C'mon guys, people are going to do this stuff whether we like it or not. The automotive manufacturers are arguably helping reduce the accident counts by making the various contributory technologies less distractive, such as by building in hands-free calling.
Are they now? Like someone said in another thread, given the size of Google's data set how likely is it that they just don't bother doing backups, but just rely on RAID-like redundancy? Would they really be able to recover if their data center blew up?
I think you're right on the money. Reiser did have a reputation for having quite an ego, and probably a rather bad temper. Throw in a wife that possibly wanted to split and take the kids with her (what with all the time he was spending on his company) and it's not a huge stretch to see that he's guilty.
If I was Theo de Raadt's wife I'd think twice about installing linux or Windows on their home computers;)
I would love to find out where to buy wine that was not preserved with sulphites. This is presumably the ingredient that kills off the yeasts. I know an anecdote where some roof contractors found an old bottle of wine under a roof. The wine was just as the day it was bottled-- which is scary considering it was under a hot roof for several years and should have turned into vinegar by then.
On another note, is it the alcohol that has the health benefits or the sundry microorganisms that the preservatives kill off?
I can think of several reasons besides queueing delay:
- error correction - compression - PPP retransmissions - PPP compression - voice data might be digitized and delayed within the telephone network
As far as queueing goes, suppose your game uses 1500 byte packets. On an average 38400 dialup link, it takes more than 300ms to transfer just one packet. Now throw in a 10-packet queue, load it up, and see where your ping packets end up every second.
We had to do experiments for credit too, it's a cheap way for the depts. to get subjects. I picked one with electric shocks, but it turned out to be lame. The two poles were an inch from each other, so the current was localized and only stung a little bit.
That is an interesting set of measurements, but one problem I had when I was looking at it to pick a good LED grow light was that there is no way to compare different lights because the units are not absolute; i.e. the spectra are relative to some unknown total output power. As a result, I couldn't tell if the bulge in this incadescent spectrum is more or less powerful than the bulge at the base of the spikes for this compact fluorescent light.
Now we could also get into a discussion how a spike at 440nm really is equivalent to a bulge due to the sensitivity curve of photoreceptors in our eyes...
Seeing how helium is actually quite expensive (paid $70 for 300 cu ft. at a local welding supply if memory serves) it's interesting that this contraption uses hot air. I wonder what the economics of hot air look like; i.e. cost of fuel to maintain lift, etc.
He got impeached by Congress, but acquitted by Senate. See here.
I guess the sense of the word "impeachment" usually implied is removal from office, not some intermediate step. In that case, Clinton didn't get impeached.
You're thinking too hard. Just let the people continue business as usual and the population will reduce itself when oil runs out.
Government dictating who gets to have kids has been done before, just look at China. Government dictating all sorts of other stuff-- look at former communist regimes of Eastern Europe and Russia.
This is a guy who went into space. His life depended on countless smart engineers and scientists. And what does he spend his time on? Passing laws to fight dirty mouths! I don't get it. Maybe senators are required to get lobotomies before they can serve.
Dude, you're the guy who got me listening to drum'n'bass! You posted here about your band like 2 years ago in another story about the music industry. keiretsu.mp3 has been on my playlist ever since:)
Re:PageRank doesn't seem to be based on keywords
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There has been a PageRank paper out there since 2000 or so, so it's not exactly a secret how it works. Basically an initial set of relevant pages is pulled from the database and ranked by doing some computation on a connectivity matrix. The trick is to come up with a good initial set; and unless they managed to implement an all-knowing oracle they probably do it by doing a keyword search. Here's where the article summary makes sense; if most pages have the same keywords, a keyword search is going to come up with an awfully large initial set.
The article might have details, maybe someone who has actually read it can fill in:)
In the next installment, a resurrected Richard Crenna visits dada21 in his trailer in the Rockies. "dada21, we need you!" "Leave me alone." "But we got a brand new house for you, with a 3 car garage and 4 bedrooms." dada21 stares off through the tiny porthole at Dick's new Lincoln. "What's the interest rate?" "5.75, 30 year fixed." "Alright I'm in. But you can't make me run Windows."
If they use expensive/rare materials, or do not scale up very well, then they can't be mass-produced by definition. However, I think it's likely that continued process research will eventually uncover better designs and bring costs down; obviously we don't know how or it wouldn't be called research. This has happened before, most notably with electronics, integrated circuits, etc.
I agree that the dollars/Watt metric is useful when area is not a concern; however conversion efficiency becomes important when area is limited, which is the case with rooftop usage. Solar won't be very useful if the entire roof barely generates enough power for a couple lightbulbs, even if the panels are free.
Given what the other guy (Alioth?) said about his shed it sounds like tracking systems might help a lot.
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C'mon guys, people are going to do this stuff whether we like it or not. The automotive manufacturers are arguably helping reduce the accident counts by making the various contributory technologies less distractive, such as by building in hands-free calling.
Are they now? Like someone said in another thread, given the size of Google's data set how likely is it that they just don't bother doing backups, but just rely on RAID-like redundancy? Would they really be able to recover if their data center blew up?
