Why is there no source code to these service packs? It would make the patch a lot easier to accept if it had the approval of thousands of security pros...
Considering the audience and economic environment, I'll keep my good advice to myself and have better chances at getting the job. Why help out all of you, the competition? I hope your resumes are miserable relative to my own! Want the easy way to fortune? Gather all pennies from your fellow unemployed geeks and form a lottery pool...
Dude, this would kick ass under water. Remember that part in Abyss where he was breathing that water that was pinkish hued enough not to drown him? Yeah he had to type his speech out on a tiny ass little keyboard, instead of "speaking" using his throat and stuff... Yeah that would rock, if he could communicate at the normal rate. Go technology!
So you say money for video games is seperated from pro sports by sponsorship... Why not add sponsorship to video games? There could be audio/video commercials between rounds, at least in a portion of the screen. Or those RTCW ingame posters that are destructible could carry company products or slogans and be made indestructible. All it would take is some a small texture download before the match begins... Kill the nazis: sponsored by Nike.:)
Have you seen the cartoon Transformers? It features transforming robots who fight each other, but also involves several human kids. One out of the three protagonists is actually a young girl, and she's the geek among them. The other two are white and hispanic young guys, and if I'm not mistaken, I think they hassle her often for her geekish tendencies. But Alexis (the girl) does a pretty good job of standing up to them, thus showing by example how girls can survive.
The show airs on Cartoon Network on weekday afternoons. Catch an episode and see what you think. And then afterward (or before?), Dragonball comes on, starring a bunch of guys who fight each other with the occasional assistance from a geeky and annoying woman named Bulma, another example of a woman being "the" geek that the good guys rely on.
For some reason, whenever I load japanese pages, my browser REALLY slows to a crawl. The throbber freezes and progress is similar to a watched pot... But in Opera, it's fast as lightning. I've got japanese language support in each. Aside from the obvious Microsoft sucks response, does anyone have any suggestions to how to speed up Japanese pages in IE6 or explanations about the slowdown?
Sure, we're fat and pale, but those are the best of us. You don't see these people on TV on any show, even Freaks and Geeks. We're way too wierd looking... messed up hair, bad skin, poor taste in clothes, a smarty pants sense of humor. Who wants to see that? I just don't think any of the world's miracle workers are doing makeup backstage. Because they probably won't have many choices which are both skilled and attractive enough to put on TV, the geeks will look down their noses at inferior skills or the rest of the world will change the channel away from the wierdo show.
I think it's interesting to note the effect of their using 421 for the cd burner count instead of the lower number. That creates sensationalism about large scale piracy operations, shocking the public with inflated numbers to show just how powerful these operations are.
Consider the effect if they had used the real number, and even exaggerate it by imagining them using smaller numbers to represent the real 156, while keeping the output the same. Then they could have raised flags and outcry about the impact of a single burner and what kind of damage a single user can do. Then they would blindly extrapolate, multiplying the average output for one of these 156 burners by the population of burners in the US. Then they would have a grasp on the <quote fingers>true</qf> amount of piracy going on and could pursue their dream: crippling legislation...
The reason perfect speech recognition is AI-complete is that it requires perfect speech understanding to choose between homophones (words that sound the same but have different meanings, such as to, too and two, or there, their and they're), and that problem is AI-complete.
But if you extrapolate the current trend of younger kids in instant messaging, you soon won't need to worry about homophones. One word is chosen to incorrectly represent all of a single set, e.g. "did u know there house is blue to?" meaning "Did you know their house is blue too?" It may or may not be consistent with a single user and certainly not among several. On the other hand, this kind of disregard for the language may just be a quality of youth.
Crypto involving English would be slightly strengthened by use of IM words since letter redundancy is usually reduced, maybe with a slight increase in ambiguity. Some words, like "though" and "through" are pretty wasteful with their letters, considering "tho" and "thru" do just as well. Personally, I hope these two words make it into casual business use...
A few hours later, the project manager approached me rather apologetically, and told me that there had been a complaint about the dress standard of those of us who went to the meeting. Basically, they objected to us not wearing ties.
So what needs to happen for the suit and tie people to lose the attire war is them hearing complaints from us. We need to complain that their suits made us feel like they were being controlling, condescending, and corrupt management instead of peers. For the atmosphere of communication to be set properly, it helps when one team isn't silently threatened by the other team.
