But I agree with this guy, and I'm not a troll (check my posting history). I take insult at the insinuation that anyone who thinks Windows and Mac have superior GUIs is a troll. The gap is closing, but Linux isn't quite there yet.
I talked about this to someone I know at ZyXEL. Basically, I asked him why they don't let people install custom firmware. Basically, he explained that they had released such a device, and it had been a tech support nightmare. Customers would brick their devices and call ZyXEL to get a replacement. They quickly dropped the idea. It just cost too much.
I think what's going to happen is that Windows geeks will buy a Dell machine with Ubuntu installed, wipe the drive, and install a pirated copy of Windows.
Nice and informative. What the parent is talking about is how the analog medium is continuous while the digital medium is discrete. Because of its rigid sampling intervals, I suspect digital of doing a worse job of capturing fine phase information. Take the example of a sine wave near the Nyquist frequency. Sample it, shift it a few degrees, sample it again, shift it more, etc. You'll end up with many funny digital representations of what's supposed to be a sine wave. Near the Nyquist frequency, you end up with a lot of distortion if your signal doesn't consist of perfectly sample-aligned harmonics. Even at N/4 (11,025 Hz for a CD, this is audible) you'll see many mangled waves if you do this.
I use two fingers to type. That typing test gave me 95 WPM with 3 mistakes. Typing tests that stop on mistakes like that always have me confused for a few seconds, trying to figure out what it is it wants me to do, so I'm probably over 100 WPM.
You'd never use C in the same situation as Ruby on Rails. And who writes the systems that the accountant makes *his* system in. The author doesn't know what he's talking about. NEXT!
These things already exist and your bad experiences with IM have prevented you from exploring this fact. In most programs you can turn off all the flashing and sounds and even smileys if you wish. Anyway, I keep them all on, because the worst thing I know is typing to someone and they ignore me. I don't want this to happen to my friends, so I leave the notifications on so I can reply to them immediately. Think of it like a small office where the coworkers do their separate stuff and chitchat in between working. Nothing distracting about it.
I never thought of master/slave in that way before. Probably because I'm Norwegian. We hardly know anything about American history. English is a school/TV/computer language here.
Like everyone else, I have an e-mail confirmation system. The article above is about convenient ways of creating fake e-mail addresses. This renders e-mail confirmation useless. I did start blocking all fake e-mail services (Spamgourmet, Mailinator, a heap of others) a while back and that did help some, but you can't fix Hotmail and Gmail.
On a site I run, we've had constant problems with saboteurs using these kind of services for creating accounts in order to spam some paint chat rooms we've set up. We've been forced to restrict access to new users, and other measures. To sum it up: It's good that e-mail addresses are easy to create, but it's bad that e-mail addresses are easy to create.
I have had that happen. I think it's because the IR circuits get overloaded. They have to have a lot of gain to pick up the faint light from the remote control. It is no match for the sun.
Sounds very similar to the issues I had when working with this PIC microcontroller scanning an array of IR transistors. Sunlight has a lot of IR in it. Remote control sensors in TVs usually handle this fine because the signal they received is conveyed on a carrier, which is easy to pick out from the "DC" signal of the sun. I also remember having fun waving in front of my bedroom window's mosquito net a single IR transistor wired to a battery and my sound card's line input (I was trying to design an optical guitar pickup) with the sun shining through it. "WOOooo... yoooop...WOOOO.... yooop". Very amusing instrument.;) Unfortunately didn't work when it was overcast.:P
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I read somewhere that they do it just in case there's a failure.
I didn't let his specific wording affect my judgement. People overstate things all the time.
But I agree with this guy, and I'm not a troll (check my posting history). I take insult at the insinuation that anyone who thinks Windows and Mac have superior GUIs is a troll. The gap is closing, but Linux isn't quite there yet.
