Remember, Priority Mail is just a marketing name for first class mail. There's no extra priority on it. It's just a marketing push to get people to send packages first class instead of 4th class.
Before reading the summary, I thought that YouTube had done something useful and added an optional filter to remove the frequencies that the vuvuzelas produce. That would have been cool.
The Atari 800 (and XL/XE computers) had a monitor jack. While it pre-dates the s-video and composite jacks, the signals are compatible, so you can wire a plug to connect to a modern TV using either input. The Atari 2600 game system has the same signals, but they aren't routed to an external port, so you have to take it apart and solder in an s-video and audio jack.
So essentially, at the point of the Big Bang, our universe was a black hole, and everything that exists in it is still inside the event horizon of that black hole, though the math may suggest that the event horizon is no longer there due to changes inside it?
I have heard that very idea suggested--that the known universe is the inside of an event horizon of what appears as a black hole to those outside. I expect some simple math based on the estimated mass and size of the universe would suggest that is not the case unless we have greatly confused some of the variables.
But I suppose it would be possible to have a black hole inside the event horizon of another black hole.
Yes, there is. It will stop pulsing. I've heard of cases where the baby was having trouble breathing, so they kept it going for half an hour until the breathing was right. As long as the cord is pulsing, the baby is still getting everything he needs through it. In most cases, the cord will shut down on its own in a minute or two.
Well, you probably would have trouble getting a modern compression system that doesn't infringe on one or more of their patents, but you can use an older video format.
Consider that DVD was developed in 1995, so the base MPEG-2 patents expire within 5 years, if not earlier.
The draft MPEG-1 standard was out in 1990, so a codec based on MPEG-1 technology should be free of patent issues.
H.264 dates from 2003, so we probably have another 13 years there.
Ultimately, it may take a legal battle with Google to invalidate or narrow some of the H.264 patents such that VP8 or something similar can compete patent-free.
Sure, Linux runs on lots of CPUs, and would have no problem on ARM, and probably even supports all the devices on the systems in question. The trick is finding a way to install it, and that's where the hacking comes in. How does the system boot? Can you modify the boot image to install Linux? Does the BIOS (or whatever equivalent) insist on only booting digitally-signed boot images like video game consoles do? Those questions may have different answers for each device.
In most cases, I would think it shouldn't be too hard, as they aren't likely to bother with digital signatures, and they probably have some mechanism for installing an upgraded or patched operating system (for bug fixes, if nothing else). Someone has to buy one and figure out how to do it.
Isn't this essentially what Google's image search does? The difference is that if you want the full-sized version, Google sends you to the original web site.
I'm surprised that EMC didn't outbid them to get the Verisign certificate business, as well as for PGP earlier. It seems like it would have been a great fit with RSA, and EMC has oodles of cash for acquisitions.
So if you want to see who is watching a given YouTube (or porn site) video, just watch it yourself, and then watch your network while the flash player is still active.
No, that's just a stand to use an iPad as a picture frame. It doesn't provide a larger display, or in any way let you use your iPad as a laptop or desktop computer.
If you move to 4K sectors, that should change the limit to 16TB, meaning that this shouldn't be an issue for several years. Why would you want.5K sectors on such a large drive anyway?
Cell phones are nearing the point where they are powerful enough to be a primary computer. All they need is a better display and keyboard, so why not put everything into the cell phone, and then sell docking stations in laptop and desktop form factors?
The connector would need a few more pins than just USB to support video (perhaps a few lanes of PCI Express), but really, we have the technology now.
Isn't printing something people did back in the 80s? Why would anyone want to do that now? Even in a corporate environment, I only need to actually print something about once a month.
Yup. The Massachusetts Attorney General reviews all Town Meeting articles, and usually takes a few months to certify the results as valid and legal. This one would have been pretty obvious, but there were a bunch of other articles to review from the same meeting, and there are several hundred towns, so the number of articles pending review could easily be several thousand.
Except Atlantis, which has two missions left, though the second one is an emergency contingency mission that is not likely to actually fly. Still, after it returns from its next mission, they'll do all the preparation that they normally do to prepare it for launch. And there's talk of going ahead with the launch, even it it's not necessary as a rescue mission, since it will be ready, but then they would have to have some contingency plan for that launch.
While I agree that printing emails is stupid, the idea of changing defaults to reduce ink and toner usage is rather smart. At my company, they changed the default Powerpoint template to one that would save on printing costs. Again, people shouldn't be printing them out in the first place, but the fact is that they do, and this will save money.
