I work at a small publisher, and we have been using Writer for prepress processing of manuscripts (the times are past when you needed to use spesial printing software like Pagemaker) for about a month now.
Not only is it stable, it performs much better than Microsoft Word at the same tasks. We use A LOT of the more advanced features.
Go figure... maybe it gets bored with your simple tasks?:)
Now I see you've been modded down as flamebait. Well, I bit. Tend to agree with the flamebait mod, though.
Sounds interesting. Seems from the site it only works as a screensaver, though. At work we have 3 powerful dual cpu workstations (always on, not always logged in, almost never in screensaver mode) that could contribute if only the distributed program functioned a service. My FreeBSD server at home doesn't even have X, but still have lots of spare cycles that a 'nice -19' gravitational wave daemon could use.
Soooo... Let's try another one. Seems to me that they sense the LACK of acceleration.
Cats can sense that they're falling by the lack of gravity pressing them to the ground (as can humans). Shortly, the air rush, duration of the fall, and possibly visual references, will tell them that they're also moving awfully fast. Finally, when air drag makes them stop accelerating at terminal velocity, they can again feel gravity working on them (Ask a sky diver. They love jumping from helicopters and balloons because it gives them some seconds of "weightlessness" before air drag kicks in. From a plane, you already have quite high velocity relative to the surrounding air). Maybe that's when cats find out they should do something to keep their velocity at a minimum...
Cats, with their exceptional agility and flexibility, can greatly increase their chance of survival by behaving in a specific manner in free fall, so they do. Much stranger things have happened in the course of evolution. Humans don't have that kind of abilities, as cats spend a lot more time jumping than humans do (not that it would help us much, given our greater mass/surface ratio, and lack of flexibility in the body). Humans can be trained to some degree btw, ever watched a gymnast, high diver, or free style ski jumper in the air?
Don't know why I find it fascinating pondering stuff like this. Well, should've been working now:)
Actually, at higher resolutions, I can still sense the difference.
Working in print production, I know what you mean.
At lower than 600 dpi at least, I can instantly see it (600 dpi being a normal resolution for production prints).
Still, I don't know if resolution makes up for the whole difference between screen and print. Even good LCD's have a certain 'tireing' quality. I'd prefer reading a very long printout at 96 dpi than the same document on screen (in fact, I tried such a printout right now:). It would've annoyed me, of course, but been more easy on the eyes.
Experts-exhange, for instance? Crops up all the time when i Google for solutions to programming/configuratin problems. Seems they have quite a big suite of answers. Subscribtion to get at them, though. All provided by the users of the site, of course.
Seems kinda strange to let the users provide the content of your site. Oh wait...
I've been working with various versions of the Docutech system for about six years, and they're in use in most of the professional copy/print shops around, at least in Scandinavia. They scan full page and double sided, 600 dpi at about 1 page/sec. Newer versions also can handle full colour.
Native document format is tiff images with a proprietary control file (structuring, positioning etc), but you can easily convert it to pdf.
I'd guess that a professional shop will charge you about 30 cents a page if you accept the raw document files without 'touching up'. This is more than adequate if you're just going to reproduce it on paper, or even distribute the PDFs. It'll weigh in at about 100k a page for the tiff format, and a lot less for the PDFs. This is black and white, which in most cases will suffice.
Professional equipment (as in contracting a print shop) is definitely the way to go. I know that at the University of Oslo, Norway, they have established an in-house shop that will do this type of work internally for just about cost. Maybe that's an idea to put forth to the management? Surely your university will find other uses for it than just your assignment.
But that's piracy. I can understand ripping your own CDs, but ripping your friends' CDs is illegal.
Not necessarily. Where I live (Scandinavia) I can legally rip and keep MP3s from my friends' CDs, as long as I rip them in my house, and have had the original in my house at one point. I could also tape them, if I could bear the hassle and squeaky sound of cassettes. If my friend rips a CD for me and gives me the MP3s, that's technically illegal. Go figure.
It is because you don't toss perfectly. If you could give it a perfect flip, yes, but you're not able to do that. A friend of mine can "call the coin" about 99/100 times, by giving it a slight spin and a "wobble" instead of a flip. It *looks* like it flips, but it really spins. Imagine spinning a coin on its edge on a table. When it starts toppling, you see the behaviour I try to describe.
He does it on purpose (as a party trick, he never uses it to his advantage), but that's one reason why the coin lands on the same side as you tossed more often. If you catch it in the hand, as most do, the effect is more pronounced as the coin won't bounce.
...any real skills except reflex to hit a button up and down. That is not a skill.
