A lot of women in the computer industry tend to keep their wedding or graduation photograph as their online photograph, even if it was 20 or 30 years ago. Maybe it's due to the ageism in the industry, or for security reasons, but it can be quite a surprise when you meet at a conference.
It will be more than slightly different if one of the most significant bits of any byte is changed in such a way, it may very well be white or black instead of medium gray. Also, VRAM is used for more than just pixel data now. It it also used to store geometry in the form of display lists and executable code for vertex, geometry and pixel shaders. One bit flipped in a floating-point value or in a executable bit of code and it could affect an entire rendered frame.
Although, I can only imagine the senior engineers at companies at Nvidia raising their hands to their head and screaming "Noooooooo!!!!". I guess that happens when you choose to have one storage device have a faster bus transfer rate than all the others.
'o' vs 'ou' as in color/favorite/honor vs. colour/favourite/honour
'ze' vs 'se' as in analyze/criticize/memorize vs. analyse/criticise/memorise
'er' vs 're' as in center/meter/theater vs. centre/metre/theatre
More interesting, they have a list of irregular verbs. I tried writing down word I would use, and there no bias either way. Although I did try the word 'lept' for leaping, and 'stroved' for striving.
to dream dreamed vs dreamt to leap leaped vs leapt to learn learned vs learnt
to fit fit vs fitted to forecast forecast vs forecasted to wed wed vs wedded to knit knit vs knitted to light lit vs lighted to strive strove vs strived
Both theregister.co.uk and theinquirer.net (the latter to a much lesser extent), both show sharp peaks, then declines. It has to be something involved with technology news (Vista announcements? SCO lawsuit?). I tried looking at groklaw.com, but that site wasn't even in the top 100,000
The funny thing is, if you look at the five year graph with a scale 0.0 to 0.8, there is this strange peak between 2006 and 2007. Just before the end of 2005 there is the first peak, then another at the beginning of the second quarter of 2006. After that, there is a slow decline towards 0.2
Slashdot also appears to be more busy during the weekdays that the weekends, which gives a strange sawtooth pattern. Still, slashdot is still in the top 1000 sites, ranking 686.
A convolution filter would allow you to sharpen or blur the image, or maybe even pick out high frequency detail.
The spiral distort effect is simply a mathematical function to map one point in a rectangular mesh to another. You basically convert integer pixel coordinates into a floating-point coordinate system with the origin at the centre, apply a rotation based on the distance from the origin, convert back into integer pixel coordinates and transfer the pixel data.
Consequently, since every pixel is remapped to a new position, the transformation can be reversed.
Now, I can see the logic in that - in the worst case scenario, you end up with one construction bot on your side trying to build a wall as a defensive measure, while another bot is dismantling the wall as part of an offensive strategy.
Altogether, an estimated 250 police officers took part in the raid, in which Abdul Kahar Kalam was shot in the shoulder. The family had 25,000 pounds in cash in their flat.
In its report on the incident, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said that the policeman who shot Mr Kahar had not acted recklessly or maliciously and should not be prosecuted or disciplined. The report said that forensic analysis had shown that he had accidentally shot Mr Kahar at a range of less than two inches during a confrontation on a dark, narrow half-landing. Related Links
The officer, who is a member of an elite firearms unit, was the first of 15 officers into the home. He was wearing a protective suit and gloves, a helmet, ear protectors and a respirator. At the time of the shooting the safety catch on his gun was off. When the gun fired it was in an almost upright position, fastened by a sling and not a normal firing position.
The officer, code-named B6, said that as he went up the stairs in the house he shouted "armed police", but the respirator could have muffled his voice. He reached the half-landing and, the report said, "was aware of two figures approaching at speed. B6 states that he and the two figures came into contact and this caused him to lose his balance and come into contact with the wall."
I remember playing one of these Command and Conquer games that came free with a Dell computer. One one map, I just built some construction bots, built a wall to keep the enemies bots from coming from the North and leisurely bombed the hell out of their manufacturing plants and airforce which was stationed on some cliffs at the very top of the map. Meanwhile their troops had corralled themselves along the wall.
If the AI had the intelligence to create one or two construction bots to "disassemble" the wall, the game could have very well played out differently.
Maybe they evolve because the sales team or the marketing team feel that there is a price-point that isn't being matched by existing products, or that staff aren't being properly renumerated the effort that they are putting in. For example, working at a clients site, attending a trade show or conference - these allow sales leads to be created. There was even a category of work created: display stand duty.
You get that with 3G wireless cards too. I was looking to see if there was a pay-as-you-go service, for the times when I am working away from work or the office. But all they seem to offer are tiered tariff rates, where you can either buy the wireless card cheap, and have a low data cap, (10 Megabtes/month) or buy the wireless card expensive and have a high data cap (1 Gigabyte/month). In all cases, it's a 12 or 18 month contract.
