It's one of those things in the UK - if you have a business and want to play music to your customers you have to pay a flat royalty fee of around 65 pounds each year. There was a local business (hairdresser) who had kept the radio in the front room and hadn't been paying this fee for 20 years, and was forced to go into liquidation over this.
Some of the job adverts in the major construction industry (condo units, apartments, hotel complexes) had serious salary positions for plumbers:
Senior Plumbing Architect wanted
You will have over 10+ years experience in the plumbing trade, be Corgi approved, and must have experience in the following: Mira Excel/Form/88/Advance/Extreme/Elite 2 and also Bristan Java/Omega/1901/Pinnacle. Experience with Triton, Aqualisa is desirable but not required as training will be provided. Your duties will include mentoring junior plumbers and providing feedback when required. You will also be expected to draw up specifications and cost estimates when necessary. As you will be meeting customers face to face, you will be expected to dress appropriately. A toolkit and company subsidized transport will also be available.
They would be competing against each other for the existing resources (petri dish space, the nutrients available, the warmest darkest place of the container).
Each bacterium will have random transcription errors. If these are fatal, the descendant won't reproduce. They have the trade-off between reproducing slowly with fewer mutations but being outbred, or reproducing quickly with more mutations and less chance of being outbred. So it looks like breeding quickly and risking genetic mutations is the better option.
Imagine playing Core Wars where every process that forked or spawned, ran the risk of a few bits being randomized.
It means that all deep underground missile control bunkers can safely run Ktorrent, twitter, Instant Messenger, watch movies, and surf Slashdot without any affecting any other high priority military control systems that may be connected to the secure network.
I've done 'turking' a few times - mainly transcription work and some paragraph writing. For an individual, whether a task is worth doing really depends on how quickly they can do it. The going rate would be around $20/hour.
Simple quick repetitive tasks pay the least, while long creative tasks pay the most. Quick tasks might just pay 10 cents and require the 'turker' to look at an image of a road from a car and click yes/no buttons to say whether there are road markings or traffic lights. Some people are good at doing this kind of repetitive work, so they can keep going for hours and hours.
Creative work usually consists of paragraph writing, and would involve writing 500 words or so for $10, with a particular set of words repeated a specified number of times. A person with English as a first language could do that within 30 minutes, so that's a quick little earner.
There are legends about how the first Amazon Tasks were recognizing music artists and songs from a 10 second snippet of audio. For each task, turkers were being paid 50 cents. People were quick to realize that a single four minute track was being automatically chopped up into 20+ such snippets, so if they got one snippet right, the odds are they could get the next 20 or so tasks done as well. Another nice little earner for $10 every 30 minutes.
Transcription work involves listening to a multi-minute segment of audio and converting it into written text. Tricky work as you have to write down the time, who is speaking and what they said, taking into account regional accents. Alternatively, you could work as an editor and edit together 20 or so transcriptions to form a single consistent transcript that covered an hour or so. Just 3 minutes work would take half an hour, but with bonuses that would make $10 for 30 minutes work.
A search for Steve Fossett was performed using Amazon turk. They took satellite photos of the desert, diced them up and had people look at each square. Many other wrecks were found, but not Steve, as the crash site was actually up at 10,000 feet in the mountains.
One person holiday stay at a New York hotel is charged at 51 pounds per person per night. NY Hotel prices
If you visit the Virgin Train wAebsite, and enquire about prices between Liverpool and Maidstone, standard fare, the prices are as follows:
Off-peak return - 78 pounds Any-time return - 296 pounds First class Any-time return - 444 pounds
For the prices of a two-night stay in new york (airfare 185 pounds + 2 x hotel 51 pounds, total 287 pounds), will cost you less than an Any-time Virgin train ticket through London.
The more digits that prime numbers have, the further apart adjacent primes are. If you imagine the value of a prime number represents the distance along a coastline in terms of centimeters, then you would only need a few billion to cover the entire length of a continent, and adjacent prime numbers would be separated by a few hundred metres.
These Mersenne prime numbers are hundreds of digits long, so as a distance that would be measured in light years, nor metres or kilometres. There just isn't the computational power to check every single possible location, so they use Mersenne prime numbers are a way of taking a short cut to known locations where a prime number might be located.
