People who take classes in things that interest them, in general, are a waste of taxpayer money.
People should stick to this:
1. Go to College.
2. ???
3. Profit
or, my personal favorite
Rufies, $30
Cup at the party, $5
Sex with someone you're too shallow to respect, without their knowledge or consent, priceless
And before you start bashing the importance of niche entertainment, maybe you should stop and think about how important college sports are to society at large. What would we bet on and think about during classes if we didn't have those forms of niche entertainment?
The problem I have is that, for all the digital, telcom, beauty that sends that signal to my house, I can't do anything interesting with it once it gets there. No S/PDIF out. No component video out. No S-Video out. Just plug it into the TV and, OOOOhhh look, menus with ads on them. Fantastic. And I can set reminders, in case I'm watching TV and not my favorite show, or in case I want to spend 4-6 hours scouring the listings for something, anything, I might want to watch later. For the price, the features that weren't available on regular cable were very disappointing.
Yeah, I had that annoyance when I had "digital" cable.
Coax goes in, with "digital" signal, only coax comes out. No red, white, yellow, optical, etc, just an RF plug. How the hell can you call that "digital"???? Because it displays the time and channel on a "digital" read out??? Thank god DSL is cheap here.
Bye, Bye cable, and commercials. Hello P2P Simpson's episodes. I would watch the commercials to "pay" for the episodes, but they aren't shown frequently enough to meet my needs. "Digitally" or otherwise on cable.
Yes Microsoft!! Santa gives things away, like some kind of commie bastard. They probably want all legal avenues at their disposal to stop this threat to their lively hood.
We have 10 fingers and base-10 math. Fingers are also called digits Hmm. What significance would a different base have had on us?
Well, we have base-10 arithemetic. Thanks to rigorous analysis, topology, and modern, or abstract, algebra, math has been abstracted away from the arithemetic. Thus all calculations in any other base would be just as valid and possible. I don't think the *base* is of any real significance.
IIRC, error checking codes need to be based on a prime field(a field with a prime number of elements). Thus 4 is a no go.
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Binary is not only Simple, any Language using a larger Alphabet could be encoded using binary. That means that anything that is possible on a baseWhatever computer is possible on a binary computer. So you better have a really, really good reason to switch from binary computing.
As far a quantumn computing goes(not that I have any real credibility in that area) the advantage is that you can have a qubit in 2 states at the same point in time, which I think implies that you can actually execute multiple instructions at the same time. So you are still basically using binary computing, just the ammount of finite work that can be accomplished at one time is bigger.
I, D+iz+a+n+k+Meister, would like to congratulate james3v on a 4:20 post. Good work./. is now a better place. I would now like to swear my allegiance to the 4:20 post and abandon the IN SOVIET RUSSIA post. In closing, I would like to end with my original.sig:
"God put this here for you and me. Take advantage man. Take advantage."--Smokey
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People who take classes in things that interest them, in general, are a waste of taxpayer money.
People should stick to this:
1. Go to College.
2. ???
3. Profit
or, my personal favorite
Rufies, $30
Cup at the party, $5
Sex with someone you're too shallow to respect, without their knowledge or consent, priceless
And before you start bashing the importance of niche entertainment, maybe you should stop and think about how important college sports are to society at large. What would we bet on and think about during classes if we didn't have those forms of niche entertainment?
I think they should also have a
+5 Too Stoned, Can't Stop Smiling
moderation option in addition to the In Soviet Russia option.
*raises bong in celebration*
In Soviet Russia, bong smokes you!! Whoaa, cool!!
Why not? It might feel good ;-)
Not if the Earth was only 1000 to 10000 years old ;)
No, No. Just drain the blood out first. Then duct tape it to the bottom of your corresponding finger.
I dig that.
The problem I have is that, for all the digital, telcom, beauty that sends that signal to my house, I can't do anything interesting with it once it gets there. No S/PDIF out. No component video out. No S-Video out. Just plug it into the TV and, OOOOhhh look, menus with ads on them. Fantastic. And I can set reminders, in case I'm watching TV and not my favorite show, or in case I want to spend 4-6 hours scouring the listings for something, anything, I might want to watch later. For the price, the features that weren't available on regular cable were very disappointing.
Yeah, I had that annoyance when I had "digital" cable.
Coax goes in, with "digital" signal, only coax comes out. No red, white, yellow, optical, etc, just an RF plug. How the hell can you call that "digital"???? Because it displays the time and channel on a "digital" read out??? Thank god DSL is cheap here.
Bye, Bye cable, and commercials. Hello P2P Simpson's episodes. I would watch the commercials to "pay" for the episodes, but they aren't shown frequently enough to meet my needs. "Digitally" or otherwise on cable.
Then I would only have to pay for /.
Yeah!!
To all you fools out there driving Saturn SC2's from 1994, PAY UP!!
Yes Microsoft!! Santa gives things away, like some kind of commie bastard. They probably want all legal avenues at their disposal to stop this threat to their lively hood.
Heh, that would be cool. Humans enslaved and forced to,. . .uh. . ., wear kinetic generators around their wrist.
I think to guarantee reception without retransmission of a word with less than x errors, you need a prime field.
Of course, one can check for errors in many different ways, and then ask for a retransmission, or discard the word.
error checking != error correcting
sorry.
We have 10 fingers and base-10 math. Fingers are also called digits Hmm. What significance would a different base have had on us?
Well, we have base-10 arithemetic. Thanks to rigorous analysis, topology, and modern, or abstract, algebra, math has been abstracted away from the arithemetic. Thus all calculations in any other base would be just as valid and possible. I don't think the *base* is of any real significance.
IIRC, error checking codes need to be based on a prime field(a field with a prime number of elements). Thus 4 is a no go.
Binary is not only Simple, any Language using a larger Alphabet could be encoded using binary. That means that anything that is possible on a baseWhatever computer is possible on a binary computer. So you better have a really, really good reason to switch from binary computing.
As far a quantumn computing goes(not that I have any real credibility in that area) the advantage is that you can have a qubit in 2 states at the same point in time, which I think implies that you can actually execute multiple instructions at the same time. So you are still basically using binary computing, just the ammount of finite work that can be accomplished at one time is bigger.
From the article:
The Johnson Center's IT team installed CrossOver Office from CodeWeavers Inc.
Maybe it has to do with the cost of OSX + hardware vs the cost of Linux + hardware.
If all you're after is deterrence, just get a knife. A great, big, "That's not a knife. This is a knife." kind of knife.
One ring to shoot them all!!
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
That's Bamboo Dick, dumbass.
Bamboo Dicks have ethernet?
One Bamboo Dick to rule them all!!
I, D+iz+a+n+k+Meister, would like to congratulate james3v on a 4:20 post. Good work. /. is now a better place. I would now like to swear my allegiance to the 4:20 post and abandon the IN SOVIET RUSSIA post. In closing, I would like to end with my original .sig:
"God put this here for you and me. Take advantage man. Take advantage."--Smokey