V = kg m^2/(A s^3) So there's a second power of m and a third power of s. And looking more closely, kg = kg^1 and A = A^1, which makes two more powers. So volts are a lot of power!:-)
If there are 5000 screeners, there are good odds that there are one or two beyond the viewers who know someone with the needed technical skills. Doesn't help much for voting (because it's a minority), but is enough for illegal screener releases (which need only one person to do it).
I have books printed in the beginning of 1900s - and I can still prop-them-open and read, without needing some weird limiting technology to unlock the content. Same goes for tapes, CDs, LPs.
It's not that those genes are created during stranglement. They are part of the genetic code anyway.
To put it in computer terms, the genome is the executable, but what they do is to look at the core dump in order to see what code was actually executed. Of course that code which was executed will be in any copy of the executable, but that doesn't mean that you'll be able to use a copy of the executable to find out how it was used on a previous execution, even if you copied the executable while it was executed.
Of course there's a motivation behind DRM. Otherwise it wouldn't exist. And if a business does something, in almost all cases the motivation is to make more money, or to prevent making less money.
Of course that doesn't tell you anything about if something is good, moral, bebeficial to the society as a whole, or whatever. Drug dealers also have a motivation to deal drugs, and that motivation also is to get money. I strongly doubt that drug dealers sell their drugs in order to harm those they sell the drugs to. They just don't care. The motivation is to make money. So from your argumentation drug dealing should be Ok, because it is not the goal to harm anyone, it's just a side effect of the way the drug dealers make money.
Oh, and you shouldn't punish all those people who rob a bank just to get the money. They didn't do that in order to harm the bank, so there's nothing wrong with it, right?
It's highly unlikely that posting this message will cause irreparable, large-scale damage, but it's clearly not impossible: In principle someone could have put some undetected code into slashdot which scans all incoming posts, and if some post mentions the possibility of such code (just as this one does), it connects to some military servers and starts nuclear missiles, effectively starting an atomic war. Hey, maybe it even triggers the explosion of a hydrogen bomb big enough to ignite atmosphere... Ok, should I refrain from posting this due to that possibility? Well... but then, every other posting to Slashdot, or to any other web forum, could do the same, so I'd better not post at all... and don't use email as well, after all, I don't know for sure what all the mail servers my mail passes will do due to my mail...
You know what the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has to say about careless speech? So better be silent for the rest of your life!
Well, I think I'll ignore all those dangers and submit this posting anyway.:-)
One reason seems to be that finding people who want a windmill as a neighbor is about as easy as finding people who want a nuclear powerplant as a neighbor.
Well, that depends on how you do it.
"We would like to build a nuclear reactor close to your home." "A nuclear reactor? Never!" "Oh well, we need that plant. You don't want to tell us a windmill would suffice, would you?" "Ah, so a windmill will not do? I don't believe you!" (Goes, starts activism for a windmill instead of the nuclear plant) Some time later: "Ok, you've won. We'll build a windmill instead."
In the case of tides, the energy basically comes from the earth's rotation. The intertial moment of earth is about 10^38 kg m^2, and the rotational speed is of course 2pi/day, which gives a total rotation energy of 2.6*10^29 J. Or put differently, a Terawatt energy production would correspond to a slowdown of about 10^-23 seconds per day (about 4 attoseconds per century).
That's of course assuming that energy would otherwise remain in the earth's rotation. Given that the water actually is stopped by the continents anyway, I doubt that. After all it's a fact that earth's rotation is slowed down through tidal forces about 5*10^-8 s/day (2 ms/century), i.e. the tidal forces dissipate about 5*10^15 Terawatt (well, actually part of that energy is not dissipated, but used to move the moon away from earth; I'm now too lazy to calculate that).
Computers are tools. Tools should do exactly what you tell them to do, no more, no less. How would you like it if your hammer suddenly decided your doctor needed more money and hit your head instead of the nail?
Well, I'm sure a lot of people would have liked it if their hammer had recognised that it was currently aiming at the thumb instead of the nail and had corrected that situation:-)
If the user interface is so that a manager or marketer fails at such a simple task as just playing a demo disk, then there's something wrong with the interface. After all, most people the players and disks are to be sold to are not any more tech savy than those managers and marketers.
It would be different if the failure had been for the demonstration of some "advanced" feature (e.g. selecting a different language, subtitles, jumping to a different chapter, etc.). But the very basic task of just playing a disk should be completely foolproof.
