People weight: Most people use stones colloquially, lots use kg though. Milk: Supermarkets sell in units of 1,2,4,6 pints (though they are marked in ml). Some shops sell in 500ml etc but it isn't very common. Delivered milk is in pints. All other food: Sold & marked in metric units. Road signs: All in miles, mph, and yards. Petrol: Litres General distance: Miles Clothes dimensions: Inches.
All science/engineering is done in SI units. God knows why you would use anything else.
I did a quick search for soybean oil and it was $8.99 (USD) for a single gallon (cheaper than the organics I saw). We're going to have to bring down the price of soybean oil first for this to be viable.
I'm sure Americans don't pay the full ecological cost for their petrol. $8.99/gallon is £1.36/litre. Petrol currently costs about 90p/litre in England.
Personally I agree with the high tax (and I think Americans should be similarly taxed). People certainly use their cars less frivolously here (or so I hear).
- Choosing the third sound card for the desktop ==Linux: K menu->control centre->sound & multimedia->hardware->"Override device location: 'plugwhw:2,0'" ==Windows: Similar, but you get to choose "Sound blaster Live!" from a list instead of having to pluck 'plughw:2,0' from the aether.
- Getting audacity to use the third sound card ==Linux: Impossible ==Windows: Already done!
I could go on but I think my point is clear. No doubt someone will say "Ah but you can download 'qsfxload' from to make that easier" anyway.
I would do this: install windows, and linux from scratch. Set them up how you like them and record how many times you a) used the shell and b) had to write something like 'ao=alsa:device=hw=2.0' rather than selecting "Soundblaster Live" from a list.
Killing every one who has a disease ? And what's your definition of disease ?
No, just don't fund things that try to save babies who wouldn't normally have survived. It's not like they're going to complain. Their parents might but not if you never create the baby-saving drugs/equipment in the first place.
It does astonish me how many people think that the population can keep growing, and we can keep relying on ever more powerful/expensive drugs and treatments indefinitely. Sooner or later people's lives do have a monetary value. Anyway, I'm straying from the point a bit.
Personally, I'm running Azureus and Netbeans right now, and they're not perceptably different from C++ desktop applications like KDevelop or OpenOffice.
Hmmm... I also use Azureus (it seems to be the only useful java app so far written), and while it is good, the GUI is horribly slow. For example if I go to the 'files' tab of a torrent I can watch as it populates the first column and then fills in the rest of the details. It takes about 2 seconds. Most of the GUI does seem reasonably fast though so maybe it is the fault of the Azureus developers.
once you take the 1st derivation of my features, I start to become quite the looker....since I started trying to integrate myself back to my original look...
You seem to be confused between derivation and differentiation.
The article seems to imply that Cohen invented multi-source downloading
Personally I think BitTorrent's core advantage over other file sharing technologies is also its core architectural weakness, namely its centralised nature.
It's real innovation is the tit-for-tat file sharing. With only multi-source downloading, no-one has an incentive to upload (it uses bandwidth, they risk getting cause supposedly). With tit-for-tat however, you have to upload in order to download at a reasonable speed.
Also, in a slightly related topic, tit-for-tat (ie bittorrent) is generally more successful than always-defect (ie kazaa etc) in the iterated prisoners dilema.
1 inch = 2.5004 cm or something, but they changed it to 1 inch = 2.54 cm
The meter used to be defined in terms of the Earth's diameter, but they changed that so it is the distance light travels in a somethingth of a second. A second is defined in terms of the decay of ceasium.
The only unit that is arbitrary is The One True Kilogram which resides in France.
One thing that stood out to me in this article...the high security they have on campus. CCTV cameras everywhere? Having to swipe access cards to get in any building, etc...
Cambridge, Oxford and Durham aren't campus universities.
The colleges and departments are spread throughout the city.
While my original post was about a kid who Emails the entire internet about the lemonade stand he's putting up next week (or some other innocuous example), there's another issue I see as well...
You know its not that easy to email "the entire internet". When was the last time you got an innocuous spam?
So imagine when someone's Gramma, running a virus infected computer on (for argument's sake) Comcast, get's arrested and convicted for spamming.
