This guy has wasted his life. EMC2, an Ubuntu-based CNC milling program, has a JPG to G-code generator. A company I've worked for did this with some commercial success turning baby handprints and footprints into custom milled embossed plaques.
You take your picture, finesse it, and turn it into a 3D-object. Several CAD programs, such as Rhino and Solidworks, have plugins that do the same thing. There are dozens of programs that do this for various prices.
There probably is a minor difference. One byte may increase in weight by the weight of a few electrons depending on its state.
The mass of an electron, being 9.1 x 10^-28 g, is not going to noticably increase the weight of a storage system. A petabyte is 10^15, so we're looking at 1.5 x 10^-10 grams for 2 petabytes of electrons, assuming 2 electrons per byte. (The extra factor of 8 is bits in a byte.) Even if we assume 2000 electrons per byte, we're getting a completely negligible mass, given the mass of the physical storage medium. Hell, you can ignore that mass compared to a grain of rice.
Did you know that when it was invented, the bosses at Bell labs said "there will never be an application for a room-temperature laser"?
Anyway, speaking of times changing: Before I was born, my dad got out of the Navy and went into an electronics store to buy some items for a home project.
"I'd like to buy some LEDs."
"Uh, what are those?"
"Small round lights, solid state, produce a red light when you apply power."
"They... uh... they don't make anything like that, sir."
It is very convenient - there are a few reference books that I check out frequently, and being able to log in, go to my history, and click the title to put it back on hold is great. (The grammar in that sentence is terrible. I should check out a book on sentence construction.)
It also lets me keep track of where I am in a series or what books my kids liked best.
Haven't owned that many cell phones but all the ones I have had include a Location option with two choices:
Location
E911 Only
If you set to E911 Only, does this enable privacy unless you call for E911 services or is the provider still tracking your location or enabling location based services?
I would suggest that if you're in E911 mode, then you're saying it's okay for the police to know where you are.
It's not a question of multi-core architecture. No commercial program on earth takes advantage of more than two cores, not even the high-end drafting programs on mirrored quad Xeons.
So this multi-process browsing makes the underlying code behave the way Firefox looks like it behaves. What you get is each tab or each window spawning its own process - or runtime space - in the OS. This keeps them from interfering from each other under normal circumstances.
This means that while you're waiting for a Flash player to load the rest of your tabs will keep working. (For example, if you're using Ubuntu and you want to see something on Youtube.) If one website freezes or crashes, you don't get every tab and window thrown out.
Mods, the parent's Offtopic rating is unfair. He's simply mistaken about terminology.
Moreover, the unlawful activities fall under different Acts (or statutes? What do Americans call them?)
For example, murder is against the Criminal Code of Canada.
Speeding is in the Motor Vehicles Act. (And there's a great loophole there, should you care to read through this Act.)
Practicing Engineering without a licence is against the Engineers and Geoscientists Act.
Unauthourized duplication of copyrighted material is against the Copyright Act.
The list can go on and on but I won't bother.
Anyway, all of the aforementioned activities are unlawful, but the difference in enforcement and penalties is extreme. It varies from a $125 file to life without parole. Like you, I've always hated the "if you've ever driven even ONE MILE over the limit, that's the same as SERIAL MURDER. IT IS ILLEGAL!!1!ELEVEN!" argument.
I learned that Rust Monsters are as annoying as fuck.
That would teach you both about the importance of a maintenance schedule and the futilty of all work. Everything that we do will eventually wear out and crumble to dust.
Or, put more poetically, "in spite of us, Nature wins."
Wisdom is the sum of all the facts, tidbits, trivia, and other things you remember. How many factoids have you got in the tank? The physical analog would be constitution, sort of.
Intelligence is how quickly you can react to a situation mentally and use the parts of the problem against itself to come up with a solution. Mental dexterity, if you will.
So yes, IQ tests and puzzle questions check your wisdom -- not your intelligence -- since they bascially test "have you seen this problem before?"
My co-worker bought a phone online that allows data transfer via a cable. The provider locked that feature so he'd have to email photos to get them off the phone. He called to complain, and 30 minutes later they pushed an unlock to his phone.
So it's not the iPhone, nor any other phone. It's the features that your carrier arbitrarily decides to lock.
They're pretty clear what you can talk about and with whom. Moreover to your point, if someone takes a strong interest in your work, you shall document and report it as a potential security breach.
Roth is getting a pretty light slap with four years.
Odd...I'm reading positive for both sarcasm and not sarcasm.
Did you buy video cards in this universe or a different one? Every card I've bought was obsolete by the time I've installed it.
If you buy a new game for a PC, it won't play on last year's machine. The machine is obsolete.
