Raw scan of 80's photo would stink with a raw scan of 80's photo. But 15 minutes of photoshop job (without editing the content, just filters removing noise, enhancing colors etc) and a scan of 80's photo will look like taken yesterday with a top-quality digital camera.
Hey, they don't have to mean evil! Think of it: Current structures behind the backbone are something from a different era. Like, Before Christ. Getting any progress with them is impossible and the only power to force them to do something are the most evil of corporations. Just think of all that's wrong about the central domain management system. Or "political" issues that make packets routed from one university to another in the same town through a continent on the opposite side of the globe. Google would be able to fix that all, if only allowed. But the petrified structures won't allow them. The only way is to create competitive structures and just replace the old ones by means of competition. I guess Google-owned, Google-managed Internet would be much better than the Internet we have today.
Bastards:) They want to take over the Internet.:) Create a new backbone. Replace InterNIC and all the suits who control the net now. Then compete and eliminate most first tier providers, and generally own the global network. Best luck, Google! I hope you will succeed!
I'm sure overclocking your calculator cuts the battery life in half or worse
It cuts the battery life in less than half and calculation time in half or better. Sure "idle" run drains battery way worse, but if you perform some time-consuming calculations you're better off than normally. (that is, on one set of batteries "till they die" you may get 1300 results in 13 hours instead of 1200 results in 24 hours.)
Laugh all you want, these calculators are capable of stuff that's really time consuming. Put
Y1=(somefunction) Y2=FnInt(Y1(X),X,0,X)
Y2 displays integral of Y1. This isn't docummented anywhere and not without a reason. Getting the plot of even a simple function like Y1=sin(X) takes some 5 minutes as the integral is calculated separately for each pixel. Put more sophisticated function for Y1, or put Y3=FnInt(Y2... to get second integral and wait 2 hours or so for results easily.
In this case overclocking serves saving the batteries. True at double speed the batteries are used up nearly twice as much, but running for a hour at a single speed will drain them more than running for half a hour at double speed.
And yeah, these "insane" times are quite reasonable. I've been writing some cool stuff for my TI82. Generating a fractal took maybe a hour or so. "brute forcing" some logical problem lasted only 15 minutes just thanks to some luck (the solution was within first 5% tested). I found the graphs of integrals useful - I entered the function on the start of a test and could test whether my calculations were correct when it was drawn about the middle (and I had to use the calculator for other calculations). It was actually pretty fast at "your generic" numerical methods, and as we were free to choose the platform/language for writing our "numerical methods" programs, I didn't have to show up in the lab even once whole semester, wrote everything on the calculator. One thing that sucks is lack of recursion support, Even the Prog[NAME]/Return function works only 1 level deep. But even this can be solved by using lists instead of local variables, matrices instead of lists.
Can I use a tunable capacitor instead of a switch with a cap in paralell?
eh, finally a chance to write a working Tetris for my TI82. Yes, wrote Tetris to it, but no amount of optimization could make it run at a speed that would make it any kind of challenge. (the pacman on the other hand... I never finished it, hated myself for some levels design)
Microsoft is no longer the monopoly. They can't enforce their ideas, "either you do it our way or not at all" - now they must respect the customer, as the customers have a choice - now Microsoft can't hold its firm stand of a monopoly and must yield to demands...
1.5 the pressure of earth atmosphere, helluva far from the Sun, in the middle of a cloud of space debris (Saturn rings), most probably Saturn can't even be seen from the surface.
No, you aren't. Yoy're posting as AC. Otherwise it could be a nice karma burner. Like +25 Funny -22 Troll, Overrated, Flamebait = -22 karma total.
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Any automated webcrawling process could potentially subject the person running it to liability. Which means any future indexing will have to be vetted by hand.
I guess that's what robots.txt is for. Given areas (like click-through disclaimers) should be made inaccessible for robots. If it's not forbidden for automated tools, it's not legally binding. If it's forbidden by RFC'd bot-understandable method, any entity that trepasses the "noindex, nofollow" border is considered a human and bound by the license agreement. And a buggy bot is no excuse, just like broken brakes in your car aren't.
Is it me or does this seem like alot of work to fight spam.
