Don't mistake me for an environmentalist, tree huggers piss me off. I see this as an economic issue, not an environmental one.
The fact is that if we continue to grow our dependence on oil, we are heading for a huge, _worldwide_ economic disaster the likes of which have never been seen. Already, at this early stage, I personally know of people who have lost their jobs as a direct result of high oil prices, and a single mother who is only eating twice a week so that she can afford to feed her children. My neighbor across the street just had to put his families home on the market because he was let go from his job as a truck driver, since his company could no longer afford to fuel as large a fleet.
If we don't start moving away from oil, and towards ANY other energy source (even if it's a "dirty" one) very soon, millions of people won't be around long enough to really care about the environmental impacts of our energy production.
"Do you know how to find the midpoint of an array, without knowing the total # of elements"
Either I'm parsing the question wrong or it's impossible. You could poll [2N] until you hit an exception
And by polling 2N until you hit an exception, you have discovered the total number of elements, and therefor have not found the midpoint without knowing that information.
Of course, once you find the midpoint by ANY means, you pretty much know the total number of elements.
So, yes, it's impossible. You can't solve the question posed before the comma without also violating the restriction imposed after the comma.
The swimming pool in my hometown was built during the depression under such a program. No backhoes, no tractors, just a bunch of guys with shovels. And it's a BIG pool.
All the concrete work, plumbing, brick work, etc... was also done 100% by hand. Partially because there just wasn't much equipment available, but mainly because doing it that way allowed the project to keep more people on the payroll for a longer period of time.
Just pick one language, your idea just adds additional layers of complexity for whoever gets the job of translating it.
Now not only do they have to decipher four languages, first they have to discover that the writing is actually even in more than one language.
After all, if you found a stone tablet in some ancient ruins, wouldn't it seem like a reasonable assumption that the writing on it was all the same language?
You say that a lot. He's not looking for something that works "in theory", but something that "actually works" in the real world.
I'm sure your suggestion is really, really awesome, "in theory". Unfortunately, there's a huge difference between the drawing board and actual application.
Another lesson is that a lot of us don't realize how good we have it.
How sadly true that is.
This July 4th my fiance and I took the kids to a parade. As they frequently do they were passing out small American flags to the crowd.
I couldn't believe how many of those flags I found lying on the street, carelessly tossed aside and trampled on. It choked me up, and I nearly burst into tears. Don't those people realize what it is we were all gathered together to celebrate? I gathered up as many as I could, and made sure they got a proper retirement.
To me that flag is not a symbol of support for G.W. Bush. To me that flag is a symbol of the hardships my grandfather endured during WWII fighting so that I might live in a free country today. It's a symbol of the principles upon which the founding fathers established this nation. It's a symbol of what my father went through in Vietnam. It represents each and every one of the men and women who have died in order for us to have the freedoms and opportunities that we enjoy today.
To see it thrown on the ground and trampled upon, especially on a day when we are supposed to be celebrating what it stands for, is sickening.
Yes, there is much wrong with our nation today. The flag doesn't represent those things. On the contrary, the flag represents our obligation to fix those things.
It makes me extremely sad that so many people don't understand just how good we have it in this country. They should come talk to my Bosnian neighbors, or my Iranian friend who has lived in Kansas for 20 years. The gratitude I hear in their voice when they talk about how happy they are to be here would bring a tear to just about anyone's eye.
It isn't alarming if one party can decide what constitutes an "agreement"?
But it's not just one party. Blizzard offers the use of there software under one specific set of conditions, and doesn't make exceptions. As a consumer, I must decide if my desire to play their game is strong enough for me to agree to and follow those conditions.
That's TWO parties coming to an agreement, not one.
You can argue that simply clicking on a button does not guarantee that I've read the information provided on screen, and shouldn't constitute a legally binding agreement. In fact, I'd agree with you on that.
Unfortunately, the judge in this case (the dude with some actual power) did not agree.
