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It does mean that we have great low level instruction optimization, however. Built-in compression, at the hardware level.
27k base pairs you say? Each one being one of a possible four, making it representable with two bits? Faboo... You can store a complete human blueprint in under 14KB. Lets start encoding and launching our codes all over creation, as self-extracting executables, of course. Homo Sapiens cum Code Red. Digital panspermia.
C# effectively is Java, with a few minor changes here and there. A Java coder that reads this book can claim to know C#, and has a foot in the.NET door.
You make a good point. If it is infact unreasonable effort for MS to support one of their better products, then maybe, just maybe, the could consider releasing the source code for it, so we could support it for ourselves?? Huh?
Yeah, I know, wishful thinking. Makes no sense if most people would rather just pay for an upgrade.
It's like "Pitch Black" or "Aliens", only campier and cheesier, lower budget, with a wonderful sense of humor, and rapid-fire intelligent dialogue. The film is full of wise cracks, visual and audio puns, tension and suspense, action, and rubber werewolf suits. It's absolutely brilliant!
A planet is anything so large that its destruction requires the use of the Shadow "Planet Killer", or a space station large enough to be mistaken for a moon.
None of this configuration information can be used to identify you.
Of course not. Millions of people have the same exact software loadout I have. Right down to 45 different forms of the DeCSS source code as: an mp3 song, a graphic, in C, in Java, in Befunge, as a jpeg of me wearing it on a t-shirt... Well, with the exception of that last one, my permutation of software is pretty unique.
Obviously, performance art is one area where luminescent clothing is useful. It will surely be a fashion fad among the youth, if it's affordable. In fact, even more so if it is not. But after a while, the fad will fall out of favor, and glowing clothes will take their rightful and practical place - as visibility enhancement for people for whom this is important.
Cops directing traffic, EMT's, tour guides, chaperones at field trips, joggers, night-time skiiers, and so forth. These people would actually benefit from being visible in low light, like actors.
As for the scratch and sniff clothing, it strikes me as just plain silly at first glance. But, after the initial onslaught of Channel No. 5 and Tommy Hilfiger scented, Tommy Hilfiger branded clothes, this too will find practical use.
Think of rescue dogs trained to sniff out a particular trace scent. Think of mountain climbers and skiiers, who might be burried in an avalanche. Or first responders who might get caught in a building collapse. Or miners.
It might seem goofy and little more than novel at face value, but this stuff might make a positive difference in the world - if it's used smartly.
Folding at home allows anyone with spare computer cycles to help out and understand how the proteins fold to their lowest/near lowest energy state and how they interact in the body.
Right. And running Linux allows anyone doing to to understand the finer points of C programming, multitsking OS design, memory management, file systems, video drivers and so forth and so on. [/sarcasm]
It's only a program. Running it, in the background as designed, has as much impact on one's understanding of what it does, as the program has on the apparent performance of the computer running it. Specifically, no appreciable impact what so ever.
Even in this case, since Iraq is not a NATO member, NATO has no obligation to defend it by attacking the US. Per Article V - the one the US called on after 9/11, NATO members are obligated to provide defense to each other - not to check each other's aggression toward non-members.
Microsoft is a lot more like the United States than the tobacco industry. Like the US, it thinks that it knows better than everyone else what's best for everyone else.
At least the tobacco industry finally admits to selling a harmful product. Microsoft, the lone superpower, even when directed by a recognized authority, like the DOJ, or the UN, does what it wants anyway, to bring about it's own agenda, at the cost of everyone else.
This isn't meant as flamebait or as a troll. I just find the parallels striking.
The ultimate origin is lost in antiquity, but it has to do with an old troll fixation with Natalie Portman, whom the trolls wanted to see naked and petrified, so they could pour hot grits down her pants. Or possibly, they wanted to get her naked and petrified by pouring hot grits down her pants. At this point, I'm just going to say "hot grits" several more times, to create a local hot spot around the "hot grits" phrase, in case anyone ever does an analysis of phrase usage frequency in terms of "hot grits" in this thread - just to keep this comment on topic for both hot spot analysis and "hot grits".
What will future searchers make of Slashdot (and by extension, the net as a whole), what with the waxing and waning in the popularity of Natalie Portman, Hot Grits, Soviet Russia, All your base, gonads and strife, MEEEEEEPT!, and the ever-present FIST PROST.
