Of course not. That's usually too low to see through the window.
> What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy?
Here's a suggested lesson plan for questions the teacher could discuss.
1. Which seasons of the year provide the most productive viewing because there's no steam buildup in the bathroom windows?
2. Is there a significant difference in viewing quality between a screen and a quadruple set of panes in a slid-open window? Which is better for what kinds of body parts?
3. Do older women tend to have larger areolae than younger ones? If so, why do you think that is?
4. Is perky truly "better" than saggy, pendulous ones? What do you actually feel, since nobody is looking and social pressure is off?
5. Do they tend to be contracted or relaxed before the shower? After? After drying?
6. How much does your rhythmic viewing activity affect the stability of the image through: A. The shaking of your body? B. The shaking of the telescope itself through the floor?
All this blabbery is fine, except quick draw artists proved decades ago that there's no way in hell you can, in fact, outdraw someone by reacting to seeing them start first.
From a memetic analysis point of view, the purpose of the regulations is to engender kickbacks, legal or otherwise, to prevent the officials from getting in the way of things.
In other words, "follow the money" doesn't end looking at corporations and their donations to senators. You must also look at the effects the laws passed actually have, when nobody contributes. Who benefits then? 99% of the time, nothing is seriously broken.
Making a game insanely hard "just because" does not teh fun make.
1. Always have some way to move the game forward. For example, have several answers to "what do i do next??" available to the player at all times.
Please note that enabling a wall decoration as a "grabbable item" only after a player reaches some other point, and has already passed it, is rather irritating. It was not "takeable" when they first encountered it, so it would not be obvious to them that they should re-scour that area.
2. Special ways to kill particular opponents should be discoverable. For example, standard "houses of magic" enable various spell styles, some of which may have a greater effect than others. Also, don't forget about the rock-paper-scissors concept when designing different styles of attacks. It's also a good idea to have clues to what the more productive attacks or spells might be, rather than the player having to figure it out the hard way by trial and error.
Note that obscure attack chains as a requirement to kill someone is difficult for the player when said chains are not an easy discovery. Adding the requirement for high skill or a lucky shot as an intermediate step is also infuriating since, when that step misses, the player must start all over again.
3. Tools and upgrades should be findable, and in general, it's good to always have at least two ways of doing anything. Be careful not to cause the player to get de facto stuck because they have to plow through a "Get to da choppa!" number of baddies to get the required magic trinket to advance the game.
4. Have plenty of ammo, health, and power packs available so players aren't chronically running on empty, but don't have too much so the players don't just run around ignoring the dangers because they can chain-chug dozens of healths and have nigh infinite ammo. This isn't to say you can't have a huge topping off station just before big encounters, where the challenge is just surviving in all-out mayhem.
5. I know "hint guides" are profitable accessories for many games nowadays, and that therefore you have enticement to put a few goodies into them to justify the buy, and I'm fine with that. However, if you do have such hidden goodies, and do not produce a hint guide for sale, could you remember to include it in the in-game journal or something?
Try Icewind Dale II on "Heart of Fury", with one level 1 character. Now that's a fun accomplishment when you pull it off.
I recently went back to Eve and am prepping at the last stop for gas before re-entering low-sec space to join my corp. Been there 2 days so far. Now there's a real challenge.
Well I'm sure there're dozens of home videos of the WTC collapsing that nobody's ever seen, and the owners never thought of making public because there is so damned much out there already.
In 20 or 30 years, some grandson will find one, show it, and people will wonder why didn't they make this public at the time, golly!
> "The long-awaited Russian stealth fighter, codenamed PAK FA or T-50, has had its first test > flight today. This Google translation of a Russian article has a photo of the jet."
The article continues: "[Click the link below to track the flight on Google Earth.]"
> Apart form the trivial case where some ASCII, or a picture pops up, how can a decrypter know when the > block or stream of apparently random data has been decrypted?
Well, in this case they're talking about a 56-bit almost-prime number that factors into two primes roughly half the size. The encryption relies on this, so if you can do it, the decoding is straightforward.
As for a brute force method, there are probably algorithms that can guestimate based on how far from random your candidate decoding is, the further the better.
Also, I'm sure the CIA has computers that crank everything through every known language, backwards and forwards, with other simpler, intermediate encodings applied, vowels left out, Soundex algorithm applied and not, etc. et al.
Of course that, in and of itself, is quite a significant project. Anyway, if I had their resources, that's what I'd do.
This will never happen. It sounds much more like an attack on the legal principle that a lawyer will take on a case "for free" in exchange for 1/3 the "loot" should they win.
And thus it will never get anywhere, even if its promoters scream "It doesn't mean that!" at the top of their lungs, for better or for worse.
Though I haven't run the numbers to see if they're remotely possible, I always wondered if all the dark energy/matter, which makes up 95% of the mass of the universe, wasn't the end degradation result of all this, and we're much closer to the end than thought.
