I would go to see a musical version of Chronicles. You can't possibly have any expectations whatsoever with a subject like that translated to musical theater, consequently, it won't fail to meet them. It could "shoot the moon" of hackneyed monstrosity to actually be pretty cool.
Why is "ease of splitting archives" considered to be important? You can do it with zip automatically, or any other archive format you care to choose by using, for instance, split -d -b 2048m filename, to split the output stream of any compressor into files no larger than 2 gig, with names starting with filename001.
It was an advertising campaign. That means the target was people that don't already watch the show. So it was a really stupid campaign to begin with: the devices in question would only be recognizable by people who already knew about the show.
Further, they deliberately chose provocative locations for their "mooninite invasion." Locations for which they did not seek permits, or otherwise notify the relevant authorities until well after the fact.
I'd say that Boston's reaction was the one they were looking for, as that was the one that got them a publicity multiplier of being on national news for several days, during which time the were able to expand the number of people who knew about the show.
Doing time for a cartoon advertisement isn't funny. Neither is scaring a bunch of people with mock terrorist activity all over a major metropolitan area for a cartoon advertisement funny.
What they did probably does call for jail time (though the advertising company should bear the brunt of it). The relatively harmless intentions of the actual stooges goes a way towards mitigating that, perhaps we can accept a community service penalty in this case however.
It's actually a really good idea that's really hard to do. It helps if there's not enough light to take a picture without a long exposure. You *could* just take the long exposure (unless it needs to be really long.. like days*)
*Astronomers have had this problem. The solution is to composite several pictures. You get the benefit of a longer lens, but without actually having the shutter open the entire time. With computers to line everything up, you can take hundreds of pictures say of say.. one-minute exposures, and composite them all together.
And you get the bonus that if something anomalous happens during one of the exposures (e.g. an airplane flys overhead washing out the frame), you can drop 'em before compositing so they don't ruin your picture.
As processing speeds get faster, it stands to reason that you could choose shorter and shorter intervals, until you get to the point where instead of taking one regular exposure over the course of a half-second at night, you take 90 exposures over a full second, manipulate them automatically to counter the effect of hand-jitter, and composite them all into a single sharp image with very little blur (except where there's motion, and depending on the sophistication of the manipulation, much reduced blur there.)
Basically, it would let you increase the time of exposure that you could reasonably handle with a hand-held camera and still get good pictures. So you could use the flash quite a bit less in indoor lighting, for instance.
You should aim for the 'belly' because there is more target for you to hit. Aiming for that area gives you the best chance of hitting anywhere. Unless you're a trained marksman with plenty of time to aim, you're not going to hit exactly where you want to anyway.
They will be useful for those game developers who completely fill a DVD-9, and still need a few hundred more bytes.
The same kind of developers who regularly run out of gas 25 cm from the tank, wishing they had some kind of auxiliary tank with an additional.8 miliounces to get them the rest of the way.
"It's bullshit. Being good at something does not take away your right to hold or express political views."
True, but being good at being attractive or a good singer does give you a larger stage than you would normally have to disseminate your ill-informed, embarrassing rantings, which your opinions usually are when you're a rich dilettante whose principle contribution to society was to make millions of people think, "that sounds neat" for thirty seconds.
Well you text all the mobiles to let them know what's going on and that they'd better turn off your phones. No need for op-sec on the enemy's movement unless you're trying to keep your own intelligence channels secret. But then you wouldn't turn anything off at all.
Cordless phones will disappear when you cut the power.
I think we should start drilling for this right now. We should have periodic "astronomy days" where we just turn off all exterior lighting, and look at celestial events. Maybe just a couple hours a few nights a year, so urbanites can experience meteor showers and comets, and see the milky way once in their lives.
Yes, but GPS has done a lot for alleviating the "highways in the sky." Without GPS, planes are not able to fly directly to their destination: they are restricted to flying along pre-defined routes between navigational beacons. Which by definition means that planes must fly closer together, which reduces the total number of planes that the infrastructure can support, not to mention making your flights slightly longer.
I do not know how overseas flights were handled. I assume they use longer-wavelength beacons, taking advantage of the vast expanse of non-urbanized surface below them, Compass bearings, inertial and celestial navigation. All of which are either more complicated (for the plane) and/or less accurate than GPS, and one of which requires an additional crewmember.
It is a bit of a misunderstanding that computers help with the heating bill during the winter.
It is true that the waste heat does go into heating the home, but it is not necessarily true that this is useful. There are much more money-efficient ways of generating waste heat in your home, enough so that it is still more cost effective to go with the more efficient computer and generate the difference in calories with the more efficient process (money efficiency. I realize that heating processes are exactly 0% efficient by design.). The only situation where the computer's waste heat doesn't matter is if you've got electric resistance heating.