Citibank.com? I don't see any mention of BoA there.
I think you're right on the money. Reiser did have a reputation for having quite an ego, and probably a rather bad temper. Throw in a wife that possibly wanted to split and take the kids with her (what with all the time he was spending on his company) and it's not a huge stretch to see that he's guilty.
;)
If I was Theo de Raadt's wife I'd think twice about installing linux or Windows on their home computers
I would love to find out where to buy wine that was not preserved with sulphites. This is presumably the ingredient that kills off the yeasts. I know an anecdote where some roof contractors found an old bottle of wine under a roof. The wine was just as the day it was bottled-- which is scary considering it was under a hot roof for several years and should have turned into vinegar by then.
On another note, is it the alcohol that has the health benefits or the sundry microorganisms that the preservatives kill off?
I can think of several reasons besides queueing delay:
- error correction
- compression
- PPP retransmissions
- PPP compression
- voice data might be digitized and delayed within the telephone network
As far as queueing goes, suppose your game uses 1500 byte packets. On an average 38400 dialup link, it takes more than 300ms to transfer just one packet. Now throw in a 10-packet queue, load it up, and see where your ping packets end up every second.
My Linux desktop soaks up every available CPU cycle, mostly by running the hlt instruction ;)
We had to do experiments for credit too, it's a cheap way for the depts. to get subjects. I picked one with electric shocks, but it turned out to be lame. The two poles were an inch from each other, so the current was localized and only stung a little bit.
That is an interesting set of measurements, but one problem I had when I was looking at it to pick a good LED grow light was that there is no way to compare different lights because the units are not absolute; i.e. the spectra are relative to some unknown total output power. As a result, I couldn't tell if the bulge in this incadescent spectrum is more or less powerful than the bulge at the base of the spikes for this compact fluorescent light.
Now we could also get into a discussion how a spike at 440nm really is equivalent to a bulge due to the sensitivity curve of photoreceptors in our eyes...
Wow, that is a cool idea... that should be the main story instead of the blimp!
Seeing how helium is actually quite expensive (paid $70 for 300 cu ft. at a local welding supply if memory serves) it's interesting that this contraption uses hot air. I wonder what the economics of hot air look like; i.e. cost of fuel to maintain lift, etc.
He got impeached by Congress, but acquitted by Senate. See here.
I guess the sense of the word "impeachment" usually implied is removal from office, not some intermediate step. In that case, Clinton didn't get impeached.
Must... watch... less... anime!
Was he trying to breed super-soldiers who don't need food?
I wonder if the Titanians have folk CDs entitled "Vientos del metano de los Andes"
You're thinking too hard. Just let the people continue business as usual and the population will reduce itself when oil runs out.
Government dictating who gets to have kids has been done before, just look at China. Government dictating all sorts of other stuff-- look at former communist regimes of Eastern Europe and Russia.
Laser cookie cutter? If yes, that is freaking cool!
Heh, you are right! I stand corrected. They must be look-alikes. At least that makes this guy's apparent lack of judgment easier to explain.
This is a guy who went into space. His life depended on countless smart engineers and scientists. And what does he spend his time on? Passing laws to fight dirty mouths! I don't get it. Maybe senators are required to get lobotomies before they can serve.
Dude, you're the guy who got me listening to drum'n'bass! You posted here about your band like 2 years ago in another story about the music industry. keiretsu.mp3 has been on my playlist ever since :)
Here's what it looks like: pic
There has been a PageRank paper out there since 2000 or so, so it's not exactly a secret how it works. Basically an initial set of relevant pages is pulled from the database and ranked by doing some computation on a connectivity matrix. The trick is to come up with a good initial set; and unless they managed to implement an all-knowing oracle they probably do it by doing a keyword search. Here's where the article summary makes sense; if most pages have the same keywords, a keyword search is going to come up with an awfully large initial set.
:)
The article might have details, maybe someone who has actually read it can fill in
In the next installment, a resurrected Richard Crenna visits dada21 in his trailer in the Rockies. "dada21, we need you!" "Leave me alone." "But we got a brand new house for you, with a 3 car garage and 4 bedrooms." dada21 stares off through the tiny porthole at Dick's new Lincoln. "What's the interest rate?" "5.75, 30 year fixed." "Alright I'm in. But you can't make me run Windows."
If they use expensive/rare materials, or do not scale up very well, then they can't be mass-produced by definition. However, I think it's likely that continued process research will eventually uncover better designs and bring costs down; obviously we don't know how or it wouldn't be called research. This has happened before, most notably with electronics, integrated circuits, etc.
I agree that the dollars/Watt metric is useful when area is not a concern; however conversion efficiency becomes important when area is limited, which is the case with rooftop usage. Solar won't be very useful if the entire roof barely generates enough power for a couple lightbulbs, even if the panels are free.
Given what the other guy (Alioth?) said about his shed it sounds like tracking systems might help a lot.
Those are the costs now, but we need to look at the end game. Presumably, any of these would be mass produced and have similar low prices.