I think the break through is the part where they build it on the moon. I understand how building a massive telescope on the moon will be difficult, and although this may be slightly easier, I don't consider it a massive breakthrough.
I would consider a massive breakthrough building the telescope out of moon dust, or some other material readily available on the moon. That way, we don't have to transport massive amounts of equipment to the dark side of the moon.
e.g. "I can see access points with MAC addresses 00:60:08:57:3C:D2 and 00:E0:18:77:D6:40 so I know I'm at 37 23.516 -122 02.625.."
Is a web browser even allowed to have access to information like MAC addresses? I figure it ping's a few known servers and calculates its location from the time. In which case, it could easily be fooled by a VPN or Tor.
It doesn't lock you out. Or not me anyway. I get a message that says to disable my adblocking software, but the program shows up normally after 30 seconds.
I've had it lock me out, and I've also seen it shows a blank screen for 30 seconds (It does this on Windows). Either way, it penalizes you for using an ad-blocker. In fact, the commercials are shorter than the 30 seconds it penalizes you for using Ad-Block, making Ad-Block completely pointless on that site.
So I return to my point. How can TiVo get around these commercials and no one has made a Firefox Extension that can do the same thing?
There is no way this will work on Hulu. Hulu notices you are using Ad-Block and locks you out. If TiVo can figure it out, why isn't there a Firefox extension that does it?
Funny, my company just did the opposite. Our design department was just recently merged with manufacturing. This was done because:
A) Design would rarely factor in the manufacturability of it's designs, driving up costs.
B) Manufacturing had a tendency to sacrifice quality to reduce costs.
This new corporate structure has only been in place for a few months, but so far has worked quite well. Entire product lines have been eliminated (design didn't know manufacturing was still making the old stuff). Entire processes have been eliminated (manufacturing thought they were needed to meet the final spec, but weren't).
Most of these issues could have been resolved with better management and communication, but when design and manufacturing are a single unit, these issues resolve themselves naturally.
I thought of the supercavitation thing too. It appears that's not what DARPA is looking for. From TFA:
Speed: The speed of the platform in each mode of operation must allow the system to complete a tactical transit (1000 nm airborne,100 nm surface,12 nm sub-surface) trip in less than 8 hours. This 8 hour time must include any time required by the platform to reconfigure between modes of operation.
Although, I think a supercavitating submarine is way cooler, they are basically looking for a seaplane that can sink.
I didn't even know there was a GT5. I was a huge fan on 2 and 3 but I didn't think it was worth it to buy a PS3, and I don't know anyone that owns one. Seems like everyone is buying Xbox and Wii.
On a side note, I'm also disappointed that GT5 has fictitious cars in it. The reason I like the GT series is because it's a driving simulator, meaning it attempted to duplicate reality, not make things up.
As long as the charger comes with a simple timer I don't see why people wouldn't be willing to charge the car at night, especially if you're in an area that has different rates for different times of day.
I'm not an EE, but isn't the utility frequency related to the load on the grid? Could a charger monitor the utility frequency and charge accordingly? Something like:
if frequency>60Hz
then charge
else
don't charge
endif
I haven't RTFA, but I'm betting this software doesn't have a 100% success rate. I think they would settle for a 1% success rate but since the entire process is automated, and likely distributed across many machines, it doesn't matter. In other words, brute force does the rest.
To prove it with Excel, you'd have to calculate the result individually for every possible angle, and unless Microsoft have released an update I haven't had yet then Excel doesn't have a transfinite number of available rows.
Ok, so it wasn't a strict mathematical proof. Let's face it, in the real world you rarely have to worry about the infinitesimal. With empirical data in today's digital age, you will have a sampling rate to contend with. Why use an integral when a Riemann sum is all your data can support?
When I was a freshman in engineering school, my intro to engineering class required us to purchase a book similar to this. We were given two class periods to work with Excel, supervised by a TA. (it was considered a lab) I remember the assignment involved proving that sin^2+cos^2=1.
If you couldn't figure out Excel within those two class periods, it was recommended that you switched your major to business administration. The business administration school had a semester long class devoted to learning Excel.
I received a big internet the other day. I printed it out and it had to be over one hundred pages. If you need a bigger internet, I think I can forward it to you.
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Just prey to GOD you're not in seat 32A, with a fatty in 32B and C.
I'm preying to God I'm in a seat next to a hottie with 32Cs or 32Ds.
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist!
I think the break through is the part where they build it on the moon. I understand how building a massive telescope on the moon will be difficult, and although this may be slightly easier, I don't consider it a massive breakthrough.
I would consider a massive breakthrough building the telescope out of moon dust, or some other material readily available on the moon. That way, we don't have to transport massive amounts of equipment to the dark side of the moon.
e.g. "I can see access points with MAC addresses 00:60:08:57:3C:D2 and 00:E0:18:77:D6:40 so I know I'm at 37 23.516 -122 02.625.."
