Why is this "Flamebait"? It is presumably a truthful reflection of one man's experience with reality.
As for good looking people being better techs that's hard to evaluate. In general, good looking people have more genetic diversity and their features are an outward evidence of this. Also, being good looking is a sign that they are more likely to be able to afford and value things like nutrition and exercise and dermatologists and higher eductation. Because of their social status they are more likely to shun blue collar "tech" work. The intellectual elite of this crowd are likely to become university physics professors or founders of companies. The less elite, but still techie, will become doctors, lawyers, or other specialists. The rest will become business people, professional golfers, or those people who throw amazing parties but are incredibly boring people to talk to.
Network administrators, programmers, systems analysts, and engineering managers CAN be good looking, but the really gorgeous people would never be caught dead in one of those jobs.
The number of times a given book is borrowed is tracked, and the author gets a slice of the pie based on this.
I wonder what they do with all that pie. It's probably something perverted.
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There have always been poor people. There always will be poor people. Poor people sometimes have the opportunity to become middle-class or even wealthy, God bless America. The idle children of wealthy parents become complete losers and squander their parents' wealth. It's a natural cycle like rainwater falling from the sky, sometimes collecting in lakes and ponds, sometimes running down to the ocean and eventually evaporating into the atmosphere. It's part of the ecosystem, get over it. Yes, we can do what we can to help the unfortunate. However, there will always be "relatively poor" and "relatively wealthy" people.
It is possible to compile Linux with a compiler other than gcc. However, either you would need that compiler to support the weird gcc extensions or you would need to change the source code. It's not something people usually do.
Those were good except for the ridiculously huge Enter key. I still haven't figured out why anyone would want an Enter key that big. Maybe you'd want one if you had a gargantuan pinky finger.
The dust cover is somewhat useless. Unless you mount your monitor on an 8" pedestal, you will remove the dust cover when you use the keyboard. Invariably, you will put the dust cover on a chair. At some point in time, either you or someone you know will sit down on that chair while the cover is there. *SNAP* Dust cover is now in 2 pieces and is practially useless. Anyway, the keyboard will last far longer than the dust cover.
I'm a bit on the tall side (6'3", 191cm), so if I built a stand-up cabinet, I would probably make one a little taller than the ones you find in an arcade. Although, if/when I build an arcade cabinet for home, I will probably build a sit-down, Japanese-style one. Here's a picture so you get the idea.
Dude. Why did you write out a Karnaugh map if you weren't going to reduce the expression? See that !B!C being 0 regardless of what A is? You can remove an operation. Watch:
It is illegal to modify, remove, or disable a device installed in a car by a court order (such as those breathalyser ignition lockout systems added to DUI offender's cars). So if you modify, disable or remove it, yes, you are breaking the law.
1. This page has a bunch of tools for manipulating CRW files in Linux. There is a converter to convert them to 48-bit files. I'm sure you can set up something to batch-convert them.
2. If you spend $2000 on a camera body plus more for accessories, you can spend $100 on an extra 60GB IDE drive for your computer. Anyone who buys that camera wants the highest quality images. Even if you're making pr0n and you will only post the low-resolution JPG's, you will still want the high-resolution raw files for archival purposes.
Even better is the Canon Raw (CRW) format that the higher-end Canon cameras use (G1, G2, D30, D60, etc). It just dumps the output from the CCD to a file. It's smaller than a TIFF image since it takes into account the subsampling of red and green. It is also independant of white balance settings, since it's only recording the CCD output and not transforming the color space in the camera and losing information.
Whoever submitted the article probably meant 8088, not 8080. The 8088 was a cheaper version of the 8086. As someone else pointed out, it used an 8-bit bus interface instead of a 16-bit one, similar to how the 386sx used a 16-bit bus instead of a 32-bit one. It is still code-compatible. The 8088 was used in the original IBM PC.
This isn't a joke. Read the linked pages, moderators. There is a rather large amount of thought and theory behind the ideas presented.
Of course, any computer can be thought of as a signal processing device. It has input (the sequence of bits in the program code and data storage and external input (e.g., keyboard, mouse, network, etc)), state (memory, registers, etc), and output (display, sound card, printer ports, disk, network, etc).
