Yeah, when I stopped using the copy, cut and paste macro keys on my keyboard, and started retyping everything instead, my wpm sht up and I become the most productive employee in the office.
(I always wondered about fast running animals, here. The way they set their feet down while running should be as complex a problem as throwing? But those that run fast on the planet don't have hands.)
Running gaits in animals are pre-programmed sequences - they have to be, as many of the new-born animals have to be able to stand up within hours of birth.
Given all the possible combinations of limb movements that are possible, only a few match the requirements of maintaining centre of gravity and not having front and back legs hitting each other, or creating bone-jarring shocks.
From various horse breeding sites:
Contrary to popular belief; trotting horses do not "teach" gaited horses to trot. Nor do gaited horses teach trotting horses to gait. Horses inherit the gait they perform best, from one of their parents, or a combination of both and can be taught something different only under saddle.
Yes, look at porcelain crowns. The basic ones are nothing but an aluminum shell. The expensive ones are individually carved down to the smallest detail (the individual grooves on your tooth).
Accountants and lawyers in corporations like trading stuff.
Being able to define software patents gives them more stuff to trade, at the same time making the company appear more valuable to shareholders.
As another example, the concept of "carbon credits" has been proposed, where companies (and perhaps even individuals) get to trade the right to pollute the environment ie. they buy and sell credits which give them the right to use hydrocarbon based energy sources.
Just something else to "trade" which was free before. And maybe this will extended to "water credits"
The very nature of astrology implies that the universe is a giant machine and that it determines your attributes. The placements of planets A, B, and C indicate that I have attribute X.
Astrologers believe their is some mystical relationship between the positions of the planets, sun aand the future of someone born at that particular point in time.
A favorite example is a clock in a railway station. There is no direct physical connection between the position of the hands of the clock and departing trains but there is a relationship set by a higher intelligence (in this case the timetable set by the rail company).
Raise this line of thought to the astrological level, with train timetables being replaced by planetary almanacs, then there is the conclusion that being born at different times leads you to different paths in life.
Don't forget flooding - during a job-hunting period, I had two PC's (a couple of old laptops) with modems and two ISP accounts (one free) from companies in different parts of the city. Nothing could stop me from getting online and accessing my E-mail.
Except for the time when the underground cable/telco conduit flooded and all lines were cut.
It doesn't say whether he pirated the games. Maybe he bought them legitimately, modded the console, installed the hard drive and games, then sold on the whole package. That wouldn't be any different from the video game stores offering a discount on five games with every console bought.
Who knows, maybe the games were simply demos out of PC game magazines. For a while, even the breakfast cereal makers were giving away PC games with each box (Prince of Persia etc...).
Having a console system with 80 pre-installed games wouldn't be such a bad idea. Imagine how much space 80 CD jewel cases is going to take up.
Machine guns may not cause violence, but I can assure that, if 14-year-olds could buy a machine gun at the mall for $29.99, our world would be a lot more violent.
They don't even need machine guns. After the relaxation of laws covering the opening hours of pubs in the UK, there are hundreds of stories of people being beaten up by drunk teenagers. The usual favourite tactic is to knock someone onto the ground and then kick their head in.
Do a google search for "happy slapping".
Unlike the US, we don't consider head injuries or attacking someone who is unconscious as attempted murder.
The Eurythmics track "Double Plus Good" was one of best tracks. The 5-1 beat (reminiscent of a typewriter) combined with the background female voice giving news reports in NewsSpeak) really gave a feeling of being completely submerged in propaganda.
I couldn't understand how property houses related to patents, but here's a useful link about Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos considers giving employees the freedom to choose the size of their house is considered as important to the company's future success as being able to file patents.
