Seriously, what is Anakin thinking?? He could get seriously, permanently burned... or worse!...
And not only that, but--speaking as a parent, I know these things--someone could get their eye put out!
I forget whether one of Darth's eyes is missing or what, but I bet there are a lot of people just poised at their keyboards to give us the full rundown of missing parts.
How would you react if gas went from $5.50 a gallon to $10.00 a gallon over the course of a year? That's the sort of increase that's happening here in the US.
Funny, I seem to recall it being over $1.50 a year ago and last time I checked it was just over $2.00. That's like going from $5.50 to $7.35.
Of course, I just heard that there's supposedly some refinery in Minnesota that had to close for repairs. It did 26,000 bbl. a day of gasoline. So--of course--they're saying we should expect a 20 to 40 cent per gallon rise.
Makes me glad I drive a diesel.
As for the current thread's ostensible topic, I agree--lots of
stuff that I buy is way up (for instance, books, food, houses), but supposedly inflation is flat. I assume that's because the administration computes the numbers and hopes people won't notice what their accounts look like till after the election....
The spelling is different. Is there even any evidence that "Google" was derived from "googol?" I suggest it derives from the Russian author Nikolai Gogol. If the Google people already said otherwise, they were
smoking crack. Yeah, that's it.
That seems to be the big advantage of the purpose-built water bombers like the CL-215. If you have to run back to an airport instead of scooping off a lake, how much of that big capacity and high speed do you burn up?
Here's a link that discusses aerial firefighting, if you're interested. There's some info on the CL-215 in it.
I just wouldn't want to be on the other end if the scammer tried to fight back.
Well, I think the various agencies would look rather poorly at the scamster. And how can it be fraud of any variety if no transaction took place? Wasn't the point that they were never going to get paid?
What I'm curious about is who the scammer really was. I can't believe the barber shop or whatever was the end point, since it wouldn't be that hard to trace--was it shipped further from there? Or would the barber, if the authorities checked, just say that he took ten bob to let some guy ship a package through him?
. . . will actually disable speeding cars. There are several rumors about how this mechanism will actually work, but most focus on some sort of "switchblade" effect--sort of like a dehydrated version of the "danger severe tire damage" things you see at the car rental place.
When a speeding vehicle is detected, the bump will hike itself onto its little retractable legs, erect its razor-like crest, and scuttle into the path of the oncoming scofflaw.
Since they can also form packs, they can turn into a revenue center for municipalities either by extorting money from homeless people in the neighborhood or by breaking them up for parts.
Version 2.5 will include the ability to self-assemble, leading the end of life as we know it. Personally, I salute our new artifically-intelligent speed bump overlords!
You have understood nothing. The phenomenon is real and one of the strangest and most spooky things in physics. It shows that it it possible to get a particle (in this case a photon) to interfere with itself.
While the interference effect is certainly present for a single photon, there's no way you're seeing single-photon interactions with a friggin' laser pointer. I agree with the earlier posters--there's nothing any more mysterious going on here with the four-hole case than with the two-hole one. The interference patterns obviously look different when you have a different configuration of holes. If someone credible (e.g., someone that isn't claiming that Spock with a beard is holding his hand over the holes) says that the pattern is different than that predicted by theory, then I'll be interested.
Note that saying you'd expect the pattern to look the same with four holes as with two is nonsense--you'd expect the pattern to look the same with two holes as with one, if you didn't know about interference effects.
I remember some Discovery piece about another giant meteor hitting around area of the Yucatan several hundred million years ago. I could swear that they were using that crator as evidence of the great die off too.
You know, there hasn't just been one great extinction in history. The dino-killer happened 65MYA. This article is talking about a much earlier event that happened 250MYA.
The comment in the article about the Chix . . . Chick . . . Mexican event refers to the idea that impact catastrophies may not have been the isolated event many assumed. Considering the large number of impact structures of up to several hundred kilometers in diameter around the world, it seems pretty obvious to me that it would have had a large effect on the development of life.
Most of these structures are so weathered that they aren't recognizable from the ground. For instance, the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States is a 90 km impact structure. Here are a coupleof links about terrestrial impact structures. The second one is the best.
Sure WEP is unsecure but only really on paper. By the time somebody drives by picks up your signal and then collects enough packets to break the encryption, You will be curious why that car has been parked outside your house all afternoon. WEP is only an issue in the corporate setting, For home users its adaquate.
