But the summary says "less-lethal". It's still lethal, just not as lethal. It's kind of like getting a woman "less-pregnant". Er hmmm, what does less-lethal mean again?
All my systems at home are Linux-based, ext3. NONE of my neighbors, family, or work associates have that, so it's a no-brainer [to use FAT32].
That's funny, I'd have thought that a good reason to use ext3 on portable media too, then they wouldn't be screwing with it. Or wait, I guess if you did you'd often get "Hey, Bob, I formatted your blank USB drive there. Did you just buy it or something? Anyway, I used Windows format."
Google's book scanner is indeed robotic, and it doesn't need to press the pages flat. It uses two cameras and a light pattern projected on the page so that the curvature of the page can be determined, and thus eliminated via software.
What happens when the radiation mutates the bacteria? Single-celled organisms mutate very easily, and we could easily have a serious problem on our hands if the bacteria turn into something that is dangerous to us and then multiply out of control.
Take the pre-emptive approach, like me: I, for one, welcome our mutant radioactive material-inerting bacterial overlords!
isolatr.com absolutely never shares your personal information with anyone. I've used it for years, never had any annoying online friends, and never even had to enter any of personal information on the site. One time I stumbled on it, saw that it was perfect, and was done.
[In a comparison of Apple's and Microsoft's websites] Apple is the winner.
Hmmm, I'm still having trouble finding information about Windows 7 and Mojave on Apple's site, let alone information on developing Windows applications. Can someone help me? I figured I'd should use the better site...
I agree! No more comparisons to those nuclear disasters. Why, with the recent huge hydro disaster in Russia, the Nuclear industry is feeling some competition. (all meant in humor; I'm not anti-nuke).
Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures doesn't sue people over patents, because that would be patent trolling! No, instead they just threaten to sell the patent to a known litigious patent troll. So that's all right then. Timothy Lee details how using patents to crush profitable innovation works in practice, and concludes: 'In thinking about how to reform the patent system, a good yardstick would be to look for policy changes that would tend to put Myhrvold and his firm out of business.'
Please, summarize without injecting your childish sarcasm; save those for a comment reply. For example:
In order to avoid blatant patent trolling, Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures doesn't sue people over patents; they instead threaten to sell the patent to a known litigious patent troll. Timothy Lee details how using patents to crush profitable innovation works in practice, and concludes: 'In thinking about how to reform the patent system, a good yardstick would be to look for policy changes that would tend to put Myhrvold and his firm out of business.'
I much prefer the latter summary to the former, and I doubt I'm alone.
Suppose I put a Word document on a computer where OO.o is installed instead of Office. The document says "open me in MS Word". The OS says, "Word isn't installed". What happens? What originally should have happened: The OS looks at the document, says "Word document, open this with OO.o", and everything works great. The extra information was a stupid extra step. "Word document" is all the OS needs in order to figure out how to open it.
What you describe is how it's worked since around Mac OS 8 or so, and perhaps Mac OS 7 with Easy Open. The creator code just lets you customize which program it opens with, allowing you to have for example a folder full of text files, some of which open in TextEdit, the rest of which open in BBEdit.
It's two separate pieces of information: type and preferred application. If you eliminate the latter, it must be approximated by making a new type. In the example, you'd have to create a new "BBEdit text file" type to have them open separate, but then other programs wouldn't know of this new type you created.
I think emulating the physical world is a great idea. I can't wait for IEEE to next come up with ways to make a PC as useful as pocket calculator. Perhaps they could disable the keyboard and force us to write text with the mouse, along with bad writing recognition; it'd approximate people's poor penmanship. Then we need to get rid of backlighting on screens; when's the last time you used a pad of paper with build-in backlighting? Yeah, I thought so, never. And electricity... that damn stuff is on all night. The sun isn't out at night. Why should we be able to have lights on at night then? Let's see, back to computers. Hard disk capacities are outrageous. How can you store hundreds of movies or millions of books on a tiny little thing like that? It'd have taken huge vaults to store the real things, therefore they need to come up with a technology to make each bit take thousands of bits on the drive. They could call it a reliability-enhancing mechanism. Oh look, my keyboard is running out of in
Time to buy stocks in whatever companies are selling placebos, or patenting them. Hmmm, now that I think about it most health food stores have a whole section devoted to placebos, though they oddly labeled as homeo something-or-other. These guys knew all along that you didn't need anything beyond water and/or sugar to be effective!
