It happened to me, July 2000.
IBM disk failed.
Rebuild starts.
Second IBM disk fails.
Here comes the Colorado tape...
Reinstall, insert tape, rewind... tape snaps. We do a restore from the other, older tape, and a bunch of critical data is missing.
Cow-orkers start crying... then I pull out the stack of CDs where I backed up the data from just a week before. The recovery took a while, but tibe well spent.
The lesson is: data is never safe.
That's why good universities have guidelines for citing secondary sources (which involves usually a citation of both the primar source and the secondary source where it's been cited).
Sorry, you don't need to be a citizen to get constitutional rights. you just need to "be there". The constitution then grants more rights to the citenship, like to elect representative and so on.
There are those who deliberately turn on white noise devices as a sleep aid, in fact. I don't need it, my titinnus come free with years of puck rock music.
Sorry, but I don't know any programming language (worth the definition) that can't, for example, open/dev/mem.
Or use closures. Or edit its own source file and recomplile itself.
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On the other side, I made benchmarks where it matter(ed) to me: synchrotron simulations.
An AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1600+ was about 30-50% better for simulations than a Pentium 4 1700, as well as cheaper.
So, stop fussing about, multimedia and games is not the only things computer are used for (but obviously they matter a lot), and Intel for sure had/has a big advantage there.
Sweden stayed out of the first and second war by NOT being important either strategically or resource-wise Except for the enormous amount of iron ore mined out shipped out to Germany and Britain, of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_iron_ore_during_World_War_II
everybody knows that perl hackers are more likely to have mental disorders and chemical additions It wouldn't be a problem if not that is that my other self doesn't like drugs.
Hmm, sounds alot like an RPG or a LARP. No, actually RPGs are based on hobbyist wargames, which are based on armies' war simulations, which are ultimately based on Kriekgspiel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(wargame))
whether you believe in god, devine entity or any such thing or you oppose them you are still a subject to relgious lunacy. Well, I think you're oversimplifying a bit.
For example a friend, now and then, casts spells (mainly healing), has killed a person and maimed another with vodoo dolls and sometimes sees angels and spirits.
Now, adopting a skeptic perspective, I could ask myself why does she thinks she cast spells and kills/maims people with vodoo. Because she got the right feedback while doing so. She did things and they worked. She's seen her mom doing the same things, and they worked. Being a logic lassie (I know she suffers from a bad case of cognitive dissonance, but just let go on with the example), she's seen a cause-effect relationship in her mystical actions, so she believes that piercing your vodoo doll with needles in your chest will kill you: after all she's done it before, and it worked. She did the same with a guy's doll crotch and he got kidney stones...
I apply the same logic: when I see ghosts, it's usually my low blood pressure doing things with my retina; when a 50+ years old always angry bloke dies of heart attack it's quite normal. When I say i don't believe in god, magic, supertition, etc, it's like saying that I don't believe there are blue monkeys under my bed during the night. Quite simply, I don't know if god is out there, but I'm pretty much certain he's not there. I can't really attribute any effect to it. So I don't believe he exists.
But maybe he's just hangin out with the blue monkeys under my bed. But till I see him, he doesn't have a place in my vision of the world, I don't use 'god' as a label for things I don't uderstand. But if one day I'll find a god, well, I'll publish a peer reviewed paper about it.
So, where is my religious lunacy? Am I a lunatic because I don't believe in things I can't find any fundament for? Shouldn't it be the opposite?
"God is a fairy tale."
Prove it. I don't need to.
You're telling me something exists, and yours is the burden of proof. If you tell me where I can detect god with a bubble chamber, particle detector, camera, naked eye, well, I'll believe in god.
This is the different between the scientist and the religious man: the scientist WILL change his mind if presented with proof.
Question: Which pagan deity is Allah? The answer is quite easy. "Allah" is simpli the Arab word for "god" (well, "the god"), and is a cognate of the Hebrew "elhom". You can find it in the Old Testament, but its plural form "Elohim" is far more frequent.
I'm far more puzzled about why the god of the Hebrews and Christians is a "plural" word.
Given that each person's DNA is derived from both of their parents' sets, as well as the introduction of , the amount of mutual information between your DNA and any relative becomes drastically small. 50% for siblings, 25% for first cousins. Factually incorrect.
Every parent has a couple of (different) chromosomes for every kind, so a couple of 1, a couple of 2, etc. and either XX or XY.
Every gamete takes half of the parent chromosomes, choosen randomly, and it's coupled with its little random friend from the other parent. So in theory somebody can have a completely different DNA from his sibling (or a complete match) if the choromosomes contained in the gametes are different, and since it's random, we can't really determine it. Big chance obviously at least some if it it's shared...