User: ls DT: You want me to show the files? User: Yes. DT: In the current directory? User: Yes. DT: Ok. User: So? DT: The files... User: Yes? DT: in the current directory... User: Yes? DT: are... User: Yes? DT: But you won't like the answer. User: That doesn't matter. Just tell me the files which are there. DT: Ok. Now the files... User: Yes? DT: in the current directory... User: Yes? DT: are... User: Yes? DT: But you really won't like the answer. User: That doesn't matter, I just want to see the files. DT: Ok. User: So what are the files? DT: The files... User: Yes? DT: in the current directory... User: Yes? DT: are... User: Yes? DT: . and.. User: What? That can't be right! DT: I told you that you wouldn't like the answer. User: There's nothing else in that directory? DT: Nothing. User: But there should be the files I've worked on the last week. DT: They are not there. User: But they cannot be gone. DT: No. User: So they are still somewhere? DT: Yes. User: Can you tell me where they are? DT: No. But I can tell you who can. User: Who? DT: The computer which comes after me.
Why are we stuck with binary keys only? There's also:
Speed of key press
Depth of key press
Duration key is held
Indeed, there exists a solution where you can communicate with just one key, depending only on the length this key is pressed/released. It's called Morse code.
Well, just another idea: Couple the two-key system with the traditional modifier keys. Looking at the numeric key pad, it seems to me that all combinations of two keys where both keys are from different columns are not too hard to type. So if we have 3 rows with 4 keys each, this gives 54 different possibilities (6 ways to select 2 columns from 4, and for each of the keys 3 rows to choose from). Now add two modifier keys for the thumb, and we get 3*54 = 162 possibilities (each combination without modifier, with modifier 1, and with modifier 2). This would give a keyboard with just 14 keys and only 3 rows for finger movements.
Of course the learning curve/labelling problem would still persist.
Another way to provide a medium would be to say that each letter is composed of exactly two keys pressed at the same time. That is, if you press just one key, nothing happens. This relieves you from having to press all keys at exactly the same time, and gives you n(n-1)/2 values for n keys. So for your 146 values, you'd need 18 keys (17 keys would only provide 136 values, 18 keys provide 153 values). With a keyboard of 3 rows of 6 keys each, I could even imagine that to be useable for one-handed typing. Or maybe a 4x4 pad with two larger keys below. Of course the disadvantage of that approach is that there's no easy way to label the keys, so if you don't remember a certain key combination, you cannot just look at the keyboard to find it.
Something smells here. I just can't qualify it... this is C++?
No, it's C++/CLI, an ECMA-standardized extension to C++ for CLI (aka.NET). Of course, you can still write normal C++ with VC++ (and if you don't want to use.NET, I guess you don't even have any choice; OTOH I don't know if VC++ still lets you compile non-.NET applications).
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I think there's another advantage for flash: Better shock resistance.
SIGINT officer? Do they also have SIGHUP officer? ... :-)
Well, as long as they don't send you a SIGKILL officer
Well, I guess researchers at Colorado are so busy that they never sleep :-)
In German, there even exists the word "schlaftrunken", which literally translated means "sleep drunk".
V = kg m^2/(A s^3) :-)
So there's a second power of m and a third power of s. And looking more closely, kg = kg^1 and A = A^1, which makes two more powers.
So volts are a lot of power!
But please put warning signs on those trees:
WARNING: Do not climb on tree. It may electrocute you!
If there are 5000 screeners, there are good odds that there are one or two beyond the viewers who know someone with the needed technical skills. Doesn't help much for voting (because it's a minority), but is enough for illegal screener releases (which need only one person to do it).
I thought real programmers use FORTRAN?
You have CDs from the beginning of 1900s?
For mice you have to use mdb, since gdb is only the gnu debugger.
It's not that those genes are created during stranglement. They are part of the genetic code anyway.
To put it in computer terms, the genome is the executable, but what they do is to look at the core dump in order to see what code was actually executed. Of course that code which was executed will be in any copy of the executable, but that doesn't mean that you'll be able to use a copy of the executable to find out how it was used on a previous execution, even if you copied the executable while it was executed.
Of course there's a motivation behind DRM. Otherwise it wouldn't exist. And if a business does something, in almost all cases the motivation is to make more money, or to prevent making less money.
Of course that doesn't tell you anything about if something is good, moral, bebeficial to the society as a whole, or whatever. Drug dealers also have a motivation to deal drugs, and that motivation also is to get money. I strongly doubt that drug dealers sell their drugs in order to harm those they sell the drugs to. They just don't care. The motivation is to make money. So from your argumentation drug dealing should be Ok, because it is not the goal to harm anyone, it's just a side effect of the way the drug dealers make money.
Oh, and you shouldn't punish all those people who rob a bank just to get the money. They didn't do that in order to harm the bank, so there's nothing wrong with it, right?
It's highly unlikely that posting this message will cause irreparable, large-scale damage, but it's clearly not impossible: In principle someone could have put some undetected code into slashdot which scans all incoming posts, and if some post mentions the possibility of such code (just as this one does), it connects to some military servers and starts nuclear missiles, effectively starting an atomic war. Hey, maybe it even triggers the explosion of a hydrogen bomb big enough to ignite atmosphere ... ... but then, every other posting to Slashdot, or to any other web forum, could do the same, so I'd better not post at all ... and don't use email as well, after all, I don't know for sure what all the mail servers my mail passes will do due to my mail ...
