Interesting, isn't it - I was thinking the same thing - both are unwanted intrusions into your day.
However, non-spam advertising tends to cover (or help cover) the costs of whatever it is you're consuming (website, TV program, train ride), while spam is completely unsolicited (email spam, junk postal mail).
I guess you'd have to put billboards into the category, though I (unfortunately) don't see legislation against those popping up in a hurry.
Pulishing IRC logs is useful, true, but what would be more useful would be threaded IRC or something to that effect. That would make searching and browsing much easier, without annoying crosstalk in the middle
I've got a pair of Shure e2c in-ear-canal phones and they are wonderful at blocking out external noise. Subsequently, I rarely go above 25% on my jukebox now, compared to an average 75% with the crappy bud-style phones. I'm sure the more efficient drivers have something to do with that as well, though.
Once the whole class started humming quitely; and convinced the teacher there was a swarm of bees around. God we could be little shitheads. Then again, so could the teachers.
Perhaps not, but those damned iPods and such will render such devices useless in a few years - the most antisocial ratbag teenagers are likely the ones listening to their earphones at the loudest volume, and will suffer hearing loss to high frequencies much earlier in life.
Actually, they've found that as a result of more access to porn, teenage boys are more into cunnilingus than they used to be. The only problem is girls aren't all that comfortable with it due to problems with their perceived body image. And blow jobs seem to have become (pardon the pun) cheap finger food rather than an a rare exotic dessert.
I mean, it's been close to an hour now, and only five posts. Yeah, I know we are having some technical problems, but really, this is not the slashdot I know and love. So the only logical explanation is, that this really is the Most. Boring. Post. Ever.
Isn't this just a well thought out (well, at least in the minds of marketing/management) ruse to deceive us as to the real release date? They move the release date forward, so that they can still meet their expectations of releasing it behind schedule, and at the end of the day still release it when it was going to be released in th first place?
ah if I only had a laptop... But once a Real Programmer(TM) has started coding, nothing will get in his way (particularly not pesky little things like ergonomics) until the job is completed, or he passes out from lack of nutrition/sleep/water.
I was thinking along the lines of a power beam inside another 'sheath' beam (a cylindrical beam surrounding the 'power' beam). When the sheath beam is breached, the power beam stops/reduces in intensity, and the device reverts to battery power until external power is restored. The problem would be aligning the device and source, but something like a dome in the ceiling which scans the room for devices; when it finds one it locks on and can provide power beams from different areas in the room. Just a thought. (patent pending:)
Well, fortune should have it that I have stumbled upon this article half (well, in fact, at least three-quarters) drunk, and as I read the article, I was thinking "gee, I'm half (well, in fact, at least three-quarters) drunk, and I _can_ understand this shit", so either, yes, Anonymous Coward, your postulate is correct, or this begginers guide is quite well written (perhaps better titled "Drunk's Guide to Quantum Entanglement").
What I do not understand, however (possibly due to my drunken state) is why it should be necessary that information flows between the two photons that are entangled. Could it not be that the parameters at the time of the split cause them to behave in particular fashions that will always complement each other? E.g. if I send a baseball in one direction spinning topwise, while at the same isntant sending a baseball in another direction spinning bottomwise, their spins will be opposite and continue to do so, without any interaction between the baseballs.
Again, sorry if the answer is blindingly obvious and I am merely oblivious.
Here's why cell-phones are being considered: they can see how long it takes one particular car (well, cell phone) to get from one place to another. Video cameras can do this, but only if they read the number plate (which is being done in Australia for trucks, and the UK for all vehicles). Car counters can only work out localised traffic info. Electronic tolling systems which use an e-tag or similar perform these kinds of calculations whenever cars go through toll points, but in the absence of such a system, and not wanting to install expensive number-plate reading tech, jumping on the back of cell phones is quite clever.
Ah, true, but Microsoft is part of the counter-suit to invalidate the patent (unlike various other large companies which have contributed hundreds of millions to the coffers of Forgent).
Nonetheless, it could be that Microsoft is a jackass.
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Looks like these plans were foiled due to last minute changes in the flight plan:s poils-googles-big-day-out/2007/01/29/1169919256978 .html?page=fullpage
http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztech/nofly-zone-
Interesting, isn't it - I was thinking the same thing - both are unwanted intrusions into your day.
However, non-spam advertising tends to cover (or help cover) the costs of whatever it is you're consuming (website, TV program, train ride), while spam is completely unsolicited (email spam, junk postal mail).