I think so. It sounds more like "electron holes" in semiconductors. The spin ice contains tetrahedrons formed from ions. Because of this arrangement, adjacent ions must form a positive-negative pair, which then affects the way electrons spin and the resulting magnetic field. Bring in an external magnetic field and that runs the process in the opposite direction. That's where the storage idea comes from.
We have trains in the UK - for cities less than 100 miles away, it's definitely quicker than taking a plane, as the journey will only take around 3 hours, less time than checking in, security and picking up baggage at an airport. Though there are some disadvantages to long distance train journeys in the UK - some passengers, particularly oil workers, seem to treat trains like public bars, and get drunk before and after coming the oil rigs. Whenever this happens, the air conditioning will seem to be "broken" in the extremely hot mode. The toilets tend to be a mess, with soaking wet floors and toilet paper all over the floor. Also expect delays if someone has misunderstood the free ticket offers, or has been hit by a train. Just because you have reserved a seat, there is no guarantee that it will be free when you get on the train, as the train companies rely on overbooking to keep carriages full.
Prepare to be charged double if you happen to be taking a train journey that crosses through rush-hour times at London, even if you aren't in London at those times. I once tried travelling from the North of England to Dover by train, and was quoted a price of around 200 pounds due to the "travelling through London at peak times" (This would be enough for a weekend holiday from London to New York). Splitting the journey into two rail tickets (peak time outside London, and off-peak time through London) brought the price down to 90 pounds.
For journeys from one end of the country to the other, it is definitely better travelling by plane - the flight will take less than an hour, so you can easily do an afternoon meeting and be back home for tea. Otherwise, it would probably be a three day trip.
But 'web' would have been an English-biased word. It might be a different word in a different language. "www" is easier to type than "web" and doesn't have a language bias.
Even Isaac Asimov used the concept of teleporter technology in some of his stories, though he applied the use of technology to everyday use rather than being on a starship.
One story featured a society where the apartment blocks and houses used teleporters instead of public transport. Roomba type machines kept the gardens tidy for a pleasant appearance from windows, but other than that there was no reason for anyone to walk or drive anywhere. Except for one kid who gets fed up of waiting in line at class to be transported home so he walks home instead. His parents get upset so they take him to a psychiatrist. In the end, the psychiatrist tells the parents to leave the kid alone, gives up using teleporters as well, and starts walking home instead.
For financial crimes, it's the accountants that find the loopholes, it's the MP's that try to close them, it's the Inland Revenue that tries to demand the unpaid money, and the lawyers that try to deny that demand.
Just look at the arguments that have been caused by the IR35 legislation dealing with private contractors/freelancers, which has now spread to entertainers:
Me, I can count on one hand the number of times I've programmed outside of work or a class. There was only once when I actually enjoyed it, though. I was in college, and shared a common wall with a girl from Spain who was painfully unaware that her computer had a volume control knob. She would stay up late on AOL instant messenger, and I couldn't sleep. So, I rigged up a Python script to play AOL instant messenger sounds randomly every 5 to 10 seconds, turned up my speakers, pointed them at the wall, and went on vacation for a week. And thus, the asshole you all know and love is born.
I can sympathise with that. Had a neighbor who had a digital alarm clock which played a melody based on a duet between a flute and a base drum. Every morning there would be this sweet "doo-doo doo doo doo" tune of the flute which would bring you out of your sleep, before being rapidly followed by a triple blast of the base drum "BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!" which was so loud it would be heard from two floors up.
Reportedly sidekicks are thin clients, other than making phone calls, everything on the phone is saved on the server side. Which is a special kind of retarded,
What if you are a conference, lose your phone, drop it into the punch bowl, have it fall out of your pocket and run over by a taxi. Having some sort of remote backup seems a good idea.
Most real-world claimed cases of telepathy are usually subconscious (workers returning to a work site after having a hunch that one of their mates was trapped, or family members turning up spontanously to a house when somebody was unconscious or ill).
The use of a LED does detract from this experiment - they should have put person A under some kind of stress and monitored person B to see if their EEG recordings were different in some way.
