Uh.. this raises a question: Would he go to a prison with rapists, murders, and other violent people or would he go somewhere where he'd sit and think about what he did instead of worrying for his life?
Dude, your terminoligy is wrong. Let me rephrase in a way more people will understand:
Uh.. this raises a question: Would he go to federal pound me in the ass prison, or white-collar resort prison? (did you know they have conjugal visits there?!)
So your employer will let you take a potentially indefinite leave of absence to go sit on a jury?
In some states, they're required to. The vast majority of employers in the US voluntarily pay wages for a worker who's on jury duty.. something like 75%.
Or maybe Google to grab it turn it round and use it to map the earth down to the smallest pebble.
I'm sure you're just being facetious, but I figured I'd note for anyone that finds this sort of thing interesting, the Hubble can't track the earth. It's moving too fast, any images taken would end up as a streaky blur. Earth slides beneath it at something like 4 miles per second, and the shutter on the Hubble is intended for long exposures.
The Hubble doesn't even have the resolution to pick out the lunar landing sites. For all the amazing work it's done over the years, it's specs really aren't that impressive in modern terms.
But what if that 1 billion were to end up spent on Hubble's replacement, which would permit a new level of research?
A lot of the "save Hubble" defense seems to be more sentimental than practical. I'm not saying it should be tossed in the bin just because it's old, but it IS old, and technology has advanced tremendously since it was put into orbit. I'm not against being sentimental either, but if the money doesn't exist to maintain two space observatories, I know I'd choose to get an all new one.
Near as I can tell, they've been shifting away from that philosophy and moving towards a "their way or the highway" tactic. With 1.0 they usurped the use of ctrl-u to clear a line of text, which has been a convention with unix (emacs introduced it afaik) as far back as I can remember. Now, it opens the "view page source" window.
Disabling it requires mucking with dotfiles, and I appreciate that the capacity is there.. but that's not the point. Running firefox under a given platform should cater to that platform's conventions. I don't want it to be the same under all platforms, I want to be the same with MY platform.
There are warnings in iTunes that tell you to back up your downloaded music. Not sure when they started appearing.. version 6 maybe? Don't really remember anymore. Think it shows up the first time you try to buy music.
Stories effectively identical to the post came out when EverQuest was the big thing, came out when MUDS/MUSHES were the big thing, and have probably come out for every liesure activity developed in the history of man.
The only thing surprising about this is that it continues to surprise people when it happens. If you let your life get consumed, guess what, it gets consumed!
You know how people suggest that having everyone jump at the same time would cause an earthquake?
If we all got on swingsets and swung at the same frequency, we could alter the rotation of the planet. Might even be able to adjust the orbit a little bit.
Maybe a better window manager/gui that you could break the screen in to regions, so that when you maximize a window, it would only fill the top 40% or something.
It's already been solved (well, for my purposes), in a lot of less mainstream wm's. larswm, dwm, and ratpoison are all forced layout managers that explore different ideas on the topic. The problem with them is that none work terribly well with Xinerama and 2+ monitors, but then, I don't know that I've ever seen a window manager that tried to work with a multi-monitor setup.
Having some old dude and a bunch of his fleeing kin at the exact right spot just as tsunami drains enough water to create a land bridge would be plenty magical I think.
Of course, there's always the chance as the verbal history was passed down, tellers embellished a bit to impress the kids better.
Don't tell people what to work on? And exactly how does that finish projects, ever?
Considering how often Google puts up new features on their site, apparently it works pretty good for them.
Regarding the number of meetings, I only have one formal meeting a week, but can spend several hours a week with a couple other guys talking over the specifics of whatever we're working on. Could be considered "meetings", even though they don't involve sitting around a table and going through an agenda.
It creeps into the show every once in a while too.. usually exactly what the article says, Adam messing up Jamie's tools. There was one involving grease in the bathroom, too.. Jamie appeared genuinely mad about that one.
Then when the show reaches the finale and something blows up, they both cackle like little kids and seem like best buddies.
Just have a human authorize every account creation. For smaller sites (the vast majority of the web) this might introduce a load of one authorization a month. As site size scales upwards, you have more people available to help with authorization. Could use the principles of the turing test to work through a 2 or 3 email exchange.
Could make the supporting cgi scripts as simple or as complicated as one's willing to author. One forum I maintained for a while had a low level "all access" section where new users posted an application. Forum regulars would respond, and eventually grade the new user. If they passed, they were given full access to the board. Granted, this system was employed more to limit the quantity of asshats than spammers, but the same principles apply.
It might even benefit society in the long run as a spammer's urge to do his work forces him to develop a "true" AI.;)
Procedural graphics also have a finite amount of "flair" they can depict. We see patterns in every day life, from carpet to concrete, and it seems like a decent idea that all that stuff can be realized on a computer with an algorithm.
The part this misses is the randomness, such as stains or scratches. Procedural textures are pretty bad at generating non random features. Blending between two textures, say a shiny metal surface with rusty bits, is also hard to convincingly create.
In theory it's possible to program that in, but by that point you're starting to edge away from the elegant simplicity of a procedural texture. Instead of manually pushing pixels in photoshop, the artist is now writing custom functions.. and it probably takes an equal amount of time to finalize.
