Er, isn't that a touch out of NASA's scope? Besides, there are plenty of people working on Fusion right now, but that doesn't mean we should put everything else on hold.
Try to visualize 50mm in your head. If that's too hard, try visualizing 0.05m instead.
I bet you mentally converted that to 5cm when you thought about it. Large numbers of absolutely tiny units are hard to get a feel for, as are small fractions of large units. It's not about working numbers and moving decimal points around, it's about estimating and off the cuff calculations.
That's because the academics who complain about stuff like that are the ones who only use them in trivial examples. People use cm because it is about the right size for a lot of applications (inches too). Metric still suffers from the too small/too big syndrome, where the units are spaced too far apart for convienence (3 orders of magnitude difference is a lot). Of course it's too late to complain now I guess.
This may be a wild guess, but I bet most of the people the study don't have the rip-off SMS service you have, and can send several messages for the price of one call. Either that or the calls are just ripoffs as well.
As opposed to current PDA technology that still works great after you crack the screen???
The big difference I can see is the opportunity to make really thin electronics, since you don't have to have the circut board behind the display anymore (just the batteries).
That will work great unless you want to have your work actually published. Publishers these days require that you sign over any copyright on your work to them, and they aren't going to release anything into the public domain before they are forced to.
sometimes not even then. There are stories of movie studios burning prints of the films that are about to enter the Public domain to prevent them from competing with their current releases. Not that anybody will have to do that anymore, film stock will be long gone before the copyright expires now.
The other question nobody is asking is: What happens when you contact the remote admin and they do nothing, or they reinstall the machine and leave it wide open for the same vulnerabilities. Worse, what do you do when their ISP doesn't seem to care that DDOS attacks are being launched from their network? Worse, what do you do when neither of you speak the same language?
This is the "real world" the author was talking about.
Yeah, I remember the power pad. It could actually be kinda fun, although definatly exausting. Sadly, the closest thing they had to DDR was Dance Aerobics (which was an entirely pointless game that you coudln't lose).
The problem with the pad was the games. Save Dance Aerobics, they all worked the same. You would get on the pad and run in place like crazy. Your character on the screen would hobble forward a couple of pixels. Sometimes you'd get to an obsticle, where you have to jump off the pad until the guy clears it. After only a couple of rounds of this you would be covered in sweat and willing to let your brother/sister try.
I still think that a truly fun/imaginative game could have cut down in obesity in America, especially among the doughy Nintendo playing crowd.
No it doesn't. An X is made like a Jesus fish. You start in the upper left hand part, head down and to the right, then loop back up to the top right and continue down to the bottom left. Fortunatly the Grafitti system is smart enough to recognise when you use two strokes, but the official method is a single stroke. It's probably a special case.
Yeah, even just the airdate (today's date for current shows, or ther original date for repeats) would be sufficent for the Daily Show. They should know if they're going to run a repeat or not. I've had to set up a manual recording for the Daily show to avoid that, but sometimes the show moves around unexpectedly. Grr.
1/10/2003: Dropped floppy based installer for CD only approach to accomodate the extra 55MB of compressed kernel needed for boot.
1/10/2003: Upped minimum requirements from a 386 with 5MB of ram to a Pentium II-400 with 64MB of ram, 128MB of ram if you want to run X.
1/10/2003: Upped minimum reccomended size of root partition to 1 GB to fit new kernel and associated files
1/10/2003: Redirected FreeBSD download page to Sun's site. Users wishing to download FreeBSD will need to click through badly worded and or hidden links on 5 different pages, sign up twice, and click through at least three liceneses, then do it all again for the patch set.
That's one of the oddest things I've seen asserted on Slashdot in quite some time. "SCSI integrated with you(r) pci bus". Aren't all PCI SCSI cards integrated with the PCI bus? Or none of them are, depending on how you look at it. The original poster's comment was that high end SCSI cards can saturate the PCI bus (definatly true, the PCI bus is a major bottleneck these days for people doing massive IO on PCs for whatever reason). Even slow technologies like Gigabit Ethernet can easily saturate a PCI bus.
Ages ago on Slashdot I gave my reccomendation for a vertical PC, which has almost everything (power supply, cards, external bays) mounted vertically and fans on the bottom sucking air in and pushing it out the top. The case would be designed to avoid the terrible obsructions to airflow most PC cases have, and would allow fairly easy access to the cards (especially those danged USB ports). The only downside is you can't stack anything on top of it, and it would be longer/shorter than a typical PC case. You would have to be careful that all of your equipment could be mounted vertically, but that shoudln't be a big problem these days. Because I'm terrible at explaining it, I've posted a quick drawing of my concept. It's not to scale, but it should give you an idea of what I want.
If that's the case, then they're doing better than the Dell Latitude with the Mobile P3. The bottom of that laptop gets hot enough that I have to use it on a table in the summer or it will scorch my legs.