Sure! The method doesn't unload the effort in fighting spam at all, just opposite, adds work. So why...? Because it's profitable. You could make quite a decent living off lawsuits against spammers who fell for this. The idea is the spammer 1) can be identified 2) agrees to pay damage for every email harvested (implicitly. The bot does.) That won't solve problem of spam for your LAN. That will just make fight against spammers giving real financial profits (and serious financial damage to the spammers), resulting in more people interested in fighting spam (just for profit) and as result destroying spam as the whole.
Wouldn't you welcome spam gladly if each spam you receive came with $50 paid to your account? Now you can.
No, radio waves are electromagnetic waves, the same thing as visible light only different frequency. But the speed is the same (and since it travels great most of the distance through void, it's the "speed of light in void" (as opposed to speed of light in different materials where it's always at least slightly lower)
Yes. 300 000 km/s. 1 AU is damned 8 minutes of travel (earth-sun). Fucking 1 foot during a cycle of 10GHZ clock. Minimal around-earth ping of 260ms, minimal straight-across-earth ping of 86ms.
Light speed starts to seriously get in our way. Light is too slow.
...while the lander is there for some 3 hours already, maybe under water, maybe in pieces... Damned light has to be so slow! Just small 3 solar hours away and we have to wait 3 long hours for the data. As you think about it, the speed of light isn't all that impressive really.
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Yeah. I've shown them to my mom. (she's always suspecting me I watch pr0n, which is only maybe 40% times true) She said "But he's not nude!"
(fuck, don't mix smuggled russian spirit with porter guys. I'm less than halfway throuhg the hlass and i'm already near;y passed away(
Raising my bottle of porter by a glass of smuggled russian spirit (95%) thinly softened with carrot juice.
Ouch. Burns tongue! And stomach!
Raw scan of 80's photo would stink with a raw scan of 80's photo. But 15 minutes of photoshop job (without editing the content, just filters removing noise, enhancing colors etc) and a scan of 80's photo will look like taken yesterday with a top-quality digital camera.
At least the Football players don't need to outsource their sexual services for the girls.
(How do you think, why is it called Micro-Soft?)
Hey, they don't have to mean evil! Think of it: Current structures behind the backbone are something from a different era. Like, Before Christ. Getting any progress with them is impossible and the only power to force them to do something are the most evil of corporations. Just think of all that's wrong about the central domain management system. Or "political" issues that make packets routed from one university to another in the same town through a continent on the opposite side of the globe.
Google would be able to fix that all, if only allowed. But the petrified structures won't allow them. The only way is to create competitive structures and just replace the old ones by means of competition.
I guess Google-owned, Google-managed Internet would be much better than the Internet we have today.
Bastards :) :)
They want to take over the Internet.
Create a new backbone. Replace InterNIC and all the suits who control the net now.
Then compete and eliminate most first tier providers, and generally own the global network.
Best luck, Google! I hope you will succeed!
I'm sure overclocking your calculator cuts the battery life in half or worse
It cuts the battery life in less than half and calculation time in half or better. Sure "idle" run drains battery way worse, but if you perform some time-consuming calculations you're better off than normally. (that is, on one set of batteries "till they die" you may get 1300 results in 13 hours instead of 1200 results in 24 hours.)
don't worry. The batteries would die before you'd get 2 seconds of error.
These are calculators. You switch it on, calculate what you want, switch it off. My keeping them on for 2-3 hours a time was a serious abuse.
Sorry, would gladly write it in ASM if the API provided that function. :)
Didn't want to tap into the RAM directly to upload software
Laugh all you want, these calculators are capable of stuff that's really time consuming.
Put
Y1=(somefunction)
Y2=FnInt(Y1(X),X,0,X)
Y2 displays integral of Y1. This isn't docummented anywhere and not without a reason. Getting the plot of even a simple function like Y1=sin(X) takes some 5 minutes as the integral is calculated separately for each pixel. Put more sophisticated function for Y1, or put Y3=FnInt(Y2... to get second integral and wait 2 hours or so for results easily.
In this case overclocking serves saving the batteries. True at double speed the batteries are used up nearly twice as much, but running for a hour at a single speed will drain them more than running for half a hour at double speed.
