LOL. This is true. And believe me, I'd love to try it on a bike if I had the balls, and I have great respect for those who do it.
But, please also don't downplay the balls you need to do it in a car either... Over my 10 years of HPDE (high performance drivers education) I've totalled my car twice. Once from an overzealous Corvette driver on a flat track who basically "p.i.t."ed me from behind before locking fenders with me and taking us both to the wall.
The second time was at Willow Springs in SoCal. That time it was an over-CAUTIOUS bmw driver who absolutely panicked at something and lay on his brakes entering the turn to face the bleachers at the top of the hill.
He was lucky and the force of my ass-bumping him pushed him into a relatively benign infield. Unfortunately... I got to ride the hill all the way down to the hot pits tumbling end-over-end.
Thank god the administrators at those events will put their full weight behind me in your insurance claims and, esp with the braking BMW, the driver admitted full responsibility.
Being a non-average Amercian, I'll narrow your suspicion and say he's an American who barely got his license and just is nieve, or he's an American who is... just kinda clueless.
I'll append his statement to what it should be -
There's nothing like driving on a cool, dry day, double apexing a large, sweeping turn listening to the engine approach redline in 4th gear as you approach a set of compounds, blip the throttle with a perfect downshift to 3rd while straight line breaking, turning in and going over the birm on the inside, throttle steer into the tight right, and flooring it as you fly out to the left.
I get to do that about 3 times a year at high performance driving schools and racing schools. But it's very expensive and hard on my car. Enter the newest breed of racing games that are becoming more and more "driving simulators". I applaud the folks at real virtual car for trying to make the video gaming experience as immersive as possible for those of us who can't afford to make racing their career.
There are other ways to prove identity without sacrificing such fundamentally private information. e.g. At my gym you walk in, they scan your card's barcode, and your PICTURE shows up on the screen and, believe me, they look at you and confirm.
If any argument is made that "well, a hacker could break in and change the picture on record," then you need to realize that it would be exactly as difficult for a hacker to break in and change the thumbprint on record.
The difference is my thumbprint is my own business whereas I already show my face by walking through my front door into public.
I checked out section 107 and was suprised to see Fair Use coverage was broader than I'd thought! Section 107 never actually uses the specific word "parody." However, I think looking at the actual language used is directly applicable to this case and alot easier to substantiate in defense -
"the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."
If this Walmart site was anything other than "criticism (and) comment," then someone please explain why my perceptions are way off.
Using a little amount of electricity - about 0.25 volts - scientists at Pennsylvania State University found that a microbial fuel cell can overcome its "fermentation barrier", Xinhua reports.
The voltage is just one-tenth needed for electrolysis - the process that uses electricity to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen.
...and...
The voltage to be given, scientists explain, is a small fraction of the voltage needed to run a typical six-volt cell phone.
RTFA next time. The headline on the front page isn't everything. The article doesn't answer specifics on the amount of hydrogen produced, but it does imply alot of things about the overall efficiency of the process.
I agree completely and I think the whole idea is absurd. How ever my thought is that Adobe is afraid of POSSIBLE legal ramifications because it would be their software breaking the encryption, not yours.
The argument could be made that you are implicitly giving Adobe the right to break the encryption on YOUR photograph that YOU own the copyright to... But, as all these different opinions prove, these interpretive waters are murky at best.
-The submitter didn't explicitly state it but I'm guessing since he did mention the popularity/existence of 64 bit processors that he intends on using one.
-32bit CPUs are not limited to 4gigs of ram. Only 4 gigs directly addressable at a time, yes. But google "page address extension" to find all you'd ever want to know about it. The Linux kernel has supported 64gigs on 32bit processors since the late 2.5.x's
But, of course, I agree 64 bit is the way to go because it avoids all that address-table-translation nastiness but the submitter's problem remains.
Is there a motherboard on the consumer market within a reasonable price range ($1000, maybe?) that can actually, physically take 64+ gigs of ram?
There is a key difference - not between right and wrong, but between tactics.
The RIAA SHOULD stop copyright infringers just as FOSS groups SHOULD stop GPL violations.
