I groan whenever I see anyone write "It's not about the graphics... it's not about the graphics." If that was the case, then why aren't we satisfied with the original PlayStation, or the Super NES for that matter.
Who says we aren't? SNES and Playstation emulators are both mature technology, so I've been playing a great many games for both systems recently (and wishing 3D graphics hadn't killed off sprite graphics).
You know what happens when you shoot an airship? You get an airship with a small hole in it. Yes, it's a huge, slow-moving target, but it's also an incredibly resiliant target. Look at the Zeppelins in World War I: even an airship that's been hit by thousands of rounds of antiaircraft fire could usually make it back to German-held territory before being forced to land.
For a more recent example, look at the Goodyear blimps. They get shot on a regular basis, and the only indication is that the ground crew is adding more helium than normal.
For photos of things like cell phones: Apart from the screen (it's impossible to get the lighting and exposure right on both the screen and the rest of the object -- the laws of physics just don't allow it), the only common manipulation is cloning out dust specks that got past the cleaning process.
Today, nobody has the time for that. I don't know anyone that gets up early enough in the morning to sit and read any part of a newspaper.
I assume you combine breakfast with either your drive to work or with your first half-hour of working? I read half the newspaper (the "national news" section) over (technically, under) breakfast, and the rest when I get home from work.
Which, as the GP poster noted, is functionally identical to encrypting with a single, third algorithm. The reason you don't do this is that you don't know the cryptographic properties of the third algorithm. It could be more secure than either of the original algorithms, but it just as easily could be less secure.
It may have worked for car dashboards, but if so, that's probably the only place it has. Try looking at the label on your shirt: you should see a row of squares, triangles, circles, and similar symbols. I doubt that you or anybody you know can interpret those, but I doubt you'll have any trouble with the English-language instructions on how to wash it.
LEDs don't work that way. The number quoted is the brightness half-life: after 100k hours, your LED is half as bright as it used to be. Now, imagine a beowulf cluster of LEDs, each with an individual lifetime of 100k hours. The aggregate lifetime of the whole unit is the same as it is for each individual LED: after 100k hours, the array will be putting out half as much light as it used to.
A dead element almost certainly represents a broken wire. The only thing that will kill the light-emitting part of an LED is overvoltage, and I'd expect that to kill the entire array.
I'll be following the directions below after work today. What's my gender and preferred direction style? Bonus points if you can tell what store I'm shopping at.
"Head east until you reach Division, then turn left. Turn left at the light before the 'Big 5' sign. Turn left into the first parking lot after the curve."
I want some protection in case of another incident like the time the gas company accidentally billed me $8000. If that had been set up for direct withdrawl, my rent check and three other utility checks would have bounced before I got the charge reversed, and I'd still be fighting to get it off my credit record.
for me having a phone with GPS and internet capability means that I'm never more than inches away from a map, thus I'm lost a whole lot less than I used to be.
For me, having a phone with GPS and internet capability means jack shit, because I'll need to climb that mountain over there to see enough of the sky for the dinky little antenna on the phone to get a GPS signal, and I'll need to hike three ridgelines over to get line-of-sight to a cell tower.
The reason the military is putting so much research into powered exoskeletons and other methods for infantry to carry heavy loads is that they want to turn the TOW antitank missile and M2 machine gun into infantry weapons. Magnetic field strength varies with the inverse cube of distance; if a single infantryman can kill a soldier at a mile (M2) or a tank at three miles (TOW), it doesn't matter what sort of magnetic noise he's giving off.
It's odd how they've conveniently changed the meaning of "addiction". The definition used to be that for something to be addictive, it had to have physical withdrawal symptoms, like alcohol, caffiene, niccotine, heroin, etc. What used to be separately termed "habituation" is now termed "addiction".
The problem is that "addiction" is being used to cover two different phenomena:
1) Physical addiction is where use of a substance causes your body to incorporate it into your biochemistry, and you require a supply of that substance for normal functioning.
2) Psychological addiction is where a behavior stimulates the reward center of your brain, and you come to depend on that behavior to get your brain up to a "normal" level of reward.