Perhaps it is the simplicity of the graphics and sound - all those DOS games didn't use more than a handful of commands to interact with the screen (draw points, draw lines, draw circles/eliipses, fill circles/ellipses, paste pixelmap), and the sound command (which directly set the frequency of the speaker).
You might just find that PC's still have the speaker built in - I found out that when keeping the [Shift] key pressed for more than eight seconds, then there was a Frogger type sound and something called Speed-Keys popped up.
Take away the Dolby surround sound, the 24-bit HD framebuffer with motion-capture character animation and most games would probably have the same gameplay as these DOS games. Though, there are better Flash games
Super Mario 63 is a Flash version of the Super Mario platform games.
Crazy Planets is a missile type game based on the curvature of a planet, rather than a simple grid
It's your explanation why you think you are a match for their company (location, market segment, experience level, skills) in a honest but positive way.
For entry level positions there can be as many as 100 graduates across the country competing for the same position (many just speculative). Since the company doesn't have time or money to use agencies or interview all applications, the cover letter is used as a first level filter to reduce the candidates down to handful. Some companies insist that the cover-letter (and even application form) are hand-written so that hand-writing can be analyzed to construct a psychological profile prior to a face-to-face interview. I knew people who would spend three hours carefully writing out handwritten cover letters just to pass this test.
They have so many directions to go in - extend it to work with video (just a sequence of images once you get past the codec part). What about that software Microsoft had written to combine separate pictures into a single image?
Slashdot Mirror
Like the Police raid on a Mayors home that left two family dogs dead over a package of marijuana that was delivered to their home, even though Police were well aware that a drug-smuggling ring was using the home addresses of uninvolved people as the destination for the package delivery.
It's one of those things in the UK - if you have a business and want to play music to your customers you have to pay a flat royalty fee of around 65 pounds each year. There was a local business (hairdresser) who had kept the radio in the front room and hadn't been paying this fee for 20 years, and was forced to go into liquidation over this.
It will make some pretty funky disco lights - and perhaps it could solve the mystery of the Deceased Salmon responds to portraits of people
The "top engineers" bail out quickly because they don't want to work in a project team where moral is low due to employment uncertainty.
Happens in every company - they'll either work for competitors or set up their own consultancy.
Some of the job adverts in the major construction industry (condo units, apartments, hotel complexes) had serious salary positions for plumbers:
Senior Plumbing Architect wanted
You will have over 10+ years experience in the plumbing trade, be Corgi approved, and must have experience in the following: Mira Excel/Form/88/Advance/Extreme/Elite 2 and also Bristan Java/Omega/1901/Pinnacle. Experience with Triton, Aqualisa is desirable but not required as training will be provided. Your duties will include mentoring junior plumbers and providing feedback when required. You will also be expected to draw up specifications and cost estimates when necessary. As you will be meeting customers face to face, you will be expected to dress appropriately. A toolkit and company subsidized transport will also be available.
Salary: Negotiable
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They would be competing against each other for the existing resources (petri dish space, the nutrients available, the warmest darkest place of the container).
Each bacterium will have random transcription errors. If these are fatal, the descendant won't reproduce. They have the trade-off between reproducing slowly with fewer mutations but being outbred, or reproducing quickly with more mutations and less chance of being outbred. So it looks like breeding quickly and risking genetic mutations is the better option.
Imagine playing Core Wars where every process that forked or spawned, ran the risk of a few bits being randomized.
Close your eyes ... and use the force, or just aim for the sound of the gearbox.
It means that all deep underground missile control bunkers can safely run Ktorrent, twitter, Instant Messenger, watch movies, and surf Slashdot without any affecting any other high priority military control systems that may be connected to the secure network.
I've done 'turking' a few times - mainly transcription work and some paragraph writing. For an individual, whether a task is worth doing really depends on how quickly they can do it. The going rate would be around $20/hour.
Simple quick repetitive tasks pay the least, while long creative tasks pay the most.
Quick tasks might just pay 10 cents and require the 'turker' to look at an image of a road from a car and click yes/no buttons to say whether there are road markings or traffic lights. Some people are good at doing this kind of repetitive work, so they can keep going for hours and hours.
