COMPUTE!'s Gazette including listings each month. If I remember, maybe a third of the magazine was devoted to pages upon pages of hex listings. You'd use their machine language entry program "MLX" (BASIC code for which was included verbatim in every single issue -- you'd have to type THAT in first) and sit there for hours typing in the code. It had a simple checksum scheme, so each line was 9 bytes with the last byte being a checksum. If you made a mistake, you found out at the end of the line when the thing goes BEEEEP at you.
My wife has been trying for years to throw away all my old mags. Over my dead freaking body will that happen.
When a robber is already holding you at gunpoint (he surprised you, right?) are you seriously going to reach behind your back/into your shirt to draw your weapon? He's going to blow you away, man.
OPEN carry is what deters such people. When selecting a target, the guy who obviously has a weapon on him is not high up on the list.
I just don't get the point of concealed carry. What is the point of carrying a weapon and hiding it? It loses all deterrence value.
If the majority lifeform "rules" the planet it would strike me as odd that aliens would consider us the owners of the planet mearly by virtual of intelligence. If anything there is the possibility they would see us as an unfair blight of a minority species taking a vastly significant share of real estate from the bulk of lifeforms. They might go so far as to cull the herd to ensure the bulk of the lifeforms have a porportional access to Earth. Since we are less then 1% of the lifeforms on Earth, why assume we would get much of a say.
This is called "anthropomorphizing" -- ascribing human tendencies, beliefs, and behaviors to non-human entities. For some reason there are a contingent of people who seem to think that space aliens will have a morality which is essentially the same as that of a mid-1990's environmental terrorist from the Pacific Northwest. Well, I think that's about as likely as discovering that they are all adherents of the Baha'i faith, or that they enjoy a fine Earl Grey. In other words, not fucking likely.
I doubt that downloading the DB would be acceptable, because it could become stale and thus cause you to violate an FCC regulation by using a channel you are forbidden to use. So that will never happen. But please, try again.
Geolocation, followed by a lookup in a central server presumably administered by the FCC... So what you're saying is that my device will constantly determine my location and report it to the government. Wow, I'll take fifty of 'em.
Well it all depends on how you take notes : if you're the "write down absolutely everything down", "hands directly wired to the ears, skipping the brain" type of notes, a laptop, a Palm or whatever won't help much more than a voice recorder sitting and recording passively the lecture.
That always seemed terribly ineffective to me. If you spend all your time simply typing down what is said instead of actually listening to it, then you missed the entire lecture. All you have to show for it are some poorly transcribed notes -- you might as well have just read a book on the subject.
For me it's the same thing with photography. I used to take tons of pictures when vacationing, until I realized that I was worrying so much about photographing everything that I wasn't actually LOOKING at anything. Now people complain that I don't have enough pictures, but at least I can remember what I did on vacation now.
*shrug* -- Even in seemingly low-requirements applications like a laser printer you'll typically find at least two or three microprocessors. It's common for those CPUs to be running at different clock speeds, be closer or farther away from certain kinds of memory, and dedicated to specific tasks. You might have the main core running Linux with a firmware RIP engine while some subsidiary core runs a custom RTOS to drive the print mechanism. This new CPU is just packaging a few of those heterogeneous cores up in a convenient way. In other words, these are the sorts of configurations the industry is using already. I think it sounds interesting, but not really earth shattering.
This is the kind of unnecessarily wordy language that confuses young kids.
Do you have any? A three year old is perfectly capable of understanding just about anything you are capable of saying, provided he knows the vocabulary. How they gain vocabulary is by listening to you use words. By artificially restraining your own speech you are giving a false impression of how the language works and depriving the kid of vocabulary.
It isn't your job to descend to the child's level when speaking. You don't even know where that level is in order to target it right. The expectation is that the child will raise himself to the level of YOUR speech.
Otherwise we are just teaching our children to speak like dimwits. Don't even get me started on parents who talk to their 5 year old in baby talk and substitute cutesy words for common things.
Are you living under a rock? You can get an FPGA on a PCI card for less than a thousand bucks.
At work, I develop drivers and firmware for custom hardware. I occasionally find bugs in the actual hardware. I sit down with the hardware guy, we hash it out, I convince him that it really is a hardware bug (which is difficult, because we both like to protect our egos), then he makes a fix to the design, re-synthesizes, programs the FPGA, and I have a better-working piece of hardware usually in less than an hour.
These days you see a lot of things like so-called "natural" sodas which claim to be sweetened with "evaporated cane syrup." I defy anybody to give me a scientific explanation why this is not merely sugar with another name.
