1. I can't read them while drunk. Seriously, after a few drinks, analog watches are nice and pretty to look at, but I find I couldn't make out the time if my life depended on it.
2. When it's very cold, I keep my hand in my pocket, so I'm not looking at my watch anyways. As far as the fading goes, I don't think I've ever experienced this on a watch, although I've seen it on other LCD-based devices (such as my CD Player's display).
3. Timex watches come with an obsured battery warranty.. 5 years I think.. I end up loosing the watch long before the battery dies. (I've never replaced a battery in any of my digital watches).
4. Winding them up is required.. If you forgot to wind them up, you're likely S.O.L.
5. Digital stopwatch/timers are _much_ more accurate.. usually to the 1/100th of a second.. (probably 1/10th of a second accuracy when factoring in reaction time). You'll be lucky to get +/- 1 second on an analog. Not to mention the fact that they likely have a lot more features (like keeping track of lap times).
So please.. you keep your analog watch, and I'll keep my digital.
A quick visit to Google Services and Tools followed by Google Labs will show you that not only have they long ago "started something else", they've been innovating like crazy!
To study the spray of elementary particles that come off it when it's decaying.. how else are we going to proove/disproove our theories of "everything"?
with m1 your mass, m2 the rock's mass, G being 6.67e-11 for our universe and d being the distance between you and the rock.
So there is ALWAYS gravity, but when you hit an asteroid at 1m/s, your momentums (m1*v1) and the asteroid's momentum (m2*v2) adjust, and propel you and the asteroid in opposite directions because momentum, like energy and forces, is conserved.. and since m2 >> m1, this results in a bouncing off situation (there's a formula for it, but I can't be bothered to break out the notes from first year physics).. The gravitation force between you and the asteroid now has to be enough to counteract this bouncing-off-one-another for you to stay on it.
You can run pretty much anything you like at my school if you bring it on a USB Flash Drive.. they even give a nice temporary writable folder on the network drive to play in.. your school doesn't have something similar in the labs?
I think the article is confusing the energy stored inside He3 (this is the value that's 1000 times greater then coal's equivilent) vs the energy that can be usefully harvested from it (this would the "net energy yield").
Net Energy Yield = Energy Stored - Activation Energy
This value is currently negative, due to the high activation energy that's required to get the energy-releasing process going; but it does not make the Energy Stored value negative, and so the weight is also not negative.
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What does "after their final use" mean to you? You only have to throw away the printer you're no longer using it (to print the money).. so there's nothing stopping you from printing some more money once in a while, and keep using it for other stuff until it dies..
I agree, but I think your numbers are too high. It's not uncommon for spammers to send out 1M messages in one run.. that alone would be 114 years of community service and 2,739 years ban rom all computing resources.
A "fairer" punishment would probably be something 3-6 orders of magnitude smaller then that which you propose.. that way, big-time spammers (millions of e-mails daily) still go to jail for life, but those that just did a few runs make their ammends and can still move on in their lives.
Napster only ran the search servers. Files were still transferred peer2peer. So how could this technology "recognizes music by the acoustic properties of the audio itself regardless of how it was recorded, encoded" when the actual music is never seen by the servers, only the filenames? (Which was exactly how napster actually filtered.. by filename, the only information they actually had on the file, other then size).
Maybe I'll be able to direct my dreams so that I might meet the person who made the post and torture them to a slow and painful death. Ok wait, that's a bit extreme. Maybe that's why he doesn't want people dreaming about him.
So what? It's my dream, and if I want to dream about the grandparent poster's skin being cut with ten thousand razors and dropped into a pool of iodine? It's my freaking dream! I don't need to get permission from him, or anyone else, to dream about them.
And even if I did, for some strange reason, have to get permission.. he'd never be able to proove that I dreamt about HIM.. people in dreams are usually shadows, or slight alterations of people.. like placeholders. In my dreams, they usually do have faces, but my facial recognition seems to work very poorly in a dream, and people will sometimes randomly change who they look like mid-dream.
Secondly, todays educational institutions (most of them anyway) are cheap shams of what they once were. Going to university used to mean a period of hardship and disconnection from your old life where you were shaped into a person who cherished academics, tradition, service, honor and culture.
I'm currently enrolled in second year undergraduate studies at a major Canadian University.. I'm taking a BEng in Computer Engineering. And let me tell you, it IS a period of hardship and disconnection from my old life.. Especially during February and October, I don't go out, at all.. By the time I make it home at night I barely have enough left in me to turn the monitor on and refresh slashdot.
