I thought the name Sulphur was kind of... lame, so I decided to see what the name was about. The truth is, it was the least bad of all the names voted upon.
The logic behind it is thus: Some more suggestions
correction: switch rows with columns in my post.
I can tell you why it didn't help. They formatted their table with large spaces between columns and they had only 9 columns. If they tried the same study where they also varied the number of columns I am sure they would find that as the columns increase the positive effect of zebra striping increases. It seems they had a bias built into their test in order to find something unexpected... otherwise the study would have proved pointless.
I can see the Slashdot headline now, "A practice used for over half a century still proves to be useful!" Somehow, I think such a headline falls under the category of "not news."
I can tell you why it didn't help. They formatted their table with large spaces between columns and they had only 9 rows. If they tried the same study where they also varied the number of rows I am sure they would find that as the rows increase the positive effect of zebra striping increases. It seems they had a bias built into their test in order to find something unexpected... otherwise the study would have proved pointless.
I can see the Slashdot headline now, "A practice used for over half a century still proves to be useful!" Somehow, I think such a headline falls under the category of "not news."
I agree with the parent post. In addition, I imagine that if he really did die of an accident he would have wanted to be vindicated.
Also, as a young, intelligent and possibly depressed male(Thus probably seeking happiness) you may find some embarrassing things he would have not wanted seen. You might want to council his family to only allow his father dig into his accounts once you have access.
I suppose next citizens will want every single state and federal law posted on there so they can try to interpret it themselves!
The parent makes one really good point. I was recently talking with a friend of mine just fresh out of law school. Aside from learning the language and protocol of courtrooms and some law theory a huge portion of a law degree today is learning to use some very expensive law databases. These for profit databases are the _only_ practical means of knowing the law. It seems to me, that of all the things our government could spend money on, making the law and cases knowable to the general public at an accessible price to everyone would be somewhat high on the list.
I think it's just Intel marketing hype coming off as sour grapes. I have two Xeon 8 core systems(2 Quad core Xeons) and have found a whopping performance improvement of 3. That's right, 3 times the performance for the price of 8. It doesn't matter if I run "make -j3" or an OpenMP program or run three to eight separate CPU intensive tasks. The upper limit is 3x faster with 8x as many CPUs. As I understand, the internal cores are competing for memory access since they are all sharing a single memory controller. So unless Intel starts providing better memory access adding more cores is just marketing hype.
As I understand it; Quantum encryption allows one to flawlessly detect an unintended observer, so that you know your data is being compromised and you stop sending or take some other security measure before sending more than 1 or 2 bits of data.
"An important and unique property of quantum cryptography is the ability of the two communicating users to detect the presence of any third party trying to gain knowledge of the key." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography]
I also found that by focusing on one girl at a time my rate of attempts was way lower. The fewer attempts the fewer successes. That said, with the risk of sounding sexist, I do believe it's in the nature of women to want men with influence(power), because they will provide greater security. Influence might be displayed by having 10 girls chasing them, having a nice car, being the guy in charge of a group of guys, etc... I've seen it over and over again, a poor, rather unattractive man getting all the girls because he's popular with the guys or the leader of some group.
Personally, I'm the kind of guy who if you shove me I'll shove back, but otherwise I could care less what anyone else does or wants me to do. Which seems to attract rather shy, eclectic girls, but I tend to like those kind too.
Do sarcastometers use a logarithmic or linear scale? If logarithmic, at 8.6 your post should have left me whimpering and gently twitching in a corner wishing for the good old days before "it" happened.
If you watch the video, you'll see that the engineer explaining the technology says that the plasma IS 6000K, which is why it closely matches the spectrum of light we see from the sun.
Not to mention, most open source libraries with equivalent proprietary versions are released under the LGPL, which allows users to link without revealing their source code.
