Sporks have not one, but three sharp POINTS on them.
I would suggest using Spoons instead, but even they have an edge which could be sharpened.
Therefore, we must use spheres in all our daily activities. These spheres must all weigh less than 3 ounces (to prevent them being tossed as weapons) and must be indestructable (to prevent their internal edges from being revealed).
... Why yes, I do enjoy other people telling me what is dangerous.
Seems like the Moz plugin is what would be really powerful. Then the license data could be slammed into a sidebar for anyone who really needs it, and the icon would profide enough information for Joe FreeData.
I can't even begin to think about what a feed showing all (L)GPL and FDL stuff would look like. Fatter than the Freshmeat feed, I would suppose.
Why do we need cardinality?
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I see a lot of nay-sayers in this thread talking about "How could some alien not understand that one of one thing and two more of that same thing make three?"
You are assuming that everyone has a concept of cardinality. Realistically, people don't have much of one beyond the number six (yes, there are outlyers for whom eight objects in a group is eight objects not one-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight objects). If a being had no concept of cardinality, that would make many things more difficult, but many others much easier. This organism would not think of a system as the sum of its parts, but rather as a cohesive whole (or rather the cohesive whole). It is likely that they would be philosophical geniuses compared to us. There are creatures of this type toward the end of Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer (See your favorite bookseller and/or your local library), and their possible existance is not implausable.
Hey, no one likes Hams anyways. And CB is soo 80s! And why wouldn't everyone have the newest 100GHz phone (More GHz means more chicks). Short-wave? Can I get that on my TeeVee?
BTW, I'm KC2DXE and I bought one of those old 49MHz phones at a Hamfest once. Worked really well until one of my younger brothers broke it.
Oh, so these aren't on the home line poles? The article was unclear which of the several voltage steps down to 120VAC was "medium voltage".
Cells do produce some noise on the lines, but most cell towers are not less than a foot away from the power lines. There is also the upstream to be slightly concerned with. I mean, the step-down transformers can step-up just as easily.
Of course, none of these concerns are really major, and I'm sure have been taken into account already.
But I have to wonder whether this will increase the noise on the powerlines. The frequency used on the lines is not given, but don't we have enough 2.4 GHz noise in the air? Do we need some bleeding into the powerlines as well?
Of course, that could be my "the Commons is being raped"-foil hat again.
... why do they need a license? Once they use it in an open court as evidence (and there is no reason to present it to a closed court), then it is in the Public Domain.
There are several Free readers, such as GView, gv, xpdf, and so on. YES, even on Windows a Free reader is available (it's an add-on to GhostScript, find it yourself)
Complaining about PDF because of Acrobat is like complaining about HTML because of MSIE.
As An NYS resident who cannot get his barcode to decode with this package, can you tell me what kinds of information is on my card? (I have even tried scans as high as 1500 DPI, creating huge JPEGs and TIFFs (which can't even be read), and yet I fail to generate meaningful data)
Reception is always legal. Decryption (see DMCA) and illegal surveilance (see Amenment IV, US constitution) are not.
So... say I'm tuning about on my scanner, and I just happen to come across my next door neighbor talking about his drug deal (he didn't upgrade to the latest digital cordless phone, the fool!). If I gave my friendly neighborhood police officer a tape of that conversation, it would be illegal. However, if I called up Mr. PoPo and told him that I thought there was some funny stuff going down, and he managed to get a warrant for those kinds of things, then those tapes would be admissable.
Naval salvage law could apply quite well ("finders keepers"). Granted, then there's sometimes a tax to the local government (the things I learn watching CSI: Miami...). Give it to the UN to distribute among the various space programs, or something like that.
Don't you know? He's using the New Economy, Stupid school of venture capital. All you need to do is promise profits of 500,000%, and deliver some kind of promise, and you've got your VC
JPEG uses 8x8 (usually) squares, using weighted cosine functions in the YUV spectrum as best as possible. The thing is, with significantly large enough JPEG photos, and with low enough compression, you can get effects like the one you describe.
I would check the compression preferences, but I'm on dial-up and it's a HUGE photo (11174x1385), you insentive clod!
If you want access to the one, unified desktop(s) [shut up, it makes sense], you want VNC. You want to remote individual apps, then X is almost certainly what you want.
Anyways, ssh -CX user@host will take care of most of the "ineffiencies" that X serving is notorious for.
[I am not to be held responsible for my spelling, for I am perpetually sleep-deprived]
Most AC adapters max out at something like 400 mW. They'll shut off if they're asked for any more than that. Most laptop ones will only give out 2 or 3 amps at 18 V or a max of 54 W. Not 1.8kW, but pretty scary nonetheless.
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And your phone is vulnerable too. At least when it's discoverable.
Links does do some javascript (prompts, redirects, new windows, etc)
No no no!!!
... Why yes, I do enjoy other people telling me what is dangerous.
Sporks have not one, but three sharp POINTS on them.
I would suggest using Spoons instead, but even they have an edge which could be sharpened.
Therefore, we must use spheres in all our daily activities. These spheres must all weigh less than 3 ounces (to prevent them being tossed as weapons) and must be indestructable (to prevent their internal edges from being revealed).
