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There was a post about something like this in a slashdot thread about Turing Tests some time ago. The claim then was that you needed the first and last two letters in the right place to read a word correctly. We experimented with this a bit. I'm Dutch myself, but I have no problem reading the scrambled English. It's scrambled Dutch that is hard to read. So apparently it is not a common truth for any language. Or even any language using the latin alphabet. Also: taking an English article on some linguistic topic left a totally unintelligible (to me at least) mess after scrambling. I'm not a linguist.
Hey, what's up with that? I didn't know you got to change peoples words before making fun of them. Suddenly the possibilities for humorous retort are limitless.
Holland Casinos has installed continuous shufflers on all its blackjack tables to eliminate card counting. I don't think card counting is cheating, but I guess neither is continuously shuffling your decks. This certainly seems a simple, cheaper and more honest way of foiling card counters. I think they moved to this system a few years ago after they were sued by professional blackjack players because they weren't dealing the required three decks from the six before reshuffling. I don't remember if it ever went to trial and who won.
The first ten million years were the worst. Then, the second ten million years, they were the worst as well. The third ten million years were the worst. - Marvin the Paranoid Android, after being left on Frogstar World B until the End of the Universe.
Would you care to explain what you mean by "the last part of Soviet" and how this relates to Norway? As far as I know Norway has never been part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact.
Pending the arrival of your ridiculous "aero-planes", me and a few friends of mine are working on building a trebuchet to sling people across the Channel. People will probably need to strap on one of these fins, or the initial velocity has to be above the speed of sound.
U2, Metallica and probably others have songs called One. It's not the title that counts for copyright. The guy is making two digital songs with only one bit in them. Any other digital representation of a song will be heavily infringing on his copyrighted 'music'.
some people even sending a digital feed to speakers which have reference D to A converters
Best is to have a digital crossover filter and then two DACs to feed two amps per speaker. One for the woofer, one for the tweeter. This will minimize phase problems in your speaker. Some studio monitor speakers do just that.
You could extend to three- or four-way systems, but that's overkill.
this whole "TIA will only be used on foreigners" thing...
Nice to see how 'terrorists' equates to 'foreigners'. Timothy McVeigh was an American, but I guess he was no terrorist.
That reminds me of an episode of Flying High where they had extrapolated that next winning song in the Eurovision song contest was going to be called Pif-Paf-Pof. All they needed after that was to write a song named Pif-Paf-Pof and get someone to perform it. I don't remember if they won. The rest of the show wasn't that funny, but I really liked the idea that you can take past winners like "Diggi Loo-Diggi Ley", "A Ba Ni Bi", "Ding Dinge Dong" and "Boom Bang-A-Bang" (I just looked those up, it's not knowledge I have readily available I'll have you all know) and extrapolate Pif-Paf-Pof from it.
- But you know what the funniest thing about Europe is? - What? - It's the little differences. - Example? - Well for one thing.no is the top level domain for Norway. Norway doesn't have hash bars, Holland does. But then, Holland isn't Scandinavian.
I remember the experiment didn't work out. At least at first they just spammed the phone number of the stolen phone. If your phone was stolen you'd get a new one and a new SIM card, with the same number. So the police were actually spamming the legit owner. I don't recall if they changed the setup to target IMEI numbers later on. I was working for one of the Dutch mobile phone companies at the time. Everyone there thought it was all a pretty lame idea, exactly because they just used phone numbers.
You must have been reading a different article. I sure didn't see any mention of the cable companies conning their users. But that has been said before. But what if it really is the cable companies selling these fake filters on ebay? First you sell a cheap device, then you get to charge the unsuspecting viewers. I should have made this into one of those four step '1. sell defective filter 2. collect underpants 3.... 4. profit' jokes. Oh wait a minute, I just did. This is probably slander. I'll stop now.
When I say it goes [BEEP] it actually signs "telefoon" (it's Dutch) in morse code. It doesn't need polyphony for that and I've never met anyone else whose phone knew any morse code beyond "sms".
But your point is valid of course.
Yeah, I was wondering how polyphonic ringtones, a built-in camera and 16 bit color display are "supposed to improve" a telephone. For me if it goes [BEEP] it's probably someone trying to reach me, I can read their name or number in black and white just fine. If I have nothing better to do I'll pick up and talk to them.
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There was a post about something like this in a slashdot thread about Turing Tests some time ago. The claim then was that you needed the first and last two letters in the right place to read a word correctly. We experimented with this a bit.
I'm Dutch myself, but I have no problem reading the scrambled English. It's scrambled Dutch that is hard to read. So apparently it is not a common truth for any language. Or even any language using the latin alphabet.
