That's very fascinating! I wonder if you could use "You Suffer" (which is sufficiently short it can almost be considered an "impulse") to determine the impulse response of the sculpture, and somehow using the outcome of that to determine which other Napalm Death song is most likely to cause the structure to fail.
Way to go xkcd, you've been referenced in a legitimate research paper!
To get a visual overview of ICMP records we converted the one-dimensional, 32-bit IP addresses into two dimensions using a Hilbert Curve, inspired by xkcd.
YOU'RE totally right; my mistake. I noticed the error after I had already posted, but of course by then it was too late to change it. English grammar has never been a strength of mine, although I usually do OK all things considered (French is my primary language). The choice between your/you're and its/it's has always required a conscious decision on my part and does not come naturally to me, and in my rush to post the comment earlier I made that terrible mistake. Sorry that you were so offended by it that you felt the need to reach out and personally attack me. I'll try to be more considerate of your sensitivities in the future...
Nicholson [pointing a gun at DiCaprio]: I taste a rat! DiCaprio: Those are you're new implants, boss! Nicholson [putting gun away]: Oh yeah. It's going to take some time to get used to these...
Elon is suck a jerk! I hear that the batteries he uses in his cars are manufactured from ground up puppies and baby seals. This story is the last straw, and proves that he also has it in for the economy. Can you believe he's going to deny banks and the government an additional 5 years of loan interest? What a douche....
It scans your face and checks to see if your eyes are squinting and darting from side to side, all suspicious like.
Next year, they plan on introducing the fraudster audio plug-in that will flag anything that starts with the words "Pssst! Hey you... yeah you... come'ere a sec..."
Not cheap publicity at all, actually. It would have been cheap if Tesla had just let things go, but instead they decided pay some expensive lawyers a bunch of money to go to court. I bet you those lawyers were more expensive than a gigantic advertising campaign would have been. They should have just had a shouting match with the BBC/Top Gear on various blogs over this issue, called Jeremy Clarkson an electricity hating, anti-diesel-ite, petrol-head cock, and just left it at that. That would have been cheap publicity.
(if I could afford it) even if all of the "bad" publicity was based on truth. The sheer automotive sex appeal of this car could smash through far more (so-called) negative publicity than this car has seen, so based on that I think the judge was correct in denying the appeal. If anything, anyone familiar with the car who is in the position to buy the car and who has heard the negative publicity (from TopGear, or more recently the NYT) has also heard the flip side of those stories and knows that they are (or could be) bogus. Tesla aren't losing any money because of this, and as others have pointed out, they are getting a lot of free (actually, not so free since instead of letting things go they decided to pay some lawyers to go to court) advertising.
Bingo. That's exactly what I was going to say. This guy is an idiot if he thinks things would be better (for EA or any other company) if nobody complained and only voted with their dollars. Hearing people bitch and complain about something that you've done to your product is probably the best way to get immediate feedback on that change, especially when other unrelated changes may have been made at the same time, or when a change to product X alienates your customers such that they refuse to buy product Y or product X+1. Do you seriously want to wait until the effects of people "voting with their dollars" propagates through the system before you know you've fucked up? Then, what? You want to have to guess what exactly it was that you did to piss everyone off? Maybe create a survey and send it out into the world, or have your marketing droids canvas shoppers at GameStop to see why they aren't buying? I can't believe this guy actually thinks that's a good idea...
Oh cool! And here I was half thinking the story of ping-based storage was a load of crap, especially since my attempts to find references to it with google were never successful. Thanks for the link!
I saw DOTA but thought DOTT (Day of the Tentacle). Man, that was a good game back in the day. I'm not sure how I would feel about a remake, but I'd probably still buy it though. I have no interest in DOTA, though, so Blizzard won't be getting my money if that's what they'll be announcing...
I wonder if one could create some sort form of useless distributed storage using this. Basically get your web app use this 5MB of free space on each computer that visits you as a the storage media for a filesystem. It would be atrociously slow (access time for a particular block could be hours, days, weeks or longer) unreliable (non-repeat visitors or visitors that clear their cache represent data loss) and difficult to expand (to grow your storage you'd have to convince more people to visit your site), but if you were really bored and had nothing else to do, it could be an interesting project.
It sort of reminds me of hack/proof-of-concept “storage” method somebody once told me was possible using “ping”. Basically ping a host with an ICMP ping packet having the data you want to store in the "payload"; the destination host will apparently send this payload back to you in the ICMP response. Apparently, if you ignore (don't ACK) the response, the destination host will continuously try to resend the packet back to you, effectively storing your data "in the network". When you want to retrieve the data, ACK the response...
