Miscalculation on your part. The 1g typical is going straight down, while the 1.28g is pointing somewhat forward (I'm not even going to touch whether you've calculating it correctly. Is the 1.28 the resulting vector, or just the braking vector?). It's the change in direction, and the fact that your 'weight' is suddenly held in place by two straps that makes it uncomfortable.
* One common look makes documentation, support and QA easier
** 1 common look? communism anyone?
This comment alone makes of you nothing more than a troll. And that is quite apart from the fact that you're completely missing the point.
To drag this towards a strained analogy with cars:
A Prius is fuel efficient, a Porsche is fast and an Aston Martin looks good, so noone should attempt to make a car that is fuel efficient, fast and looks good?
All these features exist, yes, but where can I pop in a CD and *use* them, without having to take out time to install and configure them? It's nice that I can have all these features, but if I can't have them in one place, that is entirely beside the point.
Of course it's imitation. So is machine-learning and machine procreation. What makes you think we're currently limited by our biological capabilities? We're biologically almost identical to cave men, but where they smeared charcoal and spit animal paintings on walls, we now land probes on Mars. We're on a roll.
Give machines our own capabilities? We can't even have them move about in a reliable fashion, what makes you think we're even *close* to endowing machinery with creativity and abstract thought at human levels? Or even parrot levels, since you mention it? There are many hurdles to be cleared before we can consider creating an AI that has a practical chance of surviving to do anything useful, and machine vision (and the processes involved in making this robust) are critically important.
Have you read the GP's post? He doesn't say the registrars are the only ones who want the new TLD, he says the registrars and *other* assholes will want them.
Microsoft and Apple and Disney and Ford and whatever will have to buy their.xxx domains (microsoft.xxx? Can't see that becoming popular...), just to avoid their names being used in off-putting manner. Same as.mobi, I have never seen a.mobi site, yet every major and minor corporation bought their.mobi domain. Just avoid having their name taken. The only ones who gain from these TLDs are the registrars and domain squatters.
Actually, in Holland we haven't had actual cents for decades now. Switching to the Euro gave us back cents, and that was horrible.
Now we've removed cents and 2-cents again, and went back to a 5-cent unit. Prices are still advertised as X.99, and only totals are rounded off. It's a much better system.
HDTV? Over the air? I didn't know that was even possible with typical bandwidth allocations. Or could it be you're one of the 25% or so who don't realize they're not watching HDTV on their HDTV capable TVs?
Well hey, it worked on Usenet. Of course, Usenet is effectively dead anyway, with topposters, forum people and other scumbags posting subjects like "who killed asmodean???!!!11one1 (n/t)"
A Slashdot-to-NNTP gateway might make the pain a little better, though.
The word 'muslim' does not mean what you think it means. You cannot be more muslim or less muslim, any more than you can be more jewish or less christian. You are, or are not. Also, being muslim does not influence your level of sophistication.
By equating the oppressiveness of a country with its being islamic, you're wrongfully stigmatizing the muslim faith, where you should be criticizing the regimes in those countries.
As for that site you quoted, it is the work of a deranged mind. Both asking or demanding to remove the site is the sign of psychological illness peculiar to those following the faith he opposes? Please. The fewer people like that we have on this planet, the fewer problems we'll have.
If you want a part-time job that won't eat into the US college experience (as seen on many movies), try getting a tech support job. Working a help desk is a good way of looking at the mindset of a user from the outside-in. Something which I consider critical in developing software. Once you know what end-users do and do not consider logical, you can greatly enhance the usability of your software.
And usability is not trivial, nor is it easy, if you don't have any experience (either formal, or informal as by talking to users hours on end). Nothing teaches you about developing for end-users as having to work a user through a crappily designed program over the phone.
Keep in mind that you will want to work at a helpdesk, not a call center. Primary difference: A call center is there to stop the phone from ringing, a helpdesk is there to help end-users. The latter is the place you'd want to be.
No, we'd have to wait a few years longer. Before 'they' figure out that it was a transmission, before they've decoded it correctly (do you think they use PAL or NTSC? Decisions!) and can begin to interpret it (who says they have eyes or ears?), manage to figure out what we are and what we're actually saying, and managed to construct a reply in a format that we're likely to be able to decode, you're probably looking at quite a few years.
Given that we've only just managed to decipher what our own first man on moon actually said after a few decades, I think you're looking at decades of work.
And all that's before they even manage to create and send a reply, which will take 45 years to get here.