I guess you kind of hope that the law enforcement have an ounce of brain and only arrests/convicts the actual spammer.
Why not at least prevent fake sender addresses. Messages could be digitally signed with the senders private key (on their computer) when sent. When you (or your mail server) receives the mail, it contacts the senders supposed mail server (real or fake), and asks for the senders public key. It can then check the signature.
Then you'd at least know if is really from the domain it says it is, and if you trust that domain, you know it is from the user it says too.
You could even automate the entire process. Allow the mail client to generate a key pair, and use your pop3/imap password to upload the public key.
Any flaws in that? Obvioiusly it wouldn't stop all spam, but it would make blacklists more effective, and verifiable senders can't be a bad thing.
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Ok here is a definitive list:
People weight: Most people use stones colloquially, lots use kg though.
Milk: Supermarkets sell in units of 1,2,4,6 pints (though they are marked in ml).
Some shops sell in 500ml etc but it isn't very common. Delivered milk is in pints.
All other food: Sold & marked in metric units.
Road signs: All in miles, mph, and yards.
Petrol: Litres
General distance: Miles
Clothes dimensions: Inches.
All science/engineering is done in SI units. God knows why you would use anything else.
I did a quick search for soybean oil and it was $8.99 (USD) for a single gallon (cheaper than the organics I saw). We're going to have to bring down the price of soybean oil first for this to be viable.
I'm sure Americans don't pay the full ecological cost for their petrol. $8.99/gallon is £1.36/litre. Petrol currently costs about 90p/litre in England.
Personally I agree with the high tax (and I think Americans should be similarly taxed). People certainly use their cars less frivolously here (or so I hear).
The "real barrier" you speak of is the mindset that you have to go to a big-box store and buy your apps.
/etc/init.d; ./networking restart"
The *real problem* is that in linux in order to get midi to work (presumably a reasonably common and simple task in windows) I had to:
a) Download sfxload
b) modprobe snd-seq-midi
c) sfxload CT4MGM.SF2
And even then rosegarden only plays the first note of a piece of music.
I guarantee that 95% of computer users could not do that.
Linux still has serious configuration and missing GUI issues.
Lets look at the complexity of some other common tasks:
- Reinitialise network connection:
==Linux: Shell-> "cd
==Windows: R-click connection->repair connection (or something similarly obvious).
- Choosing the third sound card for the desktop
==Linux: K menu->control centre->sound & multimedia->hardware->"Override device location: 'plugwhw:2,0'"
==Windows: Similar, but you get to choose "Sound blaster Live!" from a list instead of having to pluck 'plughw:2,0' from the aether.
- Getting audacity to use the third sound card
==Linux: Impossible
==Windows: Already done!
I could go on but I think my point is clear. No doubt someone will say "Ah but you can download 'qsfxload' from to make that easier" anyway.
I would do this: install windows, and linux from scratch. Set them up how you like them and record how many times you a) used the shell and b) had to write something like 'ao=alsa:device=hw=2.0' rather than selecting "Soundblaster Live" from a list.
Windows easily wins.
Killing every one who has a disease ? And what's your definition of disease ?
No, just don't fund things that try to save babies who wouldn't normally have survived. It's not like they're going to complain. Their parents might but not if you never create the baby-saving drugs/equipment in the first place.
It does astonish me how many people think that the population can keep growing, and we can keep relying on ever more powerful/expensive drugs and treatments indefinitely. Sooner or later people's lives do have a monetary value. Anyway, I'm straying from the point a bit.
Personally, I'm running Azureus and Netbeans right now, and they're not perceptably different from C++ desktop applications like KDevelop or OpenOffice.
Hmmm... I also use Azureus (it seems to be the only useful java app so far written), and while it is good, the GUI is horribly slow. For example if I go to the 'files' tab of a torrent I can watch as it populates the first column and then fills in the rest of the details. It takes about 2 seconds. Most of the GUI does seem reasonably fast though so maybe it is the fault of the Azureus developers.
once you take the 1st derivation of my features, I start to become quite the looker. ...since I started trying to integrate myself back to my original look...
You seem to be confused between derivation and differentiation.
