This news story was in the Sci/Tech section of Google News this morning for me. Definitely did a triple take upon seeing the words "Penis Monster" in the headline.
Don't be so quick to invade! I say, we develop manned space travel so that we may send some of our elected leaders to meet with the black hole in its homeland of the galactic nucleus to discuss the situation.
It can tell good picture from bad, but it's completely relative. Sure, it can come up with a picture that's better than the original. But that's by no means the best it can do. This process continually attempts to create pictures that are better than the previous picture, apparently repeating this process until an image is found where any adjustments to it result in images that are worse in quality. Then that one is selected as the best version.
In addition to invading personal space, couldn't these also violate sound ordinances? I know in my area, there's a 50 foot rule: if the police can hear you from 50 feet away, they can issue you a ticket. From the summary, the speaker is on the 7th floor. Even beamed straight down, thats definitely more than 50 feet.
I got really excited when I read your post. Error bars were the sole reason I reinstalled MS Office last week. Unfortunately, I just ran Calc and checked out the new chart tool. Nothing seems to have changed, other than a new, fancy interface. It still lacks the ability to use a data range as error bars for a range of data points, and still lacks the ability to display a trendline equation on the graph. Looks like I'm still going to be split between OO Writer and MS Excel.
At Purdue University, when I lived in the dorms (2 and 3 years ago), the only restrictions on our internet usage were 1 GB/day up, and 1 GB/day down (with warnings/service supensions for breaking it multiple times) my first year, and this was increased to 3 gigs my second year. As I understand this has only increased the last two years as they continue to update the network hardware. I routinely got 2-3 MB/s on popular torrents, and almost never had latency issues with anything. I never performed a conclusive bandwidth test--I don't think the test sites I was using had enough bandwidth to match what I could download, but I recall results ranging between 30-50 Mb/s.
And of course, no content was censored, no ports were blocked, and every port in every building had an external IP.
Now that I live off campus, I have cable internet, which is slightly less reliable, and significantly slower--capped around 4 Mb/s--than what was available in university housing. Of course, that's about the only thing I miss about the dorms.
Forget the hassle this is going to cause with rewriting the text books. On the front page of the Wall Street Journal today, I saw a headline that emphasizes the real problem with reclassifying pluto: "Pluto's Demotion Divides Astrologers." There are serious problems if changing the scientific foundations of fortune telling are meeting with such fisticuffs.
Exactly. Whenever I read a preview of a game that looks awesome, I think to myself "I hope that game ends up being as cool as this looks" and make a mental note to watch for the game later on when it's actually finished and reviewed. The preview doesn't usually do the advertising job of selling me the game. What it does is makes me aware of the game's existence.
It's wonderful to hear from someone else from Purdue SPS, especially someone with a history with the couch. I'm guessing you're the one that emailed Abe? He mentioned briefly what you sent him, and you sound like you know a think or two about our history:) If you're still in the area, you should stop by and see what we've done with the place this year. And some of us still spend 12+ hours a day there pretty often and, every now and then, the night there.
Yes, I apologize for the bad pictures, our webmaster is away with the couch so I couldn't get new ones on the club page, but here is a page of newer, much better quality pictures.
In other news, a new worm, targetting networked microwaves, was released today. Victims have reported many burnt dinners. Norton Internet Security: Microwave Edition has been released to combat this virus.
Did that show ever get funny? Is it even still around? I saw a couple episodes (against my will) last spring, I think it was. The sense I got was that it was a sad attempt to create a show staring Pamela Anderson's breasts.
I believe you're speaking of the buddy pounce feature, which, while very useful to send messages to people the moment they sign on, also requires you to be signed on. Whereas with, say, ICQ (and apparently Yahoo as the GP mentions, though I'm not familiar with it) you can send a message to an offline user and it is stored on the server, to be delivered when the user signs on, regardless of your online status. This is something I really wish would have been taken from ICQ and implemented in AIM.
Just put a TV screen in the car too (assuming they all don't have them by then) and the driver will be too distracted by American Idol 16 to miss the feeling of driving.
