2. Relax. Because it'll be the last chance I get before I become a wage slave.
As a computer engineering student, I just thought I would let you know that chances are you wont have much time to "relax" in college.
Although that may be different for those in Computer Science. If I took Comp. Sci instead of Comp. Eng, I would be coasting through without a care in the world, along with every other script kiddy.
Seriously though, I barely have time to breath. I am my seccond year in and stressed like hell. Come September I have to abandon pretty much all independant projects unless they have something specifically to do with my courses (which thank god are actually quite interesting).
I wonder if anybody lives at the top of a cliff near by a commonly flooding river(waterfall perhaps) With an active volcano nearby...
Personally, I live in a flood plane but we're relatively well protected by a massive "floodway" that routes floodwater around the city (visible from space actually. =) Other than the remote possibility of the floodway failing, we are relatively safe. No tornados, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos.
No, I dont think thats the problem.
The problem is that you search for prdoduct A, and you get a bunch of search results, plus a bunch of google adwords. The adWords contain the competitors companies/products that use the trade marked name in order to get higher results.
It would be like Ford selling a car and in their advertisements claiming that its a Toyota.
I dont really agree with this frivilous lawsuit. I think that the person who placed the Ad(s) should be the ones who are liable for trademark infringement. It would be impractical (impossible?) for google to scan all of their advertisements for trademark infringement. Maybe they will create some sort of trademark search engine.
We have already had this service where I live for a year or two. Drives the cable company nuts, because now the phone company offers phone, internet, and (better) tv.
What if we gave them a whole variety of weapons that could be rotated through. Such as a hand gun, machine gun, gatling gun, rocket launcher, shotgun, etc...
Then we could interface the machine with an FPS game and let people select weapons with the mouse scroll wheel.. And it can pick up any munitions, "health packs" or "armor shards" that it happens to "find" and maybe even throw grenades..
hrm.... And then you could get a whole bunch of them and stick them in one location, "map" if you will where they can duke and nuke it out forever.
I think maybe they dont mean a flash as in a high voltage camera flash to illuminate the shot, but rather something simple like a red led next to the lense that can be seen by those in the photo.
They could even market it as a feature. Red Eye reduction... although I am not sure you have to worry about red eye when theres no flash, but you get the point.
For a recording video, you could just have this light stay blinking (or on constant) much like many existing camcorders already do. Wouldnt drain battery life too much and 90% of those buying the phone wouldnt mind, unless you are explicitly using the phone for things that you shouldnt be.
My damn profs all complain if we do it like that. I personally prefer it in that style, and I have been using it for years. Its really difficult to switch.
Their reasoning behind it is that you can, at a glance, line up the brackets to figure out which } belongs to which {. Which to me seems irrelevent because after a while of coding the other way you begin to match up the } to the actual control structure. Not to mention the obvious nature of the indentation.
It sounds to me like outsourcing to countries with a lower economy acts as a sort of a global equalizer.
Give it some time and eventually IMHO the economies of both countries (US and India) will level out to the point where its no longer as advantageous to outsource and at this point India and the USA will have an equal and competitive market.
This seems really neat, but definately not practical. What happens when a car breaks down or stalls on its way through the intersection?
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Actually, I am a PHP developer for some major porn sites. The sites that I work with, however, arent the end user sites that people pay to view, I work with the sites where porn webmasters go to buy their content.
Surprisingly, it has to be fairly dynamic. Most of the work that my software has to do is in posting the content for the first time. You upload a zip, and the software will extract the zip taking the images makes thumbs and full sized samples with embedded watermarks. From this point on, the software is basically an advanced shopping cart with some extra features like the ability to order individual images out of a particular zip, and instant download.
The sites that I have setup are surprisingly popular, and within the past year and a half, the sites I work with have sold closs to half a million dollars worth of porn. That may not seem much to a big business tycoon, but it is when theres only a handfull of people making the profit.
I dont know how well the end user sales are however. I like this hardened php stuff and I think it has great potential. I am waiting for them to come out with a PHP5 version, and then I will jump right on it because all of my newer projects are going to be in php5.
Because it comes from a more credible source and has been already been proven. Its hard to wrap your head around, but you have to think of it like this. Waves and Particles are completely different things, a particle is localized and we *know* where it is and exactly how big it is. A wave is not like that at all, it is delocalized. A wave can be everywhere at once; it may have a higher probability of being in one spot than another, but it cannot be determined exactly where it is. When we start to look at quantom particles/waves such as light and electrons, the rules combines in a counter-intuitive way. Basically, the photon that may be going through the single slit still interferes with itself as if it were also going through the other slits because of its wave like nature.
Google around for Quantum Theory and you should find more info on it.
I never said it would be easier to understand. I myself have a bit of difficulty understanding it because it was only briefly covered in my Physics: Wave Mechanics course at University.
