It's testing the accuracy of the throwing mechanism, not the ease at which you can aim it. The test shows that once the machine is aimed, it will reliably hit the same spot repeatedly. You wouldn't want a beer throwing machine that sprays the beer in random directions.
Unfortunately Openoffice.org doesn't have the data analysis capabilities that Excel has in the data analysis pack, so I had to install Crossover for Excel XP.
Why? I assume that he's got a permanent IP assigned to his computer, whereas the other person could be some student who plugs their laptop in various places or uses WiFi and gets a different IP each time. Seems reasonable that they can only catch the person with the known IP.
I am looking at Apple wondering when they will get off their asses and start selling MacOS for PC machines
I wouldn't hold your breath. People buy a mac for the operating system more than the hardware. If Apple sold MacOS for any PC, what incentive is there to buy an expensive G5, MacBook or whatever instead of a cheap generic?
What about, say, a pie eating contest? While pies are perfectly safe to eat, if you eat 600 of them you will die. So does that mean that a pie eating contest is dangerous and shouldn't be held, or that a person should know their own limits and stop when they have reached them?
Isn't the total budget for the US around 2 trillion dollars (from gpoaccess.gov which I got from the source you provided)? And doesn't that make 16.8 billion around 0.8% ?
Any kid that wants porn can always get it (put the url in google translator with a bogus language and they can still view.xxx sites), but it might stop a lot of kids accidentally finding porn while looking for something else (assuming that everybody who has a porn site has all of their content at the.xxx address)
A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics
Townsend (I forget the first name and it's not at home with me at the moment)
It's kind of basic, good for a final year textbook, but it's quite digestible and saved my life back in the day...
What if the second garbage ball returns to Earth like the first one did?
Who cares? That won't be for hundreds of years.
Exactly! It's none of our concern.
Question:
Is it people's overuse of the claim "FUD" or the overuse of FUD in slashdot articles that causes me to see the word FUD at least 20 times in three out of four articles?
Chris said that current stats indicate that Firefox usage peaks mid-week, as opposed to the weekends - which he said is the reverse of what it was two years ago when they launched Firefox.
There's been a smoking ban in West Australian pubs for ~1 month now, and it's the greatest thing that's ever happened. Not that I can speak for the majority of the population, but at the least my mates and I go out more often because of it.
Since it's impossible to record the data for each pixel in parallel like conventional cameras do, wouldn't it be impossible to take a picture of anything that's moving?
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It's testing the accuracy of the throwing mechanism, not the ease at which you can aim it. The test shows that once the machine is aimed, it will reliably hit the same spot repeatedly. You wouldn't want a beer throwing machine that sprays the beer in random directions.
Unfortunately Openoffice.org doesn't have the data analysis capabilities that Excel has in the data analysis pack, so I had to install Crossover for Excel XP.
Because it's not plain text?
People who replied to this, he's talking about needing root access
Will there ever be a whole day where there is no story on Slashdot whose tags are "no, yes, apple, microsoft, flamebait"?
Why? I assume that he's got a permanent IP assigned to his computer, whereas the other person could be some student who plugs their laptop in various places or uses WiFi and gets a different IP each time. Seems reasonable that they can only catch the person with the known IP.
Microsoft: Has none of my personal data, because I choose not to give it to them.
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Perhaps it's not just colours, but the whole visual sensation. Perhaps what one person perceives as sight is completely different to another.
12pm is noon. 12am is midnight.
I installed Kubuntu Edgy the day it came out, and I have full intent to do the same with Feisty
I am looking at Apple wondering when they will get off their asses and start selling MacOS for PC machines
I wouldn't hold your breath. People buy a mac for the operating system more than the hardware. If Apple sold MacOS for any PC, what incentive is there to buy an expensive G5, MacBook or whatever instead of a cheap generic?
What about, say, a pie eating contest? While pies are perfectly safe to eat, if you eat 600 of them you will die. So does that mean that a pie eating contest is dangerous and shouldn't be held, or that a person should know their own limits and stop when they have reached them?
NASA's budget is 16.8 billion
Isn't the total budget for the US around 2 trillion dollars (from gpoaccess.gov which I got from the source you provided)? And doesn't that make 16.8 billion around 0.8% ?
Everyone else in the world manages fine with it.
Any kid that wants porn can always get it (put the url in google translator with a bogus language and they can still view .xxx sites), but it might stop a lot of kids accidentally finding porn while looking for something else (assuming that everybody who has a porn site has all of their content at the .xxx address)
I emailed that to myself and spamassassin and bogofilter both marked it as spam with a score of 5.0 (out of 5.0)
I'd be interested to read the paper that these guys produce, to see if SeattlePI knows what they're talking about.
Force a photon to be a particle or a wave What are you talking about?
A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics Townsend (I forget the first name and it's not at home with me at the moment) It's kind of basic, good for a final year textbook, but it's quite digestible and saved my life back in the day...
What if the second garbage ball returns to Earth like the first one did?
Who cares? That won't be for hundreds of years.
Exactly! It's none of our concern.
Question:
Is it people's overuse of the claim "FUD" or the overuse of FUD in slashdot articles that causes me to see the word FUD at least 20 times in three out of four articles?
In either case, FOR GODS SAKE CALM DOWN!
That works until they need to mount their hard drive in order to access any of their work
Chris said that current stats indicate that Firefox usage peaks mid-week, as opposed to the weekends - which he said is the reverse of what it was two years ago when they launched Firefox.
Where do they get these stats?
There's been a smoking ban in West Australian pubs for ~1 month now, and it's the greatest thing that's ever happened. Not that I can speak for the majority of the population, but at the least my mates and I go out more often because of it.
Since it's impossible to record the data for each pixel in parallel like conventional cameras do, wouldn't it be impossible to take a picture of anything that's moving?