And yeah, these "insane" times are quite reasonable. I've been writing some cool stuff for my TI82. Generating a fractal took maybe a hour or so. "brute forcing" some logical problem lasted only 15 minutes just thanks to some luck (the solution was within first 5% tested). I found the graphs of integrals useful - I entered the function on the start of a test and could test whether my calculations were correct when it was drawn about the middle (and I had to use the calculator for other calculations). It was actually pretty fast at "your generic" numerical methods, and as we were free to choose the platform/language for writing our "numerical methods" programs, I didn't have to show up in the lab even once whole semester, wrote everything on the calculator.
One thing that sucks is lack of recursion support, Even the Prog[NAME]/Return function works only 1 level deep. But even this can be solved by using lists instead of local variables, matrices instead of lists.
Can I use a tunable capacitor instead of a switch with a cap in paralell?
eh, finally a chance to write a working Tetris for my TI82. Yes, wrote Tetris to it, but no amount of optimization could make it run at a speed that would make it any kind of challenge.
(the pacman on the other hand... I never finished it, hated myself for some levels design)
Great. Then I'm sure you'll have no trouble getting some non-Microsoft OS pre-installed on any Dell desktop/laptop they sell.
Oh, you can't do that?
Well, I'm sure you can at least get Firefox pre-installed.
Oh, not that either?
Ask dell if you can have one - sorry, no.
Ask Dell if they'd sell you 50.000 of these. I'm sure they would.
Microsoft is no longer the monopoly. They can't enforce their ideas, "either you do it our way or not at all" - now they must respect the customer, as the customers have a choice - now Microsoft can't hold its firm stand of a monopoly and must yield to demands...
So, the name "JPL" (Jet Propulsion Laboratory,the guys who make the rocket engines) is very wrong?
Great story. The class of Apollo 13 :)
1.5 the pressure of earth atmosphere, helluva far from the Sun, in the middle of a cloud of space debris (Saturn rings), most probably Saturn can't even be seen from the surface.
No, you aren't. Yoy're posting as AC. Otherwise it could be a nice karma burner. Like +25 Funny -22 Troll, Overrated, Flamebait = -22 karma total.
Any automated webcrawling process could potentially subject the person running it to liability. Which means any future indexing will have to be vetted by hand.
I guess that's what robots.txt is for. Given areas (like click-through disclaimers) should be made inaccessible for robots. If it's not forbidden for automated tools, it's not legally binding. If it's forbidden by RFC'd bot-understandable method, any entity that trepasses the "noindex, nofollow" border is considered a human and bound by the license agreement.
And a buggy bot is no excuse, just like broken brakes in your car aren't.
Is it me or does this seem like alot of work to fight spam.
Sure! The method doesn't unload the effort in fighting spam at all, just opposite, adds work. So why...? Because it's profitable. You could make quite a decent living off lawsuits against spammers who fell for this. The idea is the spammer 1) can be identified 2) agrees to pay damage for every email harvested (implicitly. The bot does.) That won't solve problem of spam for your LAN. That will just make fight against spammers giving real financial profits (and serious financial damage to the spammers), resulting in more people interested in fighting spam (just for profit) and as result destroying spam as the whole.
Wouldn't you welcome spam gladly if each spam you receive came with $50 paid to your account? Now you can.
No, radio waves are electromagnetic waves, the same thing as visible light only different frequency. But the speed is the same (and since it travels great most of the distance through void, it's the "speed of light in void" (as opposed to speed of light in different materials where it's always at least slightly lower)
Yes. 300 000 km/s. 1 AU is damned 8 minutes of travel (earth-sun). Fucking 1 foot during a cycle of 10GHZ clock. Minimal around-earth ping of 260ms, minimal straight-across-earth ping of 86ms.
Light speed starts to seriously get in our way. Light is too slow.
Venus rocks seem more flat. Hot, crumbling mold vs dust and round rocks
...while the lander is there for some 3 hours already, maybe under water, maybe in pieces...
Damned light has to be so slow! Just small 3 solar hours away and we have to wait 3 long hours for the data.
As you think about it, the speed of light isn't all that impressive really.
Okay. We've seen the rivers. Cool. Now, is the lander fit for underwater operation or can we expect "splash", good bye?
Big hairy thing. The Mook
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