The problem is that now - for obvious reasons - the card now has to stay in the reader during the transaction. This means that stupid idiots like me constantly forget their cards in the reader.
It is sad how - almost lifesaving - skills become obsolete...
I miss all the great fun with config.sys and autoexec.bat.
Making the CD ROM drive work after booting into DOS from a floppy. Or the art of memory optimization. Fiddling with programs and upper, extended, and expanded memory, so you could free 620kB out of 640kB conventional memory to run your new game. Games which by the way had a completely superior gameplay, compared to the games of today:-)
I think you made an error, or did'nt leave your code running long enough. If your number is a solution to f(n)=n, then the next 8 numbers are also solutions, because the next numbers has exactly one 1-digit.
The solution _probably_ lies somewhere passed 10^10, since the "average" number below 10^10 has less than one 1-digit, whlie larger numbers has more than one 1-digit. Which means that f(x)1 for x>10^10, i.e. the slope is greater than 1, which means that f(x)>x for x>>10^10.
Somewhere the lines f(x) and x cross, but since it is a step function, they could cross without f(x)=x happening. That I dont know, but my guess would be somewhere passed 10^10
Second, I can talk for free with my skype friends, (and cheap with regular phone people) using my bluetooth headset. I can recommend that option... I primarily uses Skype when I plan to talk for some time, and then its great to be able to walk around and have both hands free... (at least I could until i broke my headset)
OK, its not a Skype feature per se, but I like it:-)
Feel free to be pissed. An feel free to politically express your concern and bla bla bla... but do not try to impose your laws on other countries.
I consider the whole legal system of the US very much inferior to not just our system, but inferior to most countries in the world. I could give
many examples: Weapons, the importance of money when fighting in a court, totally strange lawsuits when poeple have acted stupid (smoking, eating burgers), using religion in a court and many many more.
I do not wish to have ANY US law influencing me in any way. (Unless of course I go the US)
If my country did "something wrong" I do not wish for another bully country to try to enforce their vision of the "right way". Take it up with the UN.
OK, maybe I though I knew more about the subject than I actually do (no suprise there), but anyway:
Every single one (a total of two) of my washers only used cold water, and heated it itself.
I would guess the the reasons are that the clothes will get clean even though someone has used all the warm water, and you don't need access to warm water, which means you save on the plumping job required to install the washer.
I might, under presure, admit that I maybe generalized a little too much. To my excuse I had statistical evidence, which supported my theory. (the above mentioned washers).
VMware is excellent for "work", actually it is down right great. But I can't seem to get it to perform well with games. I have tried many, but a just can't get them to work properly.
Several of my games refused to start, claiming that I had a debugger running (I can only remember Civ III, but there were others). I guess I can't blaim VMware for that.
Other games just wouldn't start, for example Worms, Heroes of Might and Magic, Fifa 2000 (3D accel maybe, dont-know.)
Generally speaking I am a little disappointed in the gaming performance, but surprisingly my Boss can't see the problem.
Now I have to dual boot to play windows games, and it makes it damn tricky to change the screen to something workrelated fast enough. On the other hand it has improved my skills in XPilot and Freeciv...
Relax i little now. It is not that dangerous to play with liquid nitrogen. It IS cold, but you can get by with just a minimum of commen sense (as with a lot of other stuff, hot water for instance).
One good thing to know for example is: Dont drink it:-)
Do you use a glove everytime you "play" with boiling water?
We have some nice traditions here at the Technical Univeristy of Denmark. We have a yearly Christmas Lunch for all the students within my area, where some of the 1. year students make icecream as fast as possible. About 4 teams with 4 team members. One to mix incredients, one to hold the bowl (he has a glove, since it has to go fast), one to use the electric mixer, and one to pour the nitrogen. Its great fun. It takes about half a minute to make great vanilla icecream. It's the dessert of the lunch. Then the remains of the nitrogen is used to cool beer in plastic cups. Thats great fun also, and nobody has ever gotten (seriously) hurt, even though the average person might be a little drunk at the time.
Anyway, it is not that dangerous. You can easily stick a finger in it, or have some in your hand.
