What if the cluster is used to composite images. The application I'm working on could benefit such a cluster (although I wouldn't be using the sound portion).
I disagree. She was raped. This didn't really count as losing viginity (if every raped girl was considered to have lost her virginity, then there would have been problems marrying them off).
It sounds like there are group systems for the self employed, but I just wanted to note that personal medical coverage is very different than group coverage. If you are healthy, then it's an option, but if you have a preexisting condition within the last 10 years, you won't be covered on it for the next 10 years, whereas with group coverage it only looks 6 months into your medical history and after 1 year you get full coverage. There are other differences (the price for one. Personal is a lot more expensive), but this was a big one for my wife and I since she has breast and thyroid cancer.
Actually the c-net article (didn't read this one) did mention vaction benfits (as in they will pay for you to visit their resort), but it was for the $150,000+/month sellers.
I'm all for making the airlines safe, but I'll be damned if I have to have them shoot a laser at my eye to ride a plane. Do they really have enough long long term studies on this stuff to implement it? I don't want my vision to fail when I'm 60 or 80. Plus, what if the hardware fails.
Yeah yeah, the article says it's an opt in system. But then the next terrorist wave hits and the knee jerks and it becomes law.
IME, struppers in canada will take a "twoney", the two dollar coin. Usually you hold it in your mouth and they'll pick it up with their breasts.
They were probably ignoring the 1s because they A) aren't easy to exchange and B) the real money is in private dances, which someone with American cash wouldn't be able to buy anyway because of point A.
I've been using a little utility called PowerMenu that has, among other features, the ability to force windows into the system tray. Not sure if it will work on spinner directly (some apps don't have the top left menu so you can't access the extra options), but at the very least you can find out the window name from the task list and use a batch file to force it down there.
Another caveat, this app may only work on 2000. I've never tested it on anything else.
Which in my estimation means that the marketing guys aren't doing their jobs.
I'd say that they are doing their job. The people who aren't are the product managers. At one company I was at, there was a product management department between marketing and development. The product manager's role was to take marketing's wants and development's input on the cost of those wants and figure out a plan to get a product. It worked really well at that company while I was there (don't really know now. It's been 5 years), but if the product managers don't have executive backing, then it could turn into the marketing controlled scenario you describe.
Given Microsoft's ability to bulldoze Windows users into upgrading, we may soon have a world in which, for the first time ever, *the dominant Web browser* has good CSS support
Actually, according to the server logs for my wife's animal shelter site, only 38% of the windows users (which are the vast majority, 96%, the rest being Mac and.1% linux) are on IE6. 23% are on 5.0 and 29% on 5.5. When you consider that 16% of the windows users are on XP, you'll get that only 22% have bothered to upgrade. Less will probably go to IE7 in the same amount of time.
Luckily, the applications I work on are deployed in an evironment where we can set what browsers should be used. Also luckily, I feel the IE5.5 feature set is good enough for everything I've wanted to do, DOM and CSS wise.
I think he was refering to speed of rendering or possibly speed to start. I've timed mozilla and it's definitely faster to start (3 seconds click-to-render of my.yahoo.com homepage vs IE's ~10 seconds) and it feels faster than IE in rendering.
It's possible that the javascript doesn't run as fast, but I've never noticed a difference, and my applications use DOM fairly extensively.
It's odd, because I'm the opposite. I switched to Moz on 0.9.9 and really can't stand using IE anymore, but will to test the applications I write. It's not anything idealistic, it's just the little things like time to start, which is ultimately why I switched to IE in the first place, and the lack of tabs. The popup/under thing isn't that big of a deal as few sites I go to have them. Also, when working, it's just easier to work in Mozilla than IE. The javascript errors are more sane and the DOM inspector is crucial when your DOM tree is partly generated, where using view source really doesn't help a lot.
I'm doubtful that the majority of healthy people on welfare don't pay for themselves one way or another. It's pretty hard to find official national statistics because individual states oversee their own program but I've seen 2 years average time on welfare and $15000/yr average paid on welfare (actually these are worst case: I really saw was "less than 2 years" and $12000-$15000). This amoutns to $30000 which I believe (although there are no sources for this kind of data), exceeds the average amount a person on welfare pays in taxes in their lifetime.
