I've seen stories about using palms etc to cool down a person long ago. Scanning the article, I see that the way they do it is what is new.
They've created a device which creates a low pressure around the hand. This causes the blood to be drawn the surface of the hand, which in turn increases the cooling effect.
The chilled blood then absorbs heat from the body as it travels back to the heart, hence the "inside-out" comment.
I'm working on a hybrid vehicle, and finding a way to make good use of the regenerative braking power is a real challenge.
Totally not my field, but what popped in my head was how about running an air compressor? When you break, the compressor is kicked in, putting a load on the wheels, and compressing air into a tank. The compressed air could then drive a generator at whatever pace neccessary to charge the batteries in a nice pace.
This is the desired behaviour from a security point of view. It's something that people can get used to fast too, it only confuses on the first try. And it's only the default, you can change it if you think security is stupid, it may even be slack-kde specific default but I wouldn't recommend changing it.
This is actually the only thing i liked about Lotus Notes. It would output three stars per character typed. Unless you have a 1 charater password, it's very hard to glance at the password length, yet the user gets feedback so it's easy to see if the input is going to the right place (window not out of focus or something). How about making that the default behaviour?
I've played with a few chatbots, and so far I've found that they can be reasonably good at a regular "fluffy" conversation (and often a lot of fun). However, I've also found that the easiest way to make them betray their nature is to ask them something which totally does not make sense, in a gramatically correct way. A person would obviously go "wtf?" however the bots I've tried are hardcoded to actually try to carry on a conversation based on your input. Thus they will try to reply "meaningfully", and say something complete nonsense back.
Haven't tried ALICE lately though, perhaps they've implemented a bogo-meter?:)
Movies are only 24 fps, and you never read movie reviews going "man, I wish the framerate had been higher"
There's a reason for that. Even though the eyes may not "capture" more than 20 or so frames per second, the brain uses the information contained in the resulting motion blur to estimate motion. Movie cameras usually capture this motion blur since each frame is exposed over a period of time.
When a computer game draws a frame, there's usually no motion blur at all, since this is a costly operation to perform (in terms of computing power). Playing at 30fps will not look fluid compared to 60fps or higher due to this.
When playing games that requries very fast and accurate reaction, accurately estimating motion on the screen is important. That's why playing say Quake 3 at 120fps will help, since the eyes can't discern each individual frame, they blend together creating the motion blur effect (which btw is more correct than the usual fake "fade out previous frame" motion blur).
What about the the information that someone stopped the other clock?
That's where the analogy fails. QM states that we cannot in principle know what a particle "does" while we're not looking at it (measuring it). And the very act of measuring it modifies the state of the other entangled particle.
Let's modify the clock example: Imagine that the two clocks are covered by a panel, so you're unable to see the clock. Opening the panel stops the clock, if it's not already stopped.
Now, if I'm on earth and I open the panel, the first clock stops. But how would you, located with the other clock far far away, know when to look?
If you open the panel before you get a message from me stating I've stopped it, you would have no idea if YOU stopped it or I stopped it, and thus we cannot use this to send information faster than the speed of light.
I think slashdot should get an "Intelligent Humor" modifier or similar, which WOULD get you karma. I see so many posts that are way more than simple cheap shots, often bringing across a point using humor, and I don't see why they shouldn't get karma for using humor as their tool.
He didn't even push the PSU, yet say that it was more than able. Eh? He had one HD... How about 4 drives in a raid (so they're all active), and then see how it fares playing some games (so the gpu is taxed too)?
The modular connections looked like something I might want though.
I might be dafter than a regular brick, but I can't see that the FireFox Release Notes mentiones what is actually new in this release? Oh well... perhaps I'm just weird for wanting to know what's new in this sub-release.
That may be true, but consider that your definition of 'friendly' is very subjective.
From what I recall, the first bacteria found oxygen to be toxic, due to its extremely oxidizing nature. Took them a while to adapt to be able to "breathe" it.