"The LGPL places copyleft restrictions on the program itself but does not apply these restrictions to other software that merely links with the program."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL)
"Titanium dioxide is a strong photocatalyst" meaning it's not used up in the process. It breaks water into an -OH and an H, which in turn clean your clothing. Basically, it'll produce bleach vapor from water vapor when sunlight is hitting it.
If I recall correctly, Dijkstra's Algorithm is only solvable in P time if the edges of the graph are directional and the weight of all edges are non-negative. So, real world(For example, trying to get from A to B using a street map where streets are bi-directional.) shortest path problems are actually NP-complete. Of course, that's only if my memory serves me right. I'm not sure if the problem could really be solved correctly using electric fields, but it could provide a quick guess... I'd have to think about it.
What you're really dealing with is a network of resistors, where resistors are edges and interconnections are nodes and the "shortest path" would be the path with the greatest current. Except in the case of electrical arcs, the resistance decreases as current increases(arc plasma formation) along a path so that nearly all the current follows the path of the arc. Maybe if you ran several trials and averaged the result, but it still may not be "correct."
Interesting thought, I was thinking about this the other day when I read this verse in John:
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber." John 10:1
Before you "fix" that sentence, at least read about the people I listed. One can clearly see that they embraced their faith much more than what was ordinary in their culture.
I hope that you'll respect human rights and not just tolerate them. I didn't wish for respect of my religion, but for tolerance of my religion. Furthermore, I wished the definition of tolerance to include: "respecting all human rights to and for all people, including freedom of speech and expression."
I guess you weren't able to follow the logic, so I'll explain a little more clearly:
Early Christians met in secret caves in order to avoid being killed by people who didn't like them. If you're going to try to compel contemporary Christians to behave the same way, you'll probably have to treat us the same way.
Wishing for Christians to begin hiding in caves again almost directly correlates to wishing for the severe persecution early Christians suffered.
Who is Zarathustra? Nietzsche's fictional Character? I also didn't say all men, just "Almost without fail." Also, regarding Hippocrates, it's a bit odd to to select people from before ~0 A.D. About Ghandi, from what I've read I understand he did a lot of good, but I'll also mention, he was very religious.
"The early Christians had the right idea, meeting in secret in caves. If only we could get the contemporary ones to follow their lead."
I really don't think you know what you're saying. Early Christians met in secret caves in order to avoid being killed by people who didn't like them. If you're going to try to compel contemporary Christians to behave the same way, you'll probably have to treat us the same way. So calling religious people crazy and then endorsing killing us is no different than being crazy yourself.
I look forward to a day when religious tolerance and freedom means respecting all human rights to and for all people, including freedom of speech and expression.
I don't know how to get this message across, but people are people, religion or not. Religion is often times used as an excuse for bad behavior, but removing the religion will not remove the bad behavior.
I might also add that Christianity has promoted many significant reformations of cultures that anti-religious people enjoy. Read about William Wilberforce, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther, Abraham Lincoln, William Tyndale, John Wycliffe, Thomas Aquinas, etc... Almost without fail you'll find the most influential men and women who brought about significant positive cultural change were worshipers of Christ. Granted, you'll find some people who've done some really evil things in the name of Christ, but you'll find really evil people pretty evenly distributed throughout the entire world, religious or not. The truth is, you and I owe quite a lot to religious people before us, who put their lives second to the lives of the poor and oppressed. It's hard to find the motivation to do that if life is simply from dust to dust.
In Indiana, Shell tried a similar robot in my home town. It cost about $100 for a special gas cap and had a huge bay you would drive into. I guess it wasn't too popular, but definitely existed before this.
I guess you're conveniently forgetting about the Communist persecution of religions in Asia and Europe. Very atheist, very bloody. In the end, it's not religion killing people, it's people hating other people. Humans will kill each other for various reasons relating to personal gain and security and use any rational possible to get others to aid them in the process.
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I am one of them.
I thought the name Sulphur was kind of... lame, so I decided to see what the name was about. The truth is, it was the least bad of all the names voted upon.
