriously ask teachers to evaluate the scientific strengths and weaknesses of the evolutionary theory of human origins, you've got to have them doing the same to the intelligent-design theories and the pure creationist theories. Not sure the creationists _really_ want to go there - examining weaknesses doesn't just mean "saying that creationists don't believe in evolution."
They're keeping the offsite backup distributed around the Internet, using the World-Wide Web to store it in real time.
Part of it may even be on *your* machine! We've really got to stop Brewster from leaching all your storage and make him store his backup himself - this business of using the originals to back up the backup just isn't sustainable!
The issues with Neptune's orbit have to do with whether Pluto's the only other planet out there near Neptune, or whether there was some other larger body we haven't found yet that pushed it to be so eccentric, which were pretty strictly astronomy problems as opposed to cosmology problems.
Yeah - TFA says the chimps kept mental maps of their surroundings, and it was the researchers that used GPS because it all looked like jungle to them. That's different from migratory birds or insects which apparently use magnetic fields or sunlight angles for navigation.
It turns out that there actually _are_ neurological reasons that music from your teenage years is extra-evocative, just as language-learning works better with young kids. Go read "This is Your Brain on Music" for more details.
A certain amount of music sensitivity appears to be hardwired into our brains, and the extra hormones after puberty increase music-remembering ability and the emotional aspects of it that younger kids don't have as much of. There's also a lot of intellectual development going on in those years, and it's easier to pick up more complex ideas from the music than you could when you were younger.
As you get older, that still happens a bit, and you'll still run into music that's new and cool which you'll enjoy years later, but now it's competing with lots of other cool music that's in your head which your teenage-years music wasn't.
What's much more annoying is when you find yourself tuning by a different radio station and wondering "What is all this noise those kids are listening to? They should turn that crap down and listen to good stuff" just like your parents said when you were a kid. Some of that's because 90% of everything is crap, and it's not the crap that you find evocative because it was around when you were a kid, and some of it's because 90% of everything on the radio is highly-packaged commercial crap, making it 99% crap instead of only 90%. And some of that's because kids always want to listen to new stuff and piss off their parents, and musicians always like to do new stuff, and if you want to bust into the Top 40 you've either got to do identical commercial crap better than anybody who's already there or else do something new. Rap was creative and interesting, but the whole gangstas-dissing-women motifs that dominated it were offensive. Hip-hop took that music and started doing lots of interesting things with it, though I haven't followed it. I'm finding my self playing a lot of old-timey (average hair color in our jam session == gray, leaning toward white:-), and starting to listen to jazz more (lots of deep classical stuff in there, which I haven't had the patience to listen to for a while.)
Not sure what platform you were using or what years (lots of things had b-trees, though ISAM tended to be on IBM machines), but Unix V7 had a join command, which worked on the canonical tab-delimited ascii flat files that most Unix tools did, and PDP-11s weren't that expensive.
I last used it in the early 90s; I'd prototyped an application in Informix, but my department was too cheap to buy enough licensed copies for production use. You had to sort your data for the join to work, but that also meant you could use "look" to do binary lookups instead of grep. Since I only had to support a small number of scenarios that used join, it was easy to write a shell script to call them.
Unix hackers are traditionally fine with octal, as long as you don't try to fit a whole digit in it, though I've generally found hex more useful. And as far as 36-bit words go, I know one local Unix hacker who has a PDP-10 in his garage. (Not sure if it's still there, and it might have been a -20 instead.) I don't think my wife's copy of "Meet Macro-10" survived our mid-90s move, and when I took a compiler course at that school, I decided to use the still-clumsy-at-the-time Amdahl mainframe Unix system at work rather than deal with the PDP-10.
My guess is that part of the reason is historical - RDBMSs were coming out around the time Unix machines were, and both could be used by small departments as opposed to mainframe production shops.
They're also an extension of the native Unix toolsets, which were flat files with tab-or-comma-separated columns of data, so anybody who learned Unix in its first couple of decades generally had the expectation that you could do ad-hoc queries and build tools to automate them, without needing to spend 6-12 months negotiating a development project with the mainframe database owners. SQL is a bit clunky as a format, but the concept of schemas, where your database structure is stored and manipulated the way the data itself is, really works well if you're a tool-builder.
Is the Berkeley DB stuff close enough to what you need for a database?
Wayner's usually a good writer, and did some good theoretical-computer-science work back in the day, but this article was too short to answer the questions he asks at the beginning, and he mostly highlighted the new shiny things from big ASPs, which is generally what Infoworld wants.