It is because of the Lighten-Frost effect (As I recall). Your skin evaporates some of the nitrogen, which then acts as an excellent insulater between you and the very cold stuff. This also works for very warm stuff. Liquid lead at 600 degrees (Celcius of course) for example.
Many many poeple will use the software they are used to, when they get a job, and the software companies are of course aware of this. I work at the Technical University of Denmark and many software producers have offered free access to their software
to all dormitories on campus. This mean that while I was studying, I could legally use almost all of M$'s products at my home computer. Let me point out here that I did NOT do that:-).
The software producers do this - of course - because they know that we'll propably continue to use whatever software we used during our studies. I, for instance, am totally hooked on matlab and vmware. I used them for free and legally during my studies, and now I have bought them for my work.
You could never get ANY student to buy a copy of M$ Office. (Unless it come with the PC).
Actually - as we speak - the danish version of the RIAA is filing lawsuits against about 160 students for downloading movies, games and music from an FTP server. They are NOT beeing sued for downloading programs, even though every damn program was on that server. Thier lawyer is also the lawyer for the BSA, but they don't care. They want the students to use their software.
I am currently writing my master's thesis, and it is in english, which is not my native language.
I have actually wondered i bit over when to use "that" and when to use "which". Could anybody
clear that up for me in even more detail, than the parent of this post? It would be appriciated...
The string just have to become thicker on its way up. MUCH thicker. As i remember a steel wire would have to be approximately 5000 km thick at the top to be one mm at the ground - a little impractical.
Arthur C. Clarke was asked to predict when a space elavator would be build: 50 years after poeple stopped laughing:-)
Maybe it can be done. Nanotubes could be a "realistic" material. From the numbers I remember, the nanotube would have to be 30cm wide at the top to hold a reasonable payload, so maybe it will see the light of day sometime in the far future.
Give the spacecraft a push, so you can wait until a certain hight before you turn on the rockets.
This is great if the rockets then actually ignite.
Otherwise you would look kind of silly just throwing a spacecraft high into the air and then just watching as it drops:-)
By the way - to all those posts discussing geo-stationary orbit and earth escape velocity.
You dont need to go all that way:-)
The space station is orbiting in approximately 400
km, and it is much cheaper to go there.
You would not get dizzy. You cannot "feel" velocity, you can only feel accelration.
In a rotating spaceship you would constantly be accelrated towards the middle of the circle --- by the centripetal force (The floor would push you).
You would feel an imaginary force downwards --- the centrfugal force --- originating from you trying to continue in a straight line.
This would feel exactly like gravity --- which of course was also the purpose of it all.
You would only be dizzy (I think) if the circle was too small. Then there would be a large difference in artificial gravity for your head and feet. Things would no longer fall in a stright line (downwards:-) if you dropped them. Imagine r=2 meters. Your head would stand allmost still, while your feet spinned violently around:-) That would make you quite dizzy I think:-)
I don't see the resemblence between the (usually) girl who wants to become a nurse, and the (usually) boy who thinks: "Where can I find the coolest toys? OK Thats where I will work."
Isn't that view mainly for engineers...?
Of course engineer nurses would help on the nurse-shortage,but I know what will happen:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=2001072 7
Isn't it completely wrong to talk about "the lowest sound humans can hear"?
Isn't the bell-scale defined as "some energy thing" measured 1 meter from the source?
So I would think, that the lowest sound a human can hear, would depend on the distance?????
It is easy to hear a human breathe if you stick your ear in his mouth!
Ougar
It is because for larger currents, the cable is no longer super-conducting. When the power becomes to high the magnetic field enters the cable, destroying the super-conductivity.
Actually the amount of power super-conducting cables can transmit, is a function of temperature. These cables become super-conducting at approx. minus 160 degrees celcius, but they are held at a lower temperature to allow larger currents.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem is that now - for obvious reasons - the card now has to stay in the reader during the transaction. This means that stupid idiots like me constantly forget their cards in the reader.
It is sad how - almost lifesaving - skills become obsolete...
:-)
I miss all the great fun with config.sys and autoexec.bat.
Making the CD ROM drive work after booting into DOS from a floppy. Or the art of memory optimization. Fiddling with programs and upper, extended, and expanded memory, so you could free 620kB out of 640kB conventional memory to run your new game. Games which by the way had a completely superior gameplay, compared to the games of today
Reminds of the dilbert where he goes to the accounting department and he see the randum number generator troll.
