Fractions can and certainly do exist outside of being applied as a ratio. 1/2 certainly has a symbolic value all of it's - it represents the halving of something and halving something is symbolic.
Fractions are ratios; they need an additional number to tell you what number the fraction represents. The number can be an integer or not; the fraction itself is not an integer.
E.g. 1/2 of the students in a class are expected to be above the national average. That does not tell you how many students should be above-average for your class to meet national standards.
If I additionally tell you that there are 27 students in the class, that does tell you how many students, but the number is not an integer. You end up expecting 13.5 students to be above average, which is nonsensical until you round up or down to come to a number that can mean anything.
Have you ever been clocked with police radar? Ka band radar is basically the same frequency as these L3 machines. The only difference is the mmw nudescanners are a lot less powerful.
Citation needed. In fact, I would assume exactly the opposite is true: Imaging an object should require a much stronger reflection than simply using the Doppler effect to determine its velocity.
For instance, a magnetic flowmeter uses a very low-strength magnetic field of about 25 gauss [PDF] to measure a fluid's velocity, but a MRI machine uses a field with a strength of 5,000 to 30,000 gauss in order to actually image something.
I've been into and out of airports which required re-screening people who transferred because to get to the other gate or terminal you had to exit the secure area.
Unless you've scheduled a 2-3 hour layover between every flight, you're shit out of luck. And if you do schedule 2-3 hour layovers at every transfer, you're going to spend almost as much time sitting in airports as you do in the air.
Technically anything has an event horizon, although you'd have to compress yo mamma pretty significantly before she'd be smaller than her own event horizon.
The speed of light is infinite, because due to relativistic effects, time has stopped. Only an outside observer sees something moving at the "speed of light"; to the photon itself, no time passes.
Forgot to say how you would run it - probably self-evident, but in case it isn't, you type the name of the batch file followed by the new MAC address (which will be substituted for %1).
You could do it without PowerShell, as a matter of fact. You would need to fill in a couple of blanks, but this.bat file should work.
@echo off
rem Change Network Address - create reg file and merge into registry cd %temp% echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>tmp.reg echo.>>tmp.reg echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\nnnn]>>tmp.reg echo "NetworkAddress"="%1">>tmp.reg regedit/s tmp.reg del tmp.reg
rem Stop and restart NIC to apply changes wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=n call disable wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=n call enable
rem See if the change was successful - Display MAC addresses of local interfaces getmac
n is the index for the NIC you want to change. The easiest way to find it is to run the command wmic nic get name, index and find the NIC you want to change. Since I assume you probably want to just change the MAC of a single NIC, you can hard-code it into the batch file. Hypothetically, if you wanted to, if you had a Windows installation to work with, of course...
It's libdvdcss, not libdvdcs. And the CSS (content scramble system) is only one part of the puzzle; non-encrypted DVDs will still require a MPEG-2 codec, which is also patent-encumbered and has royalty fees associated with it.
So the answer to GP's questions should really be "no", and "sometimes". VLC does not pay licensing fees; libdvdcss appears to bypass the licensing fees, but FFmpeg does not. From the ffmpeg.org legal readme:
Q: Does FFmpeg use patented algorithms? A: We do not know... various standards FFmpeg supports contain vague hints that any conforming implementation might be subject to some patent rights in some jurisdictions... Q: Is it safe to use such patented algorithms? A: Patent laws vary wildly between jurisdictions... whether you are safe or not depends on where you live... Q: Is it perfectly alright to incorporate the whole FFmpeg core into my own commercial product? A: You might have a problem here. There have been cases where companies have used FFmpeg in their products. These companies found out that once you start trying to make money from patented technologies, the owners of the patents will come after their licensing fees. Notably, MPEG LA is vigilant and diligent about collecting for MPEG-related technologies.
using an OS that doesn't provide built-in system tools for such basic things as configuring a NIC, including the MAC address, because said OS from Redmond assumes you're an idiot who would only be confused by such things
Eh? My Windows must be broken, because I was able to do it just fine.
My Computer Other Places, My Network Places Network Tasks, View Network Connections Right-click "Local Area Connection", Properties Under "Connect using: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet", Configure... "Advanced" tab, "Locally Administered Address" property Click the radio box on "value", type something.
The option is "Show preview in image window". If you're tweaking the quality settings, it also shows you what the compressed image will look like (in addition to showing you the file size).
I kind of assumed that GP knew you have to click this before it will calculate a size. Maybe not.
In previous versions, the entire text region was a single font, style, and color. If you wanted one word to be bold, you would have to put it in a separate text layer.
Unpack the iTunes installer with 7-Zip. Install the applications that you actually want. There are about five separate applications bundled in the standard iTunes installation, iirc.
