I'm not sure that I'm doing this correctly, but went to Wolfram Alpha and put 1 MJ in it. Got 277.8 Wh. That means that a 277.8 W laser would need one hour to output 1 MJ. So... To output 1MJ in a single second, I multiplied that by 3600 => 1 MW of power is needed. A 16.6 kW laser would need a minute, so if these guys don't mind flying in circles for a minute with their lasers on, they're probably good.
How are they doing regarding portable nuclear power stations that can fit into planes? They could even be a deterrent against shooting your planes down, because the shooters would basically nuke themselves (even if only a little) if they do.
TFS: [...]people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency; who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint [...] They learn to live not just with untruths but with unnecessary untruths, dangerous untruths, corrosive untruths.
1984: And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. "Reality control," they called it: in Newspeak, "doublethink."
Get the self-driving cars to be able to go to the gas station by themselves and have a drink without supervision and there's no need to violate any fire codes in a way nobody imagined they could be violated when using a jerry can.
There is no middle ground. The car should either drive itself safely (and pull over if there's a problem, like Volvo brag about theirs) or not have any self-driving ability at all. Half-ability with the human expected to instantly take over so the car doesn't go flying off a bridge is just stupid.
Right now sex change / gender reassignment ops are a bit of a trick. Now... if one could swap heads between two people who identify as the opposite gender, imagine how transgender people in Alabama will be treated. The birth certificate is for the body (the genital area specifically), not the head. If it were for the head this debates would even exist in the first place.
1. This doesn't work under snow; but... 2. Install these in roads too; because: 3. They tell you to keep your eyes on the road, and then hang the traffic lights as high as possible, and maybe behind another traffic sign or maybe a tree's corona when it's not winter?
Is there any editor out there that is aware of and enforces language structures instead of being a glorified notepad? I would love to not be allowed to forget a semicolon or leave a half-expession typed in before I go acompiling.
Also, visual programming that isn't glorified flowcharting would be nice. As I've been thinking about it, a real world visual programming language would have to be functional rather than imperative, and I've actually seen a few attempts while googling, but nothing came out of them.
One first step would be to make a superspreadsheet that allows structured mini tables instead of the fullscreen 2D table we have now. And arrays of such structured mini tables.
Once these start appearing then I'll worry that AI could also stand a chance to replace developers.
Colon is also used to indicate ratio, division, so using it as a decimal separator is probably not a good idea. The best we have now is to localise the separator to the language (maybe local variation thereof*) that is being used.
*Some guy posted a link in a comment earlier that showed that Mexico use the decimal point. I guess that Spanish texts written in Mexico and Spanish texts written in Spain will confuse the heck out of the other nation's people. By now they'd probably invented a vim-like comment to indicate if the text uses tabs or spaces for indenting... I mean point vs comma.
Your point doesn't take one aspect into account: most of Europe doesn't use English as the primary language. The decimal point is pretty much an English language feature these days (although Mexico appear to use it too, in distinction from all the other countries that use Spanish, and China and India probably do so because of English language influence). Canada seems to do it right: decimal point when the text is in English, decimal comma when it's in French. Europol should be following this convention too, as the editors weren't the only ones confused.
Too many times I have to second guess numbers written by non-English folks in English texts because of this variation, but it usually ends up like this: if there are three digits after the point, they made a mistake and meant "thousands separator". If there are two digits, they meant "decimal separator". Ditto for when the use the comma. What I hate about it is the "garden path" I have to take when parsing the numbers.
Squid Ad reverse proxy. Have your advertising network put a load balancing proxy in front of you to serve the/ad routes. Ad blocking should also get interesting then. I used/ad as an example, but I assume "random uuid that selects either an ad or a legit website resource" would be more effective as nobody would be able to tell what's an ad and what's a picture of a cat stealing your passwords.
It will just select the best face-in-screen walkers out there. Soon enough we'll have plenty people able to cross a busy street while playing Time Waste Saga without getting run over.
I liked Sylpheed when I was looking for a lightweight client back in the day. Now... Firefox is my Gmail client, and Gmail is my POP3 client. You might be able to upload your archives into there via IMAP somehow.
These "woodles" (see a post above providing this name) should be an improvement in taste when served next to Haity mud pies. Similar nutritional value, but probably a bit tastier.
I suspect most open source projects never hear anything at all from most of the users: I've directly or indirectly used work from many hundreds of such projects for sure, and only contacted several of them.
And that is OK! You give back only if you have something to give back. You don't "give back" just for the sake of it (like the "add another period to a sentence" pull request exemplified in TFA). To me, just the opportunity to give back when I can do so is more valuable than "submit bug report to Closed Source Inc and wait until my beard hits the ground".
Time and expertise is something we all have and no government can ever put in a central bank short of imitating North Korea or Foxconn. It's a "Pay It Forward" economy.