IIRC, the numbers go from 0 to one less than the base you're in, i.e. 0-1 for base 2, 0-9 for base 10 and 0-1008 for base 1009. However, for us to properly represent such a base, we'll need 1009 different symbols to represent the range of values for a single digit. Assuming we have that, here are some conversions.
From base 10 to base 1009: 2000 = 1x where x is the digit for 991 2038 = 2y where y is the digit for 20
From base 1009 to base 10 (assuming the digits 0-9 are the lowest 10 of the 1009): 2000 = 2(1009^3) = some really big number I'm too lazy to calculate 2038 = 2(1009^3) + 3(1009) + 8 = an even bigger number
There's no amazing coincedence here, nothing funny about how numbers happen to be the same in different bases. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, there is no combination of integer bases for which 2000 in one is 2038 in the other. As for nonintegral bases, I don't think they exist, and I don't have the imagination to think of how their digits would work...
We, the jobless, have nothing better to do than write programs to prove slashdot posters wrong. Resumes, you say? Instead of sending them, I could shred them and get nearly the same response from HR people: nothing. Except now I have a shredded resume to dispose of. Yes, that is bitterness you're sensing...
This may be a bit off topic, but it's something I've been wondering for a while. Why did they call it The Phantom Menace? With all the other titles, the relation between name and events in the movie is quite obvious. In Attack of the Clones, you've got clones attacking. In episode 4-6, you've got aptly titled movies again. So what the hell did the phantom menace refer to in the first episode? I didn't see any scooby doo like phantom runing around rattling chains menacing everybody... Don't give me metaphors. Even A New Hope obviously fit the whiney farmer kid with a light sabre. What's the deal?
Australia "officially" tapped 2150 phones and has a population of about 20 million, roughly 1 tap per 10k people.
The U.S. "officially" tapped 1490 phones and has a pop. of 280 million... That's about 1 tap per 187k people.
Of course, I'd bet my nest egg that the U.S. does more unofficial taps than Australia, so the real rate is probably something barely less shocking. But fear the day lawmakers point to this and say, "We're not doing enough phone taps!"
Rape in Cyberspace was on that page and was a really good short story about one of the earliest examples of a person whose primary goal is annoying everybody else. (You know the type. Don't be that type.) I say it's a good story, not necessarily because it's something that you won't be able to put down. In fact it's rather long. But it effected quite a debate in class when some people believed that using the word rape was appropriate and others insisting not.
I'd be interested to hear what fellow geeks think of the matter? Is rape too severe a word to describe what happened? Is this kind of rape as traumatic as the standard method? I say no. And if you say yes, you might just be the type that can win arguments... but what do you believe?
This is nothing more than Phase Modulation for Fiber.
Phase modulation the same as polarity? Maybe by some metaphor that I'm missing... Phase modulation is a way of transmitting data via electromagnetic waves. But except for the incidental magnetic waves on the perpendicular axis, phase modulation is a two dimensional function.
Polarity involves changing the angle of transmission in the third dimension. So if you have time on the x-axis and amplitude on the y-axis, the z-axis is polarity. Changing polarity is equivalent to having a two dimsional wave pattern and twisting it in the third dimension. Like if you had a sine wave moving along a really long flat-head screw, changing polarity could be done with a screwdriver. Man what a cool analogy.
But I'm sure our friends in the slashdot community have posted better explanations and links to explanations than this. Interesting stuff.
Tho they do suck power while not actually on, most people I know counter the awkward wall-wart shape by plugging them into a power strip. I haven't seen a strip that doesn't have a switch on it, so for maximum power savings, it's just a matter of switching the strip on before you use it and off after you're done. Just hope you don't have several wall-warts on one strip when you're only using one. *wink*
What I'm wondering is, since several people are doing these pictures, will they get a standard going so that certain letter combinations and orientations of the search query will always yield the same colors? If so, it would make a search for the color codes reveal all pictures encoded with them.
Step 1: People agree that sz is yellow, xq is red, etc... Step 2: Everybody who does this art puts the entire color code in their art so searching google for "sz xq ae pz..." returns all pics encoded with that scheme, including pics encoded with only a subset of the colors. Step 3: Make a website or newsgroup or bulliten board with links to the pictures.
And voila! Now everybody can see everybody else's work and all but the privacy seekers are happy. Yeah, those concerned with privacy will make their own color codes, intentionally different and obscure.
