Nothing short of an extremophile will survive those to engender resistance.
Biofilms will also survive, but that's due to having an outer layer of bacteria killed by the antiseptic protecting the inner layer, not due to any inherent resistance.
So when your farmhouse gets hit by a tornado, you don't mind that there will be no way of contacting the outside world? That the ham radio operator trying to raise the emergency coordination center is having his signal squashed by the BPL system?
BPL may be on a single, specific frequency, but power lines are a very inefficient method of transmitting high-frequency signals. The net result is that the broadband signal will end up spilling over much of the radio spectrum.
The range of a ham radio broadcast is the entire world, and during an emergency, might be used for communications over ranges of a hundred miles or more. Are you advocating turning off broadband in several states every time there's an emergency?
I'm surprised that nobody pointed this out, but why would a scientist do something like that? Certainly, energy cost would be calculated by the magnitude of the movement vector, right? I'm not even sure how someone could get it to work in that manner -- it just doesn't occur to me. It'd have to be some pretty bad code, like "Energy Cost" = "Step Cost" * "Steps Forward", but you'd probably have to waste some math on figuring "Steps Forward". Send your scientist a letter, tell him, "a^2 * b^2 = c^2". Don't get me wrong, I'm not debunking your real point, just your example!:)
Actually, it's pretty simple. If movement is represented by an (angle, speed) pair, instead of a (speed x, speed y) pair, the obvious way of computing energy usage is "energy" = "speed" * "step cost", with the implicit assumption that "speed" will always be positive.
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A day thats still 24 hours long, but 39 minutes longer than an earth day? Is that Earth or Mars minutes now? We have enough problems (rockets blowing up etc.) caused by converting between the dissimilar metric and imperial units - who exactly thought redefining minutes and seconds to be slightly longer on mars was a good idea? Thats going to lead to something very expensive.
Scientific calculations are always done in seconds, which are part of the metric system, and very rigorously defined. Defining "day" and "year" (and possibly "hour" and "minute") in terms of the local period of revolution makes sense, as those are the "everyday" units most people use.
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The moon and its tides repeat on a 24 hour 48 minute periodicty. That could explain the 25 hour period in absence of light.
Its biologically useful to have multiple clocks. This spreads out activity cycles, so that short period disaster, e.g. predator, wont wipe out everyone.
In the presence of a strong light/dark cycle (eg. living outdoors in the tropics), different age groups have different activity cycles. Teenagers and young adults tend to stay awake well after dark, waking up well after sunrise, middle-aged people tend to go to sleep around sundown and have a period of wakefulness in the middle of the night, followed by sleeping until sunup, and older people go to sleep early, and wake up early, often before sunrise. The net result is that there's almost always someone awake to keep an eye out for hazards.
ISTR experiments done years ago (spending months living underground, away from the influence of daylight) which showed that the human circadian rhythm free-runs at a period of about 26 hours, so maybe 24.66 hours is not too bad.
There were also experiments (maybe an extension of the same one) showing that humans could adapt to day/night cycles as short as 22 hours, or as long as 27.
On an entirely unrelated note, my circadian rhythm not only free-runs at 26 hours, it also runs at 26 hours in the presence of a light/dark cycle and copious numbers of alarm clocks.
My understanding is that the FDA is the last agency to say either "this isn't under our jurisdiction" or "we see no problem with it". The other agencies that might be involved have already given it the green light.
I'm confused... Am I still allowed to use the traditional name for those holes in the side of my house (the ones with the glass in them) or must I think of a new name for them as well...? Portals, or something like that.
Every year or two, Microsoft tries to claim trademark on the use of the word "Windows" for all purposes. It's a good thing they keep getting thrown out of court, or you would need to come up with a new name for them.
I guess there are Sun-only places where this might be a big deal. I'm also guessing that they're in a minority, so what does Sun see in it all ? It must be a reasonably large cost to maintain another OS for a company, so there has to be an upside... Answers on a postcard, please:-)
It's only free for non-commercial use on single-CPU machines. Commercial installations, or installations on multi-processor machines, need to pay for a license.