Okay, you're "curious why that car's been outside all afternoon." Now what? You duck into a phone booth and emerge as Hooded Justice? You call the cops--"I'm sure they're trying to break WEP on my network, officer!" You call in an air strike? Notify RIAA? Page Bill Gates?
Realistically, you could change your key, and that's about all. But even that only works on paper, because someone can just leave an unoccupied car with a laptop to collect packets, right? Or are you going to change your key every time someone parks in your neighborhood?
If what you're saying is "I don't have anything valuable enough for someone to bother breaking in at home," that's fine. I don't either. But it has nothing to do with your ability to recognise an attack.
Not quite. LEO is not just an altitude--it's a speed. You've got to get up to around 5 miles per second, too. While it's pretty impressive for a privately-funded vehicle, it's a long shot from LEO.
For those that are interested, here's an orbital speed calculator from NASA. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for altitudes below 185 kilometers (since it says they're unstable). But the speeds near the surface are pretty close to one another anyway.
To be fair, those $50 oil changes are only every 16000km, or 10000 Miles, which for me makes it the same as my Corolla was costing
My mechanic (who I usually agree with) is of the opinion that auto manufacturers set oil change intervals unreasonably long. I change my oil every 5,000 miles, since I'd rather spend more on oil and less on an engine.
Don't think that I don't like my TDI--it's a great car with a lot of poop. However, it isn't the low-cost wonder I foolishly hoped for. I'd get 30 MPG instead of 44 with the gas engine, so over 100,000 miles I'd spend on the order of $7,000 on fuel and $500 on oil vs. $4,600 on fuel and $1000 on oil--and an extra $1,800 for the TDI. That puts my savings at around $100 and if I have to have the intake decarbonized I actually come out on the short end of the stick by a few hundred bucks.
If I believed the 10K oil change interval, I'd come out $1000 ahead over the life of the car, which I guess is better than brushing your teeth with a bench grinder.
t wasn't exactly the removal of access that increased his depression, it probably had more to do with the forceful administration of hormones to cure his 'disease'. Due to these hormones he grew breasts. Not fun. That's the thanks he got for his war efforts and contributions to science.
Unfortunately, at the time the codebreaking was still considered tippy-tip-top-secret, so his wartime contributions were never considered in sentencing. Apparently, being the kind of man he was, he was unwilling to try getting some influential person to intervene on his behalf.
I'm still trying to figure out if the N-th grandparent was kidding about Grace Hopper's contribution to computing being greater than Turing's....ah, he must've been.
I also paid much less than the hybrids, have a much lower TCO than the hybrid cars
I have a VW TDI too. As for "lower TCO," the $50 oil changes (if you use the recommended full-synthetic with diesel additive package) make up for the fuel economy, and that's not counting the mandatory timing belt change at 60,000 miles. And the mandatory-but-not-discussed removal of the intake system to remove all the nasty carbon deposits around 80,000 miles. This is supposedly due to the aggressive exhaust recirculation coupled with that good ol' diesel soot, and can cost upwards of $400. The symptom is a very gradual loss of power, though the restoration following the repair is dramatic.
If you promise not to slashdot it, you can look at Fred's TDI Page for some interesting TDI facts and tips.
Same thing here. Instead of going up to a nice round number like 1.50, they choose a number right smack dab in the middle. While the price may be temporarily lower now, we can expect that the next price increase will happen faster than if they just brought the cost up to a nice round number.
I suppose that they did some marketing research and found that most people wouldn't tolerate jumping straight to $10.00 per track. If they do the frog-in-boiling-water thing, then at least some of the math-challenged will still be with them.
As for 3/2 being "a nice round number," doesn't a "round number" at least need to be an integer? I was interested to read this definition of "round number"--like every other folk term for numbers, this apparently has a precise mathematical definition (for some value of "precise").
Yeah...my first version of "Hello World" could also have used a bit more optimization...
For starters, try making it "Hi World."
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Actually the title says it all. This will really be a lot of fun in church or other straight-laced environs. With a modest amount of luck you can have those three old ladies in the back row going at it like the trolls in The Hobbit.
Later models will include the ability to "throw your voice" at a distance, which will obviously be a boon in planning meetings, when you can make your other-OS-weilding nemesis volunteer to get that new AI web recommendations module done and shipped by next month. That one will be the iEdgar....
Normally, "supersonic" means moving faster than the speed of sound in the respective environment.
Except when it means "higher than audible frequencies." It's common usage. What about "supersonic cleaners?" They don't actually fly around the room at incredible velocity, y'know. If they did, they'd cost a lot more....
