Earth's temperature now is not hotter than it has ever been, no question. The Cretaceous was quite warm, with tropical forests at mid-northern latitudes, and temperate forests near the artic circle. However, your last two paragraphs don't make any sense. The huge influx of fresh water was caused by melting glaciers. Increasing the mean annual temperature (MAT) of the earth would INCREASE the melting of glaciers, hastening exactly what you are talking about.
Of course, because humans use fuzzy logic, having a mathematically different order that only involved moving one song (say track 2 becomes track 6 but everything else is in the same relative order) would sound pretty much the same to us (me, anyway).
Thanks for mentioning Mary McDonnell's performance. I really thought she did the best job of portraying a believable, understandable character (although I also enjoyed Adama). My only disappointment was that right at the end she seemed to not understand why Adam would want to give people hope, which, if she was really in politics, should have been obvious. Perhaps they couldn't think of a better conversation to add some exposition for the viewer's benefit, but I still thought it was the only glitch in her otherwise excellent character acting.
Um, I read the whole article, and I didn't see a damn thing about Win32 API's preventing screen shots, cut-and-paste, etc. Are we reading the same article here?
This has never been more apparent to me than when, about 6 months ago, my roommate, who also has an office across the hall, came by and saw me reading slashdot. I had been reading it for about 3-4 years, and was used to most of the jargon. My roommate was a sysadmin for a year before coming to graduate school, and was the computer support person for our department. I have had many talks about computers with him, and he takes apart and puts back together computers with ease. His response to the slashdot homepage? "They're making up words! That sentence is complete gibberish!"
When I was a student at UC Santa Cruz (class of '01), I started with just a desktop, bought a used laptop at the end of my first year, and bought a Palm IIIe at the beginning of my third year. Probably used the desktop the most, the Palm a lot, and the laptop only ocassionally. Really depends on whether you like to spread out on big tables at the library(they prefer laptops), as some folks I know, or whether you prefer to sit in your room, listening to tunes, drinking, eating, and distracting yourself by visiting all the hot girls on your hall (I prefered the desktop in the dorm room). The Palm I used all the time, but I also was involved in student government, choir, theater, and worked as an A/V tech, so I had plenty of things to keep track of. I think the most bang for you buck these days is a good desktop and a cheap PDA.
I went to the University of California at Santa Cruz, and started when grades were still optional (as of Fall 2001 letter grades became mandatory). For each class I received a grade of Pass or No Pass, and a written evaluation of my work (For the record, evals in large (>100 students) classes were usually brief). This written evaluation was generally a much better indication of my true performance (good or bad) than a grade would have been. I also got into all 3 grad schools I applied to (including U Washington and U British Columbia, both very highly ranked in my field) with no problems. Who needs a GPA? I have one now in graduate school, and I don't think people have any better idea of what kind of student I am than they did with letter grades.
While he argues that in fact VHS was the superior "whole product", I think you could make a parallel, and to me more articulate argument that in fact VHS was technically superior in the category that consumers cared most about: the length of the tape. Now, if the video quality had been really bad (i.e. unwatchable), then it wouldn't have mattered if they were 12 hour tapes. So, VHS was technically adequate in some respects, but actually superior in the most important category. I realize that you could argue that "whole product" covers everything I just said, but it seems to be a vague term.
A lot of folks have noticed that this idea was in SimCity 2000. But decades before Maxis published SimCity, Robert Heinlein had used the idea in one of his future history short stories. Of course, he also had a gigantic nuclear power plant 1/4 the size of Arizona (or something like that) that he moved into space as well, right before it blew up. . .
I don't know why people think that file shares are setup as default. I have been using Windows 9x since 1997, and have done tech support in a mixed Windows/Mac environment (i.e. university residence halls). File shares in Win9x are not setup by default. And when you go to share a file, the default is "Read-Only", not "full access". Also, you have to enable the file-sharing protocol before you can share any files. It is safe to say that if someone has shared a drive, they have done it intentionally (except perhaps in cases where an OEM has setup the computer to share drives, or something like @home turning sharing on and sharing specific drives, but that is a slightly different issue). Now, why people would leave a drive shared with write-permission and no password, that's another story.
Palm already makes it. I have had a PalmIIIe special edition for the past 7 months, and I carry it with me everywhere, in my pocket, no neoprene case or anything. And I have not had a problem with it so far.
I have an AMD K6-3/400, and I wanted a utility to be able to make sure that I was running what I thought I was. I found a utility, called simply "CPUID" for Win32 (sorry about that) that will check chips from Intel, Cyrix, IDT, and Rise. It's available at http://www.h-oda.com
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Earth's temperature now is not hotter than it has ever been, no question. The Cretaceous was quite warm, with tropical forests at mid-northern latitudes, and temperate forests near the artic circle. However, your last two paragraphs don't make any sense. The huge influx of fresh water was caused by melting glaciers. Increasing the mean annual temperature (MAT) of the earth would INCREASE the melting of glaciers, hastening exactly what you are talking about.