The hard part is not the appeal of the browser. The hard part is getting people to try it. Once Firefox has its foot in the door, people will let it in the whole way.
No, the hard part is that people don't care. Valid technical reasons for doing something don't encumber the mind of most people. They just look for their bottom line, and in the realm of browsing the internet, that bottom line is getting to a web page with the least effort.
If you got Firefox installed on hard drives as they shipped from manufacturers, usage would increase dramatically. Hand out free install CD's? Not so much.
This is true in Alaska, as well. Never been to Minnesota, but Alaskan mosquitos are easily twice the size of ones I've seen in other places (in Illinois now, but I've live on both coasts and they have puny bugs too).
The "state bird" joke is quite common up there, too.
When biking in the mountains back behind Anchorage, a buddy and I would fight over who had to "ride point" because the bugs could get so thick, we'd quite literally inhale mosquitos, there's so many of them desperate for some blood. Logic was the guy in front parted the wave so the guy in back was saved some of the torture.
Rather than making the sunshade orbit earth, wouldn't it be easier to put the shade at some point between the sun and the Earth? Say at one of the Lagrange points?
The further out you put it, the larger you have to make it. The L1 point is about twice the distance from earth to the moon, so it'd have to be larger than 12,000 kilometers (diameter of the moon).
The L1 point still requires some orbital maintenance, and I imagine as the size of the thing goes up, the cost of that maintenance goes up too. Smarter heads than mine would have to figure out the scale of cost as distance increases.
17% of that 37 billion could have made everyone on the planet a millionaire.
Of course, the overnight upheaval of the global economy it'd cause would eventually settle out so we're all as wealthy then as we are now, but that's besides the point.
I know ImageMagik is the kitchen sink of image editing, but have you looked into PHP's embedded image functions? There's very few effects you couldn't produce on your own with those functions. I'll grant it's probably easier to just pass arguments to the ImageMagik library, but probably not more efficient.
Allows you to avoid the problems of calling ImageMagik, piping it through perl, then doing whatever you need to do in PHP. Sounds like a recipie for excessive server load, to me.
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Uh.. this raises a question: Would he go to a prison with rapists, murders, and other violent people or would he go somewhere where he'd sit and think about what he did instead of worrying for his life?
Dude, your terminoligy is wrong. Let me rephrase in a way more people will understand:
Uh.. this raises a question: Would he go to federal pound me in the ass prison, or white-collar resort prison? (did you know they have conjugal visits there?!)
So your employer will let you take a potentially indefinite leave of absence to go sit on a jury?
In some states, they're required to. The vast majority of employers in the US voluntarily pay wages for a worker who's on jury duty.. something like 75%.
Or maybe Google to grab it turn it round and use it to map the earth down to the smallest pebble.
I'm sure you're just being facetious, but I figured I'd note for anyone that finds this sort of thing interesting, the Hubble can't track the earth. It's moving too fast, any images taken would end up as a streaky blur. Earth slides beneath it at something like 4 miles per second, and the shutter on the Hubble is intended for long exposures.
The Hubble doesn't even have the resolution to pick out the lunar landing sites. For all the amazing work it's done over the years, it's specs really aren't that impressive in modern terms.
But what if that 1 billion were to end up spent on Hubble's replacement, which would permit a new level of research?
A lot of the "save Hubble" defense seems to be more sentimental than practical. I'm not saying it should be tossed in the bin just because it's old, but it IS old, and technology has advanced tremendously since it was put into orbit. I'm not against being sentimental either, but if the money doesn't exist to maintain two space observatories, I know I'd choose to get an all new one.
Near as I can tell, they've been shifting away from that philosophy and moving towards a "their way or the highway" tactic. With 1.0 they usurped the use of ctrl-u to clear a line of text, which has been a convention with unix (emacs introduced it afaik) as far back as I can remember. Now, it opens the "view page source" window.
Disabling it requires mucking with dotfiles, and I appreciate that the capacity is there.. but that's not the point. Running firefox under a given platform should cater to that platform's conventions. I don't want it to be the same under all platforms, I want to be the same with MY platform.
There are warnings in iTunes that tell you to back up your downloaded music. Not sure when they started appearing.. version 6 maybe? Don't really remember anymore. Think it shows up the first time you try to buy music.
News Flash: Too much of anything is bad for you.
Stories effectively identical to the post came out when EverQuest was the big thing, came out when MUDS/MUSHES were the big thing, and have probably come out for every liesure activity developed in the history of man.
The only thing surprising about this is that it continues to surprise people when it happens. If you let your life get consumed, guess what, it gets consumed!
You know how people suggest that having everyone jump at the same time would cause an earthquake?
If we all got on swingsets and swung at the same frequency, we could alter the rotation of the planet. Might even be able to adjust the orbit a little bit.
Maybe a better window manager/gui that you could break the screen in to regions, so that when you maximize a window, it would only fill the top 40% or something.