Creative work usually consists of paragraph writing, and would involve writing 500 words or so for $10, with a particular set of words repeated a specified number of times. A person with English as a first language could do that within 30 minutes, so that's a quick little earner.
There are legends about how the first Amazon Tasks were recognizing music artists and songs from a 10 second snippet of audio. For each task, turkers were being paid 50 cents. People were quick to realize that a single four minute track was being automatically chopped up into 20+ such snippets, so if they got one snippet right, the odds are they could get the next 20 or so tasks done as well. Another nice little earner for $10 every 30 minutes.
Transcription work involves listening to a multi-minute segment of audio and converting it into written text. Tricky work as you have to write down the time, who is speaking and what they said, taking into account regional accents. Alternatively, you could work as an editor and edit together 20 or so transcriptions to form a single consistent transcript that covered an hour or so. Just 3 minutes work would take half an hour, but with bonuses that would make $10 for 30 minutes work.
A search for Steve Fossett was performed using Amazon turk. They took satellite photos of the desert, diced them up and had people look at each square. Many other wrecks were found, but not Steve, as the crash site was actually up at 10,000 feet in the mountains.
Some cheap return air fare rates to New York cost just 185 pounds, slightly less that the rate I was charged for a through-London train journey.
One person holiday stay at a New York hotel is charged at 51 pounds per person per night. NY Hotel prices
If you visit the Virgin Train wAebsite, and enquire about prices between Liverpool and Maidstone, standard fare, the prices are as follows:
Off-peak return - 78 pounds
Any-time return - 296 pounds
First class Any-time return - 444 pounds
For the prices of a two-night stay in new york (airfare 185 pounds + 2 x hotel 51 pounds, total 287 pounds), will cost you less than an Any-time Virgin train ticket through London.
The more digits that prime numbers have, the further apart adjacent primes are. If you imagine the value of a prime number represents the distance along a coastline in terms of centimeters, then you would only need a few billion to cover the entire length of a continent, and adjacent prime numbers would be separated by a few hundred metres.
These Mersenne prime numbers are hundreds of digits long, so as a distance that would be measured in light years, nor metres or kilometres. There just isn't the computational power to check every single possible location, so they use Mersenne prime numbers are a way of taking a short cut to known locations where a prime number might be located.
IF you are traveling an island locations surrounded by water, there might not be a train or ferry to get you there.
I think so. It sounds more like "electron holes" in semiconductors. The spin ice contains tetrahedrons formed from ions. Because of this arrangement, adjacent ions must form a positive-negative pair, which then affects the way electrons spin and the resulting magnetic field. Bring in an external magnetic field and that runs the process in the opposite direction. That's where the storage idea comes from.
It's just part of NFS - the first time I saw the use of the /net directory was on a HP network.
We have trains in the UK - for cities less than 100 miles away, it's definitely quicker than taking a plane, as the journey will only take around 3 hours, less time than checking in, security and picking up baggage at an airport. Though there are some disadvantages to long distance train journeys in the UK - some passengers, particularly oil workers, seem to treat trains like public bars, and get drunk before and after coming the oil rigs. Whenever this happens, the air conditioning will seem to be "broken" in the extremely hot mode. The toilets tend to be a mess, with soaking wet floors and toilet paper all over the floor. Also expect delays if someone has misunderstood the free ticket offers, or has been hit by a train. Just because you have reserved a seat, there is no guarantee that it will be free when you get on the train, as the train companies rely on overbooking to keep carriages full.
Prepare to be charged double if you happen to be taking a train journey that crosses through rush-hour times at London, even if you aren't in London at those times. I once tried travelling from the North of England to Dover by train, and was quoted a price of around 200 pounds due to the "travelling through London at peak times" (This would be enough for a weekend holiday from London to New York). Splitting the journey into two rail tickets (peak time outside London, and off-peak time through London) brought the price down to 90 pounds.
For journeys from one end of the country to the other, it is definitely better travelling by plane - the flight will take less than an hour, so you can easily do an afternoon meeting and be back home for tea. Otherwise, it would probably be a three day trip.
