Re:I have always wondered...
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Blind Lake
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· Score: 1
First, it would dissipate beyond any possible measure by this point.
If the impact of photons were infinitely divisible then we could just read the disturbances in the waves as they continue to propogate here on earth, no reason to travel anywhere.
Just try figuring out the aperture on a camera located 50 light years away. You'll need a small opening in order to filter out the rest of the universe's light.
Alternately you could put your camera in Utah, which is roughly 40 years behind the rest of the US.
The impetus of going to the moon was to beat the Soviets. While Kennedy may have been instrumental in funding it, the greatest thing he achieved was tacking his name onto it. I'm not even sure if he's so responsible for that so much as all the Kennedy lovers since then still trying to build his legacy.
1 Dimension! You had it good. When I was a kid all we had was a single bit for entire neighborhood. If it was on you won if it was off you lost. None of this fancy schmancy line business for us. Even when our bit was broken and wouldn't turn back on we continued to play and we were thankful!
You are correct that white noise can produce appropriately random numbers.
The problem is that for encryption purposes you may need some huge random numbers. If you want to do that from an analog solution you'll have to take your samples closer and closer together, until the numbers become less random. If you start sampling sound 1 million times a second, any two values next to each other my be really close and actually predictable.
The interviewee avoided the issue of why lobbyists spend billions of dollars not buying votes. If they were merely educating the politicians, it could be done for a lot less.
Unless the politicians intentionally ignore this education until the dollar amount passes a certain threshhold at which time they learn the issue, change their vote...oh wait.
Interactive, interpreted and native all coexist together. You can redeine functions on the fly. Its like having the full access of a good debugger and getting to use it on live code.
It can be made to be database savvy. As an example, some code I wrote just the other day:
the tran function wasn't part of the language. I added that in 6 lines of code. Just try adding something like that to Java so that it looks like: tran {
withdraw();
deposit(); }
Lisp is not dead yet, its still out there making a quiet few very happy.
I've heard a few messages beyond SMS on my wife's phone. I didn't get what was being sent and there was no corresponding message left on the phone. Its only happened 2-3 times and each time the phone has been in the bottom of her purse, across the room and by the time I finally get to it I hear a couple letters, just enough to be sure its morse code.
She still insists it was him though and I believe brought a civil suit against him.
Re:Misconception
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Head First Java
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· Score: 2, Informative
If you people would actually read the review its quite clear that he had outgrown JavaScript and was moving on to Java (Java being a bigger hammer than JavaScript).
He also never staid that JavaScript has not object system, just that he's never done much with objects. Thus he needed a good basis in how to programm OO, something you don't have to have to use JavaScript.
What I wrote was mostly as a warning to people that may have valuable stock options and not realize when they may incur a tax burden. If they are just an employee that has never invested in options before I would strongly advise getting out of their position and consolidate their gains rather than attempt to build a hedge against future markets.
If you can realize large gains and move your money to a simpler portfolio that you are more knowledgeable about (regular mutual fund for instance) then that's a good move by me. Especially if your single holdings with their complicated tax liabilities represent a substantial percentage of your assets.
Sun on the other hand can incur the tax burden and offset the "gains" of exercising those options against other losses in their holdings. You likely don't have $2 mil in losses to balance those gains against.
My advice is: 1. Keep 80-90% of your holding in a place you understand well. 2. Don't invest too heavily in your own company unless you have a corresponding amount of control over it. 3. Don't accept infinite risk on any investment. My further investment rule is to not accept any risk over 100% (plus commissions). 4. Follow the above rules and invest agressively with 10% of your money in areas you think you want to learn about. There is no quicker way to learn than when the consequences are real. Chalk the losses here up to education, it will be worth it in the end with the rest of your assets.
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First, it would dissipate beyond any possible measure by this point.
If the impact of photons were infinitely divisible then we could just read the disturbances in the waves as they continue to propogate here on earth, no reason to travel anywhere.
Just try figuring out the aperture on a camera located 50 light years away. You'll need a small opening in order to filter out the rest of the universe's light.
Alternately you could put your camera in Utah, which is roughly 40 years behind the rest of the US.
The impetus of going to the moon was to beat the Soviets. While Kennedy may have been instrumental in funding it, the greatest thing he achieved was tacking his name onto it. I'm not even sure if he's so responsible for that so much as all the Kennedy lovers since then still trying to build his legacy.
I'm pretty sure the only past employment status that is protected is veteran status.
I'm sure you could find this out by going to your break room and looking it up on the posters that actually describe what's protected.
False prophet!
Any real emacs user doesn't use a graphics card. They use software acceleration in emacs of course.
