Wavelets provide time AND frequency resolution; FFT is ambiguous to time. The closest Fourier variant that I'd say remotely compares to a wavelet transform, would probably be the STFT....though the STFT's harsh windowing has the ability to introduce quite a bit of high-frequency noise. While wavelets are often used to de-noise a given signal.
But on the topic of compression, the JPEG2000 standard uses wavelets.
Next time, bend the metal strap so to take some of the arch out of it. As long as you don't go overboard, it is possible to have a painless and screwdriver-free heatsink installation.
Does it matter if they know how many bits are in a byte if they're coding applications (eg payroll, finance, hr) on windows with VB or MS Access etc?... or does this only matter if they're coding with C and variants... So my answer would usually be "I forget" most of what was in my CS program.
If your CS program had a decent assembly, digital logic or low level algorithms class, you'd realize that there are plenty of cool bitwise algorithms that are extremely fast when compared to the generic library routines.
For example:
Take a look at this portion of a decision maker function, which maps several form checkboxes into a single number:
var combo = form.elements[0].checked*(Math.pow(2,2))
+ form.elements[1].checked*(Math.pow(2,1))
+ form.elements[2].checked*(Math.pow(2,0));
The following code uses bitwise operators to do the same thing as the code above, but much more efficiently:
Granted, if you're developing in VB or Access, speed and efficiency is probably not the top concearn... but if it was and you'd like to use a speedy replacement, it helps to know the characteristics of the data you're working with.
You obviously know the editors[*] don't read their own site, so why would you expect them to read your comment associated with the article they seemingly don't care about?
[*] - this is aimed towards the editors who are notoriously bad for dupes; lumping them all into a category of 'indifferent editors' wouldn't be fair.
Trinitrons use the horid aperture grill instead of a shadow mask. The aperture grill causes the annoying lines that we just love to hate.
Here's the quick breakdown:
Shadow mask: The shadow mask in a CRT monitor is a metal screen filled with holes that sits just behind the phosphor layer. Red, green and blue electron guns each send a beam through a hole in the shadow mask to a single pixel triad of the tube's phosphor layer. Although this method keeps the image sharp, it diminishes the potential brightness of the screen.
Aperture grill: Instead of a metal screen, the aperture grill consists of tiny vertical wires. The pixels on the phosphor layer are arranged in vertical stripes instead of triangular groups. When the electron guns scan across a row, the wires isolate the pixels that the individual beams focus on. This approach has a couple of advantages over conventional shadow masking. First, the use of wires instead of a screen allows more of the energy from the electron gun through, which makes for a brighter image. Second, the potential vertical resolution of a display can be greater, since the aperture grill does not rely on the vertical spacing of pinholes as a shadow mask does.
I did pretty much everything in high school except music and drama, and I loved it.
You are obviously in the group of people that would fall in the exception category. But you cannot argue the fact that there were a definable group of individuals that were overachievers just to fill their college applications(at least in my school there was).
Now, don't get me wrong, I spent my fair share of time in front of the computer too, but if oyu'er not doing sports, or part of student council, or on the debate team - what are you doing with your free time? Drinking?
There are a plethora of activities outside of the high schools. I for one was really into church functions, a software upstart that I worked in conjunction with my other friends, and my heavy metal band. Not to mention that starting the second half of my junior year, I began taking night classes at the local university to start my college education.
There's nothing wrong with people who decide to take advantage of everything their high school has to offer. But, I believe there is more happening off their campus than most kids realize... I'm glad I took the time to look beyond.
...as no one has planned to buy the worthless piece of crap anyway.
You're right! Their target audience of lonely guys will probably have enough time on their hands to sit on IRC and wait for slow transfer from the DCC server.
The assumption you are making is that edrugtrader is talking about gambling his money after moving the funds to a gambling account... he is not. He is just talking about routing it through a gambling service because by moving the funds in this manner, the regular PayPal fees are not applicable.
Students... this could be called money laundering.
You seem to be missing the point. Not all gambling sites charge a "cash out" fee (I'm not going to mention one because this is not an advertisement), thus, as long as you are able to avoid the temptation to "roll the dice" from the point when you transfer the funds to your gambling account to the time you cash out your "credit"... you shouldn't lose anything.
Some gambling sites have a surcharge, but most that due (that I've seen) are lower than PayPal's fees.;)
The point that it is a browser is irrelevant. The prosecution is attempting to point out that Microsoft has been anti-competitive in the past, and may still be running this type of business.
In this day and age, most people have somewhat of a grasp of what a "browser" is and it's use. The quickest way the prosecution could fsck this case is if they decide to saturate the courtroom with abstract technological jargon. I believe the browser issue was a good tactic to implement.
...so... how can you make people with this type of outlook, your excuse in losing the battle over the desktop?
I think it is evident from looking at the average hardcore gamer that uses Windows primarily.
IMHO I believe that they would be the easiest "Microsoft using demographic" to sway to Linux. Taking into consideration that (most of) these hardcore gamers already have a basic understanding of hardware, drivers, etc...