Note that either QuickTime or QuickTime Alternative must be installed before installing iTunes itself.
The term is "afterimage". The best analogy is monitor burn-in (if any of the kids here are old enough to remember that). It's basically the same, except that in the case of your eyes, it's not permanent (usually).
When the light receptors have received the same thing for so long, they eventually just stop responding to it, or their response drops by some significant fraction. I.e. if you're staring at a red object for a while, gradually the "red" receptors in your eye just stop firing that information to your brain so quickly, and the object will gradually look more dull, though you probably won't notice it. If you then rapidly shift your gaze to a white object, however, it will look very noticeably cyan (blue-green) because the "red" receptors still aren't running at 100%. Staring at something that's gray or black gives them a chance to recover.
I've heard it described in terms of both the light-sensing cells gradually lessening their response, and of the neurons in the brain gradually learning to disregard the stimulus; I'm not sure which is primarily the cause for the visual effect, or if it's a combination of both (likely).
I meant "paper trail" in the non-literal sense; an electronic record would be adequate.
However, what you're suggesting is that a school district / teacher would have to rely on Facebook getting its shit together and providing data if or when a teacher is accused of wrongdoing. That's not a very ideal position for them to be in.
A single person having more than one account violates Facebook's TOS. One or both accounts could be deactivated at any time, without warning.
Not to mention there's no proper way to create a paper trail of your Facebook activities. What exactly are you suggesting when you say "tapped logged and filed"? How would you do that?
I use AdBlock Plus to nix the Facebook tracking. At the cost of seeing "Like" buttons everywhere I go (yes, that's a joke), these filters or some similar will do the trick:
You will occasionally see a button when the image is hosted on the website you're visiting, but the Facebook connect js won't load and the button will be non-functional. When that bothers my sense of aesthetics, I usually write an element-hiding rule to get rid of the button, e.g.
The D2 posting system has been "fixed": it automatically replaces permitted characters with the corresponding HTML entities. It strips out any other characters and non-allowed HTML entities. Hence, "fixed"... it doesn't really work, it just works some of the time.
I.e. to enter £...
Alt-156 (£) works in D2 only
£ works in either D1 or D2
£ is stripped out in both D1 and D2; Slashdot doesn't recognize it and strips it out of your post.
That's probably enough of an explanation, but if you care to know the why and how...
The D1 posting system parses your post as 8-bit text. It is not actually 8-bit text; it is actually UTF-8 encoded. Since UTF-8 encodes characters with code points U+0000-U+007F in a single byte, it is backward-compatible for this range of characters; characters above U+007F require multiple bytes to encode in UTF-8, which is why Slashdot ends up garbling them. The D1 system doesn't do any conversion from UTF-8 to 8-bit.
Try it: paste £ into Notepad and save as UTF-8, then open the file a hex editor. The file will be 5 bytes: the byte-order mark (a zero-width non-breaking space, code point U+FEFF) encoded in UTF-8 (EF BB BF*), followed by the pound character (163, U+00A3) encoded in UTF-8 (C2 A3** - which, as 8-bit text, is the characters £ - which is what you ended up with in your post; it appears that you used the D1 system to post the comment).
Note that the £ character is actually code point 163, not 156. Typing Alt-156 produces the pound symbol as a throwback to the DOS code page 437, which contained the £ character at position 156. In Unicode, the £ symbol is code point 163 and can be typed Alt-0163.
Yeah, tried and failed in Tripoli. Oh wait... nope.
Pirate ships and crews from the North African Berber states of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, and Tripoli (the Barbary Coast) were the scourge of the Mediterranean. Capturing merchant ships and enslaving or ransoming their crews... Barbary pirates led attacks upon American merchant shipping in an attempt to extort ransom for the lives of captured sailors, and ultimately tribute from the United States to avoid further attacks, much like their standard operating procedure with the various European states.
tl;dr version: the good guys acquired guns, the bad guys acquired bigger guns and became nastier, the good guys sent in the marines, who had the biggest guns of all. The end.
Slashdot Mirror
Fractions can and certainly do exist outside of being applied as a ratio. 1/2 certainly has a symbolic value all of it's - it represents the halving of something and halving something is symbolic.
It's obviously not an integer then.
Fractions are ratios; they need an additional number to tell you what number the fraction represents. The number can be an integer or not; the fraction itself is not an integer.
E.g. 1/2 of the students in a class are expected to be above the national average. That does not tell you how many students should be above-average for your class to meet national standards.
If I additionally tell you that there are 27 students in the class, that does tell you how many students, but the number is not an integer. You end up expecting 13.5 students to be above average, which is nonsensical until you round up or down to come to a number that can mean anything.
You're in the 78%, not the 88%. At least where subtraction is concerned.
