Well given that 27 decibels is 13 less than 40 (which is the minimum for talking according to wikipedia), it is a minimum of 20 times quieter. 27 dB is 20 times quieter than 40 dB. How many times did you fail maths?
According to wikipedia, 27dB is actually as loud as a "very calm room", and is a minimum of 20 times quieter than talking. The PS3 weighs in at 24dB at idle, so this box is twice as loud as that (I believe from googling, that source shows the new, smaller process PS3 though this may not be the case).
There is a reason a system based upon actual skill by a player is not implemented in MMOs. The appeal of an MMO stems largely from the fact that the ability to succeed in the games comes from the time and hard work put in, not from the level of natural skill a player possesses. This puts it at odds to almost every other activity we partake in - from real life where the most naturally gifted (and fortunate) succeed, to an fps, where those with a naturally lower reaction time flourish. MMOs, on the other hand, level the playing field - beating the hardest bosses is just a matter of grinding and learning strategies. This approach appeals highly to a world in which perhaps 1% of people are naturally gifted, and the other 99% of the population can toil endlessly without any great success.
Whats your example of this? One of the basic tenants of probability is that P(A v B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A ^ B), P(A ^ B) = P(A) * P(B), P(A v B v (A ^ B)) = P(A) + P(B). Under none of the possible sets of them collectively can you have any value, save a product or sum of 0s. By definition the probability of the set must be zero, or the probabilities of the individuals cannot be 0.
You'd think that after the story yesterday, they would come up with something a little less obvious. The whole premise of the fools joke is to get people to believe it, at least temporarily. How can a paper, who only 24 hours before complained about the lack of funding on the internet, possibly goto an internet only distribution system? I might be getting old, but in my eyes, no april fools joke will ever match up to the seminal BBC prank. Now to stop those damn kids skateboarding on the sidewalk...
"Read on after the jump for more Conficker madness.
In case you haven't guessed it yet, APRIL FOOLS!!! Seriously, if we get any real news about outages, deaths, or disruptions actually caused by Conficker today, you will read it here first."
Sure it doesn't match up to the ones in the previous years, but thats the fall of/. for you. The real story is that all that happened is an update. Almost a disapointment really.
I realise that this is/., and you're discouraged from RTFA, but I think failing to read the first line of the summary is impressive even for here:
"Setting aside the now tired debate about whether KDE or GNOME is the 'better' Linux desktop, Bruce Byfield compares their disparate development approaches and asks, not which desktop is subjectively better, but which developmental approach is likely to be most successful in the next few years."
The point of the article is to discuss whether the design approach of gnome (gradually building and polishing its legacy code) or KDE (a complete rewrite) is more effective in the longterm.
Not technically, but i believe in situations like this, the governor resigns on the understanding that the lieutenant governor gets promoted and then gives the ex-governor the senate seat. So I wouldn't bet against a Senator Palin soon.
I'm sure it'll work fine untill someone strolls past, lifts up the canvas and walks off with the entire rack. Or accidently flicks a cigarrette but at the tent. Or....
How can you get stuck at the top? If its made of carbon fiber its practically unbreakable, and they can use gravity to get them down with a small initial thrust. Just stick drop pods with parachutes and a small booster in the satellite if they're worried about it.
Sorry but your implying that Barrack Obama is a force for change and integrity? The same guy who admonished FISA on civil rights grounds and then proceeded to vote for it, as well as earlier voting to support the PATRIOT act? The candidate who is against the war in Iraq but votes to continue to fund it? Barrack Obama is exactly the same as America has had in government for years, just with a cleaner, cooler image. If you can't trust him to stick to his policies on technology, how can you tell hes going to be better than Mccain?
And on your last point, net neutrality is important. Without a voice for the people, how can we hear about those issues? I mean its not like the ISPs or conventional media have their own agendas or anything...
I'm sorry, because in the act of searching her without reason, we discovered something dubious, its suddenly OK. I guess its OK to warrrantless wiretap and watch emails then because they could involve illegal activity?
More to the point, what would happen if nothing had been found? The difference between your analogy and what actually happened was, filming an event in progress (assuming its in a public space) is not a breach of privacy. This is more like breaking into someones house, with, based on the usual goings on/b/, vandalising the inside of said house, and then happening to come across evidence of misdoing. It might have been there, but that doesn't make what you did right.