It's already been solved (well, for my purposes), in a lot of less mainstream wm's. larswm, dwm, and ratpoison are all forced layout managers that explore different ideas on the topic. The problem with them is that none work terribly well with Xinerama and 2+ monitors, but then, I don't know that I've ever seen a window manager that tried to work with a multi-monitor setup.
No, but they have their fan forums and an email address. They constanly refer to fan submitted myths on the show.
Having some old dude and a bunch of his fleeing kin at the exact right spot just as tsunami drains enough water to create a land bridge would be plenty magical I think.
Of course, there's always the chance as the verbal history was passed down, tellers embellished a bit to impress the kids better.
Don't tell people what to work on? And exactly how does that finish projects, ever?
Considering how often Google puts up new features on their site, apparently it works pretty good for them.
Regarding the number of meetings, I only have one formal meeting a week, but can spend several hours a week with a couple other guys talking over the specifics of whatever we're working on. Could be considered "meetings", even though they don't involve sitting around a table and going through an agenda.
Don't you watch infomercials?
The EPA certifies "it's a newer way to clean air!" (this is an actual quote)
Call now, and we'll give you a second one, free.
It creeps into the show every once in a while too.. usually exactly what the article says, Adam messing up Jamie's tools. There was one involving grease in the bathroom, too.. Jamie appeared genuinely mad about that one.
Then when the show reaches the finale and something blows up, they both cackle like little kids and seem like best buddies.
Just have a human authorize every account creation. For smaller sites (the vast majority of the web) this might introduce a load of one authorization a month. As site size scales upwards, you have more people available to help with authorization. Could use the principles of the turing test to work through a 2 or 3 email exchange.
;)
Could make the supporting cgi scripts as simple or as complicated as one's willing to author. One forum I maintained for a while had a low level "all access" section where new users posted an application. Forum regulars would respond, and eventually grade the new user. If they passed, they were given full access to the board. Granted, this system was employed more to limit the quantity of asshats than spammers, but the same principles apply.
It might even benefit society in the long run as a spammer's urge to do his work forces him to develop a "true" AI.
Ancient Fossils?
There's some other kind of fossil?
I'd sign up for it in a new york minute.
Unfortunatley, I'm fat, blind, and my flying experience is limited to dumping quarters into Afterburner when I was a kid.
If NASA ever needs someone to do barrel rolls and shoot lots of missiles, maybe then they'll invite me along.
You must have pretty low standards if you think of Slashdot as a refuge from idiocy.
Procedural graphics also have a finite amount of "flair" they can depict. We see patterns in every day life, from carpet to concrete, and it seems like a decent idea that all that stuff can be realized on a computer with an algorithm.
The part this misses is the randomness, such as stains or scratches. Procedural textures are pretty bad at generating non random features. Blending between two textures, say a shiny metal surface with rusty bits, is also hard to convincingly create.
In theory it's possible to program that in, but by that point you're starting to edge away from the elegant simplicity of a procedural texture. Instead of manually pushing pixels in photoshop, the artist is now writing custom functions.. and it probably takes an equal amount of time to finalize.
The hard part is not the appeal of the browser. The hard part is getting people to try it. Once Firefox has its foot in the door, people will let it in the whole way.
No, the hard part is that people don't care. Valid technical reasons for doing something don't encumber the mind of most people. They just look for their bottom line, and in the realm of browsing the internet, that bottom line is getting to a web page with the least effort.
If you got Firefox installed on hard drives as they shipped from manufacturers, usage would increase dramatically. Hand out free install CD's? Not so much.
mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg will download it, too.
Or, if you were a moron, you could tell it to save the stream as an animated gif.
This is true in Alaska, as well. Never been to Minnesota, but Alaskan mosquitos are easily twice the size of ones I've seen in other places (in Illinois now, but I've live on both coasts and they have puny bugs too).
The "state bird" joke is quite common up there, too.
When biking in the mountains back behind Anchorage, a buddy and I would fight over who had to "ride point" because the bugs could get so thick, we'd quite literally inhale mosquitos, there's so many of them desperate for some blood. Logic was the guy in front parted the wave so the guy in back was saved some of the torture.
Rather than making the sunshade orbit earth, wouldn't it be easier to put the shade at some point between the sun and the Earth? Say at one of the Lagrange points?
The further out you put it, the larger you have to make it. The L1 point is about twice the distance from earth to the moon, so it'd have to be larger than 12,000 kilometers (diameter of the moon).
The L1 point still requires some orbital maintenance, and I imagine as the size of the thing goes up, the cost of that maintenance goes up too. Smarter heads than mine would have to figure out the scale of cost as distance increases.
17% of that 37 billion could have made everyone on the planet a millionaire.
Of course, the overnight upheaval of the global economy it'd cause would eventually settle out so we're all as wealthy then as we are now, but that's besides the point.
I know ImageMagik is the kitchen sink of image editing, but have you looked into PHP's embedded image functions? There's very few effects you couldn't produce on your own with those functions. I'll grant it's probably easier to just pass arguments to the ImageMagik library, but probably not more efficient.
Allows you to avoid the problems of calling ImageMagik, piping it through perl, then doing whatever you need to do in PHP. Sounds like a recipie for excessive server load, to me.