The reason this is important is because, while it's easy to feel that it's "our" money "they're" spending, it is just as easily their money. Some people lean on different governmental programs more than others.
Of course there are problem cases. These are either there because of a failure in protocol or a failure in implementation of protocol. But to say that non-working poor are turning us into tax slaves ignores both the fact that the vast majority of todays non-working poor will be tax payers tomorrow and the fact that the non-working poor can't really do this to us: they don't set policy except with the minority vote that most of them don't understand how to use anyway.
And even if they were able to affect the policy, the fact is that less than 1% of taxes go towards the entire welfare system. That includes all forms of welfare, including sheltering and medicaid as well as TANF and other personal subsidies. <1% is hardly a dent in the budget and doesn't really amount to making us tax slaves. Even if it were true that all the people on welfare are lazy "gimme gimme" bums that never return anything, to say they are subjugating us is an exaggeration of the actual costs.
My wife and I have noticed the change over time at our local Costco. Basically 2 years ago, the DVDs had half a table. That grew to a whole table and then to 2 tables, leaving only 1 table for VHS. I wouldn't be surprised if in another 2 years there was no VHS table at all.
However we did have to wait until they added the patch into openssh, compiled it, built the package, ran tests on it, and added some extra time to release in there (I remember the Gentoo people rubbing this fact in our face at the time:).
Still, I prefer Debian. If I want to build from source, then I'll install a source package instead of the binary package. If the package maintainers are too slow to patch what I have on a critical system, then I'll patch it myself. There are just too many times I'll pull a package because I want to use it immediately for what I'm doing, as well as too many times that I pull a pacakge and realize it's not what I want, to build everything from source.
Probably because people would be really pissed if they couldn't timeshift their programs. If I actually had to be sitting there each time Survivor came on, I would have missed at least 3 of them. In a show like that, missing one or two will put you off the rest of the season. Even more episodic shows like Law and Order probably have such a number, although it's probably in the 20's or 30's.
My take on the queen election is that there are people of a liniage that can be elected Queen. These would be princesses and Leia would be one because she is decended from Amedala. So you have these princesses, but rather than using a "first child always rules" system, the princess is elected as the ruler for a short term.
As far as a senator being appointed, that's not that alien to Canadians.
This is simple. If you didn't agree to the EULA, then you don't have the right to copy the program into RAM in order to run it. Thus, running the program violates copyright law.
As a person who went to university at 16 (when the norm in Ontario was 19 because of OAC), I can honestly say that I don't regret it and didn't experience this lack of social life that you speak of. As far as being in your sexual prime, university does take ~4 years minimum (I took 6 years since I was in co-op and took a double major), so males will peak while they are there. In addition, it really was easier for me to make friends and find romantic interests in university. When I was 14 I had an 18 year old girlfriend that I couldn't relate to because she just wasn't into intellectual endevours. The 3 long term relationships I had in university were with more mature (yet still young-at-heart, well, the 1st and 3rd were still young-at-heart), intellectual women who I could bond with more, the last of which I married and am still married to. In university, I had a large group of friends (one Thanksgiving get together I threw drew 26 people and a large portion of the people I knew were at home for the holidays). Contrast this to the 3 friends I had in grade 7, and maybe 7 I had in OAC.
Still, there are people like myself that stick will IE5.5 because it's the standard for the applications they are working on. You can't install two versions of IE, so I can't just quickly use one and then use another for surfing.
Of course, I use mozilla for the majority of my surfing, but I'll check pages that don't work in IE (9 times out of 10 they don't work there either), and I could be gamed into seeing a page that doesn't work, switching over to IE, and then being sent by javascript (which detects my browser) to a gopher exploit.
I have done this and you don't get the same end as installing IE4 and then IE5. Most notably, you don't get active desktop and the quicklaunch stuff on the start bar. Because of this, when I went from IE3->5 on NT4, I had to uninstall IE, then do 4 then do 5, because I really like the quicklaunch stuff (I can make different sets of icons for different projects and turn them on or off at will).
If you did 5 on 98 or above, you would already have all that stuff, though.
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What if the cluster is used to composite images. The application I'm working on could benefit such a cluster (although I wouldn't be using the sound portion).
Buying the company means buying the debt. $1 is probably too much. When they BK, the creditors will get a small percentage of it's worth.