This is hardware that people have reported to work. I'm sure that more hardware is supported than is actually listed. For example, they only list two modems, but I'm sure any Hayes-compatible hardware modem will work. They only list a few CD-ROM drives, but any ATAPI CD-ROM will work. I don't see any PS/2 mice listed, which may be a problem -- or it may not.
Linden Labs won't convert your in-game money (L$) directly into US$. What the article is about is the "developer incentives", cash that's sent to people who make popular builds, or host popular events, or make other significant improvements to the online community -- things that usually take significant amounts of in-game money to achieve.
If you want to convert your L$ directly to US$, you need to use eBay or the Gaming Open Market.
Unfortunately there's no way to impose the GPL on SecondLife objects yet:-)
Correction: There's no in-game code to enforce the GPL yet. You can make an object, add a notecard with the GPL on it, and make everything free to copy, and you've got a GPL'd object.
Although there isn't much nudity even in the mature sims. The main difference I've seen between the PG and mature sims is that construction in the mature areas tends to be of higher average quality -- although the M areas do have things like the Temple of POG.
It's a great deal more complicated than described. The only easy way to turn your in-game money into real-world money is to use it to partially offset your subscription fee.
That's the reason for the latest change to the patent laws. It used to be 17 years from date of award. Now it's 20 years from date of filing -- and you need to file within one year of publication.
So basically you did all of the beginner shit in C++? I hope you didn't pay too much for that class. You would have been fine with just C.
That wasn't for class. I'd hoped including the phrase "utility programming" would have made that clear. This was the everyday programming to automate a task that just about every programmer does.
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For the same reason there aren't any religious sims, either.
You missed seeing Black & White?
Wireless mice will get stolen, wired mice will need frequent replacement.
Nothing short of an extremophile will survive those to engender resistance.
Biofilms will also survive, but that's due to having an outer layer of bacteria killed by the antiseptic protecting the inner layer, not due to any inherent resistance.
I've always thought it is unfair that only odd numbers can be prime.
2 is both even and prime.
So when your farmhouse gets hit by a tornado, you don't mind that there will be no way of contacting the outside world? That the ham radio operator trying to raise the emergency coordination center is having his signal squashed by the BPL system?
BPL may be on a single, specific frequency, but power lines are a very inefficient method of transmitting high-frequency signals. The net result is that the broadband signal will end up spilling over much of the radio spectrum.
The range of a ham radio broadcast is the entire world, and during an emergency, might be used for communications over ranges of a hundred miles or more. Are you advocating turning off broadband in several states every time there's an emergency?
I'm surprised that nobody pointed this out, but why would a scientist do something like that? Certainly, energy cost would be calculated by the magnitude of the movement vector, right? I'm not even sure how someone could get it to work in that manner -- it just doesn't occur to me. It'd have to be some pretty bad code, like "Energy Cost" = "Step Cost" * "Steps Forward", but you'd probably have to waste some math on figuring "Steps Forward". Send your scientist a letter, tell him, "a^2 * b^2 = c^2". Don't get me wrong, I'm not debunking your real point, just your example! :)
Actually, it's pretty simple. If movement is represented by an (angle, speed) pair, instead of a (speed x, speed y) pair, the obvious way of computing energy usage is "energy" = "speed" * "step cost", with the implicit assumption that "speed" will always be positive.
A day thats still 24 hours long, but 39 minutes longer than an earth day? Is that Earth or Mars minutes now? We have enough problems (rockets blowing up etc.) caused by converting between the dissimilar metric and imperial units - who exactly thought redefining minutes and seconds to be slightly longer on mars was a good idea? Thats going to lead to something very expensive.
Scientific calculations are always done in seconds, which are part of the metric system, and very rigorously defined. Defining "day" and "year" (and possibly "hour" and "minute") in terms of the local period of revolution makes sense, as those are the "everyday" units most people use.
