And, presumably, the fuel cell would still allow machines with those chips to run much longer between recharging, since the merit of the technology is greater power to volume ratios.
A not-entirely-impossible ansible solution relies on using geographically-separated, quantum-entagled pairs which would have to be delivered to the remote location and would be exhausted as they were used (cf Charles Stross' Singularity Sky, inter alia). That would make bandwidth comparatively valuable, since someone would have to make a trip to all the border planets. While not intrinsically valuable, since their remote endpoints are secured, intercepting those shipments would cripple communications, so strategically very useful.
Of course, I'd imagine Lucas uses some sort of subspace/sonic screwdriver/phlebotinum explanation, making your argument very reasonable.
US gallon is four fifths of a UK gallon (16 fl oz per pint instead of 20). Hence the misleading rhyme "a pint's a pound the world around". That makes 60mpg much more impressive in the US. I was baffled that my Focus only managed high 20's until I learnt that fact.
Light from objects moving towards the observer is shifted bluewards in the spectrum as the wavelength is shortened, an effect analagous to that working on the sound waves when a siren is approaching. Most objects in our expanding universe appear red-shifted, as they are receding from the observer.
No, they just ignore the traditional colour/political spectrum associations. I'm sure there's some baroque historical reasoning behind it. Very disconcerting the first time you see a state breakdown map though, since the heartland/Bible belt is all red, which is hardwired to "Yay!", in my mind at least.
Republicans are generally a fair way into the Right/Authoritarian area of the political compass while Democrats will normally be a little bit South-West of them.
That's a pretty basic electronics project. We did that before GCSE in CDT at my school. As the soil dries out, its resistance increases. Above a certain resistance, the beeper/light/whatever comes on.
Mandrake maintain a src rpm, which could be unpacked into a source bundle and compiled elsewhere. I used the 0.5-5 version and it rebuilt fine for SuSE 9.1.
I found that vsound, with some fiddling, works fine for recording real streams on Linux. I'd expect it would work on BSD too. Creates a virtual output that you can pipe to file. I'd recommend downloading the realcap script to drive vsound and automate the mp3 creation, etc. You'll probably want to make some changes to lame_parms to create variable bitrate mp3s.
Excerpted from the realplay script;
# This script is based on the vsound script from the
Suggests those technical problems aren't insurmountable
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British bookies famously paid out on a long-term moon landing bet. Seem to remember something about a father betting on his son's Olympic medal winning chances too, though I can't find that one through Google.
When preparing a property in Tobago, between the beach and the golf course on a tropical paradise, for holiday rentals, a friend was required by the letting agents to supply a television for each bedroom and the lounge. Four rooms, four separate televisions. Apparently American holidaymakers can't do without. After that blow to my faith in humanity, one computer doesn't sound so bad.
Those words are Mr Graham-Cumming's "magic" words. The article says you'd need to repeat the process for a particular individual to generate an equivalent list for them or, at best for the spammers, run the process against a pool of interconnected individuals, employees at the same company for example, to generate an organisation-wide list. My popfile probably wouldn't automatically let Berkshire or Marriott through, since I don't have sufficient ham that contains those words.
Okay, I'll bite. What's wrong with this conceptually? Lighter trains take less energy to move around, so less energy generation is required, so proportionally less pollution.
But it does reduce the scale of those problems, by avoiding carrying the weight of the fuel on the craft. Also, power plants can afford to have much larger, more effective air scrubbers because they're not going anywhere, so size and weight are marginal concerns.
3 figure salary? He must have had a lot of trouble finding NYC property he could afford....
What do you mean by "Open Source" in this context? Laws are discussed and documented in public in democracies. Like software, most people just don't care about the details:-(
I like the random politician idea, right up to the point where it just puts the power in civil servants' hands instead. They would be the persistent experts, so they would have influence out of all proportion to the random punters. Now, a randomly selected upper-house that occupies the current position of the Senate or the Lords in the UK, that sounds like a plan.
In the original body, yes. The edit made in February 2001 acknowledges a quote from someone at Ninendo;
"We expect to incur a small loss on the GameCube hardware initially, and you're right that it hasn't been our habit in the past but we expect it to turn okay early next year."
