OK, I've got four HotMail accounts. For the first three, the options had been changed and I reset them to opt-out. When I got to the fourth account, which I set up about three weeks ago and have NEVER sent a message from, my options indicated that none of my info was to be public. However, there were 171 SPAMs waiting for me, starting just a few hours after the "Welcome to HotMail" message. Apparently, they released my new e-mail address to the wild the instant it was created, making any decision of mine to opt-out a moot point. Once it's out there, you're screwed.
He should have picked a better acronym
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I used to be in the camp that thought the GNU acronym deserved to get more exposure than it does in Linux, but after saying "guh-new" a few too many times, I gave up. IANA marketing dweeb, but "GNU" is a phonetic nightmare that I wouldn't attach to anything, and don't get me started on Ogg Vorbis. I consider it a shame that RMS's contribution can't be as evident in the name as Linus's is, but he should have spent more time thinking of a better acronym.
Initials of RMS. Who think's his parents might have been engineers?
These countries (and ours) can't even stop smugglers from transporting live animals not to mention agricultural products. Just get the locals interested in your "cause", and a black market will suddenly appear. After that, just complain bitterly about the black market and blame it on the ill-conceived bans.
After hearing about this stuff a couple days ago on FARK, I scoured the newsgroups for experiences. There was a very broad range of them, from very good to very bad. The range of doses involved was anywhere from 100mg to 1000mg a day. I also hang out in the ADD/ADHD groups and hear similar ranges of experiences for the variety of drugs used for that condition. It seems obvious to me that certain drugs, like Provigil, affect people differently. This is no surprise. It you have a bad reaction to it, stop using it. But, the guy standing next to you might respond to it favorably. I certainly hope that more options become available so that you're chances of leading a wakeful life improve. I'm not narcoleptic, but I know what it's like to be sleepy most of the time.
Well, you probably won't remember, but your great-grandparents might have gone through this. When aspirin was first commercially used in the 1870's, no one knew how it worked. It sure was nice that it did work thought, even if an occasional upset stomach occured. It wasn't until the 1970's that it's relation to prostaglandin was discovered. Read this link for more info.
He would just take it to the top of the building and drop it. Then, if you know the height of the building and the time it takes to hit the ground, you can calculate G.
I've actually been doing more hobby stuff lately. Having more disposable income than your average kid makes a difference. Another difference nowadays is the greater variety of cool gadgets available and the Internet for obtaining them. I actually took time out of my busy weekend to build a flashlight out of super-magnets, some copper wire, and a couple white LEDs. To see the plans, look here. Next weekend, I think I'll do something with muscle wire. Oh, and those 100 ball bearings I just won on eBay, just wait and see...
I'm not attempting to flamebait here, just submitting an observation. It seems to me that many of the complexity issues can be overcome by designing better languages. I've never stopped scratching my head over the perseverance of old languages like C++ and FORTRAN. Sure, they are extremely useful in the hands of experienced folks, but they need to die. They were good solutions to problems decades ago, but so much has been learned since then and the constraints of sparse computer resources and CPU speed have moved a lot.
I'd like to send those people a nasty message, but those sneaks have their trademarked name embedded in their e-mail address! That address is pw@[insert their precious trademark here].com
The CORDIC Algorithm
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COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer
This algorithm is implemented by most FPUs and even some PGAs to calculate trigonometric and hyperbolic functions. It replaces the evaluation of those power series you've already forgotten about from school with a clever combinations of bit-shifts and additions. Back in the days when multiplications were much more expensive than additions, this is how it was done.
That phrase about making a "good faith effort" to obtain written permission is crap! I'm self-employed and just switched medical plans. About a week after enrolling, I get a letter explaining how to opt-out of having my information released to my health care providers' "partners" who may have services of interest to me. Of course, since I didn't start out in an opted-out state, my information was already released into the wild. Now, I'm starting to get all of this medical junk mail aimed at senior citizens! Thank god they only got my address. If the marketing industry ever finds out I'm a hypochodriac, they'll bombard me!
Seriously, if they allow for any relaxation of privacy regarding personal medical information, you can bet your bottom dollar that anyone who could possibly make a buck off of that information will find a way to obtain it.
Re:No need for fitness!! - If you're young
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Boy, are you in for a surprise. Wait until you hit your late thirties. If you aren't in shape then, you can kiss those all-night programming sessions good-bye. I could sure use one of those medical breakthroughs right about now.
Yes. It's a picture of a model rocket based on the N1, and those are late model US trucks, and the locale is in the USA. I bet that ladder even came from Sears. I thought it was cool enough to mention, posed as a joke. My hat's off to the one guy who actually suspected I might be kidding.
Here's a link to some cool drawings of the N1's. Of course, these drawings mean nothing. My theory is that the Soviet moon mission was as faked as the US one. Here's photographic proof that the N1's were only about 15 ft tall! Seeing is believing. You do believe me, don't you?