But the RIAA collects coinicidental evidence for high volumes of people and, without nearly enough proof, accuses them all of breaking the law. Yes, alot of them are violators. But everytime you hear "RIAA sues another 200 people" in the headlines at least a handful of them are let off because the accusations were so outlandish compared to reality.
These GPL enforcements are neither broad nor hasteful. These people do their research. They take a suspected GPL violation. Research it until it is a LIKELY GPL violation. Research it until they have PROOF that it is a violation. They then contact the infringer and file for an injunction after fulfilling every RESPONSIBILITY that the ACCUSER should be required to fulfill.
Is copying and sharing music illegal? In most cases yes! Should perpetrators be stopped? Yes! Does the same apply to GPL violators? Yes!
It's not a question of legality or right vs. wrong. It's a question of ethics in the quest to stop the violations.
Maybe thats just my $.02, someone "correct" me if they have a different opinion.
I think I would've called it a "Googly Linked List." In my opinion, "Linked List" is the core data type and therefore should be treated atomically. Any modifiers should go before that.
Otherwise we'd call it a "linked doubly list" or "linked circular list" or "linked chunk list." Or.. a "linked monkey list"... All this talk of linked lists is making me hungry for Ben and Jerry's.
I always RTFA but in the absence of an article, apparently I didn't RTFS (submission) that well. I speed-read it an understood it would be 3000 commodity access points and figured that one server/router could obviously administer more than one AP.
In hindsight, that seems quite a flawed setup for this application and each AP being a full server/router seems neccessary.
*slaps forehead*
However, as someone else mentioned, I don't see why administering them should be so difficult. If setup properly the boxes should run relatively independantly. If they all report status/usage back to a central location (which I can assume they will) this makes administering each individual box even less of a problem. One would only need to pay attention to the handful of boxes that have "anomolies" and need attention.
I use standard DB9 rs232 ports as well as parallel ports for all sorts of testing, debugging, and even deployment applications. I've deployed epia boards in energy management systems more than once utilitizing the serial and parallel ports.
Yes i know that you get get usb->serial converters and usb->parallel converters. And for notebook/desktop applications that makes sense. However these boards are obiously not mainstream. They are often used for development/prototyping and for low power applications. The needs for that market are different.
At least that's my take on it. I for one am glad to see not EVERYONE is going "legacy free."
I realize this is now somewhat offtopic, but I was interested enough in the parent post to explore further. Indeed these images are still available. But instead of some complicated "low-tech bandwidth management system," you can link to them directly off Nasa's website
Here is an 8192x4096 of Earth. Created as a mosiac with 1km square tiles with no clouds A version with clouds is also available. Here is a 30000x15000 (yah, you heard me) GIF of the entire planet's city lights at night. A 16394x8192 TIF version is also available.
In addition to the "entire planet" shots, theres some other high res pictures of fires, floods, and dust storms in localized areas - I recommend checking them out!
As a side matter, a google search on Li CSC batteries doesn't turn up much. What are they exactly?
Li/CSC seems to be an acronym for "Lithium Sulfuryl Chloride." Why they decided to make it look like Lithium/Computer Science, I dunno.
This is the best link I could find with a description of the different battery technologies that also mentions Li/CSC. It seems the main characteristics of the Li/CSC battery is that it's rechargable, carries a higher-than-average voltage, has a VERY high energy density, and is suitable for high-current applications. It seems the ideal match for the Spray-type application.
A -- lots of functions, but you have to actually learn something before you can use them fluently
B -- a small number of functions, but with biiig pretty pictures
I think you missed a key point of the grandparent post - That on may OSX applications the "small number of functions with biiig pretty pictures" are the icons visible on the default toolbars and the ADDITIONAL functionality is available through the menu system and keyboard shortcuts.
I think it would be very difficult to argue that OSX versions of the big applications actually have LESS functionality than the MSW versions - they don't. The whole point of this thread is that Microsoft would rather give you a smaaaaaal pretty picture for every single function you can perform which basically clutters up your screen and masks the simple, most common functions. The common OSX approach is to have those biiiig pretty pictures for the functions you'll use 80% of the time and provide organized, readable menus for the other functionality
As a power user I still have to learn applications. I would much rather hunt for the function I need in a menu system which follows an organizational pattern anyone who's used a computer before should be familiar with then search through the tooltips of scores of archaic pictures for what I need.
