The news publishers who say "yes" say that turning off graphics in your web browser should be illegal too.
and from the article:
[...] Internet users who configure their browsers to disable graphics [...] are committing copyright infringement because they are interfering with Web publishers' exclusive right to control how their pages are displayed.
So does this mean
Using Lynx should be illegal? What if there were a graphics-add-on for lynx that I chose not to download and install? Would that be illegal?
I committed copyright infringement when I skipped pages of nature description in LOTR?
I should be arrested for walking through a shopping mall without looking at the shops' displays? What if I help up my hand to shield the displays from my view?
Of all the variables you have to guess (or maybe 'estimate' would be a better word here) the average gas station size should be the easiest one. Is it 1? Probably more. Is it 20? Probably less. My guess would be around 5. Probably wrong, but very unlikely wrong by an order of magnitude. Which is the point of the whole exercise.
You are not expected to deliver some exact number. In fact the number you give as an answer is secondary. The interesting part for the interviewer is to follow how you came up with that number. (I.e. you should be thinking out loud. Otherwise you needn't bother answering at all.)
After I insisted that I couldn't come up with an answer on my own, I was informed that they were looking for people who "think out of the box" and only people that hazarded a guess made it to level two interviews.
The point here is not that you just wildly guess a number and say it, the point is that you actually show your ability to think and deduct.
You might for example start of with the number of inhabitants, guess how many cars/person, how many fillups/week/car, how many cars/station/day. Then do the math and come with an educated guess. And you will be surprised that your guess wasn't so bad after all.
They don't care if you know Google. Any idiot can look the number up.
Which is absolute bullshit in this context. The range of a usual camera flash goes up to approx. 3m and then degrades quickly. Beyond that there is little point in using a flash.
(Google found this) Using a flash for anything not close-range has only two effects:
Wow, that's a great idea. They're just a bunch of corrupt south american half monkeys anyway. Bomb away. US citizens can't get a grip on their drug habits? Let's just wipe Columbia off the map. That'll teach them.
I sincerely hope that you were on some serious drugs when you wrote that comment. But I'm afraid you weren't.
Huh, how is that insightful?
2+3=5. Remeber to go to the bathroom when you need to take a piss. It is usually dark at night.
Do I get a +5 Insightful now?
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What will stop Hitachi from firing everyone after three years and moving production to cheaper Asia?
Hm. The sticker on my IBM drive (DGHS) says 'Manufactured in Singapore'.
All these universes are created at the same time, making it 1 step to sort 52 cards. Like I said, it's interesting.
Ok, so far this is what everybody and his dog knows by now about quantum computing.
Unfortunately, like everybody else's descriptions I've seen so far, you left out one minor detail: How do you pick the right result? With your card sorting example, I would end up with ca. 8*10^67 results simultanuously. Which is the right one? Do I go through them one by one? Do I build another quantum computer to check them all at once?
My mom in addition to being a F500 exec owns a Rare book shop.
Does your mom know how bad your spelling is?
But seriously---you're not alone here by a long shot---is it really so much to ask of fellow slashdotters to reread what they post at least once? After all, what you write might be read by thousands of people.
I'm not talking about the occasional typo. Maybe it's because English isn't my native language, but some of your sentences (or collections of words) I can simply not understand. Like what does amazon lists ANY book out there look at the lead times on out of print sometime mean?
By reading we are also constantly learning to write/spell. And it seems to me that slashdot puts us in a downward spiral where people are unlearning the differences between they're and their, and and an, have and of, its and it's.
Making an effort to have correct spelling and grammar is a courtesy to the reader. Not doing so is very offensive, distracts from your point, and makes me angry.;)
..., will your pictures be blurred beyond recognition if your camera pointed out the side window?
Motion Blur will depend not only on your shutter speed and travelling speed but also on the 'actual width of object on the picture' which is a function of your camera design, lens and distance to the object.
Let's say you're travelling at 30m/s (approx. 70mph), shutter speed is set to 1/125.
a) Picture of a house wall, zoomed such that a width of 10m would be visible on the picture. You end up with (30/125)m = 0.24m or 2.4% of blur: On a 1024x768 monitor each pixel would be stretched to 25 pixels. Pretty blurry but probably still recognizable.
b) Picture of a far away landscape, zoomed such that a width of 10km would be visible on the picture. Blur is still 0.24m but now it's only 0.0024% of the picture width. On the 1024x768 monitor that would be only about 0.02 pixels -- and thus not noticable at all.
Heck, they even outlawed traction control (one of the contributions of F1 to regular drivers) quite a few years back..
