I worked at a summer camp when I was about 18. I hate coffee, so I usually drink caffeinated soda. However, drinking soda in the morning was considered setting a bad example for the kids, so that was out. Taking caffeine pills was definitely out, because all drugs had to be registered with the camp nurse.
Therefore, cheap coffee was the only source of caffeine available to me.
I don't know cigars, but I think that part of the demand for Cubans (in the U.S. anyway), is that they're "illegal", so people want them just for their rarity.
Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?
Joss Whedon did an interview with Rolling Stone recently, and his experience with Dollhouse has convinced him to never use network TV again, and to keep with the "Dr. Horrible" method of distribution.
Except that he didn't cite his information. As I said in my reply to him, the only things I can find on Google suggest that the state-wide property tax didn't exist until the "Claremont Decision", about 10 years ago. I can find evidence that NH enacted a property tax in 1742, but I can find no evidence suggesting that the 1742 tax exists today.
Actually, one of the biggest reasons I don't like New Hampshire's property tax is that for the last few years, the assessors were inflating the assessed value. Thing is, the more they say your house/land is worth, the more you're taxed. It was in their best interest to say that your house was worth a fortune! My dad had to appeal on our house to get another assessor to come and give a more reasonable figure.
I'm fairly young, but I thought that the state-wide property tax was only enacted after the Claremont Decision. This seems to be confirmed by the fourth all-caps paragraph of this story:
Read my post again: I listed those three states for Newegg because of sales tax. Newegg has locations CA, NJ, and TN, so if they ship an order anywhere in CA, NJ, or TN, they have to charge sales tax. If Newegg ships a package to any of the other 47 states, they don't charge sales tax.
As far as I can tell, if Mississippi passes a Software Sales Tax, then the only retailers that have to comply are retailers in Mississippi to Mississippi residents.
I recently came to California from New Hampshire, which introduced a property tax several years ago. I wasn't around for Prop. 13, but after doing a bit of reading, I'm glad it passed. If someone owns land, and has little income, why should they be punished for that?
I know a man who works as a teacher in New Hampshire who owns over 100 acres of land. The land's been in his family for at least two generations. The property tax was passed, and he nearly went bankrupt paying the taxes on the land because the land value assessments were artificially inflated by the housing market bubble.
I don't like heavy taxation in any form, but property taxes are disproportionately unfair to anyone who owns land and doesn't have a high income.
Because there's no "value added" by introducing a Value Added Tax.
Why should a business transaction be taxed simply because it happened? Taxes are meant to give the government the bare minimum of income necessary to conduct government business, not to punish people for spending money they received in exchange for their labor.
I have a feeling this will be implemented like sales tax for purchasing items online: you buy an item from Newegg, and they have to charge you sales tax if you live in a state where they have a physical presence (CA, NJ, TN), even if your order is shipped from elsewhere.
According to this, Perl's floats are stored in 64, 96, or sometimes 128 bits, depending on how it was compiled. My system reports using 64 bits, so it will run out of precision before hitting 2^53, it seems.
Also, even if Perl went all the way to infinity with "x++", the rate of new files being made would slow down considerably once you started hitting scientific notation.
So really, if you wanted to fill the disk in this way, you want to make sure you append to the file instead of overwriting, as I said in my other reply. Otherwise you may go into an infinite loop without filling up the disk.
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I also wander why it says it deletes something, but still keeps all the files on my system.
I think I know what you mean.
When you right-click a game in Steam and select "Delete game files", or whatever the option is, it deletes the.gcf (game cache file) associated with that game. The GCF is a large archive file that contains the game files created and sent to you by Valve. When you install a game, only GCFs are created.
When you run a game for the first time, a folder is created in your account directory that contains downloaded files (third-party files downloaded from multiplayer servers), saved games, etc. This directory sticks around after the game is deleted from Steam. They assume that just because you wanted to free some disk space by deleting the game doesn't mean that you want your saved games erased, which is a good assumption IMO. However, for multiplayer games, these folders can get quite large (~1GB for my TF2 folder, I think), and if you're worried about disk space, they need to be cleaned every once in a while.
With Steam Cloud, also the fact that you can have your key configuration bound to your account, so that two people can share a computer, where one uses a really funky keybinding layout.
1) If you buy a physical copy and register the CD key on Steam, then it copies the files from the CD, then downloads the patch to bring them up to date. This reduces your bandwidth as much as possible, as opposed to the old system, where you'd have HL 1.0.1.0 on the disc, then download a 400MB patch every time there was a small update. Steam improved over this old system by using an SVN-like mechanism to only give you the changed files.
