Mathematicians don't spend much time thinking about numbers, frankly. "Order of magnitude" isn't going to show up in a mathematician's work very often. When it does, I assure you're they're not going to think in terms of 10.
The base for your number doesn't have to be the same as the base for your order of magnitude.
For example, since minutes and seconds are measured in base 60, would you say that the amount of time one order of magnitude greater than one second is one minute, and two orders of magnitude is one hour? What happens as you go beyond that? Do you change base? Is the amount of time three orders of magnitude greater than a second equal to one day? Is four orders equal to a week, a month, or a year? A fortnight, perhaps?
Anyhow, it's fun to be an ass on slashdot. It's not like you were going to find useful comments in a thread predicated on "gnu radio is for teh terrorists! lol!"
the commonly accepted usage in the physics (and most likely the physical sciences and mathematics)
In physics and mathematics, I assure you it is e. I have no idea what they use in engineering. But, engineering has nothing to do with physics, so I don't know why I would bring that up.
Well, I don't see how that works. The unit is dollar. By your second definition, two orders of magnitude is 450 dollar^3, i.e. cubic dollars.
No, an order of magnitude is an exponential change in the value, never the unit. And, unless a base has been specified (i.e., 10 or 2 or 5 or 60 or something), the only one you can universally assume is e.
Wait... the joke is that DNA is an abbreviation for Douglas Adams? I get it. It's like a pun... like saying I don't have Douglas N. Adams anymore. It cost a lot but my right to privacy remains intact.
Ha ha. That's funny.
No, wait. I think I still don't get the joke. Is losing your DNA for privacy somehow like spending a year dead for tax reasons or something?
And, if BPL means "broadband over powerline", are you saying that a HAM can set up a 3 kwatt signal on a powerline at the right frequency to blow up the equipment?
Well, if you believe Revelations, then I'm guessing that neither you or I will be one of the 144,000 human beings of all recorded history that will be saved. Sucks to be us.
I suspect it's not surface tension that makes water hard at high speeds. Unless I hear different from someone who's done the maths in an upper level physics course, I'm going to keep an open mind on that one...
There's probably a negative correlation between people with high-end credit cards and large sums of cash, yes.
You have no idea how much cash some people keep in their wallet, do you? And no, the $300 you take to the comic store every week isn't a "large" sum of cash.
What will happen to millions of people who -only- are qualified to move boxes and count bills?
You're describing a very serious and mostly ignored problem. And, I'm not entirely convinced that the invisible hand works in a marketing-based economy.
But, it's a problem that can't be solved by forcing companies to employ people they don't have a use for. You're going to have to find other solutions than ludditism.
For reviewers, first and foremost, actual obvious bugs should be the first thing to look for.
But, those bugs are only in the pre-release version. The developers know all about them, and fixing them is their top priority. They'll be fixed before the game goes gold. Really.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm lying. I'm in marketing, and in charge of getting prominent positive reviews for the game. So sue me.
A chikan who wants an upskirt shot probably has a better chance now than he would have a couple of years ago - partly because people are used to the cameras and partly because they are used to the sound.
In America, if you want an upskirt shot, just ask the next ten women who walk by in in skirts. At least one will say yes.
Lawmakers aren't exactly falling all over themselves to eliminate government and corporate owned cameras in public places, or create laws notifying people of their presence.
So, why are they pretending to be horrified by private cameras?
The best way to handle huge images is by tiling them. I like to play around with maps and satellite images (see here with and without grid) and have learned the lesson that to put that type of large images on a web server, you better cut it into tiles.
Umm... why? How do the tiles benefit the web server or the browser? I know some of the reasons for doing that 10 years ago, but I'm not aware of any reasons that are still valid today.
At any rate, the "stitching" they're talking about in the article is quite a bit more than simply tiling all the photos in a table and digitally pasting them together. Eliminating the "overlap" is the easy part. It's true that you have to deal with optical distortions and color corrections and light balance and moving objects, all introduced by physical limitations of the camera and photography techniques, and which could be eliminated by better robotic control and optics and colectors. But you also get to deal with distortions introduced by plain old mathematics and geometry. They're similar in spirit to the map projections you learned about in third grade, but more compuationally complex (even if not more mathematically complex).
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Mathematicians don't spend much time thinking about numbers, frankly. "Order of magnitude" isn't going to show up in a mathematician's work very often. When it does, I assure you're they're not going to think in terms of 10.
The base for your number doesn't have to be the same as the base for your order of magnitude.
For example, since minutes and seconds are measured in base 60, would you say that the amount of time one order of magnitude greater than one second is one minute, and two orders of magnitude is one hour? What happens as you go beyond that? Do you change base? Is the amount of time three orders of magnitude greater than a second equal to one day? Is four orders equal to a week, a month, or a year? A fortnight, perhaps?