I guess you'd have to put billboards into the category, though I (unfortunately) don't see legislation against those popping up in a hurry.
Engineers love standards.
:)
That's why they have so many different ones.
Pulishing IRC logs is useful, true, but what would be more useful would be threaded IRC or something to that effect. That would make searching and browsing much easier, without annoying crosstalk in the middle
(*) Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb
:)
Well, give a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for a lifetime.
I've got a pair of Shure e2c in-ear-canal phones and they are wonderful at blocking out external noise. Subsequently, I rarely go above 25% on my jukebox now, compared to an average 75% with the crappy bud-style phones. I'm sure the more efficient drivers have something to do with that as well, though.
Maybe this will spark an arms war where kids start carrying around ghetto-blasters playing rap music to drive those pesky adults away.
Once the whole class started humming quitely; and convinced the teacher there was a swarm of bees around. God we could be little shitheads. Then again, so could the teachers.
Perhaps not, but those damned iPods and such will render such devices useless in a few years - the most antisocial ratbag teenagers are likely the ones listening to their earphones at the loudest volume, and will suffer hearing loss to high frequencies much earlier in life.
This reminds me of first-year psych about 10 years ago when we were told exactly the same thing. This hardly qualifies as news.
Actually, they've found that as a result of more access to porn, teenage boys are more into cunnilingus than they used to be. The only problem is girls aren't all that comfortable with it due to problems with their perceived body image. And blow jobs seem to have become (pardon the pun) cheap finger food rather than an a rare exotic dessert.
Could this possibly be the most boring post ever?
I mean, it's been close to an hour now, and only five posts. Yeah, I know we are having some technical problems, but really, this is not the slashdot I know and love. So the only logical explanation is, that this really is the Most. Boring. Post. Ever.
Perhaps for UDP...
Feeling humbled now Mr. Nerd?
Isn't this just a well thought out (well, at least in the minds of marketing/management) ruse to deceive us as to the real release date? They move the release date forward, so that they can still meet their expectations of releasing it behind schedule, and at the end of the day still release it when it was going to be released in th first place?
Port number 69?
<nelson>Ha ha!</nelson>
<Nelson>Ha ha!</Nelson>
free speech vs free beer.
ah if I only had a laptop... But once a Real Programmer(TM) has started coding, nothing will get in his way (particularly not pesky little things like ergonomics) until the job is completed, or he passes out from lack of nutrition/sleep/water.
Hmmm... nice theory, but a marathon coding session may well exceed the limits of what is sane.
Nice idea, but what happens when you want to sit your laptop on your lap?
I was thinking along the lines of a power beam inside another 'sheath' beam (a cylindrical beam surrounding the 'power' beam). When the sheath beam is breached, the power beam stops/reduces in intensity, and the device reverts to battery power until external power is restored. The problem would be aligning the device and source, but something like a dome in the ceiling which scans the room for devices; when it finds one it locks on and can provide power beams from different areas in the room. Just a thought. (patent pending :)
Well, fortune should have it that I have stumbled upon this article half (well, in fact, at least three-quarters) drunk, and as I read the article, I was thinking "gee, I'm half (well, in fact, at least three-quarters) drunk, and I _can_ understand this shit", so either, yes, Anonymous Coward, your postulate is correct, or this begginers guide is quite well written (perhaps better titled "Drunk's Guide to Quantum Entanglement").
What I do not understand, however (possibly due to my drunken state) is why it should be necessary that information flows between the two photons that are entangled. Could it not be that the parameters at the time of the split cause them to behave in particular fashions that will always complement each other? E.g. if I send a baseball in one direction spinning topwise, while at the same isntant sending a baseball in another direction spinning bottomwise, their spins will be opposite and continue to do so, without any interaction between the baseballs.
Again, sorry if the answer is blindingly obvious and I am merely oblivious.
Here's why cell-phones are being considered: they can see how long it takes one particular car (well, cell phone) to get from one place to another. Video cameras can do this, but only if they read the number plate (which is being done in Australia for trucks, and the UK for all vehicles). Car counters can only work out localised traffic info. Electronic tolling systems which use an e-tag or similar perform these kinds of calculations whenever cars go through toll points, but in the absence of such a system, and not wanting to install expensive number-plate reading tech, jumping on the back of cell phones is quite clever.
Ah, true, but Microsoft is part of the counter-suit to invalidate the patent (unlike various other large companies which have contributed hundreds of millions to the coffers of Forgent).
Nonetheless, it could be that Microsoft is a jackass.