Agreed. You'd think that someone who boasts knowledge of local Polish sub-languages would acknowledge the fact that Polish persisted absent a country partially because it was persecuted. Persecution breeds opposition. If the occupiers didn't care about whether people spoke Polish, those same people would probably care much less about preserving the language: there would have been no threat to it, so why worry about it. It's almost like with Streisand effect: the more you wish for it, the more opposite effect you get.
Wait a minute, you actually, as a company policy, encourage people to use IE except for legacy sites that won't work on anything else? Isn't that crazy? Then they go, do the same at home, and they end up owned. Kudos.
You're seriously saying that hitting someone from maybe 6 feet away within a, say, 5" diameter circle, is hard? I haven't shot any handguns, but my first time with a sports rifle I've done waaay better than that. Perhaps handguns are very different, then. For all we know the guy could have shot from 3 feet away or less.
EasyCalc for Palm is quite nice. The most recent version runs on PocketPC, too, but I didn't use that one. Doesn't do CAS, but it is opensource, and you can compile it on your own and tweak it to your heart's content. It also runs on a reasonably modern platform, so you don't have to worry about the CPU being a dinosaur. I think it'll work on pretty much any Palm II and newer device IIRC. I've used it on a monochrome Handspring Visor. Came very handy for advanced strength of materials. I think at that time I knew all the tricks needed to quickly calculate eigenvectors and eigenvalues, for example, never mind graph things.
Legacy Palm devices are the proverbial dime a dozen on eBay.
Side note: Not having degree-scaled arguments to trig functions is somewhat of a childish thing to complain about. Gimme a break, seriously (this is in maxima):
So you're saying that shooter was done and dead in well under 3 minutes then? We'll wait and see, but I doubt it. As for the speed of killing, I don't think a stab with a proper tool, or slicing someone's neck, takes very long. We're talking 2 seconds, tops. Yes, I agree firearms require much less training and ability, so they do offer, arguably, a much lower barrier to entry.
Guns are bad. Narcotics are bad. So now you're advocating shooting people for possession? Are you nuts? Well, yeah, I guess you are. Even in trigger happy police land, a.k.a. U.S.A., an illegal possession of a firearm is not grounds for the police to shoot you. You must be threatening them. Mere illegal possession can land you in jail, but nobody is supposed to open fire at you for that. Your "nice 'n' simple" methods are otherwise known as witch trials. That's why we have the legal system, so that revenge-seeking crazies like you won't kill everyone in sight just because they think it makes world a better place. IOW: Man, you're against guns, supposedly so that less people get needlessly killed, but all for shooting people for nonviolent crimes. If I were you, I'd be seeking mental health care right now. I'm scared of you. Seriously.
A few people a minute? For someone who's determined to kill, and is sufficiently fit? Have you been to a U.S. mall? Man, it'd be like killing sitting ducks. With some luck, 10 people a minute would be the right ballpark I'd think. Hint: your targets are mostly overweight, relatively slow even if not overweight (you're fit, they likely aren't), and nobody will be trying to stop you until the police arrives. Sure, it perhaps hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure there's enough crazy madmen out there that someone will try it just to show everyone.
Us gun control freaks would probably allow that guns can be possessed with a shitload of training, testing and annual recertification but guess who argues against that?
I have no problem with that, heck, I'd like it to be so, and I'm no gun control freak.
So, you're saying those disturbed murderers wouldn't, for example, turn to arson or poisoning or any other means of doing what they're after -- that is, murdering people?
Are you for real? Ever heard of industrial design? You know, things made to be pretty and useful? If I have a supposedly beautiful computer, am I misusing it by not displaying it in the gallery outside of my work hours? Ever heard of functional art? Gee whiz, go back to your basement, you unappreciative clod. Srsly.
Beneficial use of collegiate football in our society is extremely limited. Apart from those students who use it as their only exercise to stay fit, college football matches are used exclusively for entertainment. Yet this collegiate sport does not require much skill to cause repetitive brain injuries, often to students who play ball only to get into college. So spare us the stupidity of the "sports are for athletics, sports don't hurt people, etc". So people should have access only to participate in the sports they have a reasonable use for. They should be licensed, and inspected regularly for head trauma. It costs our health insurance companies quite a bit of money to cover sports injuries, after all.
Yeah, see how well that line of thinking would fly. You see, the problem with thinking of that sort is that it's a slippery slope. I'm no fan of guns, I'm not an NRA member (never was, never will be), and I hate people who dish out violence of any kind.
Besides, Europe has, pretty much, got U.S. per capita deaths due to guns converted to similar order of magnitude per capita abductions into the sex trade. I think I'd much rather my kid be dead, thank you very much.
