It mentions that the Tobacco residue in dust and residue on surfaces (and air) has an impact on the inhabitants of the household (a potential candidate for stating the obvious award).
And then a quick search for environmental tobacco smoke brings up:
A 2006 report of the U.S. Surgeon General states that: "There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent. The finding is of major public health concern due to the fact that nearly half of all nonsmoking Americans are still regularly exposed to secondhand smoke."
When you disturb a smokers PC you'll have a nice pocket of highly concentrated dust which has a nice coating of carcinogens... yummy
Actually, the 'not seeing' part is reasonably straightforward to solve (lots of interaction between servers), but there would be a lot of cases of "weirdness along the edge"
Anyone who's done at least the modicum of thought into the solving of player density & server loading in MMOs would have hit this one.
Grandparent post is correct. To anthropomorphize things a little...
GA/GP cheat unreservedly. If they find even the smallest amount of wiggle room in your fitness function, they will leverage it, and give you 'interesting' results.
That includes not only the fitness scale you give it, but on how you measure the fitness too.
All heady stuff, I've wasted many days of cpu cycles playing around with GP - great fun:o)
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And smoking materials have suddenly become non-carcinogenic?
Here's a link to a study you might be interested in http://ash.org/etshomestudy.html
It mentions that the Tobacco residue in dust and residue on surfaces (and air) has an impact on the inhabitants of the household (a potential candidate for stating the obvious award).
And then a quick search for environmental tobacco smoke brings up:
A 2006 report of the U.S. Surgeon General states that: "There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent. The finding is of major public health concern due to the fact that nearly half of all nonsmoking Americans are still regularly exposed to secondhand smoke."
When you disturb a smokers PC you'll have a nice pocket of highly concentrated dust which has a nice coating of carcinogens ... yummy
Is that enough reality for you ? :o)
Smokers PCs = Disgusting.
I'm sure, but the question was are they a health hazard to work on?
With the current legislation and health and safety guidelines - yes.
Whilst I don't agree with the profanity, I agree with the sentiment.
This site used to be such a haven for trolls and geeks, now it's full of wannabes for both :(
No but there are tangerines and apricots does that help?
You really *haven't* worked on a computer owned by a smoker then.
I'm a non-smoker, and the last time I opened the case of a PC from a department which smoked, I nearly puked.
I think we just got them a new (old) PC from the IT desk and ordered a new one for us, and skipped the broken one.
Smokers PCs = Disgusting.
Can somebody say "Data protection act" ?
There are quite a few 'tuned car "manufacturers"' operating.
I for the life of me can't remember any of them other than AMG (but they're part of the same group) so they're probably licensed.
Anyhow, my point still stands. If I wanted to buy a brand new tricked out Mini there would be a company out there that would be glad to sell it to me.
(Minis are horrible things now BMW have them)
Oh wait ... you mean *crackers*
Gotchya!
http://www.livescribe.com/
I have one of these, and I wish I had one at uni/school. it's awesome. go look at it.
That's superglue ... if you didn't know.
Please do try not to stick your fingers together or to something else.
Actually, the 'not seeing' part is reasonably straightforward to solve (lots of interaction between servers), but there would be a lot of cases of "weirdness along the edge"
Anyone who's done at least the modicum of thought into the solving of player density & server loading in MMOs would have hit this one.
Grandparent post is correct. To anthropomorphize things a little...
GA/GP cheat unreservedly. If they find even the smallest amount of wiggle room in your fitness function, they will leverage it, and give you 'interesting' results.
That includes not only the fitness scale you give it, but on how you measure the fitness too.
All heady stuff, I've wasted many days of cpu cycles playing around with GP - great fun :o)
A Maser?
By the Gods, that must mean the US healthcare system really sucks!
You must be new here.
Reading TFA?
LOL!
Whippersnapper!
Get off my lawn!
- From the guy with a uint16 uid
Why not link to http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ themselves ?
Oh wait ... this is /.
My Bad.
IBM Model M is correct.
Accept no substitute (if you're in PC/Linux land)
I'd love Apple to package one ... can you imagine a bluetooth Model M? That would be awesome.
Alas we do not live in a world of sparkly rain and Unicorns :(
Sounds like John Koza ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Koza ) or someone following his research
> By the time I got to college the 3.5" disks were starting to come out and this trick didn't work on them.
Are you kidding ?
Punching a hole to make 3.5" SD disks (720K in DOS) in HD disks (1440K in dos) worked just fine!
However, I can, and do remember single sided 3.5" disks (really early ones), and they were not fun at all.
They were really single sided!
They're behind you!
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I look forward to killing you with a map soon!
But surely they 'froze' during transit?
It's pretty cold in space....
I suggest you watch the film fight club.
Seriously whoever modded you up needs shooting.
I should know better. I've been here a while.
Are there a lot of these kinds of problems? What manufacturer do you work for ?
Lasers on the moon?