I'm particularly disappointed that while he referred to the name and history of Berkeley DB, aka Sleepycat, aka Oracle Renamed-foo, he didn't actually talk about using it. (OTOH, Infoworld did review one version of it in 2005.) I no longer have my 4.1BSD manual on the shelf, but it was useful if you wanted something faster than using grep/sed/awk/look on tab-separated text files (which were the canonical Unix database format, and what I normally used for databases.)
These days if I want a lightweight database, I usually just put build tables in Excel, and then bitch about how it doesn't have a join or even decent text-editing and filtering capabilities, and occasionally have to save it as a CSV file and install vim on Yet Another Work-owned Windows box so I can get some bloody work done. I supposed if Excel did have a join function there'd be fewer people buying MS Access...
Can't quite fit the whole query into the title box, but if you were using one of those databases that Wayner's article talked about, you'd be able to query and find out if you were first...
The official philosophy behind IPv6 addressing was that they wanted to keep everything hierarchical, to avoid the IPv4 problem that makes everybody's routing table have to keep track of (currently) ~300,000 separate routes plus whatever their own users and customers need. So they want to hand out fat blocks to ISPs, and have those ISPs hand out whatever-sized blocks to their users, and if you change ISPs, IPv6 is supposed to be easier to renumber than IPv4.
In practice, of course, this doesn't help the problem of business users who need to be multihomed for reliability, so their 2nd-Nth ISPs are still going to have to announce their little blocks to the world. There are ugly hacks like shim6 that some people think will help, but it's basically an unsolved problem. So you can generally get larger blocks if you're multihoming, and if you were asking for a/32, that's a typical ISP allocation, so it makes sense that your ISPs said to get it from ARIN.
If you wanted to get a/48, your ISP should be handing those out like candy, but of course that's still Provider-Assigned address space.
Sure, the Hyphy thing was probably dead by last year, replaced by something newer, but hey, we're not talking about the sharpest tacks in the box here, even if they've occasionally done things like BG everybody thinks were far better than the original.
You are in a small dusty directory called "$HOME". A stairway called ".." leads up and a stairway called "docs" leads down. There are files here. > throw file "foo" at lineprinter daemon. The lineprinter daemon eats your file and belches. > Delete file "bar" What? With your bare hands?
Doug Gwyn's Adventure Shell added a layer of Adventure-like syntactic sugar to the regular Bourne Shell. It wasn't terribly useful, but it was fun for 15 minutes, and since it was written in shell, you could hack on it yourself, and everything worked relatively normally.
If I were using the 3D visual interface, I'd expect my data to be slightly out of focus and to get carried off by pterodactyls if I didn't pay enough attention to everything at once...
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As the Liberal Media have been pointing out, the prosecutors here were the corrupt and politically biased Bush Administration Justice Department, which was led by the corrupt Alberto Gonzalez, who Stevens had voted to confirm a few years before. So if there was intentional misconduct, well, nyahh nyahh.
Of course, if there was prosecutorial misconduct, and they have to drop those charges, chances are good that they've blown their Double Jeopardy roll and can't try him again and can't throw the old man in jail.
But that doesn't mean Stevens wasn't corrupt enough to deserve not to get re-elected, even though the Republicans are now trying to pretend that since they're the minority party, they should get a do-over on the election.
A couple of decades ago, an acquaintance of mine and his druggie friends decided to try smoking caffeine. After all, cocaine and opiates and THC all have some what different effects if you're smoking it as opposed to eating purified powder or eating the raw plant form (typically higher impact for a shorter period of time, but it's often qualitatively different as well.) So they crunched up some caffeine pills and smoked them..
You *really* do not want to do this! He said that all the nasty effects of caffeine happen all at once - the jitters, headaches, nausea - and it was Not Fun.
Decaffeinated coffees have finally gotten to taste pretty good over the last couple of decades; it's much better than the evil days of powdered Sanka. Rather than cutting off cold-turkey, you can start brewing your coffee with half decaf, and gradually decreasing the amount of real stuff.
I've done cold turkey on occasion - I'd been working on a death-march programming project, and by a couple of days before we had to ship our demo, I'd reached the point that coffee wasn't making me more awake, it was just making me more jittery, so I quit. Bad headaches for two weeks - it was a couple of years before I started caffeine again. Normally if I'm doing too much caffeine I'll cut back gradually.
Unfortunately, I picked up a tea habit a couple of years ago, and decaffeinating tea takes out most of the tea flavor. Herbal teas are fine some of the time, but black tea tastes good and gives me a nicer buzz than coffee because it's a somewhat different mix of alkaloids.
