Don't attempt 'striyen unless you are a native speaker. For those who don't know what I am typing about, we have bushflies to keep out of our mouths down here. (-;
... was that you can't trademark a number. Other manufacturers were bringing out 80x86's (AMD?, cyrix?, not sure if one or the other or both - I was not paying attention at the time).
nope, only a bassist. But the only meaning of "rim-shot" I know of is that which follows the punch-line of anything remotely resembling wit by a guy with a talk/variety show whose elevated profile (marginally above the cess-pool of the genre) warrants an in-house band.
For the technically inclined, a snare drum has a raised metal band around the edge of the circular drumhead (or skin) which, surprisingly enough, is called a "rim". I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
I think the original poster was just wanting to vent some intolerance in the guise of free speech.
I find the intellipoint hurts my hand (too high, bad for wrist, tendons, etc) while the flatter hockeypuck mouse is very usable. This was much to my surprise, as I ordered the G4 and the MS mouse at the same time, never intending to use the puck.
The weight of the puck is nice, the intellipoint feels like really cruddy plastic. Of course, when I need the extra buttons (Q3), USB allows hot swapping.
The problem with this is that we need tactile feedback,.... Tell me about it - my new toy (laptop+linux) has dead flat key caps. It wrecks my touch-typing.
Who would want to patent a 32-bit second count? The "prior art" is far too messy. It would be much more lucrative to patent the idea of using 64, 128, etc - bit integers or some binary "windowing" technique as a "fix" for the Y2038 and Y2106 bugs. Do it now before it starts being common practice! Your grandkids/clones could then afford to thaw you out and enjoy several lifetimes of luxury.
As your billions acrue you will be cured of these irrational thoughts concerning the human race.
no it was not a joke about his death - it was a joke about his life and public persona. I was also having a little dig at the way BondJamesBond and Q would make extremely dry, understated remarks along these lines upon the demise of someone (or some piece of machinery).
Most macs offer 1152x870 as a possibility (as noted, this suits a 17" nicely, as I use on my macOS box). The reason for such numbers is that 1152x870=1002240 is just less than 1048576=2^20, so with 2MB graphics mem, you get 16bpp and with 4MB you get 32bpp, all with a 4:3ish ratio. I am not sure whether the choice of 1152=2^7*3^2 as a multiple of a largish power of 2, makes the addressing of scan lines more efficient - most standard resolutions seem to be weighted towards power-of-two widths.
Regarding "brain drain" I was looking for an article about the sledging Bryan Gaensler, the Young Australian of the Year, gave the govt on Science and education policy before thumbing his nose and heading for a postdoc in.edu.us. The closest I can get is this which gives this extract:
Government 'has driven science to crisis'
The Young Australian of the Year, Dr Bryan Gaensler, said yesterday he would be ``absolutely insane to come back to Australia" and work. Dr Gaensler, 25, an astronomer who is now on a scholarship in the United States, launched a scathing attack on t... Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 1999 (358 words)
but needs $2 (australian dollars) to take further. The abc.net.au search engine is broken this afternoon.
So to any expat aussies thinking about return (as I did) the lifestyle issues would have to be overwhelming.
which is naturally somewhat more relaxed than in the commercial sector
... if only this were true. Being a university academic is a stressful job, especially nowadays with shrinking budgets, growing classes and a complete lack of policy direction from the university administrations, the govt higher ed. department (DETYA) and their federal minister. (The latter has resulted in review after review over the last 5-10 years, each with different priorities - the more compliant university administrations have been doing backflip after backflip to try to keep ahead of the govt.)
Your point about the problems it is causing is valid, but the reasons for the problem are not due to an acceptance of the salaries. The total lack of wage parity with traditionally comparative occupations (teachers, public servants, politicians) has more to do with a lack of effective industrial muscle. Academics go on strike (e.g. recently across.edu.au), but who gives a shit? The students are safe on the streets, or at home, or at the beach. If school teachers strike (e.g. recently in NSW) it causes major disruption - they have the state govt over a barrel, and they usually get a much better result. It is all the short-term pain/gain equation.
