Re:The best ESATA isn't really ESATA at all.
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5 is not divisible by a power of 2 (duh, its prime)
Interesting way to see if 5 is divisible by 2. I think the same way:
What is 9 times 7? Well, it has to be less than 70 because 9It has to be odd since 9 and 7 are odd.
61 and 67 are prime so they're out.
65 and 69 are square-free and 9 is a perfect square.
So, 7*9 = 63.
(apologies to the actual (and funnier) version that I read but can't quite remember in Symmetry of the Primes)
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I haven't heard of Sentinel or Empire, but Populous is one of the earliest I remember playing. Add to the list Scorched Earth and Deathtrack. I remember getting a 286 and not being able to play Deathtrack because it was too fast:)
So, I just set the phone down and watch tv...picking it up occasionally to say "uh-huh" and throw in an occasional "I understand". That last one goes a LONG way on brownie points, and keeps you from having to listen or care....
In general, taking debt leverage out of the equation, we contend that companies should engage in share repurchases only when they have strong cash flow and when internal projects are insufficient to generate a comparable rate of return.
If you have the viewpoint that MSFT is becoming a utility then the above quote from your S&P article describes them exactly.
As for board members buybacks, Gates has been systematically selling is MSFT stock for a long time.
Also, if a stock buyback raises the stock price, it has tax advantages compared to a dividend.
You make good points and I don't necessarily disagree with you. I am just making some counter points.
I've made the drive from Tucson to Phoenix when it is bumper to bumper the entire way and going the speed limit is physically impossible.
"The entire way" is a massive exaggeration. This is a very sparsely populated 100 mile stretch of highway.
It should be noted that "Marana to Chandler" is not quite the same as "Tucson to Phoenix". Marana is far northern Tucson and Chandler is far southern Phx. Tucson to Phoenix is 114 miles, Marana to Chandler is 74.
By the way, the "parking" I mention is parking in NJ and taking the train across. Don't reply with "please tell me where to park in manhattan for $10 a day".
I take a bus to and from work. It costs $12.80 per day. The car alternative is a 35 mile drive, $10 to park and $3 in PATH train. So save whatever 70 miles in a car costs. Call that 3 gallons of gas = $6. Times 250 days a year = $1500. 17k miles on a car = ?$2000?
I don't pay for parking at the bus stop.
In the 9th century, 500 years before Europeans started arguing whether the world was round, Al-Battani and his ilk calculated the circumference of the Earth at 40,253km. Correct to within 200km!
Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth 1000 years before that. "Recent scholarship finds that since about the 3rd century BC, virtually no educated person in Western civilization has believed in a flat Earth." link.
I am going to build a new PC and am in the market for a card. $100 on the graphics card would give me welcome flexibility on other components. Does anyone know if this can run Nethack at full res? What if you overclock it?
It's just idiotic that the Nation responsible for building the Internets in the first place is so far behind other industrialized nations for using it!
There are a great many forms of investigation that we don't allow in criminal cases, for example, unless there is some justification for the suspicion of guilt. For example, you can't just stop random people on the street and search their belongings for illegal items.
What I meant was "do all acts of investigation assume guilt?" The answer is no. When you get pulled over and the officer runs your license, she isn't implicitly saying "I KNOW you have outstanding warrants!" She is just checking and that isn't a breach of trust. When the instructor runs papers through turnitin, they aren't saying "I KNOW you cheated on this!". He is just checking and that isn't a breach of trust. At least that's how I feel about it.
Certainly trust between student and teacher is important. I don't agree with you that checking (just checking) for dishonesty assumes that the instructor thinks the student is dishonest.
If the instructor reads a paper and thinks "that is very similar to one I got last semester" then it is okay for him to check, do you agree? (this would be the "something about a specific paper calls it into suspicion" part). So the instructors brain can run the diff command. But if the instructor automates the process and checks against a broader audience via Turnitin that destroys trust?
What if the instructor had a local version of Turnitin's DB. The only papers in there are ones past students have turned in. In that case how is an instructor using Turnitin-local different from one with perfect memory and sterling pattern recognition skills?