Assuming people don't know what they're taking shows you as a noob. Yes, there are pain remedies out there other than aspirin (ASA for you non-US folks), and some of them like Excedrin contain caffeine. But many of us grew up with old-fashioned aspirin, and when we want it we buy bottles that say "Aspirin" on them; if we mean Acetaminophen we'd probably say Tylenol. It's particularly important to people who have high blood pressure because aspirin helps reduce risk of strokes and heart attacks (and low-dose aspirin is generally recommended for old people even if they don't have high blood pressure, so get off my lawn, punk!) On the other hand, hospitals primarily use acetaminophen (aka paracetamol) because many people have aspirin allergies or stomach irritations, so the risks of aspirin are usually higher than the risks of liver and kidney damage from acetaminophen.
Aspirin developed by Bayer in Germany, and after the War To End All Wars, the US, France, Russia, and a few other countries ripped off their patents and trademarks as part of war reparations, so Aspirin and Heroin are not trademarks of Bayer in the US. Bayer's still the best-known brand here.
Well of course most people live in multi-person households. That just means that the average cost of connecting a household is A$2022*N, not just A$2022*1. The CIA World Factbook doesn't say how many households there are in Aus, but does say that 89% of the population is urban, so it should be relatively cheap to connect it.
I'm not surprised that somebody's done a FreeBSD client that runs on top of Xen - but can you run a Xen server on a FreeBSD base?
so obviously dinosaurs are descended from beer yeasts.
It's much more likely that you'll find a *(%^*& veliciraptor in your fermenter (unless of course the bluejay just flew in their by accident, or because it was trying to retrieve a dropped coconut or something.
Here in Northern California, the English-language TV shows usually have optional subtitles in English, and the Spanish-language TV shows usually don't have them, or if they do they're in Spanish. (It's frustrating that most of them aren't subtitled - that'd make it much easier to follow.) The one Chinese-language channel I get has Chinese subtitles; I think most of the audio is Mandarin as opposed to Cantonese or occasionally other dialects, but I'm not sure.
Unfortunately, used notebooks tend to have used-up batteries.
Also, you need to check the resolution of external monitor it can support - my T41 can only do up to 1280x1024, though it can dual-screen that along with its built-in.
If you're going to seriously ask teachers to evaluate the scientific strengths and weaknesses of the evolutionary theory of human origins, you've got to have them doing the same to the intelligent-design theories and the pure creationist theories. Not sure the creationists _really_ want to go there - examining weaknesses doesn't just mean "saying that creationists don't believe in evolution."
They're keeping the offsite backup distributed around the Internet, using the World-Wide Web to store it in real time.
Part of it may even be on *your* machine! We've really got to stop Brewster from leaching all your storage and make him store his backup himself - this business of using the originals to back up the backup just isn't sustainable!
The chimps didn't launch their own satellites - they got the dolphins and orcas to do it while they were still on the planet.
The issues with Neptune's orbit have to do with whether Pluto's the only other planet out there near Neptune, or whether there was some other larger body we haven't found yet that pushed it to be so eccentric, which were pretty strictly astronomy problems as opposed to cosmology problems.
Yeah - TFA says the chimps kept mental maps of their surroundings, and it was the researchers that used GPS because it all looked like jungle to them. That's different from migratory birds or insects which apparently use magnetic fields or sunlight angles for navigation.
It turns out that there actually _are_ neurological reasons that music from your teenage years is extra-evocative, just as language-learning works better with young kids. Go read "This is Your Brain on Music" for more details.
A certain amount of music sensitivity appears to be hardwired into our brains, and the extra hormones after puberty increase music-remembering ability and the emotional aspects of it that younger kids don't have as much of. There's also a lot of intellectual development going on in those years, and it's easier to pick up more complex ideas from the music than you could when you were younger.
As you get older, that still happens a bit, and you'll still run into music that's new and cool which you'll enjoy years later, but now it's competing with lots of other cool music that's in your head which your teenage-years music wasn't.
What's much more annoying is when you find yourself tuning by a different radio station and wondering "What is all this noise those kids are listening to? They should turn that crap down and listen to good stuff" just like your parents said when you were a kid. Some of that's because 90% of everything is crap, and it's not the crap that you find evocative because it was around when you were a kid, and some of it's because 90% of everything on the radio is highly-packaged commercial crap, making it 99% crap instead of only 90%. And some of that's because kids always want to listen to new stuff and piss off their parents, and musicians always like to do new stuff, and if you want to bust into the Top 40 you've either got to do identical commercial crap better than anybody who's already there or else do something new. Rap was creative and interesting, but the whole gangstas-dissing-women motifs that dominated it were offensive. Hip-hop took that music and started doing lots of interesting things with it, though I haven't followed it. I'm finding my self playing a lot of old-timey (average hair color in our jam session == gray, leaning toward white :-), and starting to listen to jazz more (lots of deep classical stuff in there, which I haven't had the patience to listen to for a while.)
