I've never seen a Sony, Dell or HP laptop that was painted at all. Much less painted in a way where two inch long strips peel off the thing
Got one right here. Dell latitude D600, painted all over with some sort of damn ugly semi-metallic silver paint. Within a couple months after I got it, giant strips of the paint started coming off of the back of the LCD, caused (as far as I can tell) by nothing more than my putting it into my laptop bag and taking it out again.
"Fortunately", I had to get the LCD replaced because the entire hinge assembly snapped into two for no reason, and the new one has had no such problem. But no, it's not an Apple thing particularly.
I guess Sony hasn't been keeping up with the OS, then. The 4k limit is gone on any model which has the "Memos" app rather than the "Memo Pad" app; I believe this happened in about 2003 (admittedly, that's far later than it should have been, but still)
As seen on Slashdot, over half of the "empirical evidence" in academic papers is either mismeasured or misinterpreted to give a bogus result. Which means that statistically, if I see a paper that shows X, I should be more confident in ~X.
by mounting a Hoya HA-30 in front of my lens? The curve isn't perfect, but it would probably absorb enough IR to eliminate the "ooh! ooh! shiny thing!" detectors:)
And this looks like it's actually an appropriate time to ask. I've heard that the Tandy "PC-LINK" service was also a predecessor of AOL. Anyone with some real knowledge want to enlighten me on the connection (if any) between Quantum Link and PC-LINK?
No, most cameras do filter IR, because if they didn't, reds wouldn't look quite right. If you've got a camera with "nightshot" mode, the little click you hear when you flip the switch is the IR filter moving out of the way.
That's definitely not the case in PA, at least -- the background absorbs IR effectively, and the paint on the numbers is really reflective to IR (in the piece of near-IR that my Sony camera can see). I'm guessing it's intentional.
1) No, you're not reading it right. There was no literal use of "digits" meant; the stuff about "significant digits" had to do with quantifying amounts of information. 2) Your other points are wrong, wrong, and incredibly silly, in order. Working with decimal would be an order of magnitude harder than binary, not easier. It's been tried, a long time ago;) Ternary, on the other hand, might still have some hope.
Yes. Everyone in the state of PA takes four years of high school math if they want to get a diploma; in my school, the options were
A) Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Algebra III+Trig B) Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-calculus+Trig, Calculus I (having taken Algebra ahead of time) or C) four years of "Integrated Math" covering basic math, algebra, and trig in "real world" situations.
Or you could stop being an idiot, realize that it's a perfectly useful number that businesses find important, regardless of the fact that you were sadly deluded as to what it meant, and stop whining about stupid shit on slashdot.
Okay, maybe there's some use for this, but the author has a really screwed up idea of what's allowed to be "fundamental". He says that angles are no good because they require calculus to define precisely. Putting aside the fact that you could come up with a working approximation (to any precision) of the standard definition of "angle" using standard tools like the diameter of a circle and angle bisectors, does that mean that we can't teach "speed" because it requires differential calc, and we can't teach "volume" of anything that's not a rectangle, because you can't prove it without integral calc?
Really, this has the same tone as hundreds of years of mathematical quackery: I will now revolutionize mathematics by employing THE GOLDEN ANGLE of the COSINE BETWEEN THE PLANETS as revealed to me by JESUS 2500 YEARS AGO.
well gee ext2fsck segfaults on me too. i guess that means ext2 isnt ready to take out of the oven either. All I can say is I've never seen it, and I've put a lot more use into ext2/3 than I ever have Reiser (and yet Reiser's failed more).
hell i can make the _kernel_ panic on ext2 errors, i guess that means linux isn't ready either. So can I. mount option "errors=panic" or superblock equivalent;)
It shows that they don't know how to build a decent set of tools before "releasing" a filesystem, and that maybe after ten years this one still isn't ready to take out of the oven.
I see this comment in danger of getting modded into oblivion, so let me back it up.
I haven't used Reiser for years for exactly the same reason. The two times that I had had any trouble with a reiser partition that required the use of recovery tools, the reiserfsprogs segfaulted, and then destroyed all of my data in the name of "recovering" it. Even e2fsprogs is far more stable (and useful) than that.
I just realized that I hit "Submit" before my thoughts really had a chance to solidify, so let me expand a little bit. The issue with wikis is that they're really based 100% on "presentational" notation -- especially mediawiki, which has no higher goal than "transform these tags into HTML tags by means of a mess of regexes", and which allows almost free mixing of its wikitext (which could almost be used for semantic purposes) with equivalent HTML. It's not structured enough; trying to get anything useful out of it is like dealing with really bad, pre-CSS HTML.