The worst bit is based on the your opinions on other issues I quickly browsed, you seem to be willing to throw away your moral standpoint in an instant. You post negatively about border checks of laptops and the Bavarian trojan thing, yet when it happens to this politician its suddenly OK? While I agree that something untoward may have occurred here, if we don't respect the principles of our common law justice system in our most scrutinised cases (corruption in high office), what hope does the man on the street have?
I realise its probably a different size car( i didnt RTFA) but the toyota yaris diesel does over 100 mpg, in 1 1.4l engine. Its not a bad size for a small car either :
"The range of integer values that can be stored in 32 bits is 0 through 4,294,967,295 or 2,147,483,648 through 2,147,483,647 using two's complement encoding. Hence, a processor with 32-bit memory addresses can directly access 4 GB of byte-addressable memory."
Just browsing through quickly, it seems that at least the extreme models ship with 4gb of RAM + video card memory. Assuming they use 32 bit window - due to the better drivers, from what I've seen it benchmarks better than 64 bit, isn't this completly pointless?
As to the amendment needed to stop this, how is the 4th amendment not applicable in this case? Does anyone know on what grounds the supreme court doesnt chuck these laws out? Its not like abortion which hinges on interpretation of the 14th, surely this is clearly set out as illegal?
If we assume that at some point were going to want to use the majority of the moon for something, be it rocket launches, mining, science experiments etc, we probably dont want amount of waste sitting around, either to prevent radioactive contamination, or if we populate the earth, the wrong hands being laid on it. On the other hand, to bury it to a reasonable degree would require a considerable amount of machinery which would be extremly costly to ship to the moon. So in a choice between a radioactive landfill site on what could prove to be useful land or dragging digging machinery to the moon with the reactor, it doesnt seem to me to be particularly easy.
I'm amazed he even went to the effort of posting it here, knowing the reaction it would get.
I'm a little bit shocked about the hypocrisy in his post though. For some reason a "clean cut and friendly" buisiness is allowed to assault a customer that intends to purchase a CD in his store? No wonder his sales have dropped. I expect the fines/prison time he gets if he assaults every pirate that walks into his store probably dont help with the money issue either...
Im a fan of Ubuntu, but if its still running in 2017 in its current format without being replaced at the top, I'd be really worried about the lack of competition in the free software movement.
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Have you watched Primer? Its not a 2009 movie - its 5 years old, but for me its a very good modern sci-fi film.
Well given that 27 decibels is 13 less than 40 (which is the minimum for talking according to wikipedia), it is a minimum of 20 times quieter. 27 dB is 20 times quieter than 40 dB. How many times did you fail maths?
According to wikipedia, 27dB is actually as loud as a "very calm room", and is a minimum of 20 times quieter than talking. The PS3 weighs in at 24dB at idle, so this box is twice as loud as that (I believe from googling, that source shows the new, smaller process PS3 though this may not be the case).
There is a reason a system based upon actual skill by a player is not implemented in MMOs. The appeal of an MMO stems largely from the fact that the ability to succeed in the games comes from the time and hard work put in, not from the level of natural skill a player possesses. This puts it at odds to almost every other activity we partake in - from real life where the most naturally gifted (and fortunate) succeed, to an fps, where those with a naturally lower reaction time flourish. MMOs, on the other hand, level the playing field - beating the hardest bosses is just a matter of grinding and learning strategies. This approach appeals highly to a world in which perhaps 1% of people are naturally gifted, and the other 99% of the population can toil endlessly without any great success.
Where would he have hosted it? Geocities is dead!
Whats your example of this? One of the basic tenants of probability is that P(A v B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A ^ B), P(A ^ B) = P(A) * P(B), P(A v B v (A ^ B)) = P(A) + P(B). Under none of the possible sets of them collectively can you have any value, save a product or sum of 0s. By definition the probability of the set must be zero, or the probabilities of the individuals cannot be 0.
You'd think that after the story yesterday, they would come up with something a little less obvious. The whole premise of the fools joke is to get people to believe it, at least temporarily. How can a paper, who only 24 hours before complained about the lack of funding on the internet, possibly goto an internet only distribution system? I might be getting old, but in my eyes, no april fools joke will ever match up to the seminal BBC prank. Now to stop those damn kids skateboarding on the sidewalk...
Quote from the article:
"Read on after the jump for more Conficker madness.
In case you haven't guessed it yet, APRIL FOOLS!!! Seriously, if we get any real news about outages, deaths, or disruptions actually caused by Conficker today, you will read it here first."