....
Number generating troll: nine, nine, nine, nine, nine,
Dilbert: Are you sure its random numbers?
Acounting troll: That's the thing about random numbers. You can never be sure...
Ups... My mistake
:-)
The problem, apparently, is my lack of english skills.
I thought they wanted the second-largest number to match, which is quite a large number....
So, nothing wrong with your solution. But hey, this is slashdot, so not reading the story is almost mandatory
Ougar
I think you made an error, or did'nt leave your code running long enough. If your number is a solution to f(n)=n, then the next 8 numbers are also solutions, because the next numbers has exactly one 1-digit.
The solution _probably_ lies somewhere passed 10^10, since the "average" number below 10^10 has less than one 1-digit, whlie larger numbers has more than one 1-digit. Which means that f(x)1 for x>10^10, i.e. the slope is greater than 1, which means that f(x)>x for x>>10^10.
Somewhere the lines f(x) and x cross, but since it is a step function, they could cross without f(x)=x happening. That I dont know, but my guess would be somewhere passed 10^10
Ougar
First of all: Yay, they made a Linux version :-)
:-)
Second, I can talk for free with my skype friends, (and cheap with regular phone people) using my bluetooth headset. I can recommend that option...
I primarily uses Skype when I plan to talk for some time, and then its great to be able to walk around and have both hands free... (at least I could until i broke my headset)
OK, its not a Skype feature per se, but I like it
"No, no, it's called expert"
I now use that every single time...
FYI... My RH7.3 with gcc 2.96 and a 2.4.20 kernel is also vulnerable.
At least if you don't have en infinite improbability drive. Then you could break the encryption AND travel to the restaurant.... Oh newer mind.
Every time I reread any of Douglas Adams' books, my friends think I become strange.
I guess they believe, that somebody have learned to count correctly since the last time :-)
Can anyone suggest a good compiler for floting point number crunching on Athlon based systems? (For Linux, and preferably free or not too expensive)
Great. Just what is needed. Another proprietary file format.
:-)
/.'ed)
And I though Microsoft was going to embrace and exte^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H XML
Looks like file-format-joy for several more years for the Word users.
(And I haven't read the article. It's
I consider the whole legal system of the US very much inferior to not just our system, but inferior to most countries in the world. I could give many examples: Weapons, the importance of money when fighting in a court, totally strange lawsuits when poeple have acted stupid (smoking, eating burgers), using religion in a court and many many more.
I do not wish to have ANY US law influencing me in any way. (Unless of course I go the US)
If my country did "something wrong" I do not wish for another bully country to try to enforce their vision of the "right way". Take it up with the UN.
Every single one (a total of two) of my washers only used cold water, and heated it itself.
I would guess the the reasons are that the clothes will get clean even though someone has used all the warm water, and you don't need access to warm water, which means you save on the plumping job required to install the washer.
I might, under presure, admit that I maybe generalized a little too much. To my excuse I had statistical evidence, which supported my theory. (the above mentioned washers).
Kristian
And I totally agree on the buying part. I love to check stuff via the net. Whether it is coffee machines or anything else.
Kristian
Several of my games refused to start, claiming that I had a debugger running (I can only remember Civ III, but there were others). I guess I can't blaim VMware for that.
Other games just wouldn't start, for example Worms, Heroes of Might and Magic, Fifa 2000 (3D accel maybe, dont-know.) Generally speaking I am a little disappointed in the gaming performance, but surprisingly my Boss can't see the problem.
Now I have to dual boot to play windows games, and it makes it damn tricky to change the screen to something workrelated fast enough. On the other hand it has improved my skills in XPilot and Freeciv...
Kristian
Do you use a glove everytime you "play" with boiling water?
We have some nice traditions here at the Technical Univeristy of Denmark. We have a yearly Christmas Lunch for all the students within my area, where some of the 1. year students make icecream as fast as possible. About 4 teams with 4 team members. One to mix incredients, one to hold the bowl (he has a glove, since it has to go fast), one to use the electric mixer, and one to pour the nitrogen. Its great fun. It takes about half a minute to make great vanilla icecream. It's the dessert of the lunch. Then the remains of the nitrogen is used to cool beer in plastic cups. Thats great fun also, and nobody has ever gotten (seriously) hurt, even though the average person might be a little drunk at the time.