The solution: Store user-set time as an offset of system time, have system time synced with NTP, and only check document expiry against system time. *Noone* can change system time. The offset might as well be timezone information.
Of course, once you go to the BIOS of a system or boot a more liberal OS, you can change the date/time. But that's as valid for the XP solution as for any other.
Yeah, like cars. Devil-machines that are a danger to hardworking folks like you and me. Not as good at handling rough terrain as ol' Betsy (cue horse whinny) here, not as fast. Just "go-carts" for the rich.
Throwing money at the sort of developing money you suggest is going to have little to no impact in the long run (if the development of infrastructure will end up paying dividends, investments will come and it will develop anyway), and little in the short term. What THIS is is potentially opening up a future development of human technology. Or not. That's the gamble.
Besides, it's his money, he gets to spend it on what he thinks is valuable, which may or may not coincide with what you think is valuable.
Social networking, a "computer skill"? Social networking has translated pretty well to tha intarweb, but that doesn't mean it's a computer skill. I'd say that online social networking has both pros and cons compared to the traditional venues, so you can't even call it the ultimate.
Is there anything useful you can do when launching a (smallish) rocket from a balloon perched at 35km? (I guess you'd need to BOYO to actually go anywhere, but that's a given if you want to leave atmosphere anyway).
After all, you'd save on a 35km trip.
Just make a donut shaped balloon that the rocket will launch through. Sounds easy. But I'm no rocket scientist. Nor a balloonist.
It's not about lying to your future employer, it's about disclosing things to them that they have no business knowing.
This quest for information is not a good thing. Say you're pro-life/communist/gay/NRA-member/whatever, and the hiring manager doesn't like that, it's not a problem if he doesn't know. He also can't terminate your contract in civilized nations because he later finds out about that, due to anti-discrimination laws. But if they know that upfront, they can just say that a candidate did not meet the expectations they had and continue on with the next person.
The same goes with financial information. If I were to move to the US, I would have no credit history whatsoever (which makes it virtually impossible to do things like get insurance at decent rates), and would then have difficulty finding a job. What about people who've been in debt, and are trying to rebuild their life?
Well, 120MW/day is as valid a unit as any, although it describes the increase in energy. Who knows, maybe the process improves efficiency? Just think, soon enough we can power the entire world with a reactor the size of a toaster.
Isn't modding a game simply legal? While selling it without permission would be iffy at best, making a mod should not be. Distributing it can be tricky, if you need to distribute copyrighted files along with your modded files.
Maybe get some legal advice? Stopping development on a pet project just 'cause someone says you can't do it seems overkill.
On the other hand, when a company delivers a close-sourced product with nasty side effects, other people (ie, not me) will still find out about it, and it will hurt the company's bottom line eventually.
I have no clue what most of the code on an open source system does. Nor do I even have this code on my system; I just want stuff to work. If someone installs a keylogger in Firefox that kicks in when the page has words like "VISA" and "MasterCard" on it, I wouldn't know about it.
Now, Firefox is a controlled project, with lots of contributors and, I presume, decent checking on any submission, so it would never get in. Someone would find it. But what about all those other packages, maintained or even created by a single person, whose code I would need to pour serious effort into to decypher?
On the other hand, when a company delivers a close-sourced product with nasty side effects, other people (ie, not me) will still find out about it, and it will hurt the company's bottom line eventually. Incentive not to fuck up (occasionally re-inforced) is thus also provided. And I think the risk of revenue/profit drops wins against the risk of reputation damage with no further consequences.
I concur. If the article did not contain pictures, the editors might've wanted to add them. Anyway, a quick search, just for YOU, dear viewer, with only a few working images.
Yes, because you'd have to be INSANE to use Ubuntu for E-mail, Firefox and 95% of what computers do for people, such office work, solitaire and software development.
You're full of it.
Ubuntu is fairly stable (I've had no package dependency problems, nor untoward crashes) and is actually up to date with some packages, rather than being 1-3 years out of date with everything but security patches. If you're a developer, you may want to use it simply because you get the latest standard libraries every six months, rather than every year or so (in a fast cycle). It has a lot more packages that do useful stuff. Important to me: Does Debian have the sun-java5 packages yet? Or will that be present in a year or two?
Ubuntu runs well and upgrades as gracefully as Debian. While you can be doubtful about putting it on your server (though so far I've felt it worked well), for workstations it's probably better, given that you get more updates, more recent software, and altogether more bang for your buck. Metaphorically.