Agreed, though for entirely different reasons. Personally, I just think a wiki is too freeform. Come up with a basic set of "objects" with defined fields, and it will be easy to get consistent information and plot the relationships between shows and actors and directors, etc. Run it on a wiki, and you'll have inconsistently-formatted, inconsistently-maintained data with no integration. Wikis are cool, but they don't solve every problem. And while I'm at it, the mediawiki code base is scary;)
No, the Mozilla Browser is now the Mozilla browser, and Firefox is now Firefox (and not Firebird or Phoenix). Meanwhile, Internet Explorer is "The Internet". I hope this clears things up for you.
Because they get such a great treatment from the bureaucratic power-seekers? Besides, anyone who really as no one to care about them (family, friends, or charity) is already pretty screwed. I'd expect that to be less than the number of people getting screwed currently. Look at all of the money that various people have raised for "relief", and imagine that it was fed into efficient rescue teams with an interest in getting their job done.
It's still not the same situation. It's one thing to point out an enemy, say that they're so bad they need nuking before they get any bigger and badder, blow them up, and suffer the loss of San Fransisco. Sure, it would be really horrible -- but there are situations where it could be played as the only reasonable option.
MAD, on the other hand, involves an opponent whom you know could launch a devastating attack on you as soon as they find out that you've fired on them. The kind where you have no ability to fight anyone, if you can manage to keep anyone alive.
The current situation is in a way even more unstable, because we have some people that pose threats, but whom we could still potentially waste in the fashion of the first paragraph. And the question is, do you want to reach the "stable" situation of MAD, where everyone's afraid of everyone, or do you want to turn the "bad guys'" cities into glass first?
Secondly FEMA dropped the ball so badly because we have had five years of a government that thinks just like you do. The Bush adminstration has so little respect for government agencies that they choked them with insufficient budgets and apointed unqualified cronies to run them
So their fault is that they did it half-assed? It's not enough to choke and cripple the government agencies, you have to put them out of business entirely. Otherwise, there's no room to compete. The government may not know what "competition" is (which is why they do such a lousy job of trying to "promote" it with legislation), but one thing they know for sure is that they don't like anyone competing with them.
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koma-letter2 is nice; unfortunately it's also completely broken if your paper is American.
I've never seen a Sony, Dell or HP laptop that was painted at all. Much less painted in a way where two inch long strips peel off the thing
Got one right here. Dell latitude D600, painted all over with some sort of damn ugly semi-metallic silver paint. Within a couple months after I got it, giant strips of the paint started coming off of the back of the LCD, caused (as far as I can tell) by nothing more than my putting it into my laptop bag and taking it out again.
"Fortunately", I had to get the LCD replaced because the entire hinge assembly snapped into two for no reason, and the new one has had no such problem. But no, it's not an Apple thing particularly.
I guess Sony hasn't been keeping up with the OS, then. The 4k limit is gone on any model which has the "Memos" app rather than the "Memo Pad" app; I believe this happened in about 2003 (admittedly, that's far later than it should have been, but still)
and after all these years, Palm notepad is still limited to 4096 byte messages? That's just pathetic.
:)
Good thing that it's also wrong, then!
As seen on Slashdot, over half of the "empirical evidence" in academic papers is either mismeasured or misinterpreted to give a bogus result. Which means that statistically, if I see a paper that shows X, I should be more confident in ~X.
Or for those of us who don't care about anything biblical, just think of it as a Xenogears reference ;)
by mounting a Hoya HA-30 in front of my lens? The curve isn't perfect, but it would probably absorb enough IR to eliminate the "ooh! ooh! shiny thing!" detectors :)
And this looks like it's actually an appropriate time to ask. I've heard that the Tandy "PC-LINK" service was also a predecessor of AOL. Anyone with some real knowledge want to enlighten me on the connection (if any) between Quantum Link and PC-LINK?
No, most cameras do filter IR, because if they didn't, reds wouldn't look quite right. If you've got a camera with "nightshot" mode, the little click you hear when you flip the switch is the IR filter moving out of the way.
That's definitely not the case in PA, at least -- the background absorbs IR effectively, and the paint on the numbers is really reflective to IR (in the piece of near-IR that my Sony camera can see). I'm guessing it's intentional.
1) No, you're not reading it right. There was no literal use of "digits" meant; the stuff about "significant digits" had to do with quantifying amounts of information. ;) Ternary, on the other hand, might still have some hope.
2) Your other points are wrong, wrong, and incredibly silly, in order. Working with decimal would be an order of magnitude harder than binary, not easier. It's been tried, a long time ago
Yes. Everyone in the state of PA takes four years of high school math if they want to get a diploma; in my school, the options were
A) Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Algebra III+Trig
B) Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-calculus+Trig, Calculus I (having taken Algebra ahead of time)
or
C) four years of "Integrated Math" covering basic math, algebra, and trig in "real world" situations.
