A $200 Linux PC at Walmart, I can't tell whether to be happy that it actually being sold? or to be sad that it is being sold by the biggest corporation in the world.:(
MST3K ~ Samson vs. the Vampire Women [We see an ominous castle in a deserted forest.] [The camera zooms in on a dessicated woman's corpse in a casket.]
Crow: Let the Cher jokes... begin.
Servo: Hey, it looks like Cher! Heh heh heh...
[Vampire priestess Tandra calls on the goddess Selene, changing from her withered form to a hottie.]
Servo: Another successful José Eber makeover.
Crow [as Tandra]: I'm pretty, so I have value now.
[As Diana plays the "Moonlight" Sonata, four bats hover outside her window.]
Servo: Hey, the woodland creatures love her music!
Crow: I don't get the physics of a hovering bat.
Servo: The Vampire Precision Flight Team in formation!
Crow [as Bat]: I don't know how long I can keep this up!
The "cyber sidearm" is intended to be a simple way for service members to quickly alert others to potential security breaches
---Otherwise known as a cell phone or walkie talkie
...or it could be a simple mechanism for taking a screenshot and relaying it to security experts
---Again, this sounds like a camera cell phone.
Elder said service leaders will stage fake threats to practice using the cyber sidearm.
---Wonder if this will involve tubes of Crest and nailclippers?
From the wikipedia article:
In principle, the Bussard ramjet avoids this problem by not carrying fuel with it. An ideal ramjet design could in principle accelerate indefinitely until its mechanism failed. Ignoring drag, a ship driven by such an engine could theoretically accelerate arbitrarily close to the velocity of light, and would be a very effective interstellar spacecraft.
So what would happen to people or computers travelling inside the ship?
Would they move forward through time at accelerated speed? or end up in deep-space oblivion?
The phone then can dispense inspirational advice, its makers say. Reports indicate the inspirational comments are in the: "Don't worry, tomorrow's a fresh new day," the phone then flashed. "Keep your chin up!" vein.
It is felt to be inspirational the first three times.
After that, it ends up collecting dust, being chucked at a wall, or smashed to complete oblivion.
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Carried to its logical extreme, the tree would grow until it exhausted every legal continuation, leaving the program nothing to do but examine the end positions to see which of them were wins--that is, checkmates--and which were draws, then work backward along the branching structure to choose the line that led to the best outcome, assuming that both sides play perfectly.
This is exactly the method that Spock would utilize while playing 3-D Chess, and he would always win. However, due to his reputation for winning by always going to this logical extreme, noone ever would want to play with him.
In the end, it was deemed a highly illogical method, since it killed his ability to play the game.
The book is a quick read compared to most technical books, and not just due to its relatively small size (168 pages), but also the writing style. Admittedly, this may be partly the result of O'Reilly's in-house and perhaps outsource editors -- oftentimes the unsung heroes of publishing enterprises.
So not only do they now outsource the web page designers, they are outsourcing the technical writers?
What's next? Outsource the audience?
First post had become a huge problem- since it took several minutes for comments to appear, there would often be 5-10 of them. So I wrote a task that would post a random templated first postish looking thing to every story before anyone else could see it
That is awesome, now how do you kill the 2nd post problem?;)
Kidding aside, congratulations on 10 years of/.!
Summary: "I'd probably grab a Core 2 Duo E6400 and overclock it"
Save your money and buy the cheaper Core 2 duo.
Then you can find out the Core 8 Octo will be released in a few weeks for about the same price.
Oblivion looks amazing IMHO.
One key health-care software subcontractor, IDX, was dropped from the program in April 2005 after one of the project's prime contractors, Fujitsu, "lost confidence" in its abilities, according to the NAO. IDX failed to respond to requests for a comment.
Come on, doesn't anyone have some type of enhancement pill they can prescribe for Fujitsu in its time of crisis? Or doesn't anyone want to comment on that either?
Slashdot Mirror
Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
Like every other morning, he throws a chair at himself.
A $200 Linux PC at Walmart, I can't tell whether to be happy that it actually being sold? or to be sad that it is being sold by the biggest corporation in the world. :(
This is my favorite:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2195/1800753160_71d62ad944_o.jpg
MST3K ~ Samson vs. the Vampire Women
[We see an ominous castle in a deserted forest.]
[The camera zooms in on a dessicated woman's corpse in a casket.]
Crow: Let the Cher jokes... begin.
Servo: Hey, it looks like Cher! Heh heh heh...
[Vampire priestess Tandra calls on the goddess Selene, changing from her withered form to a hottie.]
Servo: Another successful José Eber makeover.
Crow [as Tandra]: I'm pretty, so I have value now.
