There is no "Einstein's Theory of Relativity." There are two of them: General and Specific. The cited article accurately points out it is General Relativity.
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It depends. Many science values are semi-random until they are measured. Once that occurs, the values are fixed and remain so. So if someone hasn't measured the speed of dark yet, we don't know.
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Old GenCon? There's a current one here in Indianapolis right now. They've booked so many rooms in the hotels the football team coming in for a preseason game has to shack up over twenty miles away.
I thought about going to it because it's only about a twenty-minute drive. Everything I saw online in newsgroups and on TV made it to look like it was RPGs and cards (oh, and the "authentic Batmobile") I do own a lot which were labelled "best of [x]" or have good current ratings in the various computer game magazines to keep my collection complete[1] of worthwhile games (I don't rely upon a single magazine - I cross-correlate them...sort of). There are a few oddball games - I bought a copy of Daikatana at CompUSA when they were charging $1 to get rid of it. For that price, I couldn't resist simply because of the history which would be associated with it).
Anyway, if it's more than RPG or cards, they need to broaden their PR or online chatter.
[1]We have an agreement: she doesn't complain about what I spend on games and I don't complain about what she spends on cross-stitch.
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The only problem about shopping online is the "touch" factor. I like to touch, feel, and see what I'm getting. Then if it's what I want, the hunt begins. There's a Best Buy (and about six others in down) & CompUSA within 1/4 mile of each other on the same road. There's a Circuit City about 1/2 mile away but it's PITA because of traffic flow. There's also an EB in a mall about 1/2 from CompUSA. EB is inevitably $5-$10 more than anyone else. I'm on good terms with the staff at CompUSA so if there's a problem with product quality, that's not an issue.
The biggest thing I do with BB is to go look at something they've received in advance of CompUSA or something CompUSA has sold out of before I can get to it. If I want it now and CompUSA isn't the lowest price, I go to CompUSA and hit them with the competitive price factor; i.e., they've been never to be outsold by the other stores. It's a matter of make the challenge, they check the web site, and charge the new price.
If I want the low[est] price I can get and it's worth waiting, then it's PriceWatch or Froogle.
Oh, and the Five-Finger Discount still is in effect when it's in person. I went to build a new box and bought a 600W furnace. I opened the box out of curiosity and it had a 200W inside. That said a lot about the Door Nazi watching the cameras.
Yes. They showed their naivete by some of their actions and probably should have had someone guiding them through the process to prevent them from cutting their throats to the point of cancelling an IPO completely.
That said, one of the things which really gripes a lot of people in the business is "flipping": "buy low, sell high", but to the point of insanity - a few points one way or the other and flip the other way.
The reason it's frowned upon is because it causes the stock to bounce; not just pump and dump, but nonstop...imagine dozens (or more) doing the same thing.
There is always Kasparov to take another crack at it. If someone knew before some of his other matches he was going to try & "out-think"[1] the machines they could have warned him off of this line of thinking and he would have done better.
[1]researching "weaknesses" machines supposedly had in specific stages of the game then attempt to exploit them.
He's obviously aware Slashdot is not a moderated resource and knows it would lose its value if it were to change. Consider what would happen if people decide to "infiltrate" and gradually start to post information which isn't necessarily blatant advertising as that would be too obvious. But little-by-little...
Anyway, you get the picture.
Now, I know everyone's going to jump on that and claim noone could get away with it, but I'm just pointing out that if he really wanted to use SlashDot for a campaign of some type, that's about the only way he could do it. If it became obvious, Anonymous or not, we know they'd be mod'ed down, and if they used a userid, it'd almost become policy for anyone who had points to knock them down pretty hard to the point of where they wouldn't be seen by anyone unless they changed their filters to -1:: or 0::. So then it becomes a mission of them creating new names every time they're discovered.
Technology has started to be used in one way which helps in the criminal world. When someone is booked, instead of waiting some time for arraignment, they can sit in a booth and meet with a judge via two-way video|audio, should they choose to do so. These are taped (both video|audio) and occasionally played on TV (I have no idea what type of releases have to be signed to permit that to happen). This obviously doesn't help those who "lawyer up" as the tv shows call it; or at least, the local news folks haven't said what happens when that occurs. This is in the county just north of Indianapolis (where there's a bit more bread to spread around for things like this - over the previous ten years, one of the fastest-growing counties in the country.