The logic behind it is thus:
Some more suggestions
"sulphur"
"mayonaisse"
(like werewolves they react badly with silver)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-December/msg01194.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Names
The other options were:
vote_count , name
62 , Sulphur
54 , Bathysphere
43 , Chupacabra
39 , Mayonnaise
32 , Dragicorn
29 , Woodwose
23 , Tourette
13 , Asperger
13 , Barmanou
10 , Chingachgook
6 , Kingsport Town
5 , Marfan
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-January/msg00012.html
I can tell you why it didn't help. They formatted their table with large spaces between columns and they had only 9 rows. If they tried the same study where they also varied the number of rows I am sure they would find that as the rows increase the positive effect of zebra striping increases. It seems they had a bias built into their test in order to find something unexpected... otherwise the study would have proved pointless.
I can see the Slashdot headline now, "A practice used for over half a century still proves to be useful!" Somehow, I think such a headline falls under the category of "not news."
I agree with the parent post. In addition, I imagine that if he really did die of an accident he would have wanted to be vindicated.
Also, as a young, intelligent and possibly depressed male(Thus probably seeking happiness) you may find some embarrassing things he would have not wanted seen. You might want to council his family to only allow his father dig into his accounts once you have access.
I suppose next citizens will want every single state and federal law posted on there so they can try to interpret it themselves!
The parent makes one really good point. I was recently talking with a friend of mine just fresh out of law school. Aside from learning the language and protocol of courtrooms and some law theory a huge portion of a law degree today is learning to use some very expensive law databases. These for profit databases are the _only_ practical means of knowing the law. It seems to me, that of all the things our government could spend money on, making the law and cases knowable to the general public at an accessible price to everyone would be somewhat high on the list.
I think it's just Intel marketing hype coming off as sour grapes. I have two Xeon 8 core systems(2 Quad core Xeons) and have found a whopping performance improvement of 3. That's right, 3 times the performance for the price of 8. It doesn't matter if I run "make -j3" or an OpenMP program or run three to eight separate CPU intensive tasks. The upper limit is 3x faster with 8x as many CPUs. As I understand, the internal cores are competing for memory access since they are all sharing a single memory controller. So unless Intel starts providing better memory access adding more cores is just marketing hype.
As I understand it; Quantum encryption allows one to flawlessly detect an unintended observer, so that you know your data is being compromised and you stop sending or take some other security measure before sending more than 1 or 2 bits of data.
"An important and unique property of quantum cryptography is the ability of the two communicating users to detect the presence of any third party trying to gain knowledge of the key." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography]
I also found that by focusing on one girl at a time my rate of attempts was way lower. The fewer attempts the fewer successes. That said, with the risk of sounding sexist, I do believe it's in the nature of women to want men with influence(power), because they will provide greater security. Influence might be displayed by having 10 girls chasing them, having a nice car, being the guy in charge of a group of guys, etc... I've seen it over and over again, a poor, rather unattractive man getting all the girls because he's popular with the guys or the leader of some group.
Personally, I'm the kind of guy who if you shove me I'll shove back, but otherwise I could care less what anyone else does or wants me to do. Which seems to attract rather shy, eclectic girls, but I tend to like those kind too.
Do sarcastometers use a logarithmic or linear scale? If logarithmic, at 8.6 your post should have left me whimpering and gently twitching in a corner wishing for the good old days before "it" happened.
Maybe the question is: "What does the world gain from having China host the Olympics?"
If you watch the video, you'll see that the engineer explaining the technology says that the plasma IS 6000K, which is why it closely matches the spectrum of light we see from the sun.
Not to mention, most open source libraries with equivalent proprietary versions are released under the LGPL, which allows users to link without revealing their source code.
