FYI. Photoshopped images of adults with children's heads are now considered to be child pornography (referred to as morphed images in the law). The "logic" is that this is satisfying the same desires and thus fueling demand for the real stuff.
Even worse is the fact that murderers in the US get a better life after prison than released sex offenders since the former can escape their past (within reason) while the latter have to go on a sex offender registry for life. Those on the registry face restrictions on where they can live and it can make it very difficult to find a well paying job. The registry basically relegates you to the bottom rung of society. When even the most minor of offenses (sexting for instance) can get someone permanently on a sex offender registry it truly represents cruel and unusual punishment.
Best thing to do is a low-level multi-pass format...
Even that isn't a guarantee. If they are aware at all about what happened they have logs of the transfer and can still charge you with receipt. This, incidentally, carries heavier penalties (5 year minimum jail time) than plain possession (no minimum). The anti-CP laws are truly fucked up. Largely because it isn't politically feasible for any moderate legislator to stand up against the harsh punishment when some zealot (in this case Thurmond and Helms) introduces whacked out bills "for the children".
The upfront cost can be zero if you find a perfectly good 10-year old or so laser printer on eBay. At that age you can get nice workgroup level printers for a steal.
That's part of the appeal. The Scientology texts are written with obtuse "tech" that is akin to gnostic religious writings in that is is intended to solidify group identity through secret knowledge. To understand this nonsense means that one is an insider and part of an elite group different from "normal" people who can't understand what is being written about. That being said, even with the tech, Hubbard's grammar is notably poor and the line of discussion meanders everywhere. It definitely seems like it was written while he was spaced out on drugs. I certainly have no interest in reading any of his fiction if this is what he typically writes like.
More generically. A 'word' is the traditional term for the native size of a microprocessor's registers. In the case of Intel Architecture this is somewhat complicated by the history of expansions in register size and the desire to maintain backward compatibility with older terminology. Hence, on IA, a word is 16-bits (the machine doesn't know about signs for integers). IA32 brought the double word and then IA64 begat the quadword. On other architectures a word can be 32 or 64 bits or really whatever the designers wanted it to be.
They don't require a data plan for the Centro. If you've been grandfathered on an old NA plan you can still get data charged against your minutes as well.
If you can tolerate it, you should check out a recent Daily Show where Jon rips into the Fox News double speak with regards to news vs. editorial speech.
TFA mentions that the exercise intensity was set at 55% of the aerobic capacity for each individual. Since the larger subjects are presumably less fit and less capable of conducting strenuous exercise their capacity is lower and the amount of work they were doing was less than the fit subjects with a higher capacity.
They tend to measure position once every second to five seconds. This keeps the instantaneous speed calculation close to the real value. The logs are often recorded less frequently to reduce memory consumption. In this case, since the second datum recorded a 45mph average and the computed average is 46 plus change it is reasonable to assume that some data wasn't recorded in the interval between the two points in question.
...needs to give users a vehicle for stopping the company from collecting any personal data.
Um.. It's a free service, and collecting user data (most of which is anonymized) is a core feature of their ad services. Why exactly does Google need to hobble its business model again?
I can't vouch for Florida but in most states you can pass through a red light if you've been stopped (in the proper location) for more than two minutes.
FWIW the US also has a 20A receptacle with one blade rotated 90 degrees as a key. It's rarely used because there are few applications that need that current at the lower voltage. The 15A receptacles and heavier duty 15A rated plugs (not the cheap sheet metal ones) are the same construction and can readily handle 20A as well. In the case of 120V welders it is advisable to connect them to 20A circuits to minimize wire heating regardless of the type of receptacle in place. The receptacle isn't what you should be worried about.
X wasn't meant for use in low bandwidth, high latency applications. It's meant for use over a LAN. The X critics always like to trot out their special cases where usability falls to the floor. VNC's killer feature is compression of a protocol already designed for efficient use of bandwidth. X was designed to work with rudimentary, "stupid" servers which wouldn't have the resources (RAM primarily) for significant local caching of data, something that VNC exploits in its design. This necessitated some of the extra "verbosity" in X protocol. If you want you can use a compressed X protocol today to get a usability comparable to VNC over a low bandwidth link.
Lots of people still use X in its intended purpose. Many people in a corporate or academic environment who need to run X apps nowadays will run them on a server or compute cluster and have the display shown on their PC (Typically running Windows with Exceed or other server). Don't poo-poo that design feature just because you haven't made use of it. Everybody's hot to jump on the Citrix and VNC bandwagon these days to do what could be done with X 20 years ago.