Contradiction in terms? English is not my native language, but aren't you asserting that reflex is a 'real skill' here?
Excelling at an FPS definitely requires talent, coordination, agility, reflex, maybe teamwork (depending on the game), and a lot of training. Like in real sports, you have the same good contestants consistently beating the not so good. Coincidence, or some sort of acquired skill (training)? It also attracts sponsors because people are interested in it, enough that the sponsors finds that it's worth their money.
To me personally two of the most stupid "sports" I can think of are tractor pulling and wrestling (yeah, I know the facts WRT wrestling, notice the quotation marks), nonetheless people in some parts of the world enjoy it greatly. I leave them to it. Oh, and it's a huge moneymaker.
You are trying to present your subjective opinion as general fact, calling someone who doesn't agree with you stupid? How grown-up.
Yeah your stupid.
For some reason I find this hilarious. Ask your local Grammar Nazi.
Great that these folks ripped out the innards of the scam device.
I'm not so sure about that. When something similar happened in Norway some time ago, the police was alerted and put the place under surveillance. The culprits were caught in the act of removing the devices.
I think the people who removed it should have done the same, thus helping to catch the bastards. For all they knew, the place could already be under surveillance, giving THEM the blame for the crime...
"If you live your life like there's no God, you better be right!"
I am not religious. I have many friends that are, and in some ways I envy their perspective on life and the security and peace of mind that goes with it.
Belief is not something I can choose, even if I wanted to. I don't think anyone suddenly can truly start to believe without a powerful "kickstart", for lack of a better word.
Apart from this, I am not ashamed of the way I lead my life. Although I am far from perfect, for my own conscience's sake I try my best to follow the golden rule and avoid bad behaviour on my part.
If a person is wrong and some Deity really exists, does he deserve eternal damnation for not worshipping, presuming that he's lead a reasonably "good" life in other respects? I do not believe so, and with that belief I nevertheless go about my daily business with a reasonable peace of mind.
Flame away. English is not my native language, so save the language flames though:)
I basically agree, but never pick up online games which rely on a cd-key or serial number for identification at second-hand stores. The key is likely to be in use most of the time. A friend of mine picked up Half-Life without the shrink-wrap (he didn't think about it then) at regular price, the key was already being used.
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No problem, he probably just read them with a compass
Well, that's strange...
I work at a small publisher, and we have been using Writer for prepress processing of manuscripts (the times are past when you needed to use spesial printing software like Pagemaker) for about a month now.
Not only is it stable, it performs much better than Microsoft Word at the same tasks. We use A LOT of the more advanced features.
Go figure... maybe it gets bored with your simple tasks?
Now I see you've been modded down as flamebait. Well, I bit. Tend to agree with the flamebait mod, though.
Could you please just ask them to pay their check and distribute themselves please?
Sorry, ignore my parent post. After checking the BOINC site I found that this is indeed very possible. My bad.
Sounds interesting. Seems from the site it only works as a screensaver, though. At work we have 3 powerful dual cpu workstations (always on, not always logged in, almost never in screensaver mode) that could contribute if only the distributed program functioned a service. My FreeBSD server at home doesn't even have X, but still have lots of spare cycles that a 'nice -19' gravitational wave daemon could use.
Just a thought.
Soooo... Let's try another one. Seems to me that they sense the LACK of acceleration.
Cats can sense that they're falling by the lack of gravity pressing them to the ground (as can humans). Shortly, the air rush, duration of the fall, and possibly visual references, will tell them that they're also moving awfully fast. Finally, when air drag makes them stop accelerating at terminal velocity, they can again feel gravity working on them (Ask a sky diver. They love jumping from helicopters and balloons because it gives them some seconds of "weightlessness" before air drag kicks in. From a plane, you already have quite high velocity relative to the surrounding air). Maybe that's when cats find out they should do something to keep their velocity at a minimum...
Cats, with their exceptional agility and flexibility, can greatly increase their chance of survival by behaving in a specific manner in free fall, so they do. Much stranger things have happened in the course of evolution. Humans don't have that kind of abilities, as cats spend a lot more time jumping than humans do (not that it would help us much, given our greater mass/surface ratio, and lack of flexibility in the body). Humans can be trained to some degree btw, ever watched a gymnast, high diver, or free style ski jumper in the air?
Don't know why I find it fascinating pondering stuff like this. Well, should've been working now
From the article:
Experts-exhange, for instance? Crops up all the time when i Google for solutions to programming/configuratin problems. Seems they have quite a big suite of answers. Subscribtion to get at them, though. All provided by the users of the site, of course.
Seems kinda strange to let the users provide the content of your site. Oh wait...
Why, so that people would think they can't spell?