I talked about this to someone I know at ZyXEL. Basically, I asked him why they don't let people install custom firmware. Basically, he explained that they had released such a device, and it had been a tech support nightmare. Customers would brick their devices and call ZyXEL to get a replacement. They quickly dropped the idea. It just cost too much.
On a more serious note, "Israel" rhymes with "Raphael," not "is real."
I have a pet peeve with people who misspell Isreal... oh wait.
I think what's going to happen is that Windows geeks will buy a Dell machine with Ubuntu installed, wipe the drive, and install a pirated copy of Windows.
God's worst mistake was giving us mouths.
Oops. Forgot 'abstract' keywords. Oh well...
public class GodwinsLaw {
public void hitler();
}
public class ThorsLaw extends GodwinsLaw {
public void democrats();
public void republicans();
}
EOD.
Nice and informative. What the parent is talking about is how the analog medium is continuous while the digital medium is discrete. Because of its rigid sampling intervals, I suspect digital of doing a worse job of capturing fine phase information. Take the example of a sine wave near the Nyquist frequency. Sample it, shift it a few degrees, sample it again, shift it more, etc. You'll end up with many funny digital representations of what's supposed to be a sine wave. Near the Nyquist frequency, you end up with a lot of distortion if your signal doesn't consist of perfectly sample-aligned harmonics. Even at N/4 (11,025 Hz for a CD, this is audible) you'll see many mangled waves if you do this.
I use two fingers to type. That typing test gave me 95 WPM with 3 mistakes. Typing tests that stop on mistakes like that always have me confused for a few seconds, trying to figure out what it is it wants me to do, so I'm probably over 100 WPM.
You'd never use C in the same situation as Ruby on Rails. And who writes the systems that the accountant makes *his* system in. The author doesn't know what he's talking about. NEXT!
In Scandinavia we use "liter per mil. My dad's new car has the 100 km thing, which I had never seen before.
These things already exist and your bad experiences with IM have prevented you from exploring this fact. In most programs you can turn off all the flashing and sounds and even smileys if you wish. Anyway, I keep them all on, because the worst thing I know is typing to someone and they ignore me. I don't want this to happen to my friends, so I leave the notifications on so I can reply to them immediately. Think of it like a small office where the coworkers do their separate stuff and chitchat in between working. Nothing distracting about it.
I never thought of master/slave in that way before. Probably because I'm Norwegian. We hardly know anything about American history. English is a school/TV/computer language here.
I use it for taking notes. :P
Nice troll.
Precisely.
Like everyone else, I have an e-mail confirmation system. The article above is about convenient ways of creating fake e-mail addresses. This renders e-mail confirmation useless. I did start blocking all fake e-mail services (Spamgourmet, Mailinator, a heap of others) a while back and that did help some, but you can't fix Hotmail and Gmail.
On a site I run, we've had constant problems with saboteurs using these kind of services for creating accounts in order to spam some paint chat rooms we've set up. We've been forced to restrict access to new users, and other measures. To sum it up: It's good that e-mail addresses are easy to create, but it's bad that e-mail addresses are easy to create.
I have had that happen. I think it's because the IR circuits get overloaded. They have to have a lot of gain to pick up the faint light from the remote control. It is no match for the sun.
Sounds very similar to the issues I had when working with this PIC microcontroller scanning an array of IR transistors. Sunlight has a lot of IR in it. Remote control sensors in TVs usually handle this fine because the signal they received is conveyed on a carrier, which is easy to pick out from the "DC" signal of the sun. I also remember having fun waving in front of my bedroom window's mosquito net a single IR transistor wired to a battery and my sound card's line input (I was trying to design an optical guitar pickup) with the sun shining through it. "WOOooo... yoooop...WOOOO.... yooop". Very amusing instrument. ;) Unfortunately didn't work when it was overcast. :P
To paraphrase the article poster... I can't see this idea getting traction in Europe. ... What? Only USA has traffic jams?
Should I feel smarter for, while not understanding what ISA stood for, realizing that it wasn't the bus he was talking about? :D