As opposed to beet sugar. Some people don't want beet sugar, who knows why. But it's to distinguish the product from beet sugar, not an attempt to hide the fact that it's sugar.
So you're saying the concept of "concurrency" is impossible when you pass distance X?
Concurrent in who's reference frame? Whether two events are simultaneous depends how fast you're going.
Imagine an alien travelling at nearly the speed of light, from a distance of 4000 light years -- shooting right by the supernova, heading toward earth. Such an alien will see present day earth at almost the same instant as he sees the supernova, because his time is so dilated. If he goes fast enough, the events might happen so close together that he might call them simultaneous.
So in his reference frame, the star didn't blow up 2000 years ago, it blew up a fraction of a second ago. And it isn't justified to say that what we saw in our frame is somehow more "proper" than what he saw in his.
If he tried driving while drinking said Mad Dog 20/20, then that's putting other people's lives in danger, and again, a no-no.
Wow. Seriously, dude? You think Steve Jobs is gonna kill you from 40 thousand feet with a fucking ninja star? Or was he planning on murdering his own private flight crew and thusly dying? What exactly is the DSM-IV classification of your particular mental problem?
It's one thing to have rules, it's another thing to be completely fucking batshit insane non-competent god damn fucking crazy. Such as suspecting Steve Jobs of planning global death from private air transport via ninja star. Please, pass the hookah in this direction.
It's not the complicated. Suppose NASA spots a supernova in 2011... it's 2000 lightyears away. That means that star actually blew up when Jesus was still a teenager.
The phrase "X actually happened at the same time as Y" is fundamentally incompatible with relativity. You unfortunately missed the point the GP was making.
Consider on Earth, you are making a phone call to somebody on the other side of the world. It goes via satellite, so you have a second or two of latency between you. Would you say that "I'm not hearing what my friend is saying, I'm hearing what he said a second or two in the past?" Well, you might say that. You might find some alternative method of communicating that has a lesser latency (such as a land line, which ironically will get there faster than geosync satellite transmissions). In that case, yes, you could say that your friend was "in the past" because there is a way to reduce the latency.
With light, it's different. You're just screwed. You just can never get there any faster. Thus, whether some seen event is "in the past" is irrelevant -- it's not like you could have seen it any sooner anyway.
Relativity is about spacetime, not space and time. The idea that hugely distant events happened in the "past" is like saying there is an absolute time which permeates the universe. That's total nonsense.
There is no such thing as "coasting into orbit." When the power cuts off, you are either in orbit or you aren't. When there is no thrust, your kinematic state is determined for all time -- you're purely under the laws of freefall mechanics. If you're not in orbit when the engines cut, you'll either hit the ground or escape the gravity well. There's no transitional period -- if there were, what forces would be acting to cause the transition? Gravity is a conservative force.
They say it uses only light, then they say it's based on heating the air around the particle. So it's not "only light" is it? It's air that moves the particle, and the laser is just a high-precision way of heating the air.
There is no "deceiving" going on here.. Just a failure to validate inputs. If I get rooted by a remote execution buffer overflow would I say that the attacker has "deceived" my system by telling me the input will be of such-and-such length and then sending some other length? What kind of crazy talk is that. It's a bug in the software, period.
This got rated up to 4? People, please apply for jobs at the CIA, you pass the paranoia qualification.
Here's a helpful tip when talking to friends who maybe don't have the same number of digits in their bank account balances: shut the fuck up and do not discuss your income. Holy shit, how hard is it. I've talked with friends about their favorite sexual positions with their wives, but talking about income? Absolutely fucking off limits.
By the way, life gets better once you finally graduate high school. Just thought I'd throw out some advice which is relevant to you.
And if you're going to use vc, then for gods sake learn how to branch. I've seen some truly suicide-inducing codebase arrangements due to people not knowing how the hell to branch.
You can prevent google from serving targeted ads. At the bottom of your email, in white text (so no human will see it), write "my mom died". This will disable google from showing ads while viewing that email. Try it, it works.
I didn't say the names of the jurors should be handed out, I mean there is probably a less paranoid explanation for how the prosecutor managed to find the FaceBook page.
I find it disturbing that anyone in the courtroom (or associated with the process) even knows the names of the jurors.
Conspiracy theorist, much? Given this person's demonstrated propensity for publishing highly identifiable bullshit on the Internet, it's quite possible that somebody found the posting by searching for the defendant's name, not the juror's name. For all we know she also posted "HAHA, I got selected for jury duty on that asshole John Doe!" Google for your own client's name and you'd find it.
