Eh.. there are some games for kids now which are videogames contained in the controller and you just plug them into a TV. Basically for $10, you get a game on par with an NES game from the 80s. So while there probably won't be $7 palm-sized Core 2 Duo systems in 20 years, there will probably be small specialized devices with the same computing power as today's desktops, just without the versatility perhaps. What will we use them for? Obviously to record 3D videos of shoplifting to post on MyPlace.
The people *always* pay. If not directly (although it probably will be, as described above), then indirectly through lost jobs, lower wages, etc. as the oil companies cut costs to make up for lost revenue.
No, no.. it's like a guy going from point A to point B, 100 miles apart, and then saying that since the air freshener is no longer potent.. no, wait. It's like you saw some guy arrive at point B from point A, and assumed that your curvy road was the shortest distance between those two points, but he actually took a helicopter. Wait, even better: It's nothing like cars and/or transportation at all.
Not really. DRM is sort of a conflict of interest, in that the user is *supposed* to be able to decrypt the media to use it, which means the key is floating around there somewhere in RAM. Until decryption is done in hardware, it will always be crackable. Things like HDCP are designed to keep the signal encrypted all along the path, however there's little reason to believe that even this will be successful in the long run. It only takes one motivated individual and/or one mistake by a manufacturer to crack the whole thing wide open. And when decryption is done in hardware, it's almost impossible to close the hole. Sure, keys can be revoked, but it's a) immoral at best, illegal/bad faith at worst, to disable a whole set of perfectly good hardware that people have purchased, and b) all titles released before the revokation would still be vulnerable.
that is a huge advancement over the current technology.
The current technology? I'm shocked. I thought by now we could resist puns, but apparently that line is still open. I'm positive that if I had mod points, these kind of posts would have a negative affinity.
Well, you could just put meters in the cars and charge based on consumption. You could even do some fancy-pants networking so cars report their usage on a regular basis. But the real problem is practicality. It's difficult enough to keep a static grid working, let alone one with untracked vehicles. You're introducing a LOT of heavy loads which connect/disconnect in a somewhat random manner, not to mention 9 foot poles on top of cars would tend to limit speeds to less than highway. Anywhere that's regularly subjected to heavy wind would be hurting, any any power outage would send traffic grinding to a halt. Imagine trying to escape a hurricane and Oops! the power goes out or a line goes down.
Reversing the flow on a simple lightbulb shouldn't cause any problems and doesn't create a short in and of itself. Was it an LED light? Reversing a diode can cause a short if you overcome the breakdown voltage, although that usually results in a puff of smoke and an open diode very quickly, but not always..
That's one reason why English has so many more words than most language: we borrow words from other languages with wild abandon (and aren't very good about giving them back.)
Yes and no.. While English does borrow a lot of words, almost half of English words are scientific, not borrowed in the fajita/beau/sayonara sense. Further, most of the words are "borrowed" from dead languages. The sort of words you're talking about comprise a very small portion of English, as seen below.
It is very hard to make this estimate, particularly as many words reached English, for example, from Latin by way of Norman French. However, the result of a computerized survey of roughly 80,000 words in the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary (3rd edition) was published in Ordered Profusion by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff (1973). They reckoned the proportions as follows:
* Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24%
* French, including Old French and early Anglo-French: 28.3%
* Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch: 25%
* Greek: 5.32%
* No etymology given: 4.03%
* Derived from proper names: 3.28%
* All other languages contributed less than 1% http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/abouten glish/proportion?view=uk
Further, it's difficult to define "a lot of words" in a relative sense, since it's near-impossible to count the number of words in a given language.
In a society where all High School teaches you to do is think inside the box and do what teachers/administration say, why the hell would they (the schools) expect anyone to be able to do any kind of work or create something new when all school has become is a baby sitting service?
Learn the rules before you break them. It's a tried and true process, and also the most efficient method of dealing with a large number of students. But if you feel the educational system is truely flawed, then become a teacher, principal, or just join the school board and work to change it. My parents did when I was in school -- although I think their changes were mostly detrimental -- and my girlfriend does it now. Personally I feel that that the schools here are mostly sufficient, and that the most effective use of my time is to augment our kids' education outside of school.
