Not sure if you're aware of this or not, but I'm not sure that Intel can subpoena AMD, here. I'm pretty sure that non-parties to a suit can't just go around subpoenaing documents and depositions from other non-parties. Now, if Intel were to intervene in the suit or be impled as a party, that would change things.
Just wait until they land on the dark blue spaces, baby. I built 11 hotels on Boardwalk and 8 of them on Park Place. One of these times around the board, they're gonna desperately need that $200 from passing Go, because rent on my dark blue properties is $11 billion a hit.
If they hope to out-lobby MSFT, they'd have better luck putting their money into a toilet and pushing the flush handle. I hope they have a legitimate strategy to justify this move.
Anyone who's worked IT in a bank knows that executives are very tech-savvy compared to bank tellers. I can't even begin to tell you how many e-mails I received at that job with the entire message in all-caps and typed into the subject line.
I don't know what asshat moderator gave you an Offtopic for this. I was just laughing my ass off about the "And blammo, I'm home!" bit. Why can't it be 13 years ago again?
I agree, but as someone who enjoys riding through the twisty roads of the Black Hills in the summer, I wish that they'd just stick to Main St. Sturgis and leave the roads open for me.
That includes the jackasses who trailer their bike and then drive their pickup through the Black Hills at 11mph because they're afraid of falling into a ravine. When I'm on a bike, it's lead, follow, or get the hell out of my way - and limited few people can lead me and even fewer can follow. I know why the throttle is on the right handlebar - it's because I shoot right-handed and they knew what would happen if my shootin' hand was free when I'm behind a jackass like that.;)
The tried and true method is to go to a closed course track and go progressively faster each lap until you start slipping to the outside of the the turn. There isn't any other good way, and even that one fails when road surface conditions are factored in.
The best thing to do is to ride within your confidence limits - do not ride beyond where you are confident unless it is essentially a closed track with known present conditions (such as if you've been up and down the same rural road 10 times that day and haven't seen another car or any oil slicks, wet spots, gravel, etc.).
And, of course, wear at least leather boots, jacket, and gloves and denim pants (leather pants are preferred) and a good full-face helmet at all times.
In time, you'll learn the limits of both yourself and your bike. On a dry asphalt road with new tires on the bike, the chances are good that the limit is not one of traction but geometry. For instance, I have never had a bike go out from underneath me, but I do have a pair of motorcycle boots with beveled outside edges from turning the bike hard enough to scrape my feet on the asphalt at 100mph.
You're wrong. Go to Sturgis in August and tell me that everyone who's ridden more than a month knows how to counter-steer. There's a concentration of about half a million bikers there and probably 10% of them know how to ride, at most.
Evidently the joke flew way over everyone's heads, but CTAN is hardly complete. All the legal writing resources for LaTeX, including in particular the citation styles, are incomplete and old.
The key bindings do, indeed, suck. But I have much greater concerns.
Output is ugly compared even to Word and definitely compared to TeX. When I do a numbered list, the width of the number changes where the text begins, and you end up with a jagged left edge.
The help assistant guy comes up and pretends to be Clippit even when you don't have any help files installed, so when you click on him it essentially does a 404.
Autocomplete for your words. It's really getting on my nerves and I can't find how to shut it off.
I'm sure I have others that I'm just not thinking of right now.
The problem with LaTeX is that it's impossible to Google for document classes or other documents about it, because of the porn that comes up. Vanilla TeX has the same problem, except that you get derogatory pages about the President, instead.
The simulations suggest that over the next hundred years we could see average rises of average temperatures of up to 11K
I can only conclude that the average annual rise in the average global temperature* will be up to 11 degrees Kelvin for the next 100 years. In other words, the average temperature will be up to 1100 degrees warmer in 2105 than it is now.
I'm no global warming expert or pundit, but that's certainly my interpretation of the story blurb that made the front page. Good work on the clarity, Slashdot submitters and editors!
* - Saying "temperatures" in the plural is misleading, as global warming is about global average temperature, and using the plural indicates local measurements are what is relevant, which is not the case.
I usually go with the gender-neutral masculine pronoun, as is grammatically correct in most sane languages. Stick to the Latin rules, think I, and you'll be fine. Here, though, knowing that the vast majority of church organists are women, it is no worse for me to say "her" than it would be to use that pronoun to refer to a hypothetical mother.
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Not sure if you're aware of this or not, but I'm not sure that Intel can subpoena AMD, here. I'm pretty sure that non-parties to a suit can't just go around subpoenaing documents and depositions from other non-parties. Now, if Intel were to intervene in the suit or be impled as a party, that would change things.
Where's the "+1 Obscure Futurama Reference" mod when you need it?
Just wait until they land on the dark blue spaces, baby. I built 11 hotels on Boardwalk and 8 of them on Park Place. One of these times around the board, they're gonna desperately need that $200 from passing Go, because rent on my dark blue properties is $11 billion a hit.