Except that's what Ford did with the Pinto, and once those documents were shown to the jury, the penalty award was set a lot higher. Thus those calculations don't work.
We just mandated at our company to turn on "convert tabs to spaces" and to use an indent size of 3. Then it became irrelevant what editor one used since it was always spaces.
The only problem in not having tabs is that it's an extra 2 keystrokes per line to//-comment out a block of code.
While that's certainly interesting, wouldn't you just use an electric motor anywhere electricity was available?
Oh, wait. It's use as a heat pump at that size is notable, but as a motor:
> It's future as a motor is less clear. It's relatively straightforward to make > electrostatic motors that work on this scale and we've looked at plans to > build electric motors on the quantum scale.
Well, for the second time in 20 years, the Democrats, with full power, went way too far down the same rejected road: health care nationalization and "Fairness Doctrine", and just got bitchslapped, again, yesterday.
To quote Ellie in Contact, "Which is more likely, that you just 'can't get the message out'? Or that your message got out, loud and clear?"
One assuages your ego, and therefore should be suspect.
By demanding a station that has Rush on also have 3 hours of some boring liberal show on that costs them money makes it less likely they'll have Rush on anymore because now his 3 hour show has to carry 6 hours.
The only purpose of this is to knock him off the air. To claim "fairness" when that's not the intent whatsoever is disingenuous.
Worse, one could legitimately suggest the reason these shows suck in ratings is because people do hear their message and reject it.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course not. That's usually too low to see through the window.
> What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy?
Here's a suggested lesson plan for questions the teacher could discuss.
1. Which seasons of the year provide the most productive viewing because there's no steam buildup in the bathroom windows?
2. Is there a significant difference in viewing quality between a screen and a quadruple set of panes in a slid-open window? Which is better for what kinds of body parts?
3. Do older women tend to have larger areolae than younger ones? If so, why do you think that is?
4. Is perky truly "better" than saggy, pendulous ones? What do you actually feel, since nobody is looking and social pressure is off?
5. Do they tend to be contracted or relaxed before the shower? After? After drying?
6. How much does your rhythmic viewing activity affect the stability of the image through: A. The shaking of your body? B. The shaking of the telescope itself through the floor?
All this blabbery is fine, except quick draw artists proved decades ago that there's no way in hell you can, in fact, outdraw someone by reacting to seeing them start first.
From a memetic analysis point of view, the purpose of the regulations is to engender kickbacks, legal or otherwise, to prevent the officials from getting in the way of things.
In other words, "follow the money" doesn't end looking at corporations and their donations to senators. You must also look at the effects the laws passed actually have, when nobody contributes. Who benefits then? 99% of the time, nothing is seriously broken.
Excuse me, stewardess. I speak Excited Nerdling.
Making a game insanely hard "just because" does not teh fun make.
1. Always have some way to move the game forward. For example, have several answers to "what do i do next??" available to the player at all times.
Please note that enabling a wall decoration as a "grabbable item" only after a player reaches some other point, and has already passed it, is rather irritating. It was not "takeable" when they first encountered it, so it would not be obvious to them that they should re-scour that area.
2. Special ways to kill particular opponents should be discoverable. For example, standard "houses of magic" enable various spell styles, some of which may have a greater effect than others. Also, don't forget about the rock-paper-scissors concept when designing different styles of attacks. It's also a good idea to have clues to what the more productive attacks or spells might be, rather than the player having to figure it out the hard way by trial and error.
Note that obscure attack chains as a requirement to kill someone is difficult for the player when said chains are not an easy discovery. Adding the requirement for high skill or a lucky shot as an intermediate step is also infuriating since, when that step misses, the player must start all over again.
3. Tools and upgrades should be findable, and in general, it's good to always have at least two ways of doing anything. Be careful not to cause the player to get de facto stuck because they have to plow through a "Get to da choppa!" number of baddies to get the required magic trinket to advance the game.
4. Have plenty of ammo, health, and power packs available so players aren't chronically running on empty, but don't have too much so the players don't just run around ignoring the dangers because they can chain-chug dozens of healths and have nigh infinite ammo. This isn't to say you can't have a huge topping off station just before big encounters, where the challenge is just surviving in all-out mayhem.
5. I know "hint guides" are profitable accessories for many games nowadays, and that therefore you have enticement to put a few goodies into them to justify the buy, and I'm fine with that. However, if you do have such hidden goodies, and do not produce a hint guide for sale, could you remember to include it in the in-game journal or something?
Try Icewind Dale II on "Heart of Fury", with one level 1 character. Now that's a fun accomplishment when you pull it off.
I recently went back to Eve and am prepping at the last stop for gas before re-entering low-sec space to join my corp. Been there 2 days so far. Now there's a real challenge.
> Membrane That Turns Any Surface Into a Touchscreen
(Insert generic Internet joke here)
> whether it's true or not is another thing
Here's what the market wants to know, "But does it run WoW?"
Every other person and commentator, thx4playing bai.
As an engineer, the whole world-focus on one test most certainly is a trap.