So there were some initial losses at $199, before scales of economy or hardware cost reductions managed to shift the break-even point down to or below that level.
Gord suggests that Nintendo was losing a small amount on the GC when it was released at $199. Fast-forward two years, during which time hardware costs will have fallen quite significantly and the price drop probably isn't breaking them.
GBA selling like hotcakes at a hotcake addicts convention probably doesn't hurt either.
I still don't think you can describe google's setup as distributed. They have multiple data centers each running a very large cluster and containing a similar, but not identical, snapshot of the database, indices, etc. A truly distributed engine is likely to require an innovative step or three to emulate that with no centralised control, unknown hardware and bandwidth resources and the real possibility that some "clients" may be corrupted by their owners to distort results.
I haven't got any arguments about the real value of this effort though. Google has done nothing to lost my trust and seems to be run with retaining people's trust as an active ambition. Closest they came to worrying me was crippling for China, but that was really a no-win situation, IMHO.
I think the parent probably meant distributed in a Folding-at-home or SETI sense. Google use a massive cluster, but it's all on-site and owned by them, AFAIK.
Poorly argued refutation to top it all.
Parent refers to other cripples, which could easily include all my off-the-cuff examples, and doesn't restrict itself to arguing against special treatment, which might make self-support relevant, but actively argues for "thinning the herd" by refusing food. About now is when I invoke Godwin's law, compare this attitude to Nazi eugenics programs and end the discussion.
Poorly thought-out flamebait at that. Off the top of my head. Stephen Hawking? Stevie Wonder? Beethoven? We're evolving mentally now. Do try and keep up.
Mozilla's automatic password feature can't handle dynamic captchas, creating a new login for each captcha value. You have to turn the feature off for sites that use captchas and type in username and password each time. Very annoying for the terminally lazy who have got used to login autocompletion.
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And, presumably, the fuel cell would still allow machines with those chips to run much longer between recharging, since the merit of the technology is greater power to volume ratios.
A not-entirely-impossible ansible solution relies on using geographically-separated, quantum-entagled pairs which would have to be delivered to the remote location and would be exhausted as they were used (cf Charles Stross' Singularity Sky, inter alia). That would make bandwidth comparatively valuable, since someone would have to make a trip to all the border planets. While not intrinsically valuable, since their remote endpoints are secured, intercepting those shipments would cripple communications, so strategically very useful.
Of course, I'd imagine Lucas uses some sort of subspace/sonic screwdriver/phlebotinum explanation, making your argument very reasonable.
US gallon is four fifths of a UK gallon (16 fl oz per pint instead of 20). Hence the misleading rhyme "a pint's a pound the world around". That makes 60mpg much more impressive in the US. I was baffled that my Focus only managed high 20's until I learnt that fact.
Light from objects moving towards the observer is shifted bluewards in the spectrum as the wavelength is shortened, an effect analagous to that working on the sound waves when a siren is approaching. Most objects in our expanding universe appear red-shifted, as they are receding from the observer.
This article suggests approval;
The Mathematical Association of America and the American Statistical Association each elect their committees by a new method called approval voting.
No, they just ignore the traditional colour/political spectrum associations. I'm sure there's some baroque historical reasoning behind it. Very disconcerting the first time you see a state breakdown map though, since the heartland/Bible belt is all red, which is hardwired to "Yay!", in my mind at least.
Republicans are generally a fair way into the Right/Authoritarian area of the political compass while Democrats will normally be a little bit South-West of them.
That's a pretty basic electronics project. We did that before GCSE in CDT at my school. As the soil dries out, its resistance increases. Above a certain resistance, the beeper/light/whatever comes on.
This looks like a fairly exhaustive recipeMandrake maintain a src rpm, which could be unpacked into a source bundle and compiled elsewhere. I used the 0.5-5 version and it rebuilt fine for SuSE 9.1.
random mirror linkI found that vsound, with some fiddling, works fine for recording real streams on Linux. I'd expect it would work on BSD too. Creates a virtual output that you can pipe to file. I'd recommend downloading the realcap script to drive vsound and automate the mp3 creation, etc. You'll probably want to make some changes to lame_parms to create variable bitrate mp3s.
