and therein lies the problem... wtf do they need it for.. and why the heck did you give it to them...
Just to be clear: They didn't ask. I just kept an eye on the POS screen from one side. Watching other peoples screens and keyboards is probably a bad habit from working in IT. My point is that most people can judge age without having to ask for proof, especially when its the difference between (18|21) and 40.
I honestly thought the GP hit 4 where he intended to hit 2. Just having a joke at his expense.
Ever since certain states passed laws that say that you must card everyone who looks under 27, 30, 35, or whatever, stores have tried to one up them. It's easier to implement a consistent, if ridiculous, policy than to trust your underlings to correctly judge age.
Thats mad. The other week I bought a new pair of shoes. The girl at the checkout had to fill in some demographic data on the POS terminal. She typed my age as 38 which was two years too low. Maybe a boy selling software would be off a lot more but he is going to know the difference between 15 and 25.
Apart from applying for my drivers license and passport I have never once been asked for proof of age. I never went to night clubs but I did go out to a strip joint on my 18th birthday (a couple of hours after it became legal for me) and I didn't get asked.
Some Americans I know who live here in Australia told me that a lot of playgrounds have been closed in the USA because of liability issues. I hope that the threat of legal action doesn't make things worse here.
The human body depends upon pressure and exertion to maintain muscle tone, bone and muscle mass... exercise regimes help, I guess, but for a really long mission we'd probably have to have gravity, or some simulation of it
I started cycling to work full time a year ago. I feel fitter than I have been in 20 years. I am sure that if I sat around for a year at 1g my health would decline.
So to stay fit people have to be able to exercise at a high level by 1g standards, without the benefit of open space. I don't think my family would put up with me cycling in doors for an hour a day, especially if we lived in a caravan.
It is interesting to me that the USA is one of the worlds most influential christian nations, and one of the few countries on earth with a constitutional separation between church and state.
By comparison my own country (Australia) is almost athiestic, yet our constitution bars anybody who is not a member of the church of england becoming head of state.
Is it possible that this is a passing phase for the USA? Is the religious right being supported by people who will be dead in 10 years? Or does this run right down through the younger generations?
I get the impression that religion, like support for guns, is just one of the symbolic markers which politicians use to stake their territory. Perhaps because the language of economics is too complex for most people so they have to base their campaigns on simple things.
would need to sell all his Microsoft stock during the days between 'winning an election' and 'taking power'.
And where would he put the money? Buy a small carribean country for the duration? That amount of money, you can't put in the bank without winding up the owner of the bank.
about VMS, because NT was built by a bunch of ex-DEC guys, the NT Kernel isn't that bad.
Back when I worked in VMS I got invited along to the local DEC HQ and recieved a lecture from some MSFT guy on how much NT is like VMS and that we should all run NT on alphas.
He asked for questions and I ask him why NT doesn't have proper vms-esque device names (dka0, etc). The question didn't go down very well. I supose that would break too much stuff.
I mean, they could always port GNU userland over to the NT kernel, but dont MS already do that (or something similar) in their UNIX resource thing, which you can download.
I can't imagine them working on GPL'd stuff and having to release the code.
The proposals are at an early stage, and a spacecraft needed just to send an astronaut that far into space exists only on the drawing board
Actually the apollo stack (SM, CM, LM ascent and descent stages) had easily enough velocity budget to fly to and return from some near Earth asteroids. It didn't have the consumables to do it but that could have been launched separately. You get more redundancy that way.
Of course we don't have the apollo CM, which is the only spacecraft in existance which could make a high speed return from an asteroid and reenter the atmosphere, but we will have the CRV which should have similar capabilities. The saturn 5 launch system doesn't exist either and thats the part of this system which is really vapourware.
Anyway good luck to them. Mars has been held off for so long because it is so much more risky and difficult than the moon. Asteroids offer progressively harder challenges, minus the risk of sudden death landing a heavy vehicle on mars.
I started working on VAX/VMS systems in 1986. I changed jobs to another DEC site after nine months or so. I got an account, put my username in at the appropriate prompt, hit return and then immediately knew that I had entered my old username, not the new one.
I had to think for a bit before I knew the reason: VMS searched SYSUAF.DAT for my username before I entered the password. If it found the username it would stop searching. Later versions did the search after the password had been entered and one type of attack became less likely.
