Then I would actually buy an android smartphone used or new (tmobile will sell you a sim card for $2 or $6), and install google voice. Now you can have free calling within the US.
Not quite. Google Voice doesn't do VOIP so it actually uses your cell minutes to make calls.
All this talk of infinite slices made we wonder if I had it wrong but I'm pretty sure you don't want that as the solution. As you approach infinite slices you'll eat the same percentage of the pie as your friend's per slice time is a percentage of the combined value of both your per slice times. Take my x = 10, y = 35 example. The y value is 77.7777...% of the combined time (35/45).
In the 5 slice solution you get 80% of the pie. Now let's divide up into more slices:
If the total slices is 6, then the time to eat them (t) all will be:
t/x + t/y = 6
Solving for t gives us t = 6 / (1/x + 1/y) which with our x and y values gives us 46.666... t/x is 4.666 and t/y is 1.333. Since your friend would start his second piece before you could start your 5th (you know this because your partial piece time of.666 isn't higher than the.777 required to get there first) he gets 2 and you get 4 so your percentage of the pie is worse (4/6 or 66.666%) than in the 5 piece scenario.
Going up to 7 slices you get 5 of the 7 for 71.43%. At 8 you get 72.73%, etc... The pattern you get is the percentage you get oscillating around 77.777% with the variations approaching 0 as the number of slices increases. So infinite slices isn't the answer for maximum percentage of the pie, you have to take advantage of the fact that as long as you get to the last slice before your friend you can take as long as you need to finish it.
I think you're right on the "If I eat at the same rate or slower" answer but on the "I eat faster" side wouldn't you want find out how much faster you eat than your friend in order to optimize the the slices you get? Basically solve for the maximum value m in the following equation:
x + m(x) < y
Then m is the extra number of slices above 3 you want the pie because you will get to them before your friend finishes his first slice.
For example: x = 10 seconds, y = 15 seconds
m here is 0 since you can't finish your second slice before your friend is done with his first. But say your friend chews more thoroughly than you: x = 10 seconds, y = 35 seconds
In this case m = 2 so you want the pie in 5 (3 + 2) slices because you can eat 3 slices and start your 4th before your friend finishes his 1st, thus you get 4/5 (80%) of the pie instead of 2/3 (66%). The slower your friend eats, the more pie you get.
Of course all this assumes you know x and y. If you don't get those I would have come up with your answer as well.
Did Alexander just make a dig at his offensive line by implying they aren't "skilled" positions? Let's see how many touchdowns he gets this season...:)
I was able to see this movie when it premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival (at the Cinerama no less with it's kick ass visual and sound systems). It focuses on Bateau 3 years after the first movie. I enjoyed 2 in much the same way as 1 but it definitely has the same over use of philosophy and metaphors. If you don't get hung up on that, it is the most visually stunning film I've ever seen. While some of the scenes seem like they just did them to look good and don't aid the story at all, there are other moments where the juxtaposition of classical animation on top of intricately detailed CG environments gives it a remarkable look and sense of immersion. If you liked the first one, you'll definitely enjoy this one, even if it is a bit lighter on the substance. If you couldn't get by 1's philosophizing diaglouge, 2 will drive you insane.
Funny eh? I work in Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle and just today they had some machines very similar to these in operation on Occidental just south of Yesler. They ripped out the old meters and hiked up the rates by 50% too. Ahhh progress.
I even found a link.
If you search for "Brian Walski" on the LA Times website you can find the article and the pictures. Normally a free registration is required but it appears this page with the pictures is not protected.
I am a Replay owner and have been able to compare it side by side with TiVo boxes. While I love the Replay enough to justify the $100+ price difference (assuming you buy both boxes with a "lifetime" service) I do have to admit I even find myself using "TiVo" as a verb because then people will instantly understand what I mean. When I demonstrate the box it's easier to make distinctions but in general conversation it's far quicker to just say "I TiVo'd the Alias marathon, want to come over and watch it?"...