Sure it doesn't match up to the ones in the previous years, but thats the fall of /. for you. The real story is that all that happened is an update. Almost a disapointment really.
I realise that this is /., and you're discouraged from RTFA, but I think failing to read the first line of the summary is impressive even for here:
"Setting aside the now tired debate about whether KDE or GNOME is the 'better' Linux desktop, Bruce Byfield compares their disparate development approaches and asks, not which desktop is subjectively better, but which developmental approach is likely to be most successful in the next few years."
The point of the article is to discuss whether the design approach of gnome (gradually building and polishing its legacy code) or KDE (a complete rewrite) is more effective in the longterm.
Not technically, but i believe in situations like this, the governor resigns on the understanding that the lieutenant governor gets promoted and then gives the ex-governor the senate seat. So I wouldn't bet against a Senator Palin soon.
I'm sure it'll work fine untill someone strolls past, lifts up the canvas and walks off with the entire rack. Or accidently flicks a cigarrette but at the tent. Or....
He's probably laughing his head off - who else is gonna get the contract to lug the thing up there in the first place?
How can you get stuck at the top? If its made of carbon fiber its practically unbreakable, and they can use gravity to get them down with a small initial thrust. Just stick drop pods with parachutes and a small booster in the satellite if they're worried about it.
Well in fairness it has been directly ripped from Britain's oldest-running newspaper. They're not likely to want to include a USD conversion are they?
And on your last point, net neutrality is important. Without a voice for the people, how can we hear about those issues? I mean its not like the ISPs or conventional media have their own agendas or anything...
Thanks for that, it makes sense with the dual channel RAM. I'll think about it before I post next time :P
More to the point, what would happen if nothing had been found? The difference between your analogy and what actually happened was, filming an event in progress (assuming its in a public space) is not a breach of privacy. This is more like breaking into someones house, with, based on the usual goings on /b/, vandalising the inside of said house, and then happening to come across evidence of misdoing. It might have been there, but that doesn't make what you did right.
The worst bit is based on the your opinions on other issues I quickly browsed, you seem to be willing to throw away your moral standpoint in an instant. You post negatively about border checks of laptops and the Bavarian trojan thing, yet when it happens to this politician its suddenly OK? While I agree that something untoward may have occurred here, if we don't respect the principles of our common law justice system in our most scrutinised cases (corruption in high office), what hope does the man on the street have?
I realise its probably a different size car( i didnt RTFA) but the toyota yaris diesel does over 100 mpg, in 1 1.4l engine. Its not a bad size for a small car either :
http://www.toyota-europe.com/cars/new_cars/yaris/fullspecs.aspx
Sorry as an explanation as to why:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32_bit
"The range of integer values that can be stored in 32 bits is 0 through 4,294,967,295 or 2,147,483,648 through 2,147,483,647 using two's complement encoding. Hence, a processor with 32-bit memory addresses can directly access 4 GB of byte-addressable memory."
Just browsing through quickly, it seems that at least the extreme models ship with 4gb of RAM + video card memory. Assuming they use 32 bit window - due to the better drivers, from what I've seen it benchmarks better than 64 bit, isn't this completly pointless?
As to the amendment needed to stop this, how is the 4th amendment not applicable in this case? Does anyone know on what grounds the supreme court doesnt chuck these laws out? Its not like abortion which hinges on interpretation of the 14th, surely this is clearly set out as illegal?
If we assume that at some point were going to want to use the majority of the moon for something, be it rocket launches, mining, science experiments etc, we probably dont want amount of waste sitting around, either to prevent radioactive contamination, or if we populate the earth, the wrong hands being laid on it. On the other hand, to bury it to a reasonable degree would require a considerable amount of machinery which would be extremly costly to ship to the moon. So in a choice between a radioactive landfill site on what could prove to be useful land or dragging digging machinery to the moon with the reactor, it doesnt seem to me to be particularly easy.
I'm amazed he even went to the effort of posting it here, knowing the reaction it would get. I'm a little bit shocked about the hypocrisy in his post though. For some reason a "clean cut and friendly" buisiness is allowed to assault a customer that intends to purchase a CD in his store? No wonder his sales have dropped. I expect the fines/prison time he gets if he assaults every pirate that walks into his store probably dont help with the money issue either...
Try telling that to Gary McKinnon
Im a fan of Ubuntu, but if its still running in 2017 in its current format without being replaced at the top, I'd be really worried about the lack of competition in the free software movement.