For all the technobabble in that summary, I still don't know what ZFS offers me over other filesystems. Maybe the guys working on the system should do a little marketing course, or work on their 'elevator pitch'...
Not regularely, no. But once in a while you do, and then you hit the recharge-time hump. There's really no substitute for filling up your tank in a few minutes with liquid fuel (that includes LPG).
That's the main problem with adoptation of electric cars at the moment IMO: electric-only cars are too expensive to have as a second car (except for the happy few), and a hybrid is is too complex, too heavy and thus even more expensive.
Although this is an obvious "solution", it's not very realistic.
However, there is one trend I noticed over the last years: I see a lot of young, healthy people riding on motorized scooters that do not require wearing a helmet. They are limited to 25 km/h (16 mph) which is a bit faster than a bicycle (though many are 'unlimited' afterwards), and I wonder "Why don't they take the bike?" It takes only slightly longer to do the same trip on the bike, it costs fuel and thus money and it is not very healthy, since a) the riders don't exercise and b) most scooters are 2-stroke engines, usually badly maintained so they pollute enormously.
Last week there was an item on the news that the sales of these scooters are rising steadily, especially under young people. So, people are getting used to a sedentary lifestyle earlier, and thus get fatter earlier and quicker.
While what I am suggesting will be fun to read about; I am much more scared of the terroristic possibilities; [...]
Congratulations, you have been properly brainwashed. Any type of technology can be used for both 'good' and 'bad'. A spear can be used to kill a wolf that attacks you, a mammoth for food and clothing, or your rival in the clan. Gunpowder can be used to build roads, conquer a fortress or send a bullet flying at the speed of sound. An airplane can be used to travel quickly to your vacation spot, bring relief goods to a disaster area or yes, crash into a building. Drones can be used to monitor nature parks, deliver packages or point a laser at a target for a bomb to strike.
So there is no point in being scared; if people want to hurt you, they can. That's just part of living. However, I do agree that newer technologies are more insidious: with a spear you have to stand face to face with your opponent, but with a drone you can kill someone from a long distance without seeing him.
And all this talk about terrorist-this, terrorist-that only got you into a mindset of fear, and that is exactly what a terrorist wants (and if you believe some, your government as well). It doesn't really help too that every little incident is blown out of proportion, even if it happened at the other side of the planet. Fear can be a very powerful weapon, one without buttons or triggers or even blood flowing; but it can also be defused easily. So it is time to overcome your fear and come out of your cave. Be careful, but not frightful.
I bet you are being more productive too. Having a low speed forces you consider what to do/watch/download, and simply not click on every thing that comes into your mind or pops up in your mailbox/twitter/facebook/whateversocialmediayouaresubscribedto. So less distraction.
I also like your batch-download; rather than drumming your fingers for 15 minutes until that file is finally downloaded, you queue it up and continue with whatever you were doing.
Instead they relied on a product called CityEngine, which is more typically associated with local government bodies' urban planning and urban design.
You mean local governments don't actually think about their urban development, but just let it be generated by the computer? That would explain those impossible-to-navigate suburbs that make
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Against Lester's suggestion, do not use a Wiki. I have seen way too many projects with a half-baked or even empty Wiki, since the programmer believed that if he created a Wiki, the documentation will be written "magically" by the users. That is not going to happen, period. The one and only who can actually write the documentation (be it the API spec, examples or user manual) is you, the original programmer. Everybody else is just a beginner...
I have two rules when I go shopping, especially for clothes: I don't want to spend too much time on it, and I don't want to be asked if I can find "it". Yes, thank you, I'll use my eyes and I will ask you if absolutely necessary (and yes, I'm a man). Absolutely the last thing I need is the electronic equivalent of an overly eager employee store, especially since I can't tell it to bugger off.
Granted, not everybody shops like me. But image you are shopping and every 2 minutes an employee pops up next to you, holding up a cardboard with the latest sale, right in front of you. I have never seen that done in a shop, and I think with good reason... Their customers will walk out of the shop quickly.
...while we even haven't got the 1.0 version (that is, a simple pill that you can pop in your mouth and contains all the necessary nutrients). But it will fail for the same reasons:
Food is more than just a list of nutrients. It is something most of us enjoy, for its taste, its texture, smell, color, etc. etc.
It would be very difficult to reproduce the texture of say, a cake, a steak or scrambled eggs. The process by which the food is produced is just as important.
How are they going to serve warm dishes? If I have to microwave it I might as well pop in a package from the freezer.
But most importantly: it won't solve the world's hunger because most people that cannot afford food today will most certainly not be able to afford powders and cartridges, produced by commercial companies in rich, Western countries. Besides, where are they going to plug the machine into?
