The *EXACT* resistance across a knight's move is actually:
4/pi - 1/2
I'd been working on this for a while before I got the GLAT in DDJ.
The rec.puzzles FAQ is an OK starting point for getting this answer, but it has unclear English...
http://rec-puzzles.org/sol.pl/physics/resistors
Note to Google: thanks for the interesting puzzles, but it's degrading to make smart people do parlor tricks and jump through hoops for a job interview.
So, I'm spilling the answer in the hopes of making the GLAT useless as a screening tool.
Quickest synopsis I'm willing to write: most people actually LIKE buying lowest-common denominator crap like Starbucks, Disney, and Microsoft. They watch TV news and Will Smiff movies.
Alternatives are available for the minority that wants something better and is willing to invest a bit of time seeking it out. The alternatives will always be commercially less successful because they take more effort.
I hated that book... Stephenson's ignorance of the subject matter was very distracting.
I've never read any of his SF, but now I know not to. He was trying SO FSCKING HARD to sound like a hip knowitall WiredMag techie, and falling quite flat in the effort. It was pathetic.
I don't see how that book helps anyone formulate an opinion on Word or EMACS or anything else.
BTW: In the beginning, there was no command line, Neal!
A) some wrong answer B) Jackson's PRECIOUS video data. C) some other wrong answer. D) yet another wrong answer
Yes, the answer is B. Now, the analogy to the RING's fiery doom would therefore be a fiery doom of some iPod-borne data you're trying to get rid of (let's not speculate on what that might be).
Is EVERYBODY here just responding to the last crappy Terminator movie? Recap: cyborg Ahhnold (Republican!) throws his "fuel cell" out the car window and as he drives away, it causes a massive nukular (Republican spelling) explosion in the desert.
I remember seeing that and thinking of how screwed up it was to see a republican cyborg driving a gas-guzzler and trying to scare America away from cleaner energy sources. That movie is the only contact most Americans will have with fuel cells, and they blew it (literally) for decades to come, I imagine...
Judging from the response of the Slashdotters so far, I'd say the collective brain damage was pretty severe!!
What the hell kind of name is that? It's got to be one of the worst acronyms ever. Some sort of tortured compound acronym, I guess. Maybe it's a sort of pig-latin derivative that Tony and his siblings developed, and we just aren't in on the inside joke. "Leggovos my eGOvos!"
I can't figure out what it's supposed to accomplish. If it's a FS/OS advocacy platform and showcase, then why is Microsoft there at all? Tony Stanco and Bruce Perens both seem to be of the opinion that Microsoft will somehow embarrass themselves by showing up and speaking amid all of the real free software companies and developers. This is NOT going to happen. Microsoft is going to do their typical Hollywood pyrotechnics and when everyone's hypnotized they'll start talking about how great.NET works on FreeBSD, or how great Services for Unix(tm) is, or some other embrace-and-extend nonsense. "Pragmatists" who don't know any better are goind to fall for it like they always do, and jobs doing free software integration will be lost thanks to Microsoft's presence at the conference.
O-STEP is another winning acronym for a program of source code escrow? Sounds like one of the most artificial and forced cases of free software backpedalling. Who would actually use this program? Why bother? Either you release it or you don't. When you put a "time-bomb" on open-sourcing software, you're treating open code as something to be avoided. Open code seems most useful in the early stages of product. "Release Early, Release Often", right? right? How useful was Netscape's release? Not as useful as it would have been if project was open from the beginning. Dealing with WordPerfect source code at this point will be similarly bewildering. It's just a stupid idea.
lokmail is the only webmail service that actually
uses good old fashioned PGP encryption over
an SSL link. I think promoting PGP use
and not a new proprietary encryption system is
a better way to fly. You can get a free
PGP webmail account at lokmail right now.
Ignore Yahoo.
If the encryption isn't interoperable with
other email encryption standards, it's not
going to do a lot of good, and it's going
to be annying to receive messages from these
people. I think Yahoo would love to send out
messages all over the place saying "you have an
encrypted email from a Yahoo! user. Please visit
Yahoo to retrieve it, and look at a bunch of ads while you're there".. That's what this boils down to for me..
The party is more important than the man (we don't elect a dictator). Economic freedom is #1. Vote Republican.
Is that the kind of thinking which Republicans for Bush are reduced to? My God that's pathetic. How about this: The people are more important than the party OR the man... Personal freedom is #1. Vote Green!
God knows where ICANN came up with that figure..
No doubt the fee was designed to try and exclude
small businesses and entrepreneurs from the domain
game and to raise over $2million for their near-vacuous coffers.
With this $50,000 application fee,
ICANN has assured that no non-profit or
other cost-sensitive operation would even
apply, and has cleared the path somewhat for
their giant Telco and TM buddies to hijack the
whole 'new' system.
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The *EXACT* resistance across a knight's move
is actually:
4/pi - 1/2
I'd been working on this for a while before
I got the GLAT in DDJ.
The rec.puzzles FAQ is an OK starting point
for getting this answer, but it has unclear
English...
http://rec-puzzles.org/sol.pl/physics/resistors
Note to Google: thanks for the interesting
puzzles, but it's degrading to make smart
people do parlor tricks and jump through
hoops for a job interview.
So, I'm spilling the answer in the hopes
of making the GLAT useless as a screening tool.
Of course I read it.. Don't be an jerk.
Quickest synopsis I'm willing to write:
most people actually LIKE buying lowest-common
denominator crap like Starbucks, Disney, and
Microsoft. They watch TV news and Will Smiff movies.