Basically, the photon occupies all slits, until you look for it. This is one of the problems that they have quantum computing. You do many calculations simultaneously, but when you look for an answer it will localize onto one result. The problem with this is that when you look for the result, it physically changes the state of the computation.
This is by far the stupidest thing I have read in a while on slashdot. The results from the experiment have absolutely nothing to do with parallel universes.
Light is actaully a wave, (not paying any attention to photon duality at this point), and when you send the laser plane wave through the two holes (a plane wave is one that is pretty much straight and radiating in only one direction), the light from the two holes will radiate from all directions as heygens (sp?) emitters.
Now, if you can imagine, you have two sources of light each emitting a spherical wave in all directions. One property that a wave has that a clasical particle does not, is interference. If you think of a sine wave and you overlap it with another sin wave that is shifted by PI radians, then they will cancel each other out. Simmilarily, when the light is in phase, you will get a bright fringe, and when it is out of phase, you will get a dark fringe.
Another effect that exists is diffraction. This one is a little touher to explain, but it too will generate maxiums and minimums giving multiple fringe packets on the screen (in this case, the wall).
When they are talking about sending individual photons through the slits, this is a bit more difficult to explain, but basically works on the duality of light, in some circumstances acting like a particle, and in others acting like a wave. The light does go through all of the slits, and each slit will have an equal probability of having the photon in it. This is the light acting in its wave form. The moment you *look* for the location of a single phonton, the photon will collapse back onto the particle sense and give you an exact location.
This experiment has also been repeated with electrons, a known particle that also behaves like a wave, and simmilar results were found.
Actually, this reminds me of an interesting project I worked on a while back. Qdine.com It basically is a site that lists a bunch of menus from a variety of restaurants in various cities, and you fill out your order, and goto checkout and the orders faxed to the restaurant who then bill you and deliver you your food.
After the first order, it would allow ordering with just two or three clicks. Kinda neat for people who order the same thing frequently.
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Here is a link to said pdf: PDF
Just for a point of reference, does anybody know how many floating point operations a 3.2ghz processor can do per seccond?
I know its not 3.2billion because most micro operations take at least 3 or 4 clock cycles.
2. Relax. Because it'll be the last chance I get before I become a wage slave.
As a computer engineering student, I just thought I would let you know that chances are you wont have much time to "relax" in college.
Although that may be different for those in Computer Science. If I took Comp. Sci instead of Comp. Eng, I would be coasting through without a care in the world, along with every other script kiddy.
Seriously though, I barely have time to breath. I am my seccond year in and stressed like hell. Come September I have to abandon pretty much all independant projects unless they have something specifically to do with my courses (which thank god are actually quite interesting).
I wonder if anybody lives at the top of a cliff near by a commonly flooding river(waterfall perhaps) With an active volcano nearby...
Personally, I live in a flood plane but we're relatively well protected by a massive "floodway" that routes floodwater around the city (visible from space actually. =) Other than the remote possibility of the floodway failing, we are relatively safe. No tornados, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos.
/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
No, I dont think thats the problem. The problem is that you search for prdoduct A, and you get a bunch of search results, plus a bunch of google adwords. The adWords contain the competitors companies/products that use the trade marked name in order to get higher results. It would be like Ford selling a car and in their advertisements claiming that its a Toyota. I dont really agree with this frivilous lawsuit. I think that the person who placed the Ad(s) should be the ones who are liable for trademark infringement. It would be impractical (impossible?) for google to scan all of their advertisements for trademark infringement. Maybe they will create some sort of trademark search engine.
We have already had this service where I live for a year or two. Drives the cable company nuts, because now the phone company offers phone, internet, and (better) tv.
In soviet russia, computers control you.
What if we gave them a whole variety of weapons that could be rotated through. Such as a hand gun, machine gun, gatling gun, rocket launcher, shotgun, etc...
Then we could interface the machine with an FPS game and let people select weapons with the mouse scroll wheel.. And it can pick up any munitions, "health packs" or "armor shards" that it happens to "find" and maybe even throw grenades..
hrm.... And then you could get a whole bunch of them and stick them in one location, "map" if you will where they can duke and nuke it out forever.
oh wait...
I dunno, taking photos of things (Intelectual Property) that are supposed to be secrets, or people that dont want their photos taken..
I think maybe they dont mean a flash as in a high voltage camera flash to illuminate the shot, but rather something simple like a red led next to the lense that can be seen by those in the photo.
They could even market it as a feature. Red Eye reduction... although I am not sure you have to worry about red eye when theres no flash, but you get the point.
For a recording video, you could just have this light stay blinking (or on constant) much like many existing camcorders already do. Wouldnt drain battery life too much and 90% of those buying the phone wouldnt mind, unless you are explicitly using the phone for things that you shouldnt be.