Do color lasers look as good as inkjets though? In my experience, they have not, but I won't discount the possibility that newer models have improved their handling. The printers I've had experience with, I'd use for presentations or cartoons: they were pretty sharp, but the color was very discretized. I would not use them for anything photorealistic.
If you have a real bear of a system, that uses every last watt of that massive 350 W PSU you bought, you could be spending as much as $370 per year. Not to mention the cooling load if you're located in a hot region.
Take your laptop and get a USB 2.0 hub, you'll need the extra slots. Hook the laptop up to a full-sized monitor (LCD or CRT, it doesn't really matter, but the bigger the better.) Ok, now plug in a printer, external HDD (to store your movies, of course), an external HD-DVD and/or blueray drive, and dual-layer DVD-RW if one is not part of your laptop. Plug it in to your cable modem via cat-5e to the ethernet port (to avoid people snooping, of course. Can't trust those wireless networks.)
Now all you need is a wireless keyboard&mouse. Microsoft's offering is not bad, but it has terrible range and is made by Microsoft. If your laptop is made by Apple, that just increases the irony.
Then get some kinda telephoto glasses so your screen looks bigger and you can use your laptop and all its peripherals from all the way across the room (line-of-sight only, of course.)
They didn't get this "protection" for free. Even if the balance of payments is neutral, Samsung has given MS access to at least part of its own patent portfolio.
That is the middle option.
Their best option is to ignore MS and, should MS choose to sue over something, win. The costs of doing this could be more than the middle option, but it would leave them in a good position for the future.
Their worst option is to ignore MS and, should MS choose to sue over something, lose. The costs of doing this are the same as winning, with the added cost of whatever penalties are incurred, as well as their loss of part of their business. This scenario is truly bad for Samsung indeed.
Only Samsung can know the strength of their holdings and the costs of upholding them, so only they are capable of deciding what the most cost-effective strategy is. It's also possible for them to be wrong, but we don't really have enough information do do more than speculate at this point. Certainly the middle option is the most stable option: the price is easy to determine, and they maintain their business plan without risk of being sued.
Who uses the right-alt button for anything anyway? The article's suggestion of using rt-alt+F2 to bring up the run dialog is just silly. You have move both of your hands from proper touch typing position to do this (because of the awkward positioning of the alt-keys), so it's not really any more efficient than the left-thumb-alt, pointer/middle-F2 combo that Many of the rest of us use.
But I do appreciate the extended key thingie he mentioned. I didn't even know about that before, but it sounds quite useful. Next time I boot into Ubuntu, I'm going to practice typing resumé and cliché a buncha times just to revel in not having to type alt-zero-two-three-three to get the é. ok I'll probably only "practice" this once, but still, it's a neat feature I didn't even know about before I heard someone complaining about it.
But, would you ever want do search for articles about things that are "defectivebydesign?" It's commentary-in-the-tags that caused me to disable them in my profile months ago.
For instance, on any article which poses a question, you can invariably find the tags, "yes," "no," and "maybe." But since they're so often together, they're basically redundant: searching any of them brings up the same articles. Better would be to use the tag, "question." but since all of the questions are titled ASK SLASHDOT, even this is redundant. Best would be to categorize based on the subject of the question, so people looking for questions (and answers) about say, linux wifi networking could search for the tags "linux," and "wifi" under ask.slashdot and find what they're looking for.
Still even if the tags were working, there still wouldn't be a reason to display by default, since you only really need them for searching. You don't even really need to see them to add them.
Actually, I would think that the FCCs existence is constitutionally authorized by whatever treaties established the ITU. Also, the nature of telephone and telegraph communications means that many of them will cross state lines and even national boundaries, putting their regulation squarely within the purview of the federal government, should such regulation be deemed necessary.
Although I agree with you in principle that they IS, but they OUGHT NOT. (in general. We do need someone to manage spectrum allocation, just as we need traffic lights at busy intersections.)
Which was not my point either. I've never used Gentoo, either. I have used, and like, Ubuntu but probably won't try Deb proper any time soon. Regardless, My point was more of the, "You shouldn't have to compile things from source just to get the commonly desired functionality" variety. Especially as compiling from source is so squirrely for the inexperienced (i.e. me)
I have actually made the mistake through my own incompetence then, of having software show up as having updates after compiling from source. Compiling from source is something that Gentoo users will like to do, but if you have a binary-distribution like Ubuntu, it's probably because you don't want to be messing with that.
Say what now? Add the series? why would you do that?
There are 676 possible combinations of two letters (26)^2. But that doesn't include punctuation or capitals, or numbers. Including all the numbers (10), commas, quotes, periods, and colons and all the punction above the number keys yields 2*26+10+10+5 = 77, or about 6,000 possible two-glyph combinations. And that's just with most of the standard English glyphs.
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Isn't Ghiradelli really just re branded Nestlé though?
