I mostly program using fixed integer arithmetic, so I don't do much plain rounding. But I do frequently need to do division with rounding up to nearest integer value. For that I use:
Does this mean that there will be brownouts whenever there is a high volume of trafic on the system?
Probably not. But you may want to make yourself aware of the various state execution times and plan your internet usage accordingly. Luckily, these events usually occur around midnight -- which should be a convenient time for most customers.
I had not heard of ICRA (perhaps it needs better promotion). Thanks for enlightening me. Unfortunately, it is a bit more complicated than I would hope for as it requires a modification to the HTML of every page. I'd prefer something like the icon file or nobots file. Of course that would cover the entire site -- the ICRA approach would be good for flagging individual pages with different ratings.
There does need to be some impetus for web sites to comply. The best would be consumer demand, if traffic dropped to unrated sites, then that would be pretty good motivation.
Movies have one. Television shows have one. Song lyrics have one. Games have one.
Maybe it's time for a website rating system.
Make it voluntary and easy (something as simple as placing a.rating file in the root folder)and I think most sites would comply. Once enough sites have this in place, filtering can commence.
Also unlike most other internet ordering sites like this I found it very easy to talk to the sales and custumer service people.
I'd have to conceed that this statement is probably true. It sounds like talking to customer service isn't a problem. Quite the opposite in fact. No mention of how pleasant those talks might be...
But I have to ask, why not just build the entire music player into the headsets?
Because you might want to replace the headphones at some point. And not just to upgrade to a better headphone. If the MP3 player had bluetooth, then it could send audio to your headphones, your ski/motorcycle helmet, your car stereo, etc. These are relatively inexpensive interfaces -- the MP3 player itself (and the music it holds) it not.
Just to add to this... They did do a show about pyramid power and Adam requested no more woo-hoo stuff. But why not use your show as a forum to educate viewers about some of the bad science out there? I'm specifically thinking about things like dowsing, magnet theropy, homeopathy and extra sensory perception.
Yes, it's so much easier to knock down other people's ideas than to come up with your own.
Sure the article presents ideas that aren't new or ground-breaking. Yes, the term Type Manager is aweful [it's more of a Domain Expert or Task Facilitator]. Still, the article is thought-provoking. What it is really about is answering questions like "why is iTunes so appealing?" In fact, it is really talking about is Application Patterns (like Design Patterns). Could be an interesting book subject...
How do you then ensure that the music and player you buy today will not be incompatible with your player, online store or the OS?
In a Microsoft world, you just make sure to look for the Plays for Sure logo on everything you buy! Then you can sleep safe and sound at night knowing that your music can be played anywhere and anytime.
Or you could just refuse to buy DRM'ed crap. That works too.
Sure, I forgive your chuckle. I don't doubt that in the future our views of how the universe works will seem primative. But just like Einstein's theory didn't totally invalidate Newtons, I'm confident that future understanding will refine our theories and fill in the gaps. I don't think that we will see a return to earth-centric or flat-earth theories (the sort believed when the Bible was written).
I'm not saying that we know all the answers now, just that we know more than we did thousands of years ago.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
So let me see if I got the order right:
1. God creates the watery earth.
2. God creates light and dark.
3. God creates land and sky.
4. God creates stars, the sun and the moon.
Somehow the order seems confused to me. Light and dark before the sun and stars? The earth before the sun and stars? Sounds like a creation myth created by people who did not fully understand how the universe and solar system operate.
Forgive me if I have a difficult time taking Genesis literally when it so obviously contradicts our understanding of the universe around us (and this is just the first page!).
If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't have one either?
Damn, and I just ran out of mod points.
This is the thing that has always bugged me too. Complex systems must have a creator and yet it is ok that said creator has just always been around? Forever? I guess one day he just got so mind-numbingly bored that he created the universe just to give him something to do. (Please excuse the assumed masculine form).
Remember... this legislation is being pushed on behalf of the pursuit of the almighty dollar. I assume that your politicians like money as well as ours (be it euros or pounds).
As goes the USA, so goes the world (eventually). Maybe less so that before, but still...
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Doing so can result in corporal punishment.
Typical military! Meanwhile, the sergeants, lieutenants, captains, colonels and generals can do whatever they please.
Gates and co. would have to have an effective monopoly on email traffic for that to work.
They're working on this! I know because I got an email from Bill himself asking me to help test the system for him by forwarding the email to others!
we just don't quite know what killed it yet.
Oh, but I think that we do! And we even know who... it was DVD Jon, on the Internet, with a DeCSS decryption alogithm.
I don't read Cringely very often, but I've never seen even him have anything really negative to say about google.
Actually, he has said some negative things (or least not positive) about Google. In particular he wrote some articles on how AdSense may be squeezing as much money out of advertisers as they are willing to pay. Also followups here and here.
