That makes sense. The VHS tapes in a rental store cost more because they are supposedly higher quality media, which stands to reason. If you watch a tape you recorded yourself on cheapo media, it will wear out after only a few viewings.
like for temprature, a lot of people would get confused an thing that 40 degrees C is pretty cold when in reality it's not.
I think that a system based on Kelvin instead of Celsius would be better. Then nobody would imagine any congruency between temperatures in the two scales.
In the context of the comic they at least make a little bit of sense. However, in the fortune cookie file, they were disconnected and with no context at all. I personally never saw a single Zippy fortune that made any sense.
If I remember correctly, the optimum base for data size is base e (approx 2.7). I guess that base 3 would be the best we could achieve. Can anybody who knows more about information theory back me up?
In addition to this, you would need to find a medium capable of carrying a tri-state signal (electrons are not best suited for this). In fact, due to the fact that we have a tough time determining on and off sometimes, I would personally suggest we leave it at binary for the time being.
Perhaps light would be better suited for non-binary signalling. With electrons, in a normal digital signal, information is encoded in presence or absense of current (or voltage in some circuits). This makes it hard to have a three-state signal, because you have to have at least one more distinguishing signal. It is possible to construct a circuit that uses a high voltage (or current) as a 2, a low voltage (or current) as a 1, and no current as a 0. Alternatively, you could use a signal based on negative, zero, and positive voltages. However the difficulty with such a system comes in state transitions. For instance, in the first system, how do you transition from high voltage to none w/o going through the low voltage state. Optical computing on the other hand, could have several possible frequencies of light for each input and output.
The only place where a user should have write access is their own home directory, and anywhere a user has write access, there should not be execute priveledges.
I am trying to imagine a context where this would even make sense... What are users doing even logging into your system then? What benefit is there of giving them shell accounts? Since the shell is a scripting language, and any script can be entered on standard input and executed, it seems rather arbitrary to me. Of course you can't run binary executable files, but any shell script could still do rm -rf / (which would only affect the files the user has permission to delete obviously).
A "friend" of mine one time was trying to flash the bios on his scsi card, and the flash failed. He couldn't boot the computer with the card in, but he needed the card to access his boot drive as a temporary measure, so he booted the computer with the card out, then once the bios had passed the stage where it would try to initialize the scsi card, he jammed it into a pci slot (note, this was most definitely not a hot-swappable part). The first two times he didn't get the timing right, but the third time he got it exactly right. He later had some problems with the motherboard, and called tech support. Come to find out, he had blown some of the picofuses on the mb!
Even without docking, they could hop in EVA suits and transfer to the Progress. (Well, assuming the Progresses are EVA capable, I don't know about that aspect.)
It is here now. Observe: # apt-get install lil{Tab}{Tab} lilo lilo-config lilo-doc lilypond lilypond-doc lilypond1.3
#apt-get install lilo-d{Tab} apt-get install lilo-doc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed:
lilo-doc 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 242kB of archives. After unpacking 291kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main lilo-doc 1:22.5.8-10 [242kB] Fetched 242kB in 1s (179kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package lilo-doc. (Reading database...
etc. You may need to have the bash_completion package installed. On debian unstable it seems to be part of the bash package. This is a great extension of bash (there is similar support for tcsh) that gives you tab completion on most commands. It knows about the command-line options for most commands. It's pretty cool to use with for instance postgresql, where I can do: # psql te{Tab}{Tab} and have it show me: template0 template1. In fact it is actually querying the pg_catalog.pg_database table. (of course this won't work if you need a password to log in, but my pg_hba.conf allows local users to connect as themselves w/ no password).
Alas, I don't think the Video Toaster did true chroma keying, only luma keying. That was a major wish of mine for a long time when I was in high school, true chroma keying. Without it, the best we could do was have our people wear light outfits and shoot thim in front of a black curtain with very hot lights, and then we could approximate the effect, but you could still see through their shadows. Pretty cool actually, but definitely not something you would want to do for a production quality broadcast.