"I'm just gonna compile this thing and test-run it. Uhhh, why are there hundreds of cameras pointed at me?"
"Because if it works, one side is right, and if it doesn't, the other claims victory!"
"Well, no, that's not how engineering works."
"You naive fool!"
Well I'm sure there're dozens of home videos of the WTC collapsing that nobody's ever seen, and the owners never thought of making public because there is so damned much out there already.
In 20 or 30 years, some grandson will find one, show it, and people will wonder why didn't they make this public at the time, golly!
ZOMG, from TFA:
Hehe, the editor corrected the deliberately quoted and misspelled "definately".
Apparently editorial skills are rather poor nowadays, too.
> "The long-awaited Russian stealth fighter, codenamed PAK FA or T-50, has had its first test
> flight today. This Google translation of a Russian article has a photo of the jet."
The article continues: "[Click the link below to track the flight on Google Earth.]"
And, of course, if it's truly important, like during WWII, you just flat-out hire hundreds of people to look at the stuff you're generating.
> Apart form the trivial case where some ASCII, or a picture pops up, how can a decrypter know when the
> block or stream of apparently random data has been decrypted?
Well, in this case they're talking about a 56-bit almost-prime number that factors into two primes roughly half the size. The encryption relies on this, so if you can do it, the decoding is straightforward.
As for a brute force method, there are probably algorithms that can guestimate based on how far from random your candidate decoding is, the further the better.
Also, I'm sure the CIA has computers that crank everything through every known language, backwards and forwards, with other simpler, intermediate encodings applied, vowels left out, Soundex algorithm applied and not, etc. et al.
Of course that, in and of itself, is quite a significant project. Anyway, if I had their resources, that's what I'd do.
Still, FPGA >> GPU.
GPU = specialized, massively parallel computations
FPGA = programmable algorithms that are essentially executed as if they were custom hardware circuitry. There is no processor, per se.
I often wondered if anyone had done a BOINC for Seti@Home or any other project that ran on commercially-available FPGAs.
This will never happen. It sounds much more like an attack on the legal principle that a lawyer will take on a case "for free" in exchange for 1/3 the "loot" should they win.
And thus it will never get anywhere, even if its promoters scream "It doesn't mean that!" at the top of their lungs, for better or for worse.
"I wanna be a thief!"
"It's 'rogue', now. They were sick of being accused of making kids wanna be thieves."
"But I can still steal and pickpocket and pick locks and backstab people who aren't aware of me sneaking up on them, right?"
"Yes."
"Cool."
"I wanna be a thief, er, rogue, too! Can I be an assassin?"
"Sure. Except it's called a 'liquidation specialist' now, for much the same reason."
"I don't wanna be a rogue. I just wanna hit people over the head."
"Sure, no problem."
"And I wanna cast magic spells."
ZOMG, not magic! Evil, evil!
Though I haven't run the numbers to see if they're remotely possible, I always wondered if all the dark energy/matter, which makes up 95% of the mass of the universe, wasn't the end degradation result of all this, and we're much closer to the end than thought.
Except that's what Ford did with the Pinto, and once those documents were shown to the jury, the penalty award was set a lot higher. Thus those calculations don't work.
Good is Dumb
Take their algorithm and design a botnet that doesn't trigger it. I presume they're claiming this is essentially, hehehe, impossible.
We just mandated at our company to turn on "convert tabs to spaces" and to use an indent size of 3. Then it became irrelevant what editor one used since it was always spaces.
The only problem in not having tabs is that it's an extra 2 keystrokes per line to //-comment out a block of code.
While that's certainly interesting, wouldn't you just use an electric motor anywhere electricity was available?
Oh, wait. It's use as a heat pump at that size is notable, but as a motor:
> It's future as a motor is less clear. It's relatively straightforward to make
> electrostatic motors that work on this scale and we've looked at plans to
> build electric motors on the quantum scale.
> IBM Sets Areal Density Record for Magnetic Tape
From the trailer for Chloe, it looks like Amanda Seyfried has a very low areolar density, due to it's large size.
Well, for the second time in 20 years, the Democrats, with full power, went way too far down the same rejected road: health care nationalization and "Fairness Doctrine", and just got bitchslapped, again, yesterday.
To quote Ellie in Contact, "Which is more likely, that you just 'can't get the message out'? Or that your message got out, loud and clear?"
One assuages your ego, and therefore should be suspect.
How Do You Volunteer Professional Services?
Just call yourself an "escort" on Craigslist and, well, you know, "if you like the guy, you may choose to stick around after the date voluntarily".
By demanding a station that has Rush on also have 3 hours of some boring liberal show on that costs them money makes it less likely they'll have Rush on anymore because now his 3 hour show has to carry 6 hours.
The only purpose of this is to knock him off the air. To claim "fairness" when that's not the intent whatsoever is disingenuous.
Worse, one could legitimately suggest the reason these shows suck in ratings is because people do hear their message and reject it.