It is not very toxic when ingested with food or drink because of its very small probability of passing through the intestine walls into the bloodstream. Pu forms large molecules, which have great difficulty in passing through membranes.
Early studies showed that plutonium is poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and through the intact skin. From these data, inhalation or penetrating skin wounds were clearly the most important exposure routes for potential human exposure.
I just wish VLC player responded to the media buttons on my keyboard and had convenient browsing which was viewable on my TV.. which is why I just stick with Windows Media Center. Not that WMC is perfect by any means, but those two features alone are enough that it's my media player of choice.
I don't want to go into an in depth explanation of the human ear's ability to resolve differences in frequency and amplitude, but suffice to say that the threshold is far FAR exceeded by CD the audio standard. Not only that, but any "auditory clues" regarding the location of the recording would almost definately be in the normal auditory frequency and amplitude range.
What that boils down to is that if there is information lost in a CD recording, it's because the producer filtered it out -- probably intentionally.
Yeah, because we all know how much women hate babies. They only have them because they feel it's their duty, and without their selfless acts, there would be no people.
I don't mind the pops and crackles to get to listen to that warm sound you can't get from sterile sounding CDs....I would buy a laser-stylus turntable. - http://www.elpj.com/
You mean the same company that offers a recording of their product on CD?
A well-mastered CD is better than vinyl, and playing a CD doesn't involve: physical wear, horizontal tracking angle error, leveling adjustment worries, inner groove distortion, channel balance error, stereo crosstalk, anti-skating compensation, acoustic feedback, locked groove problems, problems tracking warped, cracked, or eccentric records, cartridge hum pickup[1] and -- best of all -- a CD player doesn't cost 10 grand.
There are plenty of reasons to buy vinyl -- some of which you mentioned -- but high quality sound isn't one of them. And as one of the posters above mentioned, you can just digitally add some hissing, popping, and create a feedback loop if you really enjoy that.
Yahoo was careful to note that it cannot tell whether the current slowdown is a sign of broader trouble or is limited to ads from the auto and financial sectors.
Or limited to Yahoo's sales of auto/financial ads, perhaps because of a lack of response from Yahoo users. Or maybe online advertising is just ineffective, and those two sectors are simply the first to realize it. Or maybe it's just a completely meaningless fluke. Thanks for clearing that up for us, Yahoo.
Hey guy, did you even read the GP? He said that the actions were wrong, but people that should stand up for themselves. He's exactly right, and if they *had* stood up for themselves instead of bottling up their anger for years, it probably wouldn't have reached such a dramatic climax.
By the way, we don't care who you're dating or how she's doing, and when she dumps you in a few months, not only will you no longer care about Columbine, but if you're truely as sensitive as you appear, you'll probably be so crushed that you'll wish she hadn't been one of the survivors, so ease up on the soapbox speeches.
There is no Bible in Judaeism, let alone a "New Testament." The Torah is pretty much the same as the first 5 books of the Christian Old Testament, but that's about it.
For future reference: Jokes are usually better when they're relevant, or at least intentionally irrelevant.
I think he meant multilateration, not triangulation. Using three antennae, you can identify one single point where the transmission could have originated (on a plane). A fourth antenna could be used for 3D positioning. Directional antennae are neither required nor desirable for multilateration since you're calculating the position based on the time differences of reception, not direction of signal strength.
"How would you set up these systems for these little kids to use and learn about computers using Linux?"
That question doesn't even make sense -- it's like three unrelated questions in one. How do you install Linux? Follow the onscreen instructions. Refer to the documentation, How-Tos, or forums if you get stuck.
What software do you install afterwards? Probably whatever the teacher requests. Is he going to be teaching the kids as well? Because it doesn't really matter what he puts on the computers if the teacher doesn't know what the hell it is.
How do you get little kids to learn? You just explain stuff to them and they absorb it like sponges. Then you get them to explain it back to you, and correct the parts they didn't quite get right. Probably start with something basic like the different parts of the computer, different types of media, the concept of directories as folders, etc.
I still have no idea what you're asking though, but it sounds like "Help us develop a cirriculum for some elementary school. BTW Linux!!!11!!!," to me.