One of my favorite examples that I've been giving since the early days of Zeroconf is this: I have friends who have bought a TiVo Personal Video Recorder, and then liked it so much that they bought a second TiVo for the television in the bedroom. Now what is the problem? At night they turn on the bedroom television to watch a recorded episode of Seinfeld before they go to sleep, but they can't because it is recorded on the other TiVo. Imagine if any TiVo in your house could automatically discover and play content recorded on any other TiVo in your house. Sadly, I'm not aware of anyone from TiVo participating on the Zeroconf mailing list, so it may be a long time before we see anything like this, but I think you'll agree this would be a very cool product.
Yeah, it might be a long time. Whoops! What's that sitting in my component rack? A ReplayTV? And it's doing what? Streaming video to the unit in my bedroom? Wow, that was quick.
Sure, just throw something into robots.txt that isn't linked to anywhere on the site. When some supposed "browser" loads it you know where it came from... You could even have some script change the bait URL each time robots.txt is requested and log the IP with that bait URL so you could track multiple abuses.
I certainly hope that C# will be the destination of choice for a lot of today's Visual Basic application developers.
Do you think this is what MS had in mind when they developed the Common Language Runtime?
Hmmmm... Let's develop a runtime and a language that fits perfectly on top of it. Then, let's claim that any language can compile to this same runtime so we have a cross-language platform! Nevermind that they will have to forgo any features that aren't supported by the runtime or at least will have to hack around them. Eventually everyone will move to our perfect single language!
Even VB.NET falls into this category. It doesn't quite match the CLR as perfectly as C# does. I wonder how long until they try something similar C++... oh wait...
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Then I would actually buy an android smartphone used or new (tmobile will sell you a sim card for $2 or $6), and install google voice. Now you can have free calling within the US.
Not quite. Google Voice doesn't do VOIP so it actually uses your cell minutes to make calls.
Actually they say it won't do any background processing if you are on battery power (see their blog posting about this).
All this talk of infinite slices made we wonder if I had it wrong but I'm pretty sure you don't want that as the solution. As you approach infinite slices you'll eat the same percentage of the pie as your friend's per slice time is a percentage of the combined value of both your per slice times. Take my x = 10, y = 35 example. The y value is 77.7777...% of the combined time (35/45).
.666 isn't higher than the .777 required to get there first) he gets 2 and you get 4 so your percentage of the pie is worse (4/6 or 66.666%) than in the 5 piece scenario.
In the 5 slice solution you get 80% of the pie. Now let's divide up into more slices:
If the total slices is 6, then the time to eat them (t) all will be:
t/x + t/y = 6
Solving for t gives us t = 6 / (1/x + 1/y) which with our x and y values gives us 46.666... t/x is 4.666 and t/y is 1.333. Since your friend would start his second piece before you could start your 5th (you know this because your partial piece time of
Going up to 7 slices you get 5 of the 7 for 71.43%. At 8 you get 72.73%, etc... The pattern you get is the percentage you get oscillating around 77.777% with the variations approaching 0 as the number of slices increases. So infinite slices isn't the answer for maximum percentage of the pie, you have to take advantage of the fact that as long as you get to the last slice before your friend you can take as long as you need to finish it.
Damn. Way too much thought on a math problem.
I think you're right on the "If I eat at the same rate or slower" answer but on the "I eat faster" side wouldn't you want find out how much faster you eat than your friend in order to optimize the the slices you get? Basically solve for the maximum value m in the following equation:
x + m(x) < y
Then m is the extra number of slices above 3 you want the pie because you will get to them before your friend finishes his first slice.
For example: x = 10 seconds, y = 15 seconds
m here is 0 since you can't finish your second slice before your friend is done with his first. But say your friend chews more thoroughly than you: x = 10 seconds, y = 35 seconds
In this case m = 2 so you want the pie in 5 (3 + 2) slices because you can eat 3 slices and start your 4th before your friend finishes his 1st, thus you get 4/5 (80%) of the pie instead of 2/3 (66%). The slower your friend eats, the more pie you get.