Nothing's happening in Texas so long as the Democratic members of the state senate are hiding out of country. I think they're currently in New Mexico.
Yea, you'll want to avoid the traffic circles if you can.
There is also no ambient music in space.
1 Dimension! You had it good. When I was a kid all we had was a single bit for entire neighborhood. If it was on you won if it was off you lost. None of this fancy schmancy line business for us. Even when our bit was broken and wouldn't turn back on we continued to play and we were thankful!
In my experience for the regular use it comes down to money.
The corporate standard is 1.7GHz machine with 256M of ram and a 17" CRT (not even flat screen).
Price out that computer and let me know which Apple I can get for that.
And they'd come in different flavors like blueberry, tangerine, lime and graphite.
Next they'll tell me I can't take my Europa vacation.
You are correct that white noise can produce appropriately random numbers.
The problem is that for encryption purposes you may need some huge random numbers. If you want to do that from an analog solution you'll have to take your samples closer and closer together, until the numbers become less random. If you start sampling sound 1 million times a second, any two values next to each other my be really close and actually predictable.
There have been no repeat offenders among those that have been put to death.
The interviewee avoided the issue of why lobbyists spend billions of dollars not buying votes. If they were merely educating the politicians, it could be done for a lot less.
Unless the politicians intentionally ignore this education until the dollar amount passes a certain threshhold at which time they learn the issue, change their vote...oh wait.
The language you are looking for is Common Lisp.
Interactive, interpreted and native all coexist together. You can redeine functions on the fly. Its like having the full access of a good debugger and getting to use it on live code.
It can be made to be database savvy. As an example, some code I wrote just the other day:
(tran
(withdraw from-account amount)
(deposit to-account amount))
the tran function wasn't part of the language. I added that in 6 lines of code. Just try adding something like that to Java so that it looks like:
tran {
withdraw();
deposit();
}
Lisp is not dead yet, its still out there making a quiet few very happy.
Thank you for filling it in for me. I couldn't quite remember the words and I've lost the cd.
For those of you that don't recognize it, this is a reference to Arlo Guthrie's "Thanksgiving Day Masacre" ("Alice's Restaurant").
The thought of 50 people singing the free software song defies my imagination and gives me the creeps.
And if three people do it...
Can you imagine if three people do it?
And if three people do it they'll think you're a part of movement...
I've heard a few messages beyond SMS on my wife's phone. I didn't get what was being sent and there was no corresponding message left on the phone. Its only happened 2-3 times and each time the phone has been in the bottom of her purse, across the room and by the time I finally get to it I hear a couple letters, just enough to be sure its morse code.
You could argue it fits well with Darwinism. The people that are successful enough to afford IVF will still reproduce.
LISP is only slow and interpreted if your idea of LISP is running it under emacs.
Check out www.franz.com for an IDE that produces fast, native code, including GUI stuff.
I can't speak on how portable the GUI code is, but my other stuff runs just fine on Linux and Windows.
I'll take the syntax that lets me do things no other languages allow...macros anyone?
I would offer that:
40 Profit!
would be even better.
She still insists it was him though and I believe brought a civil suit against him.
If you people would actually read the review its quite clear that he had outgrown JavaScript and was moving on to Java (Java being a bigger hammer than JavaScript).
He also never staid that JavaScript has not object system, just that he's never done much with objects. Thus he needed a good basis in how to programm OO, something you don't have to have to use JavaScript.
I'm a man,
and I can change.
If I have to.
I guess.
You are right.
What I wrote was mostly as a warning to people that may have valuable stock options and not realize when they may incur a tax burden. If they are just an employee that has never invested in options before I would strongly advise getting out of their position and consolidate their gains rather than attempt to build a hedge against future markets.
If you can realize large gains and move your money to a simpler portfolio that you are more knowledgeable about (regular mutual fund for instance) then that's a good move by me. Especially if your single holdings with their complicated tax liabilities represent a substantial percentage of your assets.
Sun on the other hand can incur the tax burden and offset the "gains" of exercising those options against other losses in their holdings. You likely don't have $2 mil in losses to balance those gains against.
My advice is:
1. Keep 80-90% of your holding in a place you understand well.
2. Don't invest too heavily in your own company unless you have a corresponding amount of control over it.
3. Don't accept infinite risk on any investment. My further investment rule is to not accept any risk over 100% (plus commissions).
4. Follow the above rules and invest agressively with 10% of your money in areas you think you want to learn about. There is no quicker way to learn than when the consequences are real. Chalk the losses here up to education, it will be worth it in the end with the rest of your assets.