Nope, not where I live. The nearest 3G to me is a 2 hour drive away, yet if I decide to upgrade my iPhone (which I may do anyway to get the GPS functionality), I still get to pay the higher rates.
EDGE isn't actually that bad, for the most part, I notice bad javascript bogging down the cpu far more often than I notice the limited bandwidth. But it still kinda chaps my ass that I'll have to pay 3G prices for it.
Don't forget that when I'm on a long trip and my tank is running low, it's currently about a 5 minute process to refill it, then I'm on my way.
How long does it take to charge batteries?
This alone will severely hamper the adoption of purely electric vehicles until the charging technology improves.
Picture yourself on the way home from grandma's house after visiting the family for Christmas. It's 1:30 AM. It's snowing and the wind is whipping. Everyone's tired and your wife is bitching up a storm because your mom put her in a bad mood. Your batteries are running low and you're still 200 miles from home. And it's going to take 4 hours to charge them.
Fuck that. I'll pay $50/gallon for gas before I buy a car that puts me in that situation.
I've found that no matter how ridiculously much you're actually goofing off, if you do it with a vaguely annoyed and frustrated expression on your face, people will think you're working your ass off.
Yep. Hell, just the decorative pond in my front yard is currently leaking about 100 gallons a day. (Before anyone gets too upset, I'm fixing it this very evening when I get home from work.)
Watering the plants and garden probably account for another 500 gallons a week.
Hell, 27 gallons/day wouldn't even cover a persons toilet flushing during a bout of the flu.
Yep, it is sufficient. But, as I explained in my post above, in which I acknowledged my error a full 13 hours before you felt it necessary to point it out again, it's much easier to just remember "a few megs" instead of "exactly 512 bytes" for something that you'll probably only need to do every couple of years.
Honestly, I'm not sure. Armed with the knowledge that they can, in fact do it, you should be able to get them to.
But you make a good point, for one personal account, you may have to bitch more, and even make multiple calls until you can get transferred to a cooperative supervisor. With big companies like that, it's often just luck of the draw as to whether a sympathetic rep answers your call.
But don't, under any circumstances, let them tell you that they "can't" do it. I know for a fact that they can.
You're right, it will. I generally do 16 meg for no other reason than habit. When I typed the command above, I originally had 16 there, then lowered it to 5 since 16 is overkill (but, so is 5 for that matter....). Apparently I neglected to edit the corresponding number in the paragraph below. In truth, 1 meg would do the job for you.
Basically, rather than having to memorize exactly how many bytes the boot sector and partition table take up, just blast a few megs of zeros onto the beginning of the drive and you'll be golden.
In any case, that command will achieve the desired result, even if I did get sloppy and careless in my explanation of what it does.
If you're having trouble with a stubborn partition that nothing seems to be able to remove for you, install it in a computer, boot up a Linux live cd, and try this from the command prompt:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=1M count=5
hdX in the above refers to the hard drive. You may have to watch the boot messages to find out which value to use depending on how you connected it. It could also end up being sdX instead.
That command will write 16 megs of zeros directly to the beginning of the hard drive, which will nuke the boot sector and partition table. After that, any partitioning tool will see it as a brand new, unpartitioned drive, and shouldn't give you any more grief.
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Oh come on, this is supposed to be a site full of geeks.
How many people here would actually have to spend more than 15 minutes tapping into their fusebox to run an additional 220V line?
It's not hard. I've done it myself twice. Once to run my hot tub, and again to run my welder.
And, the biggest problem with diesel...
It still comes from oil.
Don't mistake me for an environmentalist, tree huggers piss me off. I see this as an economic issue, not an environmental one.
The fact is that if we continue to grow our dependence on oil, we are heading for a huge, _worldwide_ economic disaster the likes of which have never been seen. Already, at this early stage, I personally know of people who have lost their jobs as a direct result of high oil prices, and a single mother who is only eating twice a week so that she can afford to feed her children. My neighbor across the street just had to put his families home on the market because he was let go from his job as a truck driver, since his company could no longer afford to fuel as large a fleet.
