Dye-Sensitized solar cells will solve that; They have no PN junction and thus no recombination problem at lower light levels.
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About the tree leaves: The 2.4Ghz wifi signal is right in one of water's absorbtion bands, so if the leaves weren't dessicated I guess your WiFi was very gently microwaving them.
Anyway, I had the same experience with WiFi. My room was one wall away from the router, about 20 feet. 70-80% signal, and roughly 10mbps actual throughput (measured by scp of large files). We tried to set up a computer on the other side of the house. It got either the speed of cheap cable or just enough signal to stall out but still claim it was connected. I'm on 100mbps ethernet, other machine's still out of luck...
I've never understood why people don't like Linux's fonts; I never even noticed when I switched. I mean, I'm using 12-point menus/titles at the moment. I could easily go to 10, probably 9 or 8, but why? I won't save *that* much space or anything. Maybe it's because I have a large desktop (1920x1200) and I'm falling into the same syndrome as developers who figure there's no point writing tight, efficient code because faster CPUs and more ram will cover their laziness.
And as far as remaining responsive under load, I have the opposite experience. I've come to expect Linux & KDE to keep everything smooth unless there two interactive CPU hogs running (e.g. games glitch if I'm compiling at the same time) or it runs out of physical memory (e.g. opening original haha-guy thread from Fark.com). Other than that, I've come to expect windows to redraw and respond instantly. Amarok once went nuts and was eating 80% of my CPU until I fixed it. Until I saw something eating 4/5 of my CPU, I had no idea how terribly wrong things were going; Amarok even kept playing as it went berserk trying to parse an 80MB collection database file. Windows makes me crazy, because things seem to seize up and then unstick on their own schedule at times. For example, Opera on 2K will completely lock up on me until it loads Acrobat for a PDF.
As I see it, KDE + Amarok (mp3 jukebox) + Mplayer (video) + Konqueror + Kmail (email) + Gaim (IM) + OpenOffice + Akregator (RSS feeds) + [cinepaint | krita | gimp] is pretty much a complete desktop. Neglecting of course the other hundred apps you don't use every day, and the thousand others that act as backends...
True about things looking fake after time... It took a few viewings of Back to the Future before they started to emerge. Like Marty's foot being composited into the edge of the fire trail in I, or the difference in the black level in II as Doc takes off from behind the sign showing where one block was composited in.
I disagree. First of all, it's rather rude to send SIGKILL to processes that are still responding. Second, if you're invoking AWK you might as well use it.
I know. Bigass tiled displays like this have been done a few times before. Last one I recall had one "real" computer which had an OpenGL that sent rendering information over a GigE network to SGI Onyx boxes that drove two or four displays each. I'll never forget the article's picture of the highest resolution FPS fragging ever...
Until we decide to just get it over with and switch to a direct-bandgap semiconductor. Probably as soon as they figure out how to make a decent P-type fet on GaAs...
But seeing as I lack the budget or space for such a display or it's roomful of wiring and rendering nodes, I'm stuck with my trusty old GDM-W900 crt. Hehe.
If you had read so much as the summary, you'd know the "fees" are because the entrenched monopolies are charging them high prices which they're forced to pass on, not the protection money extortion other ISPs talk about
Network Neutrality refers to not discriminating for or against traffic based on source or destination. This is one of the most basic premises of the Internet; The middle of it just routes data to it's destination.
Packet shaping refers to discriminating for/against traffic based on traffic type. It has positive uses, such as to give interactive traffic priority (audio/video > games > web > p2p). What we're seeing here is Comcast throttling p2p because people are using the shitload of bandwidth they sold (but don't have).
Including labeling fanatical Islamic terrorists who would kill them in a moment's notice "freedom fighters".
Ah, the neverending ability of humans to rationalize evil as long as it's someone else suffering from it. I imagine you cheered Osama bin Laden on as he terrorized and killed Soviet troops during the 80s? It was okay, because they were the Others.
I've worked with high and low level programming languages, and they all have uses. I once wrote a machine language program to draw rectangles on my 24 year old laptop by poking about 20 bytes into memory; It did in one second what took BASIC one minute. I also made a mistake before that and had to salvage my data by dumping the machine's memory through a serial port. That doesn't mean I should stick with BASIC because it's overflow-proof, or never use assembly because it's dangerous.
I'm also learning SVG/CSS/HTML/JavaScript to write interactive websites. It's amazing to do with a few lines in SVG what would take pages of code in C/OpenGL (open a window/area and draw some shaded shapes on it). I am also conscientious of the fact that C/OpenGL can animate hundreds to thousands of moving objects in real time. But they all have their place.
