Shouldn't all of the Geiger counters come with exactly that - an small sample of radioactive material for calibration? I thought that is the norm even for today's devices. I guess the OP should ask in the shop where he/she is buying.
Well, Pandora people started shipping the device. It all depends on the demand for it. If suddenly several thousand devices were to be ordered, I wonder if the Qi people would be able to supply all of the devices on demand. Since both projects are enthusiast based, I'd say the situation is still the same.
So is the MIPS. I'd say there is not so much difference between the two. Yes, the Qi has all of the blueprints, but the Pandora can be actually used for a bit more than just as an example of the open design. I applaud the people behind the Qi, but the device has to be usefull too.
Actually, I remember my cousins when they were around 3 years old, they always beat the crap out of me in any kind of memory game. So saying that this lock would prevent kids to entering only shows that some people really don't understand (or have no contact whatsoever with) the kids. Or what they (the kids) are capable of.
Last year, my company has bought an licence for the DFSee, the disk utility tool. Well, it's actually swiss knife disk utility tool, and it's great. It's small, it's fast, it's so detailed that I have learned a few new things about file systems. There are no open source tools, and as far as I have seen, no other commercial ones that support all the file systems it supports and in such a detail.
So, in a world of gazillion editors, your editor has no success? Surprise, surprise. Well then, why don't you make something else? Competition is a tough world, in which the fittest survive. Maybe you're not the one?
Oh yes, poor poor company, working so hard to earn as much money as they can, they should be praised for their herculean efforts to make products that they will sell later on...
I was wondering for a while now, is somewhere out there an futuristic MMORPG of some kind, be it Fallout lookalike or just plain guns, or/and cyborgs and stuff...? Where there are no superpowers, no spells, no psyonics...
I'm getting tired of "cast a spell, drink a potion, kill a goblin and save the damsel while wearing green tights and unhygienic underwear and pretending that middle ages have never ended" RPGs of all kinds that have been regurgurated for decades now.
I've tried to search for them, but either I'm a lousy google user, or there aren't any?
Puny humans! This one will go silent too! Not only you don't ask for permission to visit, but you also pollute our water supply with useless noisy junk!
Offtopic... Actually, I'd say that 10 minutes downtime equals about 2 days loss of productivity, for at least one person. Why? Well, after you manage to put the system online again (even after "only" 10 minutes), it takes about 1-2 days to analyze what went wrong, and how to make it sure (if possible) not to repeat the same downtime. Instead of working on something else.
But, seriously though... If a country wants their sensitive parts hidden from the world, they have to contact Google and inform them about it.
So, if I'm reading it right, soon Google will know about all the secret (or not so secret but important) facilities of all the countries in the world that want it altered? Well isn't that just great? After all the secrecy the goverments of the world are trying to implement for centuries, now they all will tell it to one company? And who can guarantee that the secrets will stay that way? The next step would be Google tax - wanna blur it baybe? Well, pay up!
Anyone here for a friendly lobotomy, discount family prices?
I already have a high blood pressure, thank you, and am using pills to regulate it a bit. These days, I'm drinking only green tea. Eating something like these "goods" (or rather "bads" for me...) would be a death wish. Which I really really don't have. I hope that products like these will be clearly marked as containing caffeine or similar substances.
Not only that. Government has to support virtual people just the same as real people. Citizens pay taxes to the state, but on the other hand, the state protects its citizens (yes, I know that is an ideal situation, but it's written in the constitution of every legal state).
So, if someone kills me in the WOW, or steals something from me in Second Life, will he be sanctioned by the state, and in what way? What about other laws? Prostitution, drugs, pedophilia...?
And also, what about us that are not citizens of the USA? To whom and in what way will we have to pay, and what will we get in the return?
