Your friends might want to consider using standard tubular fluorescents instead. Two-tube hanging fixtures are sold at Wal-mart as 'shop lights' for less than twenty dollars. They tend to be more efficient than CFLs. Also, the bulbs are available in a variety of spectra.
Perfect reconstruction under the Nyquist-Shannon theorem requires the summation of scaled and shifted sinc functions, or the application of ideal Dirac impulses to an ideal low pass filter. Needless say, actual DACs don't work that way. The Wikipedia article on the zero-order hold function suggests attenuation of 3.9224 dB at half the sample frequency.
I’d also like to note that modern speakers aren’t big enough! I don’t care about volume (personally I don’t like stuff ear-bleeding loud) but my dad’s huge (up to my neck) floor speakers have a presence that you just don’t get with the modern stuff I’m guessing because they just move more air due to their size.
Hear, hear! I can't help but snicker every time I walk past the iPod dock section in Walmart.
The 'problem' is not that repair has gotten more expensive. It's that replacement has gotten far cheaper. Believe it or not, trouble-shooting electronics has always been labor intensive.
Hard drives are cheap if you're just buying one, but as a backup media, they leave a lot to be desired.
Not really. They're cheap per GB. They can be read and written fairly quickly (~100 MB/s). The apparatus for reading back your backups is self contained - usb will be around for a long damn time. They're sealed and don't degrade much over time (unlike high density optical media). And you can back up 2 TB of data without changing media 40 times.
The problem with 'one larger screen' is that the screen costs $1100. A quadruple-head setup, however, can be done with commodity panels for around $500.
Public key cryptography, of course. To 'friend' someone, you generate a keypair and give them the public key and your user id. They do the same. Wall posts, comments, etc., are encrypted with a symmetric cipher (with a random single-use key), and the symmetric key is encrypted with the public key of each person who you want to make the message available to. Of course, you are vulnerable to an evil friend publishing your posts, but that is an unsolvable problem (see: DRM). In place of stateful authentication, each post is signed with a private key whose counterpart is held by the server.
Do all the crypto client-side (perhaps javascript, or alternate integrated clients, like gwibber and smartphone facebook apps) and all the server has to do is hold the encrypted content and validate signatures. You could even make a generalized protocol out of it, so that the content doesn't have to be on any particular server, i.e. host your own damn social network profile. That would ease the node-to-node bandwidth requirements of a server farm for the service. If you're familiar with it, think Sone on Freenet, but without the distributed hash table and associated latency.
Yes, a sales tax would tax the rich more, because they would buy more taxable goods. But they would not do so in proportion to their wealth. The more income one possesses, the larger the portion used for investments, real estate, and campaign contributions.
But the fact that so much of the development took place with government funds means fewer patent obstacles. I wonder how soon we'll see these things in production, and when they'll hit cost parity with water cooling.
Interlaced video should have gone the way of the Dodo long ago. In its day, it was a neat hack to get temporal compression with all analog hardware, but that day is long passed.
I don't think the Debian Project are the has the best ideas when it comes to software patents, seeing as their policy is 'assume the position for Uncle Sam'. We should instead follow the example of Canonical: 'incorporate somewhere under control of a more friendly government and waggle tongue'.
That's the ugliest watch I've ever seen. Clearly, you harbor delusions to protect your mind from the realization that you spent $12,000 on a watch with the weight and diameter of a golf ball.
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Your friends might want to consider using standard tubular fluorescents instead. Two-tube hanging fixtures are sold at Wal-mart as 'shop lights' for less than twenty dollars. They tend to be more efficient than CFLs. Also, the bulbs are available in a variety of spectra.
Just so you know, this is a story about a series of comments on a social networking site. I hate to say it, but
Slashdot == stagnated
Search. Drivers on 64 bit CPUs. Ctrl-shift-n to create a new folder. UAC (privilege escalation without logging out an back in with an admin account).
Why would you use an SSD for long term storage of RAW images? That's like fueling your yacht with whale oil 'cause diesel isn't expensive enough.