I moved away from SLO about 5 months ago. The picture looks like every element comes from/could be found in downtown SLO, but I can't recognize where it may be. In particular, I can't recall any place in the heart of downtown where two one-way streets face each other like that. However, I spent the last 6 months working on my masters thesis and therefore haven't been downtown for 11 months.
Of course maybe another reason I can't think straight about it is that it's hard to scour for details with that... that... THAT obscuring the view.
I left CalPoly with the engrained impression that 90% of those central coast women are attractive and half of those are downright HOTTIES. But if this IS infact SLO, I'd have to revise my estimates because surly she makes up that unattractive 10% by herself...
Heck, it is statistically valid to give out blank ballots, as long as every voter has an equal chance of receiving such a ballot. We could have 1-question true-false ballots: "do you think that $(PERSON) would be a good choice for $(OFFICE)?" That would sure speed things up.
I know you were commenting in hyperbole with that statement, but I must point out something that people often take for granted - Politics in the United States is not ENTIRELY based on a two party system.
Your statement relys on the choice being binary. In presidential, gubernatorial, and other high profile elections the two party assumption is true 99.9% of the time (Jesse Ventura being that.1%, but it could happen again). But at county and local levels, 3rd party and independent candidates are elected and re-elected with regulatiry.
Your statement I do agree with, however, is that if ballots were printed (or displayed electronically, as the case may be) in completely random order, the "1st pick" advantage would be nullfied. This includes the possiblity of Ralph Nader being listed before the Dems. or Reps. Maybe then he'd get his 5%:)
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That... wow. That truly made my day. I'm going to start using that one. Post of praise as I have no mod points.
:)
Seriously, thank you for giving my morning a jumpstart.
LOL. This is true. And believe me, I'd love to try it on a bike if I had the balls, and I have great respect for those who do it.
But, please also don't downplay the balls you need to do it in a car either... Over my 10 years of HPDE (high performance drivers education) I've totalled my car twice. Once from an overzealous Corvette driver on a flat track who basically "p.i.t."ed me from behind before locking fenders with me and taking us both to the wall.
The second time was at Willow Springs in SoCal. That time it was an over-CAUTIOUS bmw driver who absolutely panicked at something and lay on his brakes entering the turn to face the bleachers at the top of the hill.
He was lucky and the force of my ass-bumping him pushed him into a relatively benign infield. Unfortunately... I got to ride the hill all the way down to the hot pits tumbling end-over-end.
Thank god the administrators at those events will put their full weight behind me in your insurance claims and, esp with the braking BMW, the driver admitted full responsibility.
My bowels will never quite be the same...
Let me guess, you're American?
Being a non-average Amercian, I'll narrow your suspicion and say he's an American who barely got his license and just is nieve, or he's an American who is... just kinda clueless.
I'll append his statement to what it should be -
There's nothing like driving on a cool, dry day, double apexing a large, sweeping turn listening to the engine approach redline in 4th gear as you approach a set of compounds, blip the throttle with a perfect downshift to 3rd while straight line breaking, turning in and going over the birm on the inside, throttle steer into the tight right, and flooring it as you fly out to the left.
I get to do that about 3 times a year at high performance driving schools and racing schools. But it's very expensive and hard on my car. Enter the newest breed of racing games that are becoming more and more "driving simulators". I applaud the folks at real virtual car for trying to make the video gaming experience as immersive as possible for those of us who can't afford to make racing their career.
Okay, so you've replaced your car keys with a bike lock key.
Errr... combination lock...?
There are other ways to prove identity without sacrificing such fundamentally private information. e.g. At my gym you walk in, they scan your card's barcode, and your PICTURE shows up on the screen and, believe me, they look at you and confirm.
If any argument is made that "well, a hacker could break in and change the picture on record," then you need to realize that it would be exactly as difficult for a hacker to break in and change the thumbprint on record.
The difference is my thumbprint is my own business whereas I already show my face by walking through my front door into public.