The performance issues you see from running remote apps largely stem from the abundance of eyecandy in modern window managers and applications that have to throw a lot of pixmaps across the network to get the job done. Before this was commonplace, remote apps worked as smoothly as a local one. Actually remote apps would be even faster in the days when typical X usage involved a low power, low memory workstation as the server. That model is what X was designed for. Most workstations would be brought to their knees with swapping if you tried to run a non-trivial application locally. It isn't fair to criticize an architecture developed in the 80's that was flexible enough to still be in use today even if some design decisions would be different in a clean architecture started now.
On MacOS X, it's just about impossible to get into a situation where a) video tears or flickers, or b) menus and windows can "rub out" other menus or windows (eg, you can't drag a window around like a giant eraser on Mac OS). On X+whatever, it's pathetically easy to do either. Windows is somewhere in-between the two.
a) That is largely an issue of the video driver in use. Given the poor state of documentation on most video hardware these days it isn't difficult to understand why this might be happening. Back in the SVGA era you didn't see this happening because there was enough documentation of a standard interface to do things right. Some of this is server related as well. X was never designed to support opaque window moves. That has been grafted on in time.
b) That is something that afflicts the X.org server. You don't see these sort of compositing flaws in commercial X servers. This is not a fundamental problem with X. Just a common implementation of the server.
Everybody likes to slam the lack of success with the PAC1 missiles during Desert Storm but nobody seems to want to remember that they were never designed for that application in the first place. They were anti-aircraft SAMs which were rushed into the theater and hurriedly modified to have something that could be thrown up against the SCUD threat. It's a wonder that they worked as well as they did. This timing flaw is significant but it wouldn't have been as easily caught with the slower targets it was designed for.
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FYI. Photoshopped images of adults with children's heads are now considered to be child pornography (referred to as morphed images in the law). The "logic" is that this is satisfying the same desires and thus fueling demand for the real stuff.
Even worse is the fact that murderers in the US get a better life after prison than released sex offenders since the former can escape their past (within reason) while the latter have to go on a sex offender registry for life. Those on the registry face restrictions on where they can live and it can make it very difficult to find a well paying job. The registry basically relegates you to the bottom rung of society. When even the most minor of offenses (sexting for instance) can get someone permanently on a sex offender registry it truly represents cruel and unusual punishment.
Best thing to do is a low-level multi-pass format...
Even that isn't a guarantee. If they are aware at all about what happened they have logs of the transfer and can still charge you with receipt. This, incidentally, carries heavier penalties (5 year minimum jail time) than plain possession (no minimum). The anti-CP laws are truly fucked up. Largely because it isn't politically feasible for any moderate legislator to stand up against the harsh punishment when some zealot (in this case Thurmond and Helms) introduces whacked out bills "for the children".
The upfront cost can be zero if you find a perfectly good 10-year old or so laser printer on eBay. At that age you can get nice workgroup level printers for a steal.
That's part of the appeal. The Scientology texts are written with obtuse "tech" that is akin to gnostic religious writings in that is is intended to solidify group identity through secret knowledge. To understand this nonsense means that one is an insider and part of an elite group different from "normal" people who can't understand what is being written about. That being said, even with the tech, Hubbard's grammar is notably poor and the line of discussion meanders everywhere. It definitely seems like it was written while he was spaced out on drugs. I certainly have no interest in reading any of his fiction if this is what he typically writes like.
Also relevant to the article is that Google translate crowd sources with a link for users to provide an improved translation.
More generically. A 'word' is the traditional term for the native size of a microprocessor's registers. In the case of Intel Architecture this is somewhat complicated by the history of expansions in register size and the desire to maintain backward compatibility with older terminology. Hence, on IA, a word is 16-bits (the machine doesn't know about signs for integers). IA32 brought the double word and then IA64 begat the quadword. On other architectures a word can be 32 or 64 bits or really whatever the designers wanted it to be.
For the sake of tradition we should call it a Beowulf cluster. Imagine that.
They don't require a data plan for the Centro. If you've been grandfathered on an old NA plan you can still get data charged against your minutes as well.
"It was earlier" it's inventor says so. ...
it's even google search result two!"
Aye. Had to revert to ye dear ol' mother tongue for that rhyme eh.
I think the biggest stroke of ingenious design was giving male terrestrial mammals external gonads. Must have been the same day MJ was created.
This is basically restoring one of the many useful bits of Agilent that were available in house before her masterful smashup job.
