It is worse, because it's an acronym. Not only that, the acronym already exists as an unrelated word in the dictionary, so it's twice as bad. And it has some rather unflattering meanings, so that's three times worse!
Here's a far better name, took me 2 minutes to think of:
GNU Image Manipulation, or GIM, pronounced "Jim" as in "Jimmy up some lolcats in there" or "fake, that pic's been jimmed!".
Easier to pronounce, has no meaning as either GIM or "Jim" in any language I can think of, except as a name in English.
Indeed, I imagined it was the other way around. The wrecking ball would hit the wallpaper side, and just bounce off like a bullet from superman's chest. Much more useful wallpaper, but alas, probably impossible.
Durr.. Ethernet over CAT5 is a digital signal. The medium is analog, but the signal is digital. That is the meaning of the words, "digital signal", since there cannot be any other meaning.
Softer-sounding? Overdriven? I think you're talking about default volume levels, or something of that nature. The only effect driver implementation can have that I can think of is drop-out of sound, improper mixing of several sources, or jitter if you're synchronizing with an external clock.
I think any "optimized for metal" sound in Linux might be due to a more direct interaction with the hardware, which is great if you have hardware to support it, not if it's generic.
Agh, this sentence brought to you by the Monster Cable style of thinking.
When people say they'd rather hire a good developer without a degree than a mediocre one with a degree (or something to that effect), they really mean that all the good developers with degrees aren't available for hire.
That's a good position, but in reality keeping your legs shut can prove difficult. Abortion is a real problem, not just an ideological discussion. Illegal and unregulated underground clinics, abortion tourism, etc. are also real problems that may increase with restrictions.
Thankfully, the EU is looking into the anticompetitive practices of Windows, and is demanding that pidgeons have a menu of choice between Windows and Doors, as well as Apple(s) for ammunition.
That's a brilliant idea! Place a large and viciously sharp spike in front of the driver in every car, pointed at the heart, and painted bright neon orange. That should make things clear enough for everyone.
Take a look at the rainbow table you described. ASCII and length 256? That's 256^256, i.e. huge. Even if you restrict yourself to a modest subset of 70 characters (easily typable), and no more than 10 characters in length (too short in many cases), you need to store about 2.8 * 10^18 passwords. Just the MD5 hashes for a table like that would take up over 40000 petabyte.
There are several comparisons to printing presses in the comments here. Actually, P2P and the advent of printing presses are quite different things. A printing press is merely a very efficient scribe, but P2P does away with the whole concept of a scribe.
> "Another interesting on is Pi. How exactly do you store accurately a number that has no known exact formula to generate it, and can only be generated using successive approximations which are "closer" than the last, but can never be 100% accurate ?"
No problem, use base pi. Like so:
10 pi
I.e. 10 in base pi which translates to:
pi^1 * 1 + pi^0 * 0 = pi 10
Obviously this doesn't make things much easier, but then playing around with bases rarely do.
I used to get way more than 5 hours on my 1st-gen. If this is how things are now then I'll never be buying one of these.
Jesus, the reading comprehension of ACs... Less than 5 hours on maximum brightness, which is considerably brighter than the 1st gen. On the lowest brightness setting, I consistently get 10+ hours, some pages on the net say it's 15-18 hours, and this new DSi should improve on that too.
Are you mad, a DSLR just to take pics of professor scribblings? You bet it's pricey. There are plenty of bridge cameras and some compacts that have long zoom lenses with stabilization, and take perfectly good pictures.
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Wow, I wonder if there are gloves with the stuff. Perfect for a little bit of ultra-violence.
Only one of them is commonly referred to by its acronym by users and devteam alike.
C++ stripped to essentially C may have hidden problems
That sounds about right, yeah.
It is worse, because it's an acronym. Not only that, the acronym already exists as an unrelated word in the dictionary, so it's twice as bad. And it has some rather unflattering meanings, so that's three times worse!
Here's a far better name, took me 2 minutes to think of:
GNU Image Manipulation, or GIM, pronounced "Jim" as in "Jimmy up some lolcats in there" or "fake, that pic's been jimmed!".
Easier to pronounce, has no meaning as either GIM or "Jim" in any language I can think of, except as a name in English.
Indeed, I imagined it was the other way around. The wrecking ball would hit the wallpaper side, and just bounce off like a bullet from superman's chest. Much more useful wallpaper, but alas, probably impossible.
Durr.. Ethernet over CAT5 is a digital signal. The medium is analog, but the signal is digital. That is the meaning of the words, "digital signal", since there cannot be any other meaning.
Wow, supersonic tape hiss? Sounds dangerous!
I think any "optimized for metal" sound in Linux might be due to a more direct interaction with the hardware, which is great if you have hardware to support it, not if it's generic.
Agh, this sentence brought to you by the Monster Cable style of thinking.
When people say they'd rather hire a good developer without a degree than a mediocre one with a degree (or something to that effect), they really mean that all the good developers with degrees aren't available for hire.
Next up: Go2 considered harmful.
Because throwaway != script.
Good point; 30 surrogate mothers then, which may be a little more difficult.
That's a good position, but in reality keeping your legs shut can prove difficult. Abortion is a real problem, not just an ideological discussion. Illegal and unregulated underground clinics, abortion tourism, etc. are also real problems that may increase with restrictions.
Should be simple enough to find out, given a third group of 30 adopted children.
The problem is Windows.
Thankfully, the EU is looking into the anticompetitive practices of Windows, and is demanding that pidgeons have a menu of choice between Windows and Doors, as well as Apple(s) for ammunition.
Nobody would be able to pass that exam, so it's pointless.
That's a brilliant idea! Place a large and viciously sharp spike in front of the driver in every car, pointed at the heart, and painted bright neon orange. That should make things clear enough for everyone.
It certainly can't make Korean traffic any worse than it already is.
Take a look at the rainbow table you described. ASCII and length 256? That's 256^256, i.e. huge. Even if you restrict yourself to a modest subset of 70 characters (easily typable), and no more than 10 characters in length (too short in many cases), you need to store about 2.8 * 10^18 passwords. Just the MD5 hashes for a table like that would take up over 40000 petabyte.
1995: mail, shopping, and parallel computing.... on The Internet
2009: mail, shopping, and parallel computing .... in The Cloud
Yes, you're a sad case.
There are several comparisons to printing presses in the comments here. Actually, P2P and the advent of printing presses are quite different things. A printing press is merely a very efficient scribe, but P2P does away with the whole concept of a scribe.
> "Another interesting on is Pi. How exactly do you store accurately a number that has no known exact formula to generate it, and can only be generated using successive approximations which are "closer" than the last, but can never be 100% accurate ?"
No problem, use base pi. Like so:
10
pi
I.e. 10 in base pi which translates to:
pi^1 * 1 + pi^0 * 0 = pi
10
Obviously this doesn't make things much easier, but then playing around with bases rarely do.
I used to get way more than 5 hours on my 1st-gen. If this is how things are now then I'll never be buying one of these.
Jesus, the reading comprehension of ACs... Less than 5 hours on maximum brightness, which is considerably brighter than the 1st gen. On the lowest brightness setting, I consistently get 10+ hours, some pages on the net say it's 15-18 hours, and this new DSi should improve on that too.
Are you mad, a DSLR just to take pics of professor scribblings? You bet it's pricey. There are plenty of bridge cameras and some compacts that have long zoom lenses with stabilization, and take perfectly good pictures.