I suppose something like this could be done so that timing can't be used to debug the process runing the algorithm but another way of viewing it is that it is like getting the key from a chip by measuring the amount of power it uses or something. There may be limits to who far protection can go if you have the hardware or are on the same (virtual) machine.
Others in this article suggested that people with postgrad qualifications would be better off starting their own business. I tend to agree with them. If you are right then you are the best judge of your abilities.
noted that if Wnt signaling is activated for too long of a period in these animals, cancer results. "This has to be done in a controlled way, with just a few cells for a specific amount of time," he says. "The fact is that this pathway is involved in cell proliferation, whether it is to generate or regenerate limbs, control stem cells, or produce cancer."
Turn it down to 0 and you eventually die of old age. Turn it up to 11 and you die of cancer. If the human equivalent can be found we may have a whole class of very old people who debate ways of achieving the right balance.
If something like this is under trial in 20 years or so I will definitely be giving it a go.
All I want is a game development company to sponsor my masters thesis - I want someone to set the deliverables and give me an area on which to focus; I don't need monetary support... I want an aim!
I work in aviation and I can't speak for the games industry, but you do seem a bit overqualified to be working on that kind of stuff.
To pick a silly example: go to a company which digs ditches for a living and ask them to be involved in your masters thesis on ditches.
Much of the software industry is as low tech as that. They churn stuff out. New ideas are a risk for them so they won't want to promote it. I know a few people at my workplace who have postgrad qualifications. They work on the same crap as everybody else. The only way up is management so your best best for improvement is an MBE.
The star performers where I work are promoted away from development within a few years.
I bought a cheap combo lock for a bike I use on the weekends. Most of the mass is in the cable which is about 10mm thick. It must have a breaking strain of 1E4kg at least.
The lock bit between the ends of the cable is made of plastic and could be broken with a rock, so I don't rely on that lock too much.
Thailand is now actually in a far better situation than under the previous regime
And a month before the government was kicked out the army had a big car bomb parked around the corner from the Prime Ministers house. Those Thai army guys are such pussycats.
Yep. And the computer that controlled the Apollo spacecraft (designed while Billy Boy was still in single digit years), wasn't much better than your homebrew (around 8K IIRC).
According to the Apollo 15 ALSJ the descent guidance system had a five vector model of the terrain around the landing site.
Computers are magical educational devices. You need good teachers for computers to be effective at all in the classroom. I don't know how much training teachers in these countries have using computers as educational tools
Firstly young kids are amazingly tech savvy. Secondly the most important use case for this laptop is as an electronic book reader. In an environment where paper text books the ability to share electronic copies of reference material is very valuable.
In any event, we will know how this went in a year or two. I can't wait to find out how it goes.
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Just to be clear: They didn't ask. I just kept an eye on the POS screen from one side. Watching other peoples screens and keyboards is probably a bad habit from working in IT. My point is that most people can judge age without having to ask for proof, especially when its the difference between (18|21) and 40.
If they replace it with a good one it could always have a "little accident"
I honestly thought the GP hit 4 where he intended to hit 2. Just having a joke at his expense.
Thats mad. The other week I bought a new pair of shoes. The girl at the checkout had to fill in some demographic data on the POS terminal. She typed my age as 38 which was two years too low. Maybe a boy selling software would be off a lot more but he is going to know the difference between 15 and 25.
Apart from applying for my drivers license and passport I have never once been asked for proof of age. I never went to night clubs but I did go out to a strip joint on my 18th birthday (a couple of hours after it became legal for me) and I didn't get asked.
Some Americans I know who live here in Australia told me that a lot of playgrounds have been closed in the USA because of liability issues. I hope that the threat of legal action doesn't make things worse here.
Aren't you allowed to have sex or buy alcohol if you are under 40 where you live?
I started cycling to work full time a year ago. I feel fitter than I have been in 20 years. I am sure that if I sat around for a year at 1g my health would decline.
So to stay fit people have to be able to exercise at a high level by 1g standards, without the benefit of open space. I don't think my family would put up with me cycling in doors for an hour a day, especially if we lived in a caravan.
It is interesting to me that the USA is one of the worlds most influential christian nations, and one of the few countries on earth with a constitutional separation between church and state.
By comparison my own country (Australia) is almost athiestic, yet our constitution bars anybody who is not a member of the church of england becoming head of state.
Is it possible that this is a passing phase for the USA? Is the religious right being supported by people who will be dead in 10 years? Or does this run right down through the younger generations?