The flipside of this is having to search the entire world to find the one little switch, door, or object that you missed the first time through with no idea where it could possibly be. No, what are you describing is a tree you are forced deeply to "go on". What GP and me want is a game that allows you to get there in more than one way. I found Dungeon Siege terribly boring, but then NOX spoiled me happy (not that it's not linear, but i find its gameplay extremely more varied).
Speaking of sex, I always wondered why there were no Upper Plane equivalent of Succubus. Given the quantity of half-celestials, I'd say all of the upper plane denizens managed to get laid with mortals...
if the rest of the world did this, what would be the effects of letting all that heat out? Iceland is full of vulcanoes. Vulcanoes exchange heat at a rate a few order of magnitude greater than geothermal stations.
Just to give you an idea, here is a picture of Etna eruption from the ISS. Note that the squattish hill you see in the pic is a volcano 3km high. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31 /Etna_eruption_seen_from_the_International_Space_S tation.jpg
Then you'd better stop playing Oblivion since it offers no multiple ways to solve its ultra-linear quests. Give a read to the hintbook then, because there are different ways.
It's hilarious to me that you leverage Final Fantasy as an insult when Oblivion is just as railroaded and braindead. no they're not. FF railoads you not just at the quest level but even at plot level. Basically 90% of the times you can just go to a single city or the like. In Oblivion I can ditch the main quest completely, and do it at any level. If i want to abandon the quest, i just LEAVE the area. If i don't want to give back Rockshatter, i can simply keep it. If i want to help the paranoid wood elf in Skingrad, well, I can.
It is not an RPG. Classes don't matter Strange, many purists say that if there are classes it's not an RPG. BTW classes do matter, I'd advise you to RTFM to understand how. Probably we expect different things from videogames. I'd rather not have you at my saturday afternoon game tho.
It's a safe, crippled sandbox for XBox 360 players to feel "next-gen" without feeling the challenge of having to locate NPCs or locations by themselves without the Magic McCompass telling them where to point and run. Strange, my pc GPU sucks big time and i have to play it with minimum detail. I enjoyed it nonetheless. By the way, which videogame is not safe? Playing is safe by definition (unless you gamble or somebody loses an eye). And you can remove the McCompass...:)
Anyway, yes, Oblivion and, let's say, Arcanum, or Legend of Valour, Swords of Twilight, Dungeon Master, Ultima Underworld, FF, they're all different games. I loved all of them, but for different reasons. Note that in most of them classes don't really matter and provide no damage to your life.
then join the Mage's Guild and work your way to the top without ever actually using magic. Sorry sir, we must have been playing different games. I remember quite well that casting spells is mandatory for some quests to join the Mage Guild, and as well in other quests after joining. On top of my mind:
Bruma Recommendation: Fingers of the Mountain: you must cast a lightning spell on the column.
Cheydinhal Recommendation: if you're not a lizardman you need to cast water breath. Well, i managed it also without, but i had a really fast character and I knew where the ring was, but i died many times in the process.
Vahtacen's Secret: you must casts spells at a magic pillar to open it.
Beside that, your argument is moronic. I want to be able to solve a quest in different ways. If you don't, stick to Final Fantasy and other railroaded interactive movies with some combat scenes.
No, they just stopped smoking in pubs by having their fag outside.
Nowadays it's normal for pubs to have ashtrays by the entrance and for a lot of smokers to get a nicotine fix unther the rain.
1: try a dychotomic search (binary search? sorry English is not my first language); if the marble crashes, work up from the bottom 1 floor at time.
2: bucket sort, then merge.
3: encode the 8 decimal digits in 27 bits. 27 * 10^6/8/1024/1024= ~ 3.22 megabytes. Darn. Ok, without compressing the numbers and with no data on them I'm a bit stuck. We should get the entropy down to 16 bits/number. or do something else.
Our computers can run with 12V. Just get a DC-DC PSU instead of the whole AC-DC transformer.
So, during the day you can run off-grid and "plug-in" the AC-DC converter at night.
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It happened to me, July 2000. IBM disk failed. Rebuild starts. Second IBM disk fails. Here comes the Colorado tape... Reinstall, insert tape, rewind... tape snaps. We do a restore from the other, older tape, and a bunch of critical data is missing. Cow-orkers start crying... then I pull out the stack of CDs where I backed up the data from just a week before. The recovery took a while, but tibe well spent. The lesson is: data is never safe.
That's why good universities have guidelines for citing secondary sources (which involves usually a citation of both the primar source and the secondary source where it's been cited).