Ethics of fansubbing is a contradiction. Fansubbing IS piracy. The "rules" that fansubbers follow are simply a way to justify that piracy.
For the record, let it be known that I download fansubs. For the things I greatly enjoy, I buy the DVD's to have a high-quality archive copy. For the things I don't greatly enjoy, I delete the files to make room for more fansubs.
I used to be very "straight-edge" and would only buy R2 DVD's or Laserdiscs. This was especially true when US localizers who did things I didn't agree with (like ADV and the Nadesico overlays). I would import R2's to spite the American companies. Recently though, I have realized that R2's are in general a waste of money.
The new PalmOS is very likely to be based on the BeOS kernel and BeOS GUI and application development system.
There was an article somewhere around here about how the Palm buys Be was actually sort of a reverse takeover, since many of the Be people gained important positions at Palm. It was aparrantly similar to Apple buying NeXT, but then Steve Jobs becomes CEO again.
I realize there is some history behind it. The true story of Navajo soldiers in WWII was fictionalized to try to make an entertaining movie. They failed not because the Navajo story was boring, but because it was irrelevant to the battle story they wanted to tell. The "codetalking" detracted from the story instead of adding to it.
If you had a small group of rare language speakers whom you wanted to use for communications, the last thing you would do is send them into a battlefield. That was the biggest stupid thing about that movie. The messages they had them communicate could have easily been sent in the clear. "Attack the guns at these coordinates 15 minutes from now" could be sent in English, unencrypted, because the enemy wouldn't be able to move the guns in 15 minutes. It would be far more useful to use those people for high-level communications between offices in the Pentagon and ships at sea, for example. However, that's not as exciting for a movie, so the viewers are insulted instead.
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As for good looking people being better techs that's hard to evaluate. In general, good looking people have more genetic diversity and their features are an outward evidence of this. Also, being good looking is a sign that they are more likely to be able to afford and value things like nutrition and exercise and dermatologists and higher eductation. Because of their social status they are more likely to shun blue collar "tech" work. The intellectual elite of this crowd are likely to become university physics professors or founders of companies. The less elite, but still techie, will become doctors, lawyers, or other specialists. The rest will become business people, professional golfers, or those people who throw amazing parties but are incredibly boring people to talk to.
Network administrators, programmers, systems analysts, and engineering managers CAN be good looking, but the really gorgeous people would never be caught dead in one of those jobs.
Just an observation.
I wonder what they do with all that pie. It's probably something perverted.
There have always been poor people. There always will be poor people. Poor people sometimes have the opportunity to become middle-class or even wealthy, God bless America. The idle children of wealthy parents become complete losers and squander their parents' wealth. It's a natural cycle like rainwater falling from the sky, sometimes collecting in lakes and ponds, sometimes running down to the ocean and eventually evaporating into the atmosphere. It's part of the ecosystem, get over it. Yes, we can do what we can to help the unfortunate. However, there will always be "relatively poor" and "relatively wealthy" people.
It is possible to compile Linux with a compiler other than gcc. However, either you would need that compiler to support the weird gcc extensions or you would need to change the source code. It's not something people usually do.
Those were good except for the ridiculously huge Enter key. I still haven't figured out why anyone would want an Enter key that big. Maybe you'd want one if you had a gargantuan pinky finger.
The dust cover is somewhat useless. Unless you mount your monitor on an 8" pedestal, you will remove the dust cover when you use the keyboard. Invariably, you will put the dust cover on a chair. At some point in time, either you or someone you know will sit down on that chair while the cover is there. *SNAP* Dust cover is now in 2 pieces and is practially useless. Anyway, the keyboard will last far longer than the dust cover.
I hate those sigs too.
Of course, I used to have the "Click here to crash Windows" sig. That really pissed people off.
I have an automatic +1 licence to troll.
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Especially considering that a new arcade monitor will cost several hundred dollars by itself.
Oops. It seems like Arcade Infinity only sells Japanese-style cabinets. Maybe I'll just buy one of those instead of trying to make one.
