Really? I had actually written down that in the 1st place but tried a google "define: medium" search which rendered only definitions related to the psychic thingy. Stupid TV shows.
Refraction is produced in an interface between 2 different milieus. The sunrise/sunset effect is because the light comes from outside the atmosphere and enters it, therefore producing an angle variation. A laser pointer shot inside the atmoshpere does not experience this effect, because it never changes its propagation milieu. In an homogeneous substance (such as athmospheric air at a given height, like the situation you describe) light travels in a straight line (minus gravitational effects that are hardly important on Earth).
If the effect you describe actually happened you could see a lot more around the earth than the horizon you see when you stand in a field.
PS: Sorry about the word "milieu", the word i'm looking for is "milieu" in french and "medio" in spanish - i've seen milieu used before in English so I went with that, but I don't know if it's the right word.
Black backgrounds are easier to read - white backgrounds emit a lot of photons, whereas black backgrounds with white/gray/yellow text emit photons at a rate orders of magnitude lower.
Ah! I knew it! Those stinky photons, making my fonts so hard to read!! I'll read books in the dark from now on.
Very few people actually need the features that set PS apart from Gimp. For your average photo retouching task, Gimp is perfectly suited. It is when you need to interface with the outside world through more than just a JPEG that you need stuff like 16-bit support, Genuine Fractals, ICC profiles and a few more of those. Given that few people actually calibrate their printing process or print anything larger than 20x30cm, PS remains a niche application.
My point was that unconstitutionality is not a real argument against anything except for a constitution amendment. Sure, you have to follow The Book (that's why it's there), but the fact that a constitution bans something just means that some guys, at some point, thought it was bad. It's not a real argument.
I don't think you should ignore a constitution. But I also don't think that you should discard socialized health care just because a piece of paper written eons ago instructs you to do so. Being unconstitutional is not a reason why you shouldn't have federalized health care: it's a reason why you should give a constitution amendment a thought.
In fact, many constitutions in the world dictate that the state is the ultimate responsible entity when it comes to the people's safety and education. If you can't afford private sector health care or education, the state has to provide you with a free (except for taxes, obviously) alternative.
Hey, I'm all for sticking to the system and the Constitution. Still, the fact that socialized health care is unconstitutional is not proof that it is somehow inherently bad, which was my point.
federalized health care is blatantly unconstitutional Get over it. A constitution is a freaking book. It's not some sort of divinity. It's just law, and as such, it's good for trials and judges, not for arguments between people. That's the whole point of your beloved amendments: having the damn book say what smart people (people that didn't refute arguments by saying they were unconstitutional, but instead chose to question the limitations of The Book) thought it should say.
a) People don't just "add stuff to the Debian repositories". Debian Package Maintainers do, after a looong boring process. b) Even if they did, having stuff in the Debian repositories doesn't make it available for Ubuntu users, which have their one separate reps.
Still this will probably make it to debian non-free and ubuntu multiverse at some not-too-distant point.
In life, there are many situations where you need to take a decision based on incomplete or lacking information. These situations are usually mathematically characterized by what's called a Statistical Hypothesis Test. This type of test involves either the acceptance of a hypothesis, or the rejection of it.
As such, there are 2 possible error situations: either you rejected the hypothesis and it was true, therefore you were wrong, or you accepted it and it was false, making you wrong again. In general these 2 types of errors are very distinct and people generally try to minimize one respect to the other.
For example, in criminal trial cases, the system is so that for every innocent that goes to jail, many, many guilty individuals have walked out the door. This is because it has been decided that putting an innocent in jail is much worse, and that's the source of the classic "guilty beyond all reasonable doubt" statement. Many, many times, there *is* reasonable doubt and the defendant walks: he's "innocent until proven guilty".
When you argue about hurricane prediction, the dynamics are similar in concept but very different in shape. I am pretty sure the US Gvt. has many, many weather prediction consultants which have different opinions. This includes the very accurate report you mention, and probably some other now-not-so-accurate reports. The resources for city/state evacuation, OTOH, are pretty limited. Unlike criminal cases where a whole circus is thrown at the crime scene and police investigation for a simple situation, you can never have too many resources for preparing a state for a heavy hurricane if it wasn't planned from the start. Therefore the balance is shifted: no longer can you afford to make either type of error. It's a losing game! If you evacuate a city and nothing happens, a lot of money has been wasted - you might not afford to evacuate somewhere else next month. If you don't evacuate and it does happen, it's pretty bad too.