In Downtown Indianapolis, however, there is so much overcrowding the courts haul in the Chief of Police and Sheriff (they have the same territorial area(s) as Indianapolis and the county are the same thing, known as "UniGov") and these two fine gentlemen are told to "find a way to alleviate the overcrowding or the courts will with the money coming out of their budgets. As a result, people caught smoking some redbud or soliciting a prostitute are taken in, ticketed, and released. All of the Sheriff's candidates campaign under the banner of "I've got a plan for fixing overcrowding" but no one ever says what it is so you just have to trust them at their word and pray they are right.
Anyway, there are ways jailcams can be beneficial. There could be judges serving off-hours on-alert and available when needed for such things.
Yuck. They just advertised the state fair starting next week. They showed deep fat fried Oreos this year (two years ago, it was deep fat fried Milky Way candy bars, last year, it was deep fat fried Twinkies). For each of those, we bought one, went over to the trash can (just in case), took a bite, and had to spit it out. Fortunately, everyone shared the price to get a single bite to find out how bad it was.
Microsoft is focusing on Linux, thinking that's the competition. It's Open Source. Microsoft doesn't understand this because they only understand battles involving money, or power involving money. Open Source doesn't necessarily map into that philosophy so Microsoft overlooks it and focuses upon the end product(s).
It's no different than the Internet. They almost missed the boat (until Gates' infamous Summer sabbaticals where he isolates himself for two weeks and thinks. The reason Microsoft didn't hop onto the Internet were twofold: 1)the Internet was "The World's Biggest Secret Club" where the only way to know about it is if you were on it. I know some (or more) at MS knew about it, but why weren't they pushing it internally? 2) No one at Microsoft saw a way to turn a profit using it. Once the light bulb lit up and the business opportunities presented themselves, Gates' was quoted (and I heard it in person), "I don't care what the Information Superhighway[1] looks like as long as I have a tollboth on it."
Again, Microsoft doesn't understand OS and until they do, they're chasing their tails. The best part is they're devoting resources to chasing smoke. The next question is: How much more money are they going to invest in SCO to keep the fight alive?
[1] "Information Superhighway" was the vogue term at that time, just as Gore claimed to have invented it.
downloaded from Microsoft There's a statement saying you shouldn't D/L it for a single machine because there will be a smaller single-machine D/L soon; if it's longer than you can hold your breath, it's not soon! The actual size, as indicated on that page is 272'391M - and I can verify it because of what's on my HD.
Suck Factor #10: You can usually run a self-extracting.exe to unpack it to a desired directory, then decide whether to run the setup or burn an unpacked version to CD so you don't have to unpack it every time. This is not so with SP2. It unpacks it, then wants to start applying itself. If you try to time your kill, you might make it, but it works awfully hard to waste those unpacked files. I noticed the unpacked size (for the entire package) is ~333M
As I write this, there are 653 gmail auctions underway. It looks like people have gotten bored selling one-offs so they're creating vanity ids & selling those; e.g., "BillAndHillaryClinton@gmail.com".
n.b. I have nothing to gain from all of this, I'm just handing out information.
...gmail? I have no inclination of going back to the standard email clients. Come to think of it, neither do many of my friends. Every few days, I see the special message "Invite 3 friends to Gmail" and I do. For some reason, people are selling these things on eBay...for something in the range of $1-$5.[1] Selling three licenses for $15 + all of the hassles doesn't seem worth getting someone you know connected.
[1] That's a big tip for those yearning for a gmail account and don't want to wait until everyone else is on. Gmail seems to have taken the place of when I called the Internet "The world's biggest secret club." sometime in the late 80s/early 90s. But for a couple of bucks, I have several friends who aren't waiting for me to receive new invitations and have just hit the auctions. From what they have told me, impatience was getting to them. No shipping involved. Quick payment and an email invitation from the seller.