Anyhow, it's fun to be an ass on slashdot. It's not like you were going to find useful comments in a thread predicated on "gnu radio is for teh terrorists! lol!"
the commonly accepted usage in the physics (and most likely the physical sciences and mathematics)
In physics and mathematics, I assure you it is e. I have no idea what they use in engineering. But, engineering has nothing to do with physics, so I don't know why I would bring that up.
Well, I don't see how that works. The unit is dollar. By your second definition, two orders of magnitude is 450 dollar^3, i.e. cubic dollars.
No, an order of magnitude is an exponential change in the value, never the unit. And, unless a base has been specified (i.e., 10 or 2 or 5 or 60 or something), the only one you can universally assume is e.
Wait... the joke is that DNA is an abbreviation for Douglas Adams? I get it. It's like a pun... like saying I don't have Douglas N. Adams anymore. It cost a lot but my right to privacy remains intact.
Ha ha. That's funny.
No, wait. I think I still don't get the joke. Is losing your DNA for privacy somehow like spending a year dead for tax reasons or something?
I don't understand the joke.
Unless explicitely stated otherwise, an order of magnitude is e, or about 2.71. So, about $3300.
HAM radios can pump out 3 kwatt signals?
And, if BPL means "broadband over powerline", are you saying that a HAM can set up a 3 kwatt signal on a powerline at the right frequency to blow up the equipment?
Pretty Woman was a movie, not real life.
And, if you think you can look snappy in plastic shoes, then you can't afford to shop in the places depicted in Pretty Woman anyhow.
Well, if you believe Revelations, then I'm guessing that neither you or I will be one of the 144,000 human beings of all recorded history that will be saved. Sucks to be us.
I suspect it's not surface tension that makes water hard at high speeds. Unless I hear different from someone who's done the maths in an upper level physics course, I'm going to keep an open mind on that one...
There's probably a negative correlation between people with high-end credit cards and large sums of cash, yes.
You have no idea how much cash some people keep in their wallet, do you? And no, the $300 you take to the comic store every week isn't a "large" sum of cash.
The bible did not predict RFID tags. If you're not joking, you're queerer than a $3 bill.
What will happen to millions of people who -only- are qualified to move boxes and count bills?
You're describing a very serious and mostly ignored problem. And, I'm not entirely convinced that the invisible hand works in a marketing-based economy.
But, it's a problem that can't be solved by forcing companies to employ people they don't have a use for. You're going to have to find other solutions than ludditism.
Walk into the wrong bar one night and count yourself lucky to wake up again.
No-one has ever been mugged for credit cards.
You've been watching too many Steven Segal movies or something.
Yep. That's about the only game I can think of that uses the dpad.
How much physical RAM does Python require? Could its heap be squeezed onto something small like the GBA (32K RAM, comparatively unlimited ROM)?
That of prison conditions. Is it really right to lock a man up with 70 other untried defendants before he is even found guilty? I think not.
You're lucky you don't live in America, where untried and even uncharged persons are incarcerated in general populations all the time.
Oh crap! I set the alarm for 10 pm instead am again!
For reviewers, first and foremost, actual obvious bugs should be the first thing to look for.
But, those bugs are only in the pre-release version. The developers know all about them, and fixing them is their top priority. They'll be fixed before the game goes gold. Really.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm lying. I'm in marketing, and in charge of getting prominent positive reviews for the game. So sue me.
If this WERE a dictatorship, you'd already be in jail, or more likely DEAD.
Probably. And you would be thriving, licking the boot above you while smashing your boot into the faces below you.
Now, tell me which of you is the better man?
A chikan who wants an upskirt shot probably has a better chance now than he would have a couple of years ago - partly because people are used to the cameras and partly because they are used to the sound.
In America, if you want an upskirt shot, just ask the next ten women who walk by in in skirts. At least one will say yes.
Lawmakers aren't exactly falling all over themselves to eliminate government and corporate owned cameras in public places, or create laws notifying people of their presence.
So, why are they pretending to be horrified by private cameras?
The best way to handle huge images is by tiling them. I like to play around with maps and satellite images (see here with and without grid) and have learned the lesson that to put that type of large images on a web server, you better cut it into tiles.
Umm... why? How do the tiles benefit the web server or the browser? I know some of the reasons for doing that 10 years ago, but I'm not aware of any reasons that are still valid today.
At any rate, the "stitching" they're talking about in the article is quite a bit more than simply tiling all the photos in a table and digitally pasting them together. Eliminating the "overlap" is the easy part. It's true that you have to deal with optical distortions and color corrections and light balance and moving objects, all introduced by physical limitations of the camera and photography techniques, and which could be eliminated by better robotic control and optics and colectors. But you also get to deal with distortions introduced by plain old mathematics and geometry. They're similar in spirit to the map projections you learned about in third grade, but more compuationally complex (even if not more mathematically complex).
Well, if you're scared of dissenting views, perhaps you'd do well to give away your children to someone who will be a better roll model.