Who needs a cookbook to cook? I only ever use them occasionally and even then it's just to get cooking times or a very rough idea of the proportions of ingredients.
Back in high school, when I was still living with my parents, my mother would constantly pester me with questions about how to do inane little things in Word or AppleWorks or how to change settings. Finally one day I told her, "You don't need to keep asking me for this stuff. You know how I found out how to do it? I opened the menus, looked for somthing that sounded close and clicked on it. If it's a setting, just make sure you remember what it was set to before you start messing around. You won't break anything." Haven't had a single question since then and she's far more computer literate.
Running through all possible states of the design is extremely impractical. We're not just talking about all combinations of IO pins here. To test like this you would have to cover every permutation of every flip-flop in the design. This is already unreasonable in a small ASIC design that has a few thousand flops. In a processor that is significantly larger it's effectively impossible.
That's exactly what they found. One of their first rigs tested toast that was basically just falling off a table and it was heavily skewed in favor of butter side down due to just that fact. The issue there was that the butter had nothing to do with it. They got the same result with no butter. They retested using a different system that dropped it from a greater height, edge on (i.e. toast held vertically before dropping), to see if the butter actually had any effect. The answer was that the butter did not affect it at all.
It is entirely dependent upon the format of the pictures you place into the Word file. Drag and drop usually results in this, but if you just import a standard format like JPEG you will have no problems transferring to windows.
That is also a setting you can change. Most browsers have an option in their preferences along the lines of "Make this your default browser". It is also settable from within System Preferences. I'm not sure where (I'm at work using Solaris at the moment.) but my first guess would be the Internet panel.
Wow. This is just for your benefit. A 56k modem can and will give 56k (Actually I believe they're limited to 53k, but close enough.). The problem you are having is the inability to differentiate between the following two symbols: k K
A 56k modem is 56k (56 kilobits). The number you see on your download is 5K (5 kilobytes). One byte is eight bits. So, with a little basic math, 56k = 7K. So 5K is actually pretty good, and your 8K is impossible.
I very much agree with you. That is also why I like schools that have a co-op program. Their graduates are coming out not only with a degree and academic knowledge, but also with about a year of real world experience, sometimes in one specific area, sometimes spread over a few related ones.
It only archives the system (It'll dump it all in a folder called Old System Folder, or something to that effect.). Applications and data outside of the system folder are unaffected. It will also preserve the vast majority of your settings.
Actually a voltage divider is resistors in series, but it wouldn't work very well in this case. As soon as you attach your system to the voltage divider, the entire system is in parallel with one of the resistors and will change the voltage divider output. Even more importantly, since your system is an active circuit, it's equivalent resistance is not constant. What you actually want is a voltage regulator which is an active circuit that can maintain a relatively constant output voltage under varying loads.
It's more than just that. I'm a computer engineer and it's almost all PDF's and ASCII. Though we do have OpenOffice for the ocasional MS Office file from customers.
This is exactly my problem with OpenOffice.org (and a lot of other open source software). I decided to give it a try on more than one occasion when I was considering buying MS Office (I needed to use MS Office documents.). I dislike MS office,Word in particular, and was looking for something else to use. OpenOffice.org offers absolutely nothing a user like me. Why? Because it is more or less an exact copy of MS Office complete with the horrible UI that I hate. If they are so uncreative that they need to copy an entire interface, they could at least pick a better model, the OS X version of MS Office for example, while far from perfect, is a hell of a lot better.
In general, user interface is largely what is lacking from these types of Open Source replacement programs. Price is not my only concern when choosing software, though it is certainly a consideration. If the interface is an unuseable piece of garbage, free is not a low enough price to get me to use it. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I'm willing to pay for quality.
Some cities already have systems like that. I know Providence, RI has a hurricane barrier. It's not as large (~30ft) though. It has gates to let small boats though into the marina as well as at the several places where it crosses roads.
Have you considered actually reading the article? No part of this thing is attached to the Earth. It is a space elevator on the moon, and the moon only.
If I recall, the helicopter method is how the military retrieved film from the first spy satellites (High rez digital pictures didn't exist yet.). So it's not entirelly new, though still somewhat wacky.
If the consumer doesn't care, then to him it is not "The Wrong Thing." The fact that you or even a small group feel that any given issue is important does not mean that it matters to the populous at large. If 99+% of a company's customers don't care about them collecting data and the company has a use for it, then in a true free market it would be "The Right Thing" for them to collect this data. It only becomes "The Wrong Thing" in this case if a majority, or at least significant minority of their customers do care and are opposed.
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Who needs a cookbook to cook? I only ever use them occasionally and even then it's just to get cooking times or a very rough idea of the proportions of ingredients.
You know, that's exactly right.
Back in high school, when I was still living with my parents, my mother would constantly pester me with questions about how to do inane little things in Word or AppleWorks or how to change settings. Finally one day I told her, "You don't need to keep asking me for this stuff. You know how I found out how to do it? I opened the menus, looked for somthing that sounded close and clicked on it. If it's a setting, just make sure you remember what it was set to before you start messing around. You won't break anything." Haven't had a single question since then and she's far more computer literate.
