Before we try more monkey games does anyone know if what kind of plants grow in high gravity?
Also if there really was a ship that used rotation for artificial gravity couldn't the people or monkeys just live closer to the hub or outer rim as needed to experiment with gravity levels?
I know very little about photography but I've heard this term a few times. Picaso has some "magic" fix button that seems to make things look pretty good and I've heard other programs let you adjust the white balance.
Do you happen to know if white balance be compensated for after the picture is taken using some photo editing software? What will the side effects of a poor white balance camera be?
Consider this from someone who snaps photos of their kids and house but mostly to keep or print to 3x5 or 5x7 photos.
The parent post was awesome. Real Move of the week material, but still it was rather lacking in some ways. I've done my best to improve their content as much as I could. I give my permission for the RIAA or similar organizations to use this version in any way they like. I'm would just be happy to give something back to the music industry that has given me so much.
As a record store owner who has failed to diversify or pay attention to industry trends, my business faces ruin. CD sales have dropped through the floor just like the previous obsolete formats before them. People aren't buying half as many CDs as they did just a year ago. Revenue is down and costs are up. My store has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening when I should be researching current trends and alternatives to restructure my business instead of wallowing in misery.
I bought the store about 12 years ago. It was one of those boutique record stores that sell obscure, independent releases that no-one listens to, not even the people that buy them. I decided that to grow the business I'd need to aim for a different demographic, the family market. My store specialized in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't sell sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of.
The business strategy worked. Buying an existing profitable store and changing nothing was simpler then I ever imagined. People flocked to my store, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase records without profanity or violent lyrics. Over the years I expanded the business and took on more clean-cut and friendly employees. It took hard work and long hours but I had achieved my dream - owning a profitable business that I had built with my own hands, from the ground up. But now, this dream is turning into a nightmare.
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer CDs. Why is no one buying CDs? Why is no one buying cassette tapes, 33s or singles on 45s? My wax cylinders are literally covered in dust! Are people not interested in music? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, read books? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three discs world wide is a pirate. On The Internet, you can find and download hundreds of dollars worth of music in just minutes. Millions of people are finding and downloading any music item they want. It's so easy some people are downloading stuff they never would have listened to before just to check it out. It has the potential to destroy the music industry, from artists, to record companies to stores like my own. Before you point to the supposed "economic downturn", I'll note that the book store just across from my store is doing great business. Unlike CDs, it's harder to copy books over The Internet. Except for audio books. And it's really just as easy to copy the books - it's just a little harder to encode them and not as convenient to read them using a computer right now.
Pirates are the worst. They are not as easy to identify as you would think. They almost never wear those little triangle hats. A week ago, an unpleasant experience with pirates gave me an idea. In my store, I overheard a teenage patron talking to his friend.
"Dude, I'm going to put this CD on the Internet right away."
"Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
"I just hope it will work in my CD player. I haven't bought a CD since the last two wouldn't work in my CD player and this guy refused to give me a refund for the defective discs."
I was fuming. So they were out to destroy the record industry from right under my nose? F
Their job is to regulate the spectrum in the public's interest. If the public complains about [sex/language/violence/other] on the public spectrum, then isn't it the FCC's job to regulate [X]?
The FCC should be smart enough to figure out that if 90+% of their complaints come from a small incredibly vocal minority that does not mean they should implement global policies that affect the rest of us who are just fine with how things are run.
The Parents Television Council is ruining TV for the rest of us. Check out their website. It's pretty much designed to convince you to file FCC complaints of "indecency". If you take away their complaints then you would have very few complaints and the FCC could do the original job the grandparent post suggested - regulate the technical aspects of spectrum allocation and communications - but it should not be able to decide what is allowed to go over those communication channels. That should be up to the market.
Families that care can use the TV rating system to block shows that show content they don't want to see instead of trying to make those shows unavailable everyone else in case they accidentally change channels to something they find offensive.
I have a spider of sysinternals.com and all file downloads in a 24MB Zip file from the day it was announced Mark was hired by Microsoft. Not sure if anyone is interested in it. I don't have any where to host the files but I can try to email them to someone via Gmail if anyone can host it or wants a copy.
