One could read into these lines that the ability to fake photographs was great until anyone could do it. Now that we know how easy it is to fake photographs, we no longer implicitly trust messages...but we will trust mathematically authenticated fake photographs because math is infallable.
Or you could read into them that when it was rare and difficult to fake photographys, most of the photographs you saw were genuine, so you could place a decent amount of trust in what you were seeing. Now that faking photos is easy and commonplace, you can no longer place much trust in photos. With mathematically verified photos, you can place more (though not complete) trust back in the photo. It isn't foolproof but the level of assurance is significantly higher.
Or you could realize there's inherent error in any statistical method, and that with a little bitof foresight, this error could be expoited to provide false results. The best detector of falsified photography is still a well-trained human eye. The key to knowing whether or not to trust images is to train your eye.
Unfortunately, due to the very construction, the closer two hammers were, the easier it was to jam the typewriter if you pressed both at the same time. E.g., if you pressed Q and W at the same time, the machine would pretty much always jam, whereas pressing Q and P at the same time would almost never jam.
Since every key must strike the same location for proper text alignment, simultaneously pressing two keys will guarantee a jam. However, it is easy to see how when closely timed, a larger distance between levers does reduce the likelihood of jamming.
crap. I hate not hitting preview. I was gonna add in that my 2.73:1 rear end doesn't help much, expecially with a 2.56:1 first gear. (although the 1:1 fourth makes it really nice to cruise at speed. If I'm accelerating hard, I don't even use it until well after having committed a felony.:D)
It usually gets 11-13 city and anywhere between 15 and 25 on extended trips (I've noticed much better mileage on homebound trips late at night. Can't for the life of me figure that one out. probably a combination of barometric pressure, tiredness, and the fact that I live at an elevation of about 30 feet over sea level)
nah, really, there are ways to do it that aren't very clunky. Perhaps "a is the sum of three and six, four times" or "a is four times the quantity three plus six" would work. Both convey the appropriate meaning concisely and leave little room for misunderstanding.
On the same note, I've read that the classical Greek mathematicians used no shorthand in their works. That's really sobering when you consider how much of our understanding of algebra and geometry can be traced back to them.
Personally, the thoughts in my mind as I read resemble mathematical shorthand do not resemble the shorthand. It is simply too abstract for me to internally digest without translation into meaningful ideas. (incidentally, I've recently been introduced to group theory and while it is clearly useful in the context which its been introduced -- QM in a chem class -- I find myself really unnerved by the seemingly arbitrary shorthand on which it is established)
oops. I left a fragment. I meant to say "whereas with the tungsten filament bulb, it will be slightly to the red side of the visible range with a significant amount of near IR"
>When I was a kid my sister had an EZ Bake oven >that used a 60 watt light bulb to make little >cakes. A Pentium IV puts out more heat than >that, so that would make an interesting mod.
yeah, but the EZ bake bulb's filament burns at something like 5000-6000 Kelvins to put out enough infrared to do its cooking. The pentiums, by comparison, will run around 325-340 K, and the wavelengths emitted will be far too long to be useful for cooking. By Wien's Law, the peak wavelength would be around 8.5 micrometers whereas with tungsten filament bulb. With the nature of the falloff toward the blue side of the peak radiation in the Stefan-Boltzman distribution at a given temperature, almost all of the energy would be wasted at wavelengths too long to really heat most substances. You would need good thermal contact to do it at those temperatures.
Indeed. Stone Brewery's Old Guardian, Arrogarnt Bastard, and Double Bastard Ales are excellent. Anything from Pete's Wicked is good (well, I've only had their brown ale but people say their strawberry blonde is just as good), and Old Rasputin, IMHO, even beats Guinness Draught. The annual belgian style ales from Lagunitas can make any summer after more blissful. And I'll almost never turn down anything brewed by Firestone, although I don't know if they're considered a microbrew.
btw, anyone else find it really funny that the 'I hate beer snobs" poster user so many acronyms? Clearly, the implication is a poor taste in beer rather than any anti-snobbery opinions because the lack of accessibilty in posts over-using acronyms is itself quite snobbish.
seriously, any event involving a turbocharger spinning at tens of thousands of rpm that would warrant safety glasses would probably also render them ineffecutal.
Thank God, that someone has seen the light and banned this genetic monsters. I think it's wrong to genetically alter any living being since it is not our place to decide what a species should or shouldn't do.
Frankly, I disagree with your opinion. Quoting Galileo, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect, has intended us to forego their use."