The real problem, IMO, is that there seems to be a couple of guys in any given CS class who seriously cannot handle women, and who one way or the other make life hell for the women in the class. Some are just plain creeps, some are always trying to upstage them, some seem convinced that women in CS get through just because they're given preferential treatment. My sis used to get comments like "Geez, you're smart for a girl" at least once a semester -- that's a pretty shitty thing to say; if you think it's a compliment, it's not.
Are you sure this is restrited to the CS field? It seems to me that those two guys always seem to appear at the wrong times. Unless you are majoring in Women's Studies (and even then...), there is a certain percentage of the population that are creeps.
If it has reviews for most things, then you're doing better than Tivo dialup, espeically for TV episodes.
There are three different description types on Tivo:
No/useless description. Often times a single word like "comedy"
Stock description. Southpark: the adventures of 4 boys in South Park Colorado
Or the written description, sometimes of dubious accuracy. In particular, Samurai Jack never seems to have the correct description for the episode.
I blame this more on the people who supply Tivo with their guide data though.
What crappy P3 bioses are you getting anyway? I've never seen a P3 bios that didn't include an option to disable the CPUID. Heck, in almost all cases, it is off by default. Not that it matters, since Intel didn't put it in the P4, the CPUID is dead. Nobody uses it.
That reminds me. Whatever happened to Stars! 3.0 (Supernova)? IIRC, it was supposed to be released in 1997, but I don't ever remember seeing it come out.
Lots of scalability things mostly. Irix is built to scale to impossible sizes. Linux for the most part is still optimized for small machines (no more than 2 processors). It's all of the little things that do it: few arbitray size restrictions (and none that aren't tweakable). Select calls that run in O(n log n) instead of O(n^2) time, etc... It's all a matter of design. The price they pay is that Irix runs kinda slow on low end machines compared to Linux, alhtough it is hard to compare because nobody ever installs Irix on low end PC hardware.
It gets even better. Click on that link and it brings you to a page with a "Download Now" button on it...which is a link to the $20 version. YOu have to hunt out the real link on the bottom of the page.
I made the mistake of installing RealOne once before, it took a reinstall to get all of the spyware off of my system (the uninstaller certainly didn't do it because my firewall alerted me every 30 minutes when it would try to call home). Combine that with the fact that it appears to follow no UI guidelines whatsoever and it should be obvious why I stick with mplayer and Windows Media Player 6.
Irix may not have the best track record when it comes to security, but using Irix 5.3 as a yardstick isn't really fair. It'd be like complaining that the security in Slackware 1 or Ultrix. All Unix vendors had security problems back then, and the way Irix tried to make things friendy to the end user didn't help.
Well, if we don't try it, how are we going to know if it is going to devistate the some other part of the world?
In other words, what is worse: doing nothing and loosing New Orleans, or diverting the Hurricane, but possibly doing somehting to the environment, maybe even something bad?
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Er, isn't that a touch out of NASA's scope? Besides, there are plenty of people working on Fusion right now, but that doesn't mean we should put everything else on hold.
Try to visualize 50mm in your head. If that's too hard, try visualizing 0.05m instead.
I bet you mentally converted that to 5cm when you thought about it. Large numbers of absolutely tiny units are hard to get a feel for, as are small fractions of large units. It's not about working numbers and moving decimal points around, it's about estimating and off the cuff calculations.
His lab is here. Please try to stagger your access so you don't slashdot him.
Ok, I'm planning on connecting at 16:29.27 GMT, please choose some other time. Thanks.
That's because the academics who complain about stuff like that are the ones who only use them in trivial examples. People use cm because it is about the right size for a lot of applications (inches too). Metric still suffers from the too small/too big syndrome, where the units are spaced too far apart for convienence (3 orders of magnitude difference is a lot). Of course it's too late to complain now I guess.
This may be a wild guess, but I bet most of the people the study don't have the rip-off SMS service you have, and can send several messages for the price of one call. Either that or the calls are just ripoffs as well.
As opposed to current PDA technology that still works great after you crack the screen???
The big difference I can see is the opportunity to make really thin electronics, since you don't have to have the circut board behind the display anymore (just the batteries).
That will work great unless you want to have your work actually published. Publishers these days require that you sign over any copyright on your work to them, and they aren't going to release anything into the public domain before they are forced to.
sometimes not even then. There are stories of movie studios burning prints of the films that are about to enter the Public domain to prevent them from competing with their current releases. Not that anybody will have to do that anymore, film stock will be long gone before the copyright expires now.
There is one deal in Windows FreeCell that is unsolvable: 11982[1].
[1] FreeCell FAQ
The other question nobody is asking is: What happens when you contact the remote admin and they do nothing, or they reinstall the machine and leave it wide open for the same vulnerabilities. Worse, what do you do when their ISP doesn't seem to care that DDOS attacks are being launched from their network? Worse, what do you do when neither of you speak the same language?