I get the impression that religion, like support for guns, is just one of the symbolic markers which politicians use to stake their territory. Perhaps because the language of economics is too complex for most people so they have to base their campaigns on simple things.
And where would he put the money? Buy a small carribean country for the duration? That amount of money, you can't put in the bank without winding up the owner of the bank.
Back when I worked in VMS I got invited along to the local DEC HQ and recieved a lecture from some MSFT guy on how much NT is like VMS and that we should all run NT on alphas.
He asked for questions and I ask him why NT doesn't have proper vms-esque device names (dka0, etc). The question didn't go down very well. I supose that would break too much stuff.
I can't imagine them working on GPL'd stuff and having to release the code.
Is there a difference between them this week? I haven't been keeping up.
FromTFA:
Actually the apollo stack (SM, CM, LM ascent and descent stages) had easily enough velocity budget to fly to and return from some near Earth asteroids. It didn't have the consumables to do it but that could have been launched separately. You get more redundancy that way.
Of course we don't have the apollo CM, which is the only spacecraft in existance which could make a high speed return from an asteroid and reenter the atmosphere, but we will have the CRV which should have similar capabilities. The saturn 5 launch system doesn't exist either and thats the part of this system which is really vapourware.
Anyway good luck to them. Mars has been held off for so long because it is so much more risky and difficult than the moon. Asteroids offer progressively harder challenges, minus the risk of sudden death landing a heavy vehicle on mars.
I started working on VAX/VMS systems in 1986. I changed jobs to another DEC site after nine months or so. I got an account, put my username in at the appropriate prompt, hit return and then immediately knew that I had entered my old username, not the new one.
I had to think for a bit before I knew the reason: VMS searched SYSUAF.DAT for my username before I entered the password. If it found the username it would stop searching. Later versions did the search after the password had been entered and one type of attack became less likely.
I suppose something like this could be done so that timing can't be used to debug the process runing the algorithm but another way of viewing it is that it is like getting the key from a chip by measuring the amount of power it uses or something. There may be limits to who far protection can go if you have the hardware or are on the same (virtual) machine.
Others in this article suggested that people with postgrad qualifications would be better off starting their own business. I tend to agree with them. If you are right then you are the best judge of your abilities.
Well a physicist with nothing better to do, anyway.
From TFA:
Turn it down to 0 and you eventually die of old age. Turn it up to 11 and you die of cancer. If the human equivalent can be found we may have a whole class of very old people who debate ways of achieving the right balance.
If something like this is under trial in 20 years or so I will definitely be giving it a go.
I work in aviation and I can't speak for the games industry, but you do seem a bit overqualified to be working on that kind of stuff.
To pick a silly example: go to a company which digs ditches for a living and ask them to be involved in your masters thesis on ditches.
Much of the software industry is as low tech as that. They churn stuff out. New ideas are a risk for them so they won't want to promote it. I know a few people at my workplace who have postgrad qualifications. They work on the same crap as everybody else. The only way up is management so your best best for improvement is an MBE.
The star performers where I work are promoted away from development within a few years.
I bought a cheap combo lock for a bike I use on the weekends. Most of the mass is in the cable which is about 10mm thick. It must have a breaking strain of 1E4kg at least.
The lock bit between the ends of the cable is made of plastic and could be broken with a rock, so I don't rely on that lock too much.
And a month before the government was kicked out the army had a big car bomb parked around the corner from the Prime Ministers house. Those Thai army guys are such pussycats.
Now there's a quote I can put to good use in my day job!
According to the Apollo 15 ALSJ the descent guidance system had a five vector model of the terrain around the landing site.
Well http://www.openofice.org/ certainly isn't it.
Or maybe I am missing the subtle joke in your sig.
Did you skip three orders of magnitude or where they really expensive tiles?
Dead or not she will still be the most elegant thing around.
Jack Black is linux and Helen Mirren is BSD
Actually I was thinking about The Man who Sold the Moon by RAH. The character in that book had similar problems launching over inhabited land.
An alien who wanted to get into orbit these days would just buy a ticket from the Russians.
Firstly young kids are amazingly tech savvy. Secondly the most important use case for this laptop is as an electronic book reader. In an environment where paper text books the ability to share electronic copies of reference material is very valuable.
In any event, we will know how this went in a year or two. I can't wait to find out how it goes.