This is a significant tool for the post-information age. It could reliable guage the effectiveness of viral marketing. It could also intercept sub-culture developments before they become popular, and introduce them to the general population in association with a corporate brand.
Imagine if Nike or Pepsi, or *shudder* Microsoft, had caught the "All Your Base" thing on the upswing. They'd have a better slogan than the top down "Dude, you're gettin a Dell".
That sort of attitude, or rather the serious and thoughtful equivalent thereof, specifically the development of a NEO monitoring program and an SDI shield that points up rather than down, would be too enlightenned for the current administration.
Having worked at a software and electronics retailer while in college, I will tell you with 100% certainty that the returned software ends up right back out on the shelves.
Original shrink-wrap often has perforations, either like those made with a paper-hole punch, or little seams. Replacement shrink does not. Original wrap is often crinkly and has folds in the corners, like giftwrap. Reshrink has melted seams on the edges from where it was heat-cut from the roll. Original wrap sometimes has holograms, or logos etched on the plastic, sort of like a watermark. Reshrink often has non-reflective "etch" patches, like it had been smeared with some sort of solvent, where the heat gun was held too close. A heat gun used for stripping paint is often used to heat the shrink wrap, instead of using a hair dryer, because the gun puts out more heat so you can work faster.
Easiest way to see if a store rewraps their software is to check if the box cover is put on properly. I can't tell you how often the box front gets put on upside down. To read the back, you should be able to turn the box like you would the page of a book. If you have to turn it end over end, it's a reshrink. The same thing applies for any sort of box, like board games, chocolates... You'd be surprised what gets returned and resold.
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It does mean that we have great low level instruction optimization, however. Built-in compression, at the hardware level.
27k base pairs you say? Each one being one of a possible four, making it representable with two bits? Faboo... You can store a complete human blueprint in under 14KB. Lets start encoding and launching our codes all over creation, as self-extracting executables, of course. Homo Sapiens cum Code Red. Digital panspermia.
And bugs in IE will get people to switch to Mozilla. Abso-freaking-lutely!
Time to revisit the Geek Code! Life imitating art, I tell you what!
C# effectively is Java, with a few minor changes here and there. A Java coder that reads this book can claim to know C#, and has a foot in the .NET door.
You make a good point. If it is infact unreasonable effort for MS to support one of their better products, then maybe, just maybe, the could consider releasing the source code for it, so we could support it for ourselves?? Huh?
Yeah, I know, wishful thinking. Makes no sense if most people would rather just pay for an upgrade.
Definitelly Dog Soldiers!
It's like "Pitch Black" or "Aliens", only campier and cheesier, lower budget, with a wonderful sense of humor, and rapid-fire intelligent dialogue. The film is full of wise cracks, visual and audio puns, tension and suspense, action, and rubber werewolf suits. It's absolutely brilliant!
Microsoft-Anything users beware.
Mostly naked, and effectively petrified!
By cutting down all those trees, we're reducing the friction of the Earth, causing it to spin faster. It's all a self correcting system, you see...
The Earth rotates at the "and you turn yourself about" point, when the turtles do the Hokey Pokey.
A planet is anything so large that its destruction requires the use of the Shadow "Planet Killer", or a space station large enough to be mistaken for a moon.
Quite. Thank you for catering to my pedantic streak.
Of course not. Millions of people have the same exact software loadout I have. Right down to 45 different forms of the DeCSS source code as: an mp3 song, a graphic, in C, in Java, in Befunge, as a jpeg of me wearing it on a t-shirt... Well, with the exception of that last one, my permutation of software is pretty unique.
Obviously, performance art is one area where luminescent clothing is useful. It will surely be a fashion fad among the youth, if it's affordable. In fact, even more so if it is not. But after a while, the fad will fall out of favor, and glowing clothes will take their rightful and practical place - as visibility enhancement for people for whom this is important.
Cops directing traffic, EMT's, tour guides, chaperones at field trips, joggers, night-time skiiers, and so forth. These people would actually benefit from being visible in low light, like actors.
As for the scratch and sniff clothing, it strikes me as just plain silly at first glance. But, after the initial onslaught of Channel No. 5 and Tommy Hilfiger scented, Tommy Hilfiger branded clothes, this too will find practical use.