So, do you believe it's foolish of nVidia to write their kernel module and interface in dangerous C?
I suppose that any function with a vertical asymptote or the inverse of any function with a zero all grow to infinity in finite time, but that's wierd non-integer stuff. Busy Beavers apparently grow faster than any recursive function which would include Ackermann's.
This page talks about huge numbers and ways to define them.
I would argue that if the RIAA is between a rock and a hard place, they should be left to do what everyone else does in a capitalist system: adapt.
Actually finding what you're looking for on either bittorrent sites or gnutella & co is a pain. I'll be damned if 95% of people with classical music share any Bach that isn't BVW 147, 565, or 582. As a matter of fact, I've accumulated about a dozen different playings of "Ode to Joy." Other than those and one of the Brandenburg concertos, good luck - you're gonna need it. I'd pay to not have to sort through trash results and get decent downloads rates reliably. Other companies have figured this out: E-Classical, Magnatune and of course Apple iTunes have figured it out. With EMI's selling of standard MP3s, I think they're beginning to figure it out. The ones that don't "figure it out" will go the way of the Dodo.
Forcing me (the computer's owner) to give up control of the lowest level of my computer. At which point they [Computer makers + Media corporations + MS] will be free to insert every kind of phone-home rootkit, DRM, "trusted" computing and other shit they want. Of course, they will because it's in their financial interests to be able to force you and me to pay any price they want, no matter how extortionate it may be. And since they've forced me out of the bottom-most level, there's nothing I can do to get rid of it.
And oh, there will of course be bugs in it. Exploitable bugs. Which crackers will use to pwn me with no possibility of ever being able to secure myself against them, because I can't uninstall the shit they're taking advantage of or block them out.
Virtualization: Good.
Without me at the helm of the root VM: No thank you, let's not ever go down that path. Ever. In fact, hell no.
Something faster than e^(e^x)) is super- or hyperexponential. The Ackermann function and tetration have already been mentioned. Wikipedia is a good resource for more info on large numbers. A() and tetration can be represented by Knuth arrows, which provide a compact way to describe recursive exponentiation-like operations. They can describe functions that grow at enormous rates:
And these values are for pitifully small integers. Wikipedia's Knuth arrow article also says they can be called tetration (^^), pentation (^^^), and presumably hexation, heptation, octation, and are all related to the ackermann function. Beyond that, Conway's chained-arrow notation works when there are too many Knuth arrows...
You jumped over the first and most important sentence: Multiple judges have said in their rulings that Bush's warrantless wiretapping program is blatantly unconstitutional, and they only didn't declare it so because of the technicality of standing.
How exactly are most of them pandering to narrow nitches? I run my own little website, and here's what I see in these tags:
Section-Article-Nav: Much better for my index.html than forcing a navigation table to the left with CSS.
Figure: The ability to associate text with an image without using a table (and all it's constraints).
Meter: This would be a very nice way to add richness without data bloat. I could make a graph without an image.
Media: At last an embedded.flv wouldn't be a thousand characters of HTML.
Details: Like onMouseover="" bringing over a hidden info box, but without exposing the rest of javascript to (ab)use.
Datagrid: Imagine e-commerce websites being able to resort information *without* reloading everything from the server.
Menu: I'm thinking of a browser-based office suite that would write your document natively as HTML.
It's certainly possible to emulate all this at the present; We have section-article websites, embedded media, and dynamic menus. But this would make them easy to use, and that's the point of HTML.
But who is to determine what an illegal program is?
Thus far, multiple judges who have written opinions on Bush's warrantless wiretapping program have said that it's blatantly illegal and will be declared so as soon as someone with standing sues. Which of course is why we see the "Send uniformed thugs to take away the evidence" shenanigans. And come to think of it, the "Deny the right to a trial to anyone accused of terrorism" shenanigans.
The purpose of a voting machine is to increment integers and later add them together. There's no excuse to use anything more complex than 74xx logic chips...
I know from having tested Konqueror in valgrind that it leaks some memory, but I'm not sure if it's a continual leak (rather than in init) or if it would account for what I've observed. And it's true that X ends up taking more and more memory as well. I've been thinking that Konqueror keeps rendering images (maybe web pages) through X without releasing them when done, but it may very well be the X disp driver.
The definite answer would come from running Konqueror (and God forbid, X) under Valgrind. I'm preparing to try...
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Dye-Sensitized solar cells will solve that; They have no PN junction and thus no recombination problem at lower light levels.
About the tree leaves: The 2.4Ghz wifi signal is right in one of water's absorbtion bands, so if the leaves weren't dessicated I guess your WiFi was very gently microwaving them.