Low Power, Able to adapt / optimize itself as needed. Sounds like the old Transmeta designs. It would compile and execute code in the processor to emulate x86 commands as needed instead of hard wiring them.
Of course it also sounds like terminator chip but I think that was from another company and should have already happened by now.;)
Take CFLs: A good CFL lasts many times longer than an incandescent, but let's be conservative and say 3k hours for the CFL, 750 for the incandescent. That is conservative. Over that 3k hours, a 15W CFL will save 135 kWh compared to the incandescent. That's $13 at retail electricity rates, $6.50 at industrial rates. CFLs generally cost less than this to *buy*, so you can be damn sure the energy input is less than 135kWh. And that's not even considering the inputs to make, transport, etc. 4 incandescents.
There's no way the upfront energy costs of a CFL offset its savings. BTW same for PV; energy payback is ~2 years for something with a 20-50 lifetime. And that's with standard silicon; go thin-film or CIGS and its better. Wind turbines have a faster energy payback. And so on.
You lost me. What numbers are you comparing now?
You've got lifespan in hours, two different dollar amounts for killowatt hours - retail and commercial and then "energy payback".
So when you say energy payback. Do you mean it will take Me the consumer less? From the point of view of the power grid? Can you explain again in more detail.
It costs money to operate a cell tower, even if nobody uses it. Why should your mother-in-law have permanent access to such a service for a one-time charge?
The towers are not unused - they are unused by me. Think of it this way. They take my money up-front for "minutes" which will only depreciate in value over time.
- Why should I pay for those towers if I'm not using them?
Good start but you don't go far enough. Google is working on the gCar. Just look at the facts...
1) Ford / GM / etc is slashing US workers 2) Huge factories are left vacant, tens of thousands of workers ready to work for less money 3) Google tracks and records not only every page, but also every search and has stated it wants to record all knowledge 4) The Pizza driver doesn't ever remember the quick way to my house 5) Won't somebody think of the children?
Google will buy out Ford and other US automakers. They will start building cars with computers that access the entire Google Apps Suite including Google Earth, Google Maps connected to GPS. The cars will be sold at cost if you allow Google to track and index your every move and send it back to their data centers, as well as display location based in-car advertising directly to you. They will also have on-board cameras and send geo-tagged pictures as well.
Starting with the poor and college crowd people will sign up to get cheaper cars. They will get used to the convenience of gBillboard and forget about being tracked.
Bracelets for the kids will tether them to your vehicle or home showing your "last known location".
People will appreciate that they can instantly pull up a map to see exactly where their kids or spouse is on Google Earth at any point in time. Google will use the pictures to extrapolate the 3D structure of all buildings and develop algorithms to enhance the surface heights in Google Earth with the high resolution data recorded from the vehicles creating an almost perfect model of populated places. Each vehicle will have it's own "gCell" computer that seeks out other cars within 2 miles or so and forms an automatic mesh network. Highways make free internet access available and in return all these cars are used as a dynamic super computer with peak number crunching power during morning and afternoon rush hours.
They will all be hybrid plugins to fit with because Google's Don't Be Evil(tm).
Really, it's obvious when you look at the facts, and I bet all those Phd CS guys would get a hard-on creating it.:)
IAAFPS and i call bs on this one You are a first person shooter?
I agree with the other posters that the extensions he has makes it look like he views a lot of porn. So in that respect he's being truthful.
He's a First Person Shooter.
Software is still too close to the metal...
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One thing I've noticed about companies is that they try to treat programmers like factory workers. Expect each one to be interchangeable and jump in anywhere on the "assembly line" at any place at any time for any piece of code. However, programming takes understanding, and complex programming takes complex understanding. Even a good programmer fixing a bug may need to analyze surrounding code for several hours before changing a single line.
I always get comments one my projects at first when I start coding about a week after other people. Give it two more weeks though and they all start coming to me because I'm the only one who seems to have learned how all the pieces fit together instead of just sticking to My Piece Of Code.