I checked out section 107 and was suprised to see Fair Use coverage was broader than I'd thought! Section 107 never actually uses the specific word "parody." However, I think looking at the actual language used is directly applicable to this case and alot easier to substantiate in defense -
"the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."
If this Walmart site was anything other than "criticism (and) comment," then someone please explain why my perceptions are way off.
From the article -
Using a little amount of electricity - about 0.25 volts - scientists at Pennsylvania State University found that a microbial fuel cell can overcome its "fermentation barrier", Xinhua reports.
The voltage is just one-tenth needed for electrolysis - the process that uses electricity to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen.
...and...
The voltage to be given, scientists explain, is a small fraction of the voltage needed to run a typical six-volt cell phone.
RTFA next time. The headline on the front page isn't everything. The article doesn't answer specifics on the amount of hydrogen produced, but it does imply alot of things about the overall efficiency of the process.
>Consider me slow.
Done.
I agree completely and I think the whole idea is absurd. How ever my thought is that Adobe is afraid of POSSIBLE legal ramifications because it would be their software breaking the encryption, not yours.
The argument could be made that you are implicitly giving Adobe the right to break the encryption on YOUR photograph that YOU own the copyright to... But, as all these different opinions prove, these interpretive waters are murky at best.
Correction noted. s/sues/accuses
A few points -
-The submitter didn't explicitly state it but I'm guessing since he did mention the popularity/existence of 64 bit processors that he intends on using one.
-32bit CPUs are not limited to 4gigs of ram. Only 4 gigs directly addressable at a time, yes. But google "page address extension" to find all you'd ever want to know about it. The Linux kernel has supported 64gigs on 32bit processors since the late 2.5.x's
But, of course, I agree 64 bit is the way to go because it avoids all that address-table-translation nastiness but the submitter's problem remains.
Is there a motherboard on the consumer market within a reasonable price range ($1000, maybe?) that can actually, physically take 64+ gigs of ram?
There is a key difference - not between right and wrong, but between tactics.
The RIAA SHOULD stop copyright infringers just as FOSS groups SHOULD stop GPL violations.
But the RIAA collects coinicidental evidence for high volumes of people and, without nearly enough proof, accuses them all of breaking the law. Yes, alot of them are violators. But everytime you hear "RIAA sues another 200 people" in the headlines at least a handful of them are let off because the accusations were so outlandish compared to reality.
These GPL enforcements are neither broad nor hasteful. These people do their research. They take a suspected GPL violation. Research it until it is a LIKELY GPL violation. Research it until they have PROOF that it is a violation. They then contact the infringer and file for an injunction after fulfilling every RESPONSIBILITY that the ACCUSER should be required to fulfill.
Is copying and sharing music illegal? In most cases yes!
Should perpetrators be stopped? Yes!
Does the same apply to GPL violators? Yes!
It's not a question of legality or right vs. wrong. It's a question of ethics in the quest to stop the violations.
Maybe thats just my $.02, someone "correct" me if they have a different opinion.
I think I would've called it a "Googly Linked List." In my opinion, "Linked List" is the core data type and therefore should be treated atomically. Any modifiers should go before that.
Otherwise we'd call it a "linked doubly list" or "linked circular list" or "linked chunk list."
Or.. a "linked monkey list"... All this talk of linked lists is making me hungry for Ben and Jerry's.
I always RTFA but in the absence of an article, apparently I didn't RTFS (submission) that well. I speed-read it an understood it would be 3000 commodity access points and figured that one server/router could obviously administer more than one AP.
In hindsight, that seems quite a flawed setup for this application and each AP being a full server/router seems neccessary.
*slaps forehead*
However, as someone else mentioned, I don't see why administering them should be so difficult. If setup properly the boxes should run relatively independantly. If they all report status/usage back to a central location (which I can assume they will) this makes administering each individual box even less of a problem. One would only need to pay attention to the handful of boxes that have "anomolies" and need attention.
But that's just my $.02
Intended for parent, not submitter - Ask yourself if every node has to have a server behind it...
I use standard DB9 rs232 ports as well as parallel ports for all sorts of testing, debugging, and even deployment applications. I've deployed epia boards in energy management systems more than once utilitizing the serial and parallel ports.