If they had just launched a service back in the early 2000s that was "legal", you could choose the encoding format of your choice (ogg, mp3, lossless, etc), the bitrate of your choice, could choose individual songs or full albums, and where prices were reasonable (in summary, a service much like allofmp3, aka mp3sparks), they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and probably could have kept their business growing. Instead, they refused to see the light and change their practices, and others who actually provided those kinds of services profited instead. Serves them right for ignoring their customers...
Oh yeah? I searched for "useless twits", "thieving bastards" and "lying motherfuckers" and in none of the cases did "RIAA" appear near the top of the list. Clearly google has a lot of work to do to fix their search engine...
Don't you guys get a $7500 federal tax credit for buying an electric car? That brings the price down to below $50K, which is very reasonable for a car like that.
In Canada, $50K is pretty much what we pay for a Ford Fiesta. Used. With bald tires. And a caved-in windsheild and engine compartment, and mashed-in side-panels because the last owner hit a moose with it, then careened out of control and side-swiped an igloo. So you know what, suck it up!
And frankly, at least for me, there's an element of rooting for the underdog here. Tesla is doing what the big dogs said couldn't be done, and shouldn't be done, and they're doing it way better than what the big guys are doing. I haven't crunched any numbers, but I'll bet Tesla have accomplished way more (in terms of advancing the technology) with their time and $$ investments in the roadster and sedan than say GM has with the volt or Nissan with the leaf, despite those mega-corps having much more experience building cars.
What do our new overlords look like? Are they friendly or have they enslaved you and are using your liquefied remains as fuel for their machines of war? Should I panic now, or can I wait until after lunch?
Wait, how am I going to know that your response is really from you, and not from one of your new overlords impersonating you? I think it's safest if just start panicking now; just as soon as I'm done checking the other/. articles....
but if I had the time I'd probably rip off the features listed on the spec sheet for the Pebble Watch and pass them off as being my own ideas. Come to think of it, that's probably exactly what Apple is going to do. Hope those Pebble guys have deep pockets and a solid patent portfolio...
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Proof, if I've ever seen it, that the metric system just doesn't work.
That's very fascinating! I wonder if you could use "You Suffer" (which is sufficiently short it can almost be considered an "impulse") to determine the impulse response of the sculpture, and somehow using the outcome of that to determine which other Napalm Death song is most likely to cause the structure to fail.
Way to go xkcd, you've been referenced in a legitimate research paper!
To get a visual overview of ICMP records we converted the one-dimensional, 32-bit IP addresses into two dimensions using a Hilbert Curve, inspired by xkcd.
Speaking of Toughbook, if you want to learn absolutely nothing about Toughbook but have a good time doing it, read http://lookrobot.co.uk/2013/01/14/the-panasonic-toughpad-press-conference/. Absolutely hilarious!
YOU'RE totally right; my mistake. I noticed the error after I had already posted, but of course by then it was too late to change it. English grammar has never been a strength of mine, although I usually do OK all things considered (French is my primary language). The choice between your/you're and its/it's has always required a conscious decision on my part and does not come naturally to me, and in my rush to post the comment earlier I made that terrible mistake. Sorry that you were so offended by it that you felt the need to reach out and personally attack me. I'll try to be more considerate of your sensitivities in the future...
Nicholson [pointing a gun at DiCaprio]: I taste a rat!
DiCaprio: Those are you're new implants, boss!
Nicholson [putting gun away]: Oh yeah. It's going to take some time to get used to these...
Sucks to be that rat when it comes time to harvest those teeth...
Elon is suck a jerk! I hear that the batteries he uses in his cars are manufactured from ground up puppies and baby seals. This story is the last straw, and proves that he also has it in for the economy. Can you believe he's going to deny banks and the government an additional 5 years of loan interest? What a douche....
It scans your face and checks to see if your eyes are squinting and darting from side to side, all suspicious like.
Next year, they plan on introducing the fraudster audio plug-in that will flag anything that starts with the words "Pssst! Hey you... yeah you... come'ere a sec..."
Not cheap publicity at all, actually. It would have been cheap if Tesla had just let things go, but instead they decided pay some expensive lawyers a bunch of money to go to court. I bet you those lawyers were more expensive than a gigantic advertising campaign would have been. They should have just had a shouting match with the BBC/Top Gear on various blogs over this issue, called Jeremy Clarkson an electricity hating, anti-diesel-ite, petrol-head cock, and just left it at that. That would have been cheap publicity.