You know what would be cool is using a kind of steganography to embed a color message in normal text. Then when you search using the "query key" you see the highlighted image on top of the plaintext one. Man this is awesome stuff.
That may be true, but since 800 numbers are usually toll free, you can usually dial them from any pay phone without the investment of your money or personal information.
Incomplete songs should not be a problem if things are properly configured. Most of the clients I've seen allow you to have different directories for temp and completed downloads. The right way to config is to share only folders with completed crap in it. So if you find yourself guilty of sharing the temp folder or one above it in the dir tree, you're also part of this incomplete song business.
Please do us all a favor and go check your own configs right now. These messages will be here when you get back, but somebody may be downloading one of your incomplete songs now.
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Why is there no source code to these service packs? It would make the patch a lot easier to accept if it had the approval of thousands of security pros...
Considering the audience and economic environment, I'll keep my good advice to myself and have better chances at getting the job. Why help out all of you, the competition? I hope your resumes are miserable relative to my own! Want the easy way to fortune? Gather all pennies from your fellow unemployed geeks and form a lottery pool...
Yes, I mean a crowded theater that's not actually on fire.
Dude, this would kick ass under water. Remember that part in Abyss where he was breathing that water that was pinkish hued enough not to drown him? Yeah he had to type his speech out on a tiny ass little keyboard, instead of "speaking" using his throat and stuff... Yeah that would rock, if he could communicate at the normal rate. Go technology!
So you say money for video games is seperated from pro sports by sponsorship... Why not add sponsorship to video games? There could be audio/video commercials between rounds, at least in a portion of the screen. Or those RTCW ingame posters that are destructible could carry company products or slogans and be made indestructible. All it would take is some a small texture download before the match begins... Kill the nazis: sponsored by Nike. :)
The show airs on Cartoon Network on weekday afternoons. Catch an episode and see what you think. And then afterward (or before?), Dragonball comes on, starring a bunch of guys who fight each other with the occasional assistance from a geeky and annoying woman named Bulma, another example of a woman being "the" geek that the good guys rely on.
For some reason, whenever I load japanese pages, my browser REALLY slows to a crawl. The throbber freezes and progress is similar to a watched pot... But in Opera, it's fast as lightning. I've got japanese language support in each. Aside from the obvious Microsoft sucks response, does anyone have any suggestions to how to speed up Japanese pages in IE6 or explanations about the slowdown?
Sure, we're fat and pale, but those are the best of us. You don't see these people on TV on any show, even Freaks and Geeks. We're way too wierd looking... messed up hair, bad skin, poor taste in clothes, a smarty pants sense of humor. Who wants to see that? I just don't think any of the world's miracle workers are doing makeup backstage. Because they probably won't have many choices which are both skilled and attractive enough to put on TV, the geeks will look down their noses at inferior skills or the rest of the world will change the channel away from the wierdo show.
I think it's interesting to note the effect of their using 421 for the cd burner count instead of the lower number. That creates sensationalism about large scale piracy operations, shocking the public with inflated numbers to show just how powerful these operations are.
Consider the effect if they had used the real number, and even exaggerate it by imagining them using smaller numbers to represent the real 156, while keeping the output the same. Then they could have raised flags and outcry about the impact of a single burner and what kind of damage a single user can do. Then they would blindly extrapolate, multiplying the average output for one of these 156 burners by the population of burners in the US. Then they would have a grasp on the <quote fingers>true</qf> amount of piracy going on and could pursue their dream: crippling legislation...
Right on man. Fight the power, and don't give a damn about karma. Email me your address so I can send you some props.
The reason perfect speech recognition is AI-complete is that it requires perfect speech understanding to choose between homophones (words that sound the same but have different meanings, such as to, too and two, or there, their and they're), and that problem is AI-complete.
But if you extrapolate the current trend of younger kids in instant messaging, you soon won't need to worry about homophones. One word is chosen to incorrectly represent all of a single set, e.g. "did u know there house is blue to?" meaning "Did you know their house is blue too?" It may or may not be consistent with a single user and certainly not among several. On the other hand, this kind of disregard for the language may just be a quality of youth.
Crypto involving English would be slightly strengthened by use of IM words since letter redundancy is usually reduced, maybe with a slight increase in ambiguity. Some words, like "though" and "through" are pretty wasteful with their letters, considering "tho" and "thru" do just as well. Personally, I hope these two words make it into casual business use...