If I want to sneak, I sneak. If I want to run, I run. I don't have to remember what state I'm in, or hold down a key, or whatever. That's an inherent problem with a keyboard as a controller -- it's not analog.
Perhaps you should try a real mouse before you say its a keyboard issue. You know, one with a mouse wheel, which just happens to be bound by default to changing movement speed in Splinter Cell.
1. How are you going to tell me a fusion reaction, what was supposedly a small sun, was drowned by water???
I haven't seen the film yet (and don't plan to), however from what I've read, one of the nicer things about fusion power in general is that unlike fission, it's really really hard to keep going (i guess the ITER guys can testify to that), so unless the conditions is just right, the process fizzles.
The XP PowerToys allow you to set the minumum number of items before they're grouped to 2. I like the sorting of taskbar items on the taskbar, but not the grouping, so i set it to 50. Lovely feature imho:)
Like i remember that after all that time. As i said, they only aired it for a few months after 9/11, and i watched an hour a day or so for a few weeks combined. I'm just saying that's the image that stuck with me.
I always find it amusing that liberals accuse FoxNews of being biased, yet never, ever cite an example in those claims.
I live in norway, most cable networks don't carry FoxNews here. However, during the first few months after 9/11, one channel sent FoxNews after regular programming, instead of some sms games.
I watched it almost every day for a week, just got get the news with me from yet another source. My impression was that FoxNews made CNN look like a bunch of extreme lefties. Also they took every chance they got to laugh at and make snyde remarks about librals (congress men/women etc).
Just my observation after a couple of months of FoxNews.
My case is crap. Yet, with a 3000+ athlon, my two WD hd's are "outnoising" my 4 case fans + cpu fan by quite a bit (I notice when they're powered down). Cpu temps in the mid 50's C. Not what I would call screaming...
to ensure availability - wouldn't want a two disk failure, rare but possible
My co-worker was sent to change a failed disk in a server. 2 minutes after the raid(5, three disks) was finished rebuiling, a second drive failed... How's that for luck:)
How did a simple but robust single-cell organism spontaneously "evolve" into a more complex multi-cell organism?
You should check out Tierra then. Given the simple framework, you can see just what mutation can do to an "organism" over a few generations. Tierra simulates programs, which just reproduce by coping and "forking". However, the simulated cpu is faulty causing slight mutations. Over time, the programs thus evolve. Some become parasites, others simply more efficient. In some cases, cooperative programs evolve, that rely on each other to "fork". Very cool stuff imho.
We teach it by having people solve pointless problems which they will never face and never remember the solutions for unless they are one of the rare people who actually enjoy solving problems and who actually enjoy working through calculations.
I think many in the school system today forget that learning math changes you in a way that language and other classes just don't do. Through abstraction, math changes the way you tackle problems in your daily life, amongst other things. The concrete problem you're trying to solve might be directly useless for your future life, however indirectly it might help you a lot.
Well, then by this logic, nothing can ever truly stay the same since, for this to occur, time must not advance, thus leading to a paradox.
What paradox? If everything stayed exactly the same in the universe, time would be an irrelevant parameter / dimention.
To me, time can only be relevant if there's a system in which change occurs, and some form of knowing when the state has changed, ie memory. A simplistic view is that if you're a simple logic circuit, without storing the previous inputs, you have no way of knowing if they've changed, and thus you have no way of knowing if time has passed.
How on earth is it insightful? If you read some of the interviewes with the people involved in designing.Net, their IL was designed to target a JIT. Quote: I think one of the key differences between our IL design and Java byte code specifically, is that we made the decision up-front to not have interpreters. Our code will always run native. So, even when you produce IL, you are never running an interpreter.
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I've seen stories about using palms etc to cool down a person long ago. Scanning the article, I see that the way they do it is what is new.
They've created a device which creates a low pressure around the hand. This causes the blood to be drawn the surface of the hand, which in turn increases the cooling effect.
The chilled blood then absorbs heat from the body as it travels back to the heart, hence the "inside-out" comment.
I'm working on a hybrid vehicle, and finding a way to make good use of the regenerative braking power is a real challenge.