I mostly program using fixed integer arithmetic, so I don't do much plain rounding. But I do frequently need to do division with rounding up to nearest integer value. For that I use:
Does this mean that there will be brownouts whenever there is a high volume of trafic on the system?
Probably not. But you may want to make yourself aware of the various state execution times and plan your internet usage accordingly. Luckily, these events usually occur around midnight -- which should be a convenient time for most customers.
Dude! Where's all the Windows for Dummies books!?
I didn't read it either. My aging eyes just aren't up to reading black and blue text on a dark blue background! I gave up on the first page.
I had not heard of ICRA (perhaps it needs better promotion). Thanks for enlightening me. Unfortunately, it is a bit more complicated than I would hope for as it requires a modification to the HTML of every page. I'd prefer something like the icon file or nobots file. Of course that would cover the entire site -- the ICRA approach would be good for flagging individual pages with different ratings.
There does need to be some impetus for web sites to comply. The best would be consumer demand, if traffic dropped to unrated sites, then that would be pretty good motivation.
that's a crazy $0.70 per second
You gotta admit it's a lot more profitable shakedown, er, business plan, than selling SCO licenses to Linux users.
Movies have one. Television shows have one. Song lyrics have one. Games have one.
Maybe it's time for a website rating system.
Make it voluntary and easy (something as simple as placing a .rating file in the root folder)and I think most sites would comply. Once enough sites have this in place, filtering can commence.
Also unlike most other internet ordering sites like this I found it very easy to talk to the sales and custumer service people.
I'd have to conceed that this statement is probably true. It sounds like talking to customer service isn't a problem. Quite the opposite in fact. No mention of how pleasant those talks might be...
But I have to ask, why not just build the entire music player into the headsets?
Because you might want to replace the headphones at some point. And not just to upgrade to a better headphone. If the MP3 player had bluetooth, then it could send audio to your headphones, your ski/motorcycle helmet, your car stereo, etc. These are relatively inexpensive interfaces -- the MP3 player itself (and the music it holds) it not.
Just to add to this... They did do a show about pyramid power and Adam requested no more woo-hoo stuff. But why not use your show as a forum to educate viewers about some of the bad science out there? I'm specifically thinking about things like dowsing, magnet theropy, homeopathy and extra sensory perception.
I've been proclaiming the death of Usenet on alt.rumors for years now. But does anyone listen? I said does anyone listen? Hello? Is this thing on?
Yes, it's so much easier to knock down other people's ideas than to come up with your own.
Sure the article presents ideas that aren't new or ground-breaking. Yes, the term Type Manager is aweful [it's more of a Domain Expert or Task Facilitator]. Still, the article is thought-provoking. What it is really about is answering questions like "why is iTunes so appealing?" In fact, it is really talking about is Application Patterns (like Design Patterns). Could be an interesting book subject...
You forgot the Newton. Or was that accidentally bad?
but I don't think you're gonna like it.
How do you then ensure that the music and player you buy today will not be incompatible with your player, online store or the OS?
In a Microsoft world, you just make sure to look for the Plays for Sure logo on everything you buy! Then you can sleep safe and sound at night knowing that your music can be played anywhere and anytime.
Or you could just refuse to buy DRM'ed crap. That works too.
Sure, I forgive your chuckle. I don't doubt that in the future our views of how the universe works will seem primative. But just like Einstein's theory didn't totally invalidate Newtons, I'm confident that future understanding will refine our theories and fill in the gaps. I don't think that we will see a return to earth-centric or flat-earth theories (the sort believed when the Bible was written).
I'm not saying that we know all the answers now, just that we know more than we did thousands of years ago.
DirecTV would be crazy not to have a new, non-TiVo DVR and not a damn thing will save TiVo, then.
Perhaps partnering with Comcast might do the trick?
But, I for one welcome our Intelligent Designing overlords!
So Genesis is to be taken literally, eh?
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
So let me see if I got the order right:
1. God creates the watery earth.
2. God creates light and dark.
3. God creates land and sky.
4. God creates stars, the sun and the moon.
Somehow the order seems confused to me. Light and dark before the sun and stars? The earth before the sun and stars? Sounds like a creation myth created by people who did not fully understand how the universe and solar system operate.
Forgive me if I have a difficult time taking Genesis literally when it so obviously contradicts our understanding of the universe around us (and this is just the first page!).
I could make up a story right now that explains just as much as ID.
FSM Rules!
If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't have one either?
Damn, and I just ran out of mod points.
This is the thing that has always bugged me too. Complex systems must have a creator and yet it is ok that said creator has just always been around? Forever? I guess one day he just got so mind-numbingly bored that he created the universe just to give him something to do. (Please excuse the assumed masculine form).
Remember... this legislation is being pushed on behalf of the pursuit of the almighty dollar. I assume that your politicians like money as well as ours (be it euros or pounds).
As goes the USA, so goes the world (eventually). Maybe less so that before, but still...