I just downloaded the torrent SP2 and diff'd it with a copy of SP2 direct from MS and they match exactly. I was getting approximately 250kB/sec from the torrent and it would have been faster if I wasn't downloading something else at the same time. Regardless of the vague legality of this, it's certainly a good source to get the service pack ahead of time, that is, if you take my word for it.
There is an easter egg of Adam Baldwin (Jayne) singing the whole "Hero of Canton" song from Jaynestown on the dvds.
Throw in disc four that has the special features menu on it, and I think it's on the second special features menu. You just have to highlight the bottom left option and hit left again, and it will highlight a little thing on the side. Sorry I can't be more precise I don't have the info handy, it's not too hard to find with a minor bit of fiddling.
The articles mentions that the iPod battery is not replaceable, but that's not true. Check out http://www.ipodbattery.com/ I haven't used their service, but presumably it works. $49 sounds like a reasonable price to me, especially when you take into account the cost of the iPod itself.
Obviously this is new technology, so you pay a premium for it, but it takes a few brave pioneers with the financial means to encourage the auto makers to continue perfecting the research in this field to ensure that it becomes popular and affordable for the masses. Hybrid vehicles perform more than adequately for every day driving with the advantage of not requiring a new fueling method for it's reduced environmental footprint.
I think you will be more than satisfied with a hybrid vehicle and you'll rest easy knowing you're doing more than most people to help the environment. Extreme environmentalists may argue that you should ride a bike instead, but that's not always feasible. This type of vehicle is a good choice during the transition period from fossil fuels to the eventual discovery of how to harness the secret power of gravity that currently leaks into other dimensions.. laws of thermodynamics be damned.
It's possible, you just need Troll to be the most common moderation. It has to be couneracted by a mix of insightful, interesting, funny, informative but not too many of any one of them. I actually did see a +5 Flamebait post once, but I don't have a link to it anymore..
-hero.
Re:Here's the problem, specifically.
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It's actually more complicated than you think.. keep in mind, the author's goal was to minimize the amount of coins you are required to dispense.
In your first example with our current system, you used 5 coins (25+10+10+1+1) In your second example with the new system, you used 6 coins! (25+18+1+1+1+1)
But wait, that's both harder to add AND uses more coins, what's wrong here?
The problem is that it's not as straight forward to give the proper change out in order to minimize the number of coins given. With the old system you would go sequentially from largest to smallest and never have a problem. With the new system, a coin is introduced that is more than half the value of the coin above it (18*2 = 36 > 25). Look at the second example in a different way:
5 total coins. You see now that if you go from largest to smallest, you won't always find the least number of coins. In this case it's not an improvement over the original system, but it usually will be. The trick lies in reducing the number of pennies dispensed by "playing around" with the ratio of quarters to 18 cent pieces in order to get as close to the target change as possible.
-hero.
Re:The Cycle of Counting in Making Change
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Just by using the 18 cent coin and the 5 cent coin, you can get every single digit in the right hand column which as you say is a cycle of 1. However it is precisely this feature that helps minimize the number of coins given as change. In the current system you're required to give out on average 9/5 or 1.8 pennies per transaction because you can only obtain a 0 or a 5 with the other coins. The new 18 cent coin will ensure that you are required to give out many fewer pennies because you will often be able to arrive much closer to the target change amount.
My point is, the very feature that can minimize coin count will also cause addition difficulties for cashier staff and thus we can never hope to find a perfect solution. Although it may work if you allow computers to do all the change computations, for example, at a safeway near my place change is dispensed automatically by a machine. It would be trivial to reconfigure that machine to use a new 18 cent coin.
That's what really pisses me off. Diamonds are a very very useful natural resource, but instead of being able to take advantage of that, we're forced to pay huge prices only to have them end up as decorations on some floozy. deBeers is evil.
