It's modded off topic because it replied to the FP for visibility even though the parent has fuck all to do with Python or anything even related to the off topic post you're championing.
The premise of your argument is that the expansion of space can't cause the distance between two objects to increase at a rate greater than the speed of light. I don't know where you got that from, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe.
The summary needs to be fixed, game theory is not the study of video games. (Bogost doesn't describe himself as a "professor of game theory", whoever wrote the summary does)
The hospital is still treating patients in emergency situations but is asking people with minor ailments, such as sore throats or sprained ankles, to contact their regular providers, Okun said.
We're in a sad state when people need to go to the hospital to deal with sore throats and sprained ankles.
Well, considering that just about every major government has tried to redact a pdf by drawing black boxes over it, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that shredders are being misused too.
Your opinion is fascinating, but not relevant. If you'd read the bug report you'd know that people aren't complaining on the basis of aesthetics. The problem is that a tab is only big enough to display the favicon and a small number of characters for the page's title, the more tabs are open the fewer characters can fit. This behavior constrains the usefulness of the title tags and there's a lot of websites that haven't adapted to handle it.
Note: I'm posting this using Chrome so don't interpret this as a Google bash, I'm just acknowledging that these people have a point.
The coolant pump is electric so that it can be ket running when the engine is off. The 100C coolant that runs through the heating coil doesn't cool significantly in the time you would spend at a traffic light.
If the algorithm can detect 20% with perfection then that must constitute extremely low hanging fruit. That type of vandalism is just annoyance. It is so obvious that the end user readily recognizes it as such and can skip over it or revert the edit.
You have to consider that the people doing the vast majority of vandalism reversions aren't the end users, it's registered wikipedians who maintain articles as a hobby. Automatically reverting 20% of the vandalism means contributors have that much more time to spend verifying uncited claims in other articles.
Is it just me, or does the summary give no indication of what the article is about? And on top of that I can't even RTFA without registering. This is retarded.
Since none of the articles linked to by the summary felt it was relevant to mention what these skimmers actually look like, here's an article from Consumerist.
"The money is collected from taxes and sent out of the state, that sounds like a problem to me."
That's the entire fucking point of government, to reapportion wealth to the benefit the collective. If taxes were distributed directly back to who paid them there would be no point in taxing people at all.
Why not just shoot a $4 roll of film, and scan it on a $200 flatbed scanner at a mere 2400DPI for a fat 30 megapixel image...
Because film doesn't have infinite resolution. You can only fit so many of those silver halide crystals on a bit of film, and that limits how much "data" can be stored in the frame. 35 millimeter film at normal ISOs (aka that $4 roll you mentioned) can't really be printed larger than 8"x10" unless you have an artistic attraction to extreme graininess.
The Visible Universe probably constitutes a very small (perhaps even infinitesimally small) fraction of the actual physical Universe. The rest will, according to Relativity, always be hidden.
Or it may be that the visible universe is smaller than the actual universe. This paper estimates the minimum possible diameter of the universe to be 24 gigaparsecs, which is four gigaparsecs less than the diameter of the observable universe. It's not likely, but if it were true it would mean we could look a billion lightyears in one direction and see a region of space, or we could look 77 billion lightyears in the opposite direction and see how that same region looked 76 billion years earlier, by seeing light the looped around the long way around the universe.
If someone is trying to open my front door with a crowbar, someone else might get suspicious.
You should read about lock bumping. Pin tumbler locks (ie ordinary door locks) can be opened in seconds by any unskilled thief using a bump key. There are videos on youtube if you're interested.
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The disc was comprised by a man named Carl Sagan
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
It's modded off topic because it replied to the FP for visibility even though the parent has fuck all to do with Python or anything even related to the off topic post you're championing.
The premise of your argument is that the expansion of space can't cause the distance between two objects to increase at a rate greater than the speed of light. I don't know where you got that from, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe.
