Comment Re:Geoworks (Score 1) 361
my mistake, i have a pro with 8 hyper-threaded cores.
my mistake, i have a pro with 8 hyper-threaded cores.
reminds me of pre-OS X Macs--on the extremely rare occasions i have to boot OS 9 on bare metal, I'm always amazed by how much more responsive it is, on a single 300MHz core, than Snow Leopard is on 16 3GHz+ cores with more RAM than that box has disk space. (right up to the Type 2 bomb, failed attempt at typing "g finder" into the interrupt box, and four-minute reboot....)
perhaps a couple examples are in order:
tic-tac-toe: solved (on paper, by bright grade-schoolers everywhere)
checkers: weakly solved (from the standard start, assuming perfect play)
yes, ideally bonded to medium-length chains of carbon atoms for stability, ease of transport, etc.
That said, none of these categories explain the use (I was referring to the title) of quotes around "too intrusive". Context clues still indicate to a reader that this is a direct quote, but he did not say it.
someone (either Unknown Lamer or jfruh, i suppose) probably picked it up from newspapers, where it's mostly a libel shield: "Celebrity X 'abusive'" is a much safer headline to print than "Celebrity X abusive". It's supposed to be a quote from a statement referenced in the article, though, so this was definitely not a correct instance of that use.
the annoying thing is it's apparently possible to include a current-user (~/Applications) option in a standard Apple installer package, it's just almost never used. i see it in maybe 10% of the stuff i install....
get back to me when we call in air strikes on the occupy movement
acronym overload, somebody call AAAAAAAAAAA!
most interesting wire recording i've ever heard is tom lehrer's physical revue, the earliest recordings of his material that exist. (the last song, "Any Questions", is particularly brilliant.)
A nation by definition must have territory.
a surprising number of countries recognize the Knights of Malta as sovereign, despite their having lost their last territory over 200 years ago.
There's a reason why they put free speech in the first amendment.
actually it was originally the third. the first two were something about allotting Representatives (technically outstanding, but completely irrelevant now) and the one about congress not being able to vote themselves an instant pay raise (finally ratified in 1992 as the 27th). go read it for yourself: here's the original version.
not strictly true, actually--WORM is a perfectly valid concept in data storage. roughly speaking, i'd say the difference is in whether users are meant to be the ones doing the "write once" part.
well of course you'd use WORMs with fish....
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