Villainous scum would probably be a better idea... (Villainous @ dictionary.com).
Mmmm, Villainous scum
Seems that the www.flakey.info server is... well, a bit flakey.
Anyone managed to grab content to a mirror?
Isn't demons more common for that kind of tasks in the Ringworld? :)
I've been working with various versions of the Docutech system for about six years, and they're in use in most of the professional copy/print shops around, at least in Scandinavia. They scan full page and double sided, 600 dpi at about 1 page/sec. Newer versions also can handle full colour.
Native document format is tiff images with a proprietary control file (structuring, positioning etc), but you can easily convert it to pdf.
I'd guess that a professional shop will charge you about 30 cents a page if you accept the raw document files without 'touching up'. This is more than adequate if you're just going to reproduce it on paper, or even distribute the PDFs. It'll weigh in at about 100k a page for the tiff format, and a lot less for the PDFs. This is black and white, which in most cases will suffice.
Professional equipment (as in contracting a print shop) is definitely the way to go. I know that at the University of Oslo, Norway, they have established an in-house shop that will do this type of work internally for just about cost. Maybe that's an idea to put forth to the management? Surely your university will find other uses for it than just your assignment.
Hope this helps
Well, no, more like an... aviarian human? Is that a word? :)
Hmmm, I understood that as 'High Definition'... You might have been joking?
The '1TB HD' in the story kinda tipped me off too.
Try the Google calculator...
I love that thing
Not necessarily. Where I live (Scandinavia) I can legally rip and keep MP3s from my friends' CDs, as long as I rip them in my house, and have had the original in my house at one point. I could also tape them, if I could bear the hassle and squeaky sound of cassettes. If my friend rips a CD for me and gives me the MP3s, that's technically illegal. Go figure.
It is because you don't toss perfectly. If you could give it a perfect flip, yes, but you're not able to do that. A friend of mine can "call the coin" about 99/100 times, by giving it a slight spin and a "wobble" instead of a flip. It *looks* like it flips, but it really spins. Imagine spinning a coin on its edge on a table. When it starts toppling, you see the behaviour I try to describe.
He does it on purpose (as a party trick, he never uses it to his advantage), but that's one reason why the coin lands on the same side as you tossed more often. If you catch it in the hand, as most do, the effect is more pronounced as the coin won't bounce.
I'm a Backgammon nerd, but here goes...
Contradiction in terms? English is not my native language, but aren't you asserting that reflex is a 'real skill' here?
Excelling at an FPS definitely requires talent, coordination, agility, reflex, maybe teamwork (depending on the game), and a lot of training. Like in real sports, you have the same good contestants consistently beating the not so good. Coincidence, or some sort of acquired skill (training)? It also attracts sponsors because people are interested in it, enough that the sponsors finds that it's worth their money.
To me personally two of the most stupid "sports" I can think of are tractor pulling and wrestling (yeah, I know the facts WRT wrestling, notice the quotation marks), nonetheless people in some parts of the world enjoy it greatly. I leave them to it. Oh, and it's a huge moneymaker.
You are trying to present your subjective opinion as general fact, calling someone who doesn't agree with you stupid? How grown-up.
For some reason I find this hilarious. Ask your local Grammar Nazi.
I'm not so sure about that. When something similar happened in Norway some time ago, the police was alerted and put the place under surveillance. The culprits were caught in the act of removing the devices.
I think the people who removed it should have done the same, thus helping to catch the bastards. For all they knew, the place could already be under surveillance, giving THEM the blame for the crime...
The quote can be found here, right at the bottom of the page.
A search for Conan Albrecht reveals this guy? Content on his site seems consistent with recent postings.
From our friend AC here:
I am not religious. I have many friends that are, and in some ways I envy their perspective on life and the security and peace of mind that goes with it.
Belief is not something I can choose, even if I wanted to. I don't think anyone suddenly can truly start to believe without a powerful "kickstart", for lack of a better word.
Apart from this, I am not ashamed of the way I lead my life. Although I am far from perfect, for my own conscience's sake I try my best to follow the golden rule and avoid bad behaviour on my part.
If a person is wrong and some Deity really exists, does he deserve eternal damnation for not worshipping, presuming that he's lead a reasonably "good" life in other respects? I do not believe so, and with that belief I nevertheless go about my daily business with a reasonable peace of mind
Flame away. English is not my native language, so save the language flames though
I basically agree, but never pick up online games which rely on a cd-key or serial number for identification at second-hand stores. The key is likely to be in use most of the time. A friend of mine picked up Half-Life without the shrink-wrap (he didn't think about it then) at regular price, the key was already being used.