The summary needs to be fixed, game theory is not the study of video games. (Bogost doesn't describe himself as a "professor of game theory", whoever wrote the summary does)
The hospital is still treating patients in emergency situations but is asking people with minor ailments, such as sore throats or sprained ankles, to contact their regular providers, Okun said.
We're in a sad state when people need to go to the hospital to deal with sore throats and sprained ankles.
Well, considering that just about every major government has tried to redact a pdf by drawing black boxes over it, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that shredders are being misused too.
Your opinion is fascinating, but not relevant. If you'd read the bug report you'd know that people aren't complaining on the basis of aesthetics. The problem is that a tab is only big enough to display the favicon and a small number of characters for the page's title, the more tabs are open the fewer characters can fit. This behavior constrains the usefulness of the title tags and there's a lot of websites that haven't adapted to handle it.
Note: I'm posting this using Chrome so don't interpret this as a Google bash, I'm just acknowledging that these people have a point.
I starting do much better when I stated using Wolfram-Alpha to come up with random sequences for me.
I'm not saying it's as good as Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber or something
And thank god for that...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374756,00.asp
The coolant pump is electric so that it can be ket running when the engine is off. The 100C coolant that runs through the heating coil doesn't cool significantly in the time you would spend at a traffic light.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374756,00.asp
If the algorithm can detect 20% with perfection then that must constitute extremely low hanging fruit. That type of vandalism is just annoyance. It is so obvious that the end user readily recognizes it as such and can skip over it or revert the edit.
You have to consider that the people doing the vast majority of vandalism reversions aren't the end users, it's registered wikipedians who maintain articles as a hobby. Automatically reverting 20% of the vandalism means contributors have that much more time to spend verifying uncited claims in other articles.
So in other words you were making twice the average household income all by yourself. If that's not "rich" I'm not sure what is.
Proficiency in ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal makes you stand out from the crowd. Market yourself as a specialist.
Is it just me, or does the summary give no indication of what the article is about? And on top of that I can't even RTFA without registering. This is retarded.
Since none of the articles linked to by the summary felt it was relevant to mention what these skimmers actually look like, here's an article from Consumerist.
If your university finds it necessary to go to such lengths to prevent cheating maybe you should take that as a sign to find a better university.
"The money is collected from taxes and sent out of the state, that sounds like a problem to me." That's the entire fucking point of government, to reapportion wealth to the benefit the collective. If taxes were distributed directly back to who paid them there would be no point in taxing people at all.
implicit/tacit collusion isn't just legal, it's an inevitable feature of oligopolistic competition.
Why not just shoot a $4 roll of film, and scan it on a $200 flatbed scanner at a mere 2400DPI for a fat 30 megapixel image...
Because film doesn't have infinite resolution. You can only fit so many of those silver halide crystals on a bit of film, and that limits how much "data" can be stored in the frame. 35 millimeter film at normal ISOs (aka that $4 roll you mentioned) can't really be printed larger than 8"x10" unless you have an artistic attraction to extreme graininess.
Do you have a reason for assuming Americans are intrinsically different then everyone else on Earth. or are you making shit up?
The Visible Universe probably constitutes a very small (perhaps even infinitesimally small) fraction of the actual physical Universe. The rest will, according to Relativity, always be hidden.
Or it may be that the visible universe is smaller than the actual universe. This paper estimates the minimum possible diameter of the universe to be 24 gigaparsecs, which is four gigaparsecs less than the diameter of the observable universe. It's not likely, but if it were true it would mean we could look a billion lightyears in one direction and see a region of space, or we could look 77 billion lightyears in the opposite direction and see how that same region looked 76 billion years earlier, by seeing light the looped around the long way around the universe.
I'd like to point out that Forbes previously announced that Carlos Slim was the world's richest man in 2007.
If someone is trying to open my front door with a crowbar, someone else might get suspicious.
You should read about lock bumping. Pin tumbler locks (ie ordinary door locks) can be opened in seconds by any unskilled thief using a bump key. There are videos on youtube if you're interested.
Uh, citation needed? Are the moderators really confused today, or have "troll" and "insightful" become synonyms without me noticing?