Have you ever been clocked with police radar? Ka band radar is basically the same frequency as these L3 machines. The only difference is the mmw nudescanners are a lot less powerful.
Citation needed. In fact, I would assume exactly the opposite is true: Imaging an object should require a much stronger reflection than simply using the Doppler effect to determine its velocity.
For instance, a magnetic flowmeter uses a very low-strength magnetic field of about 25 gauss [PDF] to measure a fluid's velocity, but a MRI machine uses a field with a strength of 5,000 to 30,000 gauss in order to actually image something.
I've been into and out of airports which required re-screening people who transferred because to get to the other gate or terminal you had to exit the secure area.
Unless you've scheduled a 2-3 hour layover between every flight, you're shit out of luck. And if you do schedule 2-3 hour layovers at every transfer, you're going to spend almost as much time sitting in airports as you do in the air.
Meanwhile, Twitter can access all your details and Tweets at will
Can, but their TOS says they won't. That's the "lock".
and you grant them rights to redistribute at will
Citation needed. Unless a tweet is public, you haven't granted Twitter the right to redistribute "at will".
Yes, well, whether or not the universe is finite, the headline certainly was, and some things didn't fit.
The summary clarified: "This is the most distant cluster ever seen that has been confirmed spectroscopically."
Technically anything has an event horizon, although you'd have to compress yo mamma pretty significantly before she'd be smaller than her own event horizon.
The speed of light is infinite, because due to relativistic effects, time has stopped. Only an outside observer sees something moving at the "speed of light"; to the photon itself, no time passes.
This is the second reference to the Secret of Nimh I've seen on /. today (damnit, I can't find the other one).
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2832613&cid=39915385
Forgot to say how you would run it - probably self-evident, but in case it isn't, you type the name of the batch file followed by the new MAC address (which will be substituted for %1).
You could do it without PowerShell, as a matter of fact. You would need to fill in a couple of blanks, but this .bat file should work.
@echo off
rem Change Network Address - create reg file and merge into registry /s tmp.reg
cd %temp%
echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>tmp.reg
echo.>>tmp.reg
echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\nnnn]>>tmp.reg
echo "NetworkAddress"="%1">>tmp.reg
regedit
del tmp.reg
rem Stop and restart NIC to apply changes
wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=n call disable
wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=n call enable
rem See if the change was successful - Display MAC addresses of local interfaces
getmac
n is the index for the NIC you want to change. The easiest way to find it is to run the command
wmic nic get name, index
and find the NIC you want to change. Since I assume you probably want to just change the MAC of a single NIC, you can hard-code it into the batch file. Hypothetically, if you wanted to, if you had a Windows installation to work with, of course...
It's libdvdcss, not libdvdcs. And the CSS (content scramble system) is only one part of the puzzle; non-encrypted DVDs will still require a MPEG-2 codec, which is also patent-encumbered and has royalty fees associated with it.
So the answer to GP's questions should really be "no", and "sometimes". VLC does not pay licensing fees; libdvdcss appears to bypass the licensing fees, but FFmpeg does not. From the ffmpeg.org legal readme:
Q: Does FFmpeg use patented algorithms? ... various standards FFmpeg supports contain vague hints that any conforming implementation might be subject to some patent rights in some jurisdictions ... ... whether you are safe or not depends on where you live ...
A: We do not know
Q: Is it safe to use such patented algorithms?
A: Patent laws vary wildly between jurisdictions
Q: Is it perfectly alright to incorporate the whole FFmpeg core into my own commercial product?
A: You might have a problem here. There have been cases where companies have used FFmpeg in their products. These companies found out that once you start trying to make money from patented technologies, the owners of the patents will come after their licensing fees. Notably, MPEG LA is vigilant and diligent about collecting for MPEG-related technologies.
using an OS that doesn't provide built-in system tools for such basic things as configuring a NIC, including the MAC address, because said OS from Redmond assumes you're an idiot who would only be confused by such things
Eh? My Windows must be broken, because I was able to do it just fine.
My Computer
Other Places, My Network Places
Network Tasks, View Network Connections
Right-click "Local Area Connection", Properties
Under "Connect using: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet", Configure...
"Advanced" tab, "Locally Administered Address" property
Click the radio box on "value", type something.
The option is "Show preview in image window". If you're tweaking the quality settings, it also shows you what the compressed image will look like (in addition to showing you the file size).
I kind of assumed that GP knew you have to click this before it will calculate a size. Maybe not.
In previous versions, the entire text region was a single font, style, and color. If you wanted one word to be bold, you would have to put it in a separate text layer.
Unpack the iTunes installer with 7-Zip. Install the applications that you actually want. There are about five separate applications bundled in the standard iTunes installation, iirc.