From this high lookout, Amazon's employees enjoy views of Puget Sound and the port, the downtown skyline, the two new stadiums built with the help of Microsoft money, the green hills of Seattle's residential neighborhoods, and the calm blue surface of Lake Washington, where Bezos lives on the Medina waterfront near Bill Gates's enormous $100 million house. Bezos, now worth $5 billion, has shed the modest lifestyle for the mogul lifestyle. Last year his lawyers successfully fought the town's effort to limit house sizes and expansions there, saying that it might restrict his plans. Bezos also owns three linked apartments in the Century, the landmark art deco tower on Manhattan's Central Park West, which he bought from Sony Music mogul Tommy Mottola for $7.7 million.
It's a slight improvement on what we had recently, but terrible compared what we had 10 years ago.
Back then, on a Saturday, the whole family could sit down and watch TV for the entire evening by just watching a couple of channels.
It would something like:
ITV 16:00 - 17:00 US Cop Show (Cagney & Lacey or The A-Team,TJ Hooker or Magyver ) 17:00 - 18:00 Blockbuster/Family Fortunes (college/university quiz show)
BBC 18:00 - 18:30 News 18:30 - 19:00 Childrens TV (Basil Brush/Muppet show) 19:00 - 19:30 Dr Who (+ the cliffhanger)
ITV/BBC 19:30 - 20:30 Nightclub/theatre comedy hour (Canno n and Ball) 20:30 - 21:30 Drama Series (Robin of Sherwood) 21:30 - 22:00 News 22:00 - 00:00 Evening movie
Anything in ()'s is just an example, and could be replaced by any similar show.
ITV 00:00 - 06:00 Night-Time (James Whale Radio Show/The Hitman and her/Hourly news)
Unfortunately, everything seemed to go downhill for various reasons.
The decline of the popularity of quiz shows was blamed on the high divorce rate/low marriage rate due to the recession (Family Fortunes had to allow families to be formed from partners and friends rather than actual blood relatives).
Political correctness (especially after various massacres) killed off violent cop shows (especially the A-team - how could a dozen people fire of hundreds of rounds of ammunition and not actually hit anyone or anything).
Drama series which were popular, got killed off because each channel tried to nit-pick the historical inaccuracies of each others series (If one channel played Beauty and the Beast, then the other channel would do an investigation into whether it was possible for humans to live underground in a city, and if people really could communicate by banging on pipes, then point out that nobody could really jump two stories downwards without seriously injuring themselves).
The evening movies got wiped out because Sky TV wanted to play the premiere showing of all movies first and hinted strongly to the government that the BBC should focus on new programming instead.
ITV and BBC both responded by starting to show more repeats instead, which only encouraged viewers to buy Cable and Satellite services instead.
Desperately ITV and BBC, then respond by targeting a "younger audience" by playing more explicit programming, which is where we are now.
I didn't know about this site until it came up in this slashdot topic. Perhaps they should have linked to other sites like TV Cream which has all the theme tunes and info on British TV programming.
Although, as other comments have stated, there's no point in the BBC maintaining a web site dedicated to TV programming from the USA.
In my final unversity year, the license fees for a HP-UX system with more than 12 users were so high, that our engineering department assigned login names on a per class basis only. So everyone in Computer Science year 3 studying embedded systems would be assigned the username 'cs3es1', and so on. In order to do assignments you had to run the cross compiler then the emulator. Unfortunately, from time to time, the emulator would lock and son the only way would be to kill the process from another window. Unfortunately, you'd sometimes forget which ttyp you were logged onto and kill the wrong process...
No, they,re just plugging a brand new PC onto a broadband connection, and doing normal stuff (playing games, surfing the web, editing files).
Every other zombified PC on the Internet is running propagation attempts to random IP addresses. Any good firewall/virus scanner will detect and log these attempts. Some will even pop up a window with the IP address. The time (12 minutes) is an average of the amount of time before your IP address gets randomly selected. This number is going to go up and down based on ho w many users have secured their OS, updated their virus scanners, and how quickly ISP's can neutralize zombified PC's.
From research carried out on retinal cells, it the time between pulse (depolarization/repolarization of the synapse) that conveys the most information - stronger stimulation => more frequent pulses.
And there is a minimum time between such pulses. For a higher response rate/precision, more cells are used.
