Humans can be hired to solve CAPTCHA at economically viable rates to meet the demand with a supply.
Not in general. For high-value targets, yes. For spamming blog comments, no.
Except that cracking one blog system CAPTCHA cracks all blogs with that system's CAPTCHA. Which makes anything but custom software (that Joe Sixpack wouldn't know the first thing about building) a high-value target.
What's a low-momentum, high-energy particle, 50% the speed of light rather than 5 nines the speed of light?
Non-relativistic particles shouldn't be impossible. If the momenta of both colliding particles are equal and opposite, the sum momenta of the resulting "debris" will be 0. Though, even at speeds like 95% of the speed of light, the Lorentz factor is pretty negligible when it comes to extending the life of the particles. It's measurable, but it won't make them survive for hours and days when they were supposed to live for nanoseconds.
Really a footnote, but a very high-energy collision with a stationary object like you describe would be more worrisome, since whatever exotic matter would be created could possibly move at relativistic speeds, increasing their half life by the Lorentz factor.
But today's people don't read text. It has words and stuff in it. The warning message must permeate culture. MC Frontalot has already made a song about it. But it isn't enough. A full feature film with Matt Damon forgetting to bring a torch and being eaten by a Grue is also necessary to get the message through, and a spinoff TV-series with a gang of teenagers examining a string of eaten people in dark areas.
Code is wrong. You have the condition and the iteration expressions in the wrong order. This is how it's supposed to do it:
for (initialization;condition;incrementation)
Amusingly, it does the same thing for a different reason. x-- will evaluate with the value x, which has the same truth value as x != 0, which in this case is equivalent to x > 0. The incrementation term does nothing, but it doesn't matter since the incrementation is done in the condition.
I wonder if this is fine enough to be able to distinguish the type and state of a molecule. If so, then you should be able to scan an entire person and store the result.
Then at a later date (when the technology becomes available) you should be able to re-create that person.
The beginnings of a transporter.
Unfortunately, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle dictates that in scanning the position of the particles, you also change their state. You can in short never know everything you need to know about a system to identically replicate it elsewhere.
I didn't know him, I really didn't have any emotional investment in his submissions, but it's generally a bummer when people go and die, so a R.I.P. is in order.
The physical address connected to a memory address can be changed by the kernel, so that it can access any memory without any specific order (including, in theory, memory outside the 4Gb range). The wikipedia article on virtual memory explains it.
Someone please Correct me if I'm wrong but if you're mapping 4GB of video RAM you'll not be able to run a 32 bit OS. Given that this is a gaming PC, wouldn't this be a deal breaker? I mean even the uber gamers occassionally like to run older games right?
The kernel should deal with that. If you request some memory address, paging assigns a virtual address for the physical memory so that you can access -any- 4 Gb of data in some order.
You can still only access 4 Gb at one specific time per process, but that should be enough for most purposes, no?
I don't trust either parties, they just feel like two different ways of getting to the same common goal. It's just a coin toss that says tails I win and heads you lose.
They both give us a hundreds different brands of cereals to eat but only 2 political choices, how's that freedom?
Trust me, more political choices doesn't make any difference. In Sweden we have 7 (?) major political parties, that align up in two political blocks (left and right) that share the power, so no matter who you vote for, you still end up voting for one of two options.
The problem is at the core representative democracy, and not how many representatives you have to choose from.
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In general it's hard to sift through the information in the linux documentation in an efficient way. There are a ton of manpages that really don't add anything of value. And then there are those that are 5000 lines long (man bash), contain a lot of interesting information intermixed with uninteresting information, not to mention all the README:s in/usr/share/doc, etc. Even if the manuals are well written (which is far from always the case), they may be hard to navigate, long, or simply not contain anything you didn't already know.
It's a bit of a lottery, in that sense it's probably a good idea to have someone write down what the good parts in a book.
Can't I just dump a stack trace to stderr and be done with it?
But then the user might miss it! Clearly, when our programs crash, we must hook things up so that it automatically kills X11, opens up vim, splits the screen into subscreens with a stack trace, dmesg, hexdump of the core, etc.
So, are you claiming that the road signs now indicate distances in km rather than miles? Or are we now using 'metric' miles rather than the traditional ones with 1760 yards to each of them? That would be 1760 metric yards, each of 3 metric feet in length which, in turn, contain 12 metric inches? Are horse races now measured in metric furlongs - 8 metric furlongs to each of your metric miles, perhaps?
