I was going to say the same thing. And it looks WAY cooler too! Here is a link to an article about it (yea, it's on a "Tree Hugger" site... it was the first one I found) with a pictures of it with the 19-year-old inventor. He was also on one of those "Shark Tank" shows where he got investors to give him, IIRC, 14 million dollars for a 20% share in his company.
First of all, it'd be (((n-1) mod 365) + 1) or you would get 0 and not 365. Also, adjusting to 366 for leap years wouldn't be enough because once you're greater than 366, you have to consider whether NEXT year (and the year after that, and the year after that) is a leap year too. It would be quite difficult to figure out an equation for this, however, as leap years are NOT every 4 years. They are every year that is divisible by 4 and not divisible by 100 or is divisible by 400
I'm sure that ME is indeed ahead of AZ. My girlfriend's sister asked me for help with AP Calculus. She handed me a paper that her teacher had handed out to the entire class. More than half of the paper (not exaggerating) was WRONG. They were learning about inverse functions and the teacher had drawn a bunch of examples on graphs. For sin(x) she drew what looked like the right half (x>0) of cos(x) and said that the inverse was the left half (x0). I tore the paper up and told her not to use it, but to read the chapter in the book instead. She is now the only one in her class that does well, and only because she ignores her teacher's lectures.
But I seem remember that about 80%-90% of my time spent in public school I was bored out my mind to damn near the point of insanity after 15 years of it. Granted, I am in the top 1 percentile intelligence-wise.
If my mother read this, she'd tell you that "smart people don't get bored"... If you have the intelligence to be able to answer all the questions correctly, but not the wisdom or common sense to keep from getting bored, I'd argue that that intelligence is pretty much useless.
Technically, it would just be European-Americans (Africa is a continent, not a country). But I think that's what's implied by "American." Native American is the term for "American-Americans," and American is the term for "European-Americans." Society tends to simplify things for the majority. You don't have "Native Europeans" or "Native Asians" do you?
Maybe it creates negative ions in the ionosphere? And maybe all that negativity is what's affecting the ozone layer? Darn clinical depression... it's getting to everyone these days...
It is hard for me to swallow that a law that prevents you from circumventing a digital copy protection scheme is "evil".
You misunderstand law.
Moreover, the essentials of the law are that you did something that could possibly enable you to commit a real crime. Basically something else was a crime, and we said that if you take a first step that puts you closer to committing that crime, you're guilty already. So we're arresting and trialing you for being able to commit a crime (or enabling others), whether or not the particular action that put you there was intended in your case to commit said crime; we've just written in law that this in itself is a crime, to make it official. Sound evil yet?
Except that... you will also be arrested for pulling a gun on a cop, even if you don't pull the trigger.
I don't think that the GP was referring to within the US, but within the institution. I work for a government contractor and there is no way that any of our (internal) email would be allowed to be put on any server outside of our facility. And to send email externally, we have to first send it through to someone so that they can first review it for sensitive information.
Where did he end a (I'm assuming you meant) sentence with a preposition? He ended a sentence with a prepositional phrase, but not with a preposition...
You had 30 minutes of national appreciation when Mike Rowe went into your plant and took on your job for a day on "Dirty Jobs"... I don't see him doing that for system administrators...
That's okay, if you needed any outside source to be able to read it, it doesn't apply to you. I read it by converting the binary to decimal in my head and knowing that 97 is 'a' and 32 is ' '...
..is perfect in every way with eight 2.93 GHz cores
Your Mac Pro doesn't have two eight core Xeons, it has two four core Xeons with HyperThreading enabled.
I know he's a troll, but he didn't say he had two eight-core Xeons, he said he had eight cores. Which matches up with what you say about him having two four-core Xeons.
You should check out the "IE Tab" add-on for Firefox. You can use it to view pages using IE's engine in FF. And you can set it up so that certain sites automatically use IE.
Last time I checked an authenticated scan on a fully pached XP box came up with 160 vulnerabilities, while Vista came up with 70. Windows 7 I havent scanned yet but I imagine it will be similar.
With that trend, Windows 7 should have... -20 vulnerabilities! Or should I say, 20 invulnerabilities! That's great! I'm going to install it right away!