The factory ideal is what people want, but programming is happening closer to the nano scale. It's only in the past decade that people have started building things using something approximating molecule-at-a-time instead of a atom-at-a-time level tools. Our debuggers can show us the bits moving around, but trying to debug a crash on something like Vista involves tracing through something like a car wreck happening in real time with a microscope and finding out a certain pin sheared off because it was put in wrong. We work at such a low level that it's hard to see the big picture and realize the design has square wheels and will never roll no matter how much we polish them.
I have a Dishnetwork 510 DVR. They made it very explicit to me when I got it that I was RENTING the device. Now the 501 DVR was actually sold and purchased, and some people hacked it a bit. The 510 and higher numbers are all being rented, with an extra $5 per month tacked on to the bill.
Seriously, what's the point of this?? Why am I forced to use weak passwords just because some developper somewhere can't figure out how to allow a " or a \ in a string?
The most common reason I've seen developers do this is because they don't understand database collation. I have seen sites store passwords as plaintext in the database, then so a simple "select * from accounts where account = 'account' and password = 'pass'". Most databases are not case sensitive by default so they end up allowing any combination of upper and lowercase numbers.
Random somewhat out of context tip, but for MySQL your web developers can use...
select * from accounts where password = 'test' collate latin1_swedish_ci;
-> default, returns all rows above
select * from accounts where password = 'test' collate latin1_bin;
-> case sensitive, returns only acc4 se
Just watched the video and about 3 minutes, 35 seconds into it there appears to be a very short clip of ghengis or one of the 6 legged MIT robots walking up something with a red lit background. It's in silhouette so I can't be sure. Anyone else see that?
If I were to go and try to run a few miles this weekend, I would not be able to easily do so. [...] However, if you take one of the these college basketball athletes, any of them would be able to run miles without even breathing heavy. However, if you made them sit down and try to learn Java for 12 hours a day, most of them would be asleep at their desk before lunch. The typical geek trains their brain to be heavily focused while multitasking day after day. Is it surprising that this same brain does not do well when forced to isolate down to one task?
So if you were to tell your basic geek to Juggle with one hand, play sudoku on their cell phone with the other AND run a mile it would be no problem. Somehow I don't think concentration has anything to do with the heavy breathing...
On a side note: always wondered about making a program to compute all the possible combinations of the Jewish alphabet that adds up to 666 (filtering out all the nonsense ones of course). Someone must have done this somewhere already.
This has already been done - for english at least. Check out http://egomania.nu/gates.html for the details that show Bill Gates is the devil. Or wait until Vista comes out and check Start Button / Control Panel
/ Security Center
/ My RFID Implant
Slashdot Mirror
Before we try more monkey games does anyone know if what kind of plants grow in high gravity?
Also if there really was a ship that used rotation for artificial gravity couldn't the people or monkeys just live closer to the hub or outer rim as needed to experiment with gravity levels?
Do you happen to know if white balance be compensated for after the picture is taken using some photo editing software? What will the side effects of a poor white balance camera be?
Consider this from someone who snaps photos of their kids and house but mostly to keep or print to 3x5 or 5x7 photos.
Thanks ahead of time if you decide to answer.
As a record store owner who has failed to diversify or pay attention to industry trends , my business faces ruin. CD sales have dropped through the floor just like the previous obsolete formats before them . People aren't buying half as many CDs as they did just a year ago. Revenue is down and costs are up. My store has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening when I should be researching current trends and alternatives to restructure my business instead of wallowing in misery .
I bought the store about 12 years ago. It was one of those boutique record stores that sell obscure, independent releases that no-one listens to, not even the people that buy them. I decided that to grow the business I'd need to aim for a different demographic, the family market. My store specialized in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't sell sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of.
The business strategy worked. Buying an existing profitable store and changing nothing was simpler then I ever imagined. People flocked to my store, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase records without profanity or violent lyrics. Over the years I expanded the business and took on more clean-cut and friendly employees. It took hard work and long hours but I had achieved my dream - owning a profitable business that I had built with my own hands, from the ground up. But now, this dream is turning into a nightmare.
