Any good pair of binoculars will have three adjustments - you can bend the hinge to adjust IPD, you can adjust focus, plus a diopter on one eyepiece (to adjust for your eyes focusing at different distances). But binoculars don't rest on your nose. If you broke your nose as a kid the goggles may not line up correctly. Since they expect you to wear your own glasses we could drop the focus and diopter, but that still leaves at least 3 adjustments.
Opera Presto (which is to say, versions 7 through 12) had this years ago, though the early versions didn't handle dynamic pages well. It was one of their stronger features, and when they did change it most people wanted the option to put it back the way it was. It doesn't do anything for javascript/HTML benchmarks as it only deals with pages you've seen before, but it helps immensely on workflow.
Best example, you do a search and get a results page, then have to look at the pages in the results to see if they are what you're looking for. So you load one page, then go back to the results page, then load the next,,, until you (hopefully) find what you want. With this RAM cache (as Opera called it), returning to the results page is as fast as if you'd just switched tabs, so you don't need to open the links in new tabs (and thus don't use as much memory and CPU).
We used to have a 4 hour tape loop that they used for 3 months at a time. It took a couple of weeks, but you did get tired of hearing the same songs in the same order every day.
Given that a simple old ipod shuffle could hold a couple of days worth of music and change things up automatically, why would any business use a tape loop these days?
Last I heard, there was no filter that could tell if a random file on some upload site was porn. So,,, ban access to all upload sites? Ban the Tor browser (if that still exists) since you couldn't tell what it was accessing? Ban reddit since it has included some porn? (though last I heard they were trying to crack down on it)
Even with some sort of AI, I don't see how it could work.
Google has no plans for Android as a desktop OS - that is what ChromeOS is for. But Samsung or Lenovo - two vendors that have modified versions of Android on their products - might have their own ideas. Lenovo has a version that let's you run apps in windows rather than full-screen, has a task-based, and the Yogabook that I'm running it on comes with 64 gb storage (expandable by adding a micro SD card) and an attached keyboard, trackpad, and pen input. That's as good as a Win 7 laptop I used to have.
I recall articles here that Google is working on a new OS, so of course they are not planning Android as a desktop OS. But it seems to be happening anyway.
By his logic... my very first computer was an RCA VIP, it came with a whopping 2K of RAM. That's a measly 16384 bits - not counting internal registers, flags, etc.So to actually model all the possible internal states of just the RAM is 2^16384 which is roughly 10^500. I'm sure you know how the rest of the argument goes.
A thousand qubits is simply 1000 mutually interacting particles. You're not trying to represent every possible state (and as the possible states are infinite, you couldn't). His argument is complete nonsense and tells you nothing at all.
An upper bound is (2n-1)(n-1)!... but that's easy to improve on. That particular number can be see as the following (for n = 4):
1234123 (or 2341234 or 3412341 or 4123412) 1243124 1324132 1342134 1423142 1432143
There are 4 different 4-element lists in each row, so that includes all 24 possibilities. But trivially you can overlap them onto each other by at last 1 element (except the last one) so instead of 42 we can reduce it to 37... but that's still not optimal as you could sometimes overlap 2 items.
Let's see... 1234123142312431213421324132143214 for 33
Mind you, a correct answer can't involve (n-2)! if it is going to apply to n = 1, maybe sum(k!, k = 1 to n)?
An obvious lower bound is n! + n - 1 or (in this case) 87178291213
If you're watching only 2 episodes, 2! is not enough, you need at least 3 (either 121 or 212 will do). Basically, you're overlapping n! lists each n episodes long - but the last list has to add the other n - 1 episodes to get a full list.
In all the small cases that I've tried this lower bound is the actual minimum number needed,,, but that is not a proof.
Anything could replace QWERTY, eventually. I'll probably use it for the rest of my life, but anything you get familiar with would do.
However, let me make a practical suggestion - the manual alphabet from sign language. Gear used for VR can already detect hand positions, or rig up some sort of sensor glove for input. Okay, even for those already trained it isn't as fast as the fastest touch-typist - but then again I'm not as fast on a real keyboard as a touch typist either so perhaps that is meaningless. And the manual alphabet is a useful skill regardless.