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Miscalculation on your part. The 1g typical is going straight down, while the 1.28g is pointing somewhat forward (I'm not even going to touch whether you've calculating it correctly. Is the 1.28 the resulting vector, or just the braking vector?). It's the change in direction, and the fact that your 'weight' is suddenly held in place by two straps that makes it uncomfortable.
This comment alone makes of you nothing more than a troll. And that is quite apart from the fact that you're completely missing the point.
To drag this towards a strained analogy with cars:
A Prius is fuel efficient, a Porsche is fast and an Aston Martin looks good, so noone should attempt to make a car that is fuel efficient, fast and looks good?
All these features exist, yes, but where can I pop in a CD and *use* them, without having to take out time to install and configure them? It's nice that I can have all these features, but if I can't have them in one place, that is entirely beside the point.
Of course it's imitation. So is machine-learning and machine procreation. What makes you think we're currently limited by our biological capabilities? We're biologically almost identical to cave men, but where they smeared charcoal and spit animal paintings on walls, we now land probes on Mars. We're on a roll.
Give machines our own capabilities? We can't even have them move about in a reliable fashion, what makes you think we're even *close* to endowing machinery with creativity and abstract thought at human levels? Or even parrot levels, since you mention it? There are many hurdles to be cleared before we can consider creating an AI that has a practical chance of surviving to do anything useful, and machine vision (and the processes involved in making this robust) are critically important.
Have you read the GP's post? He doesn't say the registrars are the only ones who want the new TLD, he says the registrars and *other* assholes will want them.
.xxx domains (microsoft.xxx? Can't see that becoming popular...), just to avoid their names being used in off-putting manner. Same as .mobi, I have never seen a .mobi site, yet every major and minor corporation bought their .mobi domain. Just avoid having their name taken. The only ones who gain from these TLDs are the registrars and domain squatters.
Microsoft and Apple and Disney and Ford and whatever will have to buy their
Actually, in Holland we haven't had actual cents for decades now. Switching to the Euro gave us back cents, and that was horrible.
Now we've removed cents and 2-cents again, and went back to a 5-cent unit. Prices are still advertised as X.99, and only totals are rounded off. It's a much better system.
HDTV? Over the air? I didn't know that was even possible with typical bandwidth allocations. Or could it be you're one of the 25% or so who don't realize they're not watching HDTV on their HDTV capable TVs?
Well hey, it worked on Usenet. Of course, Usenet is effectively dead anyway, with topposters, forum people and other scumbags posting subjects like "who killed asmodean???!!!11one1 (n/t)"
A Slashdot-to-NNTP gateway might make the pain a little better, though.
The word 'muslim' does not mean what you think it means. You cannot be more muslim or less muslim, any more than you can be more jewish or less christian. You are, or are not. Also, being muslim does not influence your level of sophistication.
By equating the oppressiveness of a country with its being islamic, you're wrongfully stigmatizing the muslim faith, where you should be criticizing the regimes in those countries.
As for that site you quoted, it is the work of a deranged mind. Both asking or demanding to remove the site is the sign of psychological illness peculiar to those following the faith he opposes? Please. The fewer people like that we have on this planet, the fewer problems we'll have.
What if their government says "No"?
This was not a possibility until now.
If you want a part-time job that won't eat into the US college experience (as seen on many movies), try getting a tech support job. Working a help desk is a good way of looking at the mindset of a user from the outside-in. Something which I consider critical in developing software. Once you know what end-users do and do not consider logical, you can greatly enhance the usability of your software.
And usability is not trivial, nor is it easy, if you don't have any experience (either formal, or informal as by talking to users hours on end). Nothing teaches you about developing for end-users as having to work a user through a crappily designed program over the phone.
Keep in mind that you will want to work at a helpdesk, not a call center. Primary difference: A call center is there to stop the phone from ringing, a helpdesk is there to help end-users. The latter is the place you'd want to be.
The last time I got that particular kind of spam, it was for a company developing mine removal equipment. Seriously.
I did not consider it an endorsement.
No, we'd have to wait a few years longer. Before 'they' figure out that it was a transmission, before they've decoded it correctly (do you think they use PAL or NTSC? Decisions!) and can begin to interpret it (who says they have eyes or ears?), manage to figure out what we are and what we're actually saying, and managed to construct a reply in a format that we're likely to be able to decode, you're probably looking at quite a few years.
Given that we've only just managed to decipher what our own first man on moon actually said after a few decades, I think you're looking at decades of work.
And all that's before they even manage to create and send a reply, which will take 45 years to get here.
I think you mean JIBE. Not jive. To quote Usenet, "Nothing of significance has 'jived' since Barbara Billingsworth on the movie Airplane."