Who'd you sell it to? Dude will be busted. Someone walks up to you in an alley and say "wassup cuz you wanna buy a ds3 innernet?" it raises eyebrows.
We are talking NYNY here, right? Here in the Midwest, our impression is that no one would blink if you walked up to them and tried to sell them an oil drilling rig or an Aegis cruiser.
I refuse to believe the nightmare scenario where all hardware needs to be DRM.
business and academic institutions simply will not accept this kind of BS. the internet, or a better version of it (i.e. without the hacked XP spam systems) will continue to exist.
It seems from a business standpoint that the way you go is get legislation passed requiring all hardware be DRM, once you can say "we have the hardware available and we need this law to FIGHT THE TERRORISTS!" . . . um, I mean "to protect our vital bodily fluids" . . . er, that is "our intellectual property."
Anyway, you get the picture. Once there's a solution, it makes sense to try and get it legally mandated. They slipped the DCMA through, so I don't see any reason to think something like this won't make it (though I certainly hope not).
They got 20 people with straps and carried that safe out of the room and down three flights of stairs. For them, that was the cheapest, most efficient way to solve the problem.
And the first 20 people that slipped and were flattened under the safe were used as cheap, efficient fertilizer!
Seriously, when the cost of an injury is small, things like this make a lot more sense. What would the repercussions have been if someone had been crushed like Wile E. Coyote while moving the safe? I assume the answer is "nothing?" Or maybe 20 people were enough that no one could reasonably be mashed?
Inflation isn't 4% per annum (or even annualised), you know?
Maybe if you're Bill Gates it isn't, but the price of food, fuel, insurance, and books seems to be climbing a lot faster than the gummint says. I wanted to be conservative instead of inflammatory.
Well, if that was true, I'd have commented on another thread....
Conservatively estimating at 5% per annum, Gates only makes around $180,000 per hour in interest. Of course, with 4% inflation, it's really only around $46,000 per hour. That means they fined him over 17 hours of income. Now that's gotta hurt. That's the equivalent of almost two hundred bucks for someone making $100K a year.
That's why corporal punishment is so much fairer. . . .
Mitnick didn't do much, he just taught the police officer what kind of information to ask the TelCo. What I find particularly disturbing is why the TelCo people weren't more involved.
You must never have called the phone company for service before. I imagine it was more like this.
Offisah P: I need a trace on a line to locate a bomb threat.
Operator: I'm sorry sir, but first we need to verify that the bomb threat isn't originating in your local wiring.
Offisah P: Huh? Of course it isn't....
Operator: First I'll ask you to unplug your phone for sixty seconds. I'll stay on the line while you do that.
I'm going to have to get Mitnick's number. It will probably be a lot faster to get my local service back in order by calling him than by calling Qwest....
Basically, do your homework, and try and match as closely what they expect an a-class candidate to be wearing.
I look at the interview as a chance to avoid working for a bunch of pencilnecks. I interviewed at a pacemaker company once. As we were walking to the guy's office, I noticed everyone had on ties and dress slacks. I told him, "I think I can save us both some time--tell me about the dress code." He said, "well, on Friday it's casual day, so you can skip wearing a tie." Interview over.
My fault--I should have done my homework better before wasting his and my time.
I guess some people don't mind dressing up, like the grandparent. I regard my training and abilities as my assets, and my clothing as my business. In fact, I used to wear non-matching socks to make it clear that I wasn't hired as a fashion model.
Of course, as noted, if you're fronting for the company with an outside organization you have to dress appropriately. As a developer I rarely find myself in that kind of position. Good hygiene, of course, is always mandatory....
Sounds to me like you did something out of line, refused to correct it, and got upset that your boss did the right thing. It's his job to keep people in line; if you want to break standards and talk back to your boss (saying you have hat-head and won't take off the hat is in effect saying "fuck you, I'll do what I want to"), don't expect to keep your job for long or expect sympathy from others.
I guess if his company gave him a hat and he wears it to work, that seems somehow . . . reasonable. And so far as that goes, I don't see that it's the place of my manager to tell me how to dress. If he or she is wasting time on that, what are they doing about their actual job--which is making sure everyone has the resources they need to do their jobs.
Sounds to me more like the boss was one of those little Hitler types that get some authority and decide they need to use it for something.
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And not only that, but--speaking as a parent, I know these things--someone could get their eye put out!
I forget whether one of Darth's eyes is missing or what, but I bet there are a lot of people just poised at their keyboards to give us the full rundown of missing parts.