I have to admit, I originally thought this was a troll, but once I looked at WiKipedia I found out about the Chappe brothers. I suppose it was kind of silly of me to assume that the only kind of telegraphy ever invented was electric.
it means that i don't like to recompile my code for stupid reasons like wrong capitals.
That is no different than recompiling for stupid reasons like forgetting a semicolon at the end of line. When I was first learning to program, I frequently forgot them, and the compiler let me know. Now, I almost never forget them.
My dad once had a magazine subscription that he wanted to cancel. He asked them to cancel, but they kept sending him stuff, so he took one of the business reply cards, and taped it to a big box of dirt (about 50 pounds or so) along with a letter saying please remove me, and sent it to them. He never got any more magazines.
Yeah, I definitely have to agree with you on this one. I got VLC (VideoLan's media player component) because I wanted to play DVDs on my DVD drive under Windows NT and 2000. It works wonderfully. I love it.
I have a desk with a cheap fake wood verneer, and my optical mouse was detecting patterns in the woodgrain and getting confused. I printed out a random pixel bitmap, and taped it to my desk, and now my optical mouse works great!
That's an interesting possibility. I would imagine that there would be some communication between Mars Express and Beagle 2 prior to launch, (article says ME "spun up" Beagle 2 successfully, but no mention of whether it also did a system status check).
I actually got a publisher's preview edition of Altered Carbon, and I really liked it. The only thing I didn't really care for was the explicit sex scenes. They had the feel of a movie that adds a sex scene just to get a ratingof "R". However, there were a lot of things in it I liked. My favorite scene was when the main character checks into a hotel (The Hendrix). Doesn't sound exciting? Well, read it and find out for yourself!
I suppose this is really more of a gcc question, but here goes. Does the amd 64 use a 64 bit pid_t, time_t, uid_t, etc? In my opinion, that is one of the more important reasons to switch to a 64 bit processor.
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That makes sense. The VHS tapes in a rental store cost more because they are supposedly higher quality media, which stands to reason. If you watch a tape you recorded yourself on cheapo media, it will wear out after only a few viewings.
In the context of the comic they at least make a little bit of sense. However, in the fortune cookie file, they were disconnected and with no context at all. I personally never saw a single Zippy fortune that made any sense.
Apparently, there has been some information theoretical research into computing with arbitrary base arithmetic. For instance, On-line multiplication in real and complex base.
Perhaps light would be better suited for non-binary signalling. With electrons, in a normal digital signal, information is encoded in presence or absense of current (or voltage in some circuits). This makes it hard to have a three-state signal, because you have to have at least one more distinguishing signal. It is possible to construct a circuit that uses a high voltage (or current) as a 2, a low voltage (or current) as a 1, and no current as a 0. Alternatively, you could use a signal based on negative, zero, and positive voltages. However the difficulty with such a system comes in state transitions. For instance, in the first system, how do you transition from high voltage to none w/o going through the low voltage state. Optical computing on the other hand, could have several possible frequencies of light for each input and output.
I am trying to imagine a context where this would even make sense... What are users doing even logging into your system then? What benefit is there of giving them shell accounts? Since the shell is a scripting language, and any script can be entered on standard input and executed, it seems rather arbitrary to me. Of course you can't run binary executable files, but any shell script could still do rm -rf / (which would only affect the files the user has permission to delete obviously).
A "friend" of mine one time was trying to flash the bios on his scsi card, and the flash failed. He couldn't boot the computer with the card in, but he needed the card to access his boot drive as a temporary measure, so he booted the computer with the card out, then once the bios had passed the stage where it would try to initialize the scsi card, he jammed it into a pci slot (note, this was most definitely not a hot-swappable part). The first two times he didn't get the timing right, but the third time he got it exactly right. He later had some problems with the motherboard, and called tech support. Come to find out, he had blown some of the picofuses on the mb!