So what needs to happen for the suit and tie people to lose the attire war is them hearing complaints from us. We need to complain that their suits made us feel like they were being controlling, condescending, and corrupt management instead of peers. For the atmosphere of communication to be set properly, it helps when one team isn't silently threatened by the other team.
So where would you plug in your peripherals?
From base 10 to base 1009:
2000 = 1x where x is the digit for 991
2038 = 2y where y is the digit for 20
From base 1009 to base 10 (assuming the digits 0-9 are the lowest 10 of the 1009):
2000 = 2(1009^3) = some really big number I'm too lazy to calculate
2038 = 2(1009^3) + 3(1009) + 8 = an even bigger number
There's no amazing coincedence here, nothing funny about how numbers happen to be the same in different bases. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, there is no combination of integer bases for which 2000 in one is 2038 in the other. As for nonintegral bases, I don't think they exist, and I don't have the imagination to think of how their digits would work...
We, the jobless, have nothing better to do than write programs to prove slashdot posters wrong. Resumes, you say? Instead of sending them, I could shred them and get nearly the same response from HR people: nothing. Except now I have a shredded resume to dispose of. Yes, that is bitterness you're sensing...
This may be a bit off topic, but it's something I've been wondering for a while. Why did they call it The Phantom Menace? With all the other titles, the relation between name and events in the movie is quite obvious. In Attack of the Clones, you've got clones attacking. In episode 4-6, you've got aptly titled movies again. So what the hell did the phantom menace refer to in the first episode? I didn't see any scooby doo like phantom runing around rattling chains menacing everybody... Don't give me metaphors. Even A New Hope obviously fit the whiney farmer kid with a light sabre. What's the deal?
Australia "officially" tapped 2150 phones and has a population of about 20 million, roughly 1 tap per 10k people.
The U.S. "officially" tapped 1490 phones and has a pop. of 280 million... That's about 1 tap per 187k people.
Of course, I'd bet my nest egg that the U.S. does more unofficial taps than Australia, so the real rate is probably something barely less shocking. But fear the day lawmakers point to this and say, "We're not doing enough phone taps!"
I'd be interested to hear what fellow geeks think of the matter? Is rape too severe a word to describe what happened? Is this kind of rape as traumatic as the standard method? I say no. And if you say yes, you might just be the type that can win arguments... but what do you believe?
Phase modulation the same as polarity? Maybe by some metaphor that I'm missing... Phase modulation is a way of transmitting data via electromagnetic waves. But except for the incidental magnetic waves on the perpendicular axis, phase modulation is a two dimensional function.
Polarity involves changing the angle of transmission in the third dimension. So if you have time on the x-axis and amplitude on the y-axis, the z-axis is polarity. Changing polarity is equivalent to having a two dimsional wave pattern and twisting it in the third dimension. Like if you had a sine wave moving along a really long flat-head screw, changing polarity could be done with a screwdriver. Man what a cool analogy.
But I'm sure our friends in the slashdot community have posted better explanations and links to explanations than this. Interesting stuff.
Tho they do suck power while not actually on, most people I know counter the awkward wall-wart shape by plugging them into a power strip. I haven't seen a strip that doesn't have a switch on it, so for maximum power savings, it's just a matter of switching the strip on before you use it and off after you're done. Just hope you don't have several wall-warts on one strip when you're only using one. *wink*
Step 1: People agree that sz is yellow, xq is red, etc... ..." returns all pics encoded with that scheme, including pics encoded with only a subset of the colors.
Step 2: Everybody who does this art puts the entire color code in their art so searching google for "sz xq ae pz
Step 3: Make a website or newsgroup or bulliten board with links to the pictures.
And voila! Now everybody can see everybody else's work and all but the privacy seekers are happy. Yeah, those concerned with privacy will make their own color codes, intentionally different and obscure.
You know what would be cool is using a kind of steganography to embed a color message in normal text. Then when you search using the "query key" you see the highlighted image on top of the plaintext one. Man this is awesome stuff.
That may be true, but since 800 numbers are usually toll free, you can usually dial them from any pay phone without the investment of your money or personal information.
Please do us all a favor and go check your own configs right now. These messages will be here when you get back, but somebody may be downloading one of your incomplete songs now.