Actually, they "inlawed" traction control during last season. IIRC Spain was the first race with (official) traction control---about half the field didn't even get off the starting grid because their launch controls failed.
I beleive what he meant was that he would allow people to download snapshots from his 'private' CVS, but he wouldn't allow people submitting changes through CVS.
Actually, thermodynamics wouldn't forbid this, as the cpu is not running at ambient temperature (in which case we wouldn't need cooling anyway).
E.g. with a cpu running at ~50C, and a liquid with a boiling point of, say, 40C, you could build a little steam engine, letting the steam condense at room tmperature for the 'refill'.
Voilà.
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In German, '-is' is appended to the letter for # (and '-es' for flat).
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- Using Lynx should be illegal? What if there were a graphics-add-on for lynx that I chose not to download and install? Would that be illegal?
- I committed copyright infringement when I skipped pages of nature description in LOTR?
- I should be arrested for walking through a shopping mall without looking at the shops' displays? What if I help up my hand to shield the displays from my view?
This is so silly.17 ounces are about 482g.
That is, if they are avoirdupois ounces. Should the submitter have meant troy ounces, then it's 529g. Duh!
(See MSDS)
Someone found the original text in a previous discussion
union select * from books where author = 'R. Stevens';
Is it 1? Probably more. Is it 20? Probably less.
My guess would be around 5. Probably wrong, but very unlikely wrong by an order of magnitude. Which is the point of the whole exercise.
You are not expected to deliver some exact number. In fact the number you give as an answer is secondary. The interesting part for the interviewer is to follow how you came up with that number. (I.e. you should be thinking out loud. Otherwise you needn't bother answering at all.)
You might for example start of with the number of inhabitants, guess how many cars/person, how many fillups/week/car, how many cars/station/day. Then do the math and come with an educated guess. And you will be surprised that your guess wasn't so bad after all.
They don't care if you know Google. Any idiot can look the number up.
(a&~(a^b))|(c&(a^b))
with the added bonus of using all 4 logical operators ;o)
Using a flash for anything not close-range has only two effects:
They're just a bunch of corrupt south american half monkeys anyway. Bomb away.
US citizens can't get a grip on their drug habits? Let's just wipe Columbia off the map. That'll teach them.
I sincerely hope that you were on some serious drugs when you wrote that comment. But I'm afraid you weren't.
Good points you make, by the way.
Huh, how is that insightful?
2+3=5. Remeber to go to the bathroom when you need to take a piss. It is usually dark at night.
Do I get a +5 Insightful now?
Unfortunately, like everybody else's descriptions I've seen so far, you left out one minor detail: How do you pick the right result? With your card sorting example, I would end up with ca. 8*10^67 results simultanuously. Which is the right one? Do I go through them one by one? Do I build another quantum computer to check them all at once?
Can somebody please explain?
But seriously---you're not alone here by a long shot---is it really so much to ask of fellow slashdotters to reread what they post at least once? After all, what you write might be read by thousands of people.
I'm not talking about the occasional typo. Maybe it's because English isn't my native language, but some of your sentences (or collections of words) I can simply not understand. Like what does amazon lists ANY book out there look at the lead times on out of print sometime mean?
By reading we are also constantly learning to write/spell. And it seems to me that slashdot puts us in a downward spiral where people are unlearning the differences between they're and their, and and an, have and of, its and it's.
Making an effort to have correct spelling and grammar is a courtesy to the reader. Not doing so is very offensive, distracts from your point, and makes me angry. ;)
Maybe if we got karma for clicking 'Preview'...
Motion Blur will depend not only on your shutter speed and travelling speed but also on the 'actual width of object on the picture' which is a function of your camera design, lens and distance to the object.
Let's say you're travelling at 30m/s (approx. 70mph), shutter speed is set to 1/125.
a) Picture of a house wall, zoomed such that a width of 10m would be visible on the picture. You end up with (30/125)m = 0.24m or 2.4% of blur:
On a 1024x768 monitor each pixel would be stretched to 25 pixels. Pretty blurry but probably still recognizable.
b) Picture of a far away landscape, zoomed such that a width of 10km would be visible on the picture. Blur is still 0.24m but now it's only 0.0024% of the picture width.
On the 1024x768 monitor that would be only about 0.02 pixels -- and thus not noticable at all.
So: CVS, yes---but read-only.
E.g. with a cpu running at ~50C, and a liquid with a boiling point of, say, 40C, you could build a little steam engine, letting the steam condense at room tmperature for the 'refill'. Voilà.
So: Jis
which I will comment no further.