There was a guy in Germany, who made a Cat Cam - basically a keyring camera combined with a microcontroller to provide high-resolution timelapse images. Look at the Mr Lee Cat cam for some stories.
I think it was after one term. But I guess bthe point was that if anyone did have the enthusiasm to raise educational attainment levels, the inertia of the system would just hit them with more work without the corresponding resources thus reducing the system back to equilibrium. If this were the private sector, if there was this demand for their services, the extra amount of work would bring in extra revenue that would allow them to expand.
Make them plastic coated inert magnetised metals with velcro strips and metal barbs - that way they are bound to stick to something if they ever start floating about.
the questions were 'schoolboy' quizzed. its been decades (literally) since I had to recreate a search or sort algorithm by hand. and you know what? for the field I'm in (network management) I have not HAD to re-do existing algs. not once in my career! we usually BUILD on existing ideas, not waste time re-doing perfectly good wheels.
Some universities are just handing out degree certificates in Computer Science, without teaching the students the fundamental theory, "Oh, it's in a standard template library, you don't need to learn the algorithm, just the function calls"
We have those tests in the UK, things like: "How would remove an element from a double linked list?" or "How would you tell if there is a loop in a linked list?"
Or "What is your favorite book on C++?"
Then the recruiters do their Alan Sugar impersonations, "We can get graduates to that work. What can you do that graduates can't do?"
I heard a story about that too. Some teaching school graduates got their first job in an inner-city school working with hard-to-teach kids. Realizing that the kids were missing out on all the other activities that the suburban schools had, and that having teachers leaving after one term due to the stress, they made an effort to stay and help bring the kids back up to speed with extra tuition and after school classes. The kids grades improve. What happens next? The education board sees the improvement in grades, and transfers a whole load of troubled kids from other schools. The teachers quit from the stress.
That's maybe due more to the BSP tree/octree compiler than due to the limitations of the CPU/GPU. Odd angled polygons can create all sorts of weird splitting, but I would guess that it would be possible to place it in a branch of its own.
Slashdot Mirror
A lot of women in the computer industry tend to keep their wedding or graduation photograph as their online photograph, even if it was 20 or 30 years ago. Maybe it's due to the ageism in the industry, or for security reasons, but it can be quite a surprise when you meet at a conference.
Mylo - Musclecar has a really surveillance robotic fly.
Not forgotting:
You must present your ID card whenever requested or forever be banished to the field with the tractor and the television set.
The "mother" was Yvonne Genovese, Research VP of Gartner Research. She was on stage with a discussion panel.
It will be more than slightly different if one of the most significant bits of any byte is changed in such a way, it may very well be white or black instead of medium gray. Also, VRAM is used for more than just pixel data now. It it also used to store geometry in the form of display lists and executable code for vertex, geometry and pixel shaders. One bit flipped in a floating-point value or in a executable bit of code and it could affect an entire rendered frame.
Although, I can only imagine the senior engineers at companies at Nvidia raising their hands to their head and screaming "Noooooooo!!!!". I guess that happens when you choose to have one storage device have a faster bus transfer rate than all the others.
Here's a good guide to American vs. British word use
The obvious ones are:
'o' vs 'ou' as in color/favorite/honor vs. colour/favourite/honour
'ze' vs 'se' as in analyze/criticize/memorize vs. analyse/criticise/memorise
'er' vs 're' as in center/meter/theater vs. centre/metre/theatre
More interesting, they have a list of irregular verbs. I tried writing down word I would use, and there no bias either way. Although I did try the word 'lept' for leaping, and 'stroved' for striving.
to dream dreamed vs dreamt
to leap leaped vs leapt
to learn learned vs learnt
to fit fit vs fitted
to forecast forecast vs forecasted
to wed wed vs wedded
to knit knit vs knitted
to light lit vs lighted
to strive strove vs strived
Both theregister.co.uk and theinquirer.net (the latter to a much lesser extent), both show sharp peaks, then declines. It has to be something involved with technology news (Vista announcements? SCO lawsuit?). I tried looking at groklaw.com, but that site wasn't even in the top 100,000
The funny thing is, if you look at the five year graph with a scale 0.0 to 0.8, there is this strange peak between 2006 and 2007. Just before the end of 2005 there is the first peak, then another at the beginning of the second quarter of 2006. After that, there is a slow decline towards 0.2
Slashdot also appears to be more busy during the weekdays that the weekends, which gives a strange sawtooth pattern. Still, slashdot is still in the top 1000 sites, ranking 686.
If you couldn't, the car would be useless in an electrical storm (lightning, hail, sleet, water).
He's spinning in his grave - in a quantum mechanical way of course.
A convolution filter would allow you to sharpen or blur the image, or maybe even pick out high frequency detail.