If we don't start moving away from oil, and towards ANY other energy source (even if it's a "dirty" one) very soon, millions of people won't be around long enough to really care about the environmental impacts of our energy production.
"Do you know how to find the midpoint of an array, without knowing the total # of elements"
Either I'm parsing the question wrong or it's impossible. You could poll [2N] until you hit an exception
And by polling 2N until you hit an exception, you have discovered the total number of elements, and therefor have not found the midpoint without knowing that information.
Of course, once you find the midpoint by ANY means, you pretty much know the total number of elements.
So, yes, it's impossible. You can't solve the question posed before the comma without also violating the restriction imposed after the comma.
Still a small price to pay in order to live in a world free of "In Soviet Russia" jokes. Please reverse your actions.
Well, the fact is that ANY message that succesfully conveys the dangers of the material will make it tempting for use as a weapon.
Just one of the many reasons why the entire idea is pretty stupid from the get go.
Somebody please hurry up and figure out time travel so we can go back and erase Yakov Smirnoff from history.
The swimming pool in my hometown was built during the depression under such a program. No backhoes, no tractors, just a bunch of guys with shovels. And it's a BIG pool.
All the concrete work, plumbing, brick work, etc... was also done 100% by hand. Partially because there just wasn't much equipment available, but mainly because doing it that way allowed the project to keep more people on the payroll for a longer period of time.
Just use a drawing of the drum itself, and have it surrounded by dead humans lying on the ground.
Just pick one language, your idea just adds additional layers of complexity for whoever gets the job of translating it.
Now not only do they have to decipher four languages, first they have to discover that the writing is actually even in more than one language.
After all, if you found a stone tablet in some ancient ruins, wouldn't it seem like a reasonable assumption that the writing on it was all the same language?
You do realize that simply having a PSU capable of supporting 250W is not the same thing as actually drawing 250W, right?
Or are you still learning?
in theory, in theory, in theory.....
You say that a lot. He's not looking for something that works "in theory", but something that "actually works" in the real world.
I'm sure your suggestion is really, really awesome, "in theory". Unfortunately, there's a huge difference between the drawing board and actual application.
Another lesson is that a lot of us don't realize how good we have it.
How sadly true that is.
This July 4th my fiance and I took the kids to a parade. As they frequently do they were passing out small American flags to the crowd.
I couldn't believe how many of those flags I found lying on the street, carelessly tossed aside and trampled on. It choked me up, and I nearly burst into tears. Don't those people realize what it is we were all gathered together to celebrate? I gathered up as many as I could, and made sure they got a proper retirement.
To me that flag is not a symbol of support for G.W. Bush. To me that flag is a symbol of the hardships my grandfather endured during WWII fighting so that I might live in a free country today. It's a symbol of the principles upon which the founding fathers established this nation. It's a symbol of what my father went through in Vietnam. It represents each and every one of the men and women who have died in order for us to have the freedoms and opportunities that we enjoy today.
To see it thrown on the ground and trampled upon, especially on a day when we are supposed to be celebrating what it stands for, is sickening.
Yes, there is much wrong with our nation today. The flag doesn't represent those things. On the contrary, the flag represents our obligation to fix those things.
It makes me extremely sad that so many people don't understand just how good we have it in this country. They should come talk to my Bosnian neighbors, or my Iranian friend who has lived in Kansas for 20 years. The gratitude I hear in their voice when they talk about how happy they are to be here would bring a tear to just about anyone's eye.
Hooray....Now I only have to hate one company,
Oh, come one, cut AOL some slack. Sure, their service sucks, but back in the day I never had to spend any money on floppy disks thanks to them.
For God's sake, Don't Spill Your Coffee!!!
It isn't alarming if one party can decide what constitutes an "agreement"?