Because we have no way of knowing if the person has detected the input until there is a neurological response, yes, I'm saying we can't.
The only meaningful test here is ABX. Present player with A, B, and X. A is the system with less latency than B, and X is randomly either A or B. Run test multiple times and see whether player's determination of X is significantly different than it would be by pure chance (50%). The player doesn't have to be able to quote the latency difference, merely detect it, perhaps by its effect on his performance.
Considering that until very recently all displays had an inherent lag of about 70ms
CRTs have a lag of nearly zero. Perhaps ones with 3D comb filters have more. Back in the old days (NES, Atari), a video game could directly affect the current color at the electron beam, giving a lag of nearly zero. It's only gotten worse since. Same for controllers, where they either had a separate wire for each button (e.g. Atari), or had a simple shift register that could be read in under a millisecond.
Every business would rather not have competition. The problem here isn't that they tried to eliminate it, it's that the people who put the site up took it down. The deeper problem is that politicians yield to pressure from companies, thus giving said companies power beyond simply controlling their own property.
I thought one of the points of shared libraries was that the files could simply be mapped read-only into the memory of each process and executed directly. This would only require one physical copy in memory, even though it may exist at multiple logical addresses.
I take it since then shared library machine code has had to be patched in memory after it's loaded for a while now, thus preventing easy sharing among processes, and causing the page to need its own space in the swap file.
Sounds like this latest improvement effectively brings things back to the way they were, by effectively writing this patched version back to disk so that it can be mapped read-only as before, and not have to be patched every time the library is loaded into a process. It's odd, because I thought the OS already did this several versions ago when prebinding.
"Congratulations on your purchase. To begin using your quantum computer, set the power switch to both off and on simultaneously."
More like, "Your computer may appear to be both on and off at the same time. Don't worry, this is normal. To turn the computer off, you don't have to do anything. Likewise, to turn it on, you don't have to do anything."
You're right; if taken literally, the AC is simply asking a question that would help us non-physicists understand the topic better. But his overall tone is "they're dipoles, they just didn't notice the other pole", which is what I responded.
They come in "pairs" huh. Sounds like the N S of a regular old fashioned magnet to me. If they could be separated ever then they really would be monopoles but otherwise how can you be sure its not just a regular magnet thats too small a scale to detect the flux coming from every angle around it?
Damn! Anonymous Coward has thought of something none of the scientists have even considered. Give this guy a research position ASAP.
You don't even know if it will be saleable. See, this is the thing that annoys the crap out of me. Right now, your product has zero value, because you have not started to sell it as yet. Absolutely zero.
Sell the darned thing first, see if people like it, if they do, then at least you have some stake in the marketplace and in any proceedings. You would have had the product out there, people may buy it, and you will have first mover advantage.
He says he's deployed it at two other companies, and they love it. Speaking of things that are annoying...
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How would post-it notes stay stuck to the edge?
But the summary says "less-lethal". It's still lethal, just not as lethal. It's kind of like getting a woman "less-pregnant". Er hmmm, what does less-lethal mean again?
That's funny, I'd have thought that a good reason to use ext3 on portable media too, then they wouldn't be screwing with it. Or wait, I guess if you did you'd often get "Hey, Bob, I formatted your blank USB drive there. Did you just buy it or something? Anyway, I used Windows format."
Google's book scanner is indeed robotic, and it doesn't need to press the pages flat. It uses two cameras and a light pattern projected on the page so that the curvature of the page can be determined, and thus eliminated via software.
Wait, I thought we were discussing copyrights? Despite the name, it's not a right; it's a privilege.
Take the pre-emptive approach, like me: I, for one, welcome our mutant radioactive material-inerting bacterial overlords!
isolatr.com absolutely never shares your personal information with anyone. I've used it for years, never had any annoying online friends, and never even had to enter any of personal information on the site. One time I stumbled on it, saw that it was perfect, and was done.
Hmmm, I'm still having trouble finding information about Windows 7 and Mojave on Apple's site, let alone information on developing Windows applications. Can someone help me? I figured I'd should use the better site...