Funny, I seem to recall it being over $1.50 a year ago and last time I checked it was just over $2.00. That's like going from $5.50 to $7.35. Of course, I just heard that there's supposedly some refinery in Minnesota that had to close for repairs. It did 26,000 bbl. a day of gasoline. So--of course--they're saying we should expect a 20 to 40 cent per gallon rise.
Makes me glad I drive a diesel.
As for the current thread's ostensible topic, I agree--lots of stuff that I buy is way up (for instance, books, food, houses), but supposedly inflation is flat. I assume that's because the administration computes the numbers and hopes people won't notice what their accounts look like till after the election....
The spelling is different. Is there even any evidence that "Google" was derived from "googol?" I suggest it derives from the Russian author Nikolai Gogol. If the Google people already said otherwise, they were smoking crack. Yeah, that's it.
Here's a link that discusses aerial firefighting, if you're interested. There's some info on the CL-215 in it.
Well, I think the various agencies would look rather poorly at the scamster. And how can it be fraud of any variety if no transaction took place? Wasn't the point that they were never going to get paid?
What I'm curious about is who the scammer really was. I can't believe the barber shop or whatever was the end point, since it wouldn't be that hard to trace--was it shipped further from there? Or would the barber, if the authorities checked, just say that he took ten bob to let some guy ship a package through him?
Since they can also form packs, they can turn into a revenue center for municipalities either by extorting money from homeless people in the neighborhood or by breaking them up for parts.
Version 2.5 will include the ability to self-assemble, leading the end of life as we know it. Personally, I salute our new artifically-intelligent speed bump overlords!
While the interference effect is certainly present for a single photon, there's no way you're seeing single-photon interactions with a friggin' laser pointer. I agree with the earlier posters--there's nothing any more mysterious going on here with the four-hole case than with the two-hole one. The interference patterns obviously look different when you have a different configuration of holes. If someone credible (e.g., someone that isn't claiming that Spock with a beard is holding his hand over the holes) says that the pattern is different than that predicted by theory, then I'll be interested.
Note that saying you'd expect the pattern to look the same with four holes as with two is nonsense--you'd expect the pattern to look the same with two holes as with one, if you didn't know about interference effects.
You know, there hasn't just been one great extinction in history. The dino-killer happened 65MYA. This article is talking about a much earlier event that happened 250MYA.
The comment in the article about the Chix . . . Chick . . . Mexican event refers to the idea that impact catastrophies may not have been the isolated event many assumed. Considering the large number of impact structures of up to several hundred kilometers in diameter around the world, it seems pretty obvious to me that it would have had a large effect on the development of life.
Most of these structures are so weathered that they aren't recognizable from the ground. For instance, the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States is a 90 km impact structure. Here are a couple of links about terrestrial impact structures. The second one is the best.
Okay, you're "curious why that car's been outside all afternoon." Now what? You duck into a phone booth and emerge as Hooded Justice? You call the cops--"I'm sure they're trying to break WEP on my network, officer!" You call in an air strike? Notify RIAA? Page Bill Gates?
Realistically, you could change your key, and that's about all. But even that only works on paper, because someone can just leave an unoccupied car with a laptop to collect packets, right? Or are you going to change your key every time someone parks in your neighborhood?
If what you're saying is "I don't have anything valuable enough for someone to bother breaking in at home," that's fine. I don't either. But it has nothing to do with your ability to recognise an attack.
Not quite. LEO is not just an altitude--it's a speed. You've got to get up to around 5 miles per second, too. While it's pretty impressive for a privately-funded vehicle, it's a long shot from LEO. For those that are interested, here's an orbital speed calculator from NASA. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for altitudes below 185 kilometers (since it says they're unstable). But the speeds near the surface are pretty close to one another anyway.
My mechanic (who I usually agree with) is of the opinion that auto manufacturers set oil change intervals unreasonably long. I change my oil every 5,000 miles, since I'd rather spend more on oil and less on an engine.
Don't think that I don't like my TDI--it's a great car with a lot of poop. However, it isn't the low-cost wonder I foolishly hoped for. I'd get 30 MPG instead of 44 with the gas engine, so over 100,000 miles I'd spend on the order of $7,000 on fuel and $500 on oil vs. $4,600 on fuel and $1000 on oil--and an extra $1,800 for the TDI. That puts my savings at around $100 and if I have to have the intake decarbonized I actually come out on the short end of the stick by a few hundred bucks.
If I believed the 10K oil change interval, I'd come out $1000 ahead over the life of the car, which I guess is better than brushing your teeth with a bench grinder.