"The LGPL places copyleft restrictions on the program itself but does not apply these restrictions to other software that merely links with the program."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL)
"Titanium dioxide is a strong photocatalyst" meaning it's not used up in the process. It breaks water into an -OH and an H, which in turn clean your clothing. Basically, it'll produce bleach vapor from water vapor when sunlight is hitting it.
Sincere question: What algorithm solves the shortest path for a non-directed graph?
If I recall correctly, Dijkstra's Algorithm is only solvable in P time if the edges of the graph are directional and the weight of all edges are non-negative. So, real world(For example, trying to get from A to B using a street map where streets are bi-directional.) shortest path problems are actually NP-complete. Of course, that's only if my memory serves me right. I'm not sure if the problem could really be solved correctly using electric fields, but it could provide a quick guess... I'd have to think about it.
What you're really dealing with is a network of resistors, where resistors are edges and interconnections are nodes and the "shortest path" would be the path with the greatest current. Except in the case of electrical arcs, the resistance decreases as current increases(arc plasma formation) along a path so that nearly all the current follows the path of the arc. Maybe if you ran several trials and averaged the result, but it still may not be "correct."
IMNVHO(In My Not Very Honest Opinion) I agree, I love the smell of a good conspiracy.
Interesting thought, I was thinking about this the other day when I read this verse in John:
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber." John 10:1
Before you "fix" that sentence, at least read about the people I listed. One can clearly see that they embraced their faith much more than what was ordinary in their culture.
I hope that you'll respect human rights and not just tolerate them. I didn't wish for respect of my religion, but for tolerance of my religion. Furthermore, I wished the definition of tolerance to include: "respecting all human rights to and for all people, including freedom of speech and expression."
I guess you weren't able to follow the logic, so I'll explain a little more clearly:
Early Christians met in secret caves in order to avoid being killed by people who didn't like them. If you're going to try to compel contemporary Christians to behave the same way, you'll probably have to treat us the same way.
Wishing for Christians to begin hiding in caves again almost directly correlates to wishing for the severe persecution early Christians suffered.
Who is Zarathustra? Nietzsche's fictional Character? I also didn't say all men, just "Almost without fail." Also, regarding Hippocrates, it's a bit odd to to select people from before ~0 A.D. About Ghandi, from what I've read I understand he did a lot of good, but I'll also mention, he was very religious.
"The early Christians had the right idea, meeting in secret in caves. If only we could get the contemporary ones to follow their lead."
I really don't think you know what you're saying. Early Christians met in secret caves in order to avoid being killed by people who didn't like them. If you're going to try to compel contemporary Christians to behave the same way, you'll probably have to treat us the same way. So calling religious people crazy and then endorsing killing us is no different than being crazy yourself.
I look forward to a day when religious tolerance and freedom means respecting all human rights to and for all people, including freedom of speech and expression.
I don't know how to get this message across, but people are people, religion or not. Religion is often times used as an excuse for bad behavior, but removing the religion will not remove the bad behavior.
I might also add that Christianity has promoted many significant reformations of cultures that anti-religious people enjoy. Read about William Wilberforce, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther, Abraham Lincoln, William Tyndale, John Wycliffe, Thomas Aquinas, etc... Almost without fail you'll find the most influential men and women who brought about significant positive cultural change were worshipers of Christ. Granted, you'll find some people who've done some really evil things in the name of Christ, but you'll find really evil people pretty evenly distributed throughout the entire world, religious or not. The truth is, you and I owe quite a lot to religious people before us, who put their lives second to the lives of the poor and oppressed. It's hard to find the motivation to do that if life is simply from dust to dust.
In Indiana, Shell tried a similar robot in my home town. It cost about $100 for a special gas cap and had a huge bay you would drive into. I guess it wasn't too popular, but definitely existed before this.
I guess you're conveniently forgetting about the Communist persecution of religions in Asia and Europe. Very atheist, very bloody. In the end, it's not religion killing people, it's people hating other people. Humans will kill each other for various reasons relating to personal gain and security and use any rational possible to get others to aid them in the process.