Yep, you've convinced me than we have gone metric. Now, I'm a Brit so I might be wrong about all of this, but where are you from? It's still legal to use pounds and ounces, or gallons, or miles or any other imperial units, but you are equally welcome to use metric units if you wish.
Actually, I just went with what Wikipedia told me. Keep in mind that many metric systems still partially use pre-metric systems in some areas. Sweden has been metric for long over 100 years, yet we still use inches for wheel sizes and acres for areas in real estate.
There are very few places in the world that use exclusively metric units. Some more than others, but the UK is under obligation as a member of the EU to convert to metric (something it has been doing for decades.)
They used to use the English system in the UK, and then the rest of the world caught up with them and they converted to metric. Right now, the countries not using the metric system are: Myanmar, The United States, and Liberia.
C would be Judaism - it's old and restrictive, but most of the world is familiar with its laws and respects them. The catch is, you can't convert into it - you're either into it from the start, or you will think that it's insanity. Also, when things go wrong, many people are willing to blame the problems of the world on it.
Except, the restrictive part really doesn't make any sense at all. There is almost nothing C won't allow you to do (at your own peril).
groups tend to be smarter than any individual member. The trouble is that they also give us the 1929, 1987, and whenever the last stock Market crash was.
In my experience, groups tend to be dumber than any individual member. Being accused of groupthink is not a compliment.
It isn't that terribly hard, especially in real mode with all the stuff BIOS sets up for you left intact. It's just cumbersome. I wrote small assembly programs when I was 14 (I drew some primitive shapes on the screen I think). Compared to the abstract concepts of OOP (that were a bit over my head at the time), I thought it was easier to program assembly.
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Hey, they gave you libpr0n (safe-ish for work). The least you could do is to share some of the stuff back to them.
Humans can be hired to solve CAPTCHA at economically viable rates to meet the demand with a supply.
Not in general. For high-value targets, yes. For spamming blog comments, no.
Except that cracking one blog system CAPTCHA cracks all blogs with that system's CAPTCHA. Which makes anything but custom software (that Joe Sixpack wouldn't know the first thing about building) a high-value target.
What's a low-momentum, high-energy particle, 50% the speed of light rather than 5 nines the speed of light?
Non-relativistic particles shouldn't be impossible. If the momenta of both colliding particles are equal and opposite, the sum momenta of the resulting "debris" will be 0. Though, even at speeds like 95% of the speed of light, the Lorentz factor is pretty negligible when it comes to extending the life of the particles. It's measurable, but it won't make them survive for hours and days when they were supposed to live for nanoseconds.
Really a footnote, but a very high-energy collision with a stationary object like you describe would be more worrisome, since whatever exotic matter would be created could possibly move at relativistic speeds, increasing their half life by the Lorentz factor.
Since when have they had balls? (let alone a spine?)
But today's people don't read text. It has words and stuff in it. The warning message must permeate culture. MC Frontalot has already made a song about it. But it isn't enough. A full feature film with Matt Damon forgetting to bring a torch and being eaten by a Grue is also necessary to get the message through, and a spinoff TV-series with a gang of teenagers examining a string of eaten people in dark areas.
for (int x=100; x--; x>0)
Code is wrong. You have the condition and the iteration expressions in the wrong order. This is how it's supposed to do it:
for (initialization;condition;incrementation)
Amusingly, it does the same thing for a different reason. x-- will evaluate with the value x, which has the same truth value as x != 0, which in this case is equivalent to x > 0. The incrementation term does nothing, but it doesn't matter since the incrementation is done in the condition.
I wonder if this is fine enough to be able to distinguish the type and state of a molecule. If so, then you should be able to scan an entire person and store the result.
Then at a later date (when the technology becomes available) you should be able to re-create that person.
The beginnings of a transporter.
Unfortunately, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle dictates that in scanning the position of the particles, you also change their state. You can in short never know everything you need to know about a system to identically replicate it elsewhere.
Ah, a sky-scoop is 10^16 square beard seconds
I didn't know him, I really didn't have any emotional investment in his submissions, but it's generally a bummer when people go and die, so a R.I.P. is in order.