Totally not my field, but what popped in my head was how about running an air compressor? When you break, the compressor is kicked in, putting a load on the wheels, and compressing air into a tank.
The compressed air could then drive a generator at whatever pace neccessary to charge the batteries in a nice pace.
Too much mechanics I guess. Oh well...
The fact that the Gnome login screen actually allows keyboard focus to go anywhere besides the username/password boxes is a really odd flaw.
;)
Perhaps they just wanted to be like Windows?
(cause it allows it too)
This is the desired behaviour from a security point of view. It's something that people can get used to fast too, it only confuses on the first try. And it's only the default, you can change it if you think security is stupid, it may even be slack-kde specific default but I wouldn't recommend changing it.
This is actually the only thing i liked about Lotus Notes. It would output three stars per character typed.
Unless you have a 1 charater password, it's very hard to glance at the password length, yet the user gets feedback so it's easy to see if the input is going to the right place (window not out of focus or something). How about making that the default behaviour?
I've played with a few chatbots, and so far I've found that they can be reasonably good at a regular "fluffy" conversation (and often a lot of fun). However, I've also found that the easiest way to make them betray their nature is to ask them something which totally does not make sense, in a gramatically correct way.
:)
A person would obviously go "wtf?" however the bots I've tried are hardcoded to actually try to carry on a conversation based on your input. Thus they will try to reply "meaningfully", and say something complete nonsense back.
Haven't tried ALICE lately though, perhaps they've implemented a bogo-meter?
Heh... this one reminds me of something from KOTOR...
1
1 1
2 1
1 2 1 1
1 1 1 2 2 1
Its also one of the "puzzles" in the new Sherlock Holmes game.
Movies are only 24 fps, and you never read movie reviews going "man, I wish the framerate had been higher"
There's a reason for that. Even though the eyes may not "capture" more than 20 or so frames per second, the brain uses the information contained in the resulting motion blur to estimate motion.
Movie cameras usually capture this motion blur since each frame is exposed over a period of time.
When a computer game draws a frame, there's usually no motion blur at all, since this is a costly operation to perform (in terms of computing power). Playing at 30fps will not look fluid compared to 60fps or higher due to this.
When playing games that requries very fast and accurate reaction, accurately estimating motion on the screen is important. That's why playing say Quake 3 at 120fps will help, since the eyes can't discern each individual frame, they blend together creating the motion blur effect (which btw is more correct than the usual fake "fade out previous frame" motion blur).
What about the the information that someone stopped the other clock?
That's where the analogy fails. QM states that we cannot in principle know what a particle "does" while we're not looking at it (measuring it). And the very act of measuring it modifies the state of the other entangled particle.
Let's modify the clock example: Imagine that the two clocks are covered by a panel, so you're unable to see the clock. Opening the panel stops the clock, if it's not already stopped.
Now, if I'm on earth and I open the panel, the first clock stops. But how would you, located with the other clock far far away, know when to look?
If you open the panel before you get a message from me stating I've stopped it, you would have no idea if YOU stopped it or I stopped it, and thus we cannot use this to send information faster than the speed of light.
I think slashdot should get an "Intelligent Humor" modifier or similar, which WOULD get you karma. I see so many posts that are way more than simple cheap shots, often bringing across a point using humor, and I don't see why they shouldn't get karma for using humor as their tool.
:)
Nice one though
He didn't even push the PSU, yet say that it was more than able. Eh? He had one HD... How about 4 drives in a raid (so they're all active), and then see how it fares playing some games (so the gpu is taxed too)?
The modular connections looked like something I might want though.
I might be dafter than a regular brick, but I can't see that the FireFox Release Notes mentiones what is actually new in this release?
Oh well... perhaps I'm just weird for wanting to know what's new in this sub-release.
That may be true, but consider that your definition of 'friendly' is very subjective.
From what I recall, the first bacteria found oxygen to be toxic, due to its extremely oxidizing nature. Took them a while to adapt to be able to "breathe" it.