A single neuron will take in inputs from up to as many as 10,000 other neurons, with a threshold that has to be exceeded before it will fire itself. And each inputs can have the effect of increasing or decreasing the chances of firing. There's some debate as to whether an individual neuron implements basic logic operations or whether it's a weighted sum calculation.
Sun have tried fairly often to abandon the x86 market, but they have always been forced to resume support due to protests from hardcore users.
Competing against Dell, HP is fairly straightforward for Sun. All they have to do, is build a reliable system using the same components bought at bulk discount prices (motherboard, CPU, graphics card, RAM, hard disk drive) and install a popular OS (Windows, Linux, Solaris), and keep the price the same.
The current generations of CPU's are designed to optimise the processing of conditional statements within a pipeline. Since instructions usually take four stages to perform (fetch, read, execute, write) and the location of the current instruction can depend on the condition result (branch on whatever) of the previous instruction. To prevent this from degrading performace, the CPU has to anticipate the effect that both results of a conditional instruction will have on future instructions. Also, there is no dominant data type for a CPU - it may be working with bytes (for web servers, text data), short ints (for text data), float or doubles (for spreadsheets).
A GPU on the other hand is always processing large batches of vector data (3-float vectors or 4-float colors) using mathematical expressions (vertex and pixel shaders), with conditional statements being used a small percentage of the time. Because of this, there's no real advantage of investing transistor real-estate in anticipating future states.
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Yeah, when I stopped using the copy, cut and paste macro keys on my keyboard, and started retyping everything instead, my wpm sht up and I become the most productive employee in the office.
You need the random security policy generator/predictor
(I always wondered about fast running animals, here. The way they set their feet down while running should be as complex a problem as throwing? But those that run fast on the planet don't have hands.)
Running gaits in animals are pre-programmed sequences - they have to be, as many of the new-born animals have to be able to stand up within hours of birth.
Given all the possible combinations of limb movements that are possible, only a few match the requirements of maintaining centre of gravity and not having front and back legs hitting each other, or creating bone-jarring shocks.
From various horse breeding sites:
Contrary to popular belief; trotting horses do not "teach" gaited horses to trot. Nor do gaited horses teach trotting horses to gait. Horses inherit the gait they perform best, from one of their parents, or a combination of both and can be taught something different only under saddle.
Basic Gaits
Lateral Gaits
Perhaps they could etch the data onto a thin-film metallic paint/plastic layer and then glue that to the fingernail?
Or even view the turf boundaries between the street gangs in real time.
The map is scrollable for a start. Zooming is still done in discrete steps, and apparently mainland Europe is still uncharted.
Perhaps Google could extend their API to make use of other road maps such as "www.vicmichelin.com" - Or maybe that could become a third party API.
Not unless you can find a human who has looked into the heart of the Tardis. Then they will just melt away like ice in Spring.
Yes, look at porcelain crowns. The basic ones are nothing but an aluminum shell. The expensive ones are individually carved down to the smallest detail (the individual grooves on your tooth).
Don't forget reconstructive surgery either.
Accountants and lawyers in corporations like trading stuff.
Being able to define software patents gives them more stuff to trade, at the same time making the company appear more valuable to shareholders.
As another example, the concept of "carbon credits" has been proposed, where companies (and perhaps even individuals) get to trade the right to pollute the environment ie. they buy and sell credits which give them the right to use hydrocarbon based energy sources.
Just something else to "trade" which was free before. And maybe this will extended to "water credits"
The very nature of astrology implies that the universe is a giant machine and that it determines your attributes. The placements of planets A, B, and C indicate that I have attribute X.
Astrologers believe their is some mystical relationship between the positions of the planets, sun aand the future of someone born at that particular point in time.
A favorite example is a clock in a railway station. There is no direct physical connection between the position of the hands of the clock and departing trains but there is a relationship set by a higher intelligence (in this case the timetable set by the rail company).