They're different problems, and require different solutions. In particular, treatment for physical addiction varies depending on the substance involved, and any treatment needs to make sure you don't drop dead during the withdrawal process. On the other hand, treatment for psychological addiction is independant of the type of stimulus, and there's no real chance of dying during withdrawal.
I would think that close scrutiny of some of Microsoft's financial reporting would give you a better idea of failure rates.
Back when Microsoft announced the warranty extension, someone on Slashdot did just that. Based on Microsoft's estimate of the financial impact of the warranty extension, he calculated that Microsoft was anticipating a three-year failure rate of around 110% -- that is, they were expecting 100% of XBox360s already sold would fail under warranty, and that 10% of the replacement units would as well.
Glen Canyon was built to extend the life of Hoover Dam by reducing sediment buildup in Lake Mead. Any electricity or irrigation made possible by it is entirely a side effect.
The more relevant results may be just because the algorithm is new, so the SEOs couldn't yet optimize for it. If it really gives more relevant results will be seen after it is the main search algorithm for some time.
Remember, in the beginning the old algorithm used to be very good in finding relevant results.
I don't know if you've been on the Internet long enough to remember, but back in the days Before Google, search engines were uniformly horrible. Because of this, almost every website had a "links page": a collection of links to pages the site author found useful. The original Google algorithm was tightly coupled to these links pages: a links page that linked to many authoritative sites was considered a good authority on which sites were good, and a site linked to by many links pages was considered an authoritative site.
Now that Google is around, very few people maintain links pages. Google's algorithm is making do with lower-quality information from things like blogs and forums.
Just because you may not experience the bug doesn't mean it does not exist. I have seen it on Windows XP, Vista, and Mac 10.5.x across multiple machines on both platforms.
That's what's causing the bug. The Gimp is designed for a "focus-follows-mouse" environment, so in a "click-to-focus" environment, you need to click twice to select a tool: the first click brings the toolbox to the front, and the second click activates a tool. Three clicks is probably caused by clicking too fast: the first two are interpreted by the OS as a double-click, which brings the toolbox to the front but doesn't select a tool.
How can a newspaper mogul not understand about ad supported content? Most of the cost of a newspaper is ads. You really think fifty cents a copy pays for content, printing and distribution?
The income of a traditional print newspaper is split about equally between ads, classifieds, and cover price.
For an online paper, you can't charge the reader, Craigslist kills your classified section, and ads pay about a tenth of what they do in print. Where's your income going to come from?
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Who says we aren't? SNES and Playstation emulators are both mature technology, so I've been playing a great many games for both systems recently (and wishing 3D graphics hadn't killed off sprite graphics).
You know what happens when you shoot an airship? You get an airship with a small hole in it. Yes, it's a huge, slow-moving target, but it's also an incredibly resiliant target. Look at the Zeppelins in World War I: even an airship that's been hit by thousands of rounds of antiaircraft fire could usually make it back to German-held territory before being forced to land.
For a more recent example, look at the Goodyear blimps. They get shot on a regular basis, and the only indication is that the ground crew is adding more helium than normal.
For photos of things like cell phones: Apart from the screen (it's impossible to get the lighting and exposure right on both the screen and the rest of the object -- the laws of physics just don't allow it), the only common manipulation is cloning out dust specks that got past the cleaning process.
I assume you combine breakfast with either your drive to work or with your first half-hour of working? I read half the newspaper (the "national news" section) over (technically, under) breakfast, and the rest when I get home from work.
Which, as the GP poster noted, is functionally identical to encrypting with a single, third algorithm. The reason you don't do this is that you don't know the cryptographic properties of the third algorithm. It could be more secure than either of the original algorithms, but it just as easily could be less secure.
You mean where they get caught distributing weaponse of maths instruction?
It may have worked for car dashboards, but if so, that's probably the only place it has. Try looking at the label on your shirt: you should see a row of squares, triangles, circles, and similar symbols. I doubt that you or anybody you know can interpret those, but I doubt you'll have any trouble with the English-language instructions on how to wash it.
Lucky you. When I built my storage server, the comparisons were things like "new car" or "down payment on a house".
Needless to say, I instead spent $500 for five 1TB drives in a RAID-6 array.
To reduce your rent increase next year. You don't think the apartment manager is paying the electric bill out of his own pocket, do you?
