Only 3 km wide? At what point does it go from being a relatively small chunk of rock floating around a planet to being a moon?
Would it be possible haul enough of a mountain into space orbit to be technically classified as a moon? I mean, man has walked on Earth's moon.. but is he able to make one himself? Or has he already?
My understanding of the burning pattern is that it occurs in an 'unbroken' (within certain specifications) spiral. I believe there is a 'laser guide' that follows a pre-etched spiral on the blank media and the laser burns in the spiral pattern that's already there.
Two lasers would result in two complete spirals, thus requiring two seperate lasers to read the resulting data trails.
When I see a situation with people in charge of someone else's medical care in any way, I see the potential for a lawsuit. If the use of these medical kits amount to a medical diagnosis, then the person in charge of administering the diagnosis may be at risk of being sued for malpractice.
With the already sky-high rates of malpractice lawsuits and the incredibly high cost of malpractice insurance, I don't see this a cost effective or practical way to determine if medical care is needed. The random "is there a doctor on the flight" may be much more effective.. or even hiring a doctor for each flight may be more cost effective as well, if one considers all the possible lawsuits from an undertrained flight attendant using a medical device such as this.
Besides, combine the chance of misdiagnosis with the chance that the person doesn't understand how to correctly use the machine (this is a technological device, folks) and it's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
fail to understand, is that what you write, and how you write it, reflects very strongly upon one's self.
For example, in a 'chat room' for Asheron's Call, where people would meet up when the server was not working, there would be many people using this 'leet speak', asking repeatedly for information. By simply using correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, I could often get many of the people there to heed my words as if I was a person of authority. Some went so far as to ask how I became employed at Microsoft - I was just a regular user like them, but my choice to use English correctly made them assume that I was someone who knew what they were talking about.
I try to encourage people to use the best spelling and grammar as they can when online. I just cannot 'respect' someone who can't be bothered to type "are" ('r') or "you" ('u') because they want to save themselves from typing two characters.
Try the above sometime. Use your best grammar and spelling and notice how others react to you.
(NOTE: I don't recommend this during intense-gaming situations.. "Help! I am currently in coordinates N7 being att... Uh oh, they have shot me with the... Aw, crap..")
Local American retailers have published a new study, saying that the reason that the economy isn't doing as well as it should be is because there are more people OUTSIDE this country than inside.
A spokesman for the industry has been quoted as saying that it is time for Americans to do their duty, and have lots and lots of sex, especially with an overlooked segment of the sexual economy - geeks.
A spokesman for Slashdot, when presented with this news, was heard to exclaim "Whoa.. sweet!"
I did this because I loved the work not just because it paid well.
And this is why I entered the IT field. I recently graduated from college with a degree in Computer Science.. but I had wanted to do so for years and years - before middle school.
I tell people that I don't do computer work for the money. I do it because I enjoy doing it.. and I figure there can't be anything much better than getting paid to do something you enjoy.
Too bad I'm out of work, though.. guess I'll have to keep enjoying it by volunteering at non-profits for now. Ah well!
...that if the signal comes back, it doesn't come back too late to do any good (are humans still around, and if not, could your breakthrough have helped humanity survive?)
...that your 'breakthrough' isn't independantly discovered between when you send the message and when it bounces back.
...that whatever you bounce the signal from doesn't have intelligent life on it that may possibly suffer from the same social upheaval that you are protecting this society from.
There is a lot of abandonware these days, including many older games. I would suggest looking for something at an abandonware site.
The best site I've found in my travels has been Home of the Underdogs. This site has many levels of classification, and attempts to stay legal by asking develoeprs if it is OK for them to put these files up for download - something rare in the 'free-for-all', file-sharing and copyright-infringing attitude of the Internet these days.
So.. If they want prior art that pre-dates the patent in question, all we need to do is find, lurking in some deep and dark corner of the internet, some REALLY old JPEG compressed image, most likely pornography.
Course, to prove that this file really was old, we'd have to find the subject and maybe pose them the same way to show it's the same person, and then.. uhh.. no, wait.. old person porn.. Eww!
Please disregard! *opens wallet, prepares to just pay the stupid royalties*
What are you planning to do with this education in Mathematics?