I disagree. She was raped. This didn't really count as losing viginity (if every raped girl was considered to have lost her virginity, then there would have been problems marrying them off).
It sounds like there are group systems for the self employed, but I just wanted to note that personal medical coverage is very different than group coverage. If you are healthy, then it's an option, but if you have a preexisting condition within the last 10 years, you won't be covered on it for the next 10 years, whereas with group coverage it only looks 6 months into your medical history and after 1 year you get full coverage. There are other differences (the price for one. Personal is a lot more expensive), but this was a big one for my wife and I since she has breast and thyroid cancer.
Actually the c-net article (didn't read this one) did mention vaction benfits (as in they will pay for you to visit their resort), but it was for the $150,000+/month sellers.
Don't know about them sellign timeshares, however
It had better be a perfect copy. Some people are probably going to use these for data CDs
I'm all for making the airlines safe, but I'll be damned if I have to have them shoot a laser at my eye to ride a plane. Do they really have enough long long term studies on this stuff to implement it? I don't want my vision to fail when I'm 60 or 80. Plus, what if the hardware fails.
Yeah yeah, the article says it's an opt in system. But then the next terrorist wave hits and the knee jerks and it becomes law.
IME, struppers in canada will take a "twoney", the two dollar coin. Usually you hold it in your mouth and they'll pick it up with their breasts.
They were probably ignoring the 1s because they A) aren't easy to exchange and B) the real money is in private dances, which someone with American cash wouldn't be able to buy anyway because of point A.
I've been using a little utility called PowerMenu that has, among other features, the ability to force windows into the system tray. Not sure if it will work on spinner directly (some apps don't have the top left menu so you can't access the extra options), but at the very least you can find out the window name from the task list and use a batch file to force it down there.
Another caveat, this app may only work on 2000. I've never tested it on anything else.
We believed you meant what you said. It's just that you're wrong.
More like "Windows: every now and then you pay for what you got"
Which in my estimation means that the marketing guys aren't doing their jobs.
I'd say that they are doing their job. The people who aren't are the product managers. At one company I was at, there was a product management department between marketing and development. The product manager's role was to take marketing's wants and development's input on the cost of those wants and figure out a plan to get a product. It worked really well at that company while I was there (don't really know now. It's been 5 years), but if the product managers don't have executive backing, then it could turn into the marketing controlled scenario you describe.
Given Microsoft's ability to bulldoze Windows users into upgrading, we may soon have a world in which, for the first time ever, *the dominant Web browser* has good CSS support
.1% linux) are on IE6. 23% are on 5.0 and 29% on 5.5. When you consider that 16% of the windows users are on XP, you'll get that only 22% have bothered to upgrade. Less will probably go to IE7 in the same amount of time.
Actually, according to the server logs for my wife's animal shelter site, only 38% of the windows users (which are the vast majority, 96%, the rest being Mac and
Luckily, the applications I work on are deployed in an evironment where we can set what browsers should be used. Also luckily, I feel the IE5.5 feature set is good enough for everything I've wanted to do, DOM and CSS wise.
I think he was refering to speed of rendering or possibly speed to start. I've timed mozilla and it's definitely faster to start (3 seconds click-to-render of my.yahoo.com homepage vs IE's ~10 seconds) and it feels faster than IE in rendering.
It's possible that the javascript doesn't run as fast, but I've never noticed a difference, and my applications use DOM fairly extensively.
It's odd, because I'm the opposite. I switched to Moz on 0.9.9 and really can't stand using IE anymore, but will to test the applications I write. It's not anything idealistic, it's just the little things like time to start, which is ultimately why I switched to IE in the first place, and the lack of tabs. The popup/under thing isn't that big of a deal as few sites I go to have them. Also, when working, it's just easier to work in Mozilla than IE. The javascript errors are more sane and the DOM inspector is crucial when your DOM tree is partly generated, where using view source really doesn't help a lot.
As with all things, YMMV
I'm doubtful that the majority of healthy people on welfare don't pay for themselves one way or another. It's pretty hard to find official national statistics because individual states oversee their own program but I've seen 2 years average time on welfare and $15000/yr average paid on welfare (actually these are worst case: I really saw was "less than 2 years" and $12000-$15000). This amoutns to $30000 which I believe (although there are no sources for this kind of data), exceeds the average amount a person on welfare pays in taxes in their lifetime.