Uhm, so obviously anyone who these days enjoys shooting at concentric rings, for the pure joy of it, with no intention of killing anyone, much less anything, is unthinkable to you. I personally wouldn't mind if all firearms just disappeared overnight, but man, the anti-gun phobias I see here are just a wee bit over the top for my taste. Someone in my family died from a street shooting bullet, and yet I can be rational and understand that some freedoms are best left alone.
I don't quite see the need for any special voter ID cards. As far as I know, every driver license in the U.S. lets you figure out, just by looking at the verbiage on it, whether the holder is a citizen/permanent resident. Driver IDs for non-immigrants (F1, F4, H1, H4, etc. visa holders) are non renewable and non transferable -- it says so on the license. Of course only citizens are allowed to vote in certain elections, so that distinction would still need to be made somehow. But primarily most voter fraud would be tackled simply by checking driver licenses, or for those without them, state ID cards. Why do we need a yet another piece of government identification -- this one not only single-purpose, but also valid for a single election only??
Wait a minute. They are looking for "counter insurgency activity"?! I'd have thought that any citizen engaging in counter-insurgency activity is to be commended. Most of them probably work for some uniformed service anyway -- now they'd be under close scrutiny? And we need a special agency for that?! Of course English is just my second language, so what do I know.
you're going to have to start with making a wireless technology that is capable of sending data at a high rate of speed over considerable distance, be resistant to jamming and fading, and even more resistant to being triangulated and traced back to its source.
You mean, a laundry list of things that are mostly not even theoretically possible? Just because you have a long wishlist doesn't mean any of those things are feasible, or even make sense.
Where on Earth do you live where neighborhood-scale activities locally disturb the grid frequency? Oh, I get it, you're just clueless and are making shit up as you go.
Frequency measurement using FFT or zero crossing detection is a rather crude way of doing it and it's edging on half a century behind the state of the art:)
FFT process gain to the rescue. Detecting a narrowband pure tone buried well beneath the noise floor of an A/D converter is not all that hard. Don't forget those generating plants have mechanical time constants. They generate pretty damn narrowband signals.
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Agreed. You'd think that someone who boasts knowledge of local Polish sub-languages would acknowledge the fact that Polish persisted absent a country partially because it was persecuted. Persecution breeds opposition. If the occupiers didn't care about whether people spoke Polish, those same people would probably care much less about preserving the language: there would have been no threat to it, so why worry about it. It's almost like with Streisand effect: the more you wish for it, the more opposite effect you get.
Wait a minute, you actually, as a company policy, encourage people to use IE except for legacy sites that won't work on anything else? Isn't that crazy? Then they go, do the same at home, and they end up owned. Kudos.
For home use, I think that Apple's Time Capsule is a good bet.
You're seriously saying that hitting someone from maybe 6 feet away within a, say, 5" diameter circle, is hard? I haven't shot any handguns, but my first time with a sports rifle I've done waaay better than that. Perhaps handguns are very different, then. For all we know the guy could have shot from 3 feet away or less.
Perhaps, but are we having a mass killing at a 1 per week rate in the U.S.?...
EasyCalc for Palm is quite nice. The most recent version runs on PocketPC, too, but I didn't use that one. Doesn't do CAS, but it is opensource, and you can compile it on your own and tweak it to your heart's content. It also runs on a reasonably modern platform, so you don't have to worry about the CPU being a dinosaur. I think it'll work on pretty much any Palm II and newer device IIRC. I've used it on a monochrome Handspring Visor. Came very handy for advanced strength of materials. I think at that time I knew all the tricks needed to quickly calculate eigenvectors and eigenvalues, for example, never mind graph things.
Legacy Palm devices are the proverbial dime a dozen on eBay.
Side note: Not having degree-scaled arguments to trig functions is somewhat of a childish thing to complain about. Gimme a break, seriously (this is in maxima):
(%i13) dsin(x):=sin(x*%pi/180);
x %pi
(%o13) dsin(x)
180
(%i14) dsin(5),numer;
(%o14)
So you're saying that shooter was done and dead in well under 3 minutes then? We'll wait and see, but I doubt it. As for the speed of killing, I don't think a stab with a proper tool, or slicing someone's neck, takes very long. We're talking 2 seconds, tops. Yes, I agree firearms require much less training and ability, so they do offer, arguably, a much lower barrier to entry.
Guns are bad. Narcotics are bad. So now you're advocating shooting people for possession? Are you nuts? Well, yeah, I guess you are. Even in trigger happy police land, a.k.a. U.S.A., an illegal possession of a firearm is not grounds for the police to shoot you. You must be threatening them. Mere illegal possession can land you in jail, but nobody is supposed to open fire at you for that. Your "nice 'n' simple" methods are otherwise known as witch trials. That's why we have the legal system, so that revenge-seeking crazies like you won't kill everyone in sight just because they think it makes world a better place. IOW: Man, you're against guns, supposedly so that less people get needlessly killed, but all for shooting people for nonviolent crimes. If I were you, I'd be seeking mental health care right now. I'm scared of you. Seriously.