I'm a bit on the tall side (6'3", 191cm), so if I built a stand-up cabinet, I would probably make one a little taller than the ones you find in an arcade. Although, if/when I build an arcade cabinet for home, I will probably build a sit-down, Japanese-style one. Here's a picture so you get the idea.
Dude. Why did you write out a Karnaugh map if you weren't going to reduce the expression? See that !B!C being 0 regardless of what A is? You can remove an operation. Watch:
(A & (B | C)) | (B & C)
Only 4 ops. Yours is 5.
It is illegal to modify, remove, or disable a device installed in a car by a court order (such as those breathalyser ignition lockout systems added to DUI offender's cars). So if you modify, disable or remove it, yes, you are breaking the law.
Or between "troll" and "offtopic", depending on your sadism quotient.
Yeah, if I lost my license, I'd have to hire some bitch to drive me around.
1. This page has a bunch of tools for manipulating CRW files in Linux. There is a converter to convert them to 48-bit files. I'm sure you can set up something to batch-convert them.
2. If you spend $2000 on a camera body plus more for accessories, you can spend $100 on an extra 60GB IDE drive for your computer. Anyone who buys that camera wants the highest quality images. Even if you're making pr0n and you will only post the low-resolution JPG's, you will still want the high-resolution raw files for archival purposes.
Even better is the Canon Raw (CRW) format that the higher-end Canon cameras use (G1, G2, D30, D60, etc). It just dumps the output from the CCD to a file. It's smaller than a TIFF image since it takes into account the subsampling of red and green. It is also independant of white balance settings, since it's only recording the CCD output and not transforming the color space in the camera and losing information.
Whoever submitted the article probably meant 8088, not 8080. The 8088 was a cheaper version of the 8086. As someone else pointed out, it used an 8-bit bus interface instead of a 16-bit one, similar to how the 386sx used a 16-bit bus instead of a 32-bit one. It is still code-compatible. The 8088 was used in the original IBM PC.
O(1) means that there is some constant C, such that for any problem size N, the execution time of the algorithm is less than C.
O(n) means that there is a constant, C, such that for any problem of size N, the execution time of the algorithm is less than C*N.
Maybe they're also planning to fuck aviplay (which supports ASF in Linux/Unix).
This isn't a joke. Read the linked pages, moderators. There is a rather large amount of thought and theory behind the ideas presented.
Of course, any computer can be thought of as a signal processing device. It has input (the sequence of bits in the program code and data storage and external input (e.g., keyboard, mouse, network, etc)), state (memory, registers, etc), and output (display, sound card, printer ports, disk, network, etc).
Ethics of fansubbing is a contradiction. Fansubbing IS piracy. The "rules" that fansubbers follow are simply a way to justify that piracy.
For the record, let it be known that I download fansubs. For the things I greatly enjoy, I buy the DVD's to have a high-quality archive copy. For the things I don't greatly enjoy, I delete the files to make room for more fansubs.
I used to be very "straight-edge" and would only buy R2 DVD's or Laserdiscs. This was especially true when US localizers who did things I didn't agree with (like ADV and the Nadesico overlays). I would import R2's to spite the American companies. Recently though, I have realized that R2's are in general a waste of money.
The new PalmOS is very likely to be based on the BeOS kernel and BeOS GUI and application development system.
There was an article somewhere around here about how the Palm buys Be was actually sort of a reverse takeover, since many of the Be people gained important positions at Palm. It was aparrantly similar to Apple buying NeXT, but then Steve Jobs becomes CEO again.
I realize there is some history behind it. The true story of Navajo soldiers in WWII was fictionalized to try to make an entertaining movie. They failed not because the Navajo story was boring, but because it was irrelevant to the battle story they wanted to tell. The "codetalking" detracted from the story instead of adding to it.
If you had a small group of rare language speakers whom you wanted to use for communications, the last thing you would do is send them into a battlefield. That was the biggest stupid thing about that movie. The messages they had them communicate could have easily been sent in the clear. "Attack the guns at these coordinates 15 minutes from now" could be sent in English, unencrypted, because the enemy wouldn't be able to move the guns in 15 minutes. It would be far more useful to use those people for high-level communications between offices in the Pentagon and ships at sea, for example. However, that's not as exciting for a movie, so the viewers are insulted instead.