Of course all this assumes you know x and y. If you don't get those I would have come up with your answer as well.
Obviously you've never come to Seattle...
Did Alexander just make a dig at his offensive line by implying they aren't "skilled" positions? Let's see how many touchdowns he gets this season... :)
Can't buy a new Xbox anymore? That's really strange.
And that pile of system boxes I saw at FYE the other day was probably just for decoration...
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Price reduction in a few weeks? Don't think that's going to happen for months if not more. Halo took years to come down from $50.
I was able to see this movie when it premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival (at the Cinerama no less with it's kick ass visual and sound systems). It focuses on Bateau 3 years after the first movie. I enjoyed 2 in much the same way as 1 but it definitely has the same over use of philosophy and metaphors. If you don't get hung up on that, it is the most visually stunning film I've ever seen. While some of the scenes seem like they just did them to look good and don't aid the story at all, there are other moments where the juxtaposition of classical animation on top of intricately detailed CG environments gives it a remarkable look and sense of immersion. If you liked the first one, you'll definitely enjoy this one, even if it is a bit lighter on the substance. If you couldn't get by 1's philosophizing diaglouge, 2 will drive you insane.
Funny eh? I work in Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle and just today they had some machines very similar to these in operation on Occidental just south of Yesler. They ripped out the old meters and hiked up the rates by 50% too. Ahhh progress. I even found a link.
Big Brother my ass. If you don't want to get into this system, don't patronize any of the participating establishments.
The dictionary defines "Big Brother" as "An all-powerful government or organization monitoring and directing people's actions."
I fail to see how a collection of bars tracking entrances is "all-powerful."
There is also a nice version on Apple's trailer site: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/newline/returno ftheking/
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If you search for "Brian Walski" on the LA Times website you can find the article and the pictures. Normally a free registration is required but it appears this page with the pictures is not protected.
Well, now it's right. Where's that delete button?
For those to lazy to type in 10 characters: Clicky
Just take the " " out of the url: /wm.ifilm.na- central/ becomes /wm.ifilm.na-central/
I am a Replay owner and have been able to compare it side by side with TiVo boxes. While I love the Replay enough to justify the $100+ price difference (assuming you buy both boxes with a "lifetime" service) I do have to admit I even find myself using "TiVo" as a verb because then people will instantly understand what I mean. When I demonstrate the box it's easier to make distinctions but in general conversation it's far quicker to just say "I TiVo'd the Alias marathon, want to come over and watch it?"...
- One of my favorite examples that I've been giving since the early days of Zeroconf is this: I have friends who have bought a TiVo Personal Video Recorder, and then liked it so much that they bought a second TiVo for the television in the bedroom. Now what is the problem? At night they turn on the bedroom television to watch a recorded episode of Seinfeld before they go to sleep, but they can't because it is recorded on the other TiVo. Imagine if any TiVo in your house could automatically discover and play content recorded on any other TiVo in your house. Sadly, I'm not aware of anyone from TiVo participating on the Zeroconf mailing list, so it may be a long time before we see anything like this, but I think you'll agree this would be a very cool product.
Yeah, it might be a long time. Whoops! What's that sitting in my component rack? A ReplayTV? And it's doing what? Streaming video to the unit in my bedroom? Wow, that was quick.I'm gonna knock your block off. thats just fucking rude as hell.
THAT is rude?News.com story.
I am interested in this kind of setup as well.
Sure, just throw something into robots.txt that isn't linked to anywhere on the site. When some supposed "browser" loads it you know where it came from... You could even have some script change the bait URL each time robots.txt is requested and log the IP with that bait URL so you could track multiple abuses.
Hmmmm... Let's develop a runtime and a language that fits perfectly on top of it. Then, let's claim that any language can compile to this same runtime so we have a cross-language platform! Nevermind that they will have to forgo any features that aren't supported by the runtime or at least will have to hack around them. Eventually everyone will move to our perfect single language!
Even VB.NET falls into this category. It doesn't quite match the CLR as perfectly as C# does. I wonder how long until they try something similar C++... oh wait...