'First out of the gates, the soft porn Hong Kong film comes as the stricken industry, hit hard by free Internet porn in recent years, turns to 3-D as a potential money-spinner,
at least we know now that this is gonna be a BDSM movie.
Internet connections in the West are extremely shitty compared to those of South Korea and Japan.
odies writes:
I hope you aren't thinking Asian connections are shitty because they are slow to you? They obviously are fast for everyone living there and you can get up to 1 gbit connections in several countries.
BREAKING NEWS: Reading with comprehensions still out of reach of masses.
Some thirty years ago I've heard of a guy that was in his forties and had had a section of spruce branch discovered in his lung. He claimed that he "swallowed" this small secton when he was a toddler.
The needles on the branch were still green on discovery!
I assume you based your statement on timing of doing calculations.
Brain is way faster, but optimised for other tasks than math. Every fraction of second human brain processes all data input from receptors from entire body with signals about temperature, pressure, pain. Plus semantics, so called thinking, etc. Plus live hi-res video and audio processing and interpretation. Plus body organ functions control. 4004 would such heavily...
With 16-digit precision of PI you could actually err by less than 1cm with the orbit of Uranus (assuming for a sec it is round). With 5,000,000,000,000-digit precision of PI you could define the gravitational pull of your anus at Uranus.
note to self: must see again Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets to check how they've managed to put a person on Io. AFAIR that person nearly died of radiation.
If they dropped their anchors somewhere in polar circle instead of SF, they would save huge money on cooling. Propably savings would be enough to fund longer power and fiber lines.
Now only an expert can deal with the problem Because half the problem is seeing the problem And only an expert can deal with the problem Only an expert can deal with the problem
So if there's no expert dealing with the problem It's really actually twice the problem Cause only an expert can deal with the problem Only an expert can deal with the problem
Now in America we like solutions We like solutions to problems And there's so many companies that offer solutions [...]
So when experts say, "Let's get to the root of the problem Let's take control of the problem So if you take control of the problem you can solve the problem." Now often this doesn't work at all because the situation is completely out of control. Cause only an expert can deal with the problem Only an expert can deal with the problem Only an expert can deal with the problem
So who are these experts? Experts are usually self-appointed people or elected officials Or people skilled in sales techniques, trained or self-taught To focus on things that might be identified as problems. Now sometimes these things are not actually problems. But the expert is someone who studies the problem And tries to solve the problem. [...]
And sometimes, if it's really really really hot. And it's July in January. And there's no more snow and huge waves are wiping out cities. And hurricanes are everywhere. And everyone knows it's a problem. But if some of the experts say it's no problem And other experts claim it's no problem Or explain why it's no problem Then it's simply not a problem. But when an expert says it's a problem And makes a movie and wins an Oscar about the problem Then all the other experts have to agree that it is most likely a problem. Cause only an expert can deal with the problem Only an expert can deal with the problem Only an expert can deal with the problem [...]
Only an expert can see there's a problem And see the problem is half the problem And only an expert can deal with the problem Only an expert can deal with the problem.
speaking of 'fighting the breaks' this reminded me of airplane scene in "Fight Club":
Tyler: (...) If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Tyler: You wouldn't believe. Woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Tyler: A major one....
perhaps the neighboring object (star or whatever) that slings Oort cloud objects at us also bobbs, with different period? And then Sun's pace has little to do with it....
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'First out of the gates, the soft porn Hong Kong film comes as the stricken industry, hit hard by free Internet porn in recent years, turns to 3-D as a potential money-spinner,
at least we know now that this is gonna be a BDSM movie.
the original movie no longer exists
Thanks. Now we have a scapegoat to be blamed: KODAK made crappy negative that faded in just five years.
Thanks Kodak, you won't see me buying your negatives ever.
perhaps IT staff there sucks in anything more complicated than rebooting or running minesweeper and solitaire.
AC:
Internet connections in the West are extremely shitty compared to those of South Korea and Japan.
odies writes:
I hope you aren't thinking Asian connections are shitty because they are slow to you? They obviously are fast for everyone living there and you can get up to 1 gbit connections in several countries.
BREAKING NEWS:
Reading with comprehensions still out of reach of masses.
