Have you ever tried to purchase a pomegranate at a grocery store? I've had clerks try to ring them up as apples - that is if they don't stare in consternation at this vegetable (as in "not animal") monstrosity that has come across their conveyor.
Well actually you could configure it to brutally high doses; however the fuses that supplied power to the unit would blow. Unfortunately the 25 didn't have those fuses.
This is an interesting idea, but they note that you will need to decompress the stream at the other end. This means that unless you can multiplex the light and have multiple compressed streams sharing the same channel, you won't see any performance improvement. You are still limited to transmitting/receiving at a fixed rate; its just that the bits take a shorter time to transit the pipe.
Are there any losses that are proportional to the time a light pulse spends in a fiber? I'm pretty sure its just related to distance.
Thats nothing - I'm using a TCL interpreter that will interpret curly braces - even if they are commented out.
The best part is that the error message isn't "You have an unmatched curly brace on such and such a line", its more like "there is something strange wrong with your script and I won't tell you where I barfed"
I, too, find American's aversion to referring to toilets by anything that vaguely resembles what one might do in them, damn strange.
"loo" - I definitely don't "loo" in the restroom.
"WC" - Water closet? US bathrooms are generally larger than closets, and why would you keep water in a closet anyhow?
"bathroom" - what, do you want to take a bath? I thought you had to pee.
As I said in the title, I'm just giving you a hard time. I can't stand the average American's inflexibility with regard to communicating with people with different backgrounds. Its strange, really.
just out of curiosity, how old is the DVD player itself (the hardware)? I had trouble recently with a slightly older DVD drive when trying to play newer DVDs. Put in a new DVD drive that I had lying around and VLC didn't crash anymore.
No, no. College students will wait for the 3 year, "You break it, we fix it" policy that they bought when they got the laptop to be *almost* expired . . . and then drop it down the stairs.
Twice.
I haven't - my Inspiron 600m is great. But there were an awful lot of new laptops in class my senior year . . .
Wouldn't it be better not to generate the CO2, or at least minimise its production, in the first place?
Yes, but then we couldn't attempt to restart the economy by encouraging everybody to go out and buy Buy BUY! (this is what seems to be happening in the US. Nobody seems to see the problem with it)
[fx]Wife smashing husband over head with sabre[/fx]
If I had mod points I would mod you up. Musicians should expect to make their money off performing live. And if they can't make it financially doing that? Get a day job. Its not like music is going to disappear if all the "artists" have to hold day jobs as well. People have been making music a long time before the concept of a "40 hour work week" and "vacation" ever existed.
I'm curious - in places where tertiary education is 100% (or close) funded by the state (ie, where it is a "right"), what are the entrance requirements for those institutions?
Well how about we change some of those requirements. Instead of forcing them to accept a certain percentage of students, allow them to only take the top N% of students. The rest of the applicants can go work on pig farms in the country. Isn't that what happens in China?
The point I'm trying to make is that maybe if we stopped making it so easy for under-achieving students to use state funds to participate in higher education, maybe we could solve a budget problem while at the same time providing some encouragement for kids to do better in school. I mean, what better encouragement is there than the smell of a pig farm???
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Have you ever tried to purchase a pomegranate at a grocery store? I've had clerks try to ring them up as apples - that is if they don't stare in consternation at this vegetable (as in "not animal") monstrosity that has come across their conveyor.
Well actually you could configure it to brutally high doses; however the fuses that supplied power to the unit would blow. Unfortunately the 25 didn't have those fuses.
I think Obama is being awarded this simply because he kept the neo-cons out of power and the world is happy for that.
This is the only explanation that I've heard that makes any sense. (And this is still a pretty silly explanation).
I wish I had mod points. That was very informative.
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This is an interesting idea, but they note that you will need to decompress the stream at the other end. This means that unless you can multiplex the light and have multiple compressed streams sharing the same channel, you won't see any performance improvement. You are still limited to transmitting/receiving at a fixed rate; its just that the bits take a shorter time to transit the pipe.
Are there any losses that are proportional to the time a light pulse spends in a fiber? I'm pretty sure its just related to distance.
Thats nothing - I'm using a TCL interpreter that will interpret curly braces - even if they are commented out. The best part is that the error message isn't "You have an unmatched curly brace on such and such a line", its more like "there is something strange wrong with your script and I won't tell you where I barfed"
+1 Agree
nooo . . . but it would give you an idea of how much of a performance hit you take when running in a VM. Which could be interesting in and of itself.
As I said in the title, I'm just giving you a hard time. I can't stand the average American's inflexibility with regard to communicating with people with different backgrounds. Its strange, really.
(American)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111411944
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. . . a team of fifth-grade students were [looking for people cheating on the exam]. They showed no mercy. . .
So this morning when I got into work we couldn't write to any of the home directories.
Think of the children?
+1 Completely Agree
just out of curiosity, how old is the DVD player itself (the hardware)? I had trouble recently with a slightly older DVD drive when trying to play newer DVDs. Put in a new DVD drive that I had lying around and VLC didn't crash anymore.
While my original response was off the cuff (and I see its been moderated "funny"), yours was calm, reasoned, and well thought out. Thank you.
The rights that PETA members ascribe to animals, most basically, are the rights not to suffer and die at the hands of humans.
Given PETA's record, your statement is a bit . . . ironic.
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
No, no. College students will wait for the 3 year, "You break it, we fix it" policy that they bought when they got the laptop to be *almost* expired . . . and then drop it down the stairs.
Twice.
I haven't - my Inspiron 600m is great. But there were an awful lot of new laptops in class my senior year . . .
Wouldn't it be better not to generate the CO2, or at least minimise its production, in the first place?
Yes, but then we couldn't attempt to restart the economy by encouraging everybody to go out and buy Buy BUY! (this is what seems to be happening in the US. Nobody seems to see the problem with it)
[fx]Wife smashing husband over head with sabre[/fx]
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Making music for the sheer joy of it, not for the money???
ABSURD!
If I had mod points I would mod you up. Musicians should expect to make their money off performing live. And if they can't make it financially doing that? Get a day job. Its not like music is going to disappear if all the "artists" have to hold day jobs as well. People have been making music a long time before the concept of a "40 hour work week" and "vacation" ever existed.
I looked at the title and read it "The 'Hidden' Cost of Piracy." Indicative of the type of articles I expect to see on /. these days?
I'm curious - in places where tertiary education is 100% (or close) funded by the state (ie, where it is a "right"), what are the entrance requirements for those institutions?
Well how about we change some of those requirements. Instead of forcing them to accept a certain percentage of students, allow them to only take the top N% of students. The rest of the applicants can go work on pig farms in the country. Isn't that what happens in China?
The point I'm trying to make is that maybe if we stopped making it so easy for under-achieving students to use state funds to participate in higher education, maybe we could solve a budget problem while at the same time providing some encouragement for kids to do better in school. I mean, what better encouragement is there than the smell of a pig farm???
Slashdot needs a "+1 Literature Referece" mod.