Re:But the CoS *does* infiltrate governments.
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The current karma freeze is broken. If you are at >50 karma then you can go down, but not up. Unfortunately a controversial post will generate lots of moderation in both directions - the negative mods will pull you down but the positive mods won't do anything. I've had several +5 posts that caused me to lose karma because there were a couple of overrateds in there. Not a bid deal since I will be above 25 for a while, but still a little annoying.
it overlooks the potential impact on privacy. (Just imagine embedding these tags in your clothes.)
But will these RF tags in my underwear interfere with the microchip that the government implanted in my left buttock? I suggest we all switch to aluminum foil lined underwear to foil (ha!) the governments plans to track our every buttock flex!
the micropocessor shifts electrons around so there is some work being done there, and computation involves decreasing entropy (locally of course) so you need energy to do it. There is a thermodynamic minimum amount of work needed to do computations - read feynman's lectures in computation or something.
Color does indeed have quite an effect on the moods and disposition of its observer. Research by 3M in the 60s showed that the color beige was the most 'productive' color - workers in a beige environment were able to do more work than workers surrounded by other colors. Thus the bland shades of beige that adorn all office equipment up until recently.
Another ground breaking study demonstrated that dark green & grey caused people to 'de-intellectualize'. Their IQs would lower by an average of 10 points, and their reactions would be purely emotional. A group of stanford student volunteers subjected to 5 days in a room colored only dark green & grey reverted to their pure animal instincts, flinging their warm cereal and snack meat lunch against the walls in an attempt from the maddening colors. They acted out against each other until the researchers broke the experiment up on moral grounds. This research lead to the YHBT color model that is gaining favor in psychology today.
Re:X wrapper as a 'plugin' for OSX?
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X doesn't natively have widgets - thus QT and GTK. There could be a wrapper for those libraries, but X just provides basic graphics services. The other stuff you see is dependent on the window manager, which again is built on top of X.
"Time for you people to seriously think about this or soon this will be News for Gooks. Stuff that mutters." I thought that we in America had made at least a little progress away from seeing asians as the "yellow peril" I guess not.
The original poster appears to be from the former Soviet Union, not America. Furthermore it is not clear from the context that 'gook' was meant as a racial epitath. More likely the poster was groping for a generalized derogatory term and didn't realized the racial connotations.
How many parameters are there in the standard model? 18 or something? Mass of the fundamental particles (leptons & quarks), CKM mixing matrix, h-bar, couple of other things.
The idea that the origin of the observerved can depend on the nature of the observer is the Anthropic Principle
A subject near and dear to my heart. I am a salaried employee supporting an e-commerce app. Unfortunately there are only 2 of us on the support team, so we switch off every other week. We get paid 15% over our base salary for being on call all of those hours. The pay is nice, but we have to be near a dial up connection all the time, so no camping, no bars for that week - our service agreement says 15 minute response time. Not really worth it if you ask me.
Theoretically the chip could get better branch prediction or figure out getter ways to translate instructions if it has lots of sample data about how a program runs. Thus a program will get faster the longer you use it. I doubt this information is persistant across different sessions - unless it just optimizes based on overall CPU action rather than a per process basis. I don't really know what I'm talking about by the way.
What's funny is that sega had a video game that did this about 8 years ago. I played it at disney land. Very cheesy game, but same basic tech. Can't remember the name....
Google to the rescue - it was called Hologram Time Traveler.
In structural biology labs it is common to see an SGI machine with 3D glasses. Basically the 3D glasses are LCDs that alternate the transparency for each eye while coordinating it with slightly different on screen images. Much higher resolution than what we have here.
So it's illegal to look at command.com in a hex editor? I think not. It would be illegal to copy significant portions of the code for my own product, but looking and understanding is ok. I could then write a report about it, give the report to another engineer, and he could implement a command.com replacement. This is called clean room reverse engineerng and is how Compaq first produced a PC-BIOS clone.
I do use Linux at home and encourage Solaris usage for the servers at work.
But have you used Solaris/x86? I found it to be extremely slow compared to Linux, though this was just my perception. Both graphically (no CDE for me!) and in any swapping/task switching. I have heard that the great scalability of solaris means lots of kernel locks which just slow down a uniprocessor machine.
...I think most americans would have a blast if they went as long as they didn't take their cultural imperialism with them. (I.e. they shouldn't expect to speak english, or do american things)
That's funny, I know several Europeans in Sillycon Valley complaining because life isn't exactly like it was back in France, or Germany, or wherever;)
Let me rant a bit about how f'ing stupid many IT candidates are. I get their resume in which they claim to be Software Engineers or some such thing. They claim shell programming skills yet have trouble explaining how to list processes on a machine. They claim knowledge of 'Internet Technology' but don't know HTTP from TCP or a router from a NIC. They claim java programming but can't explain pass by reference.
There are plenty of these types out there. The qualified ones get hired extremely quickly. In the bay area hiring someone is like looking for housing.
My European friends believe it rediculous that we have all these ages for driving, voting and drinking. And now add video games to that list.
Germany is even worse for video games(or maybe just more consistent). They just outright ban video games that are too violent or present objectionable imagery. All the ID games come to mind.
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The current karma freeze is broken. If you are at >50 karma then you can go down, but not up. Unfortunately a controversial post will generate lots of moderation in both directions - the negative mods will pull you down but the positive mods won't do anything. I've had several +5 posts that caused me to lose karma because there were a couple of overrateds in there. Not a bid deal since I will be above 25 for a while, but still a little annoying.
it overlooks the potential impact on privacy. (Just imagine embedding these tags in your clothes.)
