because as years from 1900, it can be a byte up till 2155 or thereabouts and save memory (so theres a y2.155k problem due to ppl saving memory, but i doubt it couldn't be changed to a (small) int in another century or so, with no adverse effects, if its still a byte)
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the problem is, other than shrapnel and fumes (which i'm sure a hardened bot could handle), object avoidance....
unless you're drunk, stoned, an on acid, you're not gonna run over your kid brother with a lawn mower (at least if your parents are around...:), but a robot might not be that great, and then you have the issue of liability? is the robot at fault? or is the programer? or the manufacturer? or the owner? maybe the robot should be put down?
i fail to see where opposable thumbs come into the process of browsing and posting on a web page...
yes my thumbs hit the space bar (we usually only one, but sometimes i switch to get back at my typing teacher), but i don't think that it would be that much more difficult if i had no thumbs....
perhaps it would be difficult to load an operating system (think, put disks in drives) without thumbs, put these days you can get a computer preloaded with an operating system ready to run on the internet, and even somebody to come out and plug all the color coded wires into the color coded holes
as long as everything is in good working order, no thumbs are needed
mice are usable without a thumb, but who would want to use a mouse?
the truth of axioms must be asumed in order for a theory to work.... if yo could prove the axiom, it wouldn't be an axiom.
of course, should you wish to use the axiom to prove it self, it would of course be possible....
euclid's geometry(which i'm sure you make a lot of use of, if not directly than through the work of others) used 6 axioms, and then later ppl decided that one of them was wrong and got new neat stuff out of it, but thats off topic
If you take the same pictures a few minutes from each other, one with use of the zoom lens, and one without, you will notice the same difference
depending on what objects you have in your field of camera though, you may notice theres a size difference in those too, and then you would be found out to be a fraud:)
i'm pretty sure log10 was just used as the scale for brightness because it was convienent....
possible bs: if you graph the logN(x) without the lines indicating the x and output numbers, you'll notice its impossible to tell what N you're using.....
alas, you're rounding, and measuring with imprecise measurement devices
through a rather long stream of logic, it can be shown that there is a 0 probability of picking an algebraic number* at random... yet your measurements are all in algebraic numbers, other than the discrete ones (people getting shot, people dieing, etc) i highly doubt your measurement devices are precise enough to say without a shadow of a doubt that your numbers are algebraic rather than trancendental.
*algebraic numbers are those that are the roots of polynomial equations with integer coeffectients, all others are trancedental.
If you're going to have a big earthquake, i'd have to say california would be the best place to have it....
not too long after the earthquakes in turkey, and taiwan, there was one in southern california larger than the one in turkey, but less than the one in taiwan (forgive me for being vague i don't remember the numbers) and if i recall correctly there were fewer than 10 reported injuries...
then again it was in the boonies area of southern california, but thats where they seem to happen most lately anyhow
well the idea is not the cost of the component, but the total cost of ownership for doing the job that is needed, but thats not really the point of the lawsuit.
the point of the lawsuit is that the DoL has a legally established method for determining what software to use, and did not apply that method.
If you want a really inexpensive office suite look at this: http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/joelzahn/Office2000/ index.html
(but then theres the TCO which would be rather high because of the costs of editing and transmiting documents)
well at least with amazon's implemenation of it, it kinda sucks....
if you buy normally, you can cancel any time up until its shipped
if you do one click you have an hour and a half (i think) to cancel
I've not used it, cause i thought it was stupid, so this is an honest question: do you need to authenticate to use it other than when turning on the feature?
i don't think it would be a terribly bad security hole if you didn't anyhow, because i think the one click shopping only allows you to send it to a designated address
i suppose you could do a one click gift cert, but that would be rather difficult to do without being traced......
i suppose a disposable hotmail account and a drop point, but thats an aweful lot of work.....
one click buying is _stupid_ anyhow i personallhy don't care if its patented or if everybody can do it, because i wouldn't use it
it doesn't matter how they do what they do as long as it works, is on time, and is relatively inexpensive
i'm not buying stock in the company when i do business with them, i'm buying a book/cd/whatever
yes if they were abusing children by censoring stuff i would have a problem, but they're just doing what needs to be done in the curren state of the patent office
if they didn't patent it, the next person would, and the patent office would have granted a patent and then amazon would be getting sued off their ass
i think countries other than the US would have a major problem with that, its one thing letting a US corporation control the root servers, its another thing letting the US gov't
it seems to me that if register.com looked in the available list, and saw the domain as available, they are perfectly within their rights to sell it to anybody who asks.....
its not their fault that NSI was incompentent enough to a. put it on the available list and b. put it back on the available list after somebody else tried to buy it through them and they cancelled the sale
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better yet, try reading the article
hmmm doors 2001 sounds like a concert series...
well it would if jim morrison wasn't dead anyhow
because as years from 1900, it can be a byte up till 2155 or thereabouts and save memory (so theres a y2.155k problem due to ppl saving memory, but i doubt it couldn't be changed to a (small) int in another century or so, with no adverse effects, if its still a byte)
I think there is esentially no real way to do that, if you want to run the software on a client's computer.....
if you run the software on your server, and display it on the client's computer, then its possible to protect the data from the client
hope thats somewhat helpful
gotta go with http://my.schoolsucks.com
the domain just kicks ass
i havent' had any problems with it, but then i haven't really used it either
hmmm looks almost like colocate?
the problem is, other than shrapnel and fumes (which i'm sure a hardened bot could handle), object avoidance....