Alternatives are available for the
minority that wants something better and is
willing to invest a bit of time seeking it
out. The alternatives will always be
commercially less successful because they
take more effort.
That's NOT easy!
I hated that book... Stephenson's ignorance
of the subject matter was very distracting.
I've never read any of his SF, but now I know
not to. He was trying SO FSCKING HARD to sound
like a hip knowitall WiredMag techie, and falling
quite flat in the effort. It was pathetic.
I don't see how that book helps anyone formulate
an opinion on Word or EMACS or anything else.
BTW: In the beginning, there was no
command line, Neal!
Yakov painted the great mural "America's Heart"
which was displayed over Ground Zero.
http://www.yakov.com
Here's an SAT question for you...
:: iPod : ____
Frodo : Ring
A) some wrong answer
B) Jackson's PRECIOUS video data.
C) some other wrong answer.
D) yet another wrong answer
Yes, the answer is B.
Now, the analogy to the RING's fiery doom
would therefore be a fiery doom of some
iPod-borne data you're trying to get rid of
(let's not speculate on what that might be).
Joke REJECTED!
It's not sexist, that's just a screenshot of the
phone detecting an incoming booty call.
It's a VERY smart phone...
Oh come on, how's that a troll?
Is EVERYBODY here just responding to the last
crappy Terminator movie? Recap: cyborg Ahhnold
(Republican!) throws his "fuel cell" out the car
window and as he drives away, it causes a massive
nukular (Republican spelling) explosion in the
desert.
I remember seeing that and thinking of how
screwed up it was to see a republican cyborg
driving a gas-guzzler and trying to scare America
away from cleaner energy sources. That movie is
the only contact most Americans will have with
fuel cells, and they blew it (literally) for
decades to come, I imagine...
Judging from the response of the Slashdotters so
far, I'd say the collective brain damage was
pretty severe!!
What the hell kind of name is that? It's got to be one of the worst acronyms ever. Some sort of tortured compound acronym, I guess. Maybe it's a sort of pig-latin derivative that Tony and his siblings developed, and we just aren't in on the inside joke. "Leggovos my eGOvos!"
.NET works on FreeBSD, or how great Services for Unix(tm) is, or some other embrace-and-extend nonsense. "Pragmatists" who don't know any better are goind to fall for it like they always do, and jobs doing free software integration will be lost thanks to Microsoft's presence at the conference.
I can't figure out what it's supposed to accomplish. If it's a FS/OS advocacy platform and showcase, then why is Microsoft there at all? Tony Stanco and Bruce Perens both seem to be of the opinion that Microsoft will somehow embarrass themselves by showing up and speaking amid all of the real free software companies and developers. This is NOT going to happen. Microsoft is going to do their typical Hollywood pyrotechnics and when everyone's hypnotized they'll start talking about how great
O-STEP is another winning acronym for a program of source code escrow? Sounds like one of the most artificial and forced cases of free software backpedalling. Who would actually use this program? Why bother? Either you release it or you don't. When you put a "time-bomb" on open-sourcing software, you're treating open code as something to be avoided. Open code seems most useful in the early stages of product. "Release Early, Release Often", right? right? How useful was Netscape's release? Not as useful as it would have been if project was open from the beginning. Dealing with WordPerfect source code at this point will be similarly bewildering. It's just a stupid idea.
actually, someone removed his phone number from the last line, and invalidated the signature.
Here's the real message...
Well, their money's as green as anyone's..
I don't think it has anything to do with alignment..
Yeah, like when Vint Cerf flatly rejected .iii,
drawing on his unquestionable techical knowledge:
"dot i-i-i? What does that mean?
That means nothing to me."
Seems at least one of the criteria is that
it has to be aesthetically pleasing to Dr Cerf.
gnupg wouldn't page the memory to disk.
It uses mlock
you so crazy...
lokmail
is the only webmail service that actually
uses good old fashioned PGP encryption over
an SSL link. I think promoting PGP use
and not a new proprietary encryption system is
a better way to fly. You can get a free
PGP webmail account at lokmail right now.
Ignore Yahoo.
If the encryption isn't interoperable with
other email encryption standards, it's not
going to do a lot of good, and it's going
to be annying to receive messages from these
people. I think Yahoo would love to send out
messages all over the place saying "you have an
encrypted email from a Yahoo! user. Please visit
Yahoo to retrieve it, and look at a bunch of ads while you're there".. That's what this boils down to for me..
They aren't.
They're using Zyx, or whatever it's spelled as.
It's a server-side encryption.
Yahoo holds the keys..
enter lokmail!
The party is more important than the man (we don't elect a dictator). Economic freedom is #1. Vote Republican.
Is that the kind of thinking which Republicans for Bush are reduced to? My God that's pathetic. How about this: The people are more important than the party OR the man... Personal freedom is #1. Vote Green!
"There he goes with the fuzzy numbers again."
G.W. Bush
Nader's made the point that not a single Democratic senator voted against Thomas.
Fuck Roe v. Wade.. We've got bigger fish to fry.
Wasn't Brock Meeks the coorupt detective
who was decomposing under the old lady's
back porch in
LA Confidential?...
No, that was Buz Meeks.. nevermind...
Well, they may have taken your TLDs, but
they can never take your...
FREEEDOOMMMMMM!!!
God knows where ICANN came up with that figure..
No doubt the fee was designed to try and exclude
small businesses and entrepreneurs from the domain
game and to raise over $2million for their near-vacuous coffers.
With this $50,000 application fee,
ICANN has assured that no non-profit or
other cost-sensitive operation would even
apply, and has cleared the path somewhat for
their giant Telco and TM buddies to hijack the
whole 'new' system.