My point is: In every catastrophic situation there are people who made mistakes, and with Gvt. issues there is probably some paperwork proving it, too. Some journalist will dig it out and people will raise their hands demanding his blood. There is *always* a report that predicted it. But that's just half of the story. It is precisely because intelligence agencies are letting less and less reports slip through that people are complaining much more about their civil liberties.
Such is the nature of the game - you can't win 100% of the time.
PS: I hope this blurb meant something to a real english speaker (unlike me).
As much as I love python, I have seen stuff like PySH and it looks like crappy bash. I don't think Python is well suited for a shell because of the space-sensitiveness issue. Bash sucks for a programming language, though. Writing bash scripts feels like writing CSS for IE. Some other scripting languange should take its place.
I can do that too. It's the high pitched sound of the transformer in the TV. You can get a sample of the same effect with a camera flash charging it's capacitor.
So a) you rectify it or b) you don't. You do get some flicker if you don't, but it's not too bad. Actually if you wave your hand in front of conumer electronics's power led (such as your tv) you might find out it's quickly switching on and off.
LED's dont produce a full spectrum of light, and it is hideously expensive to get decent power output out of LEDs. Studio photographers can just use flash, but moviemakers need continuous light.
That's just stupid. A well designed AJAX app is faster to use than a regular one. Page reloads suck for applications. Have you seen Google Mail, with embedded Talk client, or maybe Calendar, or even the DHTML beta of slashdot's comments (barely AJAX, but still)? Those kick ass compared to older versions. A well designed AJAX app is great. Most AJAX apps suck, but it's not AJAX fault. And yes, it's sort of a hack. So what? So is every standards compliant site that looks good.
They ask you to solve this in front of the interviewer, on a whiteboard. You won't be asked to implement and train an ANN traveling salesman solver on a freaking whiteboard. I think it's a good question. Trivial if you do research in a related field or work in areas related to AI, but for typical Java servlet monkeys I think it could be complicated. It's not as if the admission process consisted solely of that question.
What would be a good interview question, in your opinion?
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Really? I had actually written down that in the 1st place but tried a google "define: medium" search which rendered only definitions related to the psychic thingy. Stupid TV shows.
Refraction is produced in an interface between 2 different milieus. The sunrise/sunset effect is because the light comes from outside the atmosphere and enters it, therefore producing an angle variation. A laser pointer shot inside the atmoshpere does not experience this effect, because it never changes its propagation milieu. In an homogeneous substance (such as athmospheric air at a given height, like the situation you describe) light travels in a straight line (minus gravitational effects that are hardly important on Earth).
If the effect you describe actually happened you could see a lot more around the earth than the horizon you see when you stand in a field.
PS: Sorry about the word "milieu", the word i'm looking for is "milieu" in french and "medio" in spanish - i've seen milieu used before in English so I went with that, but I don't know if it's the right word.
Black backgrounds are easier to read - white backgrounds emit a lot of photons, whereas black backgrounds with white/gray/yellow text emit photons at a rate orders of magnitude lower.
Ah! I knew it! Those stinky photons, making my fonts so hard to read!! I'll read books in the dark from now on.
Very few people actually need the features that set PS apart from Gimp. For your average photo retouching task, Gimp is perfectly suited. It is when you need to interface with the outside world through more than just a JPEG that you need stuff like 16-bit support, Genuine Fractals, ICC profiles and a few more of those. Given that few people actually calibrate their printing process or print anything larger than 20x30cm, PS remains a niche application.
I think you are referring to Manchester encoding. It halves the bandwidth, though.
IMO 2 spaces is not nearly enough. I find 4 spaces to be OK, and if 5 was a power of 2, I would probably use that.
Huh? Did you even read anything of what I wrote? /me checks out http://alfter.us/
Oh, I get it now.
My point was that unconstitutionality is not a real argument against anything except for a constitution amendment. Sure, you have to follow The Book (that's why it's there), but the fact that a constitution bans something just means that some guys, at some point, thought it was bad. It's not a real argument.
I don't think you should ignore a constitution. But I also don't think that you should discard socialized health care just because a piece of paper written eons ago instructs you to do so. Being unconstitutional is not a reason why you shouldn't have federalized health care: it's a reason why you should give a constitution amendment a thought.
In fact, many constitutions in the world dictate that the state is the ultimate responsible entity when it comes to the people's safety and education. If you can't afford private sector health care or education, the state has to provide you with a free (except for taxes, obviously) alternative.