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Eh.. there are some games for kids now which are videogames contained in the controller and you just plug them into a TV. Basically for $10, you get a game on par with an NES game from the 80s. So while there probably won't be $7 palm-sized Core 2 Duo systems in 20 years, there will probably be small specialized devices with the same computing power as today's desktops, just without the versatility perhaps. What will we use them for? Obviously to record 3D videos of shoplifting to post on MyPlace.
The people *always* pay. If not directly (although it probably will be, as described above), then indirectly through lost jobs, lower wages, etc. as the oil companies cut costs to make up for lost revenue.
No, no.. it's like a guy going from point A to point B, 100 miles apart, and then saying that since the air freshener is no longer potent.. no, wait. It's like you saw some guy arrive at point B from point A, and assumed that your curvy road was the shortest distance between those two points, but he actually took a helicopter. Wait, even better: It's nothing like cars and/or transportation at all.
Not really. DRM is sort of a conflict of interest, in that the user is *supposed* to be able to decrypt the media to use it, which means the key is floating around there somewhere in RAM. Until decryption is done in hardware, it will always be crackable. Things like HDCP are designed to keep the signal encrypted all along the path, however there's little reason to believe that even this will be successful in the long run. It only takes one motivated individual and/or one mistake by a manufacturer to crack the whole thing wide open. And when decryption is done in hardware, it's almost impossible to close the hole. Sure, keys can be revoked, but it's a) immoral at best, illegal/bad faith at worst, to disable a whole set of perfectly good hardware that people have purchased, and b) all titles released before the revokation would still be vulnerable.
See also: DeCSS.
Vaporware.
Er..
Except there probably wouldn't a huge demand for server farms without the internets.
that is a huge advancement over the current technology.
The current technology? I'm shocked. I thought by now we could resist puns, but apparently that line is still open. I'm positive that if I had mod points, these kind of posts would have a negative affinity.
Well, you could just put meters in the cars and charge based on consumption. You could even do some fancy-pants networking so cars report their usage on a regular basis. But the real problem is practicality. It's difficult enough to keep a static grid working, let alone one with untracked vehicles. You're introducing a LOT of heavy loads which connect/disconnect in a somewhat random manner, not to mention 9 foot poles on top of cars would tend to limit speeds to less than highway. Anywhere that's regularly subjected to heavy wind would be hurting, any any power outage would send traffic grinding to a halt. Imagine trying to escape a hurricane and Oops! the power goes out or a line goes down.
No thanks.
Reversing the flow on a simple lightbulb shouldn't cause any problems and doesn't create a short in and of itself. Was it an LED light? Reversing a diode can cause a short if you overcome the breakdown voltage, although that usually results in a puff of smoke and an open diode very quickly, but not always..
Technically, cost/gallon is a ratio, not a unit. ;)
Anyway, I think the question we're all wondering is: What's the specific gravity of one gallon of electricity?
Not if they're specialized cores like the FPUs described in the article.
Yes and no.. While English does borrow a lot of words, almost half of English words are scientific, not borrowed in the fajita/beau/sayonara sense. Further, most of the words are "borrowed" from dead languages. The sort of words you're talking about comprise a very small portion of English, as seen below.
Further, it's difficult to define "a lot of words" in a relative sense, since it's near-impossible to count the number of words in a given language.
You can of course look at it in either way, but in his anal
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I'm not sure if that's an example of why Slashcode needs to be reworked, or evidence that it's perfect as is.
In a society where all High School teaches you to do is think inside the box and do what teachers/administration say, why the hell would they (the schools) expect anyone to be able to do any kind of work or create something new when all school has become is a baby sitting service?
Learn the rules before you break them. It's a tried and true process, and also the most efficient method of dealing with a large number of students. But if you feel the educational system is truely flawed, then become a teacher, principal, or just join the school board and work to change it. My parents did when I was in school -- although I think their changes were mostly detrimental -- and my girlfriend does it now. Personally I feel that that the schools here are mostly sufficient, and that the most effective use of my time is to augment our kids' education outside of school.
Plutonium would work much better.
Or not at all.