Raise this line of thought to the astrological level, with train timetables being replaced by planetary almanacs, then there is the conclusion that being born at different times leads you to different paths in life.
Don't forget flooding - during a job-hunting period, I had two PC's (a couple of old laptops) with modems and two ISP accounts (one free) from companies in different parts of the city. Nothing could stop me from getting online and accessing my E-mail.
Except for the time when the underground cable/telco conduit flooded and all lines were cut.
It doesn't say whether he pirated the games. Maybe he bought them legitimately, modded the console, installed the hard drive and games, then sold on the whole package. That wouldn't be any different from the video game stores offering a discount on five games with every console bought.
Who knows, maybe the games were simply demos out of PC game magazines. For a while, even the breakfast cereal makers were giving away PC games with each box (Prince of Persia etc...).
Having a console system with 80 pre-installed games wouldn't be such a bad idea. Imagine how much space 80 CD jewel cases is going to take up.
For some movies on the condensation clouds from fighter planes, have a look at Physics movies
That must have been one of the luckiest photographers to be able to see a fighter plane travelling at supersonic speeds through humid air.
Machine guns may not cause violence, but I can assure that, if 14-year-olds could buy a machine gun at the mall for $29.99, our world would be a lot more violent.
They don't even need machine guns. After the relaxation of laws covering the opening hours of pubs in the UK, there are hundreds of stories of people being beaten up by drunk teenagers. The usual favourite tactic is to knock someone onto the ground and then kick their head in.
Do a google search for "happy slapping".
Unlike the US, we don't consider head injuries or attacking someone who is unconscious as attempted murder.
The Eurythmics track "Double Plus Good" was one of best tracks. The 5-1 beat (reminiscent of a typewriter) combined with the background female voice giving news reports in NewsSpeak) really gave a feeling of being completely submerged in propaganda.
I couldn't understand how property houses related to patents, but here's a useful link about Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos considers giving employees the freedom to choose the size of their house is considered as important to the company's future success as being able to file patents.
From this high lookout, Amazon's employees enjoy views of Puget Sound and the port, the downtown skyline, the two new stadiums built with the help of Microsoft money, the green hills of Seattle's residential neighborhoods, and the calm blue surface of Lake Washington, where Bezos lives on the Medina waterfront near Bill Gates's enormous $100 million house. Bezos, now worth $5 billion, has shed the modest lifestyle for the mogul lifestyle. Last year his lawyers successfully fought the town's effort to limit house sizes and expansions there, saying that it might restrict his plans. Bezos also owns three linked apartments in the Century, the landmark art deco tower on Manhattan's Central Park West, which he bought from Sony Music mogul Tommy Mottola for $7.7 million.
I left mine at home
There could have been several easy ways they could have made this system secure:
o Have a maximum transaction limit for each person
o Require the person to enter the number twice
o Require the person to enter the amount in words as well as digits (just like in a personal cheque).
What if they had a disgruntled employee who was determined to collapse the company, or had a gambling addiction?
It's a slight improvement on what we had recently, but terrible compared what we had 10 years ago.
Back then, on a Saturday, the whole family could sit down and watch TV for the entire evening by just watching a couple of channels.
It would something like:
ITV
16:00 - 17:00 US Cop Show (Cagney & Lacey or The A-Team,TJ Hooker or Magyver )
17:00 - 18:00 Blockbuster/Family Fortunes (college/university quiz show)
BBC
18:00 - 18:30 News
18:30 - 19:00 Childrens TV (Basil Brush/Muppet show)
19:00 - 19:30 Dr Who (+ the cliffhanger)
ITV/BBC
19:30 - 20:30 Nightclub/theatre comedy hour (Canno n and Ball)
20:30 - 21:30 Drama Series (Robin of Sherwood)
21:30 - 22:00 News
22:00 - 00:00 Evening movie
Anything in ()'s is just an example, and could be replaced by any similar show.
ITV
00:00 - 06:00 Night-Time (James Whale Radio Show/The Hitman and her/Hourly news)
Unfortunately, everything seemed to go downhill for various reasons.