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COMPUTE!'s Gazette including listings each month. If I remember, maybe a third of the magazine was devoted to pages upon pages of hex listings. You'd use their machine language entry program "MLX" (BASIC code for which was included verbatim in every single issue -- you'd have to type THAT in first) and sit there for hours typing in the code. It had a simple checksum scheme, so each line was 9 bytes with the last byte being a checksum. If you made a mistake, you found out at the end of the line when the thing goes BEEEEP at you.
My wife has been trying for years to throw away all my old mags. Over my dead freaking body will that happen.
When a robber is already holding you at gunpoint (he surprised you, right?) are you seriously going to reach behind your back/into your shirt to draw your weapon? He's going to blow you away, man.
OPEN carry is what deters such people. When selecting a target, the guy who obviously has a weapon on him is not high up on the list.
I just don't get the point of concealed carry. What is the point of carrying a weapon and hiding it? It loses all deterrence value.
Yeah, progress fucking sucks, those guys should knock that shit off!
If the majority lifeform "rules" the planet it would strike me as odd that aliens would consider us the owners of the planet mearly by virtual of intelligence. If anything there is the possibility they would see us as an unfair blight of a minority species taking a vastly significant share of real estate from the bulk of lifeforms. They might go so far as to cull the herd to ensure the bulk of the lifeforms have a porportional access to Earth. Since we are less then 1% of the lifeforms on Earth, why assume we would get much of a say.
This is called "anthropomorphizing" -- ascribing human tendencies, beliefs, and behaviors to non-human entities. For some reason there are a contingent of people who seem to think that space aliens will have a morality which is essentially the same as that of a mid-1990's environmental terrorist from the Pacific Northwest. Well, I think that's about as likely as discovering that they are all adherents of the Baha'i faith, or that they enjoy a fine Earl Grey. In other words, not fucking likely.
I doubt that downloading the DB would be acceptable, because it could become stale and thus cause you to violate an FCC regulation by using a channel you are forbidden to use. So that will never happen. But please, try again.
Geolocation, followed by a lookup in a central server presumably administered by the FCC... So what you're saying is that my device will constantly determine my location and report it to the government. Wow, I'll take fifty of 'em.
Well it all depends on how you take notes : if you're the "write down absolutely everything down", "hands directly wired to the ears, skipping the brain" type of notes, a laptop, a Palm or whatever won't help much more than a voice recorder sitting and recording passively the lecture.
That always seemed terribly ineffective to me. If you spend all your time simply typing down what is said instead of actually listening to it, then you missed the entire lecture. All you have to show for it are some poorly transcribed notes -- you might as well have just read a book on the subject.
For me it's the same thing with photography. I used to take tons of pictures when vacationing, until I realized that I was worrying so much about photographing everything that I wasn't actually LOOKING at anything. Now people complain that I don't have enough pictures, but at least I can remember what I did on vacation now.
As a law student, at first I used a laptop to take notes in class. I had a 14-inch laptop
Well, at least it was legal sized.
*shrug* -- Even in seemingly low-requirements applications like a laser printer you'll typically find at least two or three microprocessors. It's common for those CPUs to be running at different clock speeds, be closer or farther away from certain kinds of memory, and dedicated to specific tasks. You might have the main core running Linux with a firmware RIP engine while some subsidiary core runs a custom RTOS to drive the print mechanism. This new CPU is just packaging a few of those heterogeneous cores up in a convenient way. In other words, these are the sorts of configurations the industry is using already. I think it sounds interesting, but not really earth shattering.
This is the kind of unnecessarily wordy language that confuses young kids.
Do you have any? A three year old is perfectly capable of understanding just about anything you are capable of saying, provided he knows the vocabulary. How they gain vocabulary is by listening to you use words. By artificially restraining your own speech you are giving a false impression of how the language works and depriving the kid of vocabulary.
It isn't your job to descend to the child's level when speaking. You don't even know where that level is in order to target it right. The expectation is that the child will raise himself to the level of YOUR speech.
Otherwise we are just teaching our children to speak like dimwits. Don't even get me started on parents who talk to their 5 year old in baby talk and substitute cutesy words for common things.
Are you living under a rock? You can get an FPGA on a PCI card for less than a thousand bucks.
At work, I develop drivers and firmware for custom hardware. I occasionally find bugs in the actual hardware. I sit down with the hardware guy, we hash it out, I convince him that it really is a hardware bug (which is difficult, because we both like to protect our egos), then he makes a fix to the design, re-synthesizes, programs the FPGA, and I have a better-working piece of hardware usually in less than an hour.
It's REALLY freaking fun.
Admittedly, he said "e.g." not "i.e." -- there is a difference.
These days you see a lot of things like so-called "natural" sodas which claim to be sweetened with "evaporated cane syrup." I defy anybody to give me a scientific explanation why this is not merely sugar with another name.
