Why did you use a link to Amazon.Com? Why not twenty links to the web sites of small bookstores and independent reviewers of the book? Oh, you didn't make the effort to find them? When you wanted a Persian rug, did you make the effort to find one that was made in your town? Contract to have one made locally?
Oh, sorry, we have 50 states, so in the USA you should have at least 50 links -- you shouldn't encourage business to go outside the state.
I'm glad I don't live in Rhode Island. They'd have run out of oil and iron ore a long time ago...well, maybe they could harvest enough fish oil for their needs.
You also buy your press coverage. The AP article said:
"...a pro-Microsoft trade group, the Washington-based Association for Competitive Technology, said only Microsoft's competitors don't want to see a settlement."
"...file formats and the Win32 api that MS and Windows based 3rd party applications use were to be fully documented for once by the establishment of an Justice Dept.controlled escrow for MS source code...."
That's a start. I suggested that all interfaces be publicly documented. Including API, SDK, file formats, protocols, drivers, and OS calls. If any interface is shown to not be adequately documented, the source code for that component will be made public domain. Thus either everyone can interact with all the components, or everyone can figure out how to interact with it -- with the penalty of MS losing control of that code and everyone being able to use the code as well as the interface (in addition to any other penalties the court may apply). It appears that this is not exactly what is being considered.
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Oh. Liquid hydrogen or kerosene at 70PSI? Have to mix it with air...a jet or turboprop would probably take too long to build (even if you can start with an automotive turbocharger) -- a ramjet is simple enough though.
It probably would be the noisiest entry. Particularly loud if the liquid hydrogen version shatters the plastic bottle while the glowplug is hot.
The argument still is relevant. If your ISP is affected by TeleGlobe's behavior, as a customer you can tell your ISP of the problems and they can decide what to do. Well, maybe your laws don't let you complain...I don't know. Or maybe TeleGlobe's spamming behavior is required due to the laws which they have to obey.
Various governments have wiped out pirate havens in the past. But that was generally a task for their Navy and Marine forces -- are there any spammers within range of a 16-inch gun?
The real problem is solving problems which don't have one true solution, i.e. recognising an object in a random, slightly blurred photograph from a moving vehicle.
In this case, those are two problems: creating the routine which judges the correctness, and making the mutation routine create mutations so that both routines can handle multiple answers. Processing images has an increase in the complexity of the processing, but with the proper image-processing routines the mutable code won't necessarily be all that complex. But if you want to use mutation to create the image-processing routines, go ahead...but start by having code which first tries to identify the difference between a fly and a butterfly and becomes more complex after that, don't plan on feeding it CNN right away.
In the example given, when I think I recognize an object in that situation I remember the appearance of the object and when I later see a similar object I judge how well I identified it the first time. The delay might range from fractions of a second (that looked like a street sign -- wriggle my head and look through a different part of the wet windshield) to days (when I'm not moving on a sunny day and see another copy of the blurry billboard seen earlier).
Yes, COSMIC is also mentioned by this announcement.
"Originally published as part of the COSMIC collection - 500+ programs across the widest imaginable range of disciplines - NASA CLASSIC software essentially is the "retail" end of that collection.
Unfortunately, COSMIC has been dead since 1998. Their web page finally says the stuff is available again. The page was modified 10-Apr-2001, so apparently openchannelfoundation.org has had the collection for several months. COSMIC links to this list of that collection.
Is it too late to tell the Germans that their Enigma system is no longer secret, or is it now illegal for me to disclose such details about encryption? Maybe it's now illegal to send The History Channel outside the USA cable TV system.
Well, I just heard on a broadcast news report that burning the paper mail to Congress is being considered. Perhaps your letter may literally feed the flames...
If you're a USA citizen, you might try emailing your congressional representatives with your opinions. Snail mail used to be considered more valuable, but recently Congress staff members have been encouraging email use.
About 20 years ago, a whistling code for robot control was suggested.
It's pretty easy to detect several frequencies of whistles, so command can be made from sequences of whistling. It was pointed out that high-low sequences would be easiest (rather than combinations of 3 or more tones), as individual people could use what was high-low tones for them rather than trying to train humans to have better pitch control.
That's much more elegant than what I thought -- that a spinning off-center disc was constantly wriggling it, so it would simply tend to bounce off a wall.
But spinning in the opposite direction fits the mention of orientation to the lighting. And reaction to a wall impact will make motors be active only briefly, which will make batteries last a reasonable time.
The winner and effect of the 1996 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry is not exactly a secret...not that there has been consumer demand yet to ignite charcoal in 3 seconds, nor is there a consumer grill which is not severely damaged by the process.
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An LWN link for this issue does exist already, so people in the future can find the column which we are talking about.
Oh, sorry, we have 50 states, so in the USA you should have at least 50 links -- you shouldn't encourage business to go outside the state.
I'm glad I don't live in Rhode Island. They'd have run out of oil and iron ore a long time ago...well, maybe they could harvest enough fish oil for their needs.
(Yes, I do know what da means)
Not trusting fragile paper, we here at All The News Fit For History keep all our archives in .DOC files so they are properly preserved for the future.
And on Halloween the one which follows you around keeps muttering "...lameness filter encountered, must remove lameness..."
And I don't think I've had my room become a vacuum for a second. But I'm glad that our bodies can withstand vacuum for much longer than that.
It probably would be the noisiest entry. Particularly loud if the liquid hydrogen version shatters the plastic bottle while the glowplug is hot.
Various governments have wiped out pirate havens in the past. But that was generally a task for their Navy and Marine forces -- are there any spammers within range of a 16-inch gun?
In the example given, when I think I recognize an object in that situation I remember the appearance of the object and when I later see a similar object I judge how well I identified it the first time. The delay might range from fractions of a second (that looked like a street sign -- wriggle my head and look through a different part of the wet windshield) to days (when I'm not moving on a sunny day and see another copy of the blurry billboard seen earlier).
Mercury!
Cleanup is left as an exercise for the experimenter.
This calendar-project will only slow mozilla-development if the latter uses the former to schedule mozilla-development activities.
Is it too late to tell the Germans that their Enigma system is no longer secret, or is it now illegal for me to disclose such details about encryption? Maybe it's now illegal to send The History Channel outside the USA cable TV system.
(Now what? Write them a letter about it?...)
I'll have to check if my representatives have PayPal accounts. I don't see a tip jar on their home pages.
If you're a USA citizen, you might try emailing your congressional representatives with your opinions. Snail mail used to be considered more valuable, but recently Congress staff members have been encouraging email use.
Oh, good, so now it's easier to use GPS on devices with ion engines?
It's pretty easy to detect several frequencies of whistles, so command can be made from sequences of whistling. It was pointed out that high-low sequences would be easiest (rather than combinations of 3 or more tones), as individual people could use what was high-low tones for them rather than trying to train humans to have better pitch control.
The codebook says "governement" means "Buy more milk".
But spinning in the opposite direction fits the mention of orientation to the lighting. And reaction to a wall impact will make motors be active only briefly, which will make batteries last a reasonable time.
The winner and effect of the 1996 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry is not exactly a secret...not that there has been consumer demand yet to ignite charcoal in 3 seconds, nor is there a consumer grill which is not severely damaged by the process.