If you buy a new game for a console, it will play on that console. The machine is not obsolete.
I would posit that once you're enjoying the gameplay, the graphics aren't as important, but that's just 25+ years of gaming experience talking. Shiny isn't better, kids. It's just shinier. That's like saying Episode I is better than A New Hope because the graphics were better.
If the link fails, it's the Planet Bike Super Flash Rear Light. There is a clip. I've had to start putting it on my pannier. My rear post is used up by the trail-a-bike attachment.
I would strongly advise against "trying to preserve your night vision" or you may end up in phsyiotherapy or in other people as an organ donor.
So, when the speed limit is 30km/h and I am traveling at 36km/h, is that not sufficient? I can burst up to about 50 km/h - the limit in most residential areas.
You should try biking to work every now and then. You sound tense.
Anyway, I agree - some cyclists are douches. So are some drivers.
I bike to work, and I have for years. It's faster for me to ride than to drive, and that includes a shower and change when I get there. (I'm an Engineer, and I wear slacks and a dress shirt.) My view is that any time a car has to pass me or slow down for me then I have failed. I'm also of the view that the lanes are just paint and they don't magically protect you against a driver who - statistically speaking - has a 20% chance of impairment. I stick to back roads and trails whenever it is physically possible. When I am on a major road, I will either go onto the sidewalk if it is possible (risking a $125 traffic ticket for doing so) or I will take the entire lane as I am permitted and required to do so by law.
From personal experience, I know that if I am close to the curb, the driver passing me (and again, I have failed) will try to stay inside the lane. If they think there's a chance that they can pass without going into the other lane, then they will. If I come out about 1 metre (3 feet), then they will pass safely. I have no illusions about how I would fare in an car-involved accident. Bikes represent 1% of all traffic, but 2% of all fatalities.
However, I simply can't ride on the sidewalk if it is populated. I generally sustain 30 km/h, and it's just not feasible for me to navigate around the pedestrians. You know those people who walk into the pedestrian crossings without looking? Where do you think they are when they aren't on the road? Yep, the sidewalk.
But these points are mostly trivial - a painted line won't protect you. Add some distance, say 100m. Throw in some trees, a nice berm, maybe a house or retail setting between you and the traffic, and now you're talking. I plan my routes so that I'm avoiding traffic. There's a trail by my house that takes me downtown. I take that to work.
If someone is riding without lights at night and/or without lights, I can't imagine that you'd face charges. One guy here killed a cyclist who was drunk, no lights, no helmet, and wearing dark clothes at night. He was only charged with "leaving the scene". (Justifiably so)
I think it's just a rear light without any curb sensing.
I bike basically everywhere, and for night biking, I have: four front lights - two LED and two Halogen two armbands - both blinking LEDs LED-equipped reflective vest tire lights (blue LEDs that make blue streaks when moving) a helmet LED 1/2W rear red LED (and, of course, all the reflectors and striping I can find - I have a bigger RADAR signature than a bread van.)
And I still try to stay the hell off the roads. If you're in a car and you get hit by a truck, it'll ruin your day. If you're on your bike, it won't.
Would this be useful? Probably, if they could get rid of the reflective problem. I'd be likely to buy one if it was cheap and... uh, that's really my only criteria. Maybe I'll work on my own out of an old laser pointer I've got kicking around.
I used to weigh 250 pounds. I now weigh 165. All the weight I've lost was fat, caused by eating too much and not exercising.
What worked for me was cycling to work. I end up burning 800+ extra calories each day, and it adds just 15 minutes to my daily routine. (It's a 25km daily ride.) Yes, I also drop kids off at daycare.
The question of you being an hour away - is that due to traffic or distance? If it's distance, then this probably wouldn't work for you. If it's traffic, you'll end up getting to work faster.
Otherwise, you have 3 other days in the week to exercise. Do it or die early.
Oh, and cut out the soda. That'll add mass faster than a black hole.
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You know what, AC, you're right.
This guy has wasted his life. EMC2, an Ubuntu-based CNC milling program, has a JPG to G-code generator. A company I've worked for did this with some commercial success turning baby handprints and footprints into custom milled embossed plaques.
You take your picture, finesse it, and turn it into a 3D-object. Several CAD programs, such as Rhino and Solidworks, have plugins that do the same thing. There are dozens of programs that do this for various prices.
Even better, they only require ONE image.
There probably is a minor difference. One byte may increase in weight by the weight of a few electrons depending on its state.
