E-mail is asynchronous. There's no guarantee that it will be delivered in a certain amount of time.
The telephone is synchronous. When it's answered, you're talking to the person real-time.
You've got to pick the right communications medium for the message. If your house is burning down, would you send an e-mail to the fire department? You'd be stupid to do that. And, going the other way, trying to turn a synchronous communications medium into an asynchronous one has given us all the curse of the 'voice mail' and the 'answering machine'. Voice mail is a hack, trying to make the telephone do something it wasn't meant to do. And, as a hack, it's cumbersome to use. Virtually all voice mail systems work differently, and they make you go through their menus in a serial fashion. See how long it takes to delete 100 voice mails, and you'll know what I mean.
And, I looked it up in the meantime. I visited Helsinki, the very beautiful hometown of Linus Torvalds, in early August, and I thought I remembered our tour guide saying that Finland was the first to give women the vote. I think she must have said ONE of the first.
New Zealand - 1893 Australia - 1902 Finland - 1906
But, you may not know that the first place in the world to give women equal suffrage was the Territory of Wyoming in 1869. Now I know why the nickname for Wyoming is "The Equality State".
When manufacturers say their batteries last 3 hours, they really last two. When they say they last 4 hours, they really last 2.5. When they say they last for 5 hours, they really last 3. When they say they last for 8 hours, they really last for 5. I hope that helps.
The balloon is a bad example. Use the raisin bread instead.
When you bake a raisin bread and it rises, all the raisins get farther apart from each other. Each raisin sees all the other raisins receeding from it.
And that's why the front end was reworked for the GCC 3.x.x compilers. Supposedly they are much cleaner, and tasks like tracking the newest features of standards are easier now.
Let me take a look: ------------- Laptop Power supply 12V inverter digital camera recycled AOL tin of useful CD's lots of paper passport checkbook backup money Euro plug adapter extra network PCMCIA card cell phone phone charger (USB) phone charger (120V) phone headset USB cable Badge for work Icebreakers mints the OpenGL redbook tea and no tea
My Thinkpad has a teeny lite controlled by a key sequence that illuminates the keyboard dimly. It actually is very useful. It's impossible to see the keyboard without it if the room is completely dark.
That's begging the question. An implicit assumption that Microsoft was not guilty of these abuses before they became a monopoly power is being made. Even before they were a monopoly they were guilty of sharing OS details with only their friends, and dirty tricks such as breaking DR DOS with their Windows product. The only reason that Word is still with us is because the profits from MS-DOS kept alive for years until Windows 3.0 was ready.
Well, there's only one Emperor, so there's 100 times fewer emperors than jedi. Are you implying that it would be insane if there was a character (either PC or NPC) referred to as emperor in the game?
Right. First thing I thought of was that a 1 kilowatt panel only operating during the day would offset a large part of my air conditioning bill. I'd still be on the grid, but would save a huge amount of money during the summer. I live in TX and we've got a lot of heat to move, but fortunately a lot of sunlight too.
A cost of $200 for a 1 kilowatt panel is fantastic, I'll get one as soon as it's developed available. Even a thousand bucks would be worth it.
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I just LOVE Microsoft. No, not the way you think. I mean that I want to have SEX with it.
Just make a worm that will do one of two things when it detects that the vehicle is in the left lane:
1) speed up, or
2) swerve to the right
That will fix the biggest problem on our expressways.
I can mail the program to you if you lost it. BTW, there were some bugs in the logger, but they were easily fixed.
We've got to destroy the village, er, Internet in order to save the Internet.
"Professor, I'll do anything for an A in this class."
"Well then, why don't you try studying?"
I agree. I wrote it, but it seriously deserves a (-1,Knows Google from a hole in the ground).
I've ranted about the moderation system before. Don't get me started.
What the hell is this?
/. today? It's slower than a salivating turtle.
Type "DI-707P" in the google box and hit "I'm feeling lucky".
There you go. Your fucking queue name is called "lp". Now, with that and a nice little man page, you should be ready to go.
I mean, Goddamn, can't you use Google?
And WTF is it with
If I were king of the universe, rather, WHEN I am king of the universe, spammers will get the death penalty.