Re:Mozilla Firefox - it solves most problems....
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That's because IE is already loaded into memory. Yes, you can detach it, but if the common code is available, IE is there.
The problem isn't if it could end, but who wants it to end. As long as HST is functional, it'll be more difficult to get the next gadget (name escapes me) off of the drawing board and into space. There will be questions as to why we need both[1]. If HST fails, its purpose has been demonstrated time & time again - so the next on the assembly line can easily be justified.
Bottom line: I seriously doubt we'll see both toys in the sky working at the same time.
[1] See George Carlin: "Flammable, inflammable, and non-inflammable. Why three words? Either it flamms or it doesn't."
A quick bit, but true.
If you need your spirits lifted, look up Indian Sergeant...("Love your loincloth. Someday, it may save your life.")
PHP runs under ASP.
ASP isn't a language whereas PHP is.
ASP is essentially an umbrella, supporting many server-side languages such as: PHP, PERLScript, JScript, VBScript, etc.
Unfortunately, too many people seem to think:
ASP==VBScript.
And that's not the case at all. And it's obvious to anyone who actually knows what ASP and PHP are.
Nice try, but no prize in the bottom of your cereal box today.
That's not the search engine they're working on.
And let's not forget their newsbot which is up & available. But we know they'll fight News.Google not by feature-set but by setting up exclusive contracts with some of the major news providers - those who have subsidiaries as feeds as well - so they can shut off as many at a time as possible. The goal will be to try & dry up News.Google - sort of like going upstream out West and diverting the flow of water for one's own purpose.
agreed. I was ~ sophomore in college using a pdp 11/70 when we installed a vax[1,2]. i remember when there were rumors there would soon be a "vax on a chip" and we found that to be incredible. iirc, when ada's ("the green team" for the trivia buffs) first complete specs were made public and compilers were readied, the vax was the smallest machine capable of running/compiling ada - i think there was also a "janus ada" running on some apple hardware, but that was a very wispy version of ada. when it appeared the dod was pushing ada to the point of pushing cobol out the door, everyone felt the way to make a basket of dough was basically a cobol->ada translator or compiler.
[1] everyone keeps hinting at a full teco editor for windows, but is there one? data general dup'd it and called it "speed".
[2] has basic-plus-2 been ported to anything other than the dec world?
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Why does everyone insist upon Amazon and B&N? (see suggestive sell above: You can buy...") They aren't the only stores in town and they aren't the least-expensive stores in town, either
Pay attention to where they rank with the suggestions below:
When one is tempted to buy from Amazon or B&N first, try going here: Moving to Linux via AddAll
or,
plug the ISBN into Froogle.Google. On top of that, look in the right margin of the Froogle search - it suggests "Buy 0321159985 for less" at a site named "www.chambal.com".
Whenever I see a suggestive "buy this book here" link next to a review or announcement and it's B&N or Amazon, it reminds me of those who have 'fessed up and admitted they get a kickback if purchases are made via that link. So either people are ignorant and settle for Amazon and B&N (only) or they are looking to steer some of your ca$h you could be using for Doom 3 into their pocket. (if this is the case, why don't they volunteer this up front?)
Microsoft Bob succeeded, but not in the way you have expected.
Melinda Gates (nee' French) was the Product Manager of Microsoft Bob.
(just don't brag to your friends you've known that forever)
p.s. Microsoft Bob is|was one of the products (along with things such as RedHat) which Virtual PC can run successfully; so it hasn't disappeared completely. I still have a copy sitting here in one of my CD wallets. (Handed out at a Tech Ed or some other conference)
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There is no "Einstein's Theory of Relativity." There are two of them: General and Specific. The cited article accurately points out it is General Relativity.
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My trunk monkey can beat up your trunk monkey.
All theories suck in the dark.
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My trunk monkey can beat up your trunk monkey.
It depends. Many science values are semi-random until they are measured. Once that occurs, the values are fixed and remain so. So if someone hasn't measured the speed of dark yet, we don't know.
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My trunk monkey can beat up your trunk monkey.