Yes i know that you get get usb->serial converters and usb->parallel converters. And for notebook/desktop applications that makes sense. However these boards are obiously not mainstream. They are often used for development/prototyping and for low power applications. The needs for that market are different.
At least that's my take on it. I for one am glad to see not EVERYONE is going "legacy free."
I realize this is now somewhat offtopic, but I was interested enough in the parent post to explore further. Indeed these images are still available. But instead of some complicated "low-tech bandwidth management system," you can link to them directly off Nasa's website
Here is an 8192x4096 of Earth. Created as a mosiac with 1km square tiles with no clouds
A version with clouds is also available.
Here is a 30000x15000 (yah, you heard me) GIF of the entire planet's city lights at night.
A 16394x8192 TIF version is also available.
In addition to the "entire planet" shots, theres some other high res pictures of fires, floods, and dust storms in localized areas - I recommend checking them out!
Link?
:)
Errrr.... you mean like comparing apples to cherries
and pears...
As a side matter, a google search on Li CSC batteries doesn't turn up much. What are they exactly?
Li/CSC seems to be an acronym for "Lithium Sulfuryl Chloride." Why they decided to make it look like Lithium/Computer Science, I dunno.
This is the best link I could find with a description of the different battery technologies that also mentions Li/CSC. It seems the main characteristics of the Li/CSC battery is that it's rechargable, carries a higher-than-average voltage, has a VERY high energy density, and is suitable for high-current applications. It seems the ideal match for the Spray-type application.
Enough said
So, it's a choice between:
A -- lots of functions, but you have to actually learn something before you can use them fluently
B -- a small number of functions, but with biiig pretty pictures
I think you missed a key point of the grandparent post - That on may OSX applications the "small number of functions with biiig pretty pictures" are the icons visible on the default toolbars and the ADDITIONAL functionality is available through the menu system and keyboard shortcuts.
I think it would be very difficult to argue that OSX versions of the big applications actually have LESS functionality than the MSW versions - they don't. The whole point of this thread is that Microsoft would rather give you a smaaaaaal pretty picture for every single function you can perform which basically clutters up your screen and masks the simple, most common functions. The common OSX approach is to have those biiiig pretty pictures for the functions you'll use 80% of the time and provide organized, readable menus for the other functionality
As a power user I still have to learn applications. I would much rather hunt for the function I need in a menu system which follows an organizational pattern anyone who's used a computer before should be familiar with then search through the tooltips of scores of archaic pictures for what I need.
Hey, is that downtown San Luis Obispo?
I moved away from SLO about 5 months ago. The picture looks like every element comes from/could be found in downtown SLO, but I can't recognize where it may be. In particular, I can't recall any place in the heart of downtown where two one-way streets face each other like that. However, I spent the last 6 months working on my masters thesis and therefore haven't been downtown for 11 months.
Of course maybe another reason I can't think straight about it is that it's hard to scour for details with that... that... THAT obscuring the view.
I left CalPoly with the engrained impression that 90% of those central coast women are attractive and half of those are downright HOTTIES. But if this IS infact SLO, I'd have to revise my estimates because surly she makes up that unattractive 10% by herself...
I wonder how many peoples' heads this one will fly over. Bravo!
Heck, it is statistically valid to give out blank ballots, as long as every voter has an equal chance of receiving such a ballot. We could have 1-question true-false ballots: "do you think that $(PERSON) would be a good choice for $(OFFICE)?" That would sure speed things up.
.1%, but it could happen again). But at county and local levels, 3rd party and independent candidates are elected and re-elected with regulatiry.
:)
I know you were commenting in hyperbole with that statement, but I must point out something that people often take for granted - Politics in the United States is not ENTIRELY based on a two party system.
Your statement relys on the choice being binary. In presidential, gubernatorial, and other high profile elections the two party assumption is true 99.9% of the time (Jesse Ventura being that
Your statement I do agree with, however, is that if ballots were printed (or displayed electronically, as the case may be) in completely random order, the "1st pick" advantage would be nullfied. This includes the possiblity of Ralph Nader being listed before the Dems. or Reps. Maybe then he'd get his 5%