I agree! No more comparisons to those nuclear disasters. Why, with the recent huge hydro disaster in Russia, the Nuclear industry is feeling some competition. (all meant in humor; I'm not anti-nuke).
Please, summarize without injecting your childish sarcasm; save those for a comment reply. For example:
I much prefer the latter summary to the former, and I doubt I'm alone.
What you describe is how it's worked since around Mac OS 8 or so, and perhaps Mac OS 7 with Easy Open. The creator code just lets you customize which program it opens with, allowing you to have for example a folder full of text files, some of which open in TextEdit, the rest of which open in BBEdit.
It's two separate pieces of information: type and preferred application. If you eliminate the latter, it must be approximated by making a new type. In the example, you'd have to create a new "BBEdit text file" type to have them open separate, but then other programs wouldn't know of this new type you created.
I think emulating the physical world is a great idea. I can't wait for IEEE to next come up with ways to make a PC as useful as pocket calculator. Perhaps they could disable the keyboard and force us to write text with the mouse, along with bad writing recognition; it'd approximate people's poor penmanship. Then we need to get rid of backlighting on screens; when's the last time you used a pad of paper with build-in backlighting? Yeah, I thought so, never. And electricity... that damn stuff is on all night. The sun isn't out at night. Why should we be able to have lights on at night then? Let's see, back to computers. Hard disk capacities are outrageous. How can you store hundreds of movies or millions of books on a tiny little thing like that? It'd have taken huge vaults to store the real things, therefore they need to come up with a technology to make each bit take thousands of bits on the drive. They could call it a reliability-enhancing mechanism. Oh look, my keyboard is running out of in
Time to buy stocks in whatever companies are selling placebos, or patenting them. Hmmm, now that I think about it most health food stores have a whole section devoted to placebos, though they oddly labeled as homeo something-or-other. These guys knew all along that you didn't need anything beyond water and/or sugar to be effective!
The only meaningful test here is ABX. Present player with A, B, and X. A is the system with less latency than B, and X is randomly either A or B. Run test multiple times and see whether player's determination of X is significantly different than it would be by pure chance (50%). The player doesn't have to be able to quote the latency difference, merely detect it, perhaps by its effect on his performance.
CRTs have a lag of nearly zero. Perhaps ones with 3D comb filters have more. Back in the old days (NES, Atari), a video game could directly affect the current color at the electron beam, giving a lag of nearly zero. It's only gotten worse since. Same for controllers, where they either had a separate wire for each button (e.g. Atari), or had a simple shift register that could be read in under a millisecond.
Every business would rather not have competition. The problem here isn't that they tried to eliminate it, it's that the people who put the site up took it down. The deeper problem is that politicians yield to pressure from companies, thus giving said companies power beyond simply controlling their own property.
I take it since then shared library machine code has had to be patched in memory after it's loaded for a while now, thus preventing easy sharing among processes, and causing the page to need its own space in the swap file.
Sounds like this latest improvement effectively brings things back to the way they were, by effectively writing this patched version back to disk so that it can be mapped read-only as before, and not have to be patched every time the library is loaded into a process. It's odd, because I thought the OS already did this several versions ago when prebinding.
wget --load-cookies ~/.mozilla/default/*.slt/cookies.txt --user-agent="Uzbl/1.0" -O - http://slashdot.org/ | uzbl
What could be simpler?
No, but I hear that Playz 4 Sure will be there, though it's not clear whether he's actually going to play anything.
"Congratulations on your purchase. To begin using your quantum computer, set the power switch to both off and on simultaneously."
More like, "Your computer may appear to be both on and off at the same time. Don't worry, this is normal. To turn the computer off, you don't have to do anything. Likewise, to turn it on, you don't have to do anything."
Please help me understand what the second paragraph means, or is trying to communicate.
You're right; if taken literally, the AC is simply asking a question that would help us non-physicists understand the topic better. But his overall tone is "they're dipoles, they just didn't notice the other pole", which is what I responded.
Damn! Anonymous Coward has thought of something none of the scientists have even considered. Give this guy a research position ASAP.
Agreed! We should put it to a national vote. Oh, wait...
He says he's deployed it at two other companies, and they love it. Speaking of things that are annoying...