Even without docking, they could hop in EVA suits and transfer to the Progress. (Well, assuming the Progresses are EVA capable, I don't know about that aspect.)
I used a stroke that was the mirror image of the letter k (basically a reverse lowercase alpha) for x. Grafitti was definitely nice for taking notes.
I just use the "flash click to play" plugin. It lets me know there is a flash there without it playing unless I want it to.
It is here now. Observe:
...
# apt-get install lil {Tab}{Tab}
lilo lilo-config lilo-doc lilypond lilypond-doc lilypond1.3
#apt-get install lilo-d {Tab}
apt-get install lilo-doc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lilo-doc
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 242kB of archives.
After unpacking 291kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main lilo-doc 1:22.5.8-10 [242kB]
Fetched 242kB in 1s (179kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package lilo-doc.
(Reading database
etc. You may need to have the bash_completion package installed. On debian unstable it seems to be part of the bash package. This is a great extension of bash (there is similar support for tcsh) that gives you tab completion on most commands. It knows about the command-line options for most commands. It's pretty cool to use with for instance postgresql, where I can do:
# psql te {Tab}{Tab}
and have it show me:
template0 template1. In fact it is actually querying the pg_catalog.pg_database table. (of course this won't work if you need a password to log in, but my pg_hba.conf allows local users to connect as themselves w/ no password).
Alas, I don't think the Video Toaster did true chroma keying, only luma keying. That was a major wish of mine for a long time when I was in high school, true chroma keying. Without it, the best we could do was have our people wear light outfits and shoot thim in front of a black curtain with very hot lights, and then we could approximate the effect, but you could still see through their shadows. Pretty cool actually, but definitely not something you would want to do for a production quality broadcast.
I have to admit, I originally thought this was a troll, but once I looked at WiKipedia I found out about the Chappe brothers. I suppose it was kind of silly of me to assume that the only kind of telegraphy ever invented was electric.
That is no different than recompiling for stupid reasons like forgetting a semicolon at the end of line. When I was first learning to program, I frequently forgot them, and the compiler let me know. Now, I almost never forget them.
My dad once had a magazine subscription that he wanted to cancel. He asked them to cancel, but they kept sending him stuff, so he took one of the business reply cards, and taped it to a big box of dirt (about 50 pounds or so) along with a letter saying please remove me, and sent it to them. He never got any more magazines.
errr, actually, you only need one: Subtract and Branch if Negative
Yeah, I definitely have to agree with you on this one. I got VLC (VideoLan's media player component) because I wanted to play DVDs on my DVD drive under Windows NT and 2000. It works wonderfully. I love it.
no, it stays aac, not re-encoded, it just extracts the key from your windows system so the aac file can be played on any o/s
My brother has bipolar disorder, and caffiene makes him sleepy.
I have a desk with a cheap fake wood verneer, and my optical mouse was detecting patterns in the woodgrain and getting confused. I printed out a random pixel bitmap, and taped it to my desk, and now my optical mouse works great!
That's an interesting possibility. I would imagine that there would be some communication between Mars Express and Beagle 2 prior to launch, (article says ME "spun up" Beagle 2 successfully, but no mention of whether it also did a system status check).
I actually got a publisher's preview edition of Altered Carbon, and I really liked it. The only thing I didn't really care for was the explicit sex scenes. They had the feel of a movie that adds a sex scene just to get a ratingof "R". However, there were a lot of things in it I liked. My favorite scene was when the main character checks into a hotel (The Hendrix). Doesn't sound exciting? Well, read it and find out for yourself!
not to mention the proposed kibibit, etc
no, because the lower case b means bits, not bytes
I suppose this is really more of a gcc question, but here goes. Does the amd 64 use a 64 bit pid_t, time_t, uid_t, etc? In my opinion, that is one of the more important reasons to switch to a 64 bit processor.