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer CDs. Why is no one buying CDs? Why is no one buying cassette tapes, 33s or singles on 45s? My wax cylinders are literally covered in dust! Are people not interested in music? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, read books? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three discs world wide is a pirate. On The Internet, you can find and download hundreds of dollars worth of music in just minutes. Millions of people are finding and downloading any music item they want. It's so easy some people are downloading stuff they never would have listened to before just to check it out. It has the potential to destroy the music industry, from artists, to record companies to stores like my own. Before you point to the supposed "economic downturn", I'll note that the book store just across from my store is doing great business. Unlike CDs, it's harder to copy books over The Internet. Except for audio books. And it's really just as easy to copy the books - it's just a little harder to encode them and not as convenient to read them using a computer right now.
Pirates are the worst. They are not as easy to identify as you would think. They almost never wear those little triangle hats. A week ago, an unpleasant experience with pirates gave me an idea. In my store, I overheard a teenage patron talking to his friend.
"Dude, I'm going to put this CD on the Internet right away."
"Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
"I just hope it will work in my CD player. I haven't bought a CD since the last two wouldn't work in my CD player and this guy refused to give me a refund for the defective discs."
I was fuming. So they were out to destroy the record industry from right under my nose? F
Well said. Never let the parrots repeat that crap without correcting them.
The Parents Television Council is ruining TV for the rest of us. Check out their website. It's pretty much designed to convince you to file FCC complaints of "indecency". If you take away their complaints then you would have very few complaints and the FCC could do the original job the grandparent post suggested - regulate the technical aspects of spectrum allocation and communications - but it should not be able to decide what is allowed to go over those communication channels. That should be up to the market.
Families that care can use the TV rating system to block shows that show content they don't want to see instead of trying to make those shows unavailable everyone else in case they accidentally change channels to something they find offensive.
http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/fcc/main.asp
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041207-444
I find your post arrogant and naive.
I believe you meant "I find your post shallow and pedantic."
I have a spider of sysinternals.com and all file downloads in a 24MB Zip file from the day it was announced Mark was hired by Microsoft. Not sure if anyone is interested in it. I don't have any where to host the files but I can try to email them to someone via Gmail if anyone can host it or wants a copy.
Low Power, Able to adapt / optimize itself as needed. Sounds like the old Transmeta designs. It would compile and execute code in the processor to emulate x86 commands as needed instead of hard wiring them.
;)
Of course it also sounds like terminator chip but I think that was from another company and should have already happened by now.
You've got lifespan in hours, two different dollar amounts for killowatt hours - retail and commercial and then "energy payback".
So when you say energy payback. Do you mean it will take Me the consumer less? From the point of view of the power grid? Can you explain again in more detail.
- Why should I pay for those towers if I'm not using them?
Good start but you don't go far enough. Google is working on the gCar. Just look at the facts...
:)
1) Ford / GM / etc is slashing US workers
2) Huge factories are left vacant, tens of thousands of workers ready to work for less money
3) Google tracks and records not only every page, but also every search and has stated it wants to record all knowledge
4) The Pizza driver doesn't ever remember the quick way to my house
5) Won't somebody think of the children?
Google will buy out Ford and other US automakers. They will start building cars with computers that access the entire Google Apps Suite including Google Earth, Google Maps connected to GPS. The cars will be sold at cost if you allow Google to track and index your every move and send it back to their data centers, as well as display location based in-car advertising directly to you. They will also have on-board cameras and send geo-tagged pictures as well.
Starting with the poor and college crowd people will sign up to get cheaper cars. They will get used to the convenience of gBillboard and forget about being tracked.
Bracelets for the kids will tether them to your vehicle or home showing your "last known location".
People will appreciate that they can instantly pull up a map to see exactly where their kids or spouse is on Google Earth at any point in time. Google will use the pictures to extrapolate the 3D structure of all buildings and develop algorithms to enhance the surface heights in Google Earth with the high resolution data recorded from the vehicles creating an almost perfect model of populated places. Each vehicle will have it's own "gCell" computer that seeks out other cars within 2 miles or so and forms an automatic mesh network. Highways make free internet access available and in return all these cars are used as a dynamic super computer with peak number crunching power during morning and afternoon rush hours.