Also: taking an English article on some linguistic topic left a totally unintelligible (to me at least) mess after scrambling. I'm not a linguist.
Hey, what's up with that? I didn't know you got to change peoples words before making fun of them.
Suddenly the possibilities for humorous retort are limitless.
Your math is off.
500 m^2 = 500 * 100 * 100 cm^2 = 5.0E+6 cm^2.
Giving you 15000 kg, or 15 metric tons for the total weight of your cloud.
(Nitpick: the prefix for kilo is k, not K)
Now I know what to get my girlfriend for a present.
If I had a girlfriend of course.
Holland Casinos has installed continuous shufflers on all its blackjack tables to eliminate card counting. I don't think card counting is cheating, but I guess neither is continuously shuffling your decks. This certainly seems a simple, cheaper and more honest way of foiling card counters.
I think they moved to this system a few years ago after they were sued by professional blackjack players because they weren't dealing the required three decks from the six before reshuffling. I don't remember if it ever went to trial and who won.
The first ten million years were the worst. Then, the second ten million years, they were the worst as well. The third ten million years were the worst. - Marvin the Paranoid Android, after being left on Frogstar World B until the End of the Universe.
Would you care to explain what you mean by "the last part of Soviet" and how this relates to Norway? As far as I know Norway has never been part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact.
Pending the arrival of your ridiculous "aero-planes", me and a few friends of mine are working on building a trebuchet to sling people across the Channel. People will probably need to strap on one of these fins, or the initial velocity has to be above the speed of sound.
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
U2, Metallica and probably others have songs called One.
It's not the title that counts for copyright. The guy is making two digital songs with only one bit in them. Any other digital representation of a song will be heavily infringing on his copyrighted 'music'.
Wow! That's up 13% from last year.
Try telling George Lucas that.
some people even sending a digital feed to speakers which have reference D to A converters
Best is to have a digital crossover filter and then two DACs to feed two amps per speaker. One for the woofer, one for the tweeter. This will minimize phase problems in your speaker. Some studio monitor speakers do just that.
You could extend to three- or four-way systems, but that's overkill.
this whole "TIA will only be used on foreigners" thing...
Nice to see how 'terrorists' equates to 'foreigners'. Timothy McVeigh was an American, but I guess he was no terrorist.
and human (stupidity, politics, luck).
I like the way luck is a human factor. I don't believe in luck, it's just human perception.
Yeah, I know, off-topic.
That reminds me of an episode of Flying High where they had extrapolated that next winning song in the Eurovision song contest was going to be called Pif-Paf-Pof. All they needed after that was to write a song named Pif-Paf-Pof and get someone to perform it.
I don't remember if they won. The rest of the show wasn't that funny, but I really liked the idea that you can take past winners like "Diggi Loo-Diggi Ley", "A Ba Ni Bi", "Ding Dinge Dong" and "Boom Bang-A-Bang" (I just looked those up, it's not knowledge I have readily available I'll have you all know) and extrapolate Pif-Paf-Pof from it.
Here it is. Albeit through massive human intervention.
I thought this looked familiar... It wasn't considered informative then.
- But you know what the funniest thing about Europe is? .no is the top level domain for Norway. Norway doesn't have hash bars, Holland does. But then, Holland isn't Scandinavian.
- What?
- It's the little differences.
- Example?
- Well for one thing
All he said was 'I liked the "whitespace" joke better.'
I remember the experiment didn't work out. At least at first they just spammed the phone number of the stolen phone. If your phone was stolen you'd get a new one and a new SIM card, with the same number. So the police were actually spamming the legit owner. I don't recall if they changed the setup to target IMEI numbers later on.
I was working for one of the Dutch mobile phone companies at the time. Everyone there thought it was all a pretty lame idea, exactly because they just used phone numbers.
You must have been reading a different article. I sure didn't see any mention of the cable companies conning their users. But that has been said before.
But what if it really is the cable companies selling these fake filters on ebay? First you sell a cheap device, then you get to charge the unsuspecting viewers. I should have made this into one of those four step '1. sell defective filter 2. collect underpants 3.... 4. profit' jokes. Oh wait a minute, I just did.
This is probably slander. I'll stop now.
No, only if the star it was orbiting was losing mass.
When I say it goes [BEEP] it actually signs "telefoon" (it's Dutch) in morse code. It doesn't need polyphony for that and I've never met anyone else whose phone knew any morse code beyond "sms". But your point is valid of course.
Yeah, I was wondering how polyphonic ringtones, a built-in camera and 16 bit color display are "supposed to improve" a telephone. For me if it goes [BEEP] it's probably someone trying to reach me, I can read their name or number in black and white just fine. If I have nothing better to do I'll pick up and talk to them.