LEDs don't work that way. The number quoted is the brightness half-life: after 100k hours, your LED is half as bright as it used to be. Now, imagine a beowulf cluster of LEDs, each with an individual lifetime of 100k hours. The aggregate lifetime of the whole unit is the same as it is for each individual LED: after 100k hours, the array will be putting out half as much light as it used to.
A dead element almost certainly represents a broken wire. The only thing that will kill the light-emitting part of an LED is overvoltage, and I'd expect that to kill the entire array.
I'll be following the directions below after work today. What's my gender and preferred direction style? Bonus points if you can tell what store I'm shopping at.
"Head east until you reach Division, then turn left. Turn left at the light before the 'Big 5' sign. Turn left into the first parking lot after the curve."
I want some protection in case of another incident like the time the gas company accidentally billed me $8000. If that had been set up for direct withdrawl, my rent check and three other utility checks would have bounced before I got the charge reversed, and I'd still be fighting to get it off my credit record.
For me, having a phone with GPS and internet capability means jack shit, because I'll need to climb that mountain over there to see enough of the sky for the dinky little antenna on the phone to get a GPS signal, and I'll need to hike three ridgelines over to get line-of-sight to a cell tower.
The reason the military is putting so much research into powered exoskeletons and other methods for infantry to carry heavy loads is that they want to turn the TOW antitank missile and M2 machine gun into infantry weapons. Magnetic field strength varies with the inverse cube of distance; if a single infantryman can kill a soldier at a mile (M2) or a tank at three miles (TOW), it doesn't matter what sort of magnetic noise he's giving off.
According to the article, the car is capable of another 30mph, they just haven't managed to get there yet.
Tires, brakes, and suspension may have been primitive, but in 1906, steam propulsion was a mature, well-understood technology.
The problem is that "addiction" is being used to cover two different phenomena:
1) Physical addiction is where use of a substance causes your body to incorporate it into your biochemistry, and you require a supply of that substance for normal functioning.
2) Psychological addiction is where a behavior stimulates the reward center of your brain, and you come to depend on that behavior to get your brain up to a "normal" level of reward.
They're different problems, and require different solutions. In particular, treatment for physical addiction varies depending on the substance involved, and any treatment needs to make sure you don't drop dead during the withdrawal process. On the other hand, treatment for psychological addiction is independant of the type of stimulus, and there's no real chance of dying during withdrawal.
Back when Microsoft announced the warranty extension, someone on Slashdot did just that. Based on Microsoft's estimate of the financial impact of the warranty extension, he calculated that Microsoft was anticipating a three-year failure rate of around 110% -- that is, they were expecting 100% of XBox360s already sold would fail under warranty, and that 10% of the replacement units would as well.
0.025mm? Why use something that thick? McMaster sells 0.0125mm PET film for $0.25 per square foot.
Glen Canyon was built to extend the life of Hoover Dam by reducing sediment buildup in Lake Mead. Any electricity or irrigation made possible by it is entirely a side effect.
I don't know if you've been on the Internet long enough to remember, but back in the days Before Google, search engines were uniformly horrible. Because of this, almost every website had a "links page": a collection of links to pages the site author found useful. The original Google algorithm was tightly coupled to these links pages: a links page that linked to many authoritative sites was considered a good authority on which sites were good, and a site linked to by many links pages was considered an authoritative site.
Now that Google is around, very few people maintain links pages. Google's algorithm is making do with lower-quality information from things like blogs and forums.
That's what's causing the bug. The Gimp is designed for a "focus-follows-mouse" environment, so in a "click-to-focus" environment, you need to click twice to select a tool: the first click brings the toolbox to the front, and the second click activates a tool. Three clicks is probably caused by clicking too fast: the first two are interpreted by the OS as a double-click, which brings the toolbox to the front but doesn't select a tool.
The income of a traditional print newspaper is split about equally between ads, classifieds, and cover price.
For an online paper, you can't charge the reader, Craigslist kills your classified section, and ads pay about a tenth of what they do in print. Where's your income going to come from?
"Blind"? The projector is rated at ten lumens -- that's slightly dimmer than a one-watt incandescent bulb. You'd be better off using the flash.