"Posted by Linda on February 13, 19100 at 08:16:54:"
Anyway, you're right, it does seem like this happens. I had all of my wisdom teeth removed without any adverse effects, besides vomiting up a bunch of blood and junk after the surgery (yay! but I hear that's normal). I would be seriously pissed if I was constantly drooling because I couldn't drink properly with a numb tongue, imagine how many keyboards I'd ruin!
At 7KBps (== 56Kbps/8), you could play every second of the day and still use only 0.6MB of bandwidth... leaving you 65.4 or so for other purposes.
That's some interesting math you have there. At 7KB/sec, 0.6MB of bandwidth would actually be used up in 94 seconds, not a whole day.
60 (seconds) x 60 (minutes) x (24 hours) = 86400 seconds in a day.
7KB/s x 86400 = 604800 KB = 590MB per day.
Which then equates to just over 17GB in a 30 day month, as another poster has correctly indicated.
And 2 gigs in a month is about equivalent to about 66 megs per day, that's stiflingly small. When I got my first cable modem years ago, we had limits like that, now it's a more sensible 10 gigs down, 1 gig up. Perhaps Cornell should think of splitting their upload from their download since the uploading probably costs them more (just a guess, no facts to back that up.)
The more and malicious students and staff will always look for ways to get around the system, but with limits like this, everyone will be looking for ethical and unethical ways to abuse it, ultimately costing a ton of wasted time to both them and the network admins who have to implement new solutions to curb the abuse. I doubt this system will be beneficial on the whole for the university.
-hero.
P.S.
Oh, I see you've corrected yourself since I wrote this, ah well, I'm going to post anyway. Sorry!
I think the perfect situation for a guy would be if you met your girlfriend on valentine's day and it also happened to be her birthday. Now you can cover three events in one! (anniversary, birthday, valentine's day) And if you propose on that day, and get married on that day, you've got it made. I'm sure you're thinking.. "Well then I have to work three times as hard to please her!" Perhaps you will have to work harder, but I figure as long as you do more than her friend's boyfriend's do, you're golden. Even if you spend 3 times the cash, it will require not nearly as much planning and time. Perhaps some others are thinking "Well then I don't get 3 days with automatic sex." I say if you're not getting it regularily anyway, she doesn't deserve a damn thing.
Call me cynical, cheap, evil.. whatever.. but I still say that'd be a sweet setup.
Hmm, you're quite right. This person exclusively posts plagiarized comments all day, usually they steal a comment that has been moderated +5 for being insightful. However, I suspect karma isn't their ultimate goal, look at the URL they have set: (http://www.keithbowmanauto.com/) They're just trying to get moderated up so more people will see and visit that URL, which is just some lousy car dealership. Just goes to show that if there's a new low level that can be stooped to, advertising will stoop first.
You have to wait another 6.5 hours? I saw it at 12:01am this morning. I'm tired as hell though today.. I left the theatre at 3:10am and got to work at 7:10am. I'd say that everyone in the theatre was aged 16-28, and of course there were a few crazies that dressed up. However, it was all worth it, the movie exceeded my expectations and I'll be watching it again this weekend!
Haha.. awesome find man, thanks. This will give me hours of reading pleasure. All he does is complain about his dogs and his entire family, including his kids and especially is apparently very obese wife.
I liked this one:
How to Write Your Own Life Story: A Step by Step Guide for the Non-Professional Writer by Lois Daniel
Life dealt my wife Marjorie a poor hand to begin with, and not much came up on the flop; but thanks to this fantastic guide she is planning on penning a genuinely moving and heartwarming account of triumph over adversity. Or revelling in her own victimhood. It depends on your perspective.
I did in fact read the article. You should note that I was replying to the user who claimed that this technology had the ability to "push net radio into the mainstream."
While I agree that this could scale down the technical costs for a net radio station, it will have no effect whatsoever on the royalty fees this station must pay. And I suspect that the royalty fees are the most expensive part of the whole operation, though I have no stats handy.
There's been a couple duplicates today, we must really be starved for news.
I think I'll submit a story...