I would go to see a musical version of Chronicles. You can't possibly have any expectations whatsoever with a subject like that translated to musical theater, consequently, it won't fail to meet them. It could "shoot the moon" of hackneyed monstrosity to actually be pretty cool.
Bartertown.
Two enter, One Leaves!
Out the bottom. On a rocket, up is defined by the direction of thrust.
Why is "ease of splitting archives" considered to be important? You can do it with zip automatically, or any other archive format you care to choose by using, for instance, split -d -b 2048m filename, to split the output stream of any compressor into files no larger than 2 gig, with names starting with filename001.
How many systems don't have any form of cat?
It was an advertising campaign. That means the target was people that don't already watch the show. So it was a really stupid campaign to begin with: the devices in question would only be recognizable by people who already knew about the show.
Further, they deliberately chose provocative locations for their "mooninite invasion." Locations for which they did not seek permits, or otherwise notify the relevant authorities until well after the fact.
I'd say that Boston's reaction was the one they were looking for, as that was the one that got them a publicity multiplier of being on national news for several days, during which time the were able to expand the number of people who knew about the show.
Doing time for a cartoon advertisement isn't funny. Neither is scaring a bunch of people with mock terrorist activity all over a major metropolitan area for a cartoon advertisement funny.
What they did probably does call for jail time (though the advertising company should bear the brunt of it). The relatively harmless intentions of the actual stooges goes a way towards mitigating that, perhaps we can accept a community service penalty in this case however.
It's actually a really good idea that's really hard to do. It helps if there's not enough light to take a picture without a long exposure. You *could* just take the long exposure (unless it needs to be really long.. like days*)
*Astronomers have had this problem. The solution is to composite several pictures. You get the benefit of a longer lens, but without actually having the shutter open the entire time. With computers to line everything up, you can take hundreds of pictures say of say.. one-minute exposures, and composite them all together.
And you get the bonus that if something anomalous happens during one of the exposures (e.g. an airplane flys overhead washing out the frame), you can drop 'em before compositing so they don't ruin your picture.
As processing speeds get faster, it stands to reason that you could choose shorter and shorter intervals, until you get to the point where instead of taking one regular exposure over the course of a half-second at night, you take 90 exposures over a full second, manipulate them automatically to counter the effect of hand-jitter, and composite them all into a single sharp image with very little blur (except where there's motion, and depending on the sophistication of the manipulation, much reduced blur there.)
Basically, it would let you increase the time of exposure that you could reasonably handle with a hand-held camera and still get good pictures. So you could use the flash quite a bit less in indoor lighting, for instance.
You should aim for the 'belly' because there is more target for you to hit. Aiming for that area gives you the best chance of hitting anywhere. Unless you're a trained marksman with plenty of time to aim, you're not going to hit exactly where you want to anyway.
They will be useful for those game developers who completely fill a DVD-9, and still need a few hundred more bytes.
.8 miliounces to get them the rest of the way.
The same kind of developers who regularly run out of gas 25 cm from the tank, wishing they had some kind of auxiliary tank with an additional
"It's bullshit. Being good at something does not take away your right to hold or express political views."
True, but being good at being attractive or a good singer does give you a larger stage than you would normally have to disseminate your ill-informed, embarrassing rantings, which your opinions usually are when you're a rich dilettante whose principle contribution to society was to make millions of people think, "that sounds neat" for thirty seconds.
Well you text all the mobiles to let them know what's going on and that they'd better turn off your phones. No need for op-sec on the enemy's movement unless you're trying to keep your own intelligence channels secret. But then you wouldn't turn anything off at all.
Cordless phones will disappear when you cut the power.
I think we should start drilling for this right now. We should have periodic "astronomy days" where we just turn off all exterior lighting, and look at celestial events. Maybe just a couple hours a few nights a year, so urbanites can experience meteor showers and comets, and see the milky way once in their lives.
Yes, but GPS has done a lot for alleviating the "highways in the sky." Without GPS, planes are not able to fly directly to their destination: they are restricted to flying along pre-defined routes between navigational beacons. Which by definition means that planes must fly closer together, which reduces the total number of planes that the infrastructure can support, not to mention making your flights slightly longer.
I do not know how overseas flights were handled. I assume they use longer-wavelength beacons, taking advantage of the vast expanse of non-urbanized surface below them, Compass bearings, inertial and celestial navigation. All of which are either more complicated (for the plane) and/or less accurate than GPS, and one of which requires an additional crewmember.
It is a bit of a misunderstanding that computers help with the heating bill during the winter.
It is true that the waste heat does go into heating the home, but it is not necessarily true that this is useful. There are much more money-efficient ways of generating waste heat in your home, enough so that it is still more cost effective to go with the more efficient computer and generate the difference in calories with the more efficient process (money efficiency. I realize that heating processes are exactly 0% efficient by design.). The only situation where the computer's waste heat doesn't matter is if you've got electric resistance heating.