What threats? (I didn't RTFA yet). Start with the warranty disclaimer that you attached to your licence in capital letters. Then, if they "contribute", tell them nicely to fork off (the technical term, not the innuendo) and, if their fork is actually any good, they should ask you to merge their changes, which you will if they're not bullshit.
If they keep kicking and screaming like baby lawyers, submit for their review a support contract. Make sure your rate is in the "highly paid consultant" range - you might even get away with it, as at that point you'd be speaking _their_ language.
Installing cairo-dock, and, optionally, running xfwm4 as the WM, makes Ubuntu actually very usable in my case. Greased lightning usable. And cairo-dock even has some bling thrown in! It put it to the left and made it autohide, so it kind of looks like Unity when in use.
I like Unity's menu-in-titlebar feature. I lose that with cairo-dock, but that's compensated by not having a gnome-style top bar - well... you do, but it goes under the applications and comes up when you hover the clock (which overlays a small part of the titlebar (when application is maximised) that is otherwise useless anyway).
The root of my preferences lies in this need: as much space for _my_ application and as little as possible for the OS, but easily accessible when I need its functions, without running any occult desktop environments:)
1. Clothe yourself from Primark instead of Abercrombie and Bitch. 2. Rent a flat or house in the suburbs. 3. Get a middle class job. You might even find something easy that you also enjoy, so you don't spend a lot of energy on it. 4. Get a middle class car, like from Ford. Max price tag: 20K (British pounds, US or Canadian dollars, Euro - whichever takes your fancy). Don't drive to work in a Bentley. 5. Go pub crawling with your new found friends. 6. Tell then how the bank is robbing you blind (here are some hints: personal loans, mortgage, credit cards - but only if they bring it up. Don't overdo it. 7. Soul profit?
Don't EVER tell them about your billion clams in the bank. EVER! Nor your castle on the top of the hill.
You might need to switch town. Delegate your board position to somebody else so you can have time to be middle class friends with the middle class. Heck, you might even find some obscure talent this way.
Slashdot Mirror
I remember when Gmail was blue and didn't strain my eyes... Can I have that back please? And don't touch the effing links. Thanks!
I'm not sure that I'm doing this correctly, but went to Wolfram Alpha and put 1 MJ in it. Got 277.8 Wh. That means that a 277.8 W laser would need one hour to output 1 MJ. So... To output 1MJ in a single second, I multiplied that by 3600 => 1 MW of power is needed. A 16.6 kW laser would need a minute, so if these guys don't mind flying in circles for a minute with their lasers on, they're probably good.
How are they doing regarding portable nuclear power stations that can fit into planes? They could even be a deterrent against shooting your planes down, because the shooters would basically nuke themselves (even if only a little) if they do.
TFS: [...]people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency; who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint [...] They learn to live not just with untruths but with unnecessary untruths, dangerous untruths, corrosive untruths.
1984: And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. "Reality control," they called it: in Newspeak, "doublethink."
Get the self-driving cars to be able to go to the gas station by themselves and have a drink without supervision and there's no need to violate any fire codes in a way nobody imagined they could be violated when using a jerry can.
There is no middle ground. The car should either drive itself safely (and pull over if there's a problem, like Volvo brag about theirs) or not have any self-driving ability at all. Half-ability with the human expected to instantly take over so the car doesn't go flying off a bridge is just stupid.
He sent himself? That puts quite a few things in perspective. Last time he sent his son.
Right now sex change / gender reassignment ops are a bit of a trick. Now... if one could swap heads between two people who identify as the opposite gender, imagine how transgender people in Alabama will be treated. The birth certificate is for the body (the genital area specifically), not the head. If it were for the head this debates would even exist in the first place.
Could the FCC call in a favour with the DoJ? That should work out OK regarding jurisdiction.
1. This doesn't work under snow; but...
2. Install these in roads too; because:
3. They tell you to keep your eyes on the road, and then hang the traffic lights as high as possible, and maybe behind another traffic sign or maybe a tree's corona when it's not winter?
You mean they'll make this thing for real?
Is there any editor out there that is aware of and enforces language structures instead of being a glorified notepad? I would love to not be allowed to forget a semicolon or leave a half-expession typed in before I go acompiling.
Also, visual programming that isn't glorified flowcharting would be nice. As I've been thinking about it, a real world visual programming language would have to be functional rather than imperative, and I've actually seen a few attempts while googling, but nothing came out of them.
One first step would be to make a superspreadsheet that allows structured mini tables instead of the fullscreen 2D table we have now. And arrays of such structured mini tables.
Once these start appearing then I'll worry that AI could also stand a chance to replace developers.
So that's how I ended up in Oregon, checking my Facebook on a Windows machine... Good thing they didn't bruteforce my 2nd factor.
