When I look back to my time at primary school (elementary for Americans), I always thought that we were doing the same thing over and over each year. Every school year started with set theory, which always covered unions, intersections, supersets and subsets. Then we'd move on to addition and subtraction, with the numbers gradually getting bigger. The first couple of years ended there, after that we'd move on to multiplication, and then a couple of years later division. By the end of primary school, we might have started looking at basic statistical concepts like mean, median, mode, or maybe that came later. We may have also started solving basic algebra equations with one unknown that wasn't after the equals sign, like 2 + x = 5. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a 10 year old with no formal mathematical background could cover all that in a year, provided that their natural curiosity had been provided for until then and numbers (and probably at least addition and subtraction of small numbers) weren't an entirely foreign concept. In fact they might do better, as up until then they'd be used to doing everything in their head, and won't have been taught at an early age to use paper to add or subtract numbers bigger than 10.
As an analog device, they could record outside human hearing range, but as a consumer device, they were made as cheap as possible, and thus didn't perform particularly well even within the range of human hearing, let alone outside it, especially the cheap mono recorders that were used with early home computers. I don't know about mp3, but there were certainly wav files of C=64 games around on bulletin boards in the early '90s, so flac should be no problem.
UK advertisers are free to mention competitors if they stick to the truth. In theory they have to stick to the truth anyway, but if they mention a competitor they can be sure that the competitor will go over their ad with a fine tooth comb looking for any hint of untruthfulness to complain about. That, and mentioning your competitor is free advertising for them.
In many ways the wine market is similar to the hifi market. If only the butler had opened the wine using the correct polarisation of the Oxygen Free Corkscrew, you might have noticed the difference.
My company is buying two new machines this week, which will be downgraded to XP. Why? The vendors for the software essential to our business (embedded software development) do not support Windows 7 yet, and never will support the bad joke that was Vista.
And then to mention data leaks as if it were the computers in the server room responsible leaking information, and not the unionized employees carelessly leaving laptops on trains, containing all the case files they have ever personally dealt with or might deal with in future.
I haven't seen any consideration from potential "NoSQL" adopters of the benefits of using a good relational database like PostgreSQL.
The adopters of NoSQL deal with huge volumes of worthless information. They don't care about transactional integrity as much as they care about performance, which is why they chose MySQL over a good relational database in the first place.
They really do not care about sexual orientation. They only care about exploitation risks.
That was my thought. In certain jobs that involve national security, openly gay employees are fine, but closet homosexuals are at risk of blackmail (along with employees with anything else they want to hide from those close to them).
This is the same principle that makes the GPL work. If you don't accept the author's restrictions on your distribution, then nothing else gives you a right to distribute. That EMI thought they could get away with this argument reveals how used to screwing the artists the record companies have become.
So according to you if you built cars, you'd own the cars and would grant Ford (or whatever company) a license to sell them to customers?
If my name was say Bosch, and Ford and other companies asked me to help them build their cars according to their designs, who would own the rights to the parts I made?
Void days do cost them though - they have to give a discount to season pass holders the next time they renew if they've had void days in the previous period.
Three attempts out of five to view the mentioned patent, I ended up at "Method and system for approving documents based on image similarity", and the other two I ended up at other Google patents that have nothing to do with TFA. Perhaps it would be more reliable in the face of a slashdotting to Google Google's patents on Google Patents.
The act of determining whether it is likely to be more efficient probably wastes more CPU cycles than are saved by switching sort algorithms. Anyone who builds in the optimisation of using a bubble sort for extremely small data sets is a clueless idiot when it comes to the overall picture.
What is broken here, is any design that uses hover or mouseover for anything other than a pretty but unnecessary highlight. Its annoying even when using a mouse to have the content change just because my mouse passed over a button.
They seem to be quite lax in accepting CAs into the list. I'm sure they've all been vetted, but it is disturbing how many of them do not maintain CRLs and have no easily accessible mention of their policy for issuing certificates on their websites (if you can find them). The good ones have a direct link to a URL explaining their policy and the policy information encoded in the certificate itself, but they are a minority.
Years ago, when I first noticed the growing proliferation of CAs in Netscape's default set, I tried disabling them all, then enabling only the ones which clearly referenced a valid URL describing their certification policy. Starting with about 80, I ended up with 5 certificates installed, 2 of which were already expired.
one particular way to install a drive, on one (un-named) version of Gentoo, on one particular model of a WD drive that had a bugzilla entry entered by the author all of 2 days ago
It's the default way to install a drive on just about every Linux distribution out there. I bought one of these drives unsuspectingly last week to replace a drive which had died, and installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it. Sure enough, my root partition starts on sector 63, and every other partition is also on an odd boundary. So is there any utility for Linux that can do what the Windows utility alluded to in TFA does and shift all my painstakingly restored data by 512B, or am I stuck with reformatting again and restoring from backup yet again?
If I can fool you into giving me your 3DS password somehow
Why you you need to do that? Just click the "Forgot my Password" button and you can reset the password to whatever you want, using the same information you need to make the purchase plus one piece of information which can be looked up in public records.
We'll see how that flies when the aggregators continue to display free news sources, such as NPR headlines.
As someone who does occasionally click through to RTFA (on google, not slashdot), I've noticed recently that FT.com articles are getting pushed to the top more often than they used to, despite their new policy of one free article per month.