The next one coming out, the HTC Magic (aka "myTouch" on T-Mobile), is pretty cool too. It has more memory which supposedly does WONDERS for the speed of the thing, and a few other improvements as well. It's significantly smaller/more lightweight as well, which is a plus. It's not a slider though, so it doesn't have the built in keyboard the G1 has, which is a dealbreaker for me. The current virtual keyboard just isn't there yet in my opinion. The iPhone one is just barely good enough IMHO, but the Android one just doesn't even come close, so I gotta have the hardware keyboard...
everybody says Google Latitude will drain a battery in 4 hours, for example
I don't. I've got Google Latitude on my G1, and it runs all the time, and I can go for up to 2 days without charging my phone, and that's with normal phone use too. If I didn't use it, it would probably last at least 3 days.
Ever time you use your card online you have to punch it in.
I have my credit card number memorized (so I don't have to pull it out of my pocket) and I don't have to change it every month.
Every time you want to unlock your front door, you take your keys out of your pocket.
Garage door opener. I don't use the front door and I don't have to reach into my pocket for this. It's either on the wall next to the door inside the garage, or on my visor right above my head. Single button press, not typing a special, memorized, changed-every-month combination.
Every time you go into your car, you take your keys out of your pocket.
If it was just a one off number, there wouldn't be a problem.
Except if you password is "MyPW_06/09" this month, "MyPW_07/09" next month, "MyPW_08/09" next month, and so on, then that introduces an entirely different problem: if someone does get your password, they would be able to figure out all of them at any time...
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I was going to say the same thing. And it looks WAY cooler too! Here is a link to an article about it (yea, it's on a "Tree Hugger" site... it was the first one I found) with a pictures of it with the 19-year-old inventor. He was also on one of those "Shark Tank" shows where he got investors to give him, IIRC, 14 million dollars for a 20% share in his company.
(((2^n-1) mod 365) + 1)
Oops. Fixed
First of all, it'd be (((n-1) mod 365) + 1) or you would get 0 and not 365. Also, adjusting to 366 for leap years wouldn't be enough because once you're greater than 366, you have to consider whether NEXT year (and the year after that, and the year after that) is a leap year too. It would be quite difficult to figure out an equation for this, however, as leap years are NOT every 4 years. They are every year that is divisible by 4 and not divisible by 100 or is divisible by 400
I'm sure that ME is indeed ahead of AZ. My girlfriend's sister asked me for help with AP Calculus. She handed me a paper that her teacher had handed out to the entire class. More than half of the paper (not exaggerating) was WRONG. They were learning about inverse functions and the teacher had drawn a bunch of examples on graphs. For sin(x) she drew what looked like the right half (x>0) of cos(x) and said that the inverse was the left half (x0). I tore the paper up and told her not to use it, but to read the chapter in the book instead. She is now the only one in her class that does well, and only because she ignores her teacher's lectures.
But I seem remember that about 80%-90% of my time spent in public school I was bored out my mind to damn near the point of insanity after 15 years of it. Granted, I am in the top 1 percentile intelligence-wise.
If my mother read this, she'd tell you that "smart people don't get bored"... If you have the intelligence to be able to answer all the questions correctly, but not the wisdom or common sense to keep from getting bored, I'd argue that that intelligence is pretty much useless.
What the crap? So, you're saying 1.5 x 0.8 == 2? Ummm... no. Good tr... nevermind, it actually wasn't.
Technically, it would just be European-Americans (Africa is a continent, not a country). But I think that's what's implied by "American." Native American is the term for "American-Americans," and American is the term for "European-Americans." Society tends to simplify things for the majority. You don't have "Native Europeans" or "Native Asians" do you?
Maybe it creates negative ions in the ionosphere? And maybe all that negativity is what's affecting the ozone layer? Darn clinical depression... it's getting to everyone these days...
It is hard for me to swallow that a law that prevents you from circumventing a digital copy protection scheme is "evil".
You misunderstand law.