Anyway, I had the same experience with WiFi. My room was one wall away from the router, about 20 feet. 70-80% signal, and roughly 10mbps actual throughput (measured by scp of large files). We tried to set up a computer on the other side of the house. It got either the speed of cheap cable or just enough signal to stall out but still claim it was connected. I'm on 100mbps ethernet, other machine's still out of luck...
I've never understood why people don't like Linux's fonts; I never even noticed when I switched. I mean, I'm using 12-point menus/titles at the moment. I could easily go to 10, probably 9 or 8, but why? I won't save *that* much space or anything. Maybe it's because I have a large desktop (1920x1200) and I'm falling into the same syndrome as developers who figure there's no point writing tight, efficient code because faster CPUs and more ram will cover their laziness.
And as far as remaining responsive under load, I have the opposite experience. I've come to expect Linux & KDE to keep everything smooth unless there two interactive CPU hogs running (e.g. games glitch if I'm compiling at the same time) or it runs out of physical memory (e.g. opening original haha-guy thread from Fark.com). Other than that, I've come to expect windows to redraw and respond instantly. Amarok once went nuts and was eating 80% of my CPU until I fixed it. Until I saw something eating 4/5 of my CPU, I had no idea how terribly wrong things were going; Amarok even kept playing as it went berserk trying to parse an 80MB collection database file. Windows makes me crazy, because things seem to seize up and then unstick on their own schedule at times. For example, Opera on 2K will completely lock up on me until it loads Acrobat for a PDF.
As I see it, KDE + Amarok (mp3 jukebox) + Mplayer (video) + Konqueror + Kmail (email) + Gaim (IM) + OpenOffice + Akregator (RSS feeds) + [cinepaint | krita | gimp] is pretty much a complete desktop. Neglecting of course the other hundred apps you don't use every day, and the thousand others that act as backends...
True about things looking fake after time... It took a few viewings of Back to the Future before they started to emerge. Like Marty's foot being composited into the edge of the fire trail in I, or the difference in the black level in II as Doc takes off from behind the sign showing where one block was composited in.
I disagree. First of all, it's rather rude to send SIGKILL to processes that are still responding. Second, if you're invoking AWK you might as well use it.
/kcalc/ { print $2 }' | xargs kill -15
ps xu | awk '$11 ~
C'mon, I'm sure I missed something - let's get this optimized!
I know. Bigass tiled displays like this have been done a few times before. Last one I recall had one "real" computer which had an OpenGL that sent rendering information over a GigE network to SGI Onyx boxes that drove two or four displays each. I'll never forget the article's picture of the highest resolution FPS fragging ever...
Until we decide to just get it over with and switch to a direct-bandgap semiconductor. Probably as soon as they figure out how to make a decent P-type fet on GaAs...
But seeing as I lack the budget or space for such a display or it's roomful of wiring and rendering nodes, I'm stuck with my trusty old GDM-W900 crt. Hehe.
If you had read so much as the summary, you'd know the "fees" are because the entrenched monopolies are charging them high prices which they're forced to pass on, not the protection money extortion other ISPs talk about
Network Neutrality refers to not discriminating for or against traffic based on source or destination. This is one of the most basic premises of the Internet; The middle of it just routes data to it's destination.
Packet shaping refers to discriminating for/against traffic based on traffic type. It has positive uses, such as to give interactive traffic priority (audio/video > games > web > p2p). What we're seeing here is Comcast throttling p2p because people are using the shitload of bandwidth they sold (but don't have).
If I'm going to the trouble of blocking your stupid ads, what makes you think I'd buy anything from them in the first place?
Hehe, that always cracks me up...
Star Trek: Where every console and corridor is apparently lined with C4.
Looking at my own firewall is an eminently good reason.
I've worked with high and low level programming languages, and they all have uses. I once wrote a machine language program to draw rectangles on my 24 year old laptop by poking about 20 bytes into memory; It did in one second what took BASIC one minute. I also made a mistake before that and had to salvage my data by dumping the machine's memory through a serial port. That doesn't mean I should stick with BASIC because it's overflow-proof, or never use assembly because it's dangerous.
I'm also learning SVG/CSS/HTML/JavaScript to write interactive websites. It's amazing to do with a few lines in SVG what would take pages of code in C/OpenGL (open a window/area and draw some shaded shapes on it). I am also conscientious of the fact that C/OpenGL can animate hundreds to thousands of moving objects in real time. But they all have their place.
So, do you believe it's foolish of nVidia to write their kernel module and interface in dangerous C?