If antimatter falls up, then matter would not dominate - rather, antimatter and matter would be segregated. Each galaxy (or perhaps cluster) would have one or the other dominate, in the sense that antimatter should be attracted to other antimatter. Though you ought to be able to tell if some galaxies/clusters are repelled by others and therefore already know this answer.
My money would be on "down", as "up" would also violate the equivalence between gravitational and inertial mass. Unless you're going to say antimatter repels other antimater. Hmm - that would mean antimatter never forms (anti-)stars and thus make it a candidate for "dark matter". That might have some merit after all...
Excuse me, but polarization is not an either/or phenomenon. Thus in principle A and B can be applied in both orders.
In classical physics (beams of light), some of the light follows one path while the rest follows the other. In quantum physics (single photons) you have superpositions so that a single photon follows both paths - so in either theory the two events happen in both orders.
On the one hand, I'm sort of glad to see Opera getting in early. Old Opera actually had a built-in torrent client without some of the downsides of many external torrent clients (which is, some of them would share other files on your computer without asking, thus potentially leading to unintended copyright violation). Not available in the current version, though.
New Opera is not a bad browser, and despite the misquoted fine print it doesn't share your information. But I don't accept it when other software wants to install Chrome or Firefox, so I don't like this bundling either. And I recall some negative stories about Ad-Aware (I always hyphenate it to avoid confusion with Ada-ware, which actually owns the "Adaware" name), which makes this more unfortunate.
The Casio fx-991EX is normally $20, but is currently $15 (back to school special). It has normal, binomial and Poisson distributions (sorry, don't see T or chi square). Okay, no graphing and no programming, but it does matrices, statistics, etc.
Face it, computer memory is cheap. You could fit one of the old CRC handbooks (that was Chemical Rubber Company, not any other CRC) on even a small micro-SD card and have room left over for an encyclopedia, the complete works of Shakespeare, a detailed atlas and pretty much every other reference book you care to name. I'm old enough to have taken my high school classes without calculators (okay, I owned one, but we weren't allowed to use them on tests), lived through the debates whether calculators were "dumbing down" students, and then to teach classes that required graphing calculators.
Okay, CRC publishing may be upset that their handbooks are no longer required. I personally am glad people don't have to lug them around. (Though for some reason we still see backpacks everywhere - maybe soon though...)
if most people flushed the toilet or urinal and tried to wash their hands in the store. Truth is, many of them just come in, do their business and leave - no flush, no washing. Then there's those that do flush but don't wash.
I'm familiar with the discussion about over-washing. Many of those germs are actually good for you. But come on, what's worse than an unsanitary public restroom?
I remember this was a big deal - what, 10 years ago. Various desktop browsers implemented features to make the real URL of websites more obvious and then a variety of TLDs were certified as not allowing such domain name spoofing. Everything old is new again, huh?
I notice that the graphic at the top of the article includes 5 browsers, but only 4 are actually mentioned in the article - while Opera is in the graphic it is never mentioned in the article. (I was actually using FF for Android when I read the article.) Given that Opera focuses a lot on the exact features he discusses (speed, security, privacy, battery life) that seems a bit cheap.
First thought that comes to mind is the "idiot box". Though come to think of it there were lots of things we did in school that aren't covered today, so I can't rule that out.
I don't know about you, but if I get a call from an automated system I just hang up. If the call starts off immediately by saying it is automated I'm sure that is what will happen. The first thing that has to happen is to indicate to the recipient what the call is about; after that they can say (especially if there is a response the system doesn't understand) that they are a machine.
We had a large maple in the front yard, but the roots were getting into the sewer line and we had to take it down. The other trees are still fine, but still it is a net loss.
"There would be 233,280,000 great circles to consider to find the global optimum, and each great circle would have 21,600 individual points to process -- a staggering 5,038,848,000,000 points to verify,"
Yeah, right. Technically there are an infinite number of great circles and of points. Though I suppose to the nearest minute of angle is probably going to get you close (360x60 = 21600, hence that appears to be their unit of measure).
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And people wonder why I still use a "dumb" phone. My cellular provider may know where I am, but Google doesn't.