I have lots of friends in the arts, and I've taken some English and Philosophy courses to try to broad my horizons, and it's pretty much the same there. They have inhuman ammounts of reading to do (they seem to read 12 hours a day, every day), as each 13 week course seems to require at least 5 books be read, understood, and you have to be able to compare and contrast all 5 against one another.
Granted, there a lot of partying does go on, but those people.. fail. They either end up on academic probation and clean up their act, or I simply don't see them again..
The biggest problem that I'm encoutering is that Undergrads are definitely a least-priority for my university. We get classes in the crappy temporary buildings (double cohart year anyone? whoever thought OAC was a bad idea needs to be shot, OAC _was_ highschool for me, it's where I learned to actually work!). We also get the crappiest timeslots (a class at 8:30am.. followed by a class at 5:30pm, ugh). Oh, and lots of TAs (and profs for that matter) have trouble communicating in English. Maybe if I was of asian or middle eastern descent I'd have less trouble.. but alas, I'm a member of the new minority, white folks.
Uhm, no.. The standard way to launch a URL is to ShellExecute() it, and this makes a call to the OS (Windows) to launch the *default* browser, whatever it may be.
.wav files, being actually RIFF files, do actually support keeping of metadata inside them in seperate "chunks" from the DATA section of the file.. a few applications (like Sonic Foundry's stuff) makes use of this.
This pattern also appears on new Canadian currency.. I'm looking at a new $5 bill, and the circles appear in light yellow on the bottom right of the bill (clearly visible, on a white background) and on brown building (West block of parliament) in the middle of the bill (a little harder to see).
I'm not saying PHP should be used for everything, but if you gotta make a proof-of-concept page quickly, and don't have time for proper coding, PHP is a godsend..
For serious projects, I agree that Perl is a much more powerful langauge for getting stuff done in.. In the past, I've done hybrid Perl/PHP sites, with Perl doing the dirty parsing work and stuffing results into a database, and a pretty, low-cpu-using PHP front-end for the users.
This was back in the register_globals days mind you, and the reason I ended up doing it is because the site was originally entirely Perl and once we reached about 10,000 visitors a day the server a (P2-450 IIRC) began to crawl.. The load average hit 118 (that's not a typo.. 118!) so it took 3 minutes to even get a ssh login prompt, and something had to be done quick. There were 100+ zombie perl processes hanging around, it wasn't pretty. PHP saved my rear, brought the CPU usage way down to almost nothing, and scaled just fine up to about the 50,000 peak visitors a day the site got.
Unless using mod_perl (which requires much more work on the side of the programmer), the overhead of starting a new perl interpreter for each request can easily bring a server to it's knees..PHP is readily available already built into the apaches at almost any ISP.
I see what's going on here.. 4/1/03.. they're trying to make college/university students fail their 2nd term final exams! (usually the first through third week of April)
FOLED is nice, and has a wide variety of applications..
but I await anxiously the day SOLED displays hit the market..it will allow for trully LARGE high resolution displays that still look good even close up.
(I did a report on OLED technology for my materials class last semester.. the biggest problem we found facing OLED adoption is that blue only seems to last about 2,000 hours, whereas red and green have both surpassed 20,000 hours.. however, Nokia and Kodak both have OLED-based products on the market today)
I'd say there are definitely people who are addicted TV (looks pretty.. pictures move!), there are also people addicted to fast food (tastes good, cheap, someone else makes it, more time for TV). This is what I mean by a mental addiction, and by that I mean the withdrawl symptomps will be mostly in your head. I fail to understand why/how this is a crutch? And how does this concept cause people to not believe in free will again?
It's simply there to contrast the fact that on the other hand, there are people addicted to things like caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines.. these are physical addictions, with (sometims severe) physical withdrawl symptomps *in addition to* the mental withdrawl symptomps that accompany addiction to anything pleasurable.
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And analog watches are inferior becuase:
1. I can't read them while drunk. Seriously, after a few drinks, analog watches are nice and pretty to look at, but I find I couldn't make out the time if my life depended on it.
2. When it's very cold, I keep my hand in my pocket, so I'm not looking at my watch anyways. As far as the fading goes, I don't think I've ever experienced this on a watch, although I've seen it on other LCD-based devices (such as my CD Player's display).