It is syzygies
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Old GenCon? There's a current one here in Indianapolis right now. They've booked so many rooms in the hotels the football team coming in for a preseason game has to shack up over twenty miles away.
I thought about going to it because it's only about a twenty-minute drive. Everything I saw online in newsgroups and on TV made it to look like it was RPGs and cards (oh, and the "authentic Batmobile") I do own a lot which were labelled "best of [x]" or have good current ratings in the various computer game magazines to keep my collection complete[1] of worthwhile games (I don't rely upon a single magazine - I cross-correlate them...sort of). There are a few oddball games - I bought a copy of Daikatana at CompUSA when they were charging $1 to get rid of it. For that price, I couldn't resist simply because of the history which would be associated with it).
Anyway, if it's more than RPG or cards, they need to broaden their PR or online chatter.
[1]We have an agreement: she doesn't complain about what I spend on games and I don't complain about what she spends on cross-stitch.
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My trunk monkey can beat up your trunk monkey.
The only problem about shopping online is the "touch" factor. I like to touch, feel, and see what I'm getting. Then if it's what I want, the hunt begins. There's a Best Buy (and about six others in down) & CompUSA within 1/4 mile of each other on the same road. There's a Circuit City about 1/2 mile away but it's PITA because of traffic flow. There's also an EB in a mall about 1/2 from CompUSA. EB is inevitably $5-$10 more than anyone else. I'm on good terms with the staff at CompUSA so if there's a problem with product quality, that's not an issue.
The biggest thing I do with BB is to go look at something they've received in advance of CompUSA or something CompUSA has sold out of before I can get to it. If I want it now and CompUSA isn't the lowest price, I go to CompUSA and hit them with the competitive price factor; i.e., they've been never to be outsold by the other stores. It's a matter of make the challenge, they check the web site, and charge the new price.
If I want the low[est] price I can get and it's worth waiting, then it's PriceWatch or Froogle.
Oh, and the Five-Finger Discount still is in effect when it's in person. I went to build a new box and bought a 600W furnace. I opened the box out of curiosity and it had a 200W inside. That said a lot about the Door Nazi watching the cameras.
My trunk monkey can beat up your trunk monkey.
Yes. They showed their naivete by some of their actions and probably should have had someone guiding them through the process to prevent them from cutting their throats to the point of cancelling an IPO completely.
That said, one of the things which really gripes a lot of people in the business is "flipping": "buy low, sell high", but to the point of insanity - a few points one way or the other and flip the other way.
The reason it's frowned upon is because it causes the stock to bounce; not just pump and dump, but nonstop...imagine dozens (or more) doing the same thing.
My trunk monkey can beat up your trunk monkey.
There are two ways to recyle those hamburgers. It would simplify how many they had to fix.
There is always Kasparov to take another crack at it. If someone knew before some of his other matches he was going to try & "out-think"[1] the machines they could have warned him off of this line of thinking and he would have done better.
[1]researching "weaknesses" machines supposedly had in specific stages of the game then attempt to exploit them.
i.e., if he we were smart & understood /.
He's obviously aware Slashdot is not a moderated resource and knows it would lose its value if it were to change. Consider what would happen if people decide to "infiltrate" and gradually start to post information which isn't necessarily blatant advertising as that would be too obvious. But little-by-little...
Anyway, you get the picture.
Now, I know everyone's going to jump on that and claim noone could get away with it, but I'm just pointing out that if he really wanted to use SlashDot for a campaign of some type, that's about the only way he could do it. If it became obvious, Anonymous or not, we know they'd be mod'ed down, and if they used a userid, it'd almost become policy for anyone who had points to knock them down pretty hard to the point of where they wouldn't be seen by anyone unless they changed their filters to -1:: or 0::. So then it becomes a mission of them creating new names every time they're discovered.