An odd way I learned to rembember a short approximation of e is "Two point seven Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson" which I suppose only works if you know that he became president in 1828.
What I find the funniest about this is that to access the scenes, you need to go online and download a mod. And we all know the internet is entirely cotton candy and butterflies. If a kid has internet access and can get this mod, he sure as hell can access much worse than an animated blowjob with a simple google search.
Sadly, I don't even think that revolution will work, since there are too few people concerned with Freedom and Liberty, but instead concerned with "Everyone Loves Raymond" and "Survivor".
I think you hit the nail on the head with this one. It seems to me that as the current administration builds this fascist state, it passes more and more laws to make the Entertainment Industry larger, more profitable, and more powerful, which serves an important purpose for such a state: keeping the masses placated. When the government passes laws which blatantly favor the media companies, the message that I, the citizen, get from the government is "Go watch TV."
Didn't see your reply last week, but your sarcasm detector is broken:)
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My old phone quit on me finally after almost two years (and after falling down a stair case while flipped open), and the only cheap solution comparable to my original ended up being a camera phone. First small problem I have with it is its bulkiness (granted the old phone was tiny), which is no doubt due to there being dual color screens and a camera. Second, I got a flip phone for a reason: flippy part covers all the buttons so none get pressed when phone is in pocket, saving me the hassle of turning on and off the keyguard every time I use it. Right? Nope, there's a camera button on the side of the phone that works when the phone is closed, so since I haven't bothered to delete them, the 20 or so photos stored on my phone are pictures of my pocket. (I'll admit I did take a few others, most to check out the functionality, and one of a tour bus of the bus line "Lamers."). Then, as you stated, "there seems to be a needless number of button clicks to do basic tasks" such that the keyguard is the 8th menu choice of the 9th menu option of the 10th menu. I'm sure it's not trying to hide there or anything.
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One thing you forgot is that the middle tile needs to be a double word score. Went ahead and fixed that: http://apps.new.facebook.com/wordscraper/?action=newgame&similarto=56609
This news story was in the Sci/Tech section of Google News this morning for me. Definitely did a triple take upon seeing the words "Penis Monster" in the headline.
Quick, invade something, anything!
Don't be so quick to invade! I say, we develop manned space travel so that we may send some of our elected leaders to meet with the black hole in its homeland of the galactic nucleus to discuss the situation.
It can tell good picture from bad, but it's completely relative. Sure, it can come up with a picture that's better than the original. But that's by no means the best it can do. This process continually attempts to create pictures that are better than the previous picture, apparently repeating this process until an image is found where any adjustments to it result in images that are worse in quality. Then that one is selected as the best version.
In addition to invading personal space, couldn't these also violate sound ordinances? I know in my area, there's a 50 foot rule: if the police can hear you from 50 feet away, they can issue you a ticket. From the summary, the speaker is on the 7th floor. Even beamed straight down, thats definitely more than 50 feet.
I got really excited when I read your post. Error bars were the sole reason I reinstalled MS Office last week. Unfortunately, I just ran Calc and checked out the new chart tool. Nothing seems to have changed, other than a new, fancy interface. It still lacks the ability to use a data range as error bars for a range of data points, and still lacks the ability to display a trendline equation on the graph. Looks like I'm still going to be split between OO Writer and MS Excel.
At Purdue University, when I lived in the dorms (2 and 3 years ago), the only restrictions on our internet usage were 1 GB/day up, and 1 GB/day down (with warnings/service supensions for breaking it multiple times) my first year, and this was increased to 3 gigs my second year. As I understand this has only increased the last two years as they continue to update the network hardware. I routinely got 2-3 MB/s on popular torrents, and almost never had latency issues with anything. I never performed a conclusive bandwidth test--I don't think the test sites I was using had enough bandwidth to match what I could download, but I recall results ranging between 30-50 Mb/s.
And of course, no content was censored, no ports were blocked, and every port in every building had an external IP.
Now that I live off campus, I have cable internet, which is slightly less reliable, and significantly slower--capped around 4 Mb/s--than what was available in university housing. Of course, that's about the only thing I miss about the dorms.
