I believe Mr. Lacy; that his real motive is that he suspects someone in his department assisted with the calculations, and he wants to shut him up by requiring that whatever engineer did the calculations reveal themselves so they can be fired.
I remember there was a similar mindset for a while: "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM."
I wrote them off when I was choosing some small accounting software back in the mid 80s and the damned software couldn't even display decimals, all the money had to input in pennies. When we decided to go with other software, that was the salesman's last ditch plea.
It wasn't until after I replied that I saw your post tagged as funny; I guess I'm the only one who didn't get the joke (and I do know the barometer story).
Really? I thought he understood the question. By throwing the shoe, he pushed himself ever so slightly in the other direction. Being on a frictionless surface, he would glide to the edge of the pond opposite of the direction he threw the shoe.
Forgive me, but can you indeed copyright a recipe? I thought you couldn't copyright a fact (e.g. the mix of ingredients), but only the process (mix for 30 seconds, then rest). I mean come on, recipes are ripped off constantly....
I'd like some references please, for my own education.
Sorry, man, but you're wrong. They may make choices you don't agree with, but that does not make them anything less than you. Do you feel the same about teachers, firemen, or policemen, anyone who's not all about the last dollar?
I've had similar problems with Flash. I'm in management in Accounting, and I was kindly given a very nice laptop from the IT department to test drive ahead of the masses. It's worked fine... until I allow Flash to run, and then the laptop quickly develops a runaway heat problem. The only solution is to turn it off (a long exercise since all the processes start firing simultaneously, presumably because of the heat), flip it over, and rest a sealed soda can on it above the CPU until the beast cools down.
Flash-Block is the only thing that saves this machine, but whether it's a Flash or a Firefox-Flash issue, I'm not sure.
The same could be said about Nixon and breaking into the Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate; surely he couldn't have been worried that McGovern might actually win the election. People in power don't think in those terms.
And for long did they know the prize was already won and everyone else had zero chance to win? That's the part that bothers me.
I remember a similar situation with Virginia's scratch-off lottery tickets: a fixed number of tickets are printed with winning numbers, and once those prizes are all claimed, the Lottery Agency is supposed to pull the remaining tickets since they're all losers. But of course, they don't.
What part of the story of the family in a decrepit Lexus with worn-out brakes doing acceleration overtime wasn't true? THAT's what got this Toyota-bashing story started. And even Toyoda himself admitted it - they got greedy and too big too fast.
Try coordinating your location with http://www.heavens-above.com/. They track lots (all?) the satellites and large debris, including some cool tumbling ones, so maybe you can find something there. They track the flares that come from reflections off solar panels too, but I've had no luck to seeing them using their location data.
Only problem I foresee is that with a 4" telescope, unless there's some kind of tracking mechanism, regardless of what you're looking at, cycling through a bunch of kids will be difficult as the object/detail in question will have moved and the telescope will need to be constantly re-pointed. THAT will be the toughest part in my opinion. You can reduce the problem by paying close attention to the pivoting mechanisms on the telescope (possibly with some dry runs without the kids) so that the one axis points to celestial north and the other along the celestial plane. If you're tracking the moon or Jupiter, then a turn of only one of the knobs (this thing does have a tracking mechanism, right?) will keep it in the scope.
Cue the piling on as I'm sure my description is un-artful and/. is an unforgiving crowd.
I can believe it would have taken a long time to write one of those programs. When I was in college back in the late 70's, my first programming class was in Fortran, and one assignment was a simple look-up table to determine how much to charge for a taxi service between different locations using different vehicles. At this time, it was all punch cards, so excluding the start and stop cards, the whole program was about 12 - 15 cards. AFterward, the professor announced that this same program in the COBOL class was a 3-person team effort that generally required 900+ cards; I vowed at that time to never take the class. It was always a sight whenever one of those students would drop their stack of cards all over the computing room floor....
I'll set myself up as a charity, and have the system pull money out of my account, and put into the my other - er, the charity's - account. Now all my spam is blessed.
