You people crack me up. So unimaginative and lazy.
"God did it" is a sufficient explanation for you.
Men of science are not satisfied with 3 word answers. That's why they make observations, experiment, and study - and write everything down. You are just too lazy to even read it. Or maybe you're not lazy - you're scared to allow any challenges to your simplistic god-based worldview.
Something's not right about this. This guy supposedly swam 3,500 miles in 72 days? That's 48 miles a day. Unless he had an very fast current behind him the whole way, it's absolutely impossible for any human to swim 48 miles in 6 to 8 hours.
The English channel is 21 miles, and I think the world record crossing is around 8 hours.
In a beta, the testers get early access to some kind of software functionality. In this case, they get jack squat.
They could at least HIRE someone to do the testing, or at bare miniumum, offer some kind of bounty for finding vulnerabilities. They're just going begging for free labor, and I doubt any good hacker is going to waste his time and skills on it.
Apparently, linuxense is saying, "Hey we don't have enough resources to test our OS's security. Let's stroke the egos of the hacker community and maybe we can trick them into working for us, for free. Free labor, woohoo!"
They know damn well that the expertise they're looking for is very valuable, and yet they're not even offering a token prize. Pathetic.
I hope they don't even get a single packet. "Hey everyone! Try to break into our server! It'll be FUN!!!" "...."
In the winter, does it save energy to turn off lights when not in use?
If I know my physics, theoretically the answer is no. All the electrical energy used by a light bulb either is converted to heat inside the bulb (which you need anyway, because it's winter) or light, which immediately strikes something in the room and is converted to heat.
Whatever heat is produced stays inside the house, and just means your heater runs that much less. The amount of energy saved in your heater should be almost exactly equal to that consumed by your light bulb. Assuming your heater is electric, it would seem that you don't save any energy by turning the light off (unless the light is near a window and some light escapes the house, but I imagine this is a negligible energy loss).
When I was in high school, my parents nagged me constantly about the lights being on. I tried to give them the above argument, but they just weren't buying it.
Can anyone help validate (or invalidate) my argument?
I'd say that if you are really confident that SCO is going to lose (ie, 99% sure), then short it.
You gotta figure if they lose, the price will drop well under $1. If they win, it could rise to $100. If you work out the figures you've got a winning bet (assuming your perception of the odds is correct, which is a big assumption).
I personally shorted at $15, again at $10, and again at $8. I have only covered about 5% of what I shorted. I am tempted to short even more, but I feel like the potential gain is too small ($3 and change per share) to risk losing so much (as much as $100 per share, maybe more, maybe less).
I am about to replace my linux thinkpad with an ibook. I love linux and still use it at work (at IBM, where we're allowed to choose linux for our workstations if we choose). But I could never get the suspend/standby to work properly with linux on any thinkpad. I've searched everywhere for the solution, and nothing has helped. I am sick of my laptop not waking up and having to risk disk corruption (which has happened) every time I close the lid.
I'm tired of this fruitless tinkering and I just want a laptop that works. My girlfriend has an ibook and it just works! So that's what I'm getting.
I think what people are trying to say, is that if this were a device that were in OUR hands, that could affect any camera to stop our face from appearing, THAT would be something we'd support.
But this is just a stupid idea. No paparazzi is going to be stupid enough to buy a camera with this technology in it, so what use is it? I doubt many consumers would go for it either.
It's a case where the person paying for the technology is not the person who benefits from it. Those items typically don't sell.
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They've actually been around for quite some time. They are called ski masks.
I think what he meant was, women can fake orgasms (ie, there usually isn't any material "proof" like there is with male orgasms). So he believes in the female orgasm, even though there's no proof.
I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that with spread-spectrum technology like CDMA (which has tight power control restrictions on the handset), more bandwidth actually can increase the coverage area.
With more frequencies to broadcast on, cellphones on the fringe of the coverage area don't have to "yell" as loud for the tower to hear it, and phones that were previously "yelling" as loud as they could with no success, will then be heard.
When you see the moral standards of your society being destroyed, what good man would not act, if the decline could be stopped, or at least slowed by simply showing up and voting NO? If he does not want homosexuality to become an accepted practice, surely it is the right thing to do.
And surely, if he does not want to see interracial marriage become an accepted practice, surely it is the right thing to do. Right? Right? How is it different?
People used to justify stomping on the civil rights of black people just like they currently are doing to gay people. It's bigotry, plain and simple. All you're doing is calling your bigotry a "moral value" to make it sound upstanding. People used to to racial separatism a moral value.