3. Timex watches come with an obsured battery warranty.. 5 years I think.. I end up loosing the watch long before the battery dies. (I've never replaced a battery in any of my digital watches).
4. Winding them up is required.. If you forgot to wind them up, you're likely S.O.L.
5. Digital stopwatch/timers are _much_ more accurate.. usually to the 1/100th of a second.. (probably 1/10th of a second accuracy when factoring in reaction time). You'll be lucky to get +/- 1 second on an analog. Not to mention the fact that they likely have a lot more features (like keeping track of lap times).
So please.. you keep your analog watch, and I'll keep my digital.
I think you're vasty underestimating Google.
A quick visit to Google Services and Tools followed by Google Labs will show you that not only have they long ago "started something else", they've been innovating like crazy!
Google isn't going anywhere.
To study the spray of elementary particles that come off it when it's decaying.. how else are we going to proove/disproove our theories of "everything"?
Fg = G*m1*m2/d^2
with m1 your mass, m2 the rock's mass, G being 6.67e-11 for our universe and d being the distance between you and the rock.
So there is ALWAYS gravity, but when you hit an asteroid at 1m/s, your momentums (m1*v1) and the asteroid's momentum (m2*v2) adjust, and propel you and the asteroid in opposite directions because momentum, like energy and forces, is conserved.. and since m2 >> m1, this results in a bouncing off situation (there's a formula for it, but I can't be bothered to break out the notes from first year physics).. The gravitation force between you and the asteroid now has to be enough to counteract this bouncing-off-one-another for you to stay on it.
You can run pretty much anything you like at my school if you bring it on a USB Flash Drive.. they even give a nice temporary writable folder on the network drive to play in.. your school doesn't have something similar in the labs?
Repeat after me.. not all mp3s are illegal. Some people actually WANT you to download and spread their music..
I think the article is confusing the energy stored inside He3 (this is the value that's 1000 times greater then coal's equivilent) vs the energy that can be usefully harvested from it (this would the "net energy yield").
Net Energy Yield = Energy Stored - Activation Energy
This value is currently negative, due to the high activation energy that's required to get the energy-releasing process going; but it does not make the Energy Stored value negative, and so the weight is also not negative.
The answer to all your questions is obviously 42.
What does "after their final use" mean to you? You only have to throw away the printer you're no longer using it (to print the money).. so there's nothing stopping you from printing some more money once in a while, and keep using it for other stuff until it dies..
I agree, but I think your numbers are too high. It's not uncommon for spammers to send out 1M messages in one run.. that alone would be 114 years of community service and 2,739 years ban rom all computing resources.
A "fairer" punishment would probably be something 3-6 orders of magnitude smaller then that which you propose.. that way, big-time spammers (millions of e-mails daily) still go to jail for life, but those that just did a few runs make their ammends and can still move on in their lives.
I don't buy this.
Napster only ran the search servers. Files were still transferred peer2peer. So how could this technology "recognizes music by the acoustic properties of the audio itself regardless of how it was recorded, encoded" when the actual music is never seen by the servers, only the filenames? (Which was exactly how napster actually filtered.. by filename, the only information they actually had on the file, other then size).
Creative's drivers suck. One of the few things to ever bring down my windows 2000 machine was sbpci.sys .. bleh, I'm never buying from them again.
Maybe I'll be able to direct my dreams so that I might meet the person who made the post and torture them to a slow and painful death. Ok wait, that's a bit extreme. Maybe that's why he doesn't want people dreaming about him.
So what? It's my dream, and if I want to dream about the grandparent poster's skin being cut with ten thousand razors and dropped into a pool of iodine? It's my freaking dream! I don't need to get permission from him, or anyone else, to dream about them.
And even if I did, for some strange reason, have to get permission.. he'd never be able to proove that I dreamt about HIM.. people in dreams are usually shadows, or slight alterations of people.. like placeholders. In my dreams, they usually do have faces, but my facial recognition seems to work very poorly in a dream, and people will sometimes randomly change who they look like mid-dream.
Secondly, todays educational institutions (most of them anyway) are cheap shams of what they once were. Going to university used to mean a period of hardship and disconnection from your old life where you were shaped into a person who cherished academics, tradition, service, honor and culture.
.. fail. They either end up on academic probation and clean up their act, or I simply don't see them again..