The mass of an electron, being 9.1 x 10^-28 g, is not going to noticably increase the weight of a storage system. A petabyte is 10^15, so we're looking at 1.5 x 10^-10 grams for 2 petabytes of electrons, assuming 2 electrons per byte. (The extra factor of 8 is bits in a byte.) Even if we assume 2000 electrons per byte, we're getting a completely negligible mass, given the mass of the physical storage medium. Hell, you can ignore that mass compared to a grain of rice.
For such a small article, that was a fascinating read. Thanks for the link.
Did you know that when it was invented, the bosses at Bell labs said "there will never be an application for a room-temperature laser"?
Anyway, speaking of times changing: Before I was born, my dad got out of the Navy and went into an electronics store to buy some items for a home project.
"I'd like to buy some LEDs."
"Uh, what are those?"
"Small round lights, solid state, produce a red light when you apply power."
"They... uh... they don't make anything like that, sir."
*remembers that they were Not Released Yet*
"Oh yeah, you're right, they don't."
My cell plan is similar. When I have to make a call, I ask the people around me if I can use their cell.
It's a great plan and cheap, too.
My library makes it an opt-in service.
It is very convenient - there are a few reference books that I check out frequently, and being able to log in, go to my history, and click the title to put it back on hold is great. (The grammar in that sentence is terrible. I should check out a book on sentence construction.)
It also lets me keep track of where I am in a series or what books my kids liked best.
Haven't owned that many cell phones but all the ones I have had include a Location option with two choices:
If you set to E911 Only, does this enable privacy unless you call for E911 services or is the provider still tracking your location or enabling location based services?
I would suggest that if you're in E911 mode, then you're saying it's okay for the police to know where you are.
It's not a question of multi-core architecture. No commercial program on earth takes advantage of more than two cores, not even the high-end drafting programs on mirrored quad Xeons.
So this multi-process browsing makes the underlying code behave the way Firefox looks like it behaves. What you get is each tab or each window spawning its own process - or runtime space - in the OS. This keeps them from interfering from each other under normal circumstances.
This means that while you're waiting for a Flash player to load the rest of your tabs will keep working. (For example, if you're using Ubuntu and you want to see something on Youtube.) If one website freezes or crashes, you don't get every tab and window thrown out.
Mods, the parent's Offtopic rating is unfair. He's simply mistaken about terminology.
IE at work here. Wow, IE6.
Indeed.
The article probably compares the level-up system seen in DnD (or apparently, WoW) compared to the gain-by-use system seen in UO.
Both suck.
Moreover, the unlawful activities fall under different Acts (or statutes? What do Americans call them?)
For example, murder is against the Criminal Code of Canada.
Speeding is in the Motor Vehicles Act. (And there's a great loophole there, should you care to read through this Act.)
Practicing Engineering without a licence is against the Engineers and Geoscientists Act.
Unauthourized duplication of copyrighted material is against the Copyright Act.
The list can go on and on but I won't bother.
Anyway, all of the aforementioned activities are unlawful, but the difference in enforcement and penalties is extreme. It varies from a $125 file to life without parole. Like you, I've always hated the "if you've ever driven even ONE MILE over the limit, that's the same as SERIAL MURDER. IT IS ILLEGAL!!1!ELEVEN!" argument.
I learned that Rust Monsters are as annoying as fuck.
That would teach you both about the importance of a maintenance schedule and the futilty of all work. Everything that we do will eventually wear out and crumble to dust.
Or, put more poetically, "in spite of us, Nature wins."
The first two apply to XML:
"XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, use more."
CHA is the only stat that matters in real life.
Wisdom is the sum of all the facts, tidbits, trivia, and other things you remember. How many factoids have you got in the tank? The physical analog would be constitution, sort of.
Intelligence is how quickly you can react to a situation mentally and use the parts of the problem against itself to come up with a solution. Mental dexterity, if you will.
So yes, IQ tests and puzzle questions check your wisdom -- not your intelligence -- since they bascially test "have you seen this problem before?"
My co-worker bought a phone online that allows data transfer via a cable. The provider locked that feature so he'd have to email photos to get them off the phone. He called to complain, and 30 minutes later they pushed an unlock to his phone.
So it's not the iPhone, nor any other phone. It's the features that your carrier arbitrarily decides to lock.
Get a GPS that can run miopocket. It comes with a PDF reader.
If you get a GPS with wifi, you get internet connectivity. If it's got an SD port, get a wifi SD adapter and you're good to go.
No monthly fees, touch interface, and the battery life on mine is 4-5 hours.
I work on NATO military things.
They're pretty clear what you can talk about and with whom. Moreover to your point, if someone takes a strong interest in your work, you shall document and report it as a potential security breach.
Roth is getting a pretty light slap with four years.
Odd...I'm reading positive for both sarcasm and not sarcasm.