Seems like the Moz plugin is what would be really powerful. Then the license data could be slammed into a sidebar for anyone who really needs it, and the icon would profide enough information for Joe FreeData.
I can't even begin to think about what a feed showing all (L)GPL and FDL stuff would look like. Fatter than the Freshmeat feed, I would suppose.
I see a lot of nay-sayers in this thread talking about "How could some alien not understand that one of one thing and two more of that same thing make three?"
You are assuming that everyone has a concept of cardinality. Realistically, people don't have much of one beyond the number six (yes, there are outlyers for whom eight objects in a group is eight objects not one-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight objects). If a being had no concept of cardinality, that would make many things more difficult, but many others much easier. This organism would not think of a system as the sum of its parts, but rather as a cohesive whole (or rather the cohesive whole). It is likely that they would be philosophical geniuses compared to us. There are creatures of this type toward the end of Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer (See your favorite bookseller and/or your local library), and their possible existance is not implausable.
... because I agree
There's a button to make it all single-column.
Although I do agree that the interface sucks, it can be made to work the way you want. It does not have to be horrible.
And you, sir have given the correct answer. I forgot some basic Fields stuff when I posted that, and I beg your forgiveness.
Hey, no one likes Hams anyways. And CB is soo 80s! And why wouldn't everyone have the newest 100GHz phone (More GHz means more chicks). Short-wave? Can I get that on my TeeVee?
BTW, I'm KC2DXE and I bought one of those old 49MHz phones at a Hamfest once. Worked really well until one of my younger brothers broke it.
Oh, so these aren't on the home line poles? The article was unclear which of the several voltage steps down to 120VAC was "medium voltage".
Cells do produce some noise on the lines, but most cell towers are not less than a foot away from the power lines. There is also the upstream to be slightly concerned with. I mean, the step-down transformers can step-up just as easily.
Of course, none of these concerns are really major, and I'm sure have been taken into account already.
But I have to wonder whether this will increase the noise on the powerlines. The frequency used on the lines is not given, but don't we have enough 2.4 GHz noise in the air? Do we need some bleeding into the powerlines as well?
Of course, that could be my "the Commons is being raped"-foil hat again.
... why do they need a license? Once they use it in an open court as evidence (and there is no reason to present it to a closed court), then it is in the Public Domain.
Or is it just to cover that "inbetween time"?
I've said it several times PDF is an Open Specification.
There are several Free readers, such as GView, gv, xpdf, and so on. YES, even on Windows a Free reader is available (it's an add-on to GhostScript, find it yourself)
Complaining about PDF because of Acrobat is like complaining about HTML because of MSIE.
As An NYS resident who cannot get his barcode to decode with this package, can you tell me what kinds of information is on my card? (I have even tried scans as high as 1500 DPI, creating huge JPEGs and TIFFs (which can't even be read), and yet I fail to generate meaningful data)
I will have you know that i just started reading the Illuminatus! Trillogy and your sig scared the fuck out of me here at work.
Reception is always legal. Decryption (see DMCA) and illegal surveilance (see Amenment IV, US constitution) are not.
So... say I'm tuning about on my scanner, and I just happen to come across my next door neighbor talking about his drug deal (he didn't upgrade to the latest digital cordless phone, the fool!). If I gave my friendly neighborhood police officer a tape of that conversation, it would be illegal. However, if I called up Mr. PoPo and told him that I thought there was some funny stuff going down, and he managed to get a warrant for those kinds of things, then those tapes would be admissable.
All facts are false.
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Enjoy Your Discord.
All Hail Discordia!
You know things are messed up when something that (IMHO) was meant in jest is rated as Insightful.
Like how the Onion often becomes oddly prophetic.
New Laws Are Not Required.
Naval salvage law could apply quite well ("finders keepers"). Granted, then there's sometimes a tax to the local government (the things I learn watching CSI: Miami...). Give it to the UN to distribute among the various space programs, or something like that.
Don't you know? He's using the New Economy, Stupid school of venture capital. All you need to do is promise profits of 500,000%, and deliver some kind of promise, and you've got your VC
JPEG uses 8x8 (usually) squares, using weighted cosine functions in the YUV spectrum as best as possible. The thing is, with significantly large enough JPEG photos, and with low enough compression, you can get effects like the one you describe.
I would check the compression preferences, but I'm on dial-up and it's a HUGE photo (11174x1385), you insentive clod!
VNC and X do different things while remoting.
If you want access to the one, unified desktop(s) [shut up, it makes sense], you want VNC. You want to remote individual apps, then X is almost certainly what you want.
Anyways, ssh -CX user@host will take care of most of the "ineffiencies" that X serving is notorious for.
[I am not to be held responsible for my spelling, for I am perpetually sleep-deprived]
If the stereogram is on glossy paper, try to catch a glare on it, and then try to focus on the glare itself. That may help.
Do you cross your eyes to see the stereogram? That will cause the ins to become outs and vice-versa (if you get my meaning.
Most AC adapters max out at something like 400 mW. They'll shut off if they're asked for any more than that. Most laptop ones will only give out 2 or 3 amps at 18 V or a max of 54 W. Not 1.8kW, but pretty scary nonetheless.
-Your friendly neighborhood EE