Very "thin"? Sandwiched between two substrates each 130 mm "thin"? That equals 260 mm, or 26 cm, or for those of you using inches that is around 10 inches. I could hardly call that thin. And certainly not an plate-like object.:)))))
But, you're right, if you sandwich several of these together, you would definitely get massive amounts of storage.:)))
I can only guess that maybe the original measurement was 13 mm, and not 130 mm.:))))
The best way is to encode the data into the PI value, just by slightly altering a few pesky universe parameters. That way, you can keep your data forever (or until some stupid dork tries to backup his data), and everybody can read it.
Before you all continue talking about how winamp is great and all, I think you should know that the history is not so nice. Especially when Justin Frankel says "In 1997 I ported AMP (a free mp3 decoder at the time)". AMP code was free for non-commercial use, but...
What Frankel "forgot" to mention is that Nullsoft made money without even mentioning that they used AMP code, and only after they got sued, Nullsoft "admitted" that they used "a bit of AMP code" which just so happens that it's an important part of the decoder thingie...
That is so uninformed and not true. Croatian language is spoken _only_ here in Croatia. In Bosnia, there is their own variant, and in Serbia too. There was a "bastard" language called Serbo-Croat which was in forced use while there was a socialist Yugoslavia. There was always a difference in Croatian and Serbian language, as in for example a difference between English that was spoken in Shakespear's time and today's official Brittish English. Yes, we can (mostly) understand each other, but it still isn't the same.
Please, just because my country is much smaller than yours, do not confuse my language with someone else's.
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Since I'm a Croatian native, I'd have to say that Croatian and English language aren't that similar, not in syntax, and especially not in grammar. That example of Bantu language is similar. In Croatian, there are different verb forms depending on the gender of subject or object, also, English uses mostly indirect forms, while Croatian uses mostly direct forms. Also, some linguists compare complexity of our grammar and syntax to Latin. True, it's not so different when you compare English with Japanese, but English and Croatian are distinctivly different.
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Shouldn't all of the Geiger counters come with exactly that - an small sample of radioactive material for calibration? I thought that is the norm even for today's devices. I guess the OP should ask in the shop where he/she is buying.
Well, Pandora people started shipping the device. It all depends on the demand for it. If suddenly several thousand devices were to be ordered, I wonder if the Qi people would be able to supply all of the devices on demand. Since both projects are enthusiast based, I'd say the situation is still the same.
So is the MIPS. I'd say there is not so much difference between the two. Yes, the Qi has all of the blueprints, but the Pandora can be actually used for a bit more than just as an example of the open design. I applaud the people behind the Qi, but the device has to be usefull too.
What about http://www.open-pandora.org/? It's a much better device than this one, has all of the stuff mentioned, and more.
Actually, I remember my cousins when they were around 3 years old, they always beat the crap out of me in any kind of memory game. So saying that this lock would prevent kids to entering only shows that some people really don't understand (or have no contact whatsoever with) the kids. Or what they (the kids) are capable of.
Last year, my company has bought an licence for the DFSee, the disk utility tool. Well, it's actually swiss knife disk utility tool, and it's great. It's small, it's fast, it's so detailed that I have learned a few new things about file systems. There are no open source tools, and as far as I have seen, no other commercial ones that support all the file systems it supports and in such a detail.
So, in a world of gazillion editors, your editor has no success? Surprise, surprise. Well then, why don't you make something else? Competition is a tough world, in which the fittest survive. Maybe you're not the one?
Oh yes, poor poor company, working so hard to earn as much money as they can, they should be praised for their herculean efforts to make products that they will sell later on...
Since Eve has been the topic here...
I was wondering for a while now, is somewhere out there an futuristic MMORPG of some kind, be it Fallout lookalike or just plain guns, or/and cyborgs and stuff...? Where there are no superpowers, no spells, no psyonics...
I'm getting tired of "cast a spell, drink a potion, kill a goblin and save the damsel while wearing green tights and unhygienic underwear and pretending that middle ages have never ended" RPGs of all kinds that have been regurgurated for decades now.
I've tried to search for them, but either I'm a lousy google user, or there aren't any?
Puny humans! This one will go silent too! Not only you don't ask for permission to visit, but you also pollute our water supply with useless noisy junk!
This time, not even Tom Cruise will save you!