Hey, I'm all for sticking to the system and the Constitution. Still, the fact that socialized health care is unconstitutional is not proof that it is somehow inherently bad, which was my point.
Therefore and because yumminess is transitive, the same comment applies to Slackware as a whole.
-- Your local deb-based distribution evangelist
Huh?
a) People don't just "add stuff to the Debian repositories". Debian Package Maintainers do, after a looong boring process.
b) Even if they did, having stuff in the Debian repositories doesn't make it available for Ubuntu users, which have their one separate reps.
Still this will probably make it to debian non-free and ubuntu multiverse at some not-too-distant point.
Just tar xvzf data.tar.gz -C/ to unpack it
Yummy.
Here's something you might want to consider.
In life, there are many situations where you need to take a decision based on incomplete or lacking information. These situations are usually mathematically characterized by what's called a Statistical Hypothesis Test. This type of test involves either the acceptance of a hypothesis, or the rejection of it.
As such, there are 2 possible error situations: either you rejected the hypothesis and it was true, therefore you were wrong, or you accepted it and it was false, making you wrong again. In general these 2 types of errors are very distinct and people generally try to minimize one respect to the other.
For example, in criminal trial cases, the system is so that for every innocent that goes to jail, many, many guilty individuals have walked out the door. This is because it has been decided that putting an innocent in jail is much worse, and that's the source of the classic "guilty beyond all reasonable doubt" statement. Many, many times, there *is* reasonable doubt and the defendant walks: he's "innocent until proven guilty".
When you argue about hurricane prediction, the dynamics are similar in concept but very different in shape. I am pretty sure the US Gvt. has many, many weather prediction consultants which have different opinions. This includes the very accurate report you mention, and probably some other now-not-so-accurate reports. The resources for city/state evacuation, OTOH, are pretty limited. Unlike criminal cases where a whole circus is thrown at the crime scene and police investigation for a simple situation, you can never have too many resources for preparing a state for a heavy hurricane if it wasn't planned from the start. Therefore the balance is shifted: no longer can you afford to make either type of error. It's a losing game! If you evacuate a city and nothing happens, a lot of money has been wasted - you might not afford to evacuate somewhere else next month. If you don't evacuate and it does happen, it's pretty bad too.
My point is: In every catastrophic situation there are people who made mistakes, and with Gvt. issues there is probably some paperwork proving it, too. Some journalist will dig it out and people will raise their hands demanding his blood. There is *always* a report that predicted it. But that's just half of the story. It is precisely because intelligence agencies are letting less and less reports slip through that people are complaining much more about their civil liberties.
Such is the nature of the game - you can't win 100% of the time.
PS: I hope this blurb meant something to a real english speaker (unlike me).
He had a hammer. A _HAMMER_. You can't talk to people like that. They are dangerous.
As much as I love python, I have seen stuff like PySH and it looks like crappy bash. I don't think Python is well suited for a shell because of the space-sensitiveness issue. Bash sucks for a programming language, though. Writing bash scripts feels like writing CSS for IE. Some other scripting languange should take its place.
I can do that too. It's the high pitched sound of the transformer in the TV. You can get a sample of the same effect with a camera flash charging it's capacitor.
So a) you rectify it or b) you don't. You do get some flicker if you don't, but it's not too bad. Actually if you wave your hand in front of conumer electronics's power led (such as your tv) you might find out it's quickly switching on and off.
LED's dont produce a full spectrum of light, and it is hideously expensive to get decent power output out of LEDs. Studio photographers can just use flash, but moviemakers need continuous light.
There is a "dead end" sign there.
That already exists and it costs a ton of money.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/01/15/noiseless_
That's just stupid. A well designed AJAX app is faster to use than a regular one. Page reloads suck for applications. Have you seen Google Mail, with embedded Talk client, or maybe Calendar, or even the DHTML beta of slashdot's comments (barely AJAX, but still)? Those kick ass compared to older versions. A well designed AJAX app is great. Most AJAX apps suck, but it's not AJAX fault. And yes, it's sort of a hack. So what? So is every standards compliant site that looks good.
They ask you to solve this in front of the interviewer, on a whiteboard. You won't be asked to implement and train an ANN traveling salesman solver on a freaking whiteboard. I think it's a good question. Trivial if you do research in a related field or work in areas related to AI, but for typical Java servlet monkeys I think it could be complicated. It's not as if the admission process consisted solely of that question.
What would be a good interview question, in your opinion?
I did the tests, Lame 192 *VBR* with the high quality setting is perfect to me.