They will all be hybrid plugins to fit with because Google's Don't Be Evil(tm).
Really, it's obvious when you look at the facts, and I bet all those Phd CS guys would get a hard-on creating it.
I agree with the other posters that the extensions he has makes it look like he views a lot of porn. So in that respect he's being truthful.
He's a First Person Shooter.
The factory ideal is what people want, but programming is happening closer to the nano scale. It's only in the past decade that people have started building things using something approximating molecule-at-a-time instead of a atom-at-a-time level tools. Our debuggers can show us the bits moving around, but trying to debug a crash on something like Vista involves tracing through something like a car wreck happening in real time with a microscope and finding out a certain pin sheared off because it was put in wrong. We work at such a low level that it's hard to see the big picture and realize the design has square wheels and will never roll no matter how much we polish them.
5. Profit?
/. world several $$$ Billions and we're still in step #1
Fuck yes - in the non
I have a Dishnetwork 510 DVR. They made it very explicit to me when I got it that I was RENTING the device. Now the 501 DVR was actually sold and purchased, and some people hacked it a bit. The 510 and higher numbers are all being rented, with an extra $5 per month tacked on to the bill.
So it is possible for them to disable it.
The locksmith tool has been moved into the Administrator's Pak.
P ak/Default.aspx
http://www.winternals.com/Products/Administrators
Seriously, what's the point of this?? Why am I forced to use weak passwords just because some developper somewhere can't figure out how to allow a " or a \ in a string?
The most common reason I've seen developers do this is because they don't understand database collation. I have seen sites store passwords as plaintext in the database, then so a simple "select * from accounts where account = 'account' and password = 'pass'". Most databases are not case sensitive by default so they end up allowing any combination of upper and lowercase numbers.
Random somewhat out of context tip, but for MySQL your web developers can use...
insert into accounts( account, password ) values ( 'acc1', 'Test' ), ('acc2', 'TeSt'), ('acc3', 'TEST'), ('acc4', 'test');
select * from accounts where password = 'test' collate latin1_swedish_ci;
-> default, returns all rows above
select * from accounts where password = 'test' collate latin1_bin;
-> case sensitive, returns only acc4
se
Just watched the video and about 3 minutes, 35 seconds into it there appears to be a very short clip of ghengis or one of the 6 legged MIT robots walking up something with a red lit background. It's in silhouette so I can't be sure. Anyone else see that?
If I were to go and try to run a few miles this weekend, I would not be able to easily do so. [...] However, if you take one of the these college basketball athletes, any of them would be able to run miles without even breathing heavy. However, if you made them sit down and try to learn Java for 12 hours a day, most of them would be asleep at their desk before lunch. The typical geek trains their brain to be heavily focused while multitasking day after day. Is it surprising that this same brain does not do well when forced to isolate down to one task?
So if you were to tell your basic geek to Juggle with one hand, play sudoku on their cell phone with the other AND run a mile it would be no problem. Somehow I don't think concentration has anything to do with the heavy breathing...
Check out http://digg.com/. It's much better content and avoids this crap.
On a side note: always wondered about making a program to compute all the possible combinations of the Jewish alphabet that adds up to 666 (filtering out all the nonsense ones of course). Someone must have done this somewhere already.
This has already been done - for english at least. Check out http://egomania.nu/gates.html for the details that show Bill Gates is the devil. Or wait until Vista comes out and check
Start Button
/ Control Panel
/ Security Center
/ My RFID Implant
Sure - just like phone companies you pay to be unlisted.
I wish I could charge AOL for sending me all those AOL CD's I get in the mail.
You could always put them back in the mail box marker "Return to Sender" and make them pay for the postage again.
Message filtering is still archaic.
Someone had some fun playing with XUL and changed the interface, but the core message filtering is still an All or Any situation.
It was replaced by Dirty Dancing because kids now a days don't want to learn the Mamob or the Fox Trot...