:-)
Ok, should I refrain from posting this due to that possibility? Well
You know what the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has to say about careless speech? So better be silent for the rest of your life!
Well, I think I'll ignore all those dangers and submit this posting anyway.
Well, that depends on how you do it.
"We would like to build a nuclear reactor close to your home."
"A nuclear reactor? Never!"
"Oh well, we need that plant. You don't want to tell us a windmill would suffice, would you?"
"Ah, so a windmill will not do? I don't believe you!" (Goes, starts activism for a windmill instead of the nuclear plant)
Some time later: "Ok, you've won. We'll build a windmill instead."
Now everyone is happy.
The solution to the horse shit problem was to replace horses with another technology. Now what is the conclusion for the problems with nuclear waste?
In the case of tides, the energy basically comes from the earth's rotation. The intertial moment of earth is about 10^38 kg m^2, and the rotational speed is of course 2pi/day, which gives a total rotation energy of 2.6*10^29 J. Or put differently, a Terawatt energy production would correspond to a slowdown of about 10^-23 seconds per day (about 4 attoseconds per century).
That's of course assuming that energy would otherwise remain in the earth's rotation. Given that the water actually is stopped by the continents anyway, I doubt that. After all it's a fact that earth's rotation is slowed down through tidal forces about 5*10^-8 s/day (2 ms/century), i.e. the tidal forces dissipate about 5*10^15 Terawatt (well, actually part of that energy is not dissipated, but used to move the moon away from earth; I'm now too lazy to calculate that).
Simple:
You cannot read Slashdot => (a)
You currently read Slashdot => (b)
You are not even trying to read Slashdot => (c)
Well, I'm sure a lot of people would have liked it if their hammer had recognised that it was currently aiming at the thumb instead of the nail and had corrected that situation
If the user interface is so that a manager or marketer fails at such a simple task as just playing a demo disk, then there's something wrong with the interface. After all, most people the players and disks are to be sold to are not any more tech savy than those managers and marketers.
It would be different if the failure had been for the demonstration of some "advanced" feature (e.g. selecting a different language, subtitles, jumping to a different chapter, etc.). But the very basic task of just playing a disk should be completely foolproof.
Or maybe like Deep Thought:
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..
User: ls
DT: You want me to show the files?
User: Yes.
DT: In the current directory?
User: Yes.
DT: Ok.
User: So?
DT: The files
User: Yes?
DT: in the current directory
User: Yes?
DT: are
User: Yes?
DT: But you won't like the answer.
User: That doesn't matter. Just tell me the files which are there.
DT: Ok. Now the files
User: Yes?
DT: in the current directory
User: Yes?
DT: are
User: Yes?
DT: But you really won't like the answer.
User: That doesn't matter, I just want to see the files.
DT: Ok.
User: So what are the files?
DT: The files
User: Yes?
DT: in the current directory
User: Yes?
DT: are
User: Yes?
DT: . and
User: What? That can't be right!
DT: I told you that you wouldn't like the answer.
User: There's nothing else in that directory?
DT: Nothing.
User: But there should be the files I've worked on the last week.
DT: They are not there.
User: But they cannot be gone.
DT: No.
User: So they are still somewhere?
DT: Yes.
User: Can you tell me where they are?
DT: No. But I can tell you who can.
User: Who?
DT: The computer which comes after me.
Why? I think it fits perfectly the Windows XP look
Indeed, there exists a solution where you can communicate with just one key, depending only on the length this key is pressed/released. It's called Morse code.
Well, just another idea: Couple the two-key system with the traditional modifier keys.
Looking at the numeric key pad, it seems to me that all combinations of two keys where both keys are from different columns are not too hard to type. So if we have 3 rows with 4 keys each, this gives 54 different possibilities (6 ways to select 2 columns from 4, and for each of the keys 3 rows to choose from). Now add two modifier keys for the thumb, and we get 3*54 = 162 possibilities (each combination without modifier, with modifier 1, and with modifier 2). This would give a keyboard with just 14 keys and only 3 rows for finger movements.
Of course the learning curve/labelling problem would still persist.
Another way to provide a medium would be to say that each letter is composed of exactly two keys pressed at the same time. That is, if you press just one key, nothing happens. This relieves you from having to press all keys at exactly the same time, and gives you n(n-1)/2 values for n keys. So for your 146 values, you'd need 18 keys (17 keys would only provide 136 values, 18 keys provide 153 values). With a keyboard of 3 rows of 6 keys each, I could even imagine that to be useable for one-handed typing. Or maybe a 4x4 pad with two larger keys below. Of course the disadvantage of that approach is that there's no easy way to label the keys, so if you don't remember a certain key combination, you cannot just look at the keyboard to find it.
What about GoogOL?
No, it's C++/CLI, an ECMA-standardized extension to C++ for CLI (aka
Of course, you can still write normal C++ with VC++ (and if you don't want to use