Do you want this for information's sake, or do you want to plan a career out of it?
These questions are important because if you are doing it for education's sake, the first time you look into a college-level Multivariable Calculus book might result in a little voice giving you a sudden desperate need to close the book and never open it again.
Course, if you plan to make a career out of it, the above situation will probably still occur, but you'll at least have a strong reason to ignore that little voice and give it a serious try.
When I took a required test for C when I was an engineer, a very large chunk of the test consisted of writing code. One part required making the shell of an API, while another asked for a program that (if memory serves) did some sort of computation or sorting. I ended up getting a 99/100 on the test.. Why? Well, on the last problem of the last page on the last test of the year (the final), I neglected the final closing left brace " } ".. doh!
Anyhow, the code wasn't nearly perfect.. to the contrary. I had to erase several times, draw arrows (see below) to places, and other things.. but in end, what works, works. Here are some suggestions to help people write code during tests.
1) Think how you want to structure your solution. On the back of a piece of paper, write down each [method/function/procedure] and the variables involved.
2) Write down the [methods/functions/procedures]. Leave 2 'spaces' between the declaration and the start of your code in case you need to insert variables or code here.
3) Leave a little space between lines. If you find it necessary to 'insert' code somewhere, write it near the bottom of your page and draw an arrow to where you want to insert this code. Most TA's/Professors are very forgiving and understand that you won't erase 15 lines to insert 2 in the middle.
4) Do required editing.. that is, check your 'code', and if you need to insert lines, see #3. Those arrows work wonders.. really.
Well, my take on it is that this isn't exactly a "5 nines" reliable solution, and thus if there was a power outage, it wouldn't be such a huge thing. Cable modems are known to have reliability problems, and yet people still get them.
Secondly, if there *is* a power outage, wouldn't that mean those people wouldn't have their own computers running? It's nice to have bandwidth, but it's also nice to have something to access it..
Anyhow, if people are using such a solution instead of the more traditional reliable connections (T1, etc) then you can be assured that these people would be paying for consumer quality connections without uptime guarantees.
As a former Flash developer, I can say that Flash is very secure.
Flash is done using an almost "sandbox" model. Client scripts cannot ever write to the disk. You can, however, create "server" and "client" flash movies that interact, and the server can write to the local machine the server is running on.
I believe you CAN dynamically link files into Flash movies, using Lingo (the scripting language), but you must know the exact path and filename. There is no such thing as browsing from my understanding.
Poor comic book places.. I mean, hey, who is going to want to read about Batman, Spiderman, etc etc when you can walk down the street and see it all in person?
Well.. eventually, maybe they'll have comic books with such creatures as just plain "Man". I sure hope it doesn't come to that, though.
Actually, the worse-case scenario would be that it gets "cracked big time", Microsoft doesn't notify anyone, and not only do the 'unwashed masses' get their information compromised, but they don't blame Microsoft one way or the other.
Either that, or Microsoft blames hacker 'terrorists' and everyone walks home happy (except the consumers, of course).
Crystals are made up of a lattice structure - that is, the atoms are positioned in a type of 'matrix' where they are connected to one another via the bonds which connect the atoms at specific angles. There exists a specific configuration which is the 'minimal' lattice structure for a given lattice structure of atoms.
Also, I think 'molecule' refers to a state where there's a 'fixed' number of atoms in a ratio in a given state of multiple bonded atoms. A diamond isn't really a molecule due to not having a fixed number of carbon atoms.. but hydrogen (H2) does. The case can be very weakly made, though, that any given lattice structure can be considered a long 'mishmash chain' of multiple 'minimal' lattice structures and thus it is a molecule chain.. but this isn't commonly considered truth.
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I suppose it's a better paying job than a flying nun.. :)
-Matt
Only 3 km wide? At what point does it go from being a relatively small chunk of rock floating around a planet to being a moon?
Would it be possible haul enough of a mountain into space orbit to be technically classified as a moon? I mean, man has walked on Earth's moon.. but is he able to make one himself? Or has he already?
-Matt
My understanding of the burning pattern is that it occurs in an 'unbroken' (within certain specifications) spiral. I believe there is a 'laser guide' that follows a pre-etched spiral on the blank media and the laser burns in the spiral pattern that's already there.
