If you put the two contacts of a voltmeter on your tongue, you'll see a small voltage - because you'd have created a battery with the leads and your saliva. Why not just use the hamster's internal fluids to create a battery?
Okay, I just learned about this, but it could explain everything: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague I, too, have some computers that became very slow. Granted, they have had Windows XP and XP x64 installed for over a year -- but that alone shouldn't slow them down this much.
I'll definitely be looking inside the cases sometime soon...
And use the web server to monitor accesses to your heart's content. This will shows you if someone opens the docs from a foreign country or any other location. Of course it doesn't protect the documents in any complete way - just like with any other DRM, a smart user could circumvent this by using a proxy or making an offline copy of the doc. But then if you don't trust your employees, nothing will work anyway:)
It's usually a good idea to keep your passwords in a convenient application/file on your computer, but you should keep a hard copy backup somewhere safe, like your bank's safety deposit box. This would help in your scenario, as well as help the original owner out a lot in case they lose their password file for whatever reason.
The average computer user is the same as average TV user, a.k.a. Joe Sixpack <sarcasm> *gasp* </sarcasm>
We computer professionals stick around other computer professionals - and nonprofessionals around us absorb enough knowledge from us by osmosis. So of course it FEELS like everyone is computer literate -- but they're not. We develop software for the braindead zombies and the braindead zombies use it.
The point was to add some context to the "500" The quote says that it's only 9x as efficient as the "cutting edge" - so the 500x is comparison to some kind of baseline (old style cells)
"His optimized design provides 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than the cutting-edge, three-dimensional solar cell."
#4281 <Zybl0re> get up <Zybl0re> get on up <Zybl0re> get up <Zybl0re> get on up <phxl|paper> and DANCE * nmp3bot dances:D-< * nmp3bot dances:D|-< * nmp3bot dances:D/-< <[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
source (using web.archive.org because bash.org is down)
What?! By this time they should've built a direct brain interface, a la Johnny Mnemonic. I'll definitely need one of those if I want to live to be 1000 >_<
Actually, I have:D It didn't take me all that long to catch up, though. Kids take you with speed, adults - with cunning. It's the teenage guys you should be worried about, really - they can give you a run for your money. I just tested for my brown belt, BTW - and I fully expected to be asked to take on 2 opponents at once:P The instructor didn't think it necessary this time, though.
They're cool enough to do in front of other people, no matter how bad you are, and you have something to show off to your friends. It's a win-win scenario.
But MPEG has keyframes - you need them for scene changes and error recovery. There's one at least every few seconds. For offline video, the threads can work on different keyframes & their respective deltas.
For online video, it's harder.. but still can be done. Similar to how two-videocard setups work, you can split the image into pieces and have each CPU work on a particular piece, since there's little relation between . Of course it becomes very hard to scale beyond a certain point... but 2-4 cores/CPUs should be doable, algorithm-wise.
What's interesting is, nobody seems to draw a parallel between spikes that appear when clear water is frozen and tin whiskers. Something very similar happens - as the temperature goes down, spikes/whiskers appear. It only happens in pure or near-pure water. And it's a well established fact (although not well understood until recently).
This is too much of a coincidence to not investigate it.
Makes perfect sense to me. They're required by GPL to provide the sources to anyone who purchases one of those notebooks. They're not required to post the ISOs, though.
Who was it that said that "Computer Science" was the worst thing to happen to both computers and science?
Right now, everyone thinks in terms of Turing Machines - we tell the computer what to do. In functional programming, you tell the computer what result you want to achieve (in terms of formulas and such) - and it does it for you.
It's hard to grasp for someone who's used to the Turing way, but it's not for someone who hasn't dealt with it. Programmer should be able to give hints to the CPU (for optimization, etc.), but not detailed instructions as we do now.
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If you put the two contacts of a voltmeter on your tongue, you'll see a small voltage - because you'd have created a battery with the leads and your saliva. Why not just use the hamster's internal fluids to create a battery?
LOL :D
Bravo, well played!
Okay, I just learned about this, but it could explain everything: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
I, too, have some computers that became very slow. Granted, they have had Windows XP and XP x64 installed for over a year -- but that alone shouldn't slow them down this much.
I'll definitely be looking inside the cases sometime soon...