The emphasis wasn't so much on OSS but opportunities that the internet raises for remote employment, and how it may help the braindrain.
The "brain drain", along with another other mentioned issue - academic salaries (an issue very dear to my heart, for some reason) - has been a been bouncing around the media here for a while.
Do any of the standard server-based spam filters filter for this sort of stuff? I would have thought that things like IMG tags, especially with GET variables attached and/or 1x1 size, would be a dead giveaway when trying to identify spam.
whoops - I didn't examine the original/. article too closely to notice that it was already linked. I was going to get around to submitting this myself...
But as I said, the item seemed to indicated very little about what AT would be doing beyond working for Linuxcare remotely and playing with a frisbee when he wasn't (there was substantial footage of him chucking the said frisbee - this does not show up on the transcript.)
nah - it would spit them back. The other side of the universe has no more use for them than we do. We would have to hack up our own open source wormhole drivers for this task.
actually, PurpleBob's comment is correct, but the example x=ln(t) is the wrong one.
Simplifying things to a two-body Newtonian universe (so that we have a hope of understanding the equations -- IANAP) the question is analogous to the problem of determining escape velocity and the motion of a body travelling at escape velocity. The differential equation in question is x''=-K/(x^2), where x is the distance as a function of time. This has a family of solutions of the form x=A (t-B)^(2/3) where A is a constant determined by K and B is an arbitrary parameter.
It actually has a stack of other solutions (2nd order DE implies a two-parameter family of solutions) but we only expect a one-parameter family to have the boundary condition "x' approaches 0 as t approaches infinity". Indeed, you could make the other parameter equal to the asymptotic velocity/kinetic energy/etc, which the above family of solutions has equal to 0. So with this solution, you will note that x approaches infinity and x' approaches 0 as t approaches infinity.
From a physicist's perspective, think of the balance of potential and kinetic energy, with the total energy of the system being zero. You want kinetic energy to converge to zero (from the positive side), so potential energy must converge to zero (from the negative side) and so the distance has to converge to infinity. This also applies to the relativistic version, which the simplified analysis above only approximates.
In other words, don't assume everything open source is GPL. Also, don't assume that any program's scriptability makes it open - on that basis the MS office apps are open. Yeah sure scriptability is cool, but it makes the program more flexible, not open.
But, if folk who grok glide, mesa, et al feel it is worthwhile hacking about with it, fine. Others may be wary of being exploited and run a mile - this is also fine.
the words "fuck" and "cunt" are now allowed on free-to-air TV in oz, the former being used quite regularly (though not on playschool yet). An offensive language case was recently dismissed on the grounds that "fuck" was no longer considered offensive. So no, your site, the linux kernel source and other "offensive" materials won't raise many eyebrows.
As many commentators (even on/.) have noted, the law is barely practical and badly thought-out, the result of a deal from hell made with an independent to get a regressive goods & services tax through parliament. So, I don't think it is a big deal. (disclaimer: I am not into of the sort of stuff they are trying to ban, unless you include linux, so my ambivalence can be taken with a grain of salt)
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Don't attempt 'striyen unless you are a native speaker. For those who don't know what I am typing about, we have bushflies to keep out of our mouths down here. (-;
622 millibits per second takes 12 seconds per byte. Even carrier pigeon (no, not the one that got zapped by the laser) is faster.
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I think MF would dig it. (unfortunately he is no longer around to ask)
For the technically inclined, a snare drum has a raised metal band around the edge of the circular drumhead (or skin) which, surprisingly enough, is called a "rim". I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
I think the original poster was just wanting to vent some intolerance in the guise of free speech.
The weight of the puck is nice, the intellipoint feels like really cruddy plastic. Of course, when I need the extra buttons (Q3), USB allows hot swapping.
The problem with this is that we need tactile feedback, .... Tell me about it - my new toy (laptop+linux) has dead flat key caps. It wrecks my touch-typing.
As your billions acrue you will be cured of these irrational thoughts concerning the human race.
So, as the others have remarked, chill!