I don't see how you can even consider the possibility dishonesty without "assuming" it under your strictures. Can you tell me how a paper would be suspicious without the instructor assuming plagiarism in some way?
If you were one of these 100 people, you'd have to pay taxes on the car, right? I wonder if Ford takes care of that. You might want to be a government appointee one day.
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Interesting way to see if 5 is divisible by 2. I think the same way:
(apologies to the actual (and funnier) version that I read but can't quite remember in Symmetry of the Primes)
I haven't heard of Sentinel or Empire, but Populous is one of the earliest I remember playing. Add to the list Scorched Earth and Deathtrack. I remember getting a 286 and not being able to play Deathtrack because it was too fast :)
I really, really thought it was "ULZARD"...
Don't forget "I told you that bitch crazy."
If you have the viewpoint that MSFT is becoming a utility then the above quote from your S&P article describes them exactly.
As for board members buybacks, Gates has been systematically selling is MSFT stock for a long time.
Also, if a stock buyback raises the stock price, it has tax advantages compared to a dividend.
You make good points and I don't necessarily disagree with you. I am just making some counter points.
"The entire way" is a massive exaggeration. This is a very sparsely populated 100 mile stretch of highway.
It should be noted that "Marana to Chandler" is not quite the same as "Tucson to Phoenix". Marana is far northern Tucson and Chandler is far southern Phx. Tucson to Phoenix is 114 miles, Marana to Chandler is 74.
By the way, the "parking" I mention is parking in NJ and taking the train across. Don't reply with "please tell me where to park in manhattan for $10 a day".
I take a bus to and from work. It costs $12.80 per day. The car alternative is a 35 mile drive, $10 to park and $3 in PATH train. So save whatever 70 miles in a car costs. Call that 3 gallons of gas = $6. Times 250 days a year = $1500. 17k miles on a car = ?$2000?
I don't pay for parking at the bus stop.
Matt Groening is one of "these names."
You'd never heard of Matt Groening, yet you post stories on slashdot?
Is that classic enough? Why are you doing this?
Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth 1000 years before that. "Recent scholarship finds that since about the 3rd century BC, virtually no educated person in Western civilization has believed in a flat Earth." link.
I am going to build a new PC and am in the market for a card. $100 on the graphics card would give me welcome flexibility on other components. Does anyone know if this can run Nethack at full res? What if you overclock it?
2.6% The EU's goal is 3%, too.
America also invented the automobile.
What I meant was "do all acts of investigation assume guilt?" The answer is no. When you get pulled over and the officer runs your license, she isn't implicitly saying "I KNOW you have outstanding warrants!" She is just checking and that isn't a breach of trust. When the instructor runs papers through turnitin, they aren't saying "I KNOW you cheated on this!". He is just checking and that isn't a breach of trust. At least that's how I feel about it.
Any info on the battery? ARM cpu could make for some impressive battery life, especially with that tiny screen.
Certainly trust between student and teacher is important. I don't agree with you that checking (just checking) for dishonesty assumes that the instructor thinks the student is dishonest.
If the instructor reads a paper and thinks "that is very similar to one I got last semester" then it is okay for him to check, do you agree? (this would be the "something about a specific paper calls it into suspicion" part). So the instructors brain can run the diff command. But if the instructor automates the process and checks against a broader audience via Turnitin that destroys trust?
What if the instructor had a local version of Turnitin's DB. The only papers in there are ones past students have turned in. In that case how is an instructor using Turnitin-local different from one with perfect memory and sterling pattern recognition skills?
I don't see how you can even consider the possibility dishonesty without "assuming" it under your strictures. Can you tell me how a paper would be suspicious without the instructor assuming plagiarism in some way?
"guilty until proven innocent" is a bit of a stretch. The instructor is (at first) only checking. Does any act of investigation presume guilt?
They have use of the car for 6 months so they have to claim 6 months worth of car. Say $1500 ($250/month * 6)?
If you were one of these 100 people, you'd have to pay taxes on the car, right? I wonder if Ford takes care of that. You might want to be a government appointee one day.
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