If you can tolerate it, you should check out a recent Daily Show where Jon rips into the Fox News double speak with regards to news vs. editorial speech.
TFA mentions that the exercise intensity was set at 55% of the aerobic capacity for each individual. Since the larger subjects are presumably less fit and less capable of conducting strenuous exercise their capacity is lower and the amount of work they were doing was less than the fit subjects with a higher capacity.
Doesn't the angle of the reading effect it as well?
It does. They read lower than the actual speed of the target. The effect increases the more off axis they are.
They tend to measure position once every second to five seconds. This keeps the instantaneous speed calculation close to the real value. The logs are often recorded less frequently to reduce memory consumption. In this case, since the second datum recorded a 45mph average and the computed average is 46 plus change it is reasonable to assume that some data wasn't recorded in the interval between the two points in question.
...needs to give users a vehicle for stopping the company from collecting any personal data.
Um.. It's a free service, and collecting user data (most of which is anonymized) is a core feature of their ad services. Why exactly does Google need to hobble its business model again?
I can't vouch for Florida but in most states you can pass through a red light if you've been stopped (in the proper location) for more than two minutes.
The only reason I don't have one any more is the land line was going to cost me 10 more dollars than the cell phone
If you discard all the nickel and dime features that get tacked on, you can maintain a landline for less than $10 a month in the US.
FWIW the US also has a 20A receptacle with one blade rotated 90 degrees as a key. It's rarely used because there are few applications that need that current at the lower voltage. The 15A receptacles and heavier duty 15A rated plugs (not the cheap sheet metal ones) are the same construction and can readily handle 20A as well. In the case of 120V welders it is advisable to connect them to 20A circuits to minimize wire heating regardless of the type of receptacle in place. The receptacle isn't what you should be worried about.
X wasn't meant for use in low bandwidth, high latency applications. It's meant for use over a LAN. The X critics always like to trot out their special cases where usability falls to the floor. VNC's killer feature is compression of a protocol already designed for efficient use of bandwidth. X was designed to work with rudimentary, "stupid" servers which wouldn't have the resources (RAM primarily) for significant local caching of data, something that VNC exploits in its design. This necessitated some of the extra "verbosity" in X protocol. If you want you can use a compressed X protocol today to get a usability comparable to VNC over a low bandwidth link.
back when that actually was an intended purpose
Lots of people still use X in its intended purpose. Many people in a corporate or academic environment who need to run X apps nowadays will run them on a server or compute cluster and have the display shown on their PC (Typically running Windows with Exceed or other server). Don't poo-poo that design feature just because you haven't made use of it. Everybody's hot to jump on the Citrix and VNC bandwagon these days to do what could be done with X 20 years ago.
The performance issues you see from running remote apps largely stem from the abundance of eyecandy in modern window managers and applications that have to throw a lot of pixmaps across the network to get the job done. Before this was commonplace, remote apps worked as smoothly as a local one. Actually remote apps would be even faster in the days when typical X usage involved a low power, low memory workstation as the server. That model is what X was designed for. Most workstations would be brought to their knees with swapping if you tried to run a non-trivial application locally. It isn't fair to criticize an architecture developed in the 80's that was flexible enough to still be in use today even if some design decisions would be different in a clean architecture started now.
On MacOS X, it's just about impossible to get into a situation where a) video tears or flickers, or b) menus and windows can "rub out" other menus or windows (eg, you can't drag a window around like a giant eraser on Mac OS). On X+whatever, it's pathetically easy to do either. Windows is somewhere in-between the two.
a) That is largely an issue of the video driver in use. Given the poor state of documentation on most video hardware these days it isn't difficult to understand why this might be happening. Back in the SVGA era you didn't see this happening because there was enough documentation of a standard interface to do things right. Some of this is server related as well. X was never designed to support opaque window moves. That has been grafted on in time.
b) That is something that afflicts the X.org server. You don't see these sort of compositing flaws in commercial X servers. This is not a fundamental problem with X. Just a common implementation of the server.
Wow. Their next gig is in Banff Alberta. That's just... wow. Not a venue I envision PE playing at all. They'll be doing Branson soon enough it seems.
Everybody likes to slam the lack of success with the PAC1 missiles during Desert Storm but nobody seems to want to remember that they were never designed for that application in the first place. They were anti-aircraft SAMs which were rushed into the theater and hurriedly modified to have something that could be thrown up against the SCUD threat. It's a wonder that they worked as well as they did. This timing flaw is significant but it wouldn't have been as easily caught with the slower targets it was designed for.