Furthermore, I don't believe morality can be legislated. I would not force my own beliefs upon another and I am appalled that others would applaud successful attempts by the state to do so.
how about a title? the address you provided leads to a page that states "ASIN 0375 708111 does not exist in our catalog." (even without the lameness filter's inserted space.)
well why not? I mean, intelligent audiences are fickle. They might have they're own tastes. Dumb peole will like what they're told to like. And when you consider that half of all people alive are of below average intelligence, it becomes clear: make movies that you can hype to those who don't know better. They tell us Ars Gratis Atis and give us Ars Gratis Arcum
wouldn't the sink rate have more to do with aerodynamics than weight? And all other things being equal, wouldn't a heavier ship be expected to sink faster than an identically shaped but lighter one?
I only ask because you seem quite rational and intelligent... How is your view different from a non-religious one? It sounds as though you're saying that God put into place the workings of this universe. That being the case, doesn't that simply shift driving curiosity of science from discovering minute details of the universe to the makings of the creators? In essence, is that proof not simply a semantical argument defining nature as God?
I think the whole idea is that people who have pirated copies won't be able to patch the holes that are there in the initial release because they won't subscribe to the updates.
You'd still have to get past the argument that removing the gun control laws might make considerably more bad things happen than have been.
You say that like it would be nontrivial. It's been shown time and again that under stricter gun control, crime goes up and when given more liberties to own, use, and even carry concealed firearms, violent crime decreases significantly.
But working at a screen for a long time without a break can have effects similar to reading or writing uninterruptedly, and may make your eyes feel 'tired' or sore.
It's now 09:42 AM, and I've been working with my thesis since 5PM yesterday. And before I head to bed, I drop by slashdot. Somebody shoot me.
but your eyes should be so good by now that you could do it yourself with both of them closed!!!
actually, as a Californian, I'll tell you exactly what happened with the power comapnies: The back-end suppliers were de-regulated without removing the rate caps from the market-end. The result was definately NOT privatized electricity, and absolutely doomed to fail whether it was constructed in a communist or capitalist environment. The idea of having every company owned and run by the government (pure communism) is just as bad as the idea that government should have no power to break monopolies (pure laissez faire capitalism). In both cases, power accumulates to an unacceptable degree within the hands of too few people. Examples: Soviet Russia. Sorry to break the news, but it fell. Another example: Debeers. Diamonds are practically worthless. The only reason they get such a high asking price is that one company controls over 90% of the world's supply and they can keep it lower than demand. It's the same game OPEC plays.
Progressivism is definately the wrong term for a theory that demands cradle-to-grave governmental hand-holding. It's not forward thinking. It's simply restoring the monarchial powers of state without simply giving the throne to a single family. It is just as conservative wanting the government to step aside and allow the establishment of a corporate fiefdom.
I don't think you understand what I meant. Tactically speaking, the soldier is in a neutral stance. metaphorically, it's like having the fire selector set to safety. his finger is out of the trigger guard and he is not exhibiting any sort of agressiveness. I think the best way to say it is that he is carrying his rifle. The rifle may be pointing but he is not pointing it. By comparison, the agent in the Elian photo had his weapon shouldered and was indeed pointing it (although even in that case, his pointed finger outside the trigger guard indicated quite a safe position, as well.)
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Or you could realize there's inherent error in any statistical method, and that with a little bitof foresight, this error could be expoited to provide false results. The best detector of falsified photography is still a well-trained human eye. The key to knowing whether or not to trust images is to train your eye.
crap. I hate not hitting preview. I was gonna add in that my 2.73:1 rear end doesn't help much, expecially with a 2.56:1 first gear. (although the 1:1 fourth makes it really nice to cruise at speed. If I'm accelerating hard, I don't even use it until well after having committed a felony. :D)
'69 Nova, 350 with a quadrajet (750 CFM, IIRC)
It usually gets 11-13 city and anywhere between 15 and 25 on extended trips (I've noticed much better mileage on homebound trips late at night. Can't for the life of me figure that one out. probably a combination of barometric pressure, tiredness, and the fact that I live at an elevation of about 30 feet over sea level)
why not just say 'a is 36'? :p
nah, really, there are ways to do it that aren't very clunky. Perhaps "a is the sum of three and six, four times" or "a is four times the quantity three plus six" would work. Both convey the appropriate meaning concisely and leave little room for misunderstanding.
On the same note, I've read that the classical Greek mathematicians used no shorthand in their works. That's really sobering when you consider how much of our understanding of algebra and geometry can be traced back to them.
Personally, the thoughts in my mind as I read resemble mathematical shorthand do not resemble the shorthand. It is simply too abstract for me to internally digest without translation into meaningful ideas. (incidentally, I've recently been introduced to group theory and while it is clearly useful in the context which its been introduced -- QM in a chem class -- I find myself really unnerved by the seemingly arbitrary shorthand on which it is established)
chem geek, actually.
good night, gracie.
oops. I left a fragment. I meant to say "whereas with the tungsten filament bulb, it will be slightly to the red side of the visible range with a significant amount of near IR"
note to self: use the stupid preview button.