Your kids are not going to turn gay just because they see gay people. Would you have turned gay? I don't know about you, but it wouldn't have mattered how many gay men I saw kiss, boobies would still have given me a woody.
People are so afraid of turning gay - makes me wonder if they're *already* gay.
After reading reviews and message boards, I found that probably 6/10 reviewers (ie customers) were having their hard drives die with months. People all over the web were saying that right after the 3 month waranty period, it just died.
Uhm, you *do* realize that just because 6/10 of posters on the message boards have HD problems (which isn't true, but let's say it is), that doesn't mean that 6/10 Karmas have HD problems!
People generally only post to those message boards when they have problems. The real frequency of HD failures is far, far, far lower - on the order of 1%.
I have had a Karma for almost a year now. It's a great device!
I keep it in my car, usually, connected to my in-dash unit (unfortunately, thru a tape adapter).
When I go on (plane) trips, I just slip it in my pocket as I get out of the car.
It's true, it's not quite as solid as an Ipod (either physically or the UI), but what do you want for half the price? The sound quality is excellent, it also plays ogg-vorbis and features gapless playback. Gapless is great for live albums. The battery life is also excellent. I keep it in my car for about 2 weeks without having to recharge.
The firmware has definitely improved since I bought the unit. It did occasionally crash back then, but I have not experienced a crash with the latest firmware (at least 6 months). One really aggravating thing is that the reset button is very deep and the hole is very tiny. You need something like a needle to reset the unit if it should crash. And if you don't have one with you, the HD keeps clicking until the battery dies. Not a great design, but it's been a non-issue for me with the latest firmware.
I get tired of people saying "it's not as good as an iPod." So what? It costs half as much. It has nearly all the functionality of an iPod, plus some features the iPod lacks. If you ask me, the Karma is the best deal out there, for the money.
But we do put a lot of trust on cruise control. On really wet surfaces, the wheel will be spun really fast because it slips and the car is trying to speed itself up. Once it grips, the car goes flying.
Huh? How do you think a speedometer works? Radar?? The car only knows its speed from the speed of rotation of the tires. So when the tires slip with cruise control on, the wheels keep spinning at the same speed, while the car slows down. The cruise control doesn't know the car is slowing down, so it does not try to gun the engine while the tires are slipping.
When traction is regained, the speed of the wheels suddenly drops, and the cruise control sees this as a sudden drop in speed, and tries to speed up the car back to cruising speed (as it should).
I'm in the tribe - as far as I'm concerned, jdate blew it when they started charging you just to receive a message.
The ridiculous part is, they won't even tell you who it's from, until you pay. Nor will they tell you if it's an actual email, or just a "tease". So it could be from some 85 year old man for all you know. By the time you find out, they have your 20 bucks.
I still have messages waiting for me from a year ago that will never be read.
Post your picture. One that's flattering but not so flattering it doesn't look like you.
If you're a man, try looking at profiles without pictures. Not all of them are pictureless because they're ugly. Some women are very good looking but don't want to be judged only by their looks (which as you know, men tend to do). Some of them just don't have a digitial photo available (although since this is slashdot, you might not be interested in someone who can't handle that bit of technology).
Since 99% of men will ignore pictureless profiles, you'll have no competition, should you find one of these women. You just have to be patient. Just don't ask for a picture right away. Give them yours and chat for a while first. Then mention it's only fair for them to show what they look like.
While it may be true that a couple of hot women get most of the attention online, how is that different from "real life"?
Stop trying to date the hottest woman on the site. She has more choices than you.
Look for someone who has about as many choices in a mate as you do. You'll find things get a lot easier. If you aren't attracted to such people, too bad. If you won't date someone as attractive as you, you can't expect someone *more* attractive than you to date you.
Your excuse about men who lie about their looks is total BS. Women with a lot of choices don't even look at profiles that don't have pictures.
Besides - It may sound like sour grapes, but beautiful women often haven't worked too hard on their personality - they got by on their looks too easily. Go for the late bloomers:)
Film does not have pixels. So until they can pack in so many pixels that you cannot see a diagonal line as a series of stair steps, the resolution is not "35mm film quality."
That's ridiculous - you can always see 'stair steps' - if you zoom in far enough. When you zoom into film, you see grains. The question is which are smaller - and the pixels are quite a bit smaller. So the "35mm film quality" label is accurate - if anything, it's better than 35mm quality.
How are additive/subtractive media in any way related to bitmaps vs. Postscript?