Unfortunately, at the time the codebreaking was still considered tippy-tip-top-secret, so his wartime contributions were never considered in sentencing. Apparently, being the kind of man he was, he was unwilling to try getting some influential person to intervene on his behalf.
I'm still trying to figure out if the N-th grandparent was kidding about Grace Hopper's contribution to computing being greater than Turing's....ah, he must've been.
I have a VW TDI too. As for "lower TCO," the $50 oil changes (if you use the recommended full-synthetic with diesel additive package) make up for the fuel economy, and that's not counting the mandatory timing belt change at 60,000 miles. And the mandatory-but-not-discussed removal of the intake system to remove all the nasty carbon deposits around 80,000 miles. This is supposedly due to the aggressive exhaust recirculation coupled with that good ol' diesel soot, and can cost upwards of $400. The symptom is a very gradual loss of power, though the restoration following the repair is dramatic.
If you promise not to slashdot it, you can look at Fred's TDI Page for some interesting TDI facts and tips.
I suppose that they did some marketing research and found that most people wouldn't tolerate jumping straight to $10.00 per track. If they do the frog-in-boiling-water thing, then at least some of the math-challenged will still be with them.
As for 3/2 being "a nice round number," doesn't a "round number" at least need to be an integer? I was interested to read this definition of "round number"--like every other folk term for numbers, this apparently has a precise mathematical definition (for some value of "precise").
For starters, try making it "Hi World."
Later models will include the ability to "throw your voice" at a distance, which will obviously be a boon in planning meetings, when you can make your other-OS-weilding nemesis volunteer to get that new AI web recommendations module done and shipped by next month. That one will be the iEdgar....
Except when it means "higher than audible frequencies." It's common usage. What about "supersonic cleaners?" They don't actually fly around the room at incredible velocity, y'know. If they did, they'd cost a lot more....
We are talking NYNY here, right? Here in the Midwest, our impression is that no one would blink if you walked up to them and tried to sell them an oil drilling rig or an Aegis cruiser.
business and academic institutions simply will not accept this kind of BS. the internet, or a better version of it (i.e. without the hacked XP spam systems) will continue to exist.
It seems from a business standpoint that the way you go is get legislation passed requiring all hardware be DRM, once you can say "we have the hardware available and we need this law to FIGHT THE TERRORISTS!" . . . um, I mean "to protect our vital bodily fluids" . . . er, that is "our intellectual property."
Anyway, you get the picture. Once there's a solution, it makes sense to try and get it legally mandated. They slipped the DCMA through, so I don't see any reason to think something like this won't make it (though I certainly hope not).
And the first 20 people that slipped and were flattened under the safe were used as cheap, efficient fertilizer!
Seriously, when the cost of an injury is small, things like this make a lot more sense. What would the repercussions have been if someone had been crushed like Wile E. Coyote while moving the safe? I assume the answer is "nothing?" Or maybe 20 people were enough that no one could reasonably be mashed?
Maybe if you're Bill Gates it isn't, but the price of food, fuel, insurance, and books seems to be climbing a lot faster than the gummint says. I wanted to be conservative instead of inflammatory.
Well, if that was true, I'd have commented on another thread....
That's why corporal punishment is so much fairer. . . .
You must never have called the phone company for service before. I imagine it was more like this.
I'm going to have to get Mitnick's number. It will probably be a lot faster to get my local service back in order by calling him than by calling Qwest....
I look at the interview as a chance to avoid working for a bunch of pencilnecks. I interviewed at a pacemaker company once. As we were walking to the guy's office, I noticed everyone had on ties and dress slacks. I told him, "I think I can save us both some time--tell me about the dress code." He said, "well, on Friday it's casual day, so you can skip wearing a tie." Interview over.
My fault--I should have done my homework better before wasting his and my time.
I guess some people don't mind dressing up, like the grandparent. I regard my training and abilities as my assets, and my clothing as my business. In fact, I used to wear non-matching socks to make it clear that I wasn't hired as a fashion model.
Of course, as noted, if you're fronting for the company with an outside organization you have to dress appropriately. As a developer I rarely find myself in that kind of position. Good hygiene, of course, is always mandatory....
I guess if his company gave him a hat and he wears it to work, that seems somehow . . . reasonable. And so far as that goes, I don't see that it's the place of my manager to tell me how to dress. If he or she is wasting time on that, what are they doing about their actual job--which is making sure everyone has the resources they need to do their jobs.
Sounds to me more like the boss was one of those little Hitler types that get some authority and decide they need to use it for something.