Did you buy video cards in this universe or a different one? Every card I've bought was obsolete by the time I've installed it.
If you buy a new game for a PC, it won't play on last year's machine. The machine is obsolete.
If you buy a new game for a console, it will play on that console. The machine is not obsolete.
I would posit that once you're enjoying the gameplay, the graphics aren't as important, but that's just 25+ years of gaming experience talking. Shiny isn't better, kids. It's just shinier. That's like saying Episode I is better than A New Hope because the graphics were better.
Fallout lead directly to DnD 3.0 and from there we got into NWN.
Wow. Overkill, much? :)
I forgot to say in my last post: There is no overkill. There is "reload" and "open fire".
If a driver says "what the hell is that?" or "that is one UGLY outfit!", then at least I've been seen.
I got it from mec.ca:
http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442620959
If the link fails, it's the Planet Bike Super Flash Rear Light. There is a clip. I've had to start putting it on my pannier. My rear post is used up by the trail-a-bike attachment.
I would strongly advise against "trying to preserve your night vision" or you may end up in phsyiotherapy or in other people as an organ donor.
3W LEDs are brighter than 3W halogens. The LEDs, using much more efficient technology, produces more light with the same power.
You have to look at the lumen output, but those are more loosely defined than server power consumption stats. Zing!
So, when the speed limit is 30km/h and I am traveling at 36km/h, is that not sufficient? I can burst up to about 50 km/h - the limit in most residential areas.
You should try biking to work every now and then. You sound tense.
Anyway, I agree - some cyclists are douches. So are some drivers.
I bike to work, and I have for years. It's faster for me to ride than to drive, and that includes a shower and change when I get there. (I'm an Engineer, and I wear slacks and a dress shirt.) My view is that any time a car has to pass me or slow down for me then I have failed. I'm also of the view that the lanes are just paint and they don't magically protect you against a driver who - statistically speaking - has a 20% chance of impairment. I stick to back roads and trails whenever it is physically possible. When I am on a major road, I will either go onto the sidewalk if it is possible (risking a $125 traffic ticket for doing so) or I will take the entire lane as I am permitted and required to do so by law.
From personal experience, I know that if I am close to the curb, the driver passing me (and again, I have failed) will try to stay inside the lane. If they think there's a chance that they can pass without going into the other lane, then they will. If I come out about 1 metre (3 feet), then they will pass safely. I have no illusions about how I would fare in an car-involved accident. Bikes represent 1% of all traffic, but 2% of all fatalities.
However, I simply can't ride on the sidewalk if it is populated. I generally sustain 30 km/h, and it's just not feasible for me to navigate around the pedestrians. You know those people who walk into the pedestrian crossings without looking? Where do you think they are when they aren't on the road? Yep, the sidewalk.
But these points are mostly trivial - a painted line won't protect you. Add some distance, say 100m. Throw in some trees, a nice berm, maybe a house or retail setting between you and the traffic, and now you're talking. I plan my routes so that I'm avoiding traffic. There's a trail by my house that takes me downtown. I take that to work.
If someone is riding without lights at night and/or without lights, I can't imagine that you'd face charges. One guy here killed a cyclist who was drunk, no lights, no helmet, and wearing dark clothes at night. He was only charged with "leaving the scene". (Justifiably so)
I think it's just a rear light without any curb sensing.
I bike basically everywhere, and for night biking, I have:
four front lights - two LED and two Halogen
two armbands - both blinking LEDs
LED-equipped reflective vest
tire lights (blue LEDs that make blue streaks when moving)
a helmet LED
1/2W rear red LED
(and, of course, all the reflectors and striping I can find - I have a bigger RADAR signature than a bread van.)
And I still try to stay the hell off the roads. If you're in a car and you get hit by a truck, it'll ruin your day. If you're on your bike, it won't.
Would this be useful? Probably, if they could get rid of the reflective problem. I'd be likely to buy one if it was cheap and... uh, that's really my only criteria. Maybe I'll work on my own out of an old laser pointer I've got kicking around.
Hi there.
I used to weigh 250 pounds. I now weigh 165. All the weight I've lost was fat, caused by eating too much and not exercising.
What worked for me was cycling to work. I end up burning 800+ extra calories each day, and it adds just 15 minutes to my daily routine. (It's a 25km daily ride.) Yes, I also drop kids off at daycare.
The question of you being an hour away - is that due to traffic or distance? If it's distance, then this probably wouldn't work for you. If it's traffic, you'll end up getting to work faster.
Otherwise, you have 3 other days in the week to exercise. Do it or die early.
Oh, and cut out the soda. That'll add mass faster than a black hole.