Note: I haven't been able to access the article.
Running through all possible states of the design is extremely impractical. We're not just talking about all combinations of IO pins here. To test like this you would have to cover every permutation of every flip-flop in the design. This is already unreasonable in a small ASIC design that has a few thousand flops. In a processor that is significantly larger it's effectively impossible.
Having all the tools is a step in the right direction, but it's not everything.
You can put me in a garage filled with all kinds of automotive tools. It doesn't mean I'd be abe to fix my car.
You repeated exactly what he said. If you go back and read his post again you will notice that it was "perl file.pl" in his example.
That's exactly what they found. One of their first rigs tested toast that was basically just falling off a table and it was heavily skewed in favor of butter side down due to just that fact. The issue there was that the butter had nothing to do with it. They got the same result with no butter. They retested using a different system that dropped it from a greater height, edge on (i.e. toast held vertically before dropping), to see if the butter actually had any effect. The answer was that the butter did not affect it at all.
It is entirely dependent upon the format of the pictures you place into the Word file. Drag and drop usually results in this, but if you just import a standard format like JPEG you will have no problems transferring to windows.
That is also a setting you can change. Most browsers have an option in their preferences along the lines of "Make this your default browser". It is also settable from within System Preferences. I'm not sure where (I'm at work using Solaris at the moment.) but my first guess would be the Internet panel.
Actually it was a chimp.
Wow. This is just for your benefit. A 56k modem can and will give 56k (Actually I believe they're limited to 53k, but close enough.). The problem you are having is the inability to differentiate between the following two symbols: k K
A 56k modem is 56k (56 kilobits). The number you see on your download is 5K (5 kilobytes). One byte is eight bits. So, with a little basic math, 56k = 7K. So 5K is actually pretty good, and your 8K is impossible.
I'm 22 and did the same thing. In public school no less.
I very much agree with you. That is also why I like schools that have a co-op program. Their graduates are coming out not only with a degree and academic knowledge, but also with about a year of real world experience, sometimes in one specific area, sometimes spread over a few related ones.
It only archives the system (It'll dump it all in a folder called Old System Folder, or something to that effect.). Applications and data outside of the system folder are unaffected. It will also preserve the vast majority of your settings.
Actually a voltage divider is resistors in series, but it wouldn't work very well in this case. As soon as you attach your system to the voltage divider, the entire system is in parallel with one of the resistors and will change the voltage divider output. Even more importantly, since your system is an active circuit, it's equivalent resistance is not constant. What you actually want is a voltage regulator which is an active circuit that can maintain a relatively constant output voltage under varying loads.
I also found Mitsubishi brand tuna fish once. It's called Three Diamonds (hint, look at the logo). But said Mitsubishi in the small print on the back.
It's more than just that. I'm a computer engineer and it's almost all PDF's and ASCII. Though we do have OpenOffice for the ocasional MS Office file from customers.
This is exactly my problem with OpenOffice.org (and a lot of other open source software). I decided to give it a try on more than one occasion when I was considering buying MS Office (I needed to use MS Office documents.). I dislike MS office ,Word in particular, and was looking for something else to use. OpenOffice.org offers absolutely nothing a user like me. Why? Because it is more or less an exact copy of MS Office complete with the horrible UI that I hate. If they are so uncreative that they need to copy an entire interface, they could at least pick a better model, the OS X version of MS Office for example, while far from perfect, is a hell of a lot better.
In general, user interface is largely what is lacking from these types of Open Source replacement programs. Price is not my only concern when choosing software, though it is certainly a consideration. If the interface is an unuseable piece of garbage, free is not a low enough price to get me to use it. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I'm willing to pay for quality.
Some cities already have systems like that. I know Providence, RI has a hurricane barrier. It's not as large (~30ft) though. It has gates to let small boats though into the marina as well as at the several places where it crosses roads.
A lot of us hate that stuff too.
The word never was in italics because it was sarcasm.
Have you considered actually reading the article? No part of this thing is attached to the Earth. It is a space elevator on the moon, and the moon only.
If I recall, the helicopter method is how the military retrieved film from the first spy satellites (High rez digital pictures didn't exist yet.). So it's not entirelly new, though still somewhat wacky.
Very very true. In reality it's a big gigantic glaring hole in all those theories.
No one ever said anything about a monopoly. You clearly lack the ability to comprehend the few short sentences of these comments.
If the consumer doesn't care, then to him it is not "The Wrong Thing." The fact that you or even a small group feel that any given issue is important does not mean that it matters to the populous at large. If 99+% of a company's customers don't care about them collecting data and the company has a use for it, then in a true free market it would be "The Right Thing" for them to collect this data. It only becomes "The Wrong Thing" in this case if a majority, or at least significant minority of their customers do care and are opposed.