I used to hate the fact that people would put on their turn signal only _after_ they started to turn. Then I realized that it was just a dialect problem: these people obvious call it the "turned signal."
By the way, I haven't posted for some time and I see that I can no longer insert any HTML tags in postings. Do I need to enable one of the giant swarm of domains that Noscript is blocking on the page or go to some obscure prefs page or what?
If we gather all material of our solar system I doubt we would be able to make a reasonable sized Dyson Sphere which is a single atom thick.
I didn't know atoms were so big. As a back-of-envelope thing, I worked out the area of a sphere around one A.U. in radius. It's around 108686793600000000 square miles (I live in the U.S., so sue me). The volume of the earth, assuming a radius of 4000 miles, is around 268083199987 cubic miles. Now, if we divide that by the area, we get a thickness of around 0.15 inch. And that's just using the material making up the earth.
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The last time I seriously tried to use the map app was in November. I wanted to visit a Volkswagen dealer that I knew was in the area, but not its exact location. I searched for "Volkswagen" and it showed me six hits around the metro area. None of them were the VW dealer, though one did include the string "Volkswagen" in its name. All of them were further away than the dealership, too. At other times, searching shows me locations in the San Francisco Bay area when I am in Minnesota. As far as I can tell, the "side effects of an early launch" are still there and the map app has been demoted to the back page of my phone again.
Apparently the editors assume people read Slashdot all day long. I caught this at 1000 CST on the 17th (it was posted at around 1800 on the 16th)--long after it was of any interest. A day or two ahead of time would be more useful.
That makes much more sense. With about 4TB of disk space between the two computers, it'd be difficult to store a trillion numbers (considering that they'd need to be more than 32 bit integers).
They might be stored as a bitmap. That would take only 10^12/8 = less than a terabyte
of space. Or they might store them as successive differences, which would require
only 3x10^9*8 = around 30 gigabytes. Of course, the latter would be a lot harder to
work with. Depends on how you wanted to use the results, I guess.
Define hacked. My ROM based computer is pretty damned immune to being hacked, in the traditional definition of the word.
A recent paper reports on hacking a voting machine that could only execute out of ROM. Interesting paper. I hadn't read about the technique they used before--it's quite ingenious. Turns out, being ROM-based didn't make
it unhackable at all.
I have. No, I'm not lying. I get 5 9's uptime on my Exchange cluster every year. Plus, my user's get more features.....but don't let me rain on your parade.
Five nines is no more than 31 seconds per year of downtime. How do you even measure that? Presumably, not with a tool provided by the vendor. You sure couldn't rely on user reports.
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Apple has found out about this and has implemented their app store as the only legitimate place to download software for the iPhone that has been filtered and approved. This does limit the users freedom, but it's about the best security that can be had in any computer system. I hope that they will extend the system to the Mac sometime soon.
That would be a shame, since it would be the last time I'd
own a Mac--and we've been all-Mac for ten years. I have an iPhone and my
biggest gripe is that there isn't a way for me to run whatever the hell
I want without hacking it. It is a nicely-done piece of tech and I
love it, but Steve can keep his filthy fascist mitts off my computers. (And I promise
to buy another iPhone tomorrow if it has a preference I can set
for "run unapproved software.")
Out of interest, what's the justification for linking to the article on "programs that trigger the bug" and not in the blindingly obvious place ("This article")?
I ask because it seems to be in-line with some kind of brain-dead in-house Slashdot linking style, and I'm curious to know the reasoning behind it.
I gave up long ago trying to determine what, if anything, a given link in an article summary
had to do with anything. Either determining where to put a link in a sentence is a lot
harder than I think, or no one cares very much.
We're still looking for a way to transfer them, since they're not a standard rotational speed in use anymore.
Transfer them at a standard speed and use software to adjust the speed and pitch. This forum thread shows how to do it in Garage Band and mentions several alternatives.
Okay, I'll bite. What does "google" mean besides "search?"
That clearly didn't apply when it was named, and the number
"googol" is spelled differently.
If you're viewing the screen at 10 inches, you'd be able to tell the difference between 167 dpi and 343 DPI, but not 343 DPI and 445 DPI. So it might be useful to have a higher resolution screen, but full 720P would be pointless. Of course, you're likely to view the screen at something more like 18 or 24 inches, where your eyes have less resolution.
If you need 343 "dots per inch" and you have a two-inch high screen, don't you need about 700 lines to hit the resolution limit? I don't know just how high/wide the "3.3 inch" screen is, but two inches seems closer than one. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here.