When it comes down to it, they are gamers. If gamers were flocking to Linux, I don't believe that Loki would have went under since they were the largest single business entity involved in Linux gaming.
NOTE... Of course it is possible that Loki went under due to other factors than just slow sales, but having an almost non-existant customer base is the most obvious.
I can see it now... M$ would implant an X-Box and all I would have to do is renounce my citizenship, identity, etc... and be assigned an OEM number.
On top of that, on our "one giant logical system" what are the chances that there would be a huge security hole that I could manipulate other "members" of this system.
I could see it now... I'd locate an attrative woman on my subnet, gain access to her system, and add an administrative service to constantly request my (computational) LOAD.
I just had an epiphany! What if we had the option to pay a flat fee per month for more than basic air reception service?... oh yeah, it's called a CABLE BILL.
But wait, with this service it is atleast 1/3 unsolicited forced "spam!"
I understand commercials are a necessary evil that we have become acoustomed to, but why can't I have the option to pay a little bit extra for no commercials. Here's how I think the ideal situation would work...
Most television programs are filmed where approx. ten minutes of every thirty minutes are for commercial sponsors. Why not play the programs back to back, and be able to broadcast three episodes in the place of two episodes with commercials. Hopefully the concept would catch the attention of the masses and have a wide subscription clientele to make up the lost revenue brought in from commercials.
I realize that there wouldn't be much incentive for any parties other than the consumer, but I can dream - can't I?
You'll notice that the chips do fall off immediately, but in the last few seconds (and the first few) of the clip you will see something in the top right of the view come in the shot very quickly then leave. This leads me to think that the shots were sped up intentionally to not bore the/.'ers, and keep your attenetion.
I should have been more specific. I meant to say by everyday polution. By no means is the industrial and comercial polution of the world been proven to be the cause of the "warming."
I think it's arrogant of us to think that we caused this slight change. But, like I said it hasn't been proven either way. So far it has all been speculation on such a small data set that doesn't qualify for bullsh*t in my mind. It's politically charged, and that in itself should make every single person question it's findings.
What if a company wants/needs a security evaluation done by an outside firm? Are white hat consultants going to need a permit for their misc tools?...Or are the Ausies just going to promote firms located outside of Austrailia?
I totally agree. People seem to easily get caught up in the belief that guns are responsible for all of the unjust shootings that happen worldwide.
In the hands of a sane, intelligent, and emotionally stable person, a gun is not dangerous. Unfortunately, not everyone that posseses a gun meets those requirements. When trouble erupts, politicians need to realize that some people don't deserve the right to possess a firearm.
It would be my luck that I would be transfering the last 10megs of a 500meg cd-image, right when my IP changed.
But seriously... It sounds good in theory, but if developers don't code their apps for the instantaneous IP change, it could seriously cause major headaches.
Also there would need to be downtime for an IP before it was used again, otherwise I could make a request, (then if hypothetically I changed IPs, and my old one was assigned immediately) the other user with my old IP would recieve the packets. Which could be a huge security risk, if transfering sensitive material.
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eh, not really.
...though the STFT's harsh windowing has the ability to introduce quite a bit of high-frequency noise. While wavelets are often used to de-noise a given signal.
Wavelets provide time AND frequency resolution; FFT is ambiguous to time. The closest Fourier variant that I'd say remotely compares to a wavelet transform, would probably be the STFT.
But on the topic of compression, the JPEG2000 standard uses wavelets.
Maybe the legendary MacGyver isn't as resourceful as his reputation suggests.
Next time, bend the metal strap so to take some of the arch out of it. As long as you don't go overboard, it is possible to have a painless and screwdriver-free heatsink installation.
If your CS program had a decent assembly, digital logic or low level algorithms class, you'd realize that there are plenty of cool bitwise algorithms that are extremely fast when compared to the generic library routines.
For example:
Take a look at this portion of a decision maker function, which maps several form checkboxes into a single number:The following code uses bitwise operators to do the same thing as the code above, but much more efficiently:Granted, if you're developing in VB or Access, speed and efficiency is probably not the top concearn... but if it was and you'd like to use a speedy replacement, it helps to know the characteristics of the data you're working with.
You obviously know the editors[*] don't read their own site, so why would you expect them to read your comment associated with the article they seemingly don't care about?
[*] - this is aimed towards the editors who are notoriously bad for dupes; lumping them all into a category of 'indifferent editors' wouldn't be fair.
Trinitrons use the horid aperture grill instead of a shadow mask. The aperture grill causes the annoying lines that we just love to hate.
Here's the quick breakdown:
Shadow mask: The shadow mask in a CRT monitor is a metal screen filled with holes that sits just behind the phosphor layer. Red, green and blue electron guns each send a beam through a hole in the shadow mask to a single pixel triad of the tube's phosphor layer. Although this method keeps the image sharp, it diminishes the potential brightness of the screen.