2) For the free weekends, Valve almost always makes the game available for "pre-loading" several days in advance. That means you can download UT3 on Tuesday, and be ready for the game to be unlocked on Friday. All this despite the fact that you may not buy the game in the end.
However, if you change your code to append to the files instead of writing a new file, it'll work. If your number hits infinity, then the "infinite-named" file will continue to grow until your disk runs out.
On a side note, you have a small syntax error; the angle-bracket should be inside the quotes, and I'm pretty sure a comma is required: open(OUT, ">$x.txt")
Since Perl is pretty loosely typed, Once it overflows its int type, it'll become a float type, then it'll just keep growing till it hits infinity. An infinite value won't crash the program, and infinity has the same string as any other (positive) infinity, so if you hit infinity before you run out of disc space, then you'll have an infinite loop.
Next time I do an OS install, I plan on asking my girlfriend to run the installation, and I'll just observe, so I can give the Ubuntu team feedback about ease of use. She won't be worried about wrecking the computer, cause it won't have any of her data.
If they're not doing this already, then they should. If she can get the computer to the point where she wouldn't mind working on it daily, then they've succeeded, in my mind. If not, then there's more work to be done.
Well, I must admit it was weird even to go just across the border into Maine and see gin and vodka being sold in the grocery store...
Personally, I like to think that the existence of liquor stores in New Hampshire is to curb the sale of hard liquor to minors, since beer and wine (with alcohol-by-volume percentage less than 15%, I think) are still sold in grocery stores. Liquor stores tend to give IDs more scrutiny than apathetic teenage grocery store clerks (cause at least if the cashier is apathetic, it's an apathetic 45-year-old), so I do think it helps in that area.
I'll have to take your word on the liquor-license issue; I have no experience with it.
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I worked at a summer camp when I was about 18. I hate coffee, so I usually drink caffeinated soda. However, drinking soda in the morning was considered setting a bad example for the kids, so that was out. Taking caffeine pills was definitely out, because all drugs had to be registered with the camp nurse.
Therefore, cheap coffee was the only source of caffeine available to me.
I don't know cigars, but I think that part of the demand for Cubans (in the U.S. anyway), is that they're "illegal", so people want them just for their rarity.
On the contrary:
Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?
Joss Whedon did an interview with Rolling Stone recently, and his experience with Dollhouse has convinced him to never use network TV again, and to keep with the "Dr. Horrible" method of distribution.
It takes you 24 hours?
I think your torrent client's RSS reader is broken.
Except that he didn't cite his information. As I said in my reply to him, the only things I can find on Google suggest that the state-wide property tax didn't exist until the "Claremont Decision", about 10 years ago. I can find evidence that NH enacted a property tax in 1742, but I can find no evidence suggesting that the 1742 tax exists today.
Actually, one of the biggest reasons I don't like New Hampshire's property tax is that for the last few years, the assessors were inflating the assessed value. Thing is, the more they say your house/land is worth, the more you're taxed. It was in their best interest to say that your house was worth a fortune! My dad had to appeal on our house to get another assessor to come and give a more reasonable figure.
I'm fairly young, but I thought that the state-wide property tax was only enacted after the Claremont Decision. This seems to be confirmed by the fourth all-caps paragraph of this story:
http://www.nhpr.org/node/4290
Is this incorrect? I thought that the NH tax system before the Claremont Decision involved only direct taxation at the town level.
Read my post again: I listed those three states for Newegg because of sales tax. Newegg has locations CA, NJ, and TN, so if they ship an order anywhere in CA, NJ, or TN, they have to charge sales tax. If Newegg ships a package to any of the other 47 states, they don't charge sales tax.
As far as I can tell, if Mississippi passes a Software Sales Tax, then the only retailers that have to comply are retailers in Mississippi to Mississippi residents.
I recently came to California from New Hampshire, which introduced a property tax several years ago. I wasn't around for Prop. 13, but after doing a bit of reading, I'm glad it passed. If someone owns land, and has little income, why should they be punished for that?
I know a man who works as a teacher in New Hampshire who owns over 100 acres of land. The land's been in his family for at least two generations. The property tax was passed, and he nearly went bankrupt paying the taxes on the land because the land value assessments were artificially inflated by the housing market bubble.
I don't like heavy taxation in any form, but property taxes are disproportionately unfair to anyone who owns land and doesn't have a high income.
Because there's no "value added" by introducing a Value Added Tax.
Why should a business transaction be taxed simply because it happened? Taxes are meant to give the government the bare minimum of income necessary to conduct government business, not to punish people for spending money they received in exchange for their labor.