"This just in, Chinese scientists, working feverishly for the past decade, have discovered a unique combination of chemicals that when combined with heat produce an explosion able to propel sharp metal objects down a tube at a high velocity. This 'Gun Powder,' as it's being dubbed, is set to revolutionize the battlefield. In other news, Springfling, the world's leading bow and arrow manufacturer, apparently worried about their stock prices, have dubbed the new invention blasphemous, unreliable and claim that it's unlikely to have any effect on the way empires carry out their wars."
Star Trek has been parodied many times in many different formats; other television shows, movies, comics and so on. You yourself have probably been parodied as much or more in people's "Captain Kirk Impression" stand up skits and the like. My question is, do you recall a favourite parody for it's comedy or cleverness of either yourself or the series?
Interesting. I guess the "geek tan" would be changed from all white, to all white with a brown hand. What's so special about them that they can cause these problems? Clubs and bars use ultraviolet lights all the time.
Oh boo hoo. I went to see last year's meteor shower and I'm up in northern Canada, we just brought lots of hot chocolate and we were fine, eh. Then one of the meteorites came flying down and landed in the field, it was still hot so we put some grass and wood on it and a huge bonfire to keep warm eh. Then the aliens came down and wanted their rock back so we had to give it to them, but they let us go without a probing, which was nice. Come to think of it, I think our hot chocolate's may have been a wee bit Irish. I like stories. Don't you like stories?
Cathy, One of the best parts of Junkyard Wars was all the humour, I found many things to laugh at in each episode, especially when the hosts were talking to the teams about their plans going awry. My question is, what was your favourite funny moment in the whole series? And as a side question, because he's just too funny, what was your favourite moment involving Robert Llewellyn?
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I just downloaded the torrent SP2 and diff'd it with a copy of SP2 direct from MS and they match exactly. I was getting approximately 250kB/sec from the torrent and it would have been faster if I wasn't downloading something else at the same time. Regardless of the vague legality of this, it's certainly a good source to get the service pack ahead of time, that is, if you take my word for it.
There is an easter egg of Adam Baldwin (Jayne) singing the whole "Hero of Canton" song from Jaynestown on the dvds.
Throw in disc four that has the special features menu on it, and I think it's on the second special features menu. You just have to highlight the bottom left option and hit left again, and it will highlight a little thing on the side. Sorry I can't be more precise I don't have the info handy, it's not too hard to find with a minor bit of fiddling.
-hero.
The articles mentions that the iPod battery is not replaceable, but that's not true. Check out http://www.ipodbattery.com/ I haven't used their service, but presumably it works. $49 sounds like a reasonable price to me, especially when you take into account the cost of the iPod itself.
-hero.
It's a trick, get an axe!
-hero.
Obviously this is new technology, so you pay a premium for it, but it takes a few brave pioneers with the financial means to encourage the auto makers to continue perfecting the research in this field to ensure that it becomes popular and affordable for the masses. Hybrid vehicles perform more than adequately for every day driving with the advantage of not requiring a new fueling method for it's reduced environmental footprint.
I think you will be more than satisfied with a hybrid vehicle and you'll rest easy knowing you're doing more than most people to help the environment. Extreme environmentalists may argue that you should ride a bike instead, but that's not always feasible. This type of vehicle is a good choice during the transition period from fossil fuels to the eventual discovery of how to harness the secret power of gravity that currently leaks into other dimensions.. laws of thermodynamics be damned.
-hero.
It's possible, you just need Troll to be the most common moderation. It has to be couneracted by a mix of insightful, interesting, funny, informative but not too many of any one of them. I actually did see a +5 Flamebait post once, but I don't have a link to it anymore..
-hero.
It's actually more complicated than you think.. keep in mind, the author's goal was to minimize the amount of coins you are required to dispense.
In your first example with our current system, you used 5 coins (25+10+10+1+1)
In your second example with the new system, you used 6 coins! (25+18+1+1+1+1)
But wait, that's both harder to add AND uses more coins, what's wrong here?