I have Photoshop 7.0 (and ImageReady) running under CrossOver Office 3.0.1
Photoshop works fine in crossover.
Maybe they want to run PearPC at a decent speed.
My damn profs all complain if we do it like that. I personally prefer it in that style, and I have been using it for years. Its really difficult to switch. Their reasoning behind it is that you can, at a glance, line up the brackets to figure out which } belongs to which {. Which to me seems irrelevent because after a while of coding the other way you begin to match up the } to the actual control structure. Not to mention the obvious nature of the indentation.
It sounds to me like outsourcing to countries with a lower economy acts as a sort of a global equalizer. Give it some time and eventually IMHO the economies of both countries (US and India) will level out to the point where its no longer as advantageous to outsource and at this point India and the USA will have an equal and competitive market.
Canada's big and on top. If this were prison, you'd be our bitch. (btw, I am Canadian if you couldnt tell...)
What about the same principle, but working with a huge traffic circle?
This seems really neat, but definately not practical. What happens when a car breaks down or stalls on its way through the intersection?
Actually, I am a PHP developer for some major porn sites. The sites that I work with, however, arent the end user sites that people pay to view, I work with the sites where porn webmasters go to buy their content.
Surprisingly, it has to be fairly dynamic. Most of the work that my software has to do is in posting the content for the first time. You upload a zip, and the software will extract the zip taking the images makes thumbs and full sized samples with embedded watermarks. From this point on, the software is basically an advanced shopping cart with some extra features like the ability to order individual images out of a particular zip, and instant download.
The sites that I have setup are surprisingly popular, and within the past year and a half, the sites I work with have sold closs to half a million dollars worth of porn. That may not seem much to a big business tycoon, but it is when theres only a handfull of people making the profit.
I dont know how well the end user sales are however. I like this hardened php stuff and I think it has great potential. I am waiting for them to come out with a PHP5 version, and then I will jump right on it because all of my newer projects are going to be in php5.
Because it comes from a more credible source and has been already been proven. Its hard to wrap your head around, but you have to think of it like this. Waves and Particles are completely different things, a particle is localized and we *know* where it is and exactly how big it is. A wave is not like that at all, it is delocalized. A wave can be everywhere at once; it may have a higher probability of being in one spot than another, but it cannot be determined exactly where it is. When we start to look at quantom particles/waves such as light and electrons, the rules combines in a counter-intuitive way. Basically, the photon that may be going through the single slit still interferes with itself as if it were also going through the other slits because of its wave like nature. Google around for Quantum Theory and you should find more info on it.
I never said it would be easier to understand. I myself have a bit of difficulty understanding it because it was only briefly covered in my Physics: Wave Mechanics course at University.
Basically, the photon occupies all slits, until you look for it. This is one of the problems that they have quantum computing. You do many calculations simultaneously, but when you look for an answer it will localize onto one result. The problem with this is that when you look for the result, it physically changes the state of the computation.
This is by far the stupidest thing I have read in a while on slashdot. The results from the experiment have absolutely nothing to do with parallel universes.
Light is actaully a wave, (not paying any attention to photon duality at this point), and when you send the laser plane wave through the two holes (a plane wave is one that is pretty much straight and radiating in only one direction), the light from the two holes will radiate from all directions as heygens (sp?) emitters.
Now, if you can imagine, you have two sources of light each emitting a spherical wave in all directions. One property that a wave has that a clasical particle does not, is interference. If you think of a sine wave and you overlap it with another sin wave that is shifted by PI radians, then they will cancel each other out. Simmilarily, when the light is in phase, you will get a bright fringe, and when it is out of phase, you will get a dark fringe.
Another effect that exists is diffraction. This one is a little touher to explain, but it too will generate maxiums and minimums giving multiple fringe packets on the screen (in this case, the wall).
When they are talking about sending individual photons through the slits, this is a bit more difficult to explain, but basically works on the duality of light, in some circumstances acting like a particle, and in others acting like a wave. The light does go through all of the slits, and each slit will have an equal probability of having the photon in it. This is the light acting in its wave form. The moment you *look* for the location of a single phonton, the photon will collapse back onto the particle sense and give you an exact location.
This experiment has also been repeated with electrons, a known particle that also behaves like a wave, and simmilar results were found.
Actually, this reminds me of an interesting project I worked on a while back. Qdine.com It basically is a site that lists a bunch of menus from a variety of restaurants in various cities, and you fill out your order, and goto checkout and the orders faxed to the restaurant who then bill you and deliver you your food.
After the first order, it would allow ordering with just two or three clicks. Kinda neat for people who order the same thing frequently.
As long as the commercials have recognizable ID3 tags that I can delete (spam filter for your stream ripper?) Then I would still be happy. =)