It might solve a problem for NASA; it will not solve the hunger ór the obesity epidemic. No, just give me this
Because the atmosphere that surrounds it is also inside the gel, between the pores. That still makes it heavier than air, by aforementioned 0.16mg/cm3. A saturated sponge will also sink, despite being 'lighter' than water.
Really, if we can't even be bothered to come up with a compliment ourselves (even if it is a cliché), but have to rely on an app to do it for us... Next thing you know it's going to automatically message your SO with compliments:(
Amen to that. I've got a M515; unfortunately, its replacement battery is starting to die off too, so I'm afraid this time it really is the end. An 'uptime' of a week still beats any smartphone these days:P
Putting up a third rail or wire overhead incurs costs too. Plus, it's sometimes inconvenient when a train track has a level crossing with 'regular' traffic.
I'd be more worried about the huge magnetic fields being generated to transfer energy from the grid to the bus or train. You need a whopping amount of Joules to move a train, and to charge it in the short time it's waiting at a stop requires even more current. It probably would make for a very good hard disk degausser... (not to mention the danger to credit cards, RFID card and anything else with a wire loop in it)
I don't know about you, but this strikes me as odd:
"Henry Alford writes that in an ideal world, we would all use Google to be better friends [....] to get to know them better."
Why would I use a computer to get to know a friend better? Wouldn't it make much more sense to actually *talk* to them, let them (and their friends) tell you stories about their past, including the embarrassing ones their friends and acquaintances will dig up for them (whether they like it or not:)). What's wrong with going to a bar together, go to their birthday party or join them for a weekend break? Isn't that what friends are for?
I installed Linux first back in 1993; the Uni I was attending had some Unix boxes and I liked it so much I tried out Linux myself (slackware, on floppies no less).
Anyway, there are a couple of things that I think make you a professional:
Know the system in and out, and a bit beyond that. Don't just shove in a Ubuntu/Debian/Slackware/Redhat CD and hit "graphic install". For example, know how the installer works, figure out the boot loader works, what/sbin/mount does and what to do when you end up with a read-only root file system.
Explore other areas: I've written kernel modules in the past (I'm also a programmer); learn about networking, IP, DNS, which wires in a CAT5 cable are used for 100Base-T, know what a USB vender/product ID is.
Install software from source. Much more... ehm... entertaining at times.
Eat your own dogfood; that is, install a system that you dare experimenting with. If it blows up in your face, you have just learned a lot (and just restore from backup (you do have backups, don't you?))
Use it every day yourself; try different versions.
And the most important aspect of being a professional, in my opinion: admit it when you don't know something, or made a mistake. It sounds much better to tell your customer "I don't know how to do that, but I'll figure it out" than to say "Sure, no problem" and come back 2 weeks later empty-handed. Also, "Oops, I'll fix that right away" works much better than "Nah, you must have seen it wrong" or "It's a glitch".
Can somebody explain in plain English what the legal hoopla really means? To me, this case seems more like a legal Goldberg machine than an actual court case....
Even more relevant: the *recording* noise. On-board microphone inputs usually pick up more noise from the CPU & other chips than the signal you actually want; line inputs are not much better. Even for speech applications like skype, msn etc. it's very annoying if you hear the constant rattle from your PC or the other side. If you want to do even moderately serious sound recording, a discrete card is a must.
That is exactly why in the EU (or the Netherlands at least) airline prices must now be all-inclusive when advertised on billboards and magazines etc. I wouldn't be surprised if this applied to all package deals now (like holidays).
On the other hand, it always struck me as odd that for concert & cinema tickets there is still a surcharge. So when you see an advert for a concert with a price listed, you can never buy the tickets for that price. If you go to the website, there's postage and packing, usually charged per ticket; if you go to a ticket booth, there are handling costs; even if you are able to go the venue itself and by tickets directly from the cashier, you pay 'reservation costs'. Erhm, excuse me?! Selling tickets is part of your business; better calculate that into your fee than ticking your customers off.
First, like you say, go farther away and use a tele-lens to pull the foreground to the wanted size.
Using a telelens seems to contradict the idea of getting both background and foreground in focus. In photography, I often use a telelens to delibaterely show the background out of focus and highlight the subject by putting it in focus; the effect is that your subject becomes detached from the background. Anyone who has used a telelens knows you have to focus quite precisely on your subject. This is because the total distance over which a telelens is sharp is only a few meters at average aperture. However, turning the focus ring moves that few meters back- and forward quite quickly.
The formule for depth of field shows that the depth of field decreases quadratically for increasing focal length (the divisor has a fourth power for f, the enumerator only a quadratic).