[As Diana plays the "Moonlight" Sonata, four bats hover outside her window.]
Servo: Hey, the woodland creatures love her music!
Crow: I don't get the physics of a hovering bat.
Servo: The Vampire Precision Flight Team in formation!
Crow [as Bat]: I don't know how long I can keep this up!
Neither, it will happen when both parties agree to actually get something done? ;)
.. in the small hours, the analogue signal for BBC2 was switched off forever in the town of Whitehaven in Cumbria
the intro to "Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Signal"
The "cyber sidearm" is intended to be a simple way for service members to quickly alert others to potential security breaches
...or it could be a simple mechanism for taking a screenshot and relaying it to security experts
---Otherwise known as a cell phone or walkie talkie
---Again, this sounds like a camera cell phone.
Elder said service leaders will stage fake threats to practice using the cyber sidearm.
---Wonder if this will involve tubes of Crest and nailclippers?
From the wikipedia article:
In principle, the Bussard ramjet avoids this problem by not carrying fuel with it. An ideal ramjet design could in principle accelerate indefinitely until its mechanism failed. Ignoring drag, a ship driven by such an engine could theoretically accelerate arbitrarily close to the velocity of light, and would be a very effective interstellar spacecraft.
So what would happen to people or computers travelling inside the ship?
Would they move forward through time at accelerated speed? or end up in deep-space oblivion?
The phone then can dispense inspirational advice, its makers say. Reports indicate the inspirational comments are in the: "Don't worry, tomorrow's a fresh new day," the phone then flashed. "Keep your chin up!" vein.
It is felt to be inspirational the first three times.
After that, it ends up collecting dust, being chucked at a wall, or smashed to complete oblivion.
Carried to its logical extreme, the tree would grow until it exhausted every legal continuation, leaving the program nothing to do but examine the end positions to see which of them were wins--that is, checkmates--and which were draws, then work backward along the branching structure to choose the line that led to the best outcome, assuming that both sides play perfectly.
This is exactly the method that Spock would utilize while playing 3-D Chess, and he would always win. However, due to his reputation for winning by always going to this logical extreme, noone ever would want to play with him.
In the end, it was deemed a highly illogical method, since it killed his ability to play the game.
The book is a quick read compared to most technical books, and not just due to its relatively small size (168 pages), but also the writing style. Admittedly, this may be partly the result of O'Reilly's in-house and perhaps outsource editors -- oftentimes the unsung heroes of publishing enterprises.
So not only do they now outsource the web page designers, they are outsourcing the technical writers?
What's next? Outsource the audience?
First post had become a huge problem- since it took several minutes for comments to appear, there would often be 5-10 of them. So I wrote a task that would post a random templated first postish looking thing to every story before anyone else could see it
;)
/.!
That is awesome, now how do you kill the 2nd post problem?
Kidding aside, congratulations on 10 years of
I hope she can get at least $21 million severence pay when she leaves Fox News, sounds like a great retirement plan IMHO
I am serious... and don't call me Shirley
I found that the secret was just a thin film structure...
39% are pr0n
I like this title better.
As for the sales tax issue, people will just use froogle or something and find the lowest price without the tax and then buy that book, most likely.
Summary: "I'd probably grab a Core 2 Duo E6400 and overclock it"
Save your money and buy the cheaper Core 2 duo. Then you can find out the Core 8 Octo will be released in a few weeks for about the same price.
Oblivion looks amazing IMHO.
Some Vista Vs. XP info:a /page11.html#conclusion_ko_for_windows_vista
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vist
"Overall, applications performed as expected, or executed slightly slower than under Windows XP."
I have given up on downloaded music these days, if I really like a band I'll buy a new or used CD, and definitely never use iTunes.
Next thing you know, we'll be getting out the microphone and rip a song right from the loudspeakers - oldskool.
We must protect the people from the harm caused by this new axis of evil.
Just try and search for them, I dare you!
Was Yogi in that blowhole? Because he's always hungry.
Judging by all the inflation, pressure and possible eruptions - scientists have concluded that Yellowstone really needs to get laid.
"With what we know today, if we were to start again with a clean slate, how would we design a global communications infrastructure"
Get rid of the porn, scam sites and domain squatters - however, this may not be possible.
Among the problems the project has encountered:
One key health-care software subcontractor, IDX, was dropped from the program in April 2005 after one of the project's prime contractors, Fujitsu, "lost confidence" in its abilities, according to the NAO. IDX failed to respond to requests for a comment.
Come on, doesn't anyone have some type of enhancement pill they can prescribe for Fujitsu in its time of crisis? Or doesn't anyone want to comment on that either?