That's funny, because 33.5 is almost exactly the age my brother was when he became a grandfather last year. One legal point your missing is that two minors are not constrained by 'legal age of consent' in most US states.
But then again, he can't even figure out how to work his windows box, so I guess the point is moot.
They also never seem to take into account the time the entire company is down because the IT department is trying to disinfect the building of the latest skr1p7 k1dd13z virus.
Changing the clock is such a lame idea. Any mathematician will tell you base 12 is far superior for doing integer calculations than base 10. 10 only has 2 divisors: 2 and 5, which 12 has 4: 2, 3, 4 and 6 which make a 60 minute hours superb. What's 1/2 an hour? 30 minutes. What's 1/3? 20. What's 1/4? 15. 1/5? 1/6? 1/12?
If you had 100 minutes in an hour you'd start doing a lot of rounding or using a lot of decimal places.
Debate the calendar all you want, but leave the clock alone.
In order for a company to sponsor an educated, hardworking immigrant for H1-B status, they must identify a weak-willed, gutless, backstabbing corporate climber (like my last boss) and send them in exchange.
I see this as the greatest argument for open source distributed development.
Look at it like this. If IE is determined to violate this patent, am I liable for using IE? I don't see how. If they release a new version and I chose to keep using the old version, are they going to come after me? What if I'm a company who decides to keep using the old version? Can they sue me for using a patent violating browser any more than I would be expected to turn in my car if it violated a patent? Or a fleet of cars?
So, when you develop linux and give it away for free, who are they going to sue if they decide it violates a patent? And they can't sue companies that continue to use it any more than they can sue it for using a lamp that infringed a patent when it was manufactured.
So, RedHat stops including the kernel and makes you download it from a torrent where no source ever holds the entire image, or even holds continuous bits of the image (interleaved the distribution). There's no one to sue, no matter how hard they try.
SB It's certainly true that one of the mind-sets you have to have when you're writing code and designing systems is: What's going to break? There's a broad range of possibilities for approaching this, depending on the type of application or software. If you're writing a Microsoft Word-type program, the way you approach this might be different from if you're designing a heart monitor.
BL In the heart monitor case, you better keep the heart going, whereas in the Microsoft Word case, you can just give them a blue screen and everybody is used to that.
There's only one computer in the house that runs windows (98, BTW) and strangely, when I got a message to install a "security patch" this morning and did so, FF started crashing.
My only gripe with the article is that they say it is necessary to have a mod chip. That's not true, you can break Microsofts vaunted "Trusted Computing Platform" with a copy of mechwarrior and a hacked savegame. I'm typing this on an unmodified XBox running linux.
That slices $40-80 off the total price for the mod chip and adds about $8 back on for the used copy of mech from the local game store.
I want a picture of this "inventor" guy so I can snatch a magazine out of his hands at an airport or crank up a boombox next to his table at a restaurant, thus freeing him to sit in silence and think about his navel.
Just another example of someone who knows what's good for me better than I do and feels the need to impose his beliefs on me.
It's interesting how those "unintended acceleration" accidents completely went away when manufacturers started putting locks on the transmission that require your brakes to be applied.
A Road & Track editor pointed out that their test drivers regularly apply full throttle while holding the brake down with their *left* foot to obtain maximum acceleration off the line with an automatic transmission.
I did that to a chevette when I worked for my friends dad's rental car company. It locked up the wheels for about 1/10th of a second, then the engine stalled and I coasted along until I put the car in neutral, restarted the engine and continued on my way.
Definitely. That was my first thought when I saw the decimals in the vote. Splitting the electoral votes down to a fraction would make the electoral distribution the same as the popular vote.
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That's funny, because 33.5 is almost exactly the age my brother was when he became a grandfather last year. One legal point your missing is that two minors are not constrained by 'legal age of consent' in most US states.
But then again, he can't even figure out how to work his windows box, so I guess the point is moot.
You forgot TiVo. Mine's pretty damn user friendly.
They also never seem to take into account the time the entire company is down because the IT department is trying to disinfect the building of the latest skr1p7 k1dd13z virus.
