Noted. But as you said, the US Treasury will back them up should they fail. And the very existence causes people to exercise little discretion where they deposit their money, thus removing a big check on what risks banks take, since they'll be backed regardless. You can't separate the FDIC from the rest.
No, see, you need to start the first few hundred with normal increasing numbers, then start incrementing by larger values, somewhat random each time. So they will find numbers equally distributed, and conclude that you're making many more than you really are.
Yeah, with a 350-pixel-wide web page (yes, the entire page), and an opening like this, I can't imagine why nobody would read any further:
Time machines - oh, boy!
Steady on Sam, I love science fiction as much as the next geek but I'm not talking about Quantum Leap here. This is even more exciting than time travel.
OK, so what is this quantum computing lark then?
Quantum computing and quantum information processing are research efforts that seek to exploit quantum mechanical phenomena to perform tasks such as massively parallel computing. The quantum research field also encompasses quantum cryptography, which utilises quantum phenomena to guarantee secure communications.
What are these quantum phenomena you talk of?
Tsk! Clearly weren't paying attention in physics class were you? [...]
Tip to new writers: you aren't witty, you aren't funny, you aren't entertaining. Leave your antics out of the writing and cover the subject matter so well that its inherent nature will be interesting to the reader.
This is a coding error. They just need to change the select from touch begin to touch end and maybe add a next button to take you to the next screen.
If they did it based on touch begin, this wouldn't have occurred, since it sounds like a single touch causes TWO "clicks". So apparently the code is really the idiotic "if finger currently touching screen inside boundary of button, click button".
Just replying that I agree that the person who criticized you is an idiot, because he apparently wanted to pull the "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" card, without even seeing whether it applied.
I can never get past the concept of time travel itself to take any of it very seriously. It basically takes our time and turns it into a physical dimension, then talks of moving around in it and making changes, which implies a fifth (real) time dimension. Once you do that, why do things in the first four dimensions have to mesh together anymore? e.g. why does changing something at T=0 mean that something at T=1 must be different?
...that the summary is +1 flamebait, apparently just a thinly-veiled attack on their decision. How about a summary that describes what they're doing (without using the word ironic), and why?
Define "spot you're standing on" without reference to Earth or the sun. Are you saying that the ether exists and that spot in it will be occupied by a vacuum soon?
Dementia doesn't get anywhere near the funding it should. There's all these cancer charities - mostly focused on breast cancer whereas nobody appears to care about brain cancer or lung cancer (you don't just get it by smoking)
I, for one, refuse to support dementia or cancer of any type, and you should too. Just say no to funding these awful things!
You can't really do secure erase on Flash anyway, due to wear-leveling. If you try to rewrite a file, you'll just end up writing the new data to a different part of the chip, leaving the old data intact until it gets erased to all ones by the on-chip erase function, however secure that is.
I've still got a lot of cassettes I recorded, and somewhat original (lots of video game recordings, for one). I can't believe I'm now one of those "old" people with media many people have never seen before.
Just wanted to say that I enjoyed your "Why I Don't Like Apple" post. It didn't over-dramatize things, and is a good argument against the long-term effect of making things hard to peek inside.
I thought the G simply referret to generation. A later generation isn't necessarily faster or better, just a design based on an earlier generation. Good example: Web 2.0.
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Noted. But as you said, the US Treasury will back them up should they fail. And the very existence causes people to exercise little discretion where they deposit their money, thus removing a big check on what risks banks take, since they'll be backed regardless. You can't separate the FDIC from the rest.
To the buyers: stop buying things with ads already!
No, see, you need to start the first few hundred with normal increasing numbers, then start incrementing by larger values, somewhat random each time. So they will find numbers equally distributed, and conclude that you're making many more than you really are.
Tip to new writers: you aren't witty, you aren't funny, you aren't entertaining. Leave your antics out of the writing and cover the subject matter so well that its inherent nature will be interesting to the reader.
Yes, the US monetary system is a good example of how to avoid catastrophe. In a few years, it'll be an even better example!
Hey, it works for the FDIC.
If they did it based on touch begin, this wouldn't have occurred, since it sounds like a single touch causes TWO "clicks". So apparently the code is really the idiotic "if finger currently touching screen inside boundary of button, click button".
Just replying that I agree that the person who criticized you is an idiot, because he apparently wanted to pull the "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" card, without even seeing whether it applied.
I can never get past the concept of time travel itself to take any of it very seriously. It basically takes our time and turns it into a physical dimension, then talks of moving around in it and making changes, which implies a fifth (real) time dimension. Once you do that, why do things in the first four dimensions have to mesh together anymore? e.g. why does changing something at T=0 mean that something at T=1 must be different?
...that the summary is +1 flamebait, apparently just a thinly-veiled attack on their decision. How about a summary that describes what they're doing (without using the word ironic), and why?
Define "spot you're standing on" without reference to Earth or the sun. Are you saying that the ether exists and that spot in it will be occupied by a vacuum soon?
I guess this xkcd comic will need updating soon.
What the hell does Avatar mean in this context, anyway? Is it a class of planets or something?
Easy solution: lend them your Kindle.
Obviously Ubuntu has a vendetta against Flash. And every other program they don't install automatically.
Who else read the article and thought it had something to do with rounding numbers in different bases?
I, for one, refuse to support dementia or cancer of any type, and you should too. Just say no to funding these awful things!
What the hell is "OS X"? Because the one by Apple is named Mac OS X.
Total tangent though. Perhaps it was code to exercise a compiler's tail-call optimizer.
You can't really do secure erase on Flash anyway, due to wear-leveling. If you try to rewrite a file, you'll just end up writing the new data to a different part of the chip, leaving the old data intact until it gets erased to all ones by the on-chip erase function, however secure that is.
A strange plugin. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice page of text?
I don't even think the latest OS X supports PowerPC, so why would it matter anyway?
I've still got a lot of cassettes I recorded, and somewhat original (lots of video game recordings, for one). I can't believe I'm now one of those "old" people with media many people have never seen before.
Just wanted to say that I enjoyed your "Why I Don't Like Apple" post. It didn't over-dramatize things, and is a good argument against the long-term effect of making things hard to peek inside.
I thought the G simply referret to generation. A later generation isn't necessarily faster or better, just a design based on an earlier generation. Good example: Web 2.0.