The problem is that it's not as straight forward to give the proper change out in order to minimize the number of coins given. With the old system you would go sequentially from largest to smallest and never have a problem. With the new system, a coin is introduced that is more than half the value of the coin above it (18*2 = 36 > 25). Look at the second example in a different way:
2 x 18 cent coins = 36 = 36 (11 cents left)
2 x 5 cent coins = 10 = 46 (1 cent left)
1 x 1 cent coin = 1 = 47 (0 cents left)
5 total coins. You see now that if you go from largest to smallest, you won't always find the least number of coins. In this case it's not an improvement over the original system, but it usually will be. The trick lies in reducing the number of pennies dispensed by "playing around" with the ratio of quarters to 18 cent pieces in order to get as close to the target change as possible.
-hero.
Just by using the 18 cent coin and the 5 cent coin, you can get every single digit in the right hand column which as you say is a cycle of 1. However it is precisely this feature that helps minimize the number of coins given as change. In the current system you're required to give out on average 9/5 or 1.8 pennies per transaction because you can only obtain a 0 or a 5 with the other coins. The new 18 cent coin will ensure that you are required to give out many fewer pennies because you will often be able to arrive much closer to the target change amount.
My point is, the very feature that can minimize coin count will also cause addition difficulties for cashier staff and thus we can never hope to find a perfect solution. Although it may work if you allow computers to do all the change computations, for example, at a safeway near my place change is dispensed automatically by a machine. It would be trivial to reconfigure that machine to use a new 18 cent coin.
-hero.
That's what really pisses me off. Diamonds are a very very useful natural resource, but instead of being able to take advantage of that, we're forced to pay huge prices only to have them end up as decorations on some floozy. deBeers is evil.
-hero.
Nice Y2K bug in one of the replies to that post:
"Posted by Linda on February 13, 19100 at 08:16:54:"
Anyway, you're right, it does seem like this happens. I had all of my wisdom teeth removed without any adverse effects, besides vomiting up a bunch of blood and junk after the surgery (yay! but I hear that's normal). I would be seriously pissed if I was constantly drooling because I couldn't drink properly with a numb tongue, imagine how many keyboards I'd ruin!
-hero.
At 7KBps (== 56Kbps/8), you could play every second of the day and still use only 0.6MB of bandwidth... leaving you 65.4 or so for other purposes.
That's some interesting math you have there. At 7KB/sec, 0.6MB of bandwidth would actually be used up in 94 seconds, not a whole day.
60 (seconds) x 60 (minutes) x (24 hours) = 86400 seconds in a day.
7KB/s x 86400 = 604800 KB = 590MB per day.
Which then equates to just over 17GB in a 30 day month, as another poster has correctly indicated.
And 2 gigs in a month is about equivalent to about 66 megs per day, that's stiflingly small. When I got my first cable modem years ago, we had limits like that, now it's a more sensible 10 gigs down, 1 gig up. Perhaps Cornell should think of splitting their upload from their download since the uploading probably costs them more (just a guess, no facts to back that up.)
The more and malicious students and staff will always look for ways to get around the system, but with limits like this, everyone will be looking for ethical and unethical ways to abuse it, ultimately costing a ton of wasted time to both them and the network admins who have to implement new solutions to curb the abuse. I doubt this system will be beneficial on the whole for the university.
-hero.
P.S.
Oh, I see you've corrected yourself since I wrote this, ah well, I'm going to post anyway. Sorry!
Okay, this is going to sound bad, but...
I think the perfect situation for a guy would be if you met your girlfriend on valentine's day and it also happened to be her birthday. Now you can cover three events in one! (anniversary, birthday, valentine's day) And if you propose on that day, and get married on that day, you've got it made. I'm sure you're thinking.. "Well then I have to work three times as hard to please her!" Perhaps you will have to work harder, but I figure as long as you do more than her friend's boyfriend's do, you're golden. Even if you spend 3 times the cash, it will require not nearly as much planning and time. Perhaps some others are thinking "Well then I don't get 3 days with automatic sex." I say if you're not getting it regularily anyway, she doesn't deserve a damn thing.
