Probably was written before WWII where huge technological leaps clearly affected the war's outcome: A-bomb, radar, enigma
Not really, Nazi Germany fits the story, with its advanced tech (and many firsts) but inferior production. V1 cruise missile? V2 ballistic rocket? The Tiger heavy tank? Me 262 jet fighter. StG 44 assault rifle. The list goes on.
Anyway, the A-bomb finished the War in the Pacific, but that was already a foregone conclusion. And the Enigma was cracked early on, so it was a negative advancement since it gave the Allies intel.
The writer for Forest Gump got nothing (he did get USD 350K for the screenplay rights) when he contracted for 3% of the net profits of the movie because it made a "net loss". Whereas the director and star of the movie got at least USD 40million each because they opted for "gross profit".
Since then, the writer has sworn off writing a sequel for Forest Gump since it was a "failure". Alas for us fans that enjoyed the book and/or the movie.
Therefore, "creative accounting" = "piracy performed in the accounting dept"
> because of the "training costs" of migration
Yup yup! Exactly! I only upgraded to Windows 7 after I managed to google most of the changes/tweaks that I wanted! For the past 20 years, MS Windows took at around 2 Service Packs or 2-4 years for each major version to be stable (starting from Windows 3). Windows 7 is stable because it's actually Vista Service Pack 2 in disguise.
an interactive directory (path) synchronizer for windows
PathSync can analyze two directories and show the user a list of differences between the directories.
The user can select what actions should occur (which files to overwrite, which to delete, which to ignore), and allow PathSync to synchronize.
I use this in a jiffy, it works by comparing the dates and file sizes of the files; and what's there or missing; and just copy/delete to make a clone of the source.
Furthermore, it's portable (just copy the directory) although I am not sure if it leaves anything behind in the registry
Bonus is that it can save/load the settings that you use before.
Tell me about it. We use d/m/y over here and whenever there is a date mismatch we first look at the d/m m/d part.
Anyway, y/m/d is ISO 8601 standard not metric.
Look... different places, different systems. In HK, I'd used a gas-based on-demand water heater.
But at home, I'll use an electric based on-demand water heater, mostly because in Soviet Rus... er... gas comes in small tanks and connects only to the cooking stove.
Here's an example of a electric heater that heats up water on-demand.
I understand that some places that has lower off-peak electric charges, the use of large electric hot water heaters is more common, furthermore in winter/cold places, the water is used to warm up the house.
But around where I live, with a flat eletric charges rate, NO winter, and a high household voltage of 220-240 volts and max of 13 amps, so... eletric on-demand water heaters.
Just pray that the heater never short-circuits... or the amps is gonna fry me...:P
The car, a Mercedes S-class, was protected by a fingerprint recognition system.
...
But having stripped the car, the thieves became frustrated when they wanted to restart it. They found they again could not bypass the immobiliser, which needs the owner's fingerprint to disarm it.
They stripped Mr Kumaran naked and left him by the side of the road - but not before cutting off the end of his index finger with a machete.
Fuck you.
Because, WE don't know we're like that until our children starts dying.
or, WE don't have the tech or the monies to be genetically fingerprinted.
or that, WE're too proud/ashamed that we have a problem.
or, [insert other reasons here]
Because, it's not as simple as you think. So unless you are one of us, I don't want to hear you say "tell these people... to not have... children", but I rather you support the research of methods to correct these problems.
Here here! 6 NT 4.0 servers here running, the best an IBM dual Xeon 500Mhz with 1 GByte of RAM, the least a Compaq Pentium 90Mhz with 96 MB of RAM. Requires a reboot once a week to avoid that "swirling vortex" and other stuff.
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So long and thanks for all the Apples. RiP
Probably was written before WWII where huge technological leaps clearly affected the war's outcome: A-bomb, radar, enigma
Not really, Nazi Germany fits the story, with its advanced tech (and many firsts) but inferior production. V1 cruise missile? V2 ballistic rocket? The Tiger heavy tank? Me 262 jet fighter. StG 44 assault rifle. The list goes on.