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Changing the clock is such a lame idea. Any mathematician will tell you base 12 is far superior for doing integer calculations than base 10. 10 only has 2 divisors: 2 and 5, which 12 has 4: 2, 3, 4 and 6 which make a 60 minute hours superb. What's 1/2 an hour? 30 minutes. What's 1/3? 20. What's 1/4? 15. 1/5? 1/6? 1/12?
If you had 100 minutes in an hour you'd start doing a lot of rounding or using a lot of decimal places.
Debate the calendar all you want, but leave the clock alone.
A lorentz manifold IS a chaotic system. A lorentz METRIC is used to describe chaotic systems.
Good call!
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In order for a company to sponsor an educated, hardworking immigrant for H1-B status, they must identify a weak-willed, gutless, backstabbing corporate climber (like my last boss) and send them in exchange.
I like it.
I see this as the greatest argument for open source distributed development.
Look at it like this. If IE is determined to violate this patent, am I liable for using IE? I don't see how. If they release a new version and I chose to keep using the old version, are they going to come after me? What if I'm a company who decides to keep using the old version? Can they sue me for using a patent violating browser any more than I would be expected to turn in my car if it violated a patent? Or a fleet of cars?
So, when you develop linux and give it away for free, who are they going to sue if they decide it violates a patent? And they can't sue companies that continue to use it any more than they can sue it for using a lamp that infringed a patent when it was manufactured.
So, RedHat stops including the kernel and makes you download it from a torrent where no source ever holds the entire image, or even holds continuous bits of the image (interleaved the distribution). There's no one to sue, no matter how hard they try.
I love it.
SB It's certainly true that one of the mind-sets you have to have when you're writing code and designing systems is: What's going to break? There's a broad range of possibilities for approaching this, depending on the type of application or software. If you're writing a Microsoft Word-type program, the way you approach this might be different from if you're designing a heart monitor.
BL In the heart monitor case, you better keep the heart going, whereas in the Microsoft Word case, you can just give them a blue screen and everybody is used to that.
I think the death penalty is justified for sitting stopped in front of me when you have a free acceleration lane to use to merge with traffic.
And for not realizing it's legal to make a left hand turn on red from one one-way street onto another.
And for hanging out in the passing lane on the freeway while people are passing you on the right.
And for being my mother-in-law.
You're never configured sudo, have you? Or if you have, you've never configured it right.
There's only one computer in the house that runs windows (98, BTW) and strangely, when I got a message to install a "security patch" this morning and did so, FF started crashing.
Things that make you go "Hmmmmmm...."
My only gripe with the article is that they say it is necessary to have a mod chip. That's not true, you can break Microsofts vaunted "Trusted Computing Platform" with a copy of mechwarrior and a hacked savegame. I'm typing this on an unmodified XBox running linux.
That slices $40-80 off the total price for the mod chip and adds about $8 back on for the used copy of mech from the local game store.
Yeah, and you're not a jackass at all.
LMFAO. I watched many a terrible show in college because I was too lazy to get up and change the channel that my roomate put it on.
No, but I think you do.
I want a picture of this "inventor" guy so I can snatch a magazine out of his hands at an airport or crank up a boombox next to his table at a restaurant, thus freeing him to sit in silence and think about his navel.
Just another example of someone who knows what's good for me better than I do and feels the need to impose his beliefs on me.
Coal is black. Hence the phrase, "black as coal".
Now I'm going to get this viral link forwarded to me by 8500 people...
I may have incorrectly attributed my previous comment to a R&T editor. Now that I think about it, it was probably C&D.
It's interesting how those "unintended acceleration" accidents completely went away when manufacturers started putting locks on the transmission that require your brakes to be applied.
A Road & Track editor pointed out that their test drivers regularly apply full throttle while holding the brake down with their *left* foot to obtain maximum acceleration off the line with an automatic transmission.
I did that to a chevette when I worked for my friends dad's rental car company. It locked up the wheels for about 1/10th of a second, then the engine stalled and I coasted along until I put the car in neutral, restarted the engine and continued on my way.
One more reason not to buy a rental car.
Technically, under FAI rules, the pilot has to survive for 24 hours to be deemed "in good health".
Definitely. That was my first thought when I saw the decimals in the vote. Splitting the electoral votes down to a fraction would make the electoral distribution the same as the popular vote.