Forget the hassle this is going to cause with rewriting the text books. On the front page of the Wall Street Journal today, I saw a headline that emphasizes the real problem with reclassifying pluto: "Pluto's Demotion Divides Astrologers." There are serious problems if changing the scientific foundations of fortune telling are meeting with such fisticuffs.
What wallpapers are these?
Exactly. Whenever I read a preview of a game that looks awesome, I think to myself "I hope that game ends up being as cool as this looks" and make a mental note to watch for the game later on when it's actually finished and reviewed. The preview doesn't usually do the advertising job of selling me the game. What it does is makes me aware of the game's existence.
It's wonderful to hear from someone else from Purdue SPS, especially someone with a history with the couch. I'm guessing you're the one that emailed Abe? He mentioned briefly what you sent him, and you sound like you know a think or two about our history :) If you're still in the area, you should stop by and see what we've done with the place this year. And some of us still spend 12+ hours a day there pretty often and, every now and then, the night there.
Mike Fink
"Stock Master"
Yes, I apologize for the bad pictures, our webmaster is away with the couch so I couldn't get new ones on the club page, but here is a page of newer, much better quality pictures.
Many of those involved are in applied ;-P
In other news, a new worm, targetting networked microwaves, was released today. Victims have reported many burnt dinners. Norton Internet Security: Microwave Edition has been released to combat this virus.
Did that show ever get funny? Is it even still around? I saw a couple episodes (against my will) last spring, I think it was. The sense I got was that it was a sad attempt to create a show staring Pamela Anderson's breasts.
I believe you're speaking of the buddy pounce feature, which, while very useful to send messages to people the moment they sign on, also requires you to be signed on. Whereas with, say, ICQ (and apparently Yahoo as the GP mentions, though I'm not familiar with it) you can send a message to an offline user and it is stored on the server, to be delivered when the user signs on, regardless of your online status. This is something I really wish would have been taken from ICQ and implemented in AIM.
Uh... http://www.archos.com/products/catalog.html?
Just put a TV screen in the car too (assuming they all don't have them by then) and the driver will be too distracted by American Idol 16 to miss the feeling of driving.
An odd way I learned to rembember a short approximation of e is "Two point seven Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson" which I suppose only works if you know that he became president in 1828.
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
What I find the funniest about this is that to access the scenes, you need to go online and download a mod. And we all know the internet is entirely cotton candy and butterflies. If a kid has internet access and can get this mod, he sure as hell can access much worse than an animated blowjob with a simple google search.
Surely you wouldn't want to forget your Boomstick either. That seems more essential.
Sadly, I don't even think that revolution will work, since there are too few people concerned with Freedom and Liberty, but instead concerned with "Everyone Loves Raymond" and "Survivor".
I think you hit the nail on the head with this one. It seems to me that as the current administration builds this fascist state, it passes more and more laws to make the Entertainment Industry larger, more profitable, and more powerful, which serves an important purpose for such a state: keeping the masses placated. When the government passes laws which blatantly favor the media companies, the message that I, the citizen, get from the government is "Go watch TV."
Didn't see your reply last week, but your sarcasm detector is broken :)
My old phone quit on me finally after almost two years (and after falling down a stair case while flipped open), and the only cheap solution comparable to my original ended up being a camera phone. First small problem I have with it is its bulkiness (granted the old phone was tiny), which is no doubt due to there being dual color screens and a camera. Second, I got a flip phone for a reason: flippy part covers all the buttons so none get pressed when phone is in pocket, saving me the hassle of turning on and off the keyguard every time I use it. Right? Nope, there's a camera button on the side of the phone that works when the phone is closed, so since I haven't bothered to delete them, the 20 or so photos stored on my phone are pictures of my pocket. (I'll admit I did take a few others, most to check out the functionality, and one of a tour bus of the bus line "Lamers."). Then, as you stated, "there seems to be a needless number of button clicks to do basic tasks" such that the keyguard is the 8th menu choice of the 9th menu option of the 10th menu. I'm sure it's not trying to hide there or anything.