As opposed to beet sugar. Some people don't want beet sugar, who knows why. But it's to distinguish the product from beet sugar, not an attempt to hide the fact that it's sugar.
So you're saying the concept of "concurrency" is impossible when you pass distance X?
Concurrent in who's reference frame? Whether two events are simultaneous depends how fast you're going.
Imagine an alien travelling at nearly the speed of light, from a distance of 4000 light years -- shooting right by the supernova, heading toward earth. Such an alien will see present day earth at almost the same instant as he sees the supernova, because his time is so dilated. If he goes fast enough, the events might happen so close together that he might call them simultaneous.
So in his reference frame, the star didn't blow up 2000 years ago, it blew up a fraction of a second ago. And it isn't justified to say that what we saw in our frame is somehow more "proper" than what he saw in his.
If he tried driving while drinking said Mad Dog 20/20, then that's putting other people's lives in danger, and again, a no-no.
Wow. Seriously, dude? You think Steve Jobs is gonna kill you from 40 thousand feet with a fucking ninja star? Or was he planning on murdering his own private flight crew and thusly dying? What exactly is the DSM-IV classification of your particular mental problem?
It's one thing to have rules, it's another thing to be completely fucking batshit insane non-competent god damn fucking crazy. Such as suspecting Steve Jobs of planning global death from private air transport via ninja star. Please, pass the hookah in this direction.
It's not the complicated. Suppose NASA spots a supernova in 2011... it's 2000 lightyears away. That means that star actually blew up when Jesus was still a teenager.
The phrase "X actually happened at the same time as Y" is fundamentally incompatible with relativity. You unfortunately missed the point the GP was making.
Consider on Earth, you are making a phone call to somebody on the other side of the world. It goes via satellite, so you have a second or two of latency between you. Would you say that "I'm not hearing what my friend is saying, I'm hearing what he said a second or two in the past?" Well, you might say that. You might find some alternative method of communicating that has a lesser latency (such as a land line, which ironically will get there faster than geosync satellite transmissions). In that case, yes, you could say that your friend was "in the past" because there is a way to reduce the latency.
With light, it's different. You're just screwed. You just can never get there any faster. Thus, whether some seen event is "in the past" is irrelevant -- it's not like you could have seen it any sooner anyway.
Relativity is about spacetime, not space and time. The idea that hugely distant events happened in the "past" is like saying there is an absolute time which permeates the universe. That's total nonsense.
There is no such thing as "coasting into orbit." When the power cuts off, you are either in orbit or you aren't. When there is no thrust, your kinematic state is determined for all time -- you're purely under the laws of freefall mechanics. If you're not in orbit when the engines cut, you'll either hit the ground or escape the gravity well. There's no transitional period -- if there were, what forces would be acting to cause the transition? Gravity is a conservative force.
p is a p-value, not a probability. Look up "statistical significance" sometime.
They say it uses only light, then they say it's based on heating the air around the particle. So it's not "only light" is it? It's air that moves the particle, and the laser is just a high-precision way of heating the air.
There is no "deceiving" going on here.. Just a failure to validate inputs. If I get rooted by a remote execution buffer overflow would I say that the attacker has "deceived" my system by telling me the input will be of such-and-such length and then sending some other length? What kind of crazy talk is that. It's a bug in the software, period.
This got rated up to 4? People, please apply for jobs at the CIA, you pass the paranoia qualification.
Here's a helpful tip when talking to friends who maybe don't have the same number of digits in their bank account balances: shut the fuck up and do not discuss your income. Holy shit, how hard is it. I've talked with friends about their favorite sexual positions with their wives, but talking about income? Absolutely fucking off limits.
By the way, life gets better once you finally graduate high school. Just thought I'd throw out some advice which is relevant to you.
And if you're going to use vc, then for gods sake learn how to branch. I've seen some truly suicide-inducing codebase arrangements due to people not knowing how the hell to branch.
You can prevent google from serving targeted ads. At the bottom of your email, in white text (so no human will see it), write "my mom died". This will disable google from showing ads while viewing that email. Try it, it works.
I didn't say the names of the jurors should be handed out, I mean there is probably a less paranoid explanation for how the prosecutor managed to find the FaceBook page.
I find it disturbing that anyone in the courtroom (or associated with the process) even knows the names of the jurors.
Conspiracy theorist, much? Given this person's demonstrated propensity for publishing highly identifiable bullshit on the Internet, it's quite possible that somebody found the posting by searching for the defendant's name, not the juror's name. For all we know she also posted "HAHA, I got selected for jury duty on that asshole John Doe!" Google for your own client's name and you'd find it.