It souns like shit when you listen to it sitting in the comfort of your home, especially if the recording was done with amateur equipment by amateurs, which bootlegs usually are.
Not true. Most of the tapers I've seen are using equipment setups that cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars. And usually those are the shows which sound great. Even at home. (Especially if it was a show you've been to.:^)
Excellent point. I hadn't really thought about thef lywheel placement but having them at the stations allows the trains to be 10 Volkswagen Bugs lighter. Also, most trains do their stopping and starting at or near the stations so this system could actually work.
I do not think that timing will be an issue since each train will charge and un-charge the flywheels as each approaches and leaves a station. This solution also allows for fewer modifications to the trains themselves.
Wrong. If you have sex without an orgasm, you're doing it incorrectly. And the best part is the practice.
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True, while these questions do not answer "Can this candidate code well?" they can provide insight into how the candidate thinks. They are merely "thinking" questions and are only useful if the candidate thinks outloud. It lets you see how they think and how they attack a problem. Are they being logical? If they can logically put several thoughts together, they can code in most any language. Learning syntax is a given.
It gets better though... imagine if I could run a query such as "SELECT f.*, s.filename FROM Folder1 f INNER JOIN folder2 s ON f.datetime = s.datetime"
More math fun... 6,000 songs in two days, assume 12 hours a day, at ~5MB per song yields ~.347MB/sec. What hosts were they visiting?! If I could get.347MB/s of sustained bandwith over 2 12 hour periods I'd crap my pants.
I recently received a Xitel MD-Port DG2 and it's one of the coolest devices I've seen in a while. It's basically an extreme subset of the Extigy since it only has optical out. It too connects via USB and it's a very small device. I can understand why the extra ports on the Extigy might be useful but for a home theater pc, the DG2 is exactly what you'd need. And it's only $60 (USD).
"By significantly reducing the size of data strings, we can envision products that will reduce the cost of communications and, more importantly, improve the quality of life for people around the world regardless of where they live." - from their press release
I think I'm missing something. How can the size of my pr0n files give people in a third world country a better life?
Having been to Nola and Pompeii, I would be quite amazed if they find bodies similar to those found in Pompeii. Nola is about 35-40 minutes away from Mt. Vesuvius by car (although your not travelling at 90kph all the time). I can only imagine that the citizens of Nola had enough time to flee to higher ground once they were away of the eruption. Pompeii, while not right at the base of the volcano, is much closer and it's a bit more understandable how people could be trapped in their homes.
Italy is quite amazing in that when ruins are found, they are generally left untouched. Rome is a great example of this in that there are vast ruins right in the downtown areas!! Imagine the businesses and contractors that were planning on building on those sites! Imagine the great many ruins hidden underneath all of the modern buildings! Yikes.
A comprehensive UI? What about your favorite wm in X? I've been thinking about getting a PC for my entertainment center for the same purposes and the only hurdle I see is how to physically control it. However, the solution is quite simple - use a wireless mouse. Whenever you need to use your entertainment PC, switch your receiver's video input and then just USE the PC.
Actually, the only real hurdle is making the PC look like it belongs in my entertainment center.
... that engineers don't get out much. Supermarkets have been using this system for years to update their digital price tags. If you Slashdotters only left your homes once in a while you'd see them too.:^)
VMS isn't *quite* dead just yet... Several large corporations (relatively _young_ ones, that is) use VMS in their production environments. NorthernLight.com is one such company...
Pixar has improved their shadow algorithms greatly since "Geri's Game". Based on a new method presented at SIGGRAPH 2000, hair can be self-shadowed in a more efficient manner while producing a higher quality result. Categorized under the Image Based Representations paper section, Deep Shadow Maps (PDF available) will greatly enhance modelled hair, fur or smoke. I've heard that this new algorithm has already been encorporated into Renderman and I believe was even used in Toy Story 2. Who needs clothes when you can cover every character in fur or hair?:^)
... least I wish I could! The entire event should be videotaped, if at all possible. It would certainly be a risk but seeing Mir burst into flames above the Pacific would be magnificent. It would also be a little ironic... "Mir's on fire!"
It seems as if many people are asserting that CNN is allowed to link to the DeCSS page because they are a news agency. Doesn't this strike anyone as odd? Their "freedom of the press" gives them the ability to break the law? Then when posting an article about a pornographic web site, why don't they link to it or, for that matter, display some of the site's explicit content?
Because, if they did display some pornographic content (especially child porn) it would be considered illegal.
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Check out http://www.furthurnet.com for a P2P Java app.
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It's the WET-11 and it's a wireless bridge. Looks pretty neat. I believe SMC and Orinoco also make similar devices.
Not true. Most of the tapers I've seen are using equipment setups that cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars. And usually those are the shows which sound great. Even at home. (Especially if it was a show you've been to.
I do not think that timing will be an issue since each train will charge and un-charge the flywheels as each approaches and leaves a station. This solution also allows for fewer modifications to the trains themselves.
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Wrong. If you have sex without an orgasm, you're doing it incorrectly. And the best part is the practice.
- MayorQ
True, while these questions do not answer "Can this candidate code well?" they can provide insight into how the candidate thinks. They are merely "thinking" questions and are only useful if the candidate thinks outloud. It lets you see how they think and how they attack a problem. Are they being logical? If they can logically put several thoughts together, they can code in most any language. Learning syntax is a given.
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Assuming you have a command prompt.
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I think I'm missing something. How can the size of my pr0n files give people in a third world country a better life?
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First goatse.cx?
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Italy is quite amazing in that when ruins are found, they are generally left untouched. Rome is a great example of this in that there are vast ruins right in the downtown areas!! Imagine the businesses and contractors that were planning on building on those sites! Imagine the great many ruins hidden underneath all of the modern buildings! Yikes.
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All you have to do is read the article...
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Actually, the only real hurdle is making the PC look like it belongs in my entertainment center.
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"My voice is my passport..."
Uh oh...
With all of the talk about Beowulf clusters of this and that, I'm surprised that Intel has only one appearance on the the Top500 Supercomputers list.
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Just my $0.02
Pixar has improved their shadow algorithms greatly since "Geri's Game". Based on a new method presented at SIGGRAPH 2000, hair can be self-shadowed in a more efficient manner while producing a higher quality result. Categorized under the Image Based Representations paper section, Deep Shadow Maps (PDF available) will greatly enhance modelled hair, fur or smoke. I've heard that this new algorithm has already been encorporated into Renderman and I believe was even used in Toy Story 2. Who needs clothes when you can cover every character in fur or hair?
... least I wish I could! The entire event should be videotaped, if at all possible. It would certainly be a risk but seeing Mir burst into flames above the Pacific would be magnificent. It would also be a little ironic... "Mir's on fire!"
Boycott the P4! Overclock your P3!
Because, if they did display some pornographic content (especially child porn) it would be considered illegal.
This doesn't make much sense...
I-wish-I-were-a-news-agency,
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