Technology has started to be used in one way which helps in the criminal world. When someone is booked, instead of waiting some time for arraignment, they can sit in a booth and meet with a judge via two-way video|audio, should they choose to do so. These are taped (both video|audio) and occasionally played on TV (I have no idea what type of releases have to be signed to permit that to happen). This obviously doesn't help those who "lawyer up" as the tv shows call it; or at least, the local news folks haven't said what happens when that occurs. This is in the county just north of Indianapolis (where there's a bit more bread to spread around for things like this - over the previous ten years, one of the fastest-growing counties in the country.
In Downtown Indianapolis, however, there is so much overcrowding the courts haul in the Chief of Police and Sheriff (they have the same territorial area(s) as Indianapolis and the county are the same thing, known as "UniGov") and these two fine gentlemen are told to "find a way to alleviate the overcrowding or the courts will with the money coming out of their budgets. As a result, people caught smoking some redbud or soliciting a prostitute are taken in, ticketed, and released. All of the Sheriff's candidates campaign under the banner of "I've got a plan for fixing overcrowding" but no one ever says what it is so you just have to trust them at their word and pray they are right.
Anyway, there are ways jailcams can be beneficial. There could be judges serving off-hours on-alert and available when needed for such things.
Yuck. They just advertised the state fair starting next week. They showed deep fat fried Oreos this year (two years ago, it was deep fat fried Milky Way candy bars, last year, it was deep fat fried Twinkies). For each of those, we bought one, went over to the trash can (just in case), took a bite, and had to spit it out. Fortunately, everyone shared the price to get a single bite to find out how bad it was.
Microsoft is focusing on Linux, thinking that's the competition. It's Open Source. Microsoft doesn't understand this because they only understand battles involving money, or power involving money. Open Source doesn't necessarily map into that philosophy so Microsoft overlooks it and focuses upon the end product(s).
It's no different than the Internet. They almost missed the boat (until Gates' infamous Summer sabbaticals where he isolates himself for two weeks and thinks. The reason Microsoft didn't hop onto the Internet were twofold: 1)the Internet was "The World's Biggest Secret Club" where the only way to know about it is if you were on it. I know some (or more) at MS knew about it, but why weren't they pushing it internally? 2) No one at Microsoft saw a way to turn a profit using it. Once the light bulb lit up and the business opportunities presented themselves, Gates' was quoted (and I heard it in person), "I don't care what the Information Superhighway[1] looks like as long as I have a tollboth on it."
Again, Microsoft doesn't understand OS and until they do, they're chasing their tails. The best part is they're devoting resources to chasing smoke. The next question is: How much more money are they going to invest in SCO to keep the fight alive?
[1] "Information Superhighway" was the vogue term at that time, just as Gore claimed to have invented it.
Sorry - sumimasen deshita.
This: 272'391M
Should be: 272'391K
downloaded from Microsoft There's a statement saying you shouldn't D/L it for a single machine because there will be a smaller single-machine D/L soon; if it's longer than you can hold your breath, it's not soon! The actual size, as indicated on that page is 272'391M - and I can verify it because of what's on my HD.
.exe to unpack it to a desired directory, then decide whether to run the setup or burn an unpacked version to CD so you don't have to unpack it every time. This is not so with SP2. It unpacks it, then wants to start applying itself. If you try to time your kill, you might make it, but it works awfully hard to waste those unpacked files. I noticed the unpacked size (for the entire package) is ~333M
Suck Factor #10: You can usually run a self-extracting
As I write this, there are 653 gmail auctions underway. It looks like people have gotten bored selling one-offs so they're creating vanity ids & selling those; e.g., "BillAndHillaryClinton@gmail.com".
n.b. I have nothing to gain from all of this, I'm just handing out information.
...gmail? I have no inclination of going back to the standard email clients. Come to think of it, neither do many of my friends. Every few days, I see the special message "Invite 3 friends to Gmail" and I do. For some reason, people are selling these things on eBay...for something in the range of $1-$5.[1] Selling three licenses for $15 + all of the hassles doesn't seem worth getting someone you know connected.
[1] That's a big tip for those yearning for a gmail account and don't want to wait until everyone else is on. Gmail seems to have taken the place of when I called the Internet "The world's biggest secret club." sometime in the late 80s/early 90s. But for a couple of bucks, I have several friends who aren't waiting for me to receive new invitations and have just hit the auctions. From what they have told me, impatience was getting to them. No shipping involved. Quick payment and an email invitation from the seller.