Or you could stop being an idiot, realize that it's a perfectly useful number that businesses find important, regardless of the fact that you were sadly deluded as to what it meant, and stop whining about stupid shit on slashdot.
Okay, maybe there's some use for this, but the author has a really screwed up idea of what's allowed to be "fundamental". He says that angles are no good because they require calculus to define precisely. Putting aside the fact that you could come up with a working approximation (to any precision) of the standard definition of "angle" using standard tools like the diameter of a circle and angle bisectors, does that mean that we can't teach "speed" because it requires differential calc, and we can't teach "volume" of anything that's not a rectangle, because you can't prove it without integral calc?
Really, this has the same tone as hundreds of years of mathematical quackery: I will now revolutionize mathematics by employing THE GOLDEN ANGLE of the COSINE BETWEEN THE PLANETS as revealed to me by JESUS 2500 YEARS AGO.
well gee ext2fsck segfaults on me too. i guess that means ext2 isnt ready to take out of the oven either.
;)
All I can say is I've never seen it, and I've put a lot more use into ext2/3 than I ever have Reiser (and yet Reiser's failed more).
hell i can make the _kernel_ panic on ext2 errors, i guess that means linux isn't ready either.
So can I. mount option "errors=panic" or superblock equivalent
It shows that they don't know how to build a decent set of tools before "releasing" a filesystem, and that maybe after ten years this one still isn't ready to take out of the oven.
I see this comment in danger of getting modded into oblivion, so let me back it up.
I haven't used Reiser for years for exactly the same reason. The two times that I had had any trouble with a reiser partition that required the use of recovery tools, the reiserfsprogs segfaulted, and then destroyed all of my data in the name of "recovering" it. Even e2fsprogs is far more stable (and useful) than that.
I just realized that I hit "Submit" before my thoughts really had a chance to solidify, so let me expand a little bit. The issue with wikis is that they're really based 100% on "presentational" notation -- especially mediawiki, which has no higher goal than "transform these tags into HTML tags by means of a mess of regexes", and which allows almost free mixing of its wikitext (which could almost be used for semantic purposes) with equivalent HTML. It's not structured enough; trying to get anything useful out of it is like dealing with really bad, pre-CSS HTML.
Agreed, though for entirely different reasons. Personally, I just think a wiki is too freeform. Come up with a basic set of "objects" with defined fields, and it will be easy to get consistent information and plot the relationships between shows and actors and directors, etc. Run it on a wiki, and you'll have inconsistently-formatted, inconsistently-maintained data with no integration. Wikis are cool, but they don't solve every problem. And while I'm at it, the mediawiki code base is scary ;)
No, the Mozilla Browser is now the Mozilla browser, and Firefox is now Firefox (and not Firebird or Phoenix). Meanwhile, Internet Explorer is "The Internet". I hope this clears things up for you.
Because they get such a great treatment from the bureaucratic power-seekers? Besides, anyone who really as no one to care about them (family, friends, or charity) is already pretty screwed. I'd expect that to be less than the number of people getting screwed currently. Look at all of the money that various people have raised for "relief", and imagine that it was fed into efficient rescue teams with an interest in getting their job done.
What did Florida State University do to anyone?
Too many constanants. Er, castanets.
It's still not the same situation. It's one thing to point out an enemy, say that they're so bad they need nuking before they get any bigger and badder, blow them up, and suffer the loss of San Fransisco. Sure, it would be really horrible -- but there are situations where it could be played as the only reasonable option.
MAD, on the other hand, involves an opponent whom you know could launch a devastating attack on you as soon as they find out that you've fired on them. The kind where you have no ability to fight anyone, if you can manage to keep anyone alive.
The current situation is in a way even more unstable, because we have some people that pose threats, but whom we could still potentially waste in the fashion of the first paragraph. And the question is, do you want to reach the "stable" situation of MAD, where everyone's afraid of everyone, or do you want to turn the "bad guys'" cities into glass first?
Secondly FEMA dropped the ball so badly because we have had five years of a government that thinks just like you do. The Bush adminstration has so little respect for government agencies that they choked them with insufficient budgets and apointed unqualified cronies to run them
So their fault is that they did it half-assed? It's not enough to choke and cripple the government agencies, you have to put them out of business entirely. Otherwise, there's no room to compete. The government may not know what "competition" is (which is why they do such a lousy job of trying to "promote" it with legislation), but one thing they know for sure is that they don't like anyone competing with them.