Do color lasers look as good as inkjets though? In my experience, they have not, but I won't discount the possibility that newer models have improved their handling. The printers I've had experience with, I'd use for presentations or cartoons: they were pretty sharp, but the color was very discretized. I would not use them for anything photorealistic.
Has this changed in the past couple years?
If you have a real bear of a system, that uses every last watt of that massive 350 W PSU you bought, you could be spending as much as $370 per year. Not to mention the cooling load if you're located in a hot region.
Take your laptop and get a USB 2.0 hub, you'll need the extra slots. Hook the laptop up to a full-sized monitor (LCD or CRT, it doesn't really matter, but the bigger the better.) Ok, now plug in a printer, external HDD (to store your movies, of course), an external HD-DVD and/or blueray drive, and dual-layer DVD-RW if one is not part of your laptop. Plug it in to your cable modem via cat-5e to the ethernet port (to avoid people snooping, of course. Can't trust those wireless networks.)
Now all you need is a wireless keyboard&mouse. Microsoft's offering is not bad, but it has terrible range and is made by Microsoft. If your laptop is made by Apple, that just increases the irony.
Then get some kinda telephoto glasses so your screen looks bigger and you can use your laptop and all its peripherals from all the way across the room (line-of-sight only, of course.)
Except, you know, when the sky behind you is blotted out by a huge lumbering airship for hours on end.
They didn't get this "protection" for free. Even if the balance of payments is neutral, Samsung has given MS access to at least part of its own patent portfolio.
That is the middle option.
Their best option is to ignore MS and, should MS choose to sue over something, win. The costs of doing this could be more than the middle option, but it would leave them in a good position for the future.
Their worst option is to ignore MS and, should MS choose to sue over something, lose. The costs of doing this are the same as winning, with the added cost of whatever penalties are incurred, as well as their loss of part of their business. This scenario is truly bad for Samsung indeed.
Only Samsung can know the strength of their holdings and the costs of upholding them, so only they are capable of deciding what the most cost-effective strategy is. It's also possible for them to be wrong, but we don't really have enough information do do more than speculate at this point. Certainly the middle option is the most stable option: the price is easy to determine, and they maintain their business plan without risk of being sued.
Who uses the right-alt button for anything anyway? The article's suggestion of using rt-alt+F2 to bring up the run dialog is just silly. You have move both of your hands from proper touch typing position to do this (because of the awkward positioning of the alt-keys), so it's not really any more efficient than the left-thumb-alt, pointer/middle-F2 combo that Many of the rest of us use.
But I do appreciate the extended key thingie he mentioned. I didn't even know about that before, but it sounds quite useful. Next time I boot into Ubuntu, I'm going to practice typing resumé and cliché a buncha times just to revel in not having to type alt-zero-two-three-three to get the é. ok I'll probably only "practice" this once, but still, it's a neat feature I didn't even know about before I heard someone complaining about it.
But, would you ever want do search for articles about things that are "defectivebydesign?" It's commentary-in-the-tags that caused me to disable them in my profile months ago.
For instance, on any article which poses a question, you can invariably find the tags, "yes," "no," and "maybe." But since they're so often together, they're basically redundant: searching any of them brings up the same articles. Better would be to use the tag, "question." but since all of the questions are titled ASK SLASHDOT, even this is redundant. Best would be to categorize based on the subject of the question, so people looking for questions (and answers) about say, linux wifi networking could search for the tags "linux," and "wifi" under ask.slashdot and find what they're looking for.
Still even if the tags were working, there still wouldn't be a reason to display by default, since you only really need them for searching. You don't even really need to see them to add them.
Actually, I would think that the FCCs existence is constitutionally authorized by whatever treaties established the ITU. Also, the nature of telephone and telegraph communications means that many of them will cross state lines and even national boundaries, putting their regulation squarely within the purview of the federal government, should such regulation be deemed necessary.
Although I agree with you in principle that they IS, but they OUGHT NOT. (in general. We do need someone to manage spectrum allocation, just as we need traffic lights at busy intersections.)
Yeah, 'cause nuthin' says "gang bangers" like a choreographed dance-fight to hip music...
Which was not my point either. I've never used Gentoo, either. I have used, and like, Ubuntu but probably won't try Deb proper any time soon. Regardless, My point was more of the, "You shouldn't have to compile things from source just to get the commonly desired functionality" variety. Especially as compiling from source is so squirrely for the inexperienced (i.e. me)
I have actually made the mistake through my own incompetence then, of having software show up as having updates after compiling from source. Compiling from source is something that Gentoo users will like to do, but if you have a binary-distribution like Ubuntu, it's probably because you don't want to be messing with that.
Say what now? Add the series? why would you do that?
There are 