(if I could afford it) even if all of the "bad" publicity was based on truth. The sheer automotive sex appeal of this car could smash through far more (so-called) negative publicity than this car has seen, so based on that I think the judge was correct in denying the appeal. If anything, anyone familiar with the car who is in the position to buy the car and who has heard the negative publicity (from TopGear, or more recently the NYT) has also heard the flip side of those stories and knows that they are (or could be) bogus. Tesla aren't losing any money because of this, and as others have pointed out, they are getting a lot of free (actually, not so free since instead of letting things go they decided to pay some lawyers to go to court) advertising.
Bingo. That's exactly what I was going to say. This guy is an idiot if he thinks things would be better (for EA or any other company) if nobody complained and only voted with their dollars. Hearing people bitch and complain about something that you've done to your product is probably the best way to get immediate feedback on that change, especially when other unrelated changes may have been made at the same time, or when a change to product X alienates your customers such that they refuse to buy product Y or product X+1. Do you seriously want to wait until the effects of people "voting with their dollars" propagates through the system before you know you've fucked up? Then, what? You want to have to guess what exactly it was that you did to piss everyone off? Maybe create a survey and send it out into the world, or have your marketing droids canvas shoppers at GameStop to see why they aren't buying? I can't believe this guy actually thinks that's a good idea...
Oh cool! And here I was half thinking the story of ping-based storage was a load of crap, especially since my attempts to find references to it with google were never successful. Thanks for the link!
I saw DOTA but thought DOTT (Day of the Tentacle). Man, that was a good game back in the day. I'm not sure how I would feel about a remake, but I'd probably still buy it though. I have no interest in DOTA, though, so Blizzard won't be getting my money if that's what they'll be announcing...
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I wonder if one could create some sort form of useless distributed storage using this. Basically get your web app use this 5MB of free space on each computer that visits you as a the storage media for a filesystem. It would be atrociously slow (access time for a particular block could be hours, days, weeks or longer) unreliable (non-repeat visitors or visitors that clear their cache represent data loss) and difficult to expand (to grow your storage you'd have to convince more people to visit your site), but if you were really bored and had nothing else to do, it could be an interesting project.
It sort of reminds me of hack/proof-of-concept “storage” method somebody once told me was possible using “ping”. Basically ping a host with an ICMP ping packet having the data you want to store in the "payload"; the destination host will apparently send this payload back to you in the ICMP response. Apparently, if you ignore (don't ACK) the response, the destination host will continuously try to resend the packet back to you, effectively storing your data "in the network". When you want to retrieve the data, ACK the response...
If they had just launched a service back in the early 2000s that was "legal", you could choose the encoding format of your choice (ogg, mp3, lossless, etc), the bitrate of your choice, could choose individual songs or full albums, and where prices were reasonable (in summary, a service much like allofmp3, aka mp3sparks), they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and probably could have kept their business growing. Instead, they refused to see the light and change their practices, and others who actually provided those kinds of services profited instead. Serves them right for ignoring their customers...
...and it's "invented" by Dr. Dre, a trusted name in high-fidelity audio.
Bwwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Oh yeah? I searched for "useless twits", "thieving bastards" and "lying motherfuckers" and in none of the cases did "RIAA" appear near the top of the list. Clearly google has a lot of work to do to fix their search engine...
Don't you guys get a $7500 federal tax credit for buying an electric car? That brings the price down to below $50K, which is very reasonable for a car like that.
In Canada, $50K is pretty much what we pay for a Ford Fiesta. Used. With bald tires. And a caved-in windsheild and engine compartment, and mashed-in side-panels because the last owner hit a moose with it, then careened out of control and side-swiped an igloo. So you know what, suck it up!
And frankly, at least for me, there's an element of rooting for the underdog here. Tesla is doing what the big dogs said couldn't be done, and shouldn't be done, and they're doing it way better than what the big guys are doing. I haven't crunched any numbers, but I'll bet Tesla have accomplished way more (in terms of advancing the technology) with their time and $$ investments in the roadster and sedan than say GM has with the volt or Nissan with the leaf, despite those mega-corps having much more experience building cars.
What do our new overlords look like? Are they friendly or have they enslaved you and are using your liquefied remains as fuel for their machines of war? Should I panic now, or can I wait until after lunch?
Wait, how am I going to know that your response is really from you, and not from one of your new overlords impersonating you? I think it's safest if just start panicking now; just as soon as I'm done checking the other /. articles....
I mean, what else is there to do in Iceland other than watch porn? Poor, poor bastards...
but if I had the time I'd probably rip off the features listed on the spec sheet for the Pebble Watch and pass them off as being my own ideas. Come to think of it, that's probably exactly what Apple is going to do. Hope those Pebble guys have deep pockets and a solid patent portfolio...
With that kind of attitude, I'm not telling you! Why are you mad at me anyway?
You got it backwards. With the Catholic church, they touch *your* noodley appendage!