The article seems to imply that Cohen invented multi-source downloading
Personally I think BitTorrent's core advantage over other file sharing technologies is also its core architectural weakness, namely its centralised nature.
It's real innovation is the tit-for-tat file sharing. With only multi-source downloading, no-one has an incentive to upload (it uses bandwidth, they risk getting cause supposedly). With tit-for-tat however, you have to upload in order to download at a reasonable speed.
Also, in a slightly related topic, tit-for-tat (ie bittorrent) is generally more successful than always-defect (ie kazaa etc) in the iterated prisoners dilema.
Bah, I've got a dead green sub-pixel on my 19" samsung LCD.
You need at least 5 dead or 3 always-on pixels before you can return it.
And that will guarantee that you got everything right? To the point of trusting billion dollar vehicles and people? Sure.
Unless he had some way of faking md5sums, sure.
I makes a difference for me. Fastest I ever got was 0.5 MB/s down with no upload limit. With 20 kB/s upload limit fastest is about 50.
Huh? Is this some new math? Or is it because the jackpot is always behind door #4?
Yeah you only get one chance, and that chance was always 4:1. They just show you some empty doors in order to get you to increase your bet.
In fact, I often underclock the firewalls I build.
I was going to underclock my P4, but then I found that it is locked.
Damn you Intel!
A tubular pick
The new routers compete the Cisco's 3725, 3745, and 83xx routers.
Compete *with*.
Honestly do you people even read what you're posting?
You are wrong.
It used to be
1 inch = 2.5004 cm or something, but they changed it to
1 inch = 2.54 cm
The meter used to be defined in terms of the Earth's diameter, but they changed that so it is the distance light travels in a somethingth of a second. A second is defined in terms of the decay of ceasium.
The only unit that is arbitrary is The One True Kilogram which resides in France.
As far as I know.
One thing that stood out to me in this article...the high security they have on campus. CCTV cameras everywhere? Having to swipe access cards to get in any building, etc...
Cambridge, Oxford and Durham aren't campus universities.
The colleges and departments are spread throughout the city.
And letting big brother monitor everything you do in return for good programming
That doesn't remotely make sense. And besides, big brother is a Channel 4 programme - they don't get any of the TV liscence money.
What is the simplest?
Yeah but you're forgetting the heart of the matter - Kibi, Mebi et al sound crap.
The only problems with .pngs are 1) ... and 2) it didn't support animated pictures like gifs do.
Are you insane? You want annoying animated pngs?
I, for one, welcome our new Maglev overlords.
Maybe slashdot should auto-ban people who post "I for one welcome our [topic] overlords." and "In Soviet Russia, [topic] [verb]'s you."
Or at least punish the people who mod them up.
By my math, Google comes up short by 2.3x10^90 : 1.
Except that google is a search engine, and a googol is 10^100.
While my original post was about a kid who Emails the entire internet about the lemonade stand he's putting up next week (or some other innocuous example), there's another issue I see as well...
You know its not that easy to email "the entire internet". When was the last time you got an innocuous spam?
So imagine when someone's Gramma, running a virus infected computer on (for argument's sake) Comcast, get's arrested and convicted for spamming.
I guess you kind of hope that the law enforcement have an ounce of brain and only arrests/convicts the actual spammer.
Here's an idea:
Why not at least prevent fake sender addresses. Messages could be digitally signed with the senders private key (on their computer) when sent. When you (or your mail server) receives the mail, it contacts the senders supposed mail server (real or fake), and asks for the senders public key. It can then check the signature.
Then you'd at least know if is really from the domain it says it is, and if you trust that domain, you know it is from the user it says too.
You could even automate the entire process. Allow the mail client to generate a key pair, and use your pop3/imap password to upload the public key.
Any flaws in that? Obvioiusly it wouldn't stop all spam, but it would make blacklists more effective, and verifiable senders can't be a bad thing.
I frequently reach download speeds of 800kB/s (yes bytes)
Speed war!
My best was 4.5 MB/s (yes bytes)... Unfortunately, we have NAT, and an 8 GB/month up+down cap. On the plus side, no ports are blocked...
Like food, a roof, shoes...
I was more thinking: Car, house, computer, hifi, maybe no tv...