Sorry, you don't need to be a citizen to get constitutional rights. you just need to "be there". The constitution then grants more rights to the citenship, like to elect representative and so on.
Sorry, but I don't know any programming language (worth the definition) that can't, for example, open /dev/mem.
Or use closures. Or edit its own source file and recomplile itself.
On the other side, I made benchmarks where it matter(ed) to me: synchrotron simulations.
An AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1600+ was about 30-50% better for simulations than a Pentium 4 1700, as well as cheaper.
So, stop fussing about, multimedia and games is not the only things computer are used for (but obviously they matter a lot), and Intel for sure had/has a big advantage there.
For example a friend, now and then, casts spells (mainly healing), has killed a person and maimed another with vodoo dolls and sometimes sees angels and spirits.
Now, adopting a skeptic perspective, I could ask myself why does she thinks she cast spells and kills/maims people with vodoo. Because she got the right feedback while doing so. She did things and they worked. She's seen her mom doing the same things, and they worked. Being a logic lassie (I know she suffers from a bad case of cognitive dissonance, but just let go on with the example), she's seen a cause-effect relationship in her mystical actions, so she believes that piercing your vodoo doll with needles in your chest will kill you: after all she's done it before, and it worked. She did the same with a guy's doll crotch and he got kidney stones...
I apply the same logic: when I see ghosts, it's usually my low blood pressure doing things with my retina; when a 50+ years old always angry bloke dies of heart attack it's quite normal. When I say i don't believe in god, magic, supertition, etc, it's like saying that I don't believe there are blue monkeys under my bed during the night. Quite simply, I don't know if god is out there, but I'm pretty much certain he's not there. I can't really attribute any effect to it. So I don't believe he exists.
But maybe he's just hangin out with the blue monkeys under my bed. But till I see him, he doesn't have a place in my vision of the world, I don't use 'god' as a label for things I don't uderstand. But if one day I'll find a god, well, I'll publish a peer reviewed paper about it.
So, where is my religious lunacy? Am I a lunatic because I don't believe in things I can't find any fundament for? Shouldn't it be the opposite?
Prove it. I don't need to.
You're telling me something exists, and yours is the burden of proof. If you tell me where I can detect god with a bubble chamber, particle detector, camera, naked eye, well, I'll believe in god.
This is the different between the scientist and the religious man: the scientist WILL change his mind if presented with proof.
I'm far more puzzled about why the god of the Hebrews and Christians is a "plural" word.
Every parent has a couple of (different) chromosomes for every kind, so a couple of 1, a couple of 2, etc. and either XX or XY.
Every gamete takes half of the parent chromosomes, choosen randomly, and it's coupled with its little random friend from the other parent. So in theory somebody can have a completely different DNA from his sibling (or a complete match) if the choromosomes contained in the gametes are different, and since it's random, we can't really determine it. Big chance obviously at least some if it it's shared...
Thanks a lot, now my macbook is full of fruit juice. /. joke, you made my day.
I've never laughed so much for a
Here in Italy we've had geothermal power since 1904.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larderello
And before it was used to move turbines in factories.
Just to give you an idea, here is a picture of Etna eruption from the ISS. Note that the squattish hill you see in the pic is a volcano 3km high. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3
Anyway, yes, Oblivion and, let's say, Arcanum, or Legend of Valour, Swords of Twilight, Dungeon Master, Ultima Underworld, FF, they're all different games. I loved all of them, but for different reasons. Note that in most of them classes don't really matter and provide no damage to your life.
Beside that, your argument is moronic. I want to be able to solve a quest in different ways. If you don't, stick to Final Fantasy and other railroaded interactive movies with some combat scenes.
No, they just stopped smoking in pubs by having their fag outside. Nowadays it's normal for pubs to have ashtrays by the entrance and for a lot of smokers to get a nicotine fix unther the rain.
1: try a dychotomic search (binary search? sorry English is not my first language); if the marble crashes, work up from the bottom 1 floor at time. 2: bucket sort, then merge. 3: encode the 8 decimal digits in 27 bits. 27 * 10^6 /8/1024/1024= ~ 3.22 megabytes. Darn. Ok, without compressing the numbers and with no data on them I'm a bit stuck. We should get the entropy down to 16 bits/number. or do something else.
Our computers can run with 12V. Just get a DC-DC PSU instead of the whole AC-DC transformer.
So, during the day you can run off-grid and "plug-in" the AC-DC converter at night.
Woody allen in his first books wrote nice jokes about holocaust.
Too bad I can't quote any of them on top of my mind right now.