But will these RF tags in my underwear interfere with the microchip that the government implanted in my left buttock? I suggest we all switch to aluminum foil lined underwear to foil (ha!) the governments plans to track our every buttock flex!
How does a mathematician picture a 4d space? He pictures an n-dimension space, then lets n=4.
God I love math humor.
the micropocessor shifts electrons around so there is some work being done there, and computation involves decreasing entropy (locally of course) so you need energy to do it. There is a thermodynamic minimum amount of work needed to do computations - read feynman's lectures in computation or something.
except everyone would vote for
1) x
2) x
3) x
4) x
where x is one's favored candidate. Might be better if you have 2 choices that must be different.
First +2 Troll!
/.) and ignore this story.
I'm gonna get massacred by the moderators. Hopefully they don't care about anime (like the rest of
Has Linux ever appeared in anime? I bet rob would cream his pants. Especially if it also featured a girl getting raped with a CueCat.
Damn, how do I get the blink tag to work.
Color does indeed have quite an effect on the moods and disposition of its observer. Research by 3M in the 60s showed that the color beige was the most 'productive' color - workers in a beige environment were able to do more work than workers surrounded by other colors. Thus the bland shades of beige that adorn all office equipment up until recently.
Another ground breaking study demonstrated that dark green & grey caused people to 'de-intellectualize'. Their IQs would lower by an average of 10 points, and their reactions would be purely emotional. A group of stanford student volunteers subjected to 5 days in a room colored only dark green & grey reverted to their pure animal instincts, flinging their warm cereal and snack meat lunch against the walls in an attempt from the maddening colors. They acted out against each other until the researchers broke the experiment up on moral grounds. This research lead to the YHBT color model that is gaining favor in psychology today.
X doesn't natively have widgets - thus QT and GTK. There could be a wrapper for those libraries, but X just provides basic graphics services. The other stuff you see is dependent on the window manager, which again is built on top of X.
Is [the moon] made of something less denzse than Silicone and Iron ?
Yes. The density of the Earth varies with radius, being greatest in the iron core. The moon is just a hunk of rock.
"Time for you people to seriously think about this or soon this will be News for Gooks. Stuff that mutters."
I thought that we in America had made at least a little progress away from seeing asians as the "yellow peril" I guess not.
The original poster appears to be from the former Soviet Union, not America. Furthermore it is not clear from the context that 'gook' was meant as a racial epitath. More likely the poster was groping for a generalized derogatory term and didn't realized the racial connotations.
Think before you react.
How many parameters are there in the standard model? 18 or something? Mass of the fundamental particles (leptons & quarks), CKM mixing matrix, h-bar, couple of other things.
The idea that the origin of the observerved can depend on the nature of the observer is the Anthropic Principle
don't forget lisp machines.
A subject near and dear to my heart. I am a salaried employee supporting an e-commerce app. Unfortunately there are only 2 of us on the support team, so we switch off every other week. We get paid 15% over our base salary for being on call all of those hours. The pay is nice, but we have to be near a dial up connection all the time, so no camping, no bars for that week - our service agreement says 15 minute response time. Not really worth it if you ask me.
Theoretically the chip could get better branch prediction or figure out getter ways to translate instructions if it has lots of sample data about how a program runs. Thus a program will get faster the longer you use it. I doubt this information is persistant across different sessions - unless it just optimizes based on overall CPU action rather than a per process basis. I don't really know what I'm talking about by the way.
anybody remember thedraw?
But assembler is k-r4d!
What's funny is that sega had a video game that did this about 8 years ago. I played it at disney land. Very cheesy game, but same basic tech. Can't remember the name....
Google to the rescue - it was called Hologram Time Traveler.
Here's a related link
No, he was drinking out of a klein bottle.
Harsh stuff.
In structural biology labs it is common to see an SGI machine with 3D glasses. Basically the 3D glasses are LCDs that alternate the transparency for each eye while coordinating it with slightly different on screen images. Much higher resolution than what we have here.
So it's illegal to look at command.com in a hex editor? I think not. It would be illegal to copy significant portions of the code for my own product, but looking and understanding is ok. I could then write a report about it, give the report to another engineer, and he could implement a command.com replacement. This is called clean room reverse engineerng and is how Compaq first produced a PC-BIOS clone.
I do use Linux at home and encourage Solaris usage for the servers at work.
But have you used Solaris/x86? I found it to be extremely slow compared to Linux, though this was just my perception. Both graphically (no CDE for me!) and in any swapping/task switching. I have heard that the great scalability of solaris means lots of kernel locks which just slow down a uniprocessor machine.
...I think most americans would have a blast if they went as long as they didn't take their cultural imperialism with them. (I.e. they shouldn't expect to speak english, or do american things)
;)
That's funny, I know several Europeans in Sillycon Valley complaining because life isn't exactly like it was back in France, or Germany, or wherever
Let me rant a bit about how f'ing stupid many IT candidates are. I get their resume in which they claim to be Software Engineers or some such thing. They claim shell programming skills yet have trouble explaining how to list processes on a machine. They claim knowledge of 'Internet Technology' but don't know HTTP from TCP or a router from a NIC. They claim java programming but can't explain pass by reference.
There are plenty of these types out there. The qualified ones get hired extremely quickly. In the bay area hiring someone is like looking for housing.
Where are the Bruce Perens of yesteryear?
My European friends believe it rediculous that we have all these ages for driving, voting and drinking. And now add video games to that list.
Germany is even worse for video games(or maybe just more consistent). They just outright ban video games that are too violent or present objectionable imagery. All the ID games come to mind.