Offtopic... Actually, I'd say that 10 minutes downtime equals about 2 days loss of productivity, for at least one person. Why? Well, after you manage to put the system online again (even after "only" 10 minutes), it takes about 1-2 days to analyze what went wrong, and how to make it sure (if possible) not to repeat the same downtime. Instead of working on something else.
Ah, nonnative language spelling error:
"wanna blur it baby? Well, pay up!"
But, seriously though... If a country wants their sensitive parts hidden from the world, they have to contact Google and inform them about it.
So, if I'm reading it right, soon Google will know about all the secret (or not so secret but important) facilities of all the countries in the world that want it altered? Well isn't that just great? After all the secrecy the goverments of the world are trying to implement for centuries, now they all will tell it to one company? And who can guarantee that the secrets will stay that way? The next step would be Google tax - wanna blur it baybe? Well, pay up!
Anyone here for a friendly lobotomy, discount family prices?
I already have a high blood pressure, thank you, and am using pills to regulate it a bit. These days, I'm drinking only green tea. Eating something like these "goods" (or rather "bads" for me...) would be a death wish. Which I really really don't have. I hope that products like these will be clearly marked as containing caffeine or similar substances.
Not only that. Government has to support virtual people just the same as real people. Citizens pay taxes to the state, but on the other hand, the state protects its citizens (yes, I know that is an ideal situation, but it's written in the constitution of every legal state). So, if someone kills me in the WOW, or steals something from me in Second Life, will he be sanctioned by the state, and in what way? What about other laws? Prostitution, drugs, pedophilia...? And also, what about us that are not citizens of the USA? To whom and in what way will we have to pay, and what will we get in the return?
Of course not! It's actually the opposite of the ball!
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Oh c'mon, it's funny... See the hands?
Very "thin"? Sandwiched between two substrates each 130 mm "thin"? That equals 260 mm, or 26 cm, or for those of you using inches that is around 10 inches. I could hardly call that thin. And certainly not an plate-like object. :)))))
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But, you're right, if you sandwich several of these together, you would definitely get massive amounts of storage.
I can only guess that maybe the original measurement was 13 mm, and not 130 mm.
The best way is to encode the data into the PI value, just by slightly altering a few pesky universe parameters. That way, you can keep your data forever (or until some stupid dork tries to backup his data), and everybody can read it.
If they are precise enough, that is.
Oh, and finally, these few people will really find the meaning of the PI. http://www.42explore.com/pi.htm
Before you all continue talking about how winamp is great and all, I think you should know that the history is not so nice. Especially when Justin Frankel says "In 1997 I ported AMP (a free mp3 decoder at the time)". AMP code was free for non-commercial use, but...
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Check out this and this and this.
What Frankel "forgot" to mention is that Nullsoft made money without even mentioning that they used AMP code, and only after they got sued, Nullsoft "admitted" that they used "a bit of AMP code" which just so happens that it's an important part of the decoder thingie...
So, all is well in corporate world...
You mean, like, your girlfriend doing it with everybody you know, and everybody you don't, while you watch, or even join in? :}
That is so uninformed and not true. Croatian language is spoken _only_ here in Croatia. In Bosnia, there is their own variant, and in Serbia too. There was a "bastard" language called Serbo-Croat which was in forced use while there was a socialist Yugoslavia. There was always a difference in Croatian and Serbian language, as in for example a difference between English that was spoken in Shakespear's time and today's official Brittish English. Yes, we can (mostly) understand each other, but it still isn't the same. Please, just because my country is much smaller than yours, do not confuse my language with someone else's.
Since I'm a Croatian native, I'd have to say that Croatian and English language aren't that similar, not in syntax, and especially not in grammar. That example of Bantu language is similar. In Croatian, there are different verb forms depending on the gender of subject or object, also, English uses mostly indirect forms, while Croatian uses mostly direct forms. Also, some linguists compare complexity of our grammar and syntax to Latin. True, it's not so different when you compare English with Japanese, but English and Croatian are distinctivly different.