Moreover, the essentials of the law are that you did something that could possibly enable you to commit a real crime. Basically something else was a crime, and we said that if you take a first step that puts you closer to committing that crime, you're guilty already. So we're arresting and trialing you for being able to commit a crime (or enabling others), whether or not the particular action that put you there was intended in your case to commit said crime; we've just written in law that this in itself is a crime, to make it official. Sound evil yet?
Except that... you will also be arrested for pulling a gun on a cop, even if you don't pull the trigger.
I don't think that the GP was referring to within the US, but within the institution. I work for a government contractor and there is no way that any of our (internal) email would be allowed to be put on any server outside of our facility. And to send email externally, we have to first send it through to someone so that they can first review it for sensitive information.
Where did he end a (I'm assuming you meant) sentence with a preposition? He ended a sentence with a prepositional phrase, but not with a preposition...
He's saying that the consultant is overpriced... not the "lowest man"...
You had 30 minutes of national appreciation when Mike Rowe went into your plant and took on your job for a day on "Dirty Jobs"... I don't see him doing that for system administrators...
Where's "Poor customer service person who has to deal with your stupid backward ass" appreciation day? Where's Garbage Man Appreciation Day? Mail man? (4th of Feb) Where the hell is Fire Fighter appreciation day? EMT appreciation day?
Well that makes sense because close to the equator, there is not as significant change in the daylight as closer to the poles...
That's okay, if you needed any outside source to be able to read it, it doesn't apply to you. I read it by converting the binary to decimal in my head and knowing that 97 is 'a' and 32 is ' '...
..is perfect in every way with eight 2.93 GHz cores
Your Mac Pro doesn't have two eight core Xeons, it has two four core Xeons with HyperThreading enabled.
I know he's a troll, but he didn't say he had two eight-core Xeons, he said he had eight cores. Which matches up with what you say about him having two four-core Xeons.
2 x 4 = 8.
You should check out the "IE Tab" add-on for Firefox. You can use it to view pages using IE's engine in FF. And you can set it up so that certain sites automatically use IE.
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# 2 Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)
# 3 Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
# 4 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake)
# 5 Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)
# 6 Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
# 7 Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
# 8 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
# 9 Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
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I would assume they skipped 'C' so that 'D' would be the 4th release? That makes sense to me...
Last time I checked an authenticated scan on a fully pached XP box came up with 160 vulnerabilities, while Vista came up with 70. Windows 7 I havent scanned yet but I imagine it will be similar.
With that trend, Windows 7 should have... -20 vulnerabilities! Or should I say, 20 invulnerabilities! That's great! I'm going to install it right away!
...most of you refuse to upgrade because the new thing...
B: Doesn't work as well as the old thing.
Fixed that for you.
The next one coming out, the HTC Magic (aka "myTouch" on T-Mobile), is pretty cool too. It has more memory which supposedly does WONDERS for the speed of the thing, and a few other improvements as well. It's significantly smaller/more lightweight as well, which is a plus. It's not a slider though, so it doesn't have the built in keyboard the G1 has, which is a dealbreaker for me. The current virtual keyboard just isn't there yet in my opinion. The iPhone one is just barely good enough IMHO, but the Android one just doesn't even come close, so I gotta have the hardware keyboard...
everybody says Google Latitude will drain a battery in 4 hours, for example
I don't. I've got Google Latitude on my G1, and it runs all the time, and I can go for up to 2 days without charging my phone, and that's with normal phone use too. If I didn't use it, it would probably last at least 3 days.
Ever time you use your card online you have to punch it in.
I have my credit card number memorized (so I don't have to pull it out of my pocket) and I don't have to change it every month.
Every time you want to unlock your front door, you take your keys out of your pocket.
Garage door opener. I don't use the front door and I don't have to reach into my pocket for this. It's either on the wall next to the door inside the garage, or on my visor right above my head. Single button press, not typing a special, memorized, changed-every-month combination.
Every time you go into your car, you take your keys out of your pocket.
No, I don't.
If it was just a one off number, there wouldn't be a problem.
Except if you password is "MyPW_06/09" this month, "MyPW_07/09" next month, "MyPW_08/09" next month, and so on, then that introduces an entirely different problem: if someone does get your password, they would be able to figure out all of them at any time...