Call me cynical, cheap, evil.. whatever.. but I still say that'd be a sweet setup.
-hero.
Hmm, you're quite right. This person exclusively posts plagiarized comments all day, usually they steal a comment that has been moderated +5 for being insightful. However, I suspect karma isn't their ultimate goal, look at the URL they have set: (http://www.keithbowmanauto.com/) They're just trying to get moderated up so more people will see and visit that URL, which is just some lousy car dealership. Just goes to show that if there's a new low level that can be stooped to, advertising will stoop first.
-hero.
You have to wait another 6.5 hours? I saw it at 12:01am this morning. I'm tired as hell though today.. I left the theatre at 3:10am and got to work at 7:10am. I'd say that everyone in the theatre was aged 16-28, and of course there were a few crazies that dressed up. However, it was all worth it, the movie exceeded my expectations and I'll be watching it again this weekend!
-hero.
Haha.. awesome find man, thanks. This will give me hours of reading pleasure. All he does is complain about his dogs and his entire family, including his kids and especially is apparently very obese wife.
I liked this one:
How to Write Your Own Life Story: A Step by Step Guide for the Non-Professional Writer by Lois Daniel
Life dealt my wife Marjorie a poor hand to begin with, and not much came up on the flop; but thanks to this fantastic guide she is planning on penning a genuinely moving and heartwarming account of triumph over adversity. Or revelling in her own victimhood. It depends on your perspective.
-hero.
I did in fact read the article. You should note that I was replying to the user who claimed that this technology had the ability to "push net radio into the mainstream."
While I agree that this could scale down the technical costs for a net radio station, it will have no effect whatsoever on the royalty fees this station must pay. And I suspect that the royalty fees are the most expensive part of the whole operation, though I have no stats handy.
-hero.
That may be true if it were peeling off the copyright instead of the bitrate.
Though it does sound like a pretty cool way to downsample a stream.
-hero.
There's been a couple duplicates today, we must really be starved for news.
I think I'll submit a story...
"This just in, Chinese scientists, working feverishly for the past decade, have discovered a unique combination of chemicals that when combined with heat produce an explosion able to propel sharp metal objects down a tube at a high velocity. This 'Gun Powder,' as it's being dubbed, is set to revolutionize the battlefield. In other news, Springfling, the world's leading bow and arrow manufacturer, apparently worried about their stock prices, have dubbed the new invention blasphemous, unreliable and claim that it's unlikely to have any effect on the way empires carry out their wars."
-hero.
Mr. Shatner,
Star Trek has been parodied many times in many different formats; other television shows, movies, comics and so on. You yourself have probably been parodied as much or more in people's "Captain Kirk Impression" stand up skits and the like. My question is, do you recall a favourite parody for it's comedy or cleverness of either yourself or the series?
Thank you.
Interesting. I guess the "geek tan" would be changed from all white, to all white with a brown hand. What's so special about them that they can cause these problems? Clubs and bars use ultraviolet lights all the time.
-hero.
How about black light on a white mouse pad? That would be pretty nifty.
-hero.
Oh boo hoo. I went to see last year's meteor shower and I'm up in northern Canada, we just brought lots of hot chocolate and we were fine, eh. Then one of the meteorites came flying down and landed in the field, it was still hot so we put some grass and wood on it and a huge bonfire to keep warm eh. Then the aliens came down and wanted their rock back so we had to give it to them, but they let us go without a probing, which was nice. Come to think of it, I think our hot chocolate's may have been a wee bit Irish. I like stories. Don't you like stories?
-hero.
Suppose that a spanish-inspired Merrill-Lynch advertising campaign is following them down broadway...
-hero.
Cathy, One of the best parts of Junkyard Wars was all the humour, I found many things to laugh at in each episode, especially when the hosts were talking to the teams about their plans going awry. My question is, what was your favourite funny moment in the whole series? And as a side question, because he's just too funny, what was your favourite moment involving Robert Llewellyn?
Thanks,
-stu.