I just wonder why they don't recycle organs from executed prisoners..
A couple sci-fi writers have addressed this issue. I can only think of Larry Niven offhand, and his novel "A Gift From Earth" or the Gil Hamilton stories. Hypothetically, if a society starts to use criminals for organs, blood, experiments, etc, AND people start living much longer lives because of transplants, corruption is inevitable. People with desirable cell types get framed, or if they're lucky, can just donate an organ for their "punishment". If they're unlucky, they just vanish, minus a few valuable body parts.
That chart you're looking at is incorrect. Microwaves are around 0.1 mm, somewhere between the infrared and radio waves. Microwave lasers (masers) have been around since the 50's. X-ray lasers currently require a nuclear explosion to operate. If someone ever figures out how to get x-rays to reflect efficiently, maybe then we'll have an x-ray laser.
Sorry for going off-topic, but I just have to grieve any time I see anything about my former favorite magazine. Before computers, walking around reading one of these was how you knew who the real geeks were. Where once you had Nobel Prize winning contributors writing articles that took a week to digest, now you have watered down fluff comparable to Discover or Newsweek. Next time you come across an issue printed before 1985, pick it up and learn something.
Large soldering iron for degaussing
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Homemade Gauss Gun
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You can also use a large soldering iron or an electric drill to degauss monitors. A soldering iron contains a coil that generates an oscillating magnetic field at 60 Hz. I use this technique to degauss my arcade video games.
Oh yeah, don't actually touch these things to your monitor! You're just using the magnetic fields from them, not the business ends.
I bet if OddTodd showed him how to establish a donation system, he could afford to replace the acrylic sheeting with some of that newfangled transparent aluminum. With enough support, he could build a Beowulf...
You too can be a drain on society! Join one of our groups listed below. Be as funny as possible while you're at it and no one will think poorly of you.
1. Rich people who file for bankruptcy 2. Able people who file for unemployment 3. Healthy people who abuse insurance claims 4. Smart people who don't apply themselves
Seriously, unemployment benefits are a lifesaver for many people who don't have the ability or the opportunity to quickly find new work. Don't be surprised if one day it gets as screwed up as medical and car insurance by people screwing the system. YOU ultimately pay for it.
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OK, I've got four HotMail accounts. For the first three, the options had been changed and I reset them to opt-out. When I got to the fourth account, which I set up about three weeks ago and have NEVER sent a message from, my options indicated that none of my info was to be public. However, there were 171 SPAMs waiting for me, starting just a few hours after the "Welcome to HotMail" message. Apparently, they released my new e-mail address to the wild the instant it was created, making any decision of mine to opt-out a moot point. Once it's out there, you're screwed.
I used to be in the camp that thought the GNU acronym deserved to get more exposure than it does in Linux, but after saying "guh-new" a few too many times, I gave up. IANA marketing dweeb, but "GNU" is a phonetic nightmare that I wouldn't attach to anything, and don't get me started on Ogg Vorbis. I consider it a shame that RMS's contribution can't be as evident in the name as Linus's is, but he should have spent more time thinking of a better acronym.
Initials of RMS. Who think's his parents might have been engineers?
These countries (and ours) can't even stop smugglers from transporting live animals not to mention agricultural products. Just get the locals interested in your "cause", and a black market will suddenly appear. After that, just complain bitterly about the black market and blame it on the ill-conceived bans.
With everything that's been going on lately, you might have missed this important piece of 'news'.
Anyway, here's the link.
After hearing about this stuff a couple days ago on FARK, I scoured the newsgroups for experiences. There was a very broad range of them, from very good to very bad. The range of doses involved was anywhere from 100mg to 1000mg a day. I also hang out in the ADD/ADHD groups and hear similar ranges of experiences for the variety of drugs used for that condition. It seems obvious to me that certain drugs, like Provigil, affect people differently. This is no surprise. It you have a bad reaction to it, stop using it. But, the guy standing next to you might respond to it favorably. I certainly hope that more options become available so that you're chances of leading a wakeful life improve. I'm not narcoleptic, but I know what it's like to be sleepy most of the time.
Must take nap now...
Well, you probably won't remember, but your great-grandparents might have gone through this. When aspirin was first commercially used in the 1870's, no one knew how it worked. It sure was nice that it did work thought, even if an occasional upset stomach occured. It wasn't until the 1970's that it's relation to prostaglandin was discovered. Read this link for more info.
He would just take it to the top of the building and drop it. Then, if you know the height of the building and the time it takes to hit the ground, you can calculate G.
I've actually been doing more hobby stuff lately. Having more disposable income than your average kid makes a difference. Another difference nowadays is the greater variety of cool gadgets available and the Internet for obtaining them. I actually took time out of my busy weekend to build a flashlight out of super-magnets, some copper wire, and a couple white LEDs. To see the plans, look here. Next weekend, I think I'll do something with muscle wire. Oh, and those 100 ball bearings I just won on eBay, just wait and see...