Excerpted from the realplay script;
# This script is based on the vsound script from the
# Linux Radio Timeshift HOWTO:
# http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/
# vsound related URLs:
# http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/vsound/
# http://www.xenoclast.org/vsound/
That's how I'm planning on ripping it anyway
This handy ethics flowchart is designed for music, but it works for films too.
In this particular case I think it says yes, on the basis that the company isn't making the originals available.
You install solar panels in Long Island and LIPA will buy power off you.
random link from googleSuggests those technical problems aren't insurmountable
British bookies famously paid out on a long-term moon landing bet. Seem to remember something about a father betting on his son's Olympic medal winning chances too, though I can't find that one through Google.
Just make sure you're ready to call dibs when she's single again and get over it....
When preparing a property in Tobago, between the beach and the golf course on a tropical paradise, for holiday rentals, a friend was required by the letting agents to supply a television for each bedroom and the lounge. Four rooms, four separate televisions. Apparently American holidaymakers can't do without. After that blow to my faith in humanity, one computer doesn't sound so bad.
Those words are Mr Graham-Cumming's "magic" words. The article says you'd need to repeat the process for a particular individual to generate an equivalent list for them or, at best for the spammers, run the process against a pool of interconnected individuals, employees at the same company for example, to generate an organisation-wide list. My popfile probably wouldn't automatically let Berkshire or Marriott through, since I don't have sufficient ham that contains those words.
Okay, I'll bite. What's wrong with this conceptually? Lighter trains take less energy to move around, so less energy generation is required, so proportionally less pollution.
But it does reduce the scale of those problems, by avoiding carrying the weight of the fuel on the craft. Also, power plants can afford to have much larger, more effective air scrubbers because they're not going anywhere, so size and weight are marginal concerns.
3 figure salary? He must have had a lot of trouble finding NYC property he could afford.... What do you mean by "Open Source" in this context? Laws are discussed and documented in public in democracies. Like software, most people just don't care about the details :-(
I like the random politician idea, right up to the point where it just puts the power in civil servants' hands instead. They would be the persistent experts, so they would have influence out of all proportion to the random punters. Now, a randomly selected upper-house that occupies the current position of the Senate or the Lords in the UK, that sounds like a plan.
In the original body, yes. The edit made in February 2001 acknowledges a quote from someone at Ninendo;
"We expect to incur a small loss on the GameCube hardware initially, and you're right that it hasn't been our habit in the past but we expect it to turn okay early next year."
So there were some initial losses at $199, before scales of economy or hardware cost reductions managed to shift the break-even point down to or below that level.
Gord suggests that Nintendo was losing a small amount on the GC when it was released at $199. Fast-forward two years, during which time hardware costs will have fallen quite significantly and the price drop probably isn't breaking them.
GBA selling like hotcakes at a hotcake addicts convention probably doesn't hurt either.
I still don't think you can describe google's setup as distributed. They have multiple data centers each running a very large cluster and containing a similar, but not identical, snapshot of the database, indices, etc. A truly distributed engine is likely to require an innovative step or three to emulate that with no centralised control, unknown hardware and bandwidth resources and the real possibility that some "clients" may be corrupted by their owners to distort results. I haven't got any arguments about the real value of this effort though. Google has done nothing to lost my trust and seems to be run with retaining people's trust as an active ambition. Closest they came to worrying me was crippling for China, but that was really a no-win situation, IMHO.
I think the parent probably meant distributed in a Folding-at-home or SETI sense. Google use a massive cluster, but it's all on-site and owned by them, AFAIK.
Poorly argued refutation to top it all. Parent refers to other cripples, which could easily include all my off-the-cuff examples, and doesn't restrict itself to arguing against special treatment, which might make self-support relevant, but actively argues for "thinning the herd" by refusing food. About now is when I invoke Godwin's law, compare this attitude to Nazi eugenics programs and end the discussion.
Poorly thought-out flamebait at that. Off the top of my head. Stephen Hawking? Stevie Wonder? Beethoven? We're evolving mentally now. Do try and keep up.
Mozilla's automatic password feature can't handle dynamic captchas, creating a new login for each captcha value. You have to turn the feature off for sites that use captchas and type in username and password each time. Very annoying for the terminally lazy who have got used to login autocompletion.