I have a feeling this will be implemented like sales tax for purchasing items online: you buy an item from Newegg, and they have to charge you sales tax if you live in a state where they have a physical presence (CA, NJ, TN), even if your order is shipped from elsewhere.
No one taxes to just tax.
Obviously you don't live in California.
Hmm... the link didn't work.
http://www.mail-archive.com/dbi-users%40perl.org/msg29840.html
Must be because of the "at" symbol in the original URL. I've replaced it with the hex value.
True, I forgot about that.
According to this, Perl's floats are stored in 64, 96, or sometimes 128 bits, depending on how it was compiled. My system reports using 64 bits, so it will run out of precision before hitting 2^53, it seems.
Also, even if Perl went all the way to infinity with "x++", the rate of new files being made would slow down considerably once you started hitting scientific notation.
So really, if you wanted to fill the disk in this way, you want to make sure you append to the file instead of overwriting, as I said in my other reply. Otherwise you may go into an infinite loop without filling up the disk.
WHOOOOSH!
I also wander why it says it deletes something, but still keeps all the files on my system.
I think I know what you mean.
When you right-click a game in Steam and select "Delete game files", or whatever the option is, it deletes the .gcf (game cache file) associated with that game. The GCF is a large archive file that contains the game files created and sent to you by Valve. When you install a game, only GCFs are created.
When you run a game for the first time, a folder is created in your account directory that contains downloaded files (third-party files downloaded from multiplayer servers), saved games, etc. This directory sticks around after the game is deleted from Steam. They assume that just because you wanted to free some disk space by deleting the game doesn't mean that you want your saved games erased, which is a good assumption IMO. However, for multiplayer games, these folders can get quite large (~1GB for my TF2 folder, I think), and if you're worried about disk space, they need to be cleaned every once in a while.
With Steam Cloud, also the fact that you can have your key configuration bound to your account, so that two people can share a computer, where one uses a really funky keybinding layout.
Man, I hate those people.
Two things:
1) If you buy a physical copy and register the CD key on Steam, then it copies the files from the CD, then downloads the patch to bring them up to date. This reduces your bandwidth as much as possible, as opposed to the old system, where you'd have HL 1.0.1.0 on the disc, then download a 400MB patch every time there was a small update. Steam improved over this old system by using an SVN-like mechanism to only give you the changed files.
2) For the free weekends, Valve almost always makes the game available for "pre-loading" several days in advance. That means you can download UT3 on Tuesday, and be ready for the game to be unlocked on Friday. All this despite the fact that you may not buy the game in the end.
However, if you change your code to append to the files instead of writing a new file, it'll work. If your number hits infinity, then the "infinite-named" file will continue to grow until your disk runs out.
On a side note, you have a small syntax error; the angle-bracket should be inside the quotes, and I'm pretty sure a comma is required:
open(OUT, ">$x.txt")
Also valid syntax:
open OUT, ">", "x.txt"
Since Perl is pretty loosely typed, Once it overflows its int type, it'll become a float type, then it'll just keep growing till it hits infinity. An infinite value won't crash the program, and infinity has the same string as any other (positive) infinity, so if you hit infinity before you run out of disc space, then you'll have an infinite loop.
My source code:
$x = 1;
while(1){
print "$x\n";
$x*=2;
}
And some output excerpts:
1
2
4
8
16
32
64
281474976710656
562949953421312
1.12589990684262e+015
2.25179981368525e+015
4.49423283715579e+307
8.98846567431158e+307
1.#INF
1.#INF
This is with ActiveState Perl v5.10.0.
Next time I do an OS install, I plan on asking my girlfriend to run the installation, and I'll just observe, so I can give the Ubuntu team feedback about ease of use. She won't be worried about wrecking the computer, cause it won't have any of her data.
If they're not doing this already, then they should. If she can get the computer to the point where she wouldn't mind working on it daily, then they've succeeded, in my mind. If not, then there's more work to be done.
With "intrepid", apt-get is supposedly just as good as aptitude. Before that, I've heard that you're totally right.
Yahtzee: "Back when Wolfenstein could still call itself '3D' with a straight face!"
Well, I must admit it was weird even to go just across the border into Maine and see gin and vodka being sold in the grocery store...
Personally, I like to think that the existence of liquor stores in New Hampshire is to curb the sale of hard liquor to minors, since beer and wine (with alcohol-by-volume percentage less than 15%, I think) are still sold in grocery stores. Liquor stores tend to give IDs more scrutiny than apathetic teenage grocery store clerks (cause at least if the cashier is apathetic, it's an apathetic 45-year-old), so I do think it helps in that area.
I'll have to take your word on the liquor-license issue; I have no experience with it.