The reason this is important is because, while it's easy to feel that it's "our" money "they're" spending, it is just as easily their money. Some people lean on different governmental programs more than others.
Of course there are problem cases. These are either there because of a failure in protocol or a failure in implementation of protocol. But to say that non-working poor are turning us into tax slaves ignores both the fact that the vast majority of todays non-working poor will be tax payers tomorrow and the fact that the non-working poor can't really do this to us: they don't set policy except with the minority vote that most of them don't understand how to use anyway.
And even if they were able to affect the policy, the fact is that less than 1% of taxes go towards the entire welfare system. That includes all forms of welfare, including sheltering and medicaid as well as TANF and other personal subsidies. <1% is hardly a dent in the budget and doesn't really amount to making us tax slaves. Even if it were true that all the people on welfare are lazy "gimme gimme" bums that never return anything, to say they are subjugating us is an exaggeration of the actual costs.
My wife and I have noticed the change over time at our local Costco. Basically 2 years ago, the DVDs had half a table. That grew to a whole table and then to 2 tables, leaving only 1 table for VHS. I wouldn't be surprised if in another 2 years there was no VHS table at all.
However we did have to wait until they added the patch into openssh, compiled it, built the package, ran tests on it, and added some extra time to release in there (I remember the Gentoo people rubbing this fact in our face at the time :).
Still, I prefer Debian. If I want to build from source, then I'll install a source package instead of the binary package. If the package maintainers are too slow to patch what I have on a critical system, then I'll patch it myself. There are just too many times I'll pull a package because I want to use it immediately for what I'm doing, as well as too many times that I pull a pacakge and realize it's not what I want, to build everything from source.
It's not a performance hit if you can't play it on the SCSI drive.
Probably because people would be really pissed if they couldn't timeshift their programs. If I actually had to be sitting there each time Survivor came on, I would have missed at least 3 of them. In a show like that, missing one or two will put you off the rest of the season. Even more episodic shows like Law and Order probably have such a number, although it's probably in the 20's or 30's.
Perhaps they are limited by the physics of the light saber. After a certain length the beam collapses.
Or maybe it's just a movie
My take on the queen election is that there are people of a liniage that can be elected Queen. These would be princesses and Leia would be one because she is decended from Amedala. So you have these princesses, but rather than using a "first child always rules" system, the princess is elected as the ruler for a short term.
As far as a senator being appointed, that's not that alien to Canadians.
This is simple. If you didn't agree to the EULA, then you don't have the right to copy the program into RAM in order to run it. Thus, running the program violates copyright law.
You can't win.
As a person who went to university at 16 (when the norm in Ontario was 19 because of OAC), I can honestly say that I don't regret it and didn't experience this lack of social life that you speak of. As far as being in your sexual prime, university does take ~4 years minimum (I took 6 years since I was in co-op and took a double major), so males will peak while they are there. In addition, it really was easier for me to make friends and find romantic interests in university. When I was 14 I had an 18 year old girlfriend that I couldn't relate to because she just wasn't into intellectual endevours. The 3 long term relationships I had in university were with more mature (yet still young-at-heart, well, the 1st and 3rd were still young-at-heart), intellectual women who I could bond with more, the last of which I married and am still married to. In university, I had a large group of friends (one Thanksgiving get together I threw drew 26 people and a large portion of the people I knew were at home for the holidays). Contrast this to the 3 friends I had in grade 7, and maybe 7 I had in OAC.
So, no, I can't say I regret it.
Still, there are people like myself that stick will IE5.5 because it's the standard for the applications they are working on. You can't install two versions of IE, so I can't just quickly use one and then use another for surfing.
Of course, I use mozilla for the majority of my surfing, but I'll check pages that don't work in IE (9 times out of 10 they don't work there either), and I could be gamed into seeing a page that doesn't work, switching over to IE, and then being sent by javascript (which detects my browser) to a gopher exploit.
I have done this and you don't get the same end as installing IE4 and then IE5. Most notably, you don't get active desktop and the quicklaunch stuff on the start bar. Because of this, when I went from IE3->5 on NT4, I had to uninstall IE, then do 4 then do 5, because I really like the quicklaunch stuff (I can make different sets of icons for different projects and turn them on or off at will).
If you did 5 on 98 or above, you would already have all that stuff, though.