They say that they won't release your information for something like 85 years, but they do release aggregate data. In the 2000 census, there were complaints that it was possible to determine individual answers from the aggregate data because they were releasing data for very small areas. I think it was by Zip+4, which narrows typically narrows it down to fewer than ten houses.
For me, I'm not concerned about the privacy, but I take offense at being asked to identify as being of a specific race. Whatever happened to the Great American Melting Pot?
All the alternate methods of specifying IP addresses for URLs work in Chrome. When you mouse over the link, you see it with the traditional decimal IP address, so it's not as obfuscated as it could be. Similarly when you reach the site, the URL displayed is in the traditional format.
In theory, the compiler could do that, but in practice, compilers don't optimize across source files. This is especially true with separately-compiled libraries. The compiler looking at your program knows to do a function call into libc, but doesn't have the source of libc handy to optimize the call away if it's trivial. In the case of system calls, it's a little tricky, as the errno support is handled by libc. If not for errno, most system calls could be implemented most efficiently using inline assembly macros, so that no library calls would be used. That would also eliminate the option to intercept system calls to do some tricky things that are occasionally interesting, such moving to a system with different system call numbers or APIs with only a libc change (without recompiling the application).
Generally, errno was just a bad idea. The Linux system calls do it right, in that a negative return value is the errno, but libc has to have code like:
if ( ret And this gets even uglier with multi-threaded programs, as errno has to become a magic global variable with a separate per-thread version, which usually means that errno becomes a macro.
I had a laptop that was really short on memory back in 1996 or so. I liked having the six virtual consoles, but rarely used them, so I wrote a program that would wait for you to press enter, then exec the regular login program. It copied the executable onto the same page as the stack and had no globals, so at run time, it used exactly one page of RAM. I used the same technique as the author here of calling syscalls directly instead of using libc.
I haven't seen a pop-up ad in years, but my understanding is that Google's Chrome browser handles this by keeping the pop-up inside the tab that created it. Not the full history of the page with redirects as was overly-verbosely proposed, but certainly a step in the right direction.
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Remember, Priority Mail is just a marketing name for first class mail. There's no extra priority on it. It's just a marketing push to get people to send packages first class instead of 4th class.
Before reading the summary, I thought that YouTube had done something useful and added an optional filter to remove the frequencies that the vuvuzelas produce. That would have been cool.
The Atari 800 (and XL/XE computers) had a monitor jack. While it pre-dates the s-video and composite jacks, the signals are compatible, so you can wire a plug to connect to a modern TV using either input. The Atari 2600 game system has the same signals, but they aren't routed to an external port, so you have to take it apart and solder in an s-video and audio jack.
So essentially, at the point of the Big Bang, our universe was a black hole, and everything that exists in it is still inside the event horizon of that black hole, though the math may suggest that the event horizon is no longer there due to changes inside it?
The physics on this scale aren't intuitive.
I have heard that very idea suggested--that the known universe is the inside of an event horizon of what appears as a black hole to those outside. I expect some simple math based on the estimated mass and size of the universe would suggest that is not the case unless we have greatly confused some of the variables.
But I suppose it would be possible to have a black hole inside the event horizon of another black hole.
Yes, there is. It will stop pulsing. I've heard of cases where the baby was having trouble breathing, so they kept it going for half an hour until the breathing was right. As long as the cord is pulsing, the baby is still getting everything he needs through it. In most cases, the cord will shut down on its own in a minute or two.
Well, you probably would have trouble getting a modern compression system that doesn't infringe on one or more of their patents, but you can use an older video format.
Consider that DVD was developed in 1995, so the base MPEG-2 patents expire within 5 years, if not earlier.
The draft MPEG-1 standard was out in 1990, so a codec based on MPEG-1 technology should be free of patent issues.
H.264 dates from 2003, so we probably have another 13 years there.
Ultimately, it may take a legal battle with Google to invalidate or narrow some of the H.264 patents such that VP8 or something similar can compete patent-free.
Sure, Linux runs on lots of CPUs, and would have no problem on ARM, and probably even supports all the devices on the systems in question. The trick is finding a way to install it, and that's where the hacking comes in. How does the system boot? Can you modify the boot image to install Linux? Does the BIOS (or whatever equivalent) insist on only booting digitally-signed boot images like video game consoles do? Those questions may have different answers for each device.
In most cases, I would think it shouldn't be too hard, as they aren't likely to bother with digital signatures, and they probably have some mechanism for installing an upgraded or patched operating system (for bug fixes, if nothing else). Someone has to buy one and figure out how to do it.