Microsoft says. "If you do not stop Open Source software you will loose thousands of high paying jobs in you state."
Micorosoft only says things like that because they use Word's grammar checker to write their speeches.
If they hope to out-lobby MSFT, they'd have better luck putting their money into a toilet and pushing the flush handle. I hope they have a legitimate strategy to justify this move.
Try this... "latex legal forms". Everything that comes up is about latex allergy lawsuits. That's my real problem - the porn was a joke. :P
16MB DOS machines, eh? You're too kind. :)
Anyone who's worked IT in a bank knows that executives are very tech-savvy compared to bank tellers. I can't even begin to tell you how many e-mails I received at that job with the entire message in all-caps and typed into the subject line.
I don't know what asshat moderator gave you an Offtopic for this. I was just laughing my ass off about the "And blammo, I'm home!" bit. Why can't it be 13 years ago again?
I agree, but as someone who enjoys riding through the twisty roads of the Black Hills in the summer, I wish that they'd just stick to Main St. Sturgis and leave the roads open for me.
;)
That includes the jackasses who trailer their bike and then drive their pickup through the Black Hills at 11mph because they're afraid of falling into a ravine. When I'm on a bike, it's lead, follow, or get the hell out of my way - and limited few people can lead me and even fewer can follow. I know why the throttle is on the right handlebar - it's because I shoot right-handed and they knew what would happen if my shootin' hand was free when I'm behind a jackass like that.
This article on counter-steering is easier to follow, I think. The picture helps. ;)
The tried and true method is to go to a closed course track and go progressively faster each lap until you start slipping to the outside of the the turn. There isn't any other good way, and even that one fails when road surface conditions are factored in.
The best thing to do is to ride within your confidence limits - do not ride beyond where you are confident unless it is essentially a closed track with known present conditions (such as if you've been up and down the same rural road 10 times that day and haven't seen another car or any oil slicks, wet spots, gravel, etc.).
And, of course, wear at least leather boots, jacket, and gloves and denim pants (leather pants are preferred) and a good full-face helmet at all times.
In time, you'll learn the limits of both yourself and your bike. On a dry asphalt road with new tires on the bike, the chances are good that the limit is not one of traction but geometry. For instance, I have never had a bike go out from underneath me, but I do have a pair of motorcycle boots with beveled outside edges from turning the bike hard enough to scrape my feet on the asphalt at 100mph.
You're wrong. Go to Sturgis in August and tell me that everyone who's ridden more than a month knows how to counter-steer. There's a concentration of about half a million bikers there and probably 10% of them know how to ride, at most.
My hat is locked onto my head with an RFID-secured key. Nobody can steal my hat. :P
I'm already wearing a tin-foil hat, and it has a hidden inside pocket. Voila, problem solved!
That's the single funniest video I've seen all day. I love the nervous look on his face when he goes by the camera.
Thanks for the tip on #3. :)
Evidently the joke flew way over everyone's heads, but CTAN is hardly complete. All the legal writing resources for LaTeX, including in particular the citation styles, are incomplete and old.
- Output is ugly compared even to Word and definitely compared to TeX. When I do a numbered list, the width of the number changes where the text begins, and you end up with a jagged left edge.
- The help assistant guy comes up and pretends to be Clippit even when you don't have any help files installed, so when you click on him it essentially does a 404.
- Autocomplete for your words. It's really getting on my nerves and I can't find how to shut it off.
I'm sure I have others that I'm just not thinking of right now.The problem with LaTeX is that it's impossible to Google for document classes or other documents about it, because of the porn that comes up. Vanilla TeX has the same problem, except that you get derogatory pages about the President, instead.
The answer is 42, and nobody will have to be nailed to anything, unless you count mice with human brains being nailed to lab tables.
Only if you want to be modded up as Insightful, which is a synonym for Cynical. ;)
Actually, based on this:
The simulations suggest that over the next hundred years we could see average rises of average temperatures of up to 11K
I can only conclude that the average annual rise in the average global temperature* will be up to 11 degrees Kelvin for the next 100 years. In other words, the average temperature will be up to 1100 degrees warmer in 2105 than it is now.
I'm no global warming expert or pundit, but that's certainly my interpretation of the story blurb that made the front page. Good work on the clarity, Slashdot submitters and editors!
* - Saying "temperatures" in the plural is misleading, as global warming is about global average temperature, and using the plural indicates local measurements are what is relevant, which is not the case.
I usually go with the gender-neutral masculine pronoun, as is grammatically correct in most sane languages. Stick to the Latin rules, think I, and you'll be fine. Here, though, knowing that the vast majority of church organists are women, it is no worse for me to say "her" than it would be to use that pronoun to refer to a hypothetical mother.
Tarsal tunnel syndrome? Bah!