That's because IE is already loaded into memory. Yes, you can detach it, but if the common code is available, IE is there.
The problem isn't if it could end, but who wants it to end. As long as HST is functional, it'll be more difficult to get the next gadget (name escapes me) off of the drawing board and into space. There will be questions as to why we need both[1]. If HST fails, its purpose has been demonstrated time & time again - so the next on the assembly line can easily be justified.
Bottom line: I seriously doubt we'll see both toys in the sky working at the same time.
[1] See George Carlin: "Flammable, inflammable, and non-inflammable. Why three words? Either it flamms or it doesn't."
A quick bit, but true.
If you need your spirits lifted, look up Indian Sergeant...("Love your loincloth. Someday, it may save your life.")
How much content of these documents would be redacted? If enough it filtered, they might as well not be made public.
Can you imagine seeing the date at the top and everything else scratched? Pedantically speaking, that would be a published document.
Except it's not accurate.
PHP runs under ASP.
ASP isn't a language whereas PHP is.
ASP is essentially an umbrella, supporting many server-side languages such as: PHP, PERLScript, JScript, VBScript, etc.
Unfortunately, too many people seem to think:
ASP==VBScript.
And that's not the case at all. And it's obvious to anyone who actually knows what ASP and PHP are.
Nice try, but no prize in the bottom of your cereal box today.
That's not the search engine they're working on.
And let's not forget their newsbot which is up & available. But we know they'll fight News.Google not by feature-set but by setting up exclusive contracts with some of the major news providers - those who have subsidiaries as feeds as well - so they can shut off as many at a time as possible. The goal will be to try & dry up News.Google - sort of like going upstream out West and diverting the flow of water for one's own purpose.
It's called a "plutocracy" (did you sleep in class that day?) Why describe in sentences when a word will do? Perhaps you write code the same way?
Two simple phrases to remember:
1. Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat.
2. The Golden Rule - he who has the gold makes the rules.
agreed. I was ~ sophomore in college using a pdp 11/70 when we installed a vax[1,2]. i remember when there were rumors there would soon be a "vax on a chip" and we found that to be incredible. iirc, when ada's ("the green team" for the trivia buffs) first complete specs were made public and compilers were readied, the vax was the smallest machine capable of running/compiling ada - i think there was also a "janus ada" running on some apple hardware, but that was a very wispy version of ada. when it appeared the dod was pushing ada to the point of pushing cobol out the door, everyone felt the way to make a basket of dough was basically a cobol->ada translator or compiler.
[1] everyone keeps hinting at a full teco editor for windows, but is there one? data general dup'd it and called it "speed".
[2] has basic-plus-2 been ported to anything other than the dec world?
Why does everyone insist upon Amazon and B&N? (see suggestive sell above: You can buy...")
They aren't the only stores in town and they aren't the least-expensive stores in town, either
Pay attention to where they rank with the suggestions below:
When one is tempted to buy from Amazon or B&N first, try going here: Moving to Linux via AddAll
or,
plug the ISBN into Froogle.Google. On top of that, look in the right margin of the Froogle search - it suggests "Buy 0321159985 for less" at a site named "www.chambal.com".
Whenever I see a suggestive "buy this book here" link next to a review or announcement and it's B&N or Amazon, it reminds me of those who have 'fessed up and admitted they get a kickback if purchases are made via that link. So either people are ignorant and settle for Amazon and B&N (only) or they are looking to steer some of your ca$h you could be using for Doom 3 into their pocket. (if this is the case, why don't they volunteer this up front?)
Microsoft Bob succeeded, but not in the way you have expected.
Melinda Gates (nee' French) was the Product Manager of Microsoft Bob.
(just don't brag to your friends you've known that forever)
p.s. Microsoft Bob is|was one of the products (along with things such as RedHat) which Virtual PC can run successfully; so it hasn't disappeared completely. I still have a copy sitting here in one of my CD wallets. (Handed out at a Tech Ed or some other conference)