Anyway, the A-bomb finished the War in the Pacific, but that was already a foregone conclusion. And the Enigma was cracked early on, so it was a negative advancement since it gave the Allies intel.
there's already tons of old SF stories about old MIL drones left behind on auto and hindering people
Blast from the past! Does anyone remember the days from the 90s when HP used to bundle the floppy disk images in c:\masters?
Do you want 1 big penis or 6 to 8 tiny ones?
Both!
Shit, La Blue Girl just flashed into my mind, damn you!
The writer for Forest Gump got nothing (he did get USD 350K for the screenplay rights) when he contracted for 3% of the net profits of the movie because it made a "net loss". Whereas the director and star of the movie got at least USD 40million each because they opted for "gross profit".
Since then, the writer has sworn off writing a sequel for Forest Gump since it was a "failure". Alas for us fans that enjoyed the book and/or the movie.
Therefore, "creative accounting" = "piracy performed in the accounting dept"
> because of the "training costs" of migration Yup yup! Exactly! I only upgraded to Windows 7 after I managed to google most of the changes/tweaks that I wanted! For the past 20 years, MS Windows took at around 2 Service Packs or 2-4 years for each major version to be stable (starting from Windows 3). Windows 7 is stable because it's actually Vista Service Pack 2 in disguise.
PathSync (GPL)
an interactive directory (path) synchronizer for windows
PathSync can analyze two directories and show the user a list of differences between the directories.
The user can select what actions should occur (which files to overwrite, which to delete, which to ignore), and allow PathSync to synchronize.
I use this in a jiffy, it works by comparing the dates and file sizes of the files; and what's there or missing; and just copy/delete to make a clone of the source.
Furthermore, it's portable (just copy the directory) although I am not sure if it leaves anything behind in the registry
Bonus is that it can save/load the settings that you use before.
Tell me about it. We use d/m/y over here and whenever there is a date mismatch we first look at the d/m m/d part. Anyway, y/m/d is ISO 8601 standard not metric.
Look... different places, different systems. In HK, I'd used a gas-based on-demand water heater.
But at home, I'll use an electric based on-demand water heater, mostly because in Soviet Rus... er... gas comes in small tanks and connects only to the cooking stove.
Here's an example of a electric heater that heats up water on-demand.
http://203.163.64.107/panasonic/storefront/Product Detail/default.asp?ProductId=1784&CatId=21,195,199 >
I understand that some places that has lower off-peak electric charges, the use of large electric hot water heaters is more common, furthermore in winter/cold places, the water is used to warm up the house.
But around where I live, with a flat eletric charges rate, NO winter, and a high household voltage of 220-240 volts and max of 13 amps, so... eletric on-demand water heaters.
Just pray that the heater never short-circuits... or the amps is gonna fry me... :P
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The car, a Mercedes S-class, was protected by a fingerprint recognition system.
...
But having stripped the car, the thieves became frustrated when they wanted to restart it. They found they again could not bypass the immobiliser, which needs the owner's fingerprint to disarm it.
They stripped Mr Kumaran naked and left him by the side of the road - but not before cutting off the end of his index finger with a machete.
Actually, you're both right. The original deal was with the MiG fighters back in 1994! Now the Su-30 deal is a extension.
Fuck you. Because, WE don't know we're like that until our children starts dying. or, WE don't have the tech or the monies to be genetically fingerprinted. or that, WE're too proud/ashamed that we have a problem. or, [insert other reasons here] Because, it's not as simple as you think. So unless you are one of us, I don't want to hear you say "tell these people ... to not have ... children", but I rather you support the research of methods to correct these problems.
Lokitorrent Owner to pay $1 million
'nuff said
Here here! 6 NT 4.0 servers here running, the best an IBM dual Xeon 500Mhz with 1 GByte of RAM, the least a Compaq Pentium 90Mhz with 96 MB of RAM. Requires a reboot once a week to avoid that "swirling vortex" and other stuff.