Take all the human knowledge you want to preserve and convert it to binary.
Add a decimal point before the first digit; this gives you a number between 0 and 1.
Make a notch on a metal bar that divides it exactly in that ratio.
And you're done!
Ah, the original babelfish link, http://babelfish.altavista.com./.
Wasn't it originally at babelfish.altavista.digital.com before that?
Darn, I wanted them to go with my idea of upgrading the town's name to Ipv6swich
That's "Ipv6switch" with a T, I think.
Permanently burning is fine. You're allowed to light a candle before the Sabbath and then keep it burning, for example. (As I understand it.)
However, for whatever reason, the Talmudic interpretation has decided that electricity is fire. I'm not sure why, but that is what the orthodox churches teach.
The story I heard is that switching electricity on or off is fire, because flipping the switch may cause a tiny spark.
(Which would explain why you would be allowed to leave your electric oven on - it's the switching process that's not allowed rather than the electricity per se.)
On my computer monitor I need more height!! Please bring back 16:10 for computer monitors! 16:9 is for tv's only.
I still have my 16:12 (aka 4:3) for pretty much this reason.
Who says they even need to claim that so-and-so change fixed it? One time when I looked around Launchpad, a common way I was seeing issues getting closed was someone coming several months later and being like "this was reported for 12.10, can you reproduce it in 13.04?" and then closing it as incomplete when the user who has probably switched to a similar package or another distro at that point no longer cares.
JWZ on this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Near ten years as a software developer with no major medical bills (crossing fingers it continues). Don't remember the exact amount it saves me each paycheck but I think by this point I've covered the high deductible.
That depends on what you did with the money you saved.
Did you put it in the bank (or under your mattress) so that you'll be able to pay the deductible in the unfortunate event you would need it?
Or did you spend it?
Agreed. I pay for both every year!
And now suddenly free Flickr users get - what was it? - 100 terabytes free, removing much of the draw of Flickr Pro (which isn't even sold any more, though you can now buy an "Ad Free" level).
I had also paid for Flickr but this recent change is making me reconsider. (In particular, wondering how long Flickr will still be around.)
The real problem is that kids aren't given the suggestion to look at trades these days, they got the same spiel that we were getting in the 80's and 90's, that going into technology is the way to go. But everyone needs someone to lay and fit pipe, fix their car, and so on.
Unfortunately, to fix someone's car these days, you need to get into technology as well
It used to be that you could fix a car or a television set if you were a reasonable tech.
But now it's all electronic and you basically swap the entire component (logic board, control device, what have you) - and you essentially need the diagnostic equipment from the original manufacturer to plug into the on-board circuit to read out the fault codes.
I beg of you to please strip anything out of Firefox that is not part to the web browsing experience and put it back in as a plugin if you have to. Just focus on being a web browser and having the best plug in interface possible.
The funny thing is, wasn't that what Firefox (or Phoenix, back then) originally set out to do? Strip anything out of the Mozilla browser suite (now Seamonkey, I think?) that is not part of the web browsing experience and allow people to put it back in as a plugin if they want to?
Funny that it turns "f" into "tlh". I would have expected "f" to become "ng" instead and for "tlh" to arise from "x" (the "xifan hol" encoding). Ah well.
Fiat is by definition not real money and instead an abstract controlled (inflated) by the politicians
Can any money be "real"? Isn't money by definition an abstraction that we use because we don't want to keep swapping deer hides for horseshoes?
Another thing that bothers me (a lot) is from people who know absolutely nothing about my professional capability endorsing my professional capability...
I think that's because LinkedIn pushes suggested endorsements into your face when you visit the site, so lots of people probably just click on them "yes, yes, whatever" simply to make them go away.
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.