The spiral distort effect is simply a mathematical function to map one point in a rectangular mesh to another. You basically convert integer pixel coordinates into a floating-point coordinate system with the origin at the centre, apply a rotation based on the distance from the origin, convert back into integer pixel coordinates and transfer the pixel data.
Consequently, since every pixel is remapped to a new position, the transformation can be reversed.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Now, I can see the logic in that - in the worst case scenario, you end up with one construction bot on your side trying to build a wall as a defensive measure, while another bot is dismantling the wall as part of an offensive strategy.
Man shot in anti-terrorism raid
Altogether, an estimated 250 police officers took part in the raid, in which Abdul Kahar Kalam was shot in the shoulder. The family had 25,000 pounds in cash in their flat.
Terror raid man is held over "child porn on computer".
In its report on the incident, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said that the policeman who shot Mr Kahar had not acted recklessly or maliciously and should not be prosecuted or disciplined. The report said that forensic analysis had shown that he had accidentally shot Mr Kahar at a range of less than two inches during a confrontation on a dark, narrow half-landing.
Related Links
The officer, who is a member of an elite firearms unit, was the first of 15 officers into the home. He was wearing a protective suit and gloves, a helmet, ear protectors and a respirator. At the time of the shooting the safety catch on his gun was off. When the gun fired it was in an almost upright position, fastened by a sling and not a normal firing position.
The officer, code-named B6, said that as he went up the stairs in the house he shouted "armed police", but the respirator could have muffled his voice. He reached the half-landing and, the report said, "was aware of two figures approaching at speed. B6 states that he and the two figures came into contact and this caused him to lose his balance and come into contact with the wall."
I remember playing one of these Command and Conquer games that came free with a Dell computer. One one map, I just built some construction bots, built a wall to keep the enemies bots from coming from the North and leisurely bombed the hell out of their manufacturing plants and airforce which was stationed on some cliffs at the very top of the map. Meanwhile their troops had corralled themselves along the wall.
If the AI had the intelligence to create one or two construction bots to "disassemble" the wall, the game could have very well played out differently.
Maybe they evolve because the sales team or the marketing team feel that there is a price-point that isn't being matched by existing products, or that staff aren't being properly renumerated the effort that they are putting in. For example, working at a clients site, attending a trade show or conference - these allow sales leads to be created. There was even a category of work created: display stand duty.
From the Top 40 demotivational posters
Retard - we all know one
You get that with 3G wireless cards too. I was looking to see if there was a pay-as-you-go service, for the times when I am working away from work or the office. But all they seem to offer are tiered tariff rates, where you can either buy the wireless card cheap, and have a low data cap, (10 Megabtes/month) or buy the wireless card expensive and have a high data cap (1 Gigabyte/month). In all cases, it's a 12 or 18 month contract.
Given that set of constraints, I guess the only other currency left is "Twinky" bars.
There was a guy in Germany, who made a Cat Cam - basically a keyring camera combined with a microcontroller to provide high-resolution timelapse images. Look at the Mr Lee Cat cam for some stories.
I think it was after one term. But I guess bthe point was that if anyone did have the enthusiasm to raise educational attainment levels, the inertia of the system would just hit them with more work without the corresponding resources thus reducing the system back to equilibrium.
If this were the private sector, if there was this demand for their services, the extra amount of work would bring in extra revenue that would allow them to expand.
Make them plastic coated inert magnetised metals with velcro strips and metal barbs - that way they are bound to stick to something if they ever start floating about.
the questions were 'schoolboy' quizzed. its been decades (literally) since I had to recreate a search or sort algorithm by hand. and you know what? for the field I'm in (network management) I have not HAD to re-do existing algs. not once in my career! we usually BUILD on existing ideas, not waste time re-doing perfectly good wheels.
Some universities are just handing out degree certificates in Computer Science, without teaching the students the fundamental theory, "Oh, it's in a standard template library, you don't need to learn the algorithm, just the function calls"
We have those tests in the UK, things like: "How would remove an element from a double linked list?" or "How would you tell if there is a loop in a linked list?"
Or "What is your favorite book on C++?"
Then the recruiters do their Alan Sugar impersonations, "We can get graduates to that work. What can you do that graduates can't do?"
I heard a story about that too. Some teaching school graduates got their first job in an inner-city school working with hard-to-teach kids. Realizing that the kids were missing out on all the other activities that the suburban schools had, and that having teachers leaving after one term due to the stress, they made an effort to stay and help bring the kids back up to speed with extra tuition and after school classes. The kids grades improve. What happens next? The education board sees the improvement in grades, and transfers a whole load of troubled kids from other schools. The teachers quit from the stress.
That's maybe due more to the BSP tree/octree compiler than due to the limitations of the CPU/GPU. Odd angled polygons can create all sorts of weird splitting, but I would guess that it would be possible to place it in a branch of its own.