I don't get it. The flame expands outward to the surface in less than a second. I am ok so far. Now to do that the material would need to have a lot of momentum in the direction it is going, so how does it suddenly turn around and crash into itself on the other side?>
It is not the material itself that 'turns around', but rather the gas/plasma pressure increase that propagates (at nearly relativistic speeds, no less. The simulated star was earth-sized; imagine traveling to the other side of our planet in 1 second. That's how fast it goes).
A proper analogy would be sound: when you speak, your voice travels over 300 meter/second in air; yet, the air itself doesn't move at 300 meter/second; just the pressure gradient.
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For all the technobabble in that summary, I still don't know what ZFS offers me over other filesystems. Maybe the guys working on the system should do a little marketing course, or work on their 'elevator pitch'...
I don't regularly need 300 mile range.
Not regularely, no. But once in a while you do, and then you hit the recharge-time hump. There's really no substitute for filling up your tank in a few minutes with liquid fuel (that includes LPG). That's the main problem with adoptation of electric cars at the moment IMO: electric-only cars are too expensive to have as a second car (except for the happy few), and a hybrid is is too complex, too heavy and thus even more expensive.
Although this is an obvious "solution", it's not very realistic.
However, there is one trend I noticed over the last years: I see a lot of young, healthy people riding on motorized scooters that do not require wearing a helmet. They are limited to 25 km/h (16 mph) which is a bit faster than a bicycle (though many are 'unlimited' afterwards), and I wonder "Why don't they take the bike?" It takes only slightly longer to do the same trip on the bike, it costs fuel and thus money and it is not very healthy, since a) the riders don't exercise and b) most scooters are 2-stroke engines, usually badly maintained so they pollute enormously.
Last week there was an item on the news that the sales of these scooters are rising steadily, especially under young people. So, people are getting used to a sedentary lifestyle earlier, and thus get fatter earlier and quicker.
You know, with Buzzword Bingo one full row will suffice, not the whole card! I've never seen a press release with so much marketing bullsh*t.
While what I am suggesting will be fun to read about; I am much more scared of the terroristic possibilities; [...]
Congratulations, you have been properly brainwashed. Any type of technology can be used for both 'good' and 'bad'. A spear can be used to kill a wolf that attacks you, a mammoth for food and clothing, or your rival in the clan. Gunpowder can be used to build roads, conquer a fortress or send a bullet flying at the speed of sound. An airplane can be used to travel quickly to your vacation spot, bring relief goods to a disaster area or yes, crash into a building. Drones can be used to monitor nature parks, deliver packages or point a laser at a target for a bomb to strike.
So there is no point in being scared; if people want to hurt you, they can. That's just part of living. However, I do agree that newer technologies are more insidious: with a spear you have to stand face to face with your opponent, but with a drone you can kill someone from a long distance without seeing him.
And all this talk about terrorist-this, terrorist-that only got you into a mindset of fear, and that is exactly what a terrorist wants (and if you believe some, your government as well). It doesn't really help too that every little incident is blown out of proportion, even if it happened at the other side of the planet. Fear can be a very powerful weapon, one without buttons or triggers or even blood flowing; but it can also be defused easily. So it is time to overcome your fear and come out of your cave. Be careful, but not frightful.
I bet you are being more productive too. Having a low speed forces you consider what to do/watch/download, and simply not click on every thing that comes into your mind or pops up in your mailbox/twitter/facebook/whateversocialmediayouaresubscribedto. So less distraction. I also like your batch-download; rather than drumming your fingers for 15 minutes until that file is finally downloaded, you queue it up and continue with whatever you were doing.
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Instead they relied on a product called CityEngine, which is more typically associated with local government bodies' urban planning and urban design.
You mean local governments don't actually think about their urban development, but just let it be generated by the computer? That would explain those impossible-to-navigate suburbs that make no sense at all
Against Lester's suggestion, do not use a Wiki. I have seen way too many projects with a half-baked or even empty Wiki, since the programmer believed that if he created a Wiki, the documentation will be written "magically" by the users. That is not going to happen, period. The one and only who can actually write the documentation (be it the API spec, examples or user manual) is you, the original programmer. Everybody else is just a beginner...
I have two rules when I go shopping, especially for clothes: I don't want to spend too much time on it, and I don't want to be asked if I can find "it". Yes, thank you, I'll use my eyes and I will ask you if absolutely necessary (and yes, I'm a man). Absolutely the last thing I need is the electronic equivalent of an overly eager employee store, especially since I can't tell it to bugger off.
Granted, not everybody shops like me. But image you are shopping and every 2 minutes an employee pops up next to you, holding up a cardboard with the latest sale, right in front of you. I have never seen that done in a shop, and I think with good reason... Their customers will walk out of the shop quickly.