This is the "real world" the author was talking about.
Yeah, I remember the power pad. It could actually be kinda fun, although definatly exausting. Sadly, the closest thing they had to DDR was Dance Aerobics (which was an entirely pointless game that you coudln't lose).
The problem with the pad was the games. Save Dance Aerobics, they all worked the same. You would get on the pad and run in place like crazy. Your character on the screen would hobble forward a couple of pixels. Sometimes you'd get to an obsticle, where you have to jump off the pad until the guy clears it. After only a couple of rounds of this you would be covered in sweat and willing to let your brother/sister try.
I still think that a truly fun/imaginative game could have cut down in obesity in America, especially among the doughy Nintendo playing crowd.
I hope you appreciate the irony of walking around naked to protect your privacy.
No it doesn't. An X is made like a Jesus fish. You start in the upper left hand part, head down and to the right, then loop back up to the top right and continue down to the bottom left. Fortunatly the Grafitti system is smart enough to recognise when you use two strokes, but the official method is a single stroke. It's probably a special case.
Yeah, even just the airdate (today's date for current shows, or ther original date for repeats) would be sufficent for the Daily Show. They should know if they're going to run a repeat or not. I've had to set up a manual recording for the Daily show to avoid that, but sometimes the show moves around unexpectedly. Grr.
That's one of the oddest things I've seen asserted on Slashdot in quite some time. "SCSI integrated with you(r) pci bus". Aren't all PCI SCSI cards integrated with the PCI bus? Or none of them are, depending on how you look at it. The original poster's comment was that high end SCSI cards can saturate the PCI bus (definatly true, the PCI bus is a major bottleneck these days for people doing massive IO on PCs for whatever reason). Even slow technologies like Gigabit Ethernet can easily saturate a PCI bus.
Ages ago on Slashdot I gave my reccomendation for a vertical PC, which has almost everything (power supply, cards, external bays) mounted vertically and fans on the bottom sucking air in and pushing it out the top. The case would be designed to avoid the terrible obsructions to airflow most PC cases have, and would allow fairly easy access to the cards (especially those danged USB ports). The only downside is you can't stack anything on top of it, and it would be longer/shorter than a typical PC case. You would have to be careful that all of your equipment could be mounted vertically, but that shoudln't be a big problem these days. Because I'm terrible at explaining it, I've posted a quick drawing of my concept. It's not to scale, but it should give you an idea of what I want.
If that's the case, then they're doing better than the Dell Latitude with the Mobile P3. The bottom of that laptop gets hot enough that I have to use it on a table in the summer or it will scorch my legs.
Are you sure this is restrited to the CS field? It seems to me that those two guys always seem to appear at the wrong times. Unless you are majoring in Women's Studies (and even then...), there is a certain percentage of the population that are creeps.
I blame this more on the people who supply Tivo with their guide data though.
What crappy P3 bioses are you getting anyway? I've never seen a P3 bios that didn't include an option to disable the CPUID. Heck, in almost all cases, it is off by default. Not that it matters, since Intel didn't put it in the P4, the CPUID is dead. Nobody uses it.
That reminds me. Whatever happened to Stars! 3.0 (Supernova)? IIRC, it was supposed to be released in 1997, but I don't ever remember seeing it come out.
Lots of scalability things mostly. Irix is built to scale to impossible sizes. Linux for the most part is still optimized for small machines (no more than 2 processors). It's all of the little things that do it: few arbitray size restrictions (and none that aren't tweakable). Select calls that run in O(n log n) instead of O(n^2) time, etc... It's all a matter of design. The price they pay is that Irix runs kinda slow on low end machines compared to Linux, alhtough it is hard to compare because nobody ever installs Irix on low end PC hardware.
It gets even better. Click on that link and it brings you to a page with a "Download Now" button on it...which is a link to the $20 version. YOu have to hunt out the real link on the bottom of the page.
I made the mistake of installing RealOne once before, it took a reinstall to get all of the spyware off of my system (the uninstaller certainly didn't do it because my firewall alerted me every 30 minutes when it would try to call home). Combine that with the fact that it appears to follow no UI guidelines whatsoever and it should be obvious why I stick with mplayer and Windows Media Player 6.
Irix may not have the best track record when it comes to security, but using Irix 5.3 as a yardstick isn't really fair. It'd be like complaining that the security in Slackware 1 or Ultrix. All Unix vendors had security problems back then, and the way Irix tried to make things friendy to the end user didn't help.
Well, if we don't try it, how are we going to know if it is going to devistate the some other part of the world?
In other words, what is worse: doing nothing and loosing New Orleans, or diverting the Hurricane, but possibly doing somehting to the environment, maybe even something bad?