I'm right handed, and the carpal tunnel in my left hand is MUCH less than the right hand, and I notice that it hurts much worse when I've been mousing a lot, rather than when I've been typing a lot. I know that a lot of writing with a pen or pencil will cause a big flareup, too.
I've filed millions of complaints about those guys "subject spamming", which is theoretically against policy, but eBay couldn't care less, because they're making money off each sale.
> The upper limit, known as the Chandrasekhar limit, for a white dwarf is 1.4 solar masses (more or less).
Just to expand that a bit, if the mass of a white dwarf goes over 1.4 solar masses, the gravitational collapse is strong enough to trigger a supernova explosion. In other words, at masses greater than the Chandrasekhar limit, the (inward) gravitational pressure overcomes the (outward) thermal/fusion pressure, thus causing a collapse and the ignition of most of the remainder of the stars fuel, thus the supernova explosion.
In The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson predicts chopsticks with messages in Chinese and Japanese running up and down them like movie marques. Soon we'll have advertising on every inanimate surface.
The history of the CD, when the music industry was dragged, kicking and screaming, into that distribution medium, new releases came out on CD, old releases were on vinyl. Two years later, vinyl couldn;t be had, and the Beatles White Album was top of the (CD) charts, and R.E.M. or somebody was number two. Why do we feel that Internet distribution of music should be any different? I can get out my credit card, buy and download software today, or I can wait two weeks and get a printed CD with the software. Why should music be any different?
This is the first time I've found myself agreeing with Linus word-for-word. No "buts", "ifs", "except fors" or "maybes". He's enumerated everything I've said about KDE over Gnome, but that doesn't mean that KDE is perfect, either.
The different branches of the U.S. military spend far more time competing with each other for budgetary dollars than against foriegn powers. Witness the Air Force vs the Navy for fighter plane designs. This new mission statement is from the Secrtary of the Air Force and the Air Force Chief of Staff - no higher. I'm guessing it represents a turf grab on the part of the Air Force - cyberspace is ours!
I honestly wasn't trolling. Woz is simply a computer end user now, and hasn't been anything more since the early 80's. He's entitled to his opinion, but it shouldn't be given any more weight because of who he was. Besides, he was never a software guy anyways - his thing was always hardware. Asking him about the current state of software is like asking the Wright brothers about the current state of air travel; interesting yes, definitive no.
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Status quo? More like static.
Bechtel wins, Haliburton wasn't bidding.
Yeah, but at least in that case, you know they're tits. Here, they think maybe kinda sorta perhaps it's the crash site.
"I saw Mommy slashdotting Santa Claus, underneath the mistletoe last night..."
You messed up the quote. It's: "What does not kill me makes me stronger. Oy - this is killing me!"
I'm right handed, and the carpal tunnel in my left hand is MUCH less than the right hand, and I notice that it hurts much worse when I've been mousing a lot, rather than when I've been typing a lot. I know that a lot of writing with a pen or pencil will cause a big flareup, too.
I've filed millions of complaints about those guys "subject spamming", which is theoretically against policy, but eBay couldn't care less, because they're making money off each sale.
Just to expand that a bit, if the mass of a white dwarf goes over 1.4 solar masses, the gravitational collapse is strong enough to trigger a supernova explosion. In other words, at masses greater than the Chandrasekhar limit, the (inward) gravitational pressure overcomes the (outward) thermal/fusion pressure, thus causing a collapse and the ignition of most of the remainder of the stars fuel, thus the supernova explosion.
I remember Pournelle writing that if ATT bought Colnel Sanders they'd be advertising "hot, dead chicken". Always loved that line.
Start working on your patent for the printable, flexible solar cell.
In The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson predicts chopsticks with messages in Chinese and Japanese running up and down them like movie marques. Soon we'll have advertising on every inanimate surface.
Now if only they'd jail harmonica players, too.
How about a watch that displays the time digitally in colors matching the resister color code?
12:17 == brown red brown blue
Nixie tubes had/have ten filaments for the digits 0-9. Seven segment displays were invented later.
The history of the CD, when the music industry was dragged, kicking and screaming, into that distribution medium, new releases came out on CD, old releases were on vinyl. Two years later, vinyl couldn;t be had, and the Beatles White Album was top of the (CD) charts, and R.E.M. or somebody was number two. Why do we feel that Internet distribution of music should be any different? I can get out my credit card, buy and download software today, or I can wait two weeks and get a printed CD with the software. Why should music be any different?
This is the first time I've found myself agreeing with Linus word-for-word. No "buts", "ifs", "except fors" or "maybes". He's enumerated everything I've said about KDE over Gnome, but that doesn't mean that KDE is perfect, either.
Except that it's factually incorrect: every manager knows that programmer time is fungible ;-)
The New Turing Omnibus : Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science?
A collection of essays about computer science, not programming. Very interesting and highly reccomended.
I have one I keep next to my Bell Labs Unix manuals. Nowadays I refer to it as "The Yellow Book".
The different branches of the U.S. military spend far more time competing with each other for budgetary dollars than against foriegn powers. Witness the Air Force vs the Navy for fighter plane designs. This new mission statement is from the Secrtary of the Air Force and the Air Force Chief of Staff - no higher. I'm guessing it represents a turf grab on the part of the Air Force - cyberspace is ours!
Hey! It looks like you're trying to change the channel!
Hey! It looks like you're trying to change the channel!
AIIIEEEEEEE!!!!! MY EYES!!!
What means this word 'arsefeeds'?
Now I can get some traction protecting my patent for "A Rotary Device For Increasing Or Decreasing The Volume".
I honestly wasn't trolling. Woz is simply a computer end user now, and hasn't been anything more since the early 80's. He's entitled to his opinion, but it shouldn't be given any more weight because of who he was. Besides, he was never a software guy anyways - his thing was always hardware. Asking him about the current state of software is like asking the Wright brothers about the current state of air travel; interesting yes, definitive no.
Agreed. But at least those guys are still in the industry.