...I've gotten rusty over the years, shaddup!
I was hoping for more of a challenge, sheesh.
Then again, it was a somewhat enjoyable coffee break distraction.
And use the web server to monitor accesses to your heart's content. This will shows you if someone opens the docs from a foreign country or any other location. :)
Of course it doesn't protect the documents in any complete way - just like with any other DRM, a smart user could circumvent this by using a proxy or making an offline copy of the doc.
But then if you don't trust your employees, nothing will work anyway
It's usually a good idea to keep your passwords in a convenient application/file on your computer, but you should keep a hard copy backup somewhere safe, like your bank's safety deposit box. This would help in your scenario, as well as help the original owner out a lot in case they lose their password file for whatever reason.
I keep hearing that red and white cars get the most tickets. Glad to hear that someone finally found an explanation for that phenomenon.
*snicker*
Consider a spherical cow... :)
Very impressive! Make a Babbage Difference Engine next!
Learn your memes!
Sincerely, /b/tard
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The average computer user is the same as average TV user, a.k.a. Joe Sixpack
<sarcasm>
*gasp*
</sarcasm>
We computer professionals stick around other computer professionals - and nonprofessionals around us absorb enough knowledge from us by osmosis. So of course it FEELS like everyone is computer literate -- but they're not. We develop software for the braindead zombies and the braindead zombies use it.
The point was to add some context to the "500"
The quote says that it's only 9x as efficient as the "cutting edge" - so the 500x is comparison to some kind of baseline (old style cells)
"His optimized design provides 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than the cutting-edge, three-dimensional solar cell."
#4281 :D-< :D|-< :D/-<
<Zybl0re> get up
<Zybl0re> get on up
<Zybl0re> get up
<Zybl0re> get on up
<phxl|paper> and DANCE
* nmp3bot dances
* nmp3bot dances
* nmp3bot dances
<[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
source
(using web.archive.org because bash.org is down)
This upgrade brings the computer closer back to the Turing Machine :)
Except we'd have the same problem as we do now: doped athletes who can't win in the doped league will try to steal the top spot in the natural league
What?! By this time they should've built a direct brain interface, a la Johnny Mnemonic. I'll definitely need one of those if I want to live to be 1000 >_<
Actually, I have :D :P The instructor didn't think it necessary this time, though.
It didn't take me all that long to catch up, though. Kids take you with speed, adults - with cunning. It's the teenage guys you should be worried about, really - they can give you a run for your money.
I just tested for my brown belt, BTW - and I fully expected to be asked to take on 2 opponents at once
They're cool enough to do in front of other people, no matter how bad you are, and you have something to show off to your friends. It's a win-win scenario.
But MPEG has keyframes - you need them for scene changes and error recovery. There's one at least every few seconds. For offline video, the threads can work on different keyframes & their respective deltas.
For online video, it's harder.. but still can be done. Similar to how two-videocard setups work, you can split the image into pieces and have each CPU work on a particular piece, since there's little relation between . Of course it becomes very hard to scale beyond a certain point... but 2-4 cores/CPUs should be doable, algorithm-wise.
Sounds like what you need is TCP Vegas. It emphasizes packet delay, not loss, so it should work well for you. DD-WRT supports it: see this thread.
What's interesting is, nobody seems to draw a parallel between spikes that appear when clear water is frozen and tin whiskers.
Something very similar happens - as the temperature goes down, spikes/whiskers appear. It only happens in pure or near-pure water. And it's a well established fact (although not well understood until recently).
This is too much of a coincidence to not investigate it.
Makes perfect sense to me.
They're required by GPL to provide the sources to anyone who purchases one of those notebooks. They're not required to post the ISOs, though.
Who was it that said that "Computer Science" was the worst thing to happen to both computers and science?
Right now, everyone thinks in terms of Turing Machines - we tell the computer what to do. In functional programming, you tell the computer what result you want to achieve (in terms of formulas and such) - and it does it for you.
It's hard to grasp for someone who's used to the Turing way, but it's not for someone who hasn't dealt with it. Programmer should be able to give hints to the CPU (for optimization, etc.), but not detailed instructions as we do now.
...and nobody ever thought that the batteries could be sneaked in? Hell, some (if not all) phones can work powered by USB connection alone.