Not sure what platform you were using or what years (lots of things had b-trees, though ISAM tended to be on IBM machines), but Unix V7 had a join command, which worked on the canonical tab-delimited ascii flat files that most Unix tools did, and PDP-11s weren't that expensive.
I last used it in the early 90s; I'd prototyped an application in Informix, but my department was too cheap to buy enough licensed copies for production use. You had to sort your data for the join to work, but that also meant you could use "look" to do binary lookups instead of grep. Since I only had to support a small number of scenarios that used join, it was easy to write a shell script to call them.
Unix hackers are traditionally fine with octal, as long as you don't try to fit a whole digit in it, though I've generally found hex more useful. And as far as 36-bit words go, I know one local Unix hacker who has a PDP-10 in his garage. (Not sure if it's still there, and it might have been a -20 instead.) I don't think my wife's copy of "Meet Macro-10" survived our mid-90s move, and when I took a compiler course at that school, I decided to use the still-clumsy-at-the-time Amdahl mainframe Unix system at work rather than deal with the PDP-10.
My guess is that part of the reason is historical - RDBMSs were coming out around the time Unix machines were, and both could be used by small departments as opposed to mainframe production shops.
They're also an extension of the native Unix toolsets, which were flat files with tab-or-comma-separated columns of data, so anybody who learned Unix in its first couple of decades generally had the expectation that you could do ad-hoc queries and build tools to automate them, without needing to spend 6-12 months negotiating a development project with the mainframe database owners. SQL is a bit clunky as a format, but the concept of schemas, where your database structure is stored and manipulated the way the data itself is, really works well if you're a tool-builder.
Is the Berkeley DB stuff close enough to what you need for a database?
Wayner's usually a good writer, and did some good theoretical-computer-science work back in the day, but this article was too short to answer the questions he asks at the beginning, and he mostly highlighted the new shiny things from big ASPs, which is generally what Infoworld wants.
I'm particularly disappointed that while he referred to the name and history of Berkeley DB, aka Sleepycat, aka Oracle Renamed-foo, he didn't actually talk about using it. (OTOH, Infoworld did review one version of it in 2005.) I no longer have my 4.1BSD manual on the shelf, but it was useful if you wanted something faster than using grep/sed/awk/look on tab-separated text files (which were the canonical Unix database format, and what I normally used for databases.)
These days if I want a lightweight database, I usually just put build tables in Excel, and then bitch about how it doesn't have a join or even decent text-editing and filtering capabilities, and occasionally have to save it as a CSV file and install vim on Yet Another Work-owned Windows box so I can get some bloody work done. I supposed if Excel did have a join function there'd be fewer people buying MS Access...
Can't quite fit the whole query into the title box, but if you were using one of those databases that Wayner's article talked about, you'd be able to query and find out if you were first...
We've got our own titles for the job. So surrender the booty....
Torrents? Back in the day, we used _floppies_ to move our pirated software between machines, and spread our viruses the old-fashioned way...
The official philosophy behind IPv6 addressing was that they wanted to keep everything hierarchical, to avoid the IPv4 problem that makes everybody's routing table have to keep track of (currently) ~300,000 separate routes plus whatever their own users and customers need. So they want to hand out fat blocks to ISPs, and have those ISPs hand out whatever-sized blocks to their users, and if you change ISPs, IPv6 is supposed to be easier to renumber than IPv4.
In practice, of course, this doesn't help the problem of business users who need to be multihomed for reliability, so their 2nd-Nth ISPs are still going to have to announce their little blocks to the world. There are ugly hacks like shim6 that some people think will help, but it's basically an unsolved problem. So you can generally get larger blocks if you're multihoming, and if you were asking for a /32, that's a typical ISP allocation, so it makes sense that your ISPs said to get it from ARIN.
If you wanted to get a /48, your ISP should be handing those out like candy, but of course that's still Provider-Assigned address space.
Sure, the Hyphy thing was probably dead by last year, replaced by something newer, but hey, we're not talking about the sharpest tacks in the box here, even if they've occasionally done things like BG everybody thinks were far better than the original.
Doug Gwyn's Adventure Shell added a layer of Adventure-like syntactic sugar to the regular Bourne Shell. It wasn't terribly useful, but it was fun for 15 minutes, and since it was written in shell, you could hack on it yourself, and everything worked relatively normally.
If I were using the 3D visual interface, I'd expect my data to be slightly out of focus and to get carried off by pterodactyls if I didn't pay enough attention to everything at once...