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I believe Mr. Lacy; that his real motive is that he suspects someone in his department assisted with the calculations, and he wants to shut him up by requiring that whatever engineer did the calculations reveal themselves so they can be fired.
I wrote them off when I was choosing some small accounting software back in the mid 80s and the damned software couldn't even display decimals, all the money had to input in pennies. When we decided to go with other software, that was the salesman's last ditch plea.
Maybe they can use this to ban gawd-awful movie knock-offs...
Except that now his name can be Googled and found here. How's that for irony.
It wasn't until after I replied that I saw your post tagged as funny; I guess I'm the only one who didn't get the joke (and I do know the barometer story).
Really? I thought he understood the question. By throwing the shoe, he pushed himself ever so slightly in the other direction. Being on a frictionless surface, he would glide to the edge of the pond opposite of the direction he threw the shoe.
They're great for little hands.
Forgive me, but can you indeed copyright a recipe? I thought you couldn't copyright a fact (e.g. the mix of ingredients), but only the process (mix for 30 seconds, then rest). I mean come on, recipes are ripped off constantly.... I'd like some references please, for my own education.
Sorry, man, but you're wrong. They may make choices you don't agree with, but that does not make them anything less than you. Do you feel the same about teachers, firemen, or policemen, anyone who's not all about the last dollar?
Flash-Block is the only thing that saves this machine, but whether it's a Flash or a Firefox-Flash issue, I'm not sure.
The same could be said about Nixon and breaking into the Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate; surely he couldn't have been worried that McGovern might actually win the election. People in power don't think in those terms.
Well sure, now that the Library of Congress is involved, I'll let them be my backup.
I remember a similar situation with Virginia's scratch-off lottery tickets: a fixed number of tickets are printed with winning numbers, and once those prizes are all claimed, the Lottery Agency is supposed to pull the remaining tickets since they're all losers. But of course, they don't.
What part of the story of the family in a decrepit Lexus with worn-out brakes doing acceleration overtime wasn't true? THAT's what got this Toyota-bashing story started. And even Toyoda himself admitted it - they got greedy and too big too fast.
Only problem I foresee is that with a 4" telescope, unless there's some kind of tracking mechanism, regardless of what you're looking at, cycling through a bunch of kids will be difficult as the object/detail in question will have moved and the telescope will need to be constantly re-pointed. THAT will be the toughest part in my opinion. You can reduce the problem by paying close attention to the pivoting mechanisms on the telescope (possibly with some dry runs without the kids) so that the one axis points to celestial north and the other along the celestial plane. If you're tracking the moon or Jupiter, then a turn of only one of the knobs (this thing does have a tracking mechanism, right?) will keep it in the scope.
Cue the piling on as I'm sure my description is un-artful and /. is an unforgiving crowd.
Why stop with snippets? How about whole books at a time? It'll amount to a DDoS attack on their servers....
You're fine. Some people always jump at comparisons they beat.
And it seemed that every semester a new batch of students had to learn it.
I can believe it would have taken a long time to write one of those programs. When I was in college back in the late 70's, my first programming class was in Fortran, and one assignment was a simple look-up table to determine how much to charge for a taxi service between different locations using different vehicles. At this time, it was all punch cards, so excluding the start and stop cards, the whole program was about 12 - 15 cards. AFterward, the professor announced that this same program in the COBOL class was a 3-person team effort that generally required 900+ cards; I vowed at that time to never take the class. It was always a sight whenever one of those students would drop their stack of cards all over the computing room floor....
That's usually because that "service" is farmed out - you're paying the third party's fee.
And the author thinks that Apple is going to license anything from Microsoft?
No, it's high-value all right. To them; and once they monopolize the output stream, then it'll become ever more high-value, i.e. expensive.
are therefore permanently stupid. Just ask the wife.
Keep in mind that, in New York, the "New York Supreme Court" is their trial court, and its rulings can be overturned on appeal.
I'll set myself up as a charity, and have the system pull money out of my account, and put into the my other - er, the charity's - account. Now all my spam is blessed.