I think it's a question of what you're used to. Our currencyisfairlycolourful, but the subtlety and complexity is more than one would expect in play money. The Euro looks a little toy-like to me, but as I said, maybe it is just familiarity after all.
Your bills are all the same size? Good grief, how do visually-impaired people cope? I suppose I should have deduced that from the mention in the article of the technique of bleaching and reprinting smaller bills as larger denominations. It's totally impossible with ours.
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What they need, then, is for an engineering student to do their masters dissertation on creating a generic physical framework for AI systems, or a computing student to do theirs on a generic simulation environment for virtual AI 'bots. Then this can be re-used by AI students in subsequent years. Alternatively, each year they could team up engineering students working on the physical robots with computing studetns working on the AI systems, that way both departments are working on their core speciality.
Of course a paper would be just as good, but something like this built into a wall would be more up to date.
Or, combine the two, and have it print the info on the toilet paper. Sanitary concerns could be allayed by making it voice-activated, or maybe gesture-sensitive like the Heart of Gold's radio in H2G2.
Amazon? Ebay? Any other big U.S. internet-only (or commonly thought-of as such) business? I guess they must have administrative offices somewhere. [has a quik look] Their Investor Relations dept is in WA, that's the only physical address I can find with a quick browse.
Like Barbarians weren't already the ass-kickers of the world. Seriously, I don't know how any other class can make it through all the bosses and Hell on their own. Maybe Paladins.
I think ECC RAM inserts extra bits after the first, second, fourth, eighth, etc. data bits. So for 32-bit memory, you need 6 extra bits. I would guess that 32-bits is probably a good balance between efficiency and protection.
JPEGs for font rendering examples?
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That's a pretty good story. My favourite fictional plastic bag story has to be "The adventures of Black Bag, the faithful border bin-liner", the adventures of a shepherd and his black plastic sack that blows around in the wind, looking a little bit like a black dog in silhouette. It featured in Viz magazine, an adult spoof of children's comics such as The Beano, alongside such classics as Sweary Mary, Johnny Fartpants, Sid the Sexist, and The Fat Slags.
but release the signed binary under some other licence.
That's the key to the problem - but you have to have sole copyright to the code. If anyone else has contributed code to the project and holds joint copyright, then you have to get them to agree to the dual-licence release. On large projects this becomes increasingly difficult if it isn't done right early on.
Okay, so you'd need some energy as well. Actually that's a good point - looking at the only working examples of self-replicaing assemblers that build complex machines out of the raw earth, to wit plants, they get nearly all their energy from the sun. And boy, are they slow! To build a ferrari out of raw materials must inherently use energy, I wonder how low that amount could be made.
Although anyone can go and make a Ferrari out of dust,
You'd need the right materials. Dust is mostly silicon and carbon, I think, so that would go a fairly long way, but you'd need some metal as well, plus sulphur, magnesium, neon, etc.
That's still pretty daunting for the user that doesn't even know what c:\windows\hosts means or how to get to it. That page really needs something like:
1. Right-click on this and select "Save As" 2. keep pressing the little up arrow until you reach My Computer 3. Double-click on the "(C:)" icon 4. Type in "newhosts" (without the quotes) and click "Save" 5. Right-click on this and select "Save As" 6. etc.
where the second file is a MS-Dos batch file that finds your hosts file and adds the contents of the first file to it. It should check for an existing hosts backup, and if not present, make one. Then it should concatenate the backup to the newhosts file. This way the process can be repeated.
I'm shocked, shocked that anyone should suggest such a course of action! >:->
Seriously though, I may have a licence for the cut-down version of Windows that only has Sony drivers, but that doesn't mean that I have any rights to the extra drivers on the Windows 98 full install CD.
Had I realised that Windows 98 was the last decent Win32 OS that didn't have truly outrageous licence clauses, I would have picked up a copy off the shelves for future use.