The decline of the popularity of quiz shows was blamed on the high divorce rate/low marriage rate due to the recession (Family Fortunes had to allow families to be formed from partners and friends rather than actual blood relatives).
Political correctness (especially after various massacres) killed off violent cop shows (especially the A-team - how could a dozen people fire of hundreds of rounds of ammunition and not actually hit anyone or anything).
Drama series which were popular, got killed off because each channel tried to nit-pick the historical inaccuracies of each others series (If one channel played Beauty and the Beast, then the other channel would do an investigation into whether it was possible for humans to live underground in a city, and if people really could communicate by banging on pipes, then point out that nobody could really jump two stories downwards without seriously injuring themselves).
The evening movies got wiped out because Sky TV wanted to play the premiere showing of all movies first and hinted strongly to the government that the BBC should focus on new programming instead.
ITV and BBC both responded by starting to show more repeats instead, which only encouraged viewers to buy Cable and Satellite services instead.
Desperately ITV and BBC, then respond by targeting a "younger audience" by playing more explicit programming, which is where we are now.
I didn't know about this site until it came up in this slashdot topic. Perhaps they should have linked to other sites like TV Cream which has all the theme tunes and info on British TV programming. Although, as other comments have stated, there's no point in the BBC maintaining a web site dedicated to TV programming from the USA.
In my final unversity year, the license fees for a HP-UX system with more than 12 users were so high, that our engineering department assigned login names on a per class basis only. So everyone in Computer Science year 3 studying embedded systems would be assigned the username 'cs3es1', and so on. In order to do assignments you had to run the cross compiler then the emulator. Unfortunately, from time to time, the emulator would lock and son the only way would be to kill the process from another window. Unfortunately, you'd sometimes forget which ttyp you were logged onto and kill the wrong process...
No, they,re just plugging a brand new PC onto a broadband connection, and doing normal stuff (playing games, surfing the web, editing files).
Every other zombified PC on the Internet is running propagation attempts to random IP addresses. Any good firewall/virus scanner will detect and log these attempts. Some will even pop up a window with the IP address. The time (12 minutes) is an average of the amount of time before your IP address gets randomly selected. This number is going to go up and down based on ho w many users have secured their OS, updated their virus scanners, and how quickly ISP's can neutralize zombified PC's.
From research carried out on retinal cells, it the time between pulse (depolarization/repolarization of the synapse) that conveys the most information - stronger stimulation => more frequent pulses.
And there is a minimum time between such pulses. For a higher response rate/precision, more cells are used.
A single neuron will take in inputs from up to as many as 10,000 other neurons, with a threshold that has to be exceeded before it will fire itself. And each inputs can have the effect of increasing or decreasing the chances of firing.
There's some debate as to whether an individual neuron implements basic logic operations or whether it's a weighted sum calculation.
Sun have tried fairly often to abandon the x86 market, but they have always been forced to resume support due to protests from hardcore users.
Competing against Dell, HP is fairly straightforward for Sun. All they have to do, is build a reliable system using the same components bought at bulk discount prices (motherboard, CPU, graphics card, RAM, hard disk drive) and install a popular OS (Windows, Linux, Solaris), and keep the price the same.
The current generations of CPU's are designed to optimise the processing of conditional statements within a pipeline. Since instructions usually take four stages to perform (fetch, read, execute, write) and the location of the current instruction can depend on the condition result (branch on whatever) of the previous instruction. To prevent this from degrading performace, the CPU has to anticipate the effect that both results of a conditional instruction will have on future instructions. Also, there is no dominant data type for a CPU - it may be working with bytes (for web servers, text data), short ints (for text data), float or doubles (for spreadsheets).
A GPU on the other hand is always processing large batches of vector data (3-float vectors or 4-float colors) using mathematical expressions (vertex and pixel shaders), with conditional statements being used a small percentage of the time. Because of this, there's no real advantage of investing transistor real-estate in anticipating future states.