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When I look back to my time at primary school (elementary for Americans), I always thought that we were doing the same thing over and over each year. Every school year started with set theory, which always covered unions, intersections, supersets and subsets. Then we'd move on to addition and subtraction, with the numbers gradually getting bigger. The first couple of years ended there, after that we'd move on to multiplication, and then a couple of years later division. By the end of primary school, we might have started looking at basic statistical concepts like mean, median, mode, or maybe that came later. We may have also started solving basic algebra equations with one unknown that wasn't after the equals sign, like 2 + x = 5. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a 10 year old with no formal mathematical background could cover all that in a year, provided that their natural curiosity had been provided for until then and numbers (and probably at least addition and subtraction of small numbers) weren't an entirely foreign concept. In fact they might do better, as up until then they'd be used to doing everything in their head, and won't have been taught at an early age to use paper to add or subtract numbers bigger than 10.
C# apps have the advantage here, in that they only run on a single platform (either Windows or Gnome).
As an analog device, they could record outside human hearing range, but as a consumer device, they were made as cheap as possible, and thus didn't perform particularly well even within the range of human hearing, let alone outside it, especially the cheap mono recorders that were used with early home computers. I don't know about mp3, but there were certainly wav files of C=64 games around on bulletin boards in the early '90s, so flac should be no problem.
UK advertisers are free to mention competitors if they stick to the truth. In theory they have to stick to the truth anyway, but if they mention a competitor they can be sure that the competitor will go over their ad with a fine tooth comb looking for any hint of untruthfulness to complain about. That, and mentioning your competitor is free advertising for them.
June Fourth Incident.
On behalf of the Open Source community, I'd like to thank Microsoft for giving a helping hand to Android.
In many ways the wine market is similar to the hifi market. If only the butler had opened the wine using the correct polarisation of the Oxygen Free Corkscrew, you might have noticed the difference.
My company is buying two new machines this week, which will be downgraded to XP. Why? The vendors for the software essential to our business (embedded software development) do not support Windows 7 yet, and never will support the bad joke that was Vista.
And then to mention data leaks as if it were the computers in the server room responsible leaking information, and not the unionized employees carelessly leaving laptops on trains, containing all the case files they have ever personally dealt with or might deal with in future.
The adopters of NoSQL deal with huge volumes of worthless information. They don't care about transactional integrity as much as they care about performance, which is why they chose MySQL over a good relational database in the first place.
That was my thought. In certain jobs that involve national security, openly gay employees are fine, but closet homosexuals are at risk of blackmail (along with employees with anything else they want to hide from those close to them).
This is the same principle that makes the GPL work. If you don't accept the author's restrictions on your distribution, then nothing else gives you a right to distribute. That EMI thought they could get away with this argument reveals how used to screwing the artists the record companies have become.
If my name was say Bosch, and Ford and other companies asked me to help them build their cars according to their designs, who would own the rights to the parts I made?
The quality of the overall iPhone experience is threatened by being able to find WiFi networks?
Drink the black turtleneck kool-aid much?
Void days do cost them though - they have to give a discount to season pass holders the next time they renew if they've had void days in the previous period.
Three attempts out of five to view the mentioned patent, I ended up at "Method and system for approving documents based on image similarity", and the other two I ended up at other Google patents that have nothing to do with TFA. Perhaps it would be more reliable in the face of a slashdotting to Google Google's patents on Google Patents.
The act of determining whether it is likely to be more efficient probably wastes more CPU cycles than are saved by switching sort algorithms. Anyone who builds in the optimisation of using a bubble sort for extremely small data sets is a clueless idiot when it comes to the overall picture.
What is broken here, is any design that uses hover or mouseover for anything other than a pretty but unnecessary highlight. Its annoying even when using a mouse to have the content change just because my mouse passed over a button.
They seem to be quite lax in accepting CAs into the list. I'm sure they've all been vetted, but it is disturbing how many of them do not maintain CRLs and have no easily accessible mention of their policy for issuing certificates on their websites (if you can find them). The good ones have a direct link to a URL explaining their policy and the policy information encoded in the certificate itself, but they are a minority.
Years ago, when I first noticed the growing proliferation of CAs in Netscape's default set, I tried disabling them all, then enabling only the ones which clearly referenced a valid URL describing their certification policy. Starting with about 80, I ended up with 5 certificates installed, 2 of which were already expired.
It's the default way to install a drive on just about every Linux distribution out there. I bought one of these drives unsuspectingly last week to replace a drive which had died, and installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it. Sure enough, my root partition starts on sector 63, and every other partition is also on an odd boundary. So is there any utility for Linux that can do what the Windows utility alluded to in TFA does and shift all my painstakingly restored data by 512B, or am I stuck with reformatting again and restoring from backup yet again?
The original Nokia 770 and N800 used Opera as their browser, so the port has been done, at least for an earlier version of Opera.
Why you you need to do that? Just click the "Forgot my Password" button and you can reset the password to whatever you want, using the same information you need to make the purchase plus one piece of information which can be looked up in public records.
Yes, but you can get program listings from other sources, so it is not likely to impact DIY DVR solutions like MythTV.
As someone who does occasionally click through to RTFA (on google, not slashdot), I've noticed recently that FT.com articles are getting pushed to the top more often than they used to, despite their new policy of one free article per month.