>When I was a kid my sister had an EZ Bake oven
>that used a 60 watt light bulb to make little
>cakes. A Pentium IV puts out more heat than
>that, so that would make an interesting mod.
yeah, but the EZ bake bulb's filament burns at something like 5000-6000 Kelvins to put out enough infrared to do its cooking. The pentiums, by comparison, will run around 325-340 K, and the wavelengths emitted will be far too long to be useful for cooking. By Wien's Law, the peak wavelength would be around 8.5 micrometers whereas with tungsten filament bulb. With the nature of the falloff toward the blue side of the peak radiation in the Stefan-Boltzman distribution at a given temperature, almost all of the energy would be wasted at wavelengths too long to really heat most substances. You would need good thermal contact to do it at those temperatures.
> a lot of microbrews kick serious ass.
Indeed. Stone Brewery's Old Guardian, Arrogarnt Bastard, and Double Bastard Ales are excellent. Anything from Pete's Wicked is good (well, I've only had their brown ale but people say their strawberry blonde is just as good), and Old Rasputin, IMHO, even beats Guinness Draught. The annual belgian style ales from Lagunitas can make any summer after more blissful. And I'll almost never turn down anything brewed by Firestone, although I don't know if they're considered a microbrew.
btw, anyone else find it really funny that the 'I hate beer snobs" poster user so many acronyms? Clearly, the implication is a poor taste in beer rather than any anti-snobbery opinions because the lack of accessibilty in posts over-using acronyms is itself quite snobbish.
seriously, any event involving a turbocharger spinning at tens of thousands of rpm that would warrant safety glasses would probably also render them ineffecutal.
It's only something like 4.1% ABV here in the states. I'd hardly call that 'high test.' Give me an Old Rasputin instead.
Frankly, I disagree with your opinion. Quoting Galileo, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect, has intended us to forego their use."
Furthermore, I don't believe morality can be legislated. I would not force my own beliefs upon another and I am appalled that others would applaud successful attempts by the state to do so.
how about a title? the address you provided leads to a page that states "ASIN 0375 708111 does not exist in our catalog." (even without the lameness filter's inserted space.)
well why not? I mean, intelligent audiences are fickle. They might have they're own tastes. Dumb peole will like what they're told to like. And when you consider that half of all people alive are of below average intelligence, it becomes clear: make movies that you can hype to those who don't know better. They tell us Ars Gratis Atis and give us Ars Gratis Arcum
wouldn't the sink rate have more to do with aerodynamics than weight? And all other things being equal, wouldn't a heavier ship be expected to sink faster than an identically shaped but lighter one?
I only ask because you seem quite rational and intelligent... How is your view different from a non-religious one? It sounds as though you're saying that God put into place the workings of this universe. That being the case, doesn't that simply shift driving curiosity of science from discovering minute details of the universe to the makings of the creators? In essence, is that proof not simply a semantical argument defining nature as God?
I think the whole idea is that people who have pirated copies won't be able to patch the holes that are there in the initial release because they won't subscribe to the updates.
but your eyes should be so good by now that you could do it yourself with both of them closed!!!
good point. But it makes one wonder: what skills does goatse trolling improve?
Unfortunately, every time I've ever tried to used freenet, it's been painfully slow.
And with the 8-60 kilton yield of the Mark 7 bomb they carried, that's a bullseye.
why not just 10^26.3?
actually, as a Californian, I'll tell you exactly what happened with the power comapnies: The back-end suppliers were de-regulated without removing the rate caps from the market-end. The result was definately NOT privatized electricity, and absolutely doomed to fail whether it was constructed in a communist or capitalist environment. The idea of having every company owned and run by the government (pure communism) is just as bad as the idea that government should have no power to break monopolies (pure laissez faire capitalism). In both cases, power accumulates to an unacceptable degree within the hands of too few people. Examples: Soviet Russia. Sorry to break the news, but it fell. Another example: Debeers. Diamonds are practically worthless. The only reason they get such a high asking price is that one company controls over 90% of the world's supply and they can keep it lower than demand. It's the same game OPEC plays.
Progressivism is definately the wrong term for a theory that demands cradle-to-grave governmental hand-holding. It's not forward thinking. It's simply restoring the monarchial powers of state without simply giving the throne to a single family. It is just as conservative wanting the government to step aside and allow the establishment of a corporate fiefdom.
I don't think you understand what I meant. Tactically speaking, the soldier is in a neutral stance. metaphorically, it's like having the fire selector set to safety. his finger is out of the trigger guard and he is not exhibiting any sort of agressiveness. I think the best way to say it is that he is carrying his rifle. The rifle may be pointing but he is not pointing it. By comparison, the agent in the Elian photo had his weapon shouldered and was indeed pointing it (although even in that case, his pointed finger outside the trigger guard indicated quite a safe position, as well.)