Any good pair of binoculars will have three adjustments - you can bend the hinge to adjust IPD, you can adjust focus, plus a diopter on one eyepiece (to adjust for your eyes focusing at different distances). But binoculars don't rest on your nose. If you broke your nose as a kid the goggles may not line up correctly. Since they expect you to wear your own glasses we could drop the focus and diopter, but that still leaves at least 3 adjustments.
Opera Presto (which is to say, versions 7 through 12) had this years ago, though the early versions didn't handle dynamic pages well. It was one of their stronger features, and when they did change it most people wanted the option to put it back the way it was. It doesn't do anything for javascript/HTML benchmarks as it only deals with pages you've seen before, but it helps immensely on workflow.
,,, until you (hopefully) find what you want. With this RAM cache (as Opera called it), returning to the results page is as fast as if you'd just switched tabs, so you don't need to open the links in new tabs (and thus don't use as much memory and CPU).
Best example, you do a search and get a results page, then have to look at the pages in the results to see if they are what you're looking for. So you load one page, then go back to the results page, then load the next
We used to have a 4 hour tape loop that they used for 3 months at a time. It took a couple of weeks, but you did get tired of hearing the same songs in the same order every day.
Given that a simple old ipod shuffle could hold a couple of days worth of music and change things up automatically, why would any business use a tape loop these days?
Last I heard, there was no filter that could tell if a random file on some upload site was porn. So ,,, ban access to all upload sites? Ban the Tor browser (if that still exists) since you couldn't tell what it was accessing? Ban reddit since it has included some porn? (though last I heard they were trying to crack down on it)
Even with some sort of AI, I don't see how it could work.
Too bad it still has auto-correct. That should be task bar not task-based, and lets instead of let's.
Google has no plans for Android as a desktop OS - that is what ChromeOS is for. But Samsung or Lenovo - two vendors that have modified versions of Android on their products - might have their own ideas. Lenovo has a version that let's you run apps in windows rather than full-screen, has a task-based, and the Yogabook that I'm running it on comes with 64 gb storage (expandable by adding a micro SD card) and an attached keyboard, trackpad, and pen input. That's as good as a Win 7 laptop I used to have.
I recall articles here that Google is working on a new OS, so of course they are not planning Android as a desktop OS. But it seems to be happening anyway.
By his logic... my very first computer was an RCA VIP, it came with a whopping 2K of RAM. That's a measly 16384 bits - not counting internal registers, flags, etc.So to actually model all the possible internal states of just the RAM is 2^16384 which is roughly 10^500. I'm sure you know how the rest of the argument goes.
A thousand qubits is simply 1000 mutually interacting particles. You're not trying to represent every possible state (and as the possible states are infinite, you couldn't). His argument is complete nonsense and tells you nothing at all.
I was coming up with this issue today.
... but that's easy to improve on. That particular number can be see as the following (for n = 4):
... but that's still not optimal as you could sometimes overlap 2 items.
An upper bound is (2n-1)(n-1)!
1234123 (or 2341234 or 3412341 or 4123412)
1243124
1324132
1342134
1423142
1432143
There are 4 different 4-element lists in each row, so that includes all 24 possibilities. But trivially you can overlap them onto each other by at last 1 element (except the last one) so instead of 42 we can reduce it to 37
Let's see... 1234123142312431213421324132143214 for 33
Mind you, a correct answer can't involve (n-2)! if it is going to apply to n = 1, maybe sum(k!, k = 1 to n)?
An obvious lower bound is n! + n - 1 or (in this case) 87178291213
,,, but that is not a proof.
If you're watching only 2 episodes, 2! is not enough, you need at least 3 (either 121 or 212 will do). Basically, you're overlapping n! lists each n episodes long - but the last list has to add the other n - 1 episodes to get a full list.
In all the small cases that I've tried this lower bound is the actual minimum number needed
Anything could replace QWERTY, eventually. I'll probably use it for the rest of my life, but anything you get familiar with would do.
However, let me make a practical suggestion - the manual alphabet from sign language. Gear used for VR can already detect hand positions, or rig up some sort of sensor glove for input. Okay, even for those already trained it isn't as fast as the fastest touch-typist - but then again I'm not as fast on a real keyboard as a touch typist either so perhaps that is meaningless. And the manual alphabet is a useful skill regardless.