They're not entirely subtle. If spotted (and if you're using them for contraband, they will be spotted) it wouldn't be hard at all to a) follow them back to the recipient or b) shoot them down.
You do understand that they operate underwater, right? Mostly, stuff
that's underwater is kind of hard to see and even harder to "shoot down."
Why is this marked funny? Those player piano rolls were clearly digital.
The adjective digital refers to the type of data used to record the information. If it's 0/1, hole/no hole, or even a finite collection of symbols, then it's digital. This has nothing to do with electronics.
Turns out that player piano rolls aren't digital. They just look digital if you don't think closely about it. The signals *are* on or off, but the duration of the signal isn't quantized by anything other than the accuracy of the cuts in the paper.
Of course, the physics of sound and pianos say you can choose some reasonably-small interval and achieve an accurate reproduction of the sound, but that's true of a phonograph record too.
No, it was cut about 25%. If it lost funding, it would have zero funding.
So if you had four credit cards in your wallet, you couldn't lose one, you could
only "cut 25%" of them?
If you want to be pedantic, first you should be right.
That's not to say that the story isn't FUDly--it does have a flavor of
that.
The median and the mode are both 2, but the average is 1.98 or so.
No, the median (assuming a total distribution of: 0 legs, 1 leg and 2 legs) would be 1 leg. The mode would certainly be 2.
Unless you are the bubble boy, it's puzzling that you might think there are only three people in the world and that one is a single and one a double-leg amputee. You must mean something else, but I'm not clever enough to figure it out. Clearly in the real world the median number of human legs is 2. For it to be 1 (assuming no numbers greater than 2), at
least half the population would have to be missing at least one leg, wouldn't they?
Not really disturbing - I worked at ADT for a couple months awhile back and I could have established these kinds of percentages easily within a week if I was taking notes. And it wouldn't be for one city, it would have been across the entire nation.
Can you actually call 911 lines from across the nation from outside their coverage area, or did you just call some normal number? I suspect the only reasonable way to develop such statistics is to actually be in the coverage area making calls.
Any reason he didn't have access to another phone?
Traditionally you exit your burning house ASAP and call from a house next door...
Here's the local TV station's report. They don't say so, but I assume that his only phone service was VOIP. As for running next door, I assume he figured it would be quicker to report if he played the percentages and didn't hang
up to try again. According to the report, he was arrested for repeatedly reentering the house to save his computers.
I've been put on hold at least 50-60% of the time I've called.
Were you first asked "is this an emergency?" That used to be the
standard when I was involved in fielding emergency calls. If you
said "yes," then you weren't put on hold.
A large number of calls to the usual 911 call center are probably non-emergency (barking dogs, illegal parking, etc.).
If the answer is "hell, no," then what area are you calling from? I
call 911 a few times a year (usually to report a stalled car on the
freeway) and I've never been put on hold.
Your clicking is noise pollution. It is no different than starting a conversation with the person sitting next to you, and disrupting the class. The professor has every right to maximize the learning for all students, not to protect the rights of one to use his laptop.
You have every right to take your hand written notes and type them in your laptop after class. You don't have the right to do it during class when you can disturb others.
What's to prevent someone from saying that the scratching of the pen or pencil on the paper is a distraction to them? It seems to me that I could come up with an objection to any technology you chose to use to take notes.
And then there's the issue of loud breathing. I don't think people that breath loudly should be allowed to pollute my learning environment.
The professor is a prima donna and should learn to live in the real world. I'd like to see her tell the judge that the court reporter has to memorize everything or she'll stop arguing her case. The earlier poster has it right--the student is paying for the teaching, not vice versa. However, I'd expect a law student to come up with something more innovative than a petition. Something like using a laptop as a reasonable accomodation under the ADA . . . .
I use TurboTax. I normally pay the $29 fee to electronically file it, but I can just as easily not send it to an intermediary by printing it out and mailing it in.
I was quite taken by TurboTax's offer to take the $29 out of my refund "for an additional $29." I don't know if it was just a poorly-worded description, or if they really double the fee if you don't use a credit card, but I decided not to take the chance.
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I used to hate the fact that people would put on their turn signal only _after_ they started to turn. Then I realized that it was just a dialect problem: these people obvious call it the "turned signal."
By the way, I haven't posted for some time and I see that I can no longer insert any HTML tags in postings. Do I need to enable one of the giant swarm of domains that Noscript is blocking on the page or go to some obscure prefs page or what?