Note that either QuickTime or QuickTime Alternative must be installed before installing iTunes itself.
The term is "afterimage". The best analogy is monitor burn-in (if any of the kids here are old enough to remember that). It's basically the same, except that in the case of your eyes, it's not permanent (usually).
When the light receptors have received the same thing for so long, they eventually just stop responding to it, or their response drops by some significant fraction. I.e. if you're staring at a red object for a while, gradually the "red" receptors in your eye just stop firing that information to your brain so quickly, and the object will gradually look more dull, though you probably won't notice it. If you then rapidly shift your gaze to a white object, however, it will look very noticeably cyan (blue-green) because the "red" receptors still aren't running at 100%. Staring at something that's gray or black gives them a chance to recover.
I've heard it described in terms of both the light-sensing cells gradually lessening their response, and of the neurons in the brain gradually learning to disregard the stimulus; I'm not sure which is primarily the cause for the visual effect, or if it's a combination of both (likely).
I meant "paper trail" in the non-literal sense; an electronic record would be adequate.
However, what you're suggesting is that a school district / teacher would have to rely on Facebook getting its shit together and providing data if or when a teacher is accused of wrongdoing. That's not a very ideal position for them to be in.
A single person having more than one account violates Facebook's TOS. One or both accounts could be deactivated at any time, without warning.
Not to mention there's no proper way to create a paper trail of your Facebook activities. What exactly are you suggesting when you say "tapped logged and filed"? How would you do that?
I use AdBlock Plus to nix the Facebook tracking. At the cost of seeing "Like" buttons everywhere I go (yes, that's a joke), these filters or some similar will do the trick:
||facebook.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||facebook.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||fbcdn.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.net
||fbcdn.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com
You will occasionally see a button when the image is hosted on the website you're visiting, but the Facebook connect js won't load and the button will be non-functional. When that bothers my sense of aesthetics, I usually write an element-hiding rule to get rid of the button, e.g.
#a(href*=facebook.com/sharer)
#a(href*=plus.google.com/)
#a(href*=twitter.com/intent)
slashdot.org##*.comment_share
slashdot.org##*.comment_share_toggle
Nope.
document.write("<script type='text/javascript'>");
works just fine. You're thinking of the closing tag:
document.write("</scr"+"ipt>");
is a necessity to get past the HTML parser.
The D2 posting system has been "fixed": it automatically replaces permitted characters with the corresponding HTML entities. It strips out any other characters and non-allowed HTML entities. Hence, "fixed"... it doesn't really work, it just works some of the time.
I.e. to enter £...
Alt-156 (£) works in D2 only
£ works in either D1 or D2
£ is stripped out in both D1 and D2; Slashdot doesn't recognize it and strips it out of your post.
That's probably enough of an explanation, but if you care to know the why and how...
The D1 posting system parses your post as 8-bit text. It is not actually 8-bit text; it is actually UTF-8 encoded. Since UTF-8 encodes characters with code points U+0000-U+007F in a single byte, it is backward-compatible for this range of characters; characters above U+007F require multiple bytes to encode in UTF-8, which is why Slashdot ends up garbling them. The D1 system doesn't do any conversion from UTF-8 to 8-bit.
Try it: paste £ into Notepad and save as UTF-8, then open the file a hex editor. The file will be 5 bytes: the byte-order mark (a zero-width non-breaking space, code point U+FEFF) encoded in UTF-8 (EF BB BF*), followed by the pound character (163, U+00A3) encoded in UTF-8 (C2 A3** - which, as 8-bit text, is the characters £ - which is what you ended up with in your post; it appears that you used the D1 system to post the comment).
Note that the £ character is actually code point 163, not 156. Typing Alt-156 produces the pound symbol as a throwback to the DOS code page 437, which contained the £ character at position 156. In Unicode, the £ symbol is code point 163 and can be typed Alt-0163.
* 0xFEFF, 11111110 11111111, mapped into the 24-bit mask 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx = 11101111 10111011 10111111 (EF BB BF)
** 0xA3, 10100011, mapped into 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx = 11000010 10100011 (C2 A3)
Yeah, tried and failed in Tripoli. Oh wait... nope.
Pirate ships and crews from the North African Berber states of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, and Tripoli (the Barbary Coast) were the scourge of the Mediterranean. Capturing merchant ships and enslaving or ransoming their crews... Barbary pirates led attacks upon American merchant shipping in an attempt to extort ransom for the lives of captured sailors, and ultimately tribute from the United States to avoid further attacks, much like their standard operating procedure with the various European states.
tl;dr version: the good guys acquired guns, the bad guys acquired bigger guns and became nastier, the good guys sent in the marines, who had the biggest guns of all. The end.
From the halls of Montezuma
to the shores of Tripoli
to Somalia.