Isn't this essentially what Google's image search does? The difference is that if you want the full-sized version, Google sends you to the original web site.
I'm surprised that EMC didn't outbid them to get the Verisign certificate business, as well as for PGP earlier. It seems like it would have been a great fit with RSA, and EMC has oodles of cash for acquisitions.
So if you want to see who is watching a given YouTube (or porn site) video, just watch it yourself, and then watch your network while the flash player is still active.
No, that's just a stand to use an iPad as a picture frame. It doesn't provide a larger display, or in any way let you use your iPad as a laptop or desktop computer.
If you move to 4K sectors, that should change the limit to 16TB, meaning that this shouldn't be an issue for several years. Why would you want .5K sectors on such a large drive anyway?
Cell phones are nearing the point where they are powerful enough to be a primary computer. All they need is a better display and keyboard, so why not put everything into the cell phone, and then sell docking stations in laptop and desktop form factors?
The connector would need a few more pins than just USB to support video (perhaps a few lanes of PCI Express), but really, we have the technology now.
Everything can live in your phone.
Isn't printing something people did back in the 80s? Why would anyone want to do that now? Even in a corporate environment, I only need to actually print something about once a month.
Yup. The Massachusetts Attorney General reviews all Town Meeting articles, and usually takes a few months to certify the results as valid and legal. This one would have been pretty obvious, but there were a bunch of other articles to review from the same meeting, and there are several hundred towns, so the number of articles pending review could easily be several thousand.
I hope they do better with Turbine than they did with Atari.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_shuttle_missions
Except Atlantis, which has two missions left, though the second one is an emergency contingency mission that is not likely to actually fly. Still, after it returns from its next mission, they'll do all the preparation that they normally do to prepare it for launch. And there's talk of going ahead with the launch, even it it's not necessary as a rescue mission, since it will be ready, but then they would have to have some contingency plan for that launch.
The last scheduled shuttle flight is also Discovery, so today's launch doesn't signify the end of anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-133
While I agree that printing emails is stupid, the idea of changing defaults to reduce ink and toner usage is rather smart. At my company, they changed the default Powerpoint template to one that would save on printing costs. Again, people shouldn't be printing them out in the first place, but the fact is that they do, and this will save money.
They say that they won't release your information for something like 85 years, but they do release aggregate data. In the 2000 census, there were complaints that it was possible to determine individual answers from the aggregate data because they were releasing data for very small areas. I think it was by Zip+4, which narrows typically narrows it down to fewer than ten houses.
For me, I'm not concerned about the privacy, but I take offense at being asked to identify as being of a specific race. Whatever happened to the Great American Melting Pot?
All the alternate methods of specifying IP addresses for URLs work in Chrome. When you mouse over the link, you see it with the traditional decimal IP address, so it's not as obfuscated as it could be. Similarly when you reach the site, the URL displayed is in the traditional format.
Addresses like http://0xdeadbeef/ and http://0xdeadd00d/ are assigned to a Chinese telecom company (they have all of 0xdead....).
In theory, the compiler could do that, but in practice, compilers don't optimize across source files. This is especially true with separately-compiled libraries. The compiler looking at your program knows to do a function call into libc, but doesn't have the source of libc handy to optimize the call away if it's trivial. In the case of system calls, it's a little tricky, as the errno support is handled by libc. If not for errno, most system calls could be implemented most efficiently using inline assembly macros, so that no library calls would be used. That would also eliminate the option to intercept system calls to do some tricky things that are occasionally interesting, such moving to a system with different system call numbers or APIs with only a libc change (without recompiling the application).
Generally, errno was just a bad idea. The Linux system calls do it right, in that a negative return value is the errno, but libc has to have code like:
if ( ret
And this gets even uglier with multi-threaded programs, as errno has to become a magic global variable with a separate per-thread version, which usually means that errno becomes a macro.
I had a laptop that was really short on memory back in 1996 or so. I liked having the six virtual consoles, but rarely used them, so I wrote a program that would wait for you to press enter, then exec the regular login program. It copied the executable onto the same page as the stack and had no globals, so at run time, it used exactly one page of RAM. I used the same technique as the author here of calling syscalls directly instead of using libc.
I haven't seen a pop-up ad in years, but my understanding is that Google's Chrome browser handles this by keeping the pop-up inside the tab that created it. Not the full history of the page with redirects as was overly-verbosely proposed, but certainly a step in the right direction.