The physical address connected to a memory address can be changed by the kernel, so that it can access any memory without any specific order (including, in theory, memory outside the 4Gb range). The wikipedia article on virtual memory explains it.
On the Extreme 4 GB of Video RAM? Seriously?
Someone please Correct me if I'm wrong but if you're mapping 4GB of video RAM you'll not be able to run a 32 bit OS. Given that this is a gaming PC, wouldn't this be a deal breaker? I mean even the uber gamers occassionally like to run older games right?
The kernel should deal with that. If you request some memory address, paging assigns a virtual address for the physical memory so that you can access -any- 4 Gb of data in some order.
You can still only access 4 Gb at one specific time per process, but that should be enough for most purposes, no?
I don't trust either parties, they just feel like two different ways of getting to the same common goal. It's just a coin toss that says tails I win and heads you lose.
They both give us a hundreds different brands of cereals to eat but only 2 political choices, how's that freedom?
Trust me, more political choices doesn't make any difference. In Sweden we have 7 (?) major political parties, that align up in two political blocks (left and right) that share the power, so no matter who you vote for, you still end up voting for one of two options.
The problem is at the core representative democracy, and not how many representatives you have to choose from.
In general it's hard to sift through the information in the linux documentation in an efficient way. There are a ton of manpages that really don't add anything of value. And then there are those that are 5000 lines long (man bash), contain a lot of interesting information intermixed with uninteresting information, not to mention all the README:s in /usr/share/doc, etc. Even if the manuals are well written (which is far from always the case), they may be hard to navigate, long, or simply not contain anything you didn't already know.
It's a bit of a lottery, in that sense it's probably a good idea to have someone write down what the good parts in a book.
Interesting... is there any way to hook up the Yellowstone volcano to a stereo?
Can't I just dump a stack trace to stderr and be done with it?
But then the user might miss it! Clearly, when our programs crash, we must hook things up so that it automatically kills X11, opens up vim, splits the screen into subscreens with a stack trace, dmesg, hexdump of the core, etc.
So, are you claiming that the road signs now indicate distances in km rather than miles? Or are we now using 'metric' miles rather than the traditional ones with 1760 yards to each of them? That would be 1760 metric yards, each of 3 metric feet in length which, in turn, contain 12 metric inches? Are horse races now measured in metric furlongs - 8 metric furlongs to each of your metric miles, perhaps?
Yep, you've convinced me than we have gone metric. Now, I'm a Brit so I might be wrong about all of this, but where are you from? It's still legal to use pounds and ounces, or gallons, or miles or any other imperial units, but you are equally welcome to use metric units if you wish.
Actually, I just went with what Wikipedia told me. Keep in mind that many metric systems still partially use pre-metric systems in some areas. Sweden has been metric for long over 100 years, yet we still use inches for wheel sizes and acres for areas in real estate.
There are very few places in the world that use exclusively metric units. Some more than others, but the UK is under obligation as a member of the EU to convert to metric (something it has been doing for decades.)
They used to use the English system in the UK, and then the rest of the world caught up with them and they converted to metric. Right now, the countries not using the metric system are: Myanmar, The United States, and Liberia.
Except, the restrictive part really doesn't make any sense at all. There is almost nothing C won't allow you to do (at your own peril).
groups tend to be smarter than any individual member.
The trouble is that they also give us the 1929, 1987, and whenever the last stock Market crash was.
In my experience, groups tend to be dumber than any individual member. Being accused of groupthink is not a compliment.
It could be done to make sure that any cached disk data is invalidated I suppose. But then a reboot is probably smarter.
Visual payoff? Luxury. We used to dream of visual payoff. When I was young, we used to be happy if the computer beeped.
Same story. And because of my understanding of programming I found algebra a lot easier than most kids.
It isn't that terribly hard, especially in real mode with all the stuff BIOS sets up for you left intact. It's just cumbersome. I wrote small assembly programs when I was 14 (I drew some primitive shapes on the screen I think). Compared to the abstract concepts of OOP (that were a bit over my head at the time), I thought it was easier to program assembly.
That is ambiguous.
(|) looks suspiciously a lot like a mouth, a butt, female genitalia, etc. Wouldn't want to remove the wrong extremity.
I believe this one is clearer for the amputation of an arm:
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