I'm afraid that so often have "scientists" stood up and said that their emloyer's activities (I'm thinking PCBs here) are safe and clean, that I just don't believe them any more. A scientist in the employ of a multinational conglomerate is more likely to be lying than telling the truth, IMO. Same with journalists, I'm afraid, they're all looking at their future employment prospects with the big networks.
I was answering his point, rather than making my own.
I would like to move away from M$, but don't have the time to invest in it. In any case, I use my laptop to dial in to my employer's network, and they only provide (and mandate) Windows software.
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Your bills are all the same size? Good grief, how do visually-impaired people cope? I suppose I should have deduced that from the mention in the article of the technique of bleaching and reprinting smaller bills as larger denominations. It's totally impossible with ours.
What they need, then, is for an engineering student to do their masters dissertation on creating a generic physical framework for AI systems, or a computing student to do theirs on a generic simulation environment for virtual AI 'bots. Then this can be re-used by AI students in subsequent years. Alternatively, each year they could team up engineering students working on the physical robots with computing studetns working on the AI systems, that way both departments are working on their core speciality.
It's nearly 13.00 pm! You posted your comment at 11:25!
Amazon? Ebay? Any other big U.S. internet-only (or commonly thought-of as such) business? I guess they must have administrative offices somewhere. [has a quik look] Their Investor Relations dept is in WA, that's the only physical address I can find with a quick browse.
Like Barbarians weren't already the ass-kickers of the world. Seriously, I don't know how any other class can make it through all the bosses and Hell on their own. Maybe Paladins.
We've had RISC, MMX, VLIW, SSI, maybe it's time for DWIM processors.
I think ECC RAM inserts extra bits after the first, second, fourth, eighth, etc. data bits. So for 32-bit memory, you need 6 extra bits. I would guess that 32-bits is probably a good balance between efficiency and protection.
They're using JPEGs to show font rendering! LOL!
That's a pretty good story. My favourite fictional plastic bag story has to be "The adventures of Black Bag, the faithful border bin-liner", the adventures of a shepherd and his black plastic sack that blows around in the wind, looking a little bit like a black dog in silhouette. It featured in Viz magazine, an adult spoof of children's comics such as The Beano, alongside such classics as Sweary Mary, Johnny Fartpants, Sid the Sexist, and The Fat Slags.
I'd use www.ogle.com, personally. Sadly it's taken.
Not to mention Wyre Piddle.
Are we? Excellent, here's another then!
That's still pretty daunting for the user that doesn't even know what c:\windows\hosts means or how to get to it. That page really needs something like:
1. Right-click on this and select "Save As"
2. keep pressing the little up arrow until you reach My Computer
3. Double-click on the "(C:)" icon
4. Type in "newhosts" (without the quotes) and click "Save"
5. Right-click on this and select "Save As"
6. etc.
where the second file is a MS-Dos batch file that finds your hosts file and adds the contents of the first file to it. It should check for an existing hosts backup, and if not present, make one. Then it should concatenate the backup to the newhosts file. This way the process can be repeated.
Seriously though, I may have a licence for the cut-down version of Windows that only has Sony drivers, but that doesn't mean that I have any rights to the extra drivers on the Windows 98 full install CD.
Had I realised that Windows 98 was the last decent Win32 OS that didn't have truly outrageous licence clauses, I would have picked up a copy off the shelves for future use.
I'm afraid that so often have "scientists" stood up and said that their emloyer's activities (I'm thinking PCBs here) are safe and clean, that I just don't believe them any more. A scientist in the employ of a multinational conglomerate is more likely to be lying than telling the truth, IMO. Same with journalists, I'm afraid, they're all looking at their future employment prospects with the big networks.
I'm already going against the grain by using my own hardware, I do so because it is more convenient for me.
I was answering his point, rather than making my own.
I would like to move away from M$, but don't have the time to invest in it. In any case, I use my laptop to dial in to my employer's network, and they only provide (and mandate) Windows software.