Is a web browser even allowed to have access to information like MAC addresses? I figure it ping's a few known servers and calculates its location from the time. In which case, it could easily be fooled by a VPN or Tor.
It doesn't lock you out. Or not me anyway. I get a message that says to disable my adblocking software, but the program shows up normally after 30 seconds.
I've had it lock me out, and I've also seen it shows a blank screen for 30 seconds (It does this on Windows). Either way, it penalizes you for using an ad-blocker. In fact, the commercials are shorter than the 30 seconds it penalizes you for using Ad-Block, making Ad-Block completely pointless on that site.
So I return to my point. How can TiVo get around these commercials and no one has made a Firefox Extension that can do the same thing?
There is no way this will work on Hulu. Hulu notices you are using Ad-Block and locks you out. If TiVo can figure it out, why isn't there a Firefox extension that does it?
I would have called it the quickest flight in nature, but that's not entirely accurate either.
Funny, my company just did the opposite. Our design department was just recently merged with manufacturing. This was done because:
A) Design would rarely factor in the manufacturability of it's designs, driving up costs.
B) Manufacturing had a tendency to sacrifice quality to reduce costs.
This new corporate structure has only been in place for a few months, but so far has worked quite well. Entire product lines have been eliminated (design didn't know manufacturing was still making the old stuff). Entire processes have been eliminated (manufacturing thought they were needed to meet the final spec, but weren't).
Most of these issues could have been resolved with better management and communication, but when design and manufacturing are a single unit, these issues resolve themselves naturally.
Although, I think a supercavitating submarine is way cooler, they are basically looking for a seaplane that can sink.
I can use this to collect the bounty on the Gpcode virus?
I didn't even know there was a GT5. I was a huge fan on 2 and 3 but I didn't think it was worth it to buy a PS3, and I don't know anyone that owns one. Seems like everyone is buying Xbox and Wii.
On a side note, I'm also disappointed that GT5 has fictitious cars in it. The reason I like the GT series is because it's a driving simulator, meaning it attempted to duplicate reality, not make things up.
No one with any sense (and who doesn't work for Microsoft) claims Vista is a "must-have" upgrade
Hard core gamers "must have" DirectX 10. Although, some may argue, that hard core gamers have no sense.
Please excuse me while I return to playing Crysis.
I do that.
end of presentation.
As long as the charger comes with a simple timer I don't see why people wouldn't be willing to charge the car at night, especially if you're in an area that has different rates for different times of day.
I'm not an EE, but isn't the utility frequency related to the load on the grid? Could a charger monitor the utility frequency and charge accordingly? Something like:
if frequency>60Hz
then charge
else
don't charge
endif
I'm happy if it tells me what DLLs svchost.exe is running
rooted in 10.
Speed is great and all, but is it secure?
Speaking of really hard math problems.
I haven't RTFA, but I'm betting this software doesn't have a 100% success rate. I think they would settle for a 1% success rate but since the entire process is automated, and likely distributed across many machines, it doesn't matter. In other words, brute force does the rest.
Great, that's just what we need. An artificial intelligence that is capable of breaking a DoD CAPCHA. Next thing you know it will gain access by the UK Ministry of Defense's satellite network and try to eradicate the human race.
lets just consider the internet closed to new entrants.
Really though, I think we would have been better off if we did this about 10 years ago (maybe even 15).
September 1993? Although, I didn't get on the internet until 1994, so I wouldn't be here right now.
*boggles* Are you serious? This has nothing to do with integrals.
yes it does
Proving that trigonometric identity using Excel is surely an amazing feat...
"Do you ever get the feeling that mathematicians are just different than the rest of us?"
-My intro to electrical engineering professor
To prove it with Excel, you'd have to calculate the result individually for every possible angle, and unless Microsoft have released an update I haven't had yet then Excel doesn't have a transfinite number of available rows.
Ok, so it wasn't a strict mathematical proof. Let's face it, in the real world you rarely have to worry about the infinitesimal. With empirical data in today's digital age, you will have a sampling rate to contend with. Why use an integral when a Riemann sum is all your data can support?
When I was a freshman in engineering school, my intro to engineering class required us to purchase a book similar to this. We were given two class periods to work with Excel, supervised by a TA. (it was considered a lab) I remember the assignment involved proving that sin^2+cos^2=1.
If you couldn't figure out Excel within those two class periods, it was recommended that you switched your major to business administration. The business administration school had a semester long class devoted to learning Excel.
What if I log into a table (which seats 10 people) with 1 friend... or worse, 8 friends -- and then work as a team.
That would also make an effective money laundering operation.
I received a big internet the other day. I printed it out and it had to be over one hundred pages. If you need a bigger internet, I think I can forward it to you.