Hypothermia is becoming a real issue down there since Ballmer left.
Colon is also used to indicate ratio, division, so using it as a decimal separator is probably not a good idea. The best we have now is to localise the separator to the language (maybe local variation thereof*) that is being used.
*Some guy posted a link in a comment earlier that showed that Mexico use the decimal point. I guess that Spanish texts written in Mexico and Spanish texts written in Spain will confuse the heck out of the other nation's people. By now they'd probably invented a vim-like comment to indicate if the text uses tabs or spaces for indenting... I mean point vs comma.
Your point doesn't take one aspect into account: most of Europe doesn't use English as the primary language. The decimal point is pretty much an English language feature these days (although Mexico appear to use it too, in distinction from all the other countries that use Spanish, and China and India probably do so because of English language influence). Canada seems to do it right: decimal point when the text is in English, decimal comma when it's in French. Europol should be following this convention too, as the editors weren't the only ones confused.
Too many times I have to second guess numbers written by non-English folks in English texts because of this variation, but it usually ends up like this: if there are three digits after the point, they made a mistake and meant "thousands separator". If there are two digits, they meant "decimal separator". Ditto for when the use the comma. What I hate about it is the "garden path" I have to take when parsing the numbers.
Squid Ad reverse proxy. Have your advertising network put a load balancing proxy in front of you to serve the /ad routes. Ad blocking should also get interesting then. I used /ad as an example, but I assume "random uuid that selects either an ad or a legit website resource" would be more effective as nobody would be able to tell what's an ad and what's a picture of a cat stealing your passwords.
It will just select the best face-in-screen walkers out there. Soon enough we'll have plenty people able to cross a busy street while playing Time Waste Saga without getting run over.
I liked Sylpheed when I was looking for a lightweight client back in the day. Now... Firefox is my Gmail client, and Gmail is my POP3 client. You might be able to upload your archives into there via IMAP somehow.
Heard of private browsing? Pop the site in a private window. They'll think they're tracking you, and you'll think you're clever.
These "woodles" (see a post above providing this name) should be an improvement in taste when served next to Haity mud pies. Similar nutritional value, but probably a bit tastier.
Oy! Mozilla! Hands off tab groups, bitch!
I suspect most open source projects never hear anything at all from most of the users: I've directly or indirectly used work from many hundreds of such projects for sure, and only contacted several of them.
And that is OK! You give back only if you have something to give back. You don't "give back" just for the sake of it (like the "add another period to a sentence" pull request exemplified in TFA). To me, just the opportunity to give back when I can do so is more valuable than "submit bug report to Closed Source Inc and wait until my beard hits the ground".
Time and expertise is something we all have and no government can ever put in a central bank short of imitating North Korea or Foxconn. It's a "Pay It Forward" economy.
What threats? (I didn't RTFA yet). Start with the warranty disclaimer that you attached to your licence in capital letters. Then, if they "contribute", tell them nicely to fork off (the technical term, not the innuendo) and, if their fork is actually any good, they should ask you to merge their changes, which you will if they're not bullshit.
If they keep kicking and screaming like baby lawyers, submit for their review a support contract. Make sure your rate is in the "highly paid consultant" range - you might even get away with it, as at that point you'd be speaking _their_ language.
Installing cairo-dock, and, optionally, running xfwm4 as the WM, makes Ubuntu actually very usable in my case. Greased lightning usable. And cairo-dock even has some bling thrown in! It put it to the left and made it autohide, so it kind of looks like Unity when in use.
I like Unity's menu-in-titlebar feature. I lose that with cairo-dock, but that's compensated by not having a gnome-style top bar - well... you do, but it goes under the applications and comes up when you hover the clock (which overlays a small part of the titlebar (when application is maximised) that is otherwise useless anyway).
The root of my preferences lies in this need: as much space for _my_ application and as little as possible for the OS, but easily accessible when I need its functions, without running any occult desktop environments :)
Just go incognito into the world.
1. Clothe yourself from Primark instead of Abercrombie and Bitch.
2. Rent a flat or house in the suburbs.
3. Get a middle class job. You might even find something easy that you also enjoy, so you don't spend a lot of energy on it.
4. Get a middle class car, like from Ford. Max price tag: 20K (British pounds, US or Canadian dollars, Euro - whichever takes your fancy). Don't drive to work in a Bentley.
5. Go pub crawling with your new found friends.
6. Tell then how the bank is robbing you blind (here are some hints: personal loans, mortgage, credit cards - but only if they bring it up. Don't overdo it.
7. Soul profit?
Don't EVER tell them about your billion clams in the bank. EVER! Nor your castle on the top of the hill.
You might need to switch town. Delegate your board position to somebody else so you can have time to be middle class friends with the middle class. Heck, you might even find some obscure talent this way.