Fax machines don't necessarily have crummy quality scanners--those multifunction printers (all-in-one printer, fax, and scanner devices), for example, have pretty decent scanners. And faxes use CCITT G3 compression, which is lossless.
The link in question is a bug in the standards test. Their answer was not to fix the standards test, like it should have been- it was to, as Ulrich put it, don't use fast SMP machines.
Since when was that the answer? If you actually read the comments, you'll see that comment #4 says, "This is a bug in these test cases.... They are also right about EINVAL being a 'may fail'." And if you actually read the linked problemreports, you'll note "Review Conclusion: A test suite deficiency is granted."
In other words, their answer is that they acknowledge that there's a bug in the standards test. I assume they're planning on fixing it. I see nothing that says their response was, "don't use fast SMP machines." That's something Ulrich claims, but he provides no documentation whatsoever.
They have the phone's IMEI because it's their phone. That's not "personal info." They have IP addresses because it's their server. Unless you fell for those "YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING YOUR IP ADDRESS!" popup ads, you realize that IP addresses aren't "personal info" either.
I challenge you to actually find bad facts on Wikipedia.
What about the current (as of August 7, 2005) version of the article on the Ideal gas law, which states the law as "P = RT/~V where P is the pressure of an ideal gas, R is its molar mass, T is its temperature and ~V is its molar volume." It links to articles on pressure, temperature, and molar volume, but not "molar mass." Since molar volume is volume per mole (e.g., cm^3/mol), one would assume that molar mass is mass per mole (g/mol), which would be the molecular weight of the gas. What happened to the Gas constant? With the Wikipedia version of the law, you have units of kg/(m s^2) = (kg/mol) (K)/(m^3/mol) or kg/(m s^2) = kg K/m^3. The units don't match up.
The "R" in the equation is supposed to be the gas constant, 8.314472 J/(K mol), not "molar mass": kg/(m s^2) = (J/(K mol)) K/(m^3/mol) = J/m^3 = (kg m^2/s^2)/m^3 = kg/(m s^2).
This was all caused by COGDEN's June 11 edit, where he changed the law from "PV = nRT" to "P = RT/~V," claiming that the change was "to eliminate extensive variables, as is standard practice." It's been over a decade since I learned about the ideal gas law, but at least back in the day, it was expressed as "PV = nRT". A quick Google search shows numerous sites with that form of the equation, so I seriously question COGDEN's claim of P = RT/~V being "standard practice". Now, while "P = RT/~V" is still correct, COGDEN removed the definition of R that was in the previous version. So, a month later, Acit comes by and "helpfully" adds an incorrect definition of R. The incorrect info has been in the article since July 12, and has passed scrutiny by at least one editor, who made a minor revision, but didn't correct the factual error.
Eh, while PS is an unusual language to write a
raytracer in, and a laser printer is an unusual
computer to run a raytracer on, it's still all
pretty straightforward, and it doesn't use
anything special to PS. On the other hand, Don
Lancaster has a set of routines that redefine the
PS path operators (moveto, lineto, curveto,
etc...) to output commands to control a
home-grown CNC
router. He also implemented transparency (alpha
blending) before Adobe added native support for it
in PS Level 3. And just look through his website for
more examples of the wacky stuff he does. So,
while a PS raytracer is a neat hack, I think the
stuff Don does shows more knowledge of
PostScript, and makes him the real PS genius.
I would like to know how to lay out a basic "newsletter" style document in PS.
Personally, I don't think hand-coding your own PS routines to do something like that is really practical, but if you really want to do it, Don Lancaster has what you need. The guy is a (mad) genius with PostScript.
That's Symantec. And yeah, I agree; Personal Firewall isn't gonna cut it for the shuttle.
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I've not looked at the TVs in every hotel I've ever stayed at, but when I have the cable going to the TV was locked and you couldn't unscrew it if you wanted to.
The ones I've seen aren't locked, but have a plastic cylinder around the F connector that keeps you from unscrewing it. However, all you need is a security wrench. They're also handy if the hotel TV doesn't have AV inputs, and you want to hook up your VCR or DVD player to it via a RF modulator.
Homesteading still goes on from time to time, and the land will still be free for the taking as long as you agree to live on it.
Well, perhaps people still try to homestead, but land certainly is not free for the taking, and hasn't been free for the taking since 1976.
As the BLM says, "Congress abolished homesteading in 1976 with passage of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, which made it national policy to retain the public lands in Federal ownership."
talkd listens on a UDP port, not on a local Unix domain socket. Seems to me that the authors certainly did expect people to use it over the Internet. Personally, I don't remember ever using it to talk to someone on the same system; I always used it to talk to a remote user.
True, but the energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency. E = hf, where h is Planck's constant. That's why hard ultraviolet light (~1 PHz or 1,000,000GHz) has enough energy to knock electrons out of orbit and cause mutations in DNA, while 95 GHz microwaves do not have enough energy to do so, no matter how many photons you crank out.
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Interesting factoid: everyone under the age of 15 is also under the age of 20.