It is not very toxic when ingested with food or drink because of its very small probability of passing through the intestine walls into the bloodstream. Pu forms large molecules, which have great difficulty in passing through membranes.
or http://www.ccnr.org/plute_tox.html
Early studies showed that plutonium is poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and through the intact skin. From these data, inhalation or penetrating skin wounds were clearly the most important exposure routes for potential human exposure.
I just wish VLC player responded to the media buttons on my keyboard and had convenient browsing which was viewable on my TV.. which is why I just stick with Windows Media Center. Not that WMC is perfect by any means, but those two features alone are enough that it's my media player of choice.
Ah, tea. I just assumed they were referring to Duece Bigelow: Space Gigolo.
I don't want to go into an in depth explanation of the human ear's ability to resolve differences in frequency and amplitude, but suffice to say that the threshold is far FAR exceeded by CD the audio standard. Not only that, but any "auditory clues" regarding the location of the recording would almost definately be in the normal auditory frequency and amplitude range.
What that boils down to is that if there is information lost in a CD recording, it's because the producer filtered it out -- probably intentionally.
Yeah, because we all know how much women hate babies. They only have them because they feel it's their duty, and without their selfless acts, there would be no people.
I don't mind the pops and crackles to get to listen to that warm sound you can't get from sterile sounding CDs....I would buy a laser-stylus turntable. - http://www.elpj.com/
You mean the same company that offers a recording of their product on CD?
A well-mastered CD is better than vinyl, and playing a CD doesn't involve: physical wear, horizontal tracking angle error, leveling adjustment worries, inner groove distortion, channel balance error, stereo crosstalk, anti-skating compensation, acoustic feedback, locked groove problems, problems tracking warped, cracked, or eccentric records, cartridge hum pickup[1] and -- best of all -- a CD player doesn't cost 10 grand.
There are plenty of reasons to buy vinyl -- some of which you mentioned -- but high quality sound isn't one of them. And as one of the posters above mentioned, you can just digitally add some hissing, popping, and create a feedback loop if you really enjoy that.
[1] Wikipedia - Laser Turntable
Yahoo was careful to note that it cannot tell whether the current slowdown is a sign of broader trouble or is limited to ads from the auto and financial sectors.
Or limited to Yahoo's sales of auto/financial ads, perhaps because of a lack of response from Yahoo users. Or maybe online advertising is just ineffective, and those two sectors are simply the first to realize it. Or maybe it's just a completely meaningless fluke. Thanks for clearing that up for us, Yahoo.
Hey guy, did you even read the GP? He said that the actions were wrong, but people that should stand up for themselves. He's exactly right, and if they *had* stood up for themselves instead of bottling up their anger for years, it probably wouldn't have reached such a dramatic climax.
By the way, we don't care who you're dating or how she's doing, and when she dumps you in a few months, not only will you no longer care about Columbine, but if you're truely as sensitive as you appear, you'll probably be so crushed that you'll wish she hadn't been one of the survivors, so ease up on the soapbox speeches.
There is no Bible in Judaeism, let alone a "New Testament." The Torah is pretty much the same as the first 5 books of the Christian Old Testament, but that's about it.
For future reference: Jokes are usually better when they're relevant, or at least intentionally irrelevant.
I think he meant multilateration, not triangulation. Using three antennae, you can identify one single point where the transmission could have originated (on a plane). A fourth antenna could be used for 3D positioning. Directional antennae are neither required nor desirable for multilateration since you're calculating the position based on the time differences of reception, not direction of signal strength.
"How would you set up these systems for these little kids to use and learn about computers using Linux?"
That question doesn't even make sense -- it's like three unrelated questions in one. How do you install Linux? Follow the onscreen instructions. Refer to the documentation, How-Tos, or forums if you get stuck.
What software do you install afterwards? Probably whatever the teacher requests. Is he going to be teaching the kids as well? Because it doesn't really matter what he puts on the computers if the teacher doesn't know what the hell it is.
How do you get little kids to learn? You just explain stuff to them and they absorb it like sponges. Then you get them to explain it back to you, and correct the parts they didn't quite get right. Probably start with something basic like the different parts of the computer, different types of media, the concept of directories as folders, etc.
I still have no idea what you're asking though, but it sounds like "Help us develop a cirriculum for some elementary school. BTW Linux!!!11!!!," to me.