If antimatter falls up, then matter would not dominate - rather, antimatter and matter would be segregated. Each galaxy (or perhaps cluster) would have one or the other dominate, in the sense that antimatter should be attracted to other antimatter. Though you ought to be able to tell if some galaxies/clusters are repelled by others and therefore already know this answer.
My money would be on "down", as "up" would also violate the equivalence between gravitational and inertial mass. Unless you're going to say antimatter repels other antimater. Hmm - that would mean antimatter never forms (anti-)stars and thus make it a candidate for "dark matter". That might have some merit after all...
Excuse me, but polarization is not an either/or phenomenon. Thus in principle A and B can be applied in both orders.
In classical physics (beams of light), some of the light follows one path while the rest follows the other. In quantum physics (single photons) you have superpositions so that a single photon follows both paths - so in either theory the two events happen in both orders.
On the one hand, I'm sort of glad to see Opera getting in early. Old Opera actually had a built-in torrent client without some of the downsides of many external torrent clients (which is, some of them would share other files on your computer without asking, thus potentially leading to unintended copyright violation). Not available in the current version, though.
New Opera is not a bad browser, and despite the misquoted fine print it doesn't share your information. But I don't accept it when other software wants to install Chrome or Firefox, so I don't like this bundling either. And I recall some negative stories about Ad-Aware (I always hyphenate it to avoid confusion with Ada-ware, which actually owns the "Adaware" name), which makes this more unfortunate.
The Casio fx-991EX is normally $20, but is currently $15 (back to school special). It has normal, binomial and Poisson distributions (sorry, don't see T or chi square). Okay, no graphing and no programming, but it does matrices, statistics, etc.
Face it, computer memory is cheap. You could fit one of the old CRC handbooks (that was Chemical Rubber Company, not any other CRC) on even a small micro-SD card and have room left over for an encyclopedia, the complete works of Shakespeare, a detailed atlas and pretty much every other reference book you care to name. I'm old enough to have taken my high school classes without calculators (okay, I owned one, but we weren't allowed to use them on tests), lived through the debates whether calculators were "dumbing down" students, and then to teach classes that required graphing calculators.
Okay, CRC publishing may be upset that their handbooks are no longer required. I personally am glad people don't have to lug them around. (Though for some reason we still see backpacks everywhere - maybe soon though...)
Post says SuSE is used by banks, etc., but many companies also use it. I know the servers at local Wal-marts are using it, for example.
if most people flushed the toilet or urinal and tried to wash their hands in the store. Truth is, many of them just come in, do their business and leave - no flush, no washing. Then there's those that do flush but don't wash.
I'm familiar with the discussion about over-washing. Many of those germs are actually good for you. But come on, what's worse than an unsanitary public restroom?
I remember this was a big deal - what, 10 years ago. Various desktop browsers implemented features to make the real URL of websites more obvious and then a variety of TLDs were certified as not allowing such domain name spoofing. Everything old is new again, huh?
I notice that the graphic at the top of the article includes 5 browsers, but only 4 are actually mentioned in the article - while Opera is in the graphic it is never mentioned in the article. (I was actually using FF for Android when I read the article.) Given that Opera focuses a lot on the exact features he discusses (speed, security, privacy, battery life) that seems a bit cheap.
First thought that comes to mind is the "idiot box". Though come to think of it there were lots of things we did in school that aren't covered today, so I can't rule that out.
I don't know about you, but if I get a call from an automated system I just hang up. If the call starts off immediately by saying it is automated I'm sure that is what will happen. The first thing that has to happen is to indicate to the recipient what the call is about; after that they can say (especially if there is a response the system doesn't understand) that they are a machine.
We had a large maple in the front yard, but the roots were getting into the sewer line and we had to take it down. The other trees are still fine, but still it is a net loss.
"There would be 233,280,000 great circles to consider to find the global optimum, and each great circle would have 21,600 individual points to process -- a staggering 5,038,848,000,000 points to verify,"
Yeah, right. Technically there are an infinite number of great circles and of points. Though I suppose to the nearest minute of angle is probably going to get you close (360x60 = 21600, hence that appears to be their unit of measure).
Was capable of, as I said Presto is gone now. :(
Old Opera (the Presto engine, versions 7-12) had an option to disable this years ago. (Of course years ago, since it is no longer available.)