Fax machines don't necessarily have crummy quality scanners--those multifunction printers (all-in-one printer, fax, and scanner devices), for example, have pretty decent scanners. And faxes use CCITT G3 compression, which is lossless.
Hey, you lost your kanji .signature?
Gussy it up however you want, Trebek. What matters is does it work? Will it really mighty my penis, man?
Leave, whether you like it here or not. You suck.
You may think that, but it's actually an abbreviation of the English word "animation."
Just one brawny guy is (barely) sufficient.
By her answers during the Senate confirmation hearings. You know, the way we (and the Senate) are supposed to judge her.
"Early 90's"? You're the latecomer... no, the guy you replied to has it right--the Internet was never free. Leased lines cost money.
Simple--using the distributive law,
whereasSince when was that the answer? If you actually read the comments, you'll see that comment #4 says, "This is a bug in these test cases.... They are also right about EINVAL being a 'may fail'." And if you actually read the linked problem reports, you'll note "Review Conclusion: A test suite deficiency is granted."
In other words, their answer is that they acknowledge that there's a bug in the standards test. I assume they're planning on fixing it. I see nothing that says their response was, "don't use fast SMP machines." That's something Ulrich claims, but he provides no documentation whatsoever.
Idiot, moron, imbecile, completely clueless about SQL, etc.
They have the phone's IMEI because it's their phone. That's not "personal info." They have IP addresses because it's their server. Unless you fell for those "YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING YOUR IP ADDRESS!" popup ads, you realize that IP addresses aren't "personal info" either.
What about the current (as of August 7, 2005) version of the article on the Ideal gas law, which states the law as "P = RT/~V where P is the pressure of an ideal gas, R is its molar mass, T is its temperature and ~V is its molar volume." It links to articles on pressure, temperature, and molar volume, but not "molar mass." Since molar volume is volume per mole (e.g., cm^3/mol), one would assume that molar mass is mass per mole (g/mol), which would be the molecular weight of the gas. What happened to the Gas constant? With the Wikipedia version of the law, you have units of kg/(m s^2) = (kg/mol) (K)/(m^3/mol) or kg/(m s^2) = kg K/m^3. The units don't match up.
The "R" in the equation is supposed to be the gas constant, 8.314472 J/(K mol), not "molar mass": kg/(m s^2) = (J/(K mol)) K/(m^3/mol) = J/m^3 = (kg m^2/s^2)/m^3 = kg/(m s^2).
This was all caused by COGDEN's June 11 edit, where he changed the law from "PV = nRT" to "P = RT/~V," claiming that the change was "to eliminate extensive variables, as is standard practice." It's been over a decade since I learned about the ideal gas law, but at least back in the day, it was expressed as "PV = nRT". A quick Google search shows numerous sites with that form of the equation, so I seriously question COGDEN's claim of P = RT/~V being "standard practice". Now, while "P = RT/~V" is still correct, COGDEN removed the definition of R that was in the previous version. So, a month later, Acit comes by and "helpfully" adds an incorrect definition of R. The incorrect info has been in the article since July 12, and has passed scrutiny by at least one editor, who made a minor revision, but didn't correct the factual error.
Eh, while PS is an unusual language to write a raytracer in, and a laser printer is an unusual computer to run a raytracer on, it's still all pretty straightforward, and it doesn't use anything special to PS. On the other hand, Don Lancaster has a set of routines that redefine the PS path operators (moveto, lineto, curveto, etc...) to output commands to control a home-grown CNC router. He also implemented transparency (alpha blending) before Adobe added native support for it in PS Level 3. And just look through his website for more examples of the wacky stuff he does. So, while a PS raytracer is a neat hack, I think the stuff Don does shows more knowledge of PostScript, and makes him the real PS genius.
Personally, I don't think hand-coding your own PS routines to do something like that is really practical, but if you really want to do it, Don Lancaster has what you need. The guy is a (mad) genius with PostScript.
That's Symantec. And yeah, I agree; Personal Firewall isn't gonna cut it for the shuttle.
The ones I've seen aren't locked, but have a plastic cylinder around the F connector that keeps you from unscrewing it. However, all you need is a security wrench. They're also handy if the hotel TV doesn't have AV inputs, and you want to hook up your VCR or DVD player to it via a RF modulator.
DONE! I modded it to -13.2.
Well, perhaps people still try to homestead, but land certainly is not free for the taking, and hasn't been free for the taking since 1976.
As the BLM says, "Congress abolished homesteading in 1976 with passage of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, which made it national policy to retain the public lands in Federal ownership."
talk 517/udp # Talk protocols
ntalk 518/udp
talkd listens on a UDP port, not on a local Unix domain socket. Seems to me that the authors certainly did expect people to use it over the Internet. Personally, I don't remember ever using it to talk to someone on the same system; I always used it to talk to a remote user.
I think it's safe to say that you're a moron.
gg reading comprehension
True, but the energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency. E = hf, where h is Planck's constant. That's why hard ultraviolet light (~1 PHz or 1,000,000GHz) has enough energy to knock electrons out of orbit and cause mutations in DNA, while 95 GHz microwaves do not have enough energy to do so, no matter how many photons you crank out.
Excellent effort--I commend you. GNAA quality!