...for putting N-Sync on such a cool machine.
I'm not attempting to flamebait here, just submitting an observation. It seems to me that many of the complexity issues can be overcome by designing better languages. I've never stopped scratching my head over the perseverance of old languages like C++ and FORTRAN. Sure, they are extremely useful in the hands of experienced folks, but they need to die. They were good solutions to problems decades ago, but so much has been learned since then and the constraints of sparse computer resources and CPU speed have moved a lot.
I'd like to send those people a nasty message, but those sneaks have their trademarked name embedded in their e-mail address! That address is pw@[insert their precious trademark here].com
COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer
This algorithm is implemented by most FPUs and even some PGAs to calculate trigonometric and hyperbolic functions. It replaces the evaluation of those power series you've already forgotten about from school with a clever combinations of bit-shifts and additions. Back in the days when multiplications were much more expensive than additions, this is how it was done.
That phrase about making a "good faith effort" to obtain written permission is crap! I'm self-employed and just switched medical plans. About a week after enrolling, I get a letter explaining how to opt-out of having my information released to my health care providers' "partners" who may have services of interest to me. Of course, since I didn't start out in an opted-out state, my information was already released into the wild. Now, I'm starting to get all of this medical junk mail aimed at senior citizens! Thank god they only got my address. If the marketing industry ever finds out I'm a hypochodriac, they'll bombard me!
Seriously, if they allow for any relaxation of privacy regarding personal medical information, you can bet your bottom dollar that anyone who could possibly make a buck off of that information will find a way to obtain it.
Boy, are you in for a surprise. Wait until you hit your late thirties. If you aren't in shape then, you can kiss those all-night programming sessions good-bye. I could sure use one of those medical breakthroughs right about now.
Yes. It's a picture of a model rocket based on the N1, and those are late model US trucks, and the locale is in the USA. I bet that ladder even came from Sears. I thought it was cool enough to mention, posed as a joke. My hat's off to the one guy who actually suspected I might be kidding.
many couples like to go to the magnetic North Pole to conceive their children.
I've met some people who were conceived at the North Pole. None of them seemed to have any direction in life.
Here's a link to some cool drawings of the N1's. Of course, these drawings mean nothing. My theory is that the Soviet moon mission was as faked as the US one. Here's photographic proof that the N1's were only about 15 ft tall! Seeing is believing. You do believe me, don't you?
Mount everything upside-down so that the liquid drips away from the board.
I just wonder why they don't recycle organs from executed prisoners..
A couple sci-fi writers have addressed this issue. I can only think of Larry Niven offhand, and his novel "A Gift From Earth" or the Gil Hamilton stories. Hypothetically, if a society starts to use criminals for organs, blood, experiments, etc, AND people start living much longer lives because of transplants, corruption is inevitable. People with desirable cell types get framed, or if they're lucky, can just donate an organ for their "punishment". If they're unlucky, they just vanish, minus a few valuable body parts.
That chart you're looking at is incorrect. Microwaves are around 0.1 mm, somewhere between the infrared and radio waves. Microwave lasers (masers) have been around since the 50's. X-ray lasers currently require a nuclear explosion to operate. If someone ever figures out how to get x-rays to reflect efficiently, maybe then we'll have an x-ray laser.
Sorry for going off-topic, but I just have to grieve any time I see anything about my former favorite magazine. Before computers, walking around reading one of these was how you knew who the real geeks were. Where once you had Nobel Prize winning contributors writing articles that took a week to digest, now you have watered down fluff comparable to Discover or Newsweek. Next time you come across an issue printed before 1985, pick it up and learn something.
You can also use a large soldering iron or an electric drill to degauss monitors. A soldering iron contains a coil that generates an oscillating magnetic field at 60 Hz. I use this technique to degauss my arcade video games.
Oh yeah, don't actually touch these things to your monitor! You're just using the magnetic fields from them, not the business ends.
I bet if OddTodd showed him how to establish a donation system, he could afford to replace the acrylic sheeting with some of that newfangled transparent aluminum. With enough support, he could build a Beowulf...
You too can be a drain on society! Join one of our groups listed below. Be as funny as possible while you're at it and no one will think poorly of you.
1. Rich people who file for bankruptcy
2. Able people who file for unemployment
3. Healthy people who abuse insurance claims
4. Smart people who don't apply themselves
Seriously, unemployment benefits are a lifesaver for many people who don't have the ability or the opportunity to quickly find new work. Don't be surprised if one day it gets as screwed up as medical and car insurance by people screwing the system. YOU ultimately pay for it.
I don't get enough exercise, therefore I'm tired a lot.
Because I'm tired a lot, I sleep a lot.
Because I sleep a lot, I don't have time to exercise.