Two lasers would result in two complete spirals, thus requiring two seperate lasers to read the resulting data trails.
-Matt
When I see a situation with people in charge of someone else's medical care in any way, I see the potential for a lawsuit. If the use of these medical kits amount to a medical diagnosis, then the person in charge of administering the diagnosis may be at risk of being sued for malpractice.
With the already sky-high rates of malpractice lawsuits and the incredibly high cost of malpractice insurance, I don't see this a cost effective or practical way to determine if medical care is needed. The random "is there a doctor on the flight" may be much more effective.. or even hiring a doctor for each flight may be more cost effective as well, if one considers all the possible lawsuits from an undertrained flight attendant using a medical device such as this.
Besides, combine the chance of misdiagnosis with the chance that the person doesn't understand how to correctly use the machine (this is a technological device, folks) and it's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
-Matt
fail to understand, is that what you write, and how you write it, reflects very strongly upon one's self.
For example, in a 'chat room' for Asheron's Call, where people would meet up when the server was not working, there would be many people using this 'leet speak', asking repeatedly for information. By simply using correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, I could often get many of the people there to heed my words as if I was a person of authority. Some went so far as to ask how I became employed at Microsoft - I was just a regular user like them, but my choice to use English correctly made them assume that I was someone who knew what they were talking about.
I try to encourage people to use the best spelling and grammar as they can when online. I just cannot 'respect' someone who can't be bothered to type "are" ('r') or "you" ('u') because they want to save themselves from typing two characters.
Try the above sometime. Use your best grammar and spelling and notice how others react to you.
(NOTE: I don't recommend this during intense-gaming situations.. "Help! I am currently in coordinates N7 being att... Uh oh, they have shot me with the... Aw, crap..")
Local American retailers have published a new study, saying that the reason that the economy isn't doing as well as it should be is because there are more people OUTSIDE this country than inside.
A spokesman for the industry has been quoted as saying that it is time for Americans to do their duty, and have lots and lots of sex, especially with an overlooked segment of the sexual economy - geeks.
A spokesman for Slashdot, when presented with this news, was heard to exclaim "Whoa.. sweet!"
Ackbar: "It's a trap!"
-Matt
What are some real-world applications that this process generates?
Maybe some psuedo-random number generation with the huge strings of numbers that this comes up with?
Any way that this could be used in some sort of encryption?
There HAS to be some useful purpose to this.. There must be, or it wouldn't be the way it is! *twitch, twitch*
-Matt
And this is why I entered the IT field. I recently graduated from college with a degree in Computer Science.. but I had wanted to do so for years and years - before middle school.
I tell people that I don't do computer work for the money. I do it because I enjoy doing it.. and I figure there can't be anything much better than getting paid to do something you enjoy.
Too bad I'm out of work, though.. guess I'll have to keep enjoying it by volunteering at non-profits for now. Ah well!
-Matt
Woops.. I left that in there from a long time ago, when I 'publicised' my address here.
I've now removed my sig. Thanks for the heads up!
-Matt
But.. can't you then just turn the disc upside down?
-Matt
That's a good one.
-Matt
...that if the signal comes back, it doesn't come back too late to do any good (are humans still around, and if not, could your breakthrough have helped humanity survive?)
...that your 'breakthrough' isn't independantly discovered between when you send the message and when it bounces back.
...that whatever you bounce the signal from doesn't have intelligent life on it that may possibly suffer from the same social upheaval that you are protecting this society from.
:)
Any others?
-Matt
There is a lot of abandonware these days, including many older games. I would suggest looking for something at an abandonware site.
The best site I've found in my travels has been Home of the Underdogs. This site has many levels of classification, and attempts to stay legal by asking develoeprs if it is OK for them to put these files up for download - something rare in the 'free-for-all', file-sharing and copyright-infringing attitude of the Internet these days.
I'd give them (or another site like them) a shot.
-Matt
So.. If they want prior art that pre-dates the patent in question, all we need to do is find, lurking in some deep and dark corner of the internet, some REALLY old JPEG compressed image, most likely pornography.