For that amount, you can probably arrange to carry a bag to the plane.
Someone else's bag, naturally.
The solution: Store user-set time as an offset of system time, have system time synced with NTP, and only check document expiry against system time. *Noone* can change system time. The offset might as well be timezone information.
Of course, once you go to the BIOS of a system or boot a more liberal OS, you can change the date/time. But that's as valid for the XP solution as for any other.
Yeah, like cars. Devil-machines that are a danger to hardworking folks like you and me. Not as good at handling rough terrain as ol' Betsy (cue horse whinny) here, not as fast. Just "go-carts" for the rich.
Throwing money at the sort of developing money you suggest is going to have little to no impact in the long run (if the development of infrastructure will end up paying dividends, investments will come and it will develop anyway), and little in the short term. What THIS is is potentially opening up a future development of human technology. Or not. That's the gamble.
Besides, it's his money, he gets to spend it on what he thinks is valuable, which may or may not coincide with what you think is valuable.
Social networking, a "computer skill"? Social networking has translated pretty well to tha intarweb, but that doesn't mean it's a computer skill. I'd say that online social networking has both pros and cons compared to the traditional venues, so you can't even call it the ultimate.
Is there anything useful you can do when launching a (smallish) rocket from a balloon perched at 35km? (I guess you'd need to BOYO to actually go anywhere, but that's a given if you want to leave atmosphere anyway).
After all, you'd save on a 35km trip.
Just make a donut shaped balloon that the rocket will launch through. Sounds easy. But I'm no rocket scientist. Nor a balloonist.
It's not about lying to your future employer, it's about disclosing things to them that they have no business knowing.
This quest for information is not a good thing. Say you're pro-life/communist/gay/NRA-member/whatever, and the hiring manager doesn't like that, it's not a problem if he doesn't know. He also can't terminate your contract in civilized nations because he later finds out about that, due to anti-discrimination laws. But if they know that upfront, they can just say that a candidate did not meet the expectations they had and continue on with the next person.
The same goes with financial information. If I were to move to the US, I would have no credit history whatsoever (which makes it virtually impossible to do things like get insurance at decent rates), and would then have difficulty finding a job. What about people who've been in debt, and are trying to rebuild their life?
Well, 120MW/day is as valid a unit as any, although it describes the increase in energy. Who knows, maybe the process improves efficiency? Just think, soon enough we can power the entire world with a reactor the size of a toaster.
Isn't modding a game simply legal? While selling it without permission would be iffy at best, making a mod should not be. Distributing it can be tricky, if you need to distribute copyrighted files along with your modded files.
Maybe get some legal advice? Stopping development on a pet project just 'cause someone says you can't do it seems overkill.
It will hurt their bottom line. Eventually.
I have no clue what most of the code on an open source system does. Nor do I even have this code on my system; I just want stuff to work. If someone installs a keylogger in Firefox that kicks in when the page has words like "VISA" and "MasterCard" on it, I wouldn't know about it.
Now, Firefox is a controlled project, with lots of contributors and, I presume, decent checking on any submission, so it would never get in. Someone would find it. But what about all those other packages, maintained or even created by a single person, whose code I would need to pour serious effort into to decypher?
On the other hand, when a company delivers a close-sourced product with nasty side effects, other people (ie, not me) will still find out about it, and it will hurt the company's bottom line eventually. Incentive not to fuck up (occasionally re-inforced) is thus also provided. And I think the risk of revenue/profit drops wins against the risk of reputation damage with no further consequences.
I concur. If the article did not contain pictures, the editors might've wanted to add them. Anyway, a quick search, just for YOU, dear viewer, with only a few working images.
The results.
Yes, because you'd have to be INSANE to use Ubuntu for E-mail, Firefox and 95% of what computers do for people, such office work, solitaire and software development.
You're full of it.
Ubuntu is fairly stable (I've had no package dependency problems, nor untoward crashes) and is actually up to date with some packages, rather than being 1-3 years out of date with everything but security patches. If you're a developer, you may want to use it simply because you get the latest standard libraries every six months, rather than every year or so (in a fast cycle). It has a lot more packages that do useful stuff. Important to me: Does Debian have the sun-java5 packages yet? Or will that be present in a year or two?
Ubuntu runs well and upgrades as gracefully as Debian. While you can be doubtful about putting it on your server (though so far I've felt it worked well), for workstations it's probably better, given that you get more updates, more recent software, and altogether more bang for your buck. Metaphorically.