...is that the phone will make a picture of your face every time you unlock it this way and sends it to your mom, boss or fiancee at random :)
It might solve a problem for NASA; it will not solve the hunger ór the obesity epidemic. No, just give me this
Because the atmosphere that surrounds it is also inside the gel, between the pores. That still makes it heavier than air, by aforementioned 0.16mg/cm3. A saturated sponge will also sink, despite being 'lighter' than water.
Really, if we can't even be bothered to come up with a compliment ourselves (even if it is a cliché), but have to rely on an app to do it for us... Next thing you know it's going to automatically message your SO with compliments :(
Amen to that. I've got a M515; unfortunately, its replacement battery is starting to die off too, so I'm afraid this time it really is the end. An 'uptime' of a week still beats any smartphone these days :P
Putting up a third rail or wire overhead incurs costs too. Plus, it's sometimes inconvenient when a train track has a level crossing with 'regular' traffic.
I'd be more worried about the huge magnetic fields being generated to transfer energy from the grid to the bus or train. You need a whopping amount of Joules to move a train, and to charge it in the short time it's waiting at a stop requires even more current. It probably would make for a very good hard disk degausser... (not to mention the danger to credit cards, RFID card and anything else with a wire loop in it)
I don't know about you, but this strikes me as odd:
"Henry Alford writes that in an ideal world, we would all use Google to be better friends [....] to get to know them better."
Why would I use a computer to get to know a friend better? Wouldn't it make much more sense to actually *talk* to them, let them (and their friends) tell you stories about their past, including the embarrassing ones their friends and acquaintances will dig up for them (whether they like it or not :)). What's wrong with going to a bar together, go to their birthday party or join them for a weekend break? Isn't that what friends are for?
I installed Linux first back in 1993; the Uni I was attending had some Unix boxes and I liked it so much I tried out Linux myself (slackware, on floppies no less).
Anyway, there are a couple of things that I think make you a professional:
And the most important aspect of being a professional, in my opinion: admit it when you don't know something, or made a mistake. It sounds much better to tell your customer "I don't know how to do that, but I'll figure it out" than to say "Sure, no problem" and come back 2 weeks later empty-handed. Also, "Oops, I'll fix that right away" works much better than "Nah, you must have seen it wrong" or "It's a glitch".
Can somebody explain in plain English what the legal hoopla really means? To me, this case seems more like a legal Goldberg machine than an actual court case....
Even more relevant: the *recording* noise. On-board microphone inputs usually pick up more noise from the CPU & other chips than the signal you actually want; line inputs are not much better. Even for speech applications like skype, msn etc. it's very annoying if you hear the constant rattle from your PC or the other side. If you want to do even moderately serious sound recording, a discrete card is a must.
That is exactly why in the EU (or the Netherlands at least) airline prices must now be all-inclusive when advertised on billboards and magazines etc. I wouldn't be surprised if this applied to all package deals now (like holidays).
On the other hand, it always struck me as odd that for concert & cinema tickets there is still a surcharge. So when you see an advert for a concert with a price listed, you can never buy the tickets for that price. If you go to the website, there's postage and packing, usually charged per ticket; if you go to a ticket booth, there are handling costs; even if you are able to go the venue itself and by tickets directly from the cashier, you pay 'reservation costs'. Erhm, excuse me?! Selling tickets is part of your business; better calculate that into your fee than ticking your customers off.
It seems you are not working at the company described in this WTF article...
First, like you say, go farther away and use a tele-lens to pull the foreground to the wanted size.
Using a telelens seems to contradict the idea of getting both background and foreground in focus. In photography, I often use a telelens to delibaterely show the background out of focus and highlight the subject by putting it in focus; the effect is that your subject becomes detached from the background. Anyone who has used a telelens knows you have to focus quite precisely on your subject. This is because the total distance over which a telelens is sharp is only a few meters at average aperture. However, turning the focus ring moves that few meters back- and forward quite quickly.
The formule for depth of field shows that the depth of field decreases quadratically for increasing focal length (the divisor has a fourth power for f, the enumerator only a quadratic).
It is called a 2 year old.
This is the 3rd reference to children I've seen in this topic, so far. Either the /. crowd is getting old, or being a geek is losing its appeal...
I don't get it. The flame expands outward to the surface in less than a second. I am ok so far. Now to do that the material would need to have a lot of momentum in the direction it is going, so how does it suddenly turn around and crash into itself on the other side?>
It is not the material itself that 'turns around', but rather the gas/plasma pressure increase that propagates (at nearly relativistic speeds, no less. The simulated star was earth-sized; imagine traveling to the other side of our planet in 1 second. That's how fast it goes).
A proper analogy would be sound: when you speak, your voice travels over 300 meter/second in air; yet, the air itself doesn't move at 300 meter/second; just the pressure gradient.