The moon and its tides repeat on a 24 hour 48 minute periodicty. That could explain the 25 hour period in absence of light.
Its biologically useful to have multiple clocks. This spreads out activity cycles, so that short period disaster, e.g. predator, wont wipe out everyone.
In the presence of a strong light/dark cycle (eg. living outdoors in the tropics), different age groups have different activity cycles. Teenagers and young adults tend to stay awake well after dark, waking up well after sunrise, middle-aged people tend to go to sleep around sundown and have a period of wakefulness in the middle of the night, followed by sleeping until sunup, and older people go to sleep early, and wake up early, often before sunrise. The net result is that there's almost always someone awake to keep an eye out for hazards.
ISTR experiments done years ago (spending months living underground, away from the influence of daylight) which showed that the human circadian rhythm free-runs at a period of about 26 hours, so maybe 24.66 hours is not too bad.
There were also experiments (maybe an extension of the same one) showing that humans could adapt to day/night cycles as short as 22 hours, or as long as 27.
On an entirely unrelated note, my circadian rhythm not only free-runs at 26 hours, it also runs at 26 hours in the presence of a light/dark cycle and copious numbers of alarm clocks.
My understanding is that the FDA is the last agency to say either "this isn't under our jurisdiction" or "we see no problem with it". The other agencies that might be involved have already given it the green light.
How about the name Winix
Too similar to WineX.
I'm confused...
Am I still allowed to use the traditional name for those holes in the side of my house (the ones with the glass in them) or must I think of a new name for them as well...?
Portals, or something like that.
Every year or two, Microsoft tries to claim trademark on the use of the word "Windows" for all purposes. It's a good thing they keep getting thrown out of court, or you would need to come up with a new name for them.
I guess there are Sun-only places where this might be a big deal. I'm also guessing that they're in a minority, so what does Sun see in it all ? It must be a reasonably large cost to maintain another OS for a company, so there has to be an upside... Answers on a postcard, please :-)
It's only free for non-commercial use on single-CPU machines. Commercial installations, or installations on multi-processor machines, need to pay for a license.
This is hardware that people have reported to work. I'm sure that more hardware is supported than is actually listed. For example, they only list two modems, but I'm sure any Hayes-compatible hardware modem will work. They only list a few CD-ROM drives, but any ATAPI CD-ROM will work. I don't see any PS/2 mice listed, which may be a problem -- or it may not.
It's got even more possibilities than the odor peripherals they keep developing.
Linden Labs won't convert your in-game money (L$) directly into US$. What the article is about is the "developer incentives", cash that's sent to people who make popular builds, or host popular events, or make other significant improvements to the online community -- things that usually take significant amounts of in-game money to achieve.
If you want to convert your L$ directly to US$, you need to use eBay or the Gaming Open Market.
Unfortunately there's no way to impose the GPL on SecondLife objects yet :-)
Correction: There's no in-game code to enforce the GPL yet. You can make an object, add a notecard with the GPL on it, and make everything free to copy, and you've got a GPL'd object.
Although there isn't much nudity even in the mature sims. The main difference I've seen between the PG and mature sims is that construction in the mature areas tends to be of higher average quality -- although the M areas do have things like the Temple of POG.
It's a great deal more complicated than described. The only easy way to turn your in-game money into real-world money is to use it to partially offset your subscription fee.
That's the reason for the latest change to the patent laws. It used to be 17 years from date of award. Now it's 20 years from date of filing -- and you need to file within one year of publication.
With ten years' experience, he's probably reached the point where he can actually force VB to do what he needs it to.
So basically you did all of the beginner shit in C++? I hope you didn't pay too much for that class. You would have been fine with just C.
That wasn't for class. I'd hoped including the phrase "utility programming" would have made that clear. This was the everyday programming to automate a task that just about every programmer does.
The Martians are sabotaging the probes, of course!