:), but a robot might not be that great, and then you have the issue of liability? is the robot at fault? or is the programer? or the manufacturer? or the owner? maybe the robot should be put down?
unless you're drunk, stoned, an on acid, you're not gonna run over your kid brother with a lawn mower (at least if your parents are around...
i fail to see where opposable thumbs come into the process of browsing and posting on a web page...
yes my thumbs hit the space bar (we usually only one, but sometimes i switch to get back at my typing teacher), but i don't think that it would be that much more difficult if i had no thumbs....
perhaps it would be difficult to load an operating system (think, put disks in drives) without thumbs, put these days you can get a computer preloaded with an operating system ready to run on the internet, and even somebody to come out and plug all the color coded wires into the color coded holes
as long as everything is in good working order, no thumbs are needed
mice are usable without a thumb, but who would want to use a mouse?
the truth of axioms must be asumed in order for a theory to work.... if yo could prove the axiom, it wouldn't be an axiom.
of course, should you wish to use the axiom to prove it self, it would of course be possible....
euclid's geometry(which i'm sure you make a lot of use of, if not directly than through the work of others) used 6 axioms, and then later ppl decided that one of them was wrong and got new neat stuff out of it, but thats off topic
If you take the same pictures a few minutes from each other, one with use of the zoom lens, and one without, you will notice the same difference
:)
depending on what objects you have in your field of camera though, you may notice theres a size difference in those too, and then you would be found out to be a fraud
i'm pretty sure log10 was just used as the scale for brightness because it was convienent....
possible bs:
if you graph the logN(x) without the lines indicating the x and output numbers, you'll notice its impossible to tell what N you're using.....
alas, you're rounding, and measuring with imprecise measurement devices
through a rather long stream of logic, it can be shown that there is a 0 probability of picking an algebraic number* at random... yet your measurements are all in algebraic numbers, other than the discrete ones (people getting shot, people dieing, etc) i highly doubt your measurement devices are precise enough to say without a shadow of a doubt that your numbers are algebraic rather than trancendental.
*algebraic numbers are those that are the roots of polynomial equations with integer coeffectients, all others are trancedental.
i think you forgot the grits
oh my god
:)
you posted that in a public forum?
the horror
I feel i must post this in retaliation
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since when do prices go down due to increased demand?
prices go up do to increased demand
and demand increases due to dropped prices
If you're going to have a big earthquake, i'd have to say california would be the best place to have it....
not too long after the earthquakes in turkey, and taiwan, there was one in southern california larger than the one in turkey, but less than the one in taiwan (forgive me for being vague i don't remember the numbers) and if i recall correctly there were fewer than 10 reported injuries...
then again it was in the boonies area of southern california, but thats where they seem to happen most lately anyhow
"Have we all blocked web ads from our browsers because Doubleclick has patented online advertising? Nope"
we blocked web ads from our browsers cause they were annoying.
http://junkbusters.com
well the idea is not the cost of the component, but the total cost of ownership for doing the job that is needed, but thats not really the point of the lawsuit.
/ index.html
the point of the lawsuit is that the DoL has a legally established method for determining what software to use, and did not apply that method.
If you want a really inexpensive office suite look at this: http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/joelzahn/Office2000
(but then theres the TCO which would be rather high because of the costs of editing and transmiting documents)
well at least with amazon's implemenation of it, it kinda sucks....
if you buy normally, you can cancel any time up until its shipped
if you do one click you have an hour and a half (i think) to cancel
I've not used it, cause i thought it was stupid, so this is an honest question: do you need to authenticate to use it other than when turning on the feature?
i don't think it would be a terribly bad security hole if you didn't anyhow, because i think the one click shopping only allows you to send it to a designated address
i suppose you could do a one click gift cert, but that would be rather difficult to do without being traced......
i suppose a disposable hotmail account and a drop point, but thats an aweful lot of work.....
one click buying is _stupid_ anyhow
i personallhy don't care if its patented or if everybody can do it, because i wouldn't use it
it doesn't matter how they do what they do as long as it works, is on time, and is relatively inexpensive
i'm not buying stock in the company when i do business with them, i'm buying a book/cd/whatever
yes if they were abusing children by censoring stuff i would have a problem, but they're just doing what needs to be done in the curren state of the patent office
if they didn't patent it, the next person would, and the patent office would have granted a patent and then amazon would be getting sued off their ass
yep thats whati thought :)
i've actually heard of times when microsoft support helped people though :)
i think countries other than the US would have a major problem with that, its one thing letting a US corporation control the root servers, its another thing letting the US gov't
it seems to me that if register.com looked in the available list, and saw the domain as available, they are perfectly within their rights to sell it to anybody who asks.....
its not their fault that NSI was incompentent enough to a. put it on the available list and b. put it back on the available list after somebody else tried to buy it through them and they cancelled the sale
Can you say EULA?
I thought so
its the same thing (or close enough)