Oh please, it wasn't that hard. In 1984 I was 10 years old, and I made it onto the Heart of Gold and past the rocket attack before I had to get the invisi-clues book.
I never did solve the game, though. For some reason, the Bugblatter Beast always got me. I know I was supposed to carve my name on the memorial to make the beast think he'd already eaten me, and wrap the towel around my head so he'd think he couldn't see me. But i still couldn't escape - I couldn't go anywhere with the towel on my head. I couldn't carve my name with it on, either. I suspected something was wrong with my (legal) copy of the game, since the invisiclues didn't offer any more help.
Once the game was ported to Palm I tried my hand at it, but didn't have the patience to figure it all out again.
But I was impressed with myself how quickly I made it to the rocket sequence not having played it in over 15 years. But then I couldn't remember how to get the improbability drive working.
I'd bet the majority of Americans would not recognize Ted Kennedy. And even if the counter employees recognized him, I doubt they would deviate from their normal procedure.
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"God did it" is a sufficient explanation for you. Men of science are not satisfied with 3 word answers. That's why they make observations, experiment, and study - and write everything down. You are just too lazy to even read it. Or maybe you're not lazy - you're scared to allow any challenges to your simplistic god-based worldview.
The English channel is 21 miles, and I think the world record crossing is around 8 hours.
They could at least HIRE someone to do the testing, or at bare miniumum, offer some kind of bounty for finding vulnerabilities. They're just going begging for free labor, and I doubt any good hacker is going to waste his time and skills on it.
oops, meant to add: .... "[crickets chirping].....[distant coyote howl]"
They know damn well that the expertise they're looking for is very valuable, and yet they're not even offering a token prize. Pathetic.
I hope they don't even get a single packet. "Hey everyone! Try to break into our server! It'll be FUN!!!" "...."
In the winter, does it save energy to turn off lights when not in use?
If I know my physics, theoretically the answer is no. All the electrical energy used by a light bulb either is converted to heat inside the bulb (which you need anyway, because it's winter) or light, which immediately strikes something in the room and is converted to heat.
Whatever heat is produced stays inside the house, and just means your heater runs that much less. The amount of energy saved in your heater should be almost exactly equal to that consumed by your light bulb. Assuming your heater is electric, it would seem that you don't save any energy by turning the light off (unless the light is near a window and some light escapes the house, but I imagine this is a negligible energy loss).
When I was in high school, my parents nagged me constantly about the lights being on. I tried to give them the above argument, but they just weren't buying it.
Can anyone help validate (or invalidate) my argument?
You gotta figure if they lose, the price will drop well under $1. If they win, it could rise to $100. If you work out the figures you've got a winning bet (assuming your perception of the odds is correct, which is a big assumption).
I personally shorted at $15, again at $10, and again at $8. I have only covered about 5% of what I shorted. I am tempted to short even more, but I feel like the potential gain is too small ($3 and change per share) to risk losing so much (as much as $100 per share, maybe more, maybe less).
How does a bunch of spit end up as one long string?
I am about to replace my linux thinkpad with an ibook. I love linux and still use it at work (at IBM, where we're allowed to choose linux for our workstations if we choose). But I could never get the suspend/standby to work properly with linux on any thinkpad. I've searched everywhere for the solution, and nothing has helped. I am sick of my laptop not waking up and having to risk disk corruption (which has happened) every time I close the lid.
I'm tired of this fruitless tinkering and I just want a laptop that works. My girlfriend has an ibook and it just works! So that's what I'm getting.
I think what people are trying to say, is that if this were a device that were in OUR hands, that could affect any camera to stop our face from appearing, THAT would be something we'd support. But this is just a stupid idea. No paparazzi is going to be stupid enough to buy a camera with this technology in it, so what use is it? I doubt many consumers would go for it either. It's a case where the person paying for the technology is not the person who benefits from it. Those items typically don't sell.
They've actually been around for quite some time. They are called ski masks.
I think what he meant was, women can fake orgasms (ie, there usually isn't any material "proof" like there is with male orgasms). So he believes in the female orgasm, even though there's no proof.
With more frequencies to broadcast on, cellphones on the fringe of the coverage area don't have to "yell" as loud for the tower to hear it, and phones that were previously "yelling" as loud as they could with no success, will then be heard.
And surely, if he does not want to see interracial marriage become an accepted practice, surely it is the right thing to do. Right? Right? How is it different?
People used to justify stomping on the civil rights of black people just like they currently are doing to gay people. It's bigotry, plain and simple. All you're doing is calling your bigotry a "moral value" to make it sound upstanding. People used to to racial separatism a moral value.