Some thirty years ago I've heard of a guy that was in his forties and had had a section of spruce branch discovered in his lung. He claimed that he "swallowed" this small secton when he was a toddler.
The needles on the branch were still green on discovery!
I assume you based your statement on timing of doing calculations.
Brain is way faster, but optimised for other tasks than math. ...
Every fraction of second human brain processes all data input from receptors from entire body with signals about temperature, pressure, pain. Plus semantics, so called thinking, etc. Plus live hi-res video and audio processing and interpretation. Plus body organ functions control. 4004 would such heavily
yes, and I believe that our civilisation won't fall or survive because we reached this level of precision with Pi.
stats are ok - they include all these cases when iPhone owner bends over while Apple and AT&T wait behind
It is very useful.
With 16-digit precision of PI you could actually err by less than 1cm with the orbit of Uranus (assuming for a sec it is round).
With 5,000,000,000,000-digit precision of PI you could define the gravitational pull of your anus at Uranus.
I use ST-506 drives, you insensitive clod!
unless this is DARPA playing with HAARP again.
speaking of "proxy data", why not place a data centre on this island?
note to self: must see again Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets to check how they've managed to put a person on Io. AFAIR that person nearly died of radiation.
surely they could do better than French did at WC. (team play)
If they dropped their anchors somewhere in polar circle instead of SF, they would save huge money on cooling. Propably savings would be enough to fund longer power and fiber lines.
Who uses real information online anyways?
Idiots do. So probably at least 80% of users.
Now only an expert can deal with the problem
Because half the problem is seeing the problem
And only an expert can deal with the problem
Only an expert can deal with the problem
So if there's no expert dealing with the problem
It's really actually twice the problem
Cause only an expert can deal with the problem
Only an expert can deal with the problem
Now in America we like solutions
We like solutions to problems
And there's so many companies that offer solutions
[...]
So when experts say, "Let's get to the root of the problem
Let's take control of the problem
So if you take control of the problem you can solve the problem."
Now often this doesn't work at all because the situation is completely out of control.
Cause only an expert can deal with the problem
Only an expert can deal with the problem
Only an expert can deal with the problem
So who are these experts?
Experts are usually self-appointed people or elected officials
Or people skilled in sales techniques, trained or self-taught
To focus on things that might be identified as problems.
Now sometimes these things are not actually problems.
But the expert is someone who studies the problem
And tries to solve the problem.
[...]
And sometimes, if it's really really really hot.
And it's July in January.
And there's no more snow and huge waves are wiping out cities.
And hurricanes are everywhere.
And everyone knows it's a problem.
But if some of the experts say it's no problem
And other experts claim it's no problem
Or explain why it's no problem
Then it's simply not a problem.
But when an expert says it's a problem
And makes a movie and wins an Oscar about the problem
Then all the other experts have to agree that it is most likely a problem.
Cause only an expert can deal with the problem
Only an expert can deal with the problem
Only an expert can deal with the problem
[...]
Only an expert can see there's a problem
And see the problem is half the problem
And only an expert can deal with the problem
Only an expert can deal with the problem.
exempt from "Only An Expert" by Laurie Anderson
you should always follow these three rules of business:
1) Never let a web designer design your web page (or in this case, a designer design your missing cat poster)
2) Never let a developer develop your software
3) Never hire an MBA to run your company
... as all these ridiculously easy tasks could be commanded to this lady who lost her cat.
NASA has finally proved that planet Earth is (still, at least) habitable! We knew that all that investment will bring us new knowledge some day.
now, if only we had means to find out if there is intelligent life.
Personally I doubt that.
With my meagre constitution sometimes I am
why?
I liked http://www.ncix.gov/images/publications/posters/hanssen_poster_100.jpg ;-)
where is "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag, when you need one?
speaking of 'fighting the breaks' this reminded me of airplane scene in "Fight Club":
Tyler: (...) If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. ...
Woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Tyler: You wouldn't believe.
Woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Tyler: A major one.
no, they will ship free rubber gloves so that antenna is isolated right. :)
Problem solved
perhaps the neighboring object (star or whatever) that slings Oort cloud objects at us also bobbs, with different period? ....
And then Sun's pace has little to do with it