I'm currently enrolled in second year undergraduate studies at a major Canadian University.. I'm taking a BEng in Computer Engineering. And let me tell you, it IS a period of hardship and disconnection from my old life.. Especially during February and October, I don't go out, at all.. By the time I make it home at night I barely have enough left in me to turn the monitor on and refresh slashdot.
I have lots of friends in the arts, and I've taken some English and Philosophy courses to try to broad my horizons, and it's pretty much the same there. They have inhuman ammounts of reading to do (they seem to read 12 hours a day, every day), as each 13 week course seems to require at least 5 books be read, understood, and you have to be able to compare and contrast all 5 against one another.
Granted, there a lot of partying does go on, but those people
The biggest problem that I'm encoutering is that Undergrads are definitely a least-priority for my university. We get classes in the crappy temporary buildings (double cohart year anyone? whoever thought OAC was a bad idea needs to be shot, OAC _was_ highschool for me, it's where I learned to actually work!). We also get the crappiest timeslots (a class at 8:30am.. followed by a class at 5:30pm, ugh). Oh, and lots of TAs (and profs for that matter) have trouble communicating in English. Maybe if I was of asian or middle eastern descent I'd have less trouble.. but alas, I'm a member of the new minority, white folks.
Uhm, no.. The standard way to launch a URL is to ShellExecute() it, and this makes a call to the OS (Windows) to launch the *default* browser, whatever it may be.
.wav files, being actually RIFF files, do actually support keeping of metadata inside them in seperate "chunks" from the DATA section of the file.. a few applications (like Sonic Foundry's stuff) makes use of this.
This pattern also appears on new Canadian currency.. I'm looking at a new $5 bill, and the circles appear in light yellow on the bottom right of the bill (clearly visible, on a white background) and on brown building (West block of parliament) in the middle of the bill (a little harder to see).
Is it something like Jeskola Buzz? (Buzz is for Win32 though, and not the most stable program around.. save often)
I'm not saying PHP should be used for everything, but if you gotta make a proof-of-concept page quickly, and don't have time for proper coding, PHP is a godsend..
For serious projects, I agree that Perl is a much more powerful langauge for getting stuff done in.. In the past, I've done hybrid Perl/PHP sites, with Perl doing the dirty parsing work and stuffing results into a database, and a pretty, low-cpu-using PHP front-end for the users.
This was back in the register_globals days mind you, and the reason I ended up doing it is because the site was originally entirely Perl and once we reached about 10,000 visitors a day the server a (P2-450 IIRC) began to crawl.. The load average hit 118 (that's not a typo.. 118!) so it took 3 minutes to even get a ssh login prompt, and something had to be done quick. There were 100+ zombie perl processes hanging around, it wasn't pretty. PHP saved my rear, brought the CPU usage way down to almost nothing, and scaled just fine up to about the 50,000 peak visitors a day the site got.
Unless using mod_perl (which requires much more work on the side of the programmer), the overhead of starting a new perl interpreter for each request can easily bring a server to it's knees..PHP is readily available already built into the apaches at almost any ISP.
I see what's going on here.. 4/1/03.. they're trying to make college/university students fail their 2nd term final exams! (usually the first through third week of April)
FOLED is nice, and has a wide variety of applications..
but I await anxiously the day SOLED displays hit the market..it will allow for trully LARGE high resolution displays that still look good even close up.
(I did a report on OLED technology for my materials class last semester.. the biggest problem we found facing OLED adoption is that blue only seems to last about 2,000 hours, whereas red and green have both surpassed 20,000 hours.. however, Nokia and Kodak both have OLED-based products on the market today)
"But I am le tired!
so go take a nap.. THEN LAUNCH THE MISSILES!"
here's a link to the swf referred to, for those of you who don't have friends that compulsively forward everything funny they come across..
Then I guess I'm twisted.. stealing some virtual cars and shooting come virtual cops helps me to unwind after a long day of electrical engineering..
There are people who I think do much more twisted things in their spare time..
I'd say there are definitely people who are addicted TV (looks pretty.. pictures move!), there are also people addicted to fast food (tastes good, cheap, someone else makes it, more time for TV). This is what I mean by a mental addiction, and by that I mean the withdrawl symptomps will be mostly in your head. I fail to understand why/how this is a crutch? And how does this concept cause people to not believe in free will again?
It's simply there to contrast the fact that on the other hand, there are people addicted to things like caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines.. these are physical addictions, with (sometims severe) physical withdrawl symptomps *in addition to* the mental withdrawl symptomps that accompany addiction to anything pleasurable.