But it's not just one party. Blizzard offers the use of there software under one specific set of conditions, and doesn't make exceptions. As a consumer, I must decide if my desire to play their game is strong enough for me to agree to and follow those conditions.
That's TWO parties coming to an agreement, not one.
You can argue that simply clicking on a button does not guarantee that I've read the information provided on screen, and shouldn't constitute a legally binding agreement. In fact, I'd agree with you on that.
Unfortunately, the judge in this case (the dude with some actual power) did not agree.
Nope, not where I live. The nearest 3G to me is a 2 hour drive away, yet if I decide to upgrade my iPhone (which I may do anyway to get the GPS functionality), I still get to pay the higher rates.
EDGE isn't actually that bad, for the most part, I notice bad javascript bogging down the cpu far more often than I notice the limited bandwidth. But it still kinda chaps my ass that I'll have to pay 3G prices for it.
Yep, people still say it.
And, even more baffling, they keep dragging out the "in soviet russia...." joke, too.
Don't forget that when I'm on a long trip and my tank is running low, it's currently about a 5 minute process to refill it, then I'm on my way.
How long does it take to charge batteries?
This alone will severely hamper the adoption of purely electric vehicles until the charging technology improves.
Picture yourself on the way home from grandma's house after visiting the family for Christmas. It's 1:30 AM. It's snowing and the wind is whipping. Everyone's tired and your wife is bitching up a storm because your mom put her in a bad mood. Your batteries are running low and you're still 200 miles from home. And it's going to take 4 hours to charge them.
Fuck that. I'll pay $50/gallon for gas before I buy a car that puts me in that situation.
I've found that no matter how ridiculously much you're actually goofing off, if you do it with a vaguely annoyed and frustrated expression on your face, people will think you're working your ass off.
Give it a try.
Lots of people don't have a pot that big. No worries, though, half an hour on the grill should do the job just as well.
"27 gallons? that is way, way off."
Yep. Hell, just the decorative pond in my front yard is currently leaking about 100 gallons a day. (Before anyone gets too upset, I'm fixing it this very evening when I get home from work.)
Watering the plants and garden probably account for another 500 gallons a week.
Hell, 27 gallons/day wouldn't even cover a persons toilet flushing during a bout of the flu.
Yep, it is sufficient. But, as I explained in my post above, in which I acknowledged my error a full 13 hours before you felt it necessary to point it out again, it's much easier to just remember "a few megs" instead of "exactly 512 bytes" for something that you'll probably only need to do every couple of years.
Honestly, I'm not sure. Armed with the knowledge that they can, in fact do it, you should be able to get them to.
But you make a good point, for one personal account, you may have to bitch more, and even make multiple calls until you can get transferred to a cooperative supervisor. With big companies like that, it's often just luck of the draw as to whether a sympathetic rep answers your call.
But don't, under any circumstances, let them tell you that they "can't" do it. I know for a fact that they can.
You're right, it will. I generally do 16 meg for no other reason than habit. When I typed the command above, I originally had 16 there, then lowered it to 5 since 16 is overkill (but, so is 5 for that matter....). Apparently I neglected to edit the corresponding number in the paragraph below. In truth, 1 meg would do the job for you.
Basically, rather than having to memorize exactly how many bytes the boot sector and partition table take up, just blast a few megs of zeros onto the beginning of the drive and you'll be golden.
In any case, that command will achieve the desired result, even if I did get sloppy and careless in my explanation of what it does.
If you're having trouble with a stubborn partition that nothing seems to be able to remove for you, install it in a computer, boot up a Linux live cd, and try this from the command prompt:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=1M count=5hdX in the above refers to the hard drive. You may have to watch the boot messages to find out which value to use depending on how you connected it. It could also end up being sdX instead.
That command will write 16 megs of zeros directly to the beginning of the hard drive, which will nuke the boot sector and partition table. After that, any partitioning tool will see it as a brand new, unpartitioned drive, and shouldn't give you any more grief.