Perfect reconstruction under the Nyquist-Shannon theorem requires the summation of scaled and shifted sinc functions, or the application of ideal Dirac impulses to an ideal low pass filter. Needless say, actual DACs don't work that way. The Wikipedia article on the zero-order hold function suggests attenuation of 3.9224 dB at half the sample frequency.
Just go for the 95% lab ethanol.
I’d also like to note that modern speakers aren’t big enough! I don’t care about volume (personally I don’t like stuff ear-bleeding loud) but my dad’s huge (up to my neck) floor speakers have a presence that you just don’t get with the modern stuff I’m guessing because they just move more air due to their size.
Hear, hear! I can't help but snicker every time I walk past the iPod dock section in Walmart.
I like the behavior of KDE most of the time, but there is a irritating tendency to waste huge swaths of pixels. See: Dolphin_FileManager.png
Click on network icon -> edit connections -> wireless tab -> select the encrypted wifi network -> edit connection -> check 'available to all users'
No more abstruse prompts about unlocking keyrings.
A proper troll need a proper gimmick, and I commend you, sir, for sticking with yours all these months.
9.7/10
The 'problem' is not that repair has gotten more expensive. It's that replacement has gotten far cheaper. Believe it or not, trouble-shooting electronics has always been labor intensive.
In most western music there are in fact 12 notes.
Hard drives are cheap if you're just buying one, but as a backup media, they leave a lot to be desired.
Not really. They're cheap per GB. They can be read and written fairly quickly (~100 MB/s). The apparatus for reading back your backups is self contained - usb will be around for a long damn time. They're sealed and don't degrade much over time (unlike high density optical media). And you can back up 2 TB of data without changing media 40 times.
The problem with 'one larger screen' is that the screen costs $1100. A quadruple-head setup, however, can be done with commodity panels for around $500.
Public key cryptography, of course. To 'friend' someone, you generate a keypair and give them the public key and your user id. They do the same. Wall posts, comments, etc., are encrypted with a symmetric cipher (with a random single-use key), and the symmetric key is encrypted with the public key of each person who you want to make the message available to. Of course, you are vulnerable to an evil friend publishing your posts, but that is an unsolvable problem (see: DRM). In place of stateful authentication, each post is signed with a private key whose counterpart is held by the server.
Do all the crypto client-side (perhaps javascript, or alternate integrated clients, like gwibber and smartphone facebook apps) and all the server has to do is hold the encrypted content and validate signatures. You could even make a generalized protocol out of it, so that the content doesn't have to be on any particular server, i.e. host your own damn social network profile. That would ease the node-to-node bandwidth requirements of a server farm for the service. If you're familiar with it, think Sone on Freenet, but without the distributed hash table and associated latency.
That would be something deserving of a Nobel prize. General Relativity forbids being able to tell the difference.
you...have to watch TV instead
A terrible fate indeed.
Yes, a sales tax would tax the rich more, because they would buy more taxable goods. But they would not do so in proportion to their wealth. The more income one possesses, the larger the portion used for investments, real estate, and campaign contributions.
He probably wasn't using injection. He just listened until he had enough IVs.
But the fact that so much of the development took place with government funds means fewer patent obstacles. I wonder how soon we'll see these things in production, and when they'll hit cost parity with water cooling.
Go die in a fire. Seriously. You are a worthless hunk of meat.
Interlaced video should have gone the way of the Dodo long ago. In its day, it was a neat hack to get temporal compression with all analog hardware, but that day is long passed.
I don't think the Debian Project are the has the best ideas when it comes to software patents, seeing as their policy is 'assume the position for Uncle Sam'. We should instead follow the example of Canonical: 'incorporate somewhere under control of a more friendly government and waggle tongue'.
That's the ugliest watch I've ever seen. Clearly, you harbor delusions to protect your mind from the realization that you spent $12,000 on a watch with the weight and diameter of a golf ball.
They're not hard to find. Cheap, too.