[Citation needed], 'cause I think you're talking out your ass.
As a parent I get your drift, but man, you have some issues. Seriously. Try and control the anger.
A few people a minute? For someone who's determined to kill, and is sufficiently fit? Have you been to a U.S. mall? Man, it'd be like killing sitting ducks. With some luck, 10 people a minute would be the right ballpark I'd think. Hint: your targets are mostly overweight, relatively slow even if not overweight (you're fit, they likely aren't), and nobody will be trying to stop you until the police arrives. Sure, it perhaps hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure there's enough crazy madmen out there that someone will try it just to show everyone.
Us gun control freaks would probably allow that guns can be possessed with a shitload of training, testing and annual recertification but guess who argues against that?
I have no problem with that, heck, I'd like it to be so, and I'm no gun control freak.
So, you're saying those disturbed murderers wouldn't, for example, turn to arson or poisoning or any other means of doing what they're after -- that is, murdering people?
Are you for real? Ever heard of industrial design? You know, things made to be pretty and useful? If I have a supposedly beautiful computer, am I misusing it by not displaying it in the gallery outside of my work hours? Ever heard of functional art? Gee whiz, go back to your basement, you unappreciative clod. Srsly.
Beneficial use of collegiate football in our society is extremely limited. Apart from those students who use it as their only exercise to stay fit, college football matches are used exclusively for entertainment. Yet this collegiate sport does not require much skill to cause repetitive brain injuries, often to students who play ball only to get into college. So spare us the stupidity of the "sports are for athletics, sports don't hurt people, etc". So people should have access only to participate in the sports they have a reasonable use for. They should be licensed, and inspected regularly for head trauma. It costs our health insurance companies quite a bit of money to cover sports injuries, after all.
Yeah, see how well that line of thinking would fly. You see, the problem with thinking of that sort is that it's a slippery slope. I'm no fan of guns, I'm not an NRA member (never was, never will be), and I hate people who dish out violence of any kind.
Besides, Europe has, pretty much, got U.S. per capita deaths due to guns converted to similar order of magnitude per capita abductions into the sex trade. I think I'd much rather my kid be dead, thank you very much.
That keyboard does have a CPU inside of it. It's most definitely a computer, perhaps not the most general-purpose one as it is, but still ;)
Uhm, so obviously anyone who these days enjoys shooting at concentric rings, for the pure joy of it, with no intention of killing anyone, much less anything, is unthinkable to you. I personally wouldn't mind if all firearms just disappeared overnight, but man, the anti-gun phobias I see here are just a wee bit over the top for my taste. Someone in my family died from a street shooting bullet, and yet I can be rational and understand that some freedoms are best left alone.
Obviously, you can't imagine anyone enjoying shooting as a sport/leisure time activity, without the intention of ever killing anyone. Fail :(
I don't quite see the need for any special voter ID cards. As far as I know, every driver license in the U.S. lets you figure out, just by looking at the verbiage on it, whether the holder is a citizen/permanent resident. Driver IDs for non-immigrants (F1, F4, H1, H4, etc. visa holders) are non renewable and non transferable -- it says so on the license. Of course only citizens are allowed to vote in certain elections, so that distinction would still need to be made somehow. But primarily most voter fraud would be tackled simply by checking driver licenses, or for those without them, state ID cards. Why do we need a yet another piece of government identification -- this one not only single-purpose, but also valid for a single election only??
Wait a minute. They are looking for "counter insurgency activity"?! I'd have thought that any citizen engaging in counter-insurgency activity is to be commended. Most of them probably work for some uniformed service anyway -- now they'd be under close scrutiny? And we need a special agency for that?! Of course English is just my second language, so what do I know.
you're going to have to start with making a wireless technology that is capable of sending data at a high rate of speed over considerable distance, be resistant to jamming and fading, and even more resistant to being triangulated and traced back to its source.
You mean, a laundry list of things that are mostly not even theoretically possible? Just because you have a long wishlist doesn't mean any of those things are feasible, or even make sense.
Where on Earth do you live where neighborhood-scale activities locally disturb the grid frequency? Oh, I get it, you're just clueless and are making shit up as you go.
Frequency measurement using FFT or zero crossing detection is a rather crude way of doing it and it's edging on half a century behind the state of the art :)
FFT process gain to the rescue. Detecting a narrowband pure tone buried well beneath the noise floor of an A/D converter is not all that hard. Don't forget those generating plants have mechanical time constants. They generate pretty damn narrowband signals.