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Turn it off? TURN IT OFF? TURN IT OFF?
I have got almost 30 days uptime with my crappy winxp box. You want me to ruin that just for my sleeping enjoyment?
Hell just today something called lsass.exe decided to crash and my computer had the nerve to tell me that it was going to shut down. I nipped that one right in the bud (shutdown/a to the rescue). It still works perfectly fine (okay so i cant watch movies with WMP anymore). And you want me to shutdown my gentoo box in the middle of a kernel compile? Someone has a messed up view of their computers.
I have always heard a different definition for Metagaming.
When I play pen and paper rpgs (Dungeons and Dragons, anything from whitewolf, etc), we refer to metagaming as acting in game on information that you shouldnt know in game.
For example, the party is divided into two groups, one goes to investigate something, the other goes to find out more from the police. They roleplay the encounter with the police and the other group of course hears this in real life. Say that the police tells that group that the enemy is very well armed. Then it would be metagaming for the other group to suddenly be a lot more cautious than they would be had they not overheard (IRL) the conversation the other group had.
It is really too bad in my opinion that there is no fair use clause in the patent law like there is for copyrights. The 4th fair use clause in the copyright law is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" Cite Here
What this means for those who dont know, is that in general, if the company being sued for copyright infringement were to stop being able to use the copyrighted work, then the suing company would have a monopoly on the market. There was case using this clause where Sega was suing a company for including copyrighted code in their third party releases for segas console so that even though they werent licensed by sega, they could still be played on the console. Cite Here
In my opinion there should be something similar in patent to protect against these silly patent lawsuits.
Maybe I am wrong, but I think that the time it was posted is not the same as the time it was submitted. It could have been a few hours earlier which would be a perfectly reasonable time if the hearing was in the afternoon.
I always envisioned some sort of window that passes light VERY slowly. Basically you take this window, stick it somewhere like florida for a while (years whatever) then you put it in a window. You see the sunshine and awesome views of florida until it runs out. At which point you swap it out to get recharged. It would be expensive but for buisnesses or something in a rainy area like Oregon (where I live) for instance.
Well the point is valid, but Les Miserables is a play. So the live music is sort of background to the story. In fact, most of the time you can't even see the orchetra.
Although you are basically right, the numbers you have are all wrong, and it change the argument as well.
As far as I know, The average pressure of any sound wave (measured over more than one wavelength) must be zero. Other wise the world would continually increase in pressure. For instance, in your example, if the incoming sound was between 1 and 10 atm, that means that the average pressure due to the noise is 5 atm, much much higher than normal pressure of 1 atm.
Also, noise cancelling doesnt change the average pressure, so even in your example (if it worked that way) the average pressure in your ear would still be 5 atm with noise cancelling.
The biggest thing is that all sound waves must fluctuate between -n and n. Like -1atm to 1 atm relative to the standard pressure (for an absolute change of 0atm to 2 atm). That btw would be a huge amplitude but that is besides the point. The noise cancelling simply uses a reversed wave form to lower the amplitude of the waves there fore lowering the magnitude of the sound. It doesnt not increase the pressure on your ear.
The playstation 2 was the only "sequel" console of a optical media console so they're the only ones who have had a chance to play with it.
What about the Dreamcast following the Saturn. Now I will give you that the saturn was a bit of a flop, but it did use optical media (just like the dreamcast).
I stopped by yesterday just to browse (I was in the area) and I left with four books before I knew it. Powells is freaking awesome. Plus, for a self proclaimed nerd like me, Powells technical is like mecca. They have everything.
This reminds me of that movie (contact I think) where the guy connects all of the satellite tv antennas in a neighborhood to make one really big radio telescope.
I dont think that it works exactly the same with optical telescopes. I imagine it is something like all the telecopes are pointed at the same location, and you can then use image processing to generate a higher quality image.
This is true, but for some reason, if you hit next until you would get to the end of the results, the number jumps dramatically. I think MSN is limiting the number of results for common searches.
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Saying 97 percent of the significant figures in sciences come from the west is like saying 90 percent of shark bite victims happen within 100 meters of the shoreline.
I dont know what you are trying to say here. If you are trying to disprove the first statistic by equating it to the second, I would say you failed, because (at least to me, who has no background in sharkbites) I would guess that the second is true.
On the other hand, I cant even figure out which is representing what. Are the Sharks the scientists, and the bites achievement and the shore the west? No that cant be it because that disproves your point.
Maybe the sharks are the achievements and the bites are the ones noted by the west, and the shore is the west. I guess that would sort of make sense, but it still doesnt really make sense to be used as an analogy seeing that an analogy is trying to make things clearer, and that sure doesnt clarify anything for me.
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Yep, un huh, 39, Suuurrre.
Man I sure am glad those crazy Scientologists didnt make Amazon run out of an eBook.
Plus there are bears outside.
"Outsiders estimate the more advanced versions of the Patriot's missile cost $2 million apiece."
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Turn it off? TURN IT OFF? TURN IT OFF?
/a to the rescue). It still works perfectly fine (okay so i cant watch movies with WMP anymore). And you want me to shutdown my gentoo box in the middle of a kernel compile? Someone has a messed up view of their computers.
I have got almost 30 days uptime with my crappy winxp box. You want me to ruin that just for my sleeping enjoyment?