Think of rescue dogs trained to sniff out a particular trace scent. Think of mountain climbers and skiiers, who might be burried in an avalanche. Or first responders who might get caught in a building collapse. Or miners.
It might seem goofy and little more than novel at face value, but this stuff might make a positive difference in the world - if it's used smartly.
Well, there is the small matter of RFID tags being embedded in tires, and used to monitor traffic patterns via sensors built into major roadways...
Folding at home allows anyone with spare computer cycles to help out and understand how the proteins fold to their lowest/near lowest energy state and how they interact in the body.
Right. And running Linux allows anyone doing to to understand the finer points of C programming, multitsking OS design, memory management, file systems, video drivers and so forth and so on. [/sarcasm]
It's only a program. Running it, in the background as designed, has as much impact on one's understanding of what it does, as the program has on the apparent performance of the computer running it. Specifically, no appreciable impact what so ever.
Even in this case, since Iraq is not a NATO member, NATO has no obligation to defend it by attacking the US. Per Article V - the one the US called on after 9/11, NATO members are obligated to provide defense to each other - not to check each other's aggression toward non-members.
This is all a big, fat, hairy, stinky mess.
Microsoft is a lot more like the United States than the tobacco industry. Like the US, it thinks that it knows better than everyone else what's best for everyone else.
At least the tobacco industry finally admits to selling a harmful product. Microsoft, the lone superpower, even when directed by a recognized authority, like the DOJ, or the UN, does what it wants anyway, to bring about it's own agenda, at the cost of everyone else.
This isn't meant as flamebait or as a troll. I just find the parallels striking.
How about a firmware upgrade for the Rio Volt series, to let those CD players handle Ogg too? Huh? How's about it?
Those numbers, both financial and membership, make my head spin. I can't remember the last time I found anything of value on Salon.
For what it's worth though, Salon people should talk to Kuro5hin.
The ultimate origin is lost in antiquity, but it has to do with an old troll fixation with Natalie Portman, whom the trolls wanted to see naked and petrified, so they could pour hot grits down her pants. Or possibly, they wanted to get her naked and petrified by pouring hot grits down her pants. At this point, I'm just going to say "hot grits" several more times, to create a local hot spot around the "hot grits" phrase, in case anyone ever does an analysis of phrase usage frequency in terms of "hot grits" in this thread - just to keep this comment on topic for both hot spot analysis and "hot grits".
What will future searchers make of Slashdot (and by extension, the net as a whole), what with the waxing and waning in the popularity of Natalie Portman, Hot Grits, Soviet Russia, All your base, gonads and strife, MEEEEEEPT!, and the ever-present FIST PROST.
This is a significant tool for the post-information age. It could reliable guage the effectiveness of viral marketing. It could also intercept sub-culture developments before they become popular, and introduce them to the general population in association with a corporate brand.
Imagine if Nike or Pepsi, or *shudder* Microsoft, had caught the "All Your Base" thing on the upswing. They'd have a better slogan than the top down "Dude, you're gettin a Dell".
That sort of attitude, or rather the serious and thoughtful equivalent thereof, specifically the development of a NEO monitoring program and an SDI shield that points up rather than down, would be too enlightenned for the current administration.
Having worked at a software and electronics retailer while in college, I will tell you with 100% certainty that the returned software ends up right back out on the shelves.
Original shrink-wrap often has perforations, either like those made with a paper-hole punch, or little seams. Replacement shrink does not. Original wrap is often crinkly and has folds in the corners, like giftwrap. Reshrink has melted seams on the edges from where it was heat-cut from the roll. Original wrap sometimes has holograms, or logos etched on the plastic, sort of like a watermark. Reshrink often has non-reflective "etch" patches, like it had been smeared with some sort of solvent, where the heat gun was held too close. A heat gun used for stripping paint is often used to heat the shrink wrap, instead of using a hair dryer, because the gun puts out more heat so you can work faster.
Easiest way to see if a store rewraps their software is to check if the box cover is put on properly. I can't tell you how often the box front gets put on upside down. To read the back, you should be able to turn the box like you would the page of a book. If you have to turn it end over end, it's a reshrink. The same thing applies for any sort of box, like board games, chocolates... You'd be surprised what gets returned and resold.
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