Aperture grill: Instead of a metal screen, the aperture grill consists of tiny vertical wires. The pixels on the phosphor layer are arranged in vertical stripes instead of triangular groups. When the electron guns scan across a row, the wires isolate the pixels that the individual beams focus on. This approach has a couple of advantages over conventional shadow masking. First, the use of wires instead of a screen allows more of the energy from the electron gun through, which makes for a brighter image. Second, the potential vertical resolution of a display can be greater, since the aperture grill does not rely on the vertical spacing of pinholes as a shadow mask does.
...as no one has planned to buy the worthless piece of crap anyway.
You're right! Their target audience of lonely guys will probably have enough time on their hands to sit on IRC and wait for slow transfer from the DCC server.
The assumption you are making is that edrugtrader is talking about gambling his money after moving the funds to a gambling account... he is not. He is just talking about routing it through a gambling service because by moving the funds in this manner, the regular PayPal fees are not applicable.
Students... this could be called money laundering.
:s/due/do
You seem to be missing the point. Not all gambling sites charge a "cash out" fee (I'm not going to mention one because this is not an advertisement), thus, as long as you are able to avoid the temptation to "roll the dice" from the point when you transfer the funds to your gambling account to the time you cash out your "credit"... you shouldn't lose anything.
;)
Some gambling sites have a surcharge, but most that due (that I've seen) are lower than PayPal's fees.
As noted in an earlier article, if it leads to someone's death -- then a possible life sentence could be handed to the author of this expliotation.
But this is also assuming that it could be proved a life could have been saved if the 911 lines were not tied up due to this bug.
The point that it is a browser is irrelevant. The prosecution is attempting to point out that Microsoft has been anti-competitive in the past, and may still be running this type of business.
In this day and age, most people have somewhat of a grasp of what a "browser" is and it's use. The quickest way the prosecution could fsck this case is if they decide to saturate the courtroom with abstract technological jargon. I believe the browser issue was a good tactic to implement.
...so... how can you make people with this type of outlook, your excuse in losing the battle over the desktop?
I think it is evident from looking at the average hardcore gamer that uses Windows primarily.
IMHO I believe that they would be the easiest "Microsoft using demographic" to sway to Linux. Taking into consideration that (most of) these hardcore gamers already have a basic understanding of hardware, drivers, etc...
When it comes down to it, they are gamers. If gamers were flocking to Linux, I don't believe that Loki would have went under since they were the largest single business entity involved in Linux gaming.
NOTE... Of course it is possible that Loki went under due to other factors than just slow sales, but having an almost non-existant customer base is the most obvious.
I can see it now... M$ would implant an X-Box and all I would have to do is renounce my citizenship, identity, etc... and be assigned an OEM number.
On top of that, on our "one giant logical system" what are the chances that there would be a huge security hole that I could manipulate other "members" of this system.
I could see it now... I'd locate an attrative woman on my subnet, gain access to her system, and add an administrative service to constantly request my (computational) LOAD.
Man... that would suck!
I just had an epiphany! What if we had the option to pay a flat fee per month for more than basic air reception service?... oh yeah, it's called a CABLE BILL.
But wait, with this service it is atleast 1/3 unsolicited forced "spam!"
I understand commercials are a necessary evil that we have become acoustomed to, but why can't I have the option to pay a little bit extra for no commercials. Here's how I think the ideal situation would work...
Most television programs are filmed where approx. ten minutes of every thirty minutes are for commercial sponsors. Why not play the programs back to back, and be able to broadcast three episodes in the place of two episodes with commercials. Hopefully the concept would catch the attention of the masses and have a wide subscription clientele to make up the lost revenue brought in from commercials.
I realize that there wouldn't be much incentive for any parties other than the consumer, but I can dream - can't I?
You'll notice that the chips do fall off immediately, but in the last few seconds (and the first few) of the clip you will see something in the top right of the view come in the shot very quickly then leave. This leads me to think that the shots were sped up intentionally to not bore the /.'ers, and keep your attenetion.
I should have been more specific. I meant to say by everyday polution. By no means is the industrial and comercial polution of the world been proven to be the cause of the "warming."
I think it's arrogant of us to think that we caused this slight change. But, like I said it hasn't been proven either way. So far it has all been speculation on such a small data set that doesn't qualify for bullsh*t in my mind. It's politically charged, and that in itself should make every single person question it's findings.
In my opinion, analyzing 20 years of data isn't enough to effectively correlate "global warming" and human activity.
What if a company wants/needs a security evaluation done by an outside firm? Are white hat consultants going to need a permit for their misc tools? ...Or are the Ausies just going to promote firms located outside of Austrailia?
In the hands of a sane, intelligent, and emotionally stable person, a gun is not dangerous. Unfortunately, not everyone that posseses a gun meets those requirements. When trouble erupts, politicians need to realize that some people don't deserve the right to possess a firearm.
Heck ya! Forget money, I'd be suing for free lifetime fiber access with no bandwidth caps.
But seriously... It sounds good in theory, but if developers don't code their apps for the instantaneous IP change, it could seriously cause major headaches.
Also there would need to be downtime for an IP before it was used again, otherwise I could make a request, (then if hypothetically I changed IPs, and my old one was assigned immediately) the other user with my old IP would recieve the packets. Which could be a huge security risk, if transfering sensitive material.