I didn't know atoms were so big. As a back-of-envelope thing, I worked out the area of a sphere around one A.U. in radius. It's around 108686793600000000 square miles (I live in the U.S., so sue me). The volume of the earth, assuming a radius of 4000 miles, is around 268083199987 cubic miles. Now, if we divide that by the area, we get a thickness of around 0.15 inch. And that's just using the material making up the earth.
Of course, maybe I dropped a zero or something somewhere.
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The last time I seriously tried to use the map app was in November. I wanted to visit a Volkswagen dealer that I knew was in the area, but not its exact location. I searched for "Volkswagen" and it showed me six hits around the metro area. None of them were the VW dealer, though one did include the string "Volkswagen" in its name. All of them were further away than the dealership, too. At other times, searching shows me locations in the San Francisco Bay area when I am in Minnesota. As far as I can tell, the "side effects of an early launch" are still there and the map app has been demoted to the back page of my phone again.
Apparently the editors assume people read Slashdot all day long. I caught this at 1000 CST on the 17th (it was posted at around 1800 on the 16th)--long after it was of any interest. A day or two ahead of time would be more useful.
Is it just me, or is the headline for this article in Yoda instead of English?
It seems like "Sky Watcher Ask for New Cloud Description" would have read more smoothly and been shorter.
They might be stored as a bitmap. That would take only 10^12/8 = less than a terabyte of space. Or they might store them as successive differences, which would require only 3x10^9*8 = around 30 gigabytes. Of course, the latter would be a lot harder to work with. Depends on how you wanted to use the results, I guess.
A recent paper reports on hacking a voting machine that could only execute out of ROM. Interesting paper. I hadn't read about the technique they used before--it's quite ingenious. Turns out, being ROM-based didn't make it unhackable at all.
Five nines is no more than 31 seconds per year of downtime. How do you even measure that? Presumably, not with a tool provided by the vendor. You sure couldn't rely on user reports.
That would be a shame, since it would be the last time I'd own a Mac--and we've been all-Mac for ten years. I have an iPhone and my biggest gripe is that there isn't a way for me to run whatever the hell I want without hacking it. It is a nicely-done piece of tech and I love it, but Steve can keep his filthy fascist mitts off my computers. (And I promise to buy another iPhone tomorrow if it has a preference I can set for "run unapproved software.")
I gave up long ago trying to determine what, if anything, a given link in an article summary had to do with anything. Either determining where to put a link in a sentence is a lot harder than I think, or no one cares very much.
Transfer them at a standard speed and use software to adjust the speed and pitch. This forum thread shows how to do it in Garage Band and mentions several alternatives.
Okay, I'll bite. What does "google" mean besides "search?" That clearly didn't apply when it was named, and the number "googol" is spelled differently.
Not meaningful like "Google" or "Yahoo?"
If you need 343 "dots per inch" and you have a two-inch high screen, don't you need about 700 lines to hit the resolution limit? I don't know just how high/wide the "3.3 inch" screen is, but two inches seems closer than one. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here.
You do understand that they operate underwater, right? Mostly, stuff that's underwater is kind of hard to see and even harder to "shoot down."
Turns out that player piano rolls aren't digital. They just look digital if you don't think closely about it. The signals *are* on or off, but the duration of the signal isn't quantized by anything other than the accuracy of the cuts in the paper.
Of course, the physics of sound and pianos say you can choose some reasonably-small interval and achieve an accurate reproduction of the sound, but that's true of a phonograph record too.
That's not to say that the story isn't FUDly--it does have a flavor of that.
When I click one of the "hide replies" links, I go to http://www.slashdot.org/UL, which just shows me the front page. Does this work for anyone else?
A large number of calls to the usual 911 call center are probably non-emergency (barking dogs, illegal parking, etc.).
If the answer is "hell, no," then what area are you calling from? I call 911 a few times a year (usually to report a stalled car on the freeway) and I've never been put on hold.
And then there's the issue of loud breathing. I don't think people that breath loudly should be allowed to pollute my learning environment.
The professor is a prima donna and should learn to live in the real world. I'd like to see her tell the judge that the court reporter has to memorize everything or she'll stop arguing her case. The earlier poster has it right--the student is paying for the teaching, not vice versa. However, I'd expect a law student to come up with something more innovative than a petition. Something like using a laptop as a reasonable accomodation under the ADA . . . .
Anyone know which is the correct interpretation?