Hell just today something called lsass.exe decided to crash and my computer had the nerve to tell me that it was going to shut down. I nipped that one right in the bud (shutdown
Shut it down? *shakes head*
I have always heard a different definition for Metagaming.
When I play pen and paper rpgs (Dungeons and Dragons, anything from whitewolf, etc), we refer to metagaming as acting in game on information that you shouldnt know in game.
For example, the party is divided into two groups, one goes to investigate something, the other goes to find out more from the police. They roleplay the encounter with the police and the other group of course hears this in real life. Say that the police tells that group that the enemy is very well armed. Then it would be metagaming for the other group to suddenly be a lot more cautious than they would be had they not overheard (IRL) the conversation the other group had.
And you think that a /. funded study would be unbiased???
Hahahahahah!
Sorry but this community is extremely pro-linux anti-microsoft. (Not that I am not in that camp, I just recognize the facts)
Actually I think that you would be surprised.
This was on Tech TV a few weeks ago and it looked amazingly like a real conductor. Very fluid movements and lots of dynamic information.
I doubt that it responded to the music (i.e. flutes need to be softer etc) but it was still very impressive.
BTW I looked on the techtv site and they dont have the video of that show. Oh well.
It is really too bad in my opinion that there is no fair use clause in the patent law like there is for copyrights. The 4th fair use clause in the copyright law is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" Cite Here
What this means for those who dont know, is that in general, if the company being sued for copyright infringement were to stop being able to use the copyrighted work, then the suing company would have a monopoly on the market. There was case using this clause where Sega was suing a company for including copyrighted code in their third party releases for segas console so that even though they werent licensed by sega, they could still be played on the console. Cite Here
In my opinion there should be something similar in patent to protect against these silly patent lawsuits.
Well I hadnt read it. Interesting idea none the less.
Maybe I am wrong, but I think that the time it was posted is not the same as the time it was submitted. It could have been a few hours earlier which would be a perfectly reasonable time if the hearing was in the afternoon.
I always envisioned some sort of window that passes light VERY slowly. Basically you take this window, stick it somewhere like florida for a while (years whatever) then you put it in a window. You see the sunshine and awesome views of florida until it runs out. At which point you swap it out to get recharged. It would be expensive but for buisnesses or something in a rainy area like Oregon (where I live) for instance.
Well the point is valid, but Les Miserables is a play. So the live music is sort of background to the story. In fact, most of the time you can't even see the orchetra.
Although you are basically right, the numbers you have are all wrong, and it change the argument as well.
As far as I know, The average pressure of any sound wave (measured over more than one wavelength) must be zero. Other wise the world would continually increase in pressure. For instance, in your example, if the incoming sound was between 1 and 10 atm, that means that the average pressure due to the noise is 5 atm, much much higher than normal pressure of 1 atm.
Also, noise cancelling doesnt change the average pressure, so even in your example (if it worked that way) the average pressure in your ear would still be 5 atm with noise cancelling.
The biggest thing is that all sound waves must fluctuate between -n and n. Like -1atm to 1 atm relative to the standard pressure (for an absolute change of 0atm to 2 atm). That btw would be a huge amplitude but that is besides the point. The noise cancelling simply uses a reversed wave form to lower the amplitude of the waves there fore lowering the magnitude of the sound. It doesnt not increase the pressure on your ear.
Port Knocks.
The playstation 2 was the only "sequel" console of a optical media console so they're the only ones who have had a chance to play with it.
What about the Dreamcast following the Saturn. Now I will give you that the saturn was a bit of a flop, but it did use optical media (just like the dreamcast).
Agreed.
I stopped by yesterday just to browse (I was in the area) and I left with four books before I knew it. Powells is freaking awesome. Plus, for a self proclaimed nerd like me, Powells technical is like mecca. They have everything.
This reminds me of that movie (contact I think) where the guy connects all of the satellite tv antennas in a neighborhood to make one really big radio telescope.
I dont think that it works exactly the same with optical telescopes. I imagine it is something like all the telecopes are pointed at the same location, and you can then use image processing to generate a higher quality image.
Actually I think that is just google that only looks for french documents.
Ordinary cars usually have drivers to sue.
Here is one:
http://cyber-vibe.com/
It even says it is programmable. Someone is going to install BSD on it, I just know it.
You could even buy one cd-rw and use it over an over again. No recurring cost whatsoever.
Results 1-15 of about 365 containing "linux"
This is true, but for some reason, if you hit next until you would get to the end of the results, the number jumps dramatically. I think MSN is limiting the number of results for common searches.
Results 361-375 of about 16149554 containing "linux"
I could make a pretty strong case for four hobbits.
Saying 97 percent of the significant figures in sciences come from the west is like saying 90 percent of shark bite victims happen within 100 meters of the shoreline.
I dont know what you are trying to say here. If you are trying to disprove the first statistic by equating it to the second, I would say you failed, because (at least to me, who has no background in sharkbites) I would guess that the second is true.
On the other hand, I cant even figure out which is representing what. Are the Sharks the scientists, and the bites achievement and the shore the west? No that cant be it because that disproves your point.
Maybe the sharks are the achievements and the bites are the ones noted by the west, and the shore is the west. I guess that would sort of make sense, but it still doesnt really make sense to be used as an analogy seeing that an analogy is trying to make things clearer, and that sure doesnt clarify anything for me.