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Most macs offer 1152x870 as a possibility (as noted, this suits a 17" nicely, as I use on my macOS box). The reason for such numbers is that 1152x870=1002240 is just less than 1048576=2^20, so with 2MB graphics mem, you get 16bpp and with 4MB you get 32bpp, all with a 4:3ish ratio. I am not sure whether the choice of 1152=2^7*3^2 as a multiple of a largish power of 2, makes the addressing of scan lines more efficient - most standard resolutions seem to be weighted towards power-of-two widths.
Regarding "brain drain" I was looking for an article about the sledging Bryan Gaensler, the Young Australian of the Year, gave the govt on Science and education policy before thumbing his nose and heading for a postdoc in .edu.us. The closest I can get is this which gives this extract:
but needs $2 (australian dollars) to take further. The abc.net.au search engine is broken this afternoon.So to any expat aussies thinking about return (as I did) the lifestyle issues would have to be overwhelming.
Your point about the problems it is causing is valid, but the reasons for the problem are not due to an acceptance of the salaries. The total lack of wage parity with traditionally comparative occupations (teachers, public servants, politicians) has more to do with a lack of effective industrial muscle. Academics go on strike (e.g. recently across .edu.au), but who gives a shit? The students are safe on the streets, or at home, or at the beach. If school teachers strike (e.g. recently in NSW) it causes major disruption - they have the state govt over a barrel, and they usually get a much better result. It is all the short-term pain/gain equation.
The "brain drain", along with another other mentioned issue - academic salaries (an issue very dear to my heart, for some reason) - has been a been bouncing around the media here for a while.
Do any of the standard server-based spam filters filter for this sort of stuff? I would have thought that things like IMG tags, especially with GET variables attached and/or 1x1 size, would be a dead giveaway when trying to identify spam.
But as I said, the item seemed to indicated very little about what AT would be doing beyond working for Linuxcare remotely and playing with a frisbee when he wasn't (there was substantial footage of him chucking the said frisbee - this does not show up on the transcript.)
In case anyone is interested.
I agree with the previous poster - didn't have much about what he was ot be doing other than "working for Linuxcare via the internet"
nah - it would spit them back. The other side of the universe has no more use for them than we do. We would have to hack up our own open source wormhole drivers for this task.
... see my earlier response (which may appear below this one) with "differential equations" in the subject
Simplifying things to a two-body Newtonian universe (so that we have a hope of understanding the equations -- IANAP) the question is analogous to the problem of determining escape velocity and the motion of a body travelling at escape velocity. The differential equation in question is x''=-K/(x^2), where x is the distance as a function of time. This has a family of solutions of the form x=A (t-B)^(2/3) where A is a constant determined by K and B is an arbitrary parameter.
It actually has a stack of other solutions (2nd order DE implies a two-parameter family of solutions) but we only expect a one-parameter family to have the boundary condition "x' approaches 0 as t approaches infinity". Indeed, you could make the other parameter equal to the asymptotic velocity/kinetic energy/etc, which the above family of solutions has equal to 0. So with this solution, you will note that x approaches infinity and x' approaches 0 as t approaches infinity.
From a physicist's perspective, think of the balance of potential and kinetic energy, with the total energy of the system being zero. You want kinetic energy to converge to zero (from the positive side), so potential energy must converge to zero (from the negative side) and so the distance has to converge to infinity. This also applies to the relativistic version, which the simplified analysis above only approximates.
I hope this clears things up! 8-7
But, if folk who grok glide, mesa, et al feel it is worthwhile hacking about with it, fine. Others may be wary of being exploited and run a mile - this is also fine.
no, kilowatt is a measure of power, which is energy per time. so kilowatts per hour is energy per time^2
As many commentators (even on /.) have noted, the law is barely practical and badly thought-out, the result of a deal from hell made with an independent to get a regressive goods & services tax through parliament. So, I don't think it is a big deal. (disclaimer: I am not into of the sort of stuff they are trying to ban, unless you include linux, so my ambivalence can be taken with a grain of salt)