I suppose that any function with a vertical asymptote or the inverse of any function with a zero all grow to infinity in finite time, but that's wierd non-integer stuff. Busy Beavers apparently grow faster than any recursive function which would include Ackermann's.
This page talks about huge numbers and ways to define them.
I would argue that if the RIAA is between a rock and a hard place, they should be left to do what everyone else does in a capitalist system: adapt.
Actually finding what you're looking for on either bittorrent sites or gnutella & co is a pain. I'll be damned if 95% of people with classical music share any Bach that isn't BVW 147, 565, or 582. As a matter of fact, I've accumulated about a dozen different playings of "Ode to Joy." Other than those and one of the Brandenburg concertos, good luck - you're gonna need it. I'd pay to not have to sort through trash results and get decent downloads rates reliably. Other companies have figured this out: E-Classical, Magnatune and of course Apple iTunes have figured it out. With EMI's selling of standard MP3s, I think they're beginning to figure it out. The ones that don't "figure it out" will go the way of the Dodo.
Forcing me (the computer's owner) to give up control of the lowest level of my computer. At which point they [Computer makers + Media corporations + MS] will be free to insert every kind of phone-home rootkit, DRM, "trusted" computing and other shit they want. Of course, they will because it's in their financial interests to be able to force you and me to pay any price they want, no matter how extortionate it may be. And since they've forced me out of the bottom-most level, there's nothing I can do to get rid of it.
And oh, there will of course be bugs in it. Exploitable bugs. Which crackers will use to pwn me with no possibility of ever being able to secure myself against them, because I can't uninstall the shit they're taking advantage of or block them out.
Virtualization: Good.
Without me at the helm of the root VM: No thank you, let's not ever go down that path. Ever. In fact, hell no.
Something faster than e^(e^x)) is super- or hyperexponential. The Ackermann function and tetration have already been mentioned. Wikipedia is a good resource for more info on large numbers. A() and tetration can be represented by Knuth arrows, which provide a compact way to describe recursive exponentiation-like operations. They can describe functions that grow at enormous rates:
... 65534 more times ... ) ...
2^4 = 16; 2^^4 = 2^(2^(2^2)) = 2^(2^4) = 2^16 = 65536 (2^^n is ackermann(4, n+3)-3 )
2^^^4 = 2^^(2^^(2^^2)) = 2^^(2^^(4)) = 2^^65536 = 2^(2^(
2^^^^4 = 2^^^(2^^^(2^^^2)) = 2^^^(2^^^(2^^(2^^2))) = 2^^^(2^^^(2^^4)) = 2^^^(2^^^65536)
And these values are for pitifully small integers. Wikipedia's Knuth arrow article also says they can be called tetration (^^), pentation (^^^), and presumably hexation, heptation, octation, and are all related to the ackermann function. Beyond that, Conway's chained-arrow notation works when there are too many Knuth arrows...
(IANAM [Mathematician], but I do read Wikipedia)
You jumped over the first and most important sentence: Multiple judges have said in their rulings that Bush's warrantless wiretapping program is blatantly unconstitutional, and they only didn't declare it so because of the technicality of standing.
How exactly are most of them pandering to narrow nitches? I run my own little website, and here's what I see in these tags:
.flv wouldn't be a thousand characters of HTML.
Section-Article-Nav: Much better for my index.html than forcing a navigation table to the left with CSS.
Figure: The ability to associate text with an image without using a table (and all it's constraints).
Meter: This would be a very nice way to add richness without data bloat. I could make a graph without an image.
Media: At last an embedded
Details: Like onMouseover="" bringing over a hidden info box, but without exposing the rest of javascript to (ab)use.
Datagrid: Imagine e-commerce websites being able to resort information *without* reloading everything from the server.
Menu: I'm thinking of a browser-based office suite that would write your document natively as HTML.
It's certainly possible to emulate all this at the present; We have section-article websites, embedded media, and dynamic menus. But this would make them easy to use, and that's the point of HTML.
The purpose of a voting machine is to increment integers and later add them together. There's no excuse to use anything more complex than 74xx logic chips...
Fuck you, goddamn corrupt motherfuckers!
Honestly, I'm not sure.
I know from having tested Konqueror in valgrind that it leaks some memory, but I'm not sure if it's a continual leak (rather than in init) or if it would account for what I've observed. And it's true that X ends up taking more and more memory as well. I've been thinking that Konqueror keeps rendering images (maybe web pages) through X without releasing them when done, but it may very well be the X disp driver.
The definite answer would come from running Konqueror (and God forbid, X) under Valgrind. I'm preparing to try...