You need to get yourself a copy of ad-aware.
Put all of your eggs into one basket. And watch that basket.
E-mail is asynchronous. There's no guarantee that it will be delivered in a certain amount of time.
The telephone is synchronous. When it's answered, you're talking to the person real-time.
You've got to pick the right communications medium for the message. If your house is burning down, would you send an e-mail to the fire department? You'd be stupid to do that. And, going the other way, trying to turn a synchronous communications medium into an asynchronous one has given us all the curse of the 'voice mail' and the 'answering machine'. Voice mail is a hack, trying to make the telephone do something it wasn't meant to do. And, as a hack, it's cumbersome to use. Virtually all voice mail systems work differently, and they make you go through their menus in a serial fashion. See how long it takes to delete 100 voice mails, and you'll know what I mean.
Educate your users.
This is so ironic because people bitch about the GPL being "viral".
I guess the difference is that the GPL specifically outlines the conditions under which a derivative work becomes GPL'ed.
But SCO's licensing of UNIX seems to incorporate whatever SCO says it incorporates. And that list gets bigger every day.
And, I looked it up in the meantime. I visited Helsinki, the very beautiful hometown of Linus Torvalds, in early August, and I thought I remembered our tour guide saying that Finland was the first to give women the vote. I think she must have said ONE of the first.
New Zealand - 1893
Australia - 1902
Finland - 1906
But, you may not know that the first place in the world to give women equal suffrage was the Territory of Wyoming in 1869. Now I know why the nickname for Wyoming is "The Equality State".
My raisin breads are infinite. Just keep doubling the recipe.
When manufacturers say their batteries last 3 hours, they really last two. When they say they last 4 hours, they really last 2.5. When they say they last for 5 hours, they really last 3. When they say they last for 8 hours, they really last for 5. I hope that helps.
The balloon is a bad example. Use the raisin bread instead.
When you bake a raisin bread and it rises, all the raisins get farther apart from each other. Each raisin sees all the other raisins receeding from it.
You from Finland?
And that's why the front end was reworked for the GCC 3.x.x compilers. Supposedly they are much cleaner, and tasks like tracking the newest features of standards are easier now.
For the man who has everything, something to haul all his shit around in.
That was an absolutely fabulous rant, thanks for a great start to the day.
Personally, I love the clicky sound. I often start humming a little tune to myself in time with the clicks. Maybe a little Association:
Who's peeking out from under a stairway
Calling a name that's lighter than air
Who's bending down to give me a rainbow
Everyone knows it's Windy
Yes, I'm sure that catchy tune will be in our heads for a few hours at least.
Case Logic makes a very nice rolling computer case. Good for airports too, but I've always got about 20 pounds of crap in there.
Let me take a look:
-------------
Laptop
Power supply
12V inverter
digital camera
recycled AOL tin of useful CD's
lots of paper
passport
checkbook
backup money
Euro plug adapter
extra network PCMCIA card
cell phone
phone charger (USB)
phone charger (120V)
phone headset
USB cable
Badge for work
Icebreakers mints
the OpenGL redbook
tea and no tea
My Thinkpad has a teeny lite controlled by a key sequence that illuminates the keyboard dimly. It actually is very useful. It's impossible to see the keyboard without it if the room is completely dark.
That's begging the question. An implicit assumption that Microsoft was not guilty of these abuses before they became a monopoly power is being made. Even before they were a monopoly they were guilty of sharing OS details with only their friends, and dirty tricks such as breaking DR DOS with their Windows product. The only reason that Word is still with us is because the profits from MS-DOS kept alive for years until Windows 3.0 was ready.
Well, there's only one Emperor, so there's 100 times fewer emperors than jedi. Are you implying that it would be insane if there was a character (either PC or NPC) referred to as emperor in the game?
Right. First thing I thought of was that a 1 kilowatt panel only operating during the day would offset a large part of my air conditioning bill. I'd still be on the grid, but would save a huge amount of money during the summer. I live in TX and we've got a lot of heat to move, but fortunately a lot of sunlight too.
A cost of $200 for a 1 kilowatt panel is fantastic, I'll get one as soon as it's developed available. Even a thousand bucks would be worth it.