If I want to sneak, I sneak. If I want to run, I run. I don't have to remember what state I'm in, or hold down a key, or whatever. That's an inherent problem with a keyboard as a controller -- it's not analog.
Perhaps you should try a real mouse before you say its a keyboard issue. You know, one with a mouse wheel, which just happens to be bound by default to changing movement speed in Splinter Cell.
1. How are you going to tell me a fusion reaction, what was supposedly a small sun, was drowned by water???
I haven't seen the film yet (and don't plan to), however from what I've read, one of the nicer things about fusion power in general is that unlike fission, it's really really hard to keep going (i guess the ITER guys can testify to that), so unless the conditions is just right, the process fizzles.
Afaik that is...
The XP PowerToys allow you to set the minumum number of items before they're grouped to 2. :)
I like the sorting of taskbar items on the taskbar, but not the grouping, so i set it to 50. Lovely feature imho
Thanks for the specific examples
Like i remember that after all that time. As i said, they only aired it for a few months after 9/11, and i watched an hour a day or so for a few weeks combined. I'm just saying that's the image that stuck with me.
I bought the cheapest fan the store had for my 3000+ xp. It's around 18dB. My two WD's is by far louder than the cpu fan (and the other fans).
So perhaps you should consider getting a new fan?
More like a general "feel" for the whole FoxNews experience. Anyway, no, not really, when covering "regular" news they would do their bashing too...
I always find it amusing that liberals accuse FoxNews of being biased, yet never, ever cite an example in those claims.
I live in norway, most cable networks don't carry FoxNews here. However, during the first few months after 9/11, one channel sent FoxNews after regular programming, instead of some sms games.
I watched it almost every day for a week, just got get the news with me from yet another source.
My impression was that FoxNews made CNN look like a bunch of extreme lefties. Also they took every chance they got to laugh at and make snyde remarks about librals (congress men/women etc).
Just my observation after a couple of months of FoxNews.
My case is crap. Yet, with a 3000+ athlon, my two WD hd's are "outnoising" my 4 case fans + cpu fan by quite a bit (I notice when they're powered down).
Cpu temps in the mid 50's C. Not what I would call screaming...
to ensure availability - wouldn't want a two disk failure, rare but possible
:)
My co-worker was sent to change a failed disk in a server. 2 minutes after the raid(5, three disks) was finished rebuiling, a second drive failed... How's that for luck
How did a simple but robust single-cell organism spontaneously "evolve" into a more complex multi-cell organism?
You should check out Tierra then. Given the simple framework, you can see just what mutation can do to an "organism" over a few generations.
Tierra simulates programs, which just reproduce by coping and "forking". However, the simulated cpu is faulty causing slight mutations. Over time, the programs thus evolve. Some become parasites, others simply more efficient. In some cases, cooperative programs evolve, that rely on each other to "fork". Very cool stuff imho.
We teach it by having people solve pointless problems which they will never face and never remember the solutions for unless they are one of the rare people who actually enjoy solving problems and who actually enjoy working through calculations.
I think many in the school system today forget that learning math changes you in a way that language and other classes just don't do. Through abstraction, math changes the way you tackle problems in your daily life, amongst other things. The concrete problem you're trying to solve might be directly useless for your future life, however indirectly it might help you a lot.
At least that's my take on it.
Well, then by this logic, nothing can ever truly stay the same since, for this to occur, time must not advance, thus leading to a paradox.
What paradox? If everything stayed exactly the same in the universe, time would be an irrelevant parameter / dimention.
To me, time can only be relevant if there's a system in which change occurs, and some form of knowing when the state has changed, ie memory. A simplistic view is that if you're a simple logic circuit, without storing the previous inputs, you have no way of knowing if they've changed, and thus you have no way of knowing if time has passed.
How on earth is it insightful? If you read some of the interviewes with the people involved in designing .Net, their IL was designed to target a JIT. Quote: I think one of the key differences between our IL design and Java byte code specifically, is that we made the decision up-front to not have interpreters. Our code will always run native. So, even when you produce IL, you are never running an interpreter.
But appart from that, it was kinda funny.