Of course, because humans use fuzzy logic, having a mathematically different order that only involved moving one song (say track 2 becomes track 6 but everything else is in the same relative order) would sound pretty much the same to us (me, anyway).
Thanks for mentioning Mary McDonnell's performance. I really thought she did the best job of portraying a believable, understandable character (although I also enjoyed Adama). My only disappointment was that right at the end she seemed to not understand why Adam would want to give people hope, which, if she was really in politics, should have been obvious. Perhaps they couldn't think of a better conversation to add some exposition for the viewer's benefit, but I still thought it was the only glitch in her otherwise excellent character acting.
Um, I read the whole article, and I didn't see a damn thing about Win32 API's preventing screen shots, cut-and-paste, etc. Are we reading the same article here?
This has never been more apparent to me than when, about 6 months ago, my roommate, who also has an office across the hall, came by and saw me reading slashdot. I had been reading it for about 3-4 years, and was used to most of the jargon. My roommate was a sysadmin for a year before coming to graduate school, and was the computer support person for our department. I have had many talks about computers with him, and he takes apart and puts back together computers with ease. His response to the slashdot homepage? "They're making up words! That sentence is complete gibberish!"
When I was a student at UC Santa Cruz (class of '01), I started with just a desktop, bought a used laptop at the end of my first year, and bought a Palm IIIe at the beginning of my third year. Probably used the desktop the most, the Palm a lot, and the laptop only ocassionally. Really depends on whether you like to spread out on big tables at the library(they prefer laptops), as some folks I know, or whether you prefer to sit in your room, listening to tunes, drinking, eating, and distracting yourself by visiting all the hot girls on your hall (I prefered the desktop in the dorm room). The Palm I used all the time, but I also was involved in student government, choir, theater, and worked as an A/V tech, so I had plenty of things to keep track of. I think the most bang for you buck these days is a good desktop and a cheap PDA.
I went to the University of California at Santa Cruz, and started when grades were still optional (as of Fall 2001 letter grades became mandatory). For each class I received a grade of Pass or No Pass, and a written evaluation of my work (For the record, evals in large (>100 students) classes were usually brief). This written evaluation was generally a much better indication of my true performance (good or bad) than a grade would have been. I also got into all 3 grad schools I applied to (including U Washington and U British Columbia, both very highly ranked in my field) with no problems. Who needs a GPA? I have one now in graduate school, and I don't think people have any better idea of what kind of student I am than they did with letter grades.
While he argues that in fact VHS was the superior "whole product", I think you could make a parallel, and to me more articulate argument that in fact VHS was technically superior in the category that consumers cared most about: the length of the tape. Now, if the video quality had been really bad (i.e. unwatchable), then it wouldn't have mattered if they were 12 hour tapes. So, VHS was technically adequate in some respects, but actually superior in the most important category. I realize that you could argue that "whole product" covers everything I just said, but it seems to be a vague term.
That should be dead-like-a-fox
"Stupid, am I? Stupid like a fox!" --H. Simpson
A lot of folks have noticed that this idea was in SimCity 2000. But decades before Maxis published SimCity, Robert Heinlein had used the idea in one of his future history short stories. Of course, he also had a gigantic nuclear power plant 1/4 the size of Arizona (or something like that) that he moved into space as well, right before it blew up. . .
I don't know why people think that file shares are setup as default. I have been using Windows 9x since 1997, and have done tech support in a mixed Windows/Mac environment (i.e. university residence halls). File shares in Win9x are not setup by default. And when you go to share a file, the default is "Read-Only", not "full access". Also, you have to enable the file-sharing protocol before you can share any files. It is safe to say that if someone has shared a drive, they have done it intentionally (except perhaps in cases where an OEM has setup the computer to share drives, or something like @home turning sharing on and sharing specific drives, but that is a slightly different issue). Now, why people would leave a drive shared with write-permission and no password, that's another story.
Palm already makes it. I have had a PalmIIIe special edition for the past 7 months, and I carry it with me everywhere, in my pocket, no neoprene case or anything. And I have not had a problem with it so far.
I have an AMD K6-3/400, and I wanted a utility to be able to make sure that I was running what I thought I was. I found a utility, called simply "CPUID" for Win32 (sorry about that) that will check chips from Intel, Cyrix, IDT, and Rise. It's available at http://www.h-oda.com
I thought digital underground was a hip-hop group in the 80's. . .