But 'web' would have been an English-biased word. It might be a different word in a different language. "www" is easier to type than "web" and doesn't have a language bias.
There was a UNIX networking technology some time in the past (The Newcastle Connection) which used the /../ symbols to specify a remote path host.
HP did something similar but used a /net directory instead.
It would seem simple to just discard the two dots and just have a // to specify the remote host.
Even Isaac Asimov used the concept of teleporter technology in some of his stories, though he applied the use of technology to everyday use rather than being on a starship.
One story featured a society where the apartment blocks and houses used teleporters instead of public transport. Roomba type machines kept the gardens tidy for a pleasant appearance from windows, but other than that there was no reason for anyone to walk or drive anywhere. Except for one kid who gets fed up of waiting in line at class to be transported home so he walks home instead. His parents get upset so they take him to a psychiatrist. In the end, the psychiatrist tells the parents to leave the kid alone, gives up using teleporters as well, and starts walking home instead.
For financial crimes, it's the accountants that find the loopholes, it's the MP's that try to close them, it's the Inland Revenue that tries to demand the unpaid money, and the lawyers that try to deny that demand.
Just look at the arguments that have been caused by the IR35 legislation dealing with private contractors/freelancers, which has now spread to entertainers:
Big earning BBC stars set up their own companies to escape high tax bills
I like his solution to noise pollution:
Me, I can count on one hand the number of times I've programmed outside of work or a class. There was only once when I actually enjoyed it, though. I was in college, and shared a common wall with a girl from Spain who was painfully unaware that her computer had a volume control knob. She would stay up late on AOL instant messenger, and I couldn't sleep. So, I rigged up a Python script to play AOL instant messenger sounds randomly every 5 to 10 seconds, turned up my speakers, pointed them at the wall, and went on vacation for a week. And thus, the asshole you all know and love is born.
I can sympathise with that. Had a neighbor who had a digital alarm clock which played a melody based on a duet between a flute and a base drum. Every morning there would be this sweet "doo-doo doo doo doo" tune of the flute which would bring you out of your sleep, before being rapidly followed by a triple blast of the base drum "BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!" which was so loud it would be heard from two floors up.
Reportedly sidekicks are thin clients, other than making phone calls, everything on the phone is saved on the server side. Which is a special kind of retarded,
What if you are a conference, lose your phone, drop it into the punch bowl, have it fall out of your pocket and run over by a taxi. Having some sort of remote backup seems a good idea.
Most real-world claimed cases of telepathy are usually subconscious (workers returning to a work site after having a hunch that one of their mates was trapped, or family members turning up spontanously to a house when somebody was unconscious or ill).
The use of a LED does detract from this experiment - they should have put person A under some kind of stress and monitored person B to see if their EEG recordings were different in some way.
Perhaps it is the simplicity of the graphics and sound - all those DOS games didn't use more than a handful of commands to interact with the screen (draw points, draw lines, draw circles/eliipses, fill circles/ellipses, paste pixelmap), and the sound command (which directly set the frequency of the speaker).
You might just find that PC's still have the speaker built in - I found out that when keeping the [Shift] key pressed for more than eight seconds, then there was a Frogger type sound and something called Speed-Keys popped up.
Take away the Dolby surround sound, the 24-bit HD framebuffer with motion-capture character animation and most games would probably have the same gameplay as these DOS games. Though, there are better Flash games
Super Mario 63 is a Flash version of the Super Mario platform games.
Crazy Planets is a missile type game based on the curvature of a planet, rather than a simple grid
It's your explanation why you think you are a match for their company (location, market segment, experience level, skills) in a honest but positive way.
For entry level positions there can be as many as 100 graduates across the country competing for the same position (many just speculative). Since the company doesn't have time or money to use agencies or interview all applications, the cover letter is used as a first level filter to reduce the candidates down to handful. Some companies insist that the cover-letter (and even application form) are hand-written so that hand-writing can be analyzed to construct a psychological profile prior to a face-to-face interview. I knew people who would spend three hours carefully writing out handwritten cover letters just to pass this test.
They have so many directions to go in - extend it to work with video (just a sequence of images once you get past the codec part). What about that software Microsoft had written to combine separate pictures into a single image?