Your kids are not going to turn gay just because they see gay people. Would you have turned gay? I don't know about you, but it wouldn't have mattered how many gay men I saw kiss, boobies would still have given me a woody.
People are so afraid of turning gay - makes me wonder if they're *already* gay.
Uhm, you *do* realize that just because 6/10 of posters on the message boards have HD problems (which isn't true, but let's say it is), that doesn't mean that 6/10 Karmas have HD problems!
People generally only post to those message boards when they have problems. The real frequency of HD failures is far, far, far lower - on the order of 1%.
I keep it in my car, usually, connected to my in-dash unit (unfortunately, thru a tape adapter).
When I go on (plane) trips, I just slip it in my pocket as I get out of the car.
It's true, it's not quite as solid as an Ipod (either physically or the UI), but what do you want for half the price? The sound quality is excellent, it also plays ogg-vorbis and features gapless playback. Gapless is great for live albums. The battery life is also excellent. I keep it in my car for about 2 weeks without having to recharge.
The firmware has definitely improved since I bought the unit. It did occasionally crash back then, but I have not experienced a crash with the latest firmware (at least 6 months). One really aggravating thing is that the reset button is very deep and the hole is very tiny. You need something like a needle to reset the unit if it should crash. And if you don't have one with you, the HD keeps clicking until the battery dies. Not a great design, but it's been a non-issue for me with the latest firmware.
I get tired of people saying "it's not as good as an iPod." So what? It costs half as much. It has nearly all the functionality of an iPod, plus some features the iPod lacks. If you ask me, the Karma is the best deal out there, for the money.
Huh? How do you think a speedometer works? Radar?? The car only knows its speed from the speed of rotation of the tires. So when the tires slip with cruise control on, the wheels keep spinning at the same speed, while the car slows down. The cruise control doesn't know the car is slowing down, so it does not try to gun the engine while the tires are slipping.
When traction is regained, the speed of the wheels suddenly drops, and the cruise control sees this as a sudden drop in speed, and tries to speed up the car back to cruising speed (as it should).
The ridiculous part is, they won't even tell you who it's from, until you pay. Nor will they tell you if it's an actual email, or just a "tease". So it could be from some 85 year old man for all you know. By the time you find out, they have your 20 bucks. I still have messages waiting for me from a year ago that will never be read.
If you're a man, try looking at profiles without pictures. Not all of them are pictureless because they're ugly. Some women are very good looking but don't want to be judged only by their looks (which as you know, men tend to do). Some of them just don't have a digitial photo available (although since this is slashdot, you might not be interested in someone who can't handle that bit of technology).
Since 99% of men will ignore pictureless profiles, you'll have no competition, should you find one of these women. You just have to be patient. Just don't ask for a picture right away. Give them yours and chat for a while first. Then mention it's only fair for them to show what they look like.
Look for someone who has about as many choices in a mate as you do. You'll find things get a lot easier. If you aren't attracted to such people, too bad. If you won't date someone as attractive as you, you can't expect someone *more* attractive than you to date you.
Your excuse about men who lie about their looks is total BS. Women with a lot of choices don't even look at profiles that don't have pictures.
Besides - It may sound like sour grapes, but beautiful women often haven't worked too hard on their personality - they got by on their looks too easily. Go for the late bloomers :)
That's ridiculous - you can always see 'stair steps' - if you zoom in far enough. When you zoom into film, you see grains. The question is which are smaller - and the pixels are quite a bit smaller. So the "35mm film quality" label is accurate - if anything, it's better than 35mm quality.
How are additive/subtractive media in any way related to bitmaps vs. Postscript?
I never did solve the game, though. For some reason, the Bugblatter Beast always got me. I know I was supposed to carve my name on the memorial to make the beast think he'd already eaten me, and wrap the towel around my head so he'd think he couldn't see me. But i still couldn't escape - I couldn't go anywhere with the towel on my head. I couldn't carve my name with it on, either. I suspected something was wrong with my (legal) copy of the game, since the invisiclues didn't offer any more help.
Once the game was ported to Palm I tried my hand at it, but didn't have the patience to figure it all out again.
But I was impressed with myself how quickly I made it to the rocket sequence not having played it in over 15 years. But then I couldn't remember how to get the improbability drive working.
Did you try making the Java version non-recursive?
I'd bet the majority of Americans would not recognize Ted Kennedy. And even if the counter employees recognized him, I doubt they would deviate from their normal procedure.