Anyway, it is not that dangerous. You can easily stick a finger in it, or have some in your hand. It is because of the Lighten-Frost effect (As I recall). Your skin evaporates some of the nitrogen, which then acts as an excellent insulater between you and the very cold stuff. This also works for very warm stuff. Liquid lead at 600 degrees (Celcius of course) for example.
Kristian
Many many poeple will use the software they are used to, when they get a job, and the software companies are of course aware of this. I work at the Technical University of Denmark and many software producers have offered free access to their software to all dormitories on campus. This mean that while I was studying, I could legally use almost all of M$'s products at my home computer. Let me point out here that I did NOT do that :-).
The software producers do this - of course - because they know that we'll propably continue to use whatever software we used during our studies. I, for instance, am totally hooked on matlab and vmware. I used them for free and legally during my studies, and now I have bought them for my work.
You could never get ANY student to buy a copy of M$ Office. (Unless it come with the PC).
Actually - as we speak - the danish version of the RIAA is filing lawsuits against about 160 students for downloading movies, games and music from an FTP server. They are NOT beeing sued for downloading programs, even though every damn program was on that server. Thier lawyer is also the lawyer for the BSA, but they don't care. They want the students to use their software.
I have actually wondered i bit over when to use "that" and when to use "which". Could anybody clear that up for me in even more detail, than the parent of this post? It would be appriciated...
Please wait a bit with the off-topic mods.
Actually allmost any material could be used.
:-)
The string just have to become thicker on its way up. MUCH thicker. As i remember a steel wire would have to be approximately 5000 km thick at the top to be one mm at the ground - a little impractical.
Arthur C. Clarke was asked to predict when a space elavator would be build: 50 years after poeple stopped laughing
Maybe it can be done. Nanotubes could be a "realistic" material. From the numbers I remember, the nanotube would have to be 30cm wide at the top to hold a reasonable payload, so maybe it will see the light of day sometime in the far future.
kristian
Give the spacecraft a push, so you can wait until a certain hight before you turn on the rockets.
This is great if the rockets then actually ignite. Otherwise you would look kind of silly just throwing a spacecraft high into the air and then just watching as it drops :-)
By the way - to all those posts discussing geo-stationary orbit and earth escape velocity. You dont need to go all that way :-)
The space station is orbiting in approximately 400
km, and it is much cheaper to go there.
Kristian
In a rotating spaceship you would constantly be accelrated towards the middle of the circle --- by the centripetal force (The floor would push you).
You would feel an imaginary force downwards --- the centrfugal force --- originating from you trying to continue in a straight line.
This would feel exactly like gravity --- which of course was also the purpose of it all.
You would only be dizzy (I think) if the circle was too small. Then there would be a large difference in artificial gravity for your head and feet. Things would no longer fall in a stright line (downwards :-) if you dropped them. Imagine r=2 meters. Your head would stand allmost still, while your feet spinned violently around :-) That would make you quite dizzy I think :-)
Kristian
I can't picture it...
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I don't see the resemblence between the (usually) girl who wants to become a nurse, and the (usually) boy who thinks: "Where can I find the coolest toys? OK Thats where I will work."
Isn't that view mainly for engineers...?
Of course engineer nurses would help on the nurse-shortage,but I know what will happen:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=200107
K. Hougaard
Isn't it completely wrong to talk about "the lowest sound humans can hear"? Isn't the bell-scale defined as "some energy thing" measured 1 meter from the source? So I would think, that the lowest sound a human can hear, would depend on the distance????? It is easy to hear a human breathe if you stick your ear in his mouth! Ougar
It is because for larger currents, the cable is no longer super-conducting. When the power becomes to high the magnetic field enters the cable, destroying the super-conductivity.
Actually the amount of power super-conducting cables can transmit, is a function of temperature. These cables become super-conducting at approx. minus 160 degrees celcius, but they are held at a lower temperature to allow larger currents.