Course, to prove that this file really was old, we'd have to find the subject and maybe pose them the same way to show it's the same person, and then.. uhh.. no, wait.. old person porn.. Eww!
Please disregard!
*opens wallet, prepares to just pay the stupid royalties*
-Matt
What are you planning to do with this education in Mathematics?
Do you want this for information's sake, or do you want to plan a career out of it?
These questions are important because if you are doing it for education's sake, the first time you look into a college-level Multivariable Calculus book might result in a little voice giving you a sudden desperate need to close the book and never open it again.
Course, if you plan to make a career out of it, the above situation will probably still occur, but you'll at least have a strong reason to ignore that little voice and give it a serious try.
-Matt
Huh.. yeah, that's probably why I'm out of work right now.. *sigh*.. :)
Thanks! Hehe..
-Matt
When I took a required test for C when I was an engineer, a very large chunk of the test consisted of writing code. One part required making the shell of an API, while another asked for a program that (if memory serves) did some sort of computation or sorting. I ended up getting a 99/100 on the test.. Why? Well, on the last problem of the last page on the last test of the year (the final), I neglected the final closing left brace " } ".. doh!
Anyhow, the code wasn't nearly perfect.. to the contrary. I had to erase several times, draw arrows (see below) to places, and other things.. but in end, what works, works. Here are some suggestions to help people write code during tests.
1) Think how you want to structure your solution. On the back of a piece of paper, write down each [method/function/procedure] and the variables involved.
2) Write down the [methods/functions/procedures]. Leave 2 'spaces' between the declaration and the start of your code in case you need to insert variables or code here.
3) Leave a little space between lines. If you find it necessary to 'insert' code somewhere, write it near the bottom of your page and draw an arrow to where you want to insert this code. Most TA's/Professors are very forgiving and understand that you won't erase 15 lines to insert 2 in the middle.
4) Do required editing.. that is, check your 'code', and if you need to insert lines, see #3. Those arrows work wonders.. really.
-Matt
Well, my take on it is that this isn't exactly a "5 nines" reliable solution, and thus if there was a power outage, it wouldn't be such a huge thing. Cable modems are known to have reliability problems, and yet people still get them.
Secondly, if there *is* a power outage, wouldn't that mean those people wouldn't have their own computers running? It's nice to have bandwidth, but it's also nice to have something to access it..
Anyhow, if people are using such a solution instead of the more traditional reliable connections (T1, etc) then you can be assured that these people would be paying for consumer quality connections without uptime guarantees.
-Matt
As a former Flash developer, I can say that Flash is very secure.
Flash is done using an almost "sandbox" model. Client scripts cannot ever write to the disk. You can, however, create "server" and "client" flash movies that interact, and the server can write to the local machine the server is running on.
I believe you CAN dynamically link files into Flash movies, using Lingo (the scripting language), but you must know the exact path and filename. There is no such thing as browsing from my understanding.
-MattC413
Poor comic book places.. I mean, hey, who is going to want to read about Batman, Spiderman, etc etc when you can walk down the street and see it all in person?
Well.. eventually, maybe they'll have comic books with such creatures as just plain "Man". I sure hope it doesn't come to that, though.
Actually, the worse-case scenario would be that it gets "cracked big time", Microsoft doesn't notify anyone, and not only do the 'unwashed masses' get their information compromised, but they don't blame Microsoft one way or the other.
Either that, or Microsoft blames hacker 'terrorists' and everyone walks home happy (except the consumers, of course).
-Matt
Well.. I don't think that's entirely correct.
Crystals are made up of a lattice structure - that is, the atoms are positioned in a type of 'matrix' where they are connected to one another via the bonds which connect the atoms at specific angles. There exists a specific configuration which is the 'minimal' lattice structure for a given lattice structure of atoms.
Also, I think 'molecule' refers to a state where there's a 'fixed' number of atoms in a ratio in a given state of multiple bonded atoms. A diamond isn't really a molecule due to not having a fixed number of carbon atoms.. but hydrogen (H2) does. The case can be very weakly made, though, that any given lattice structure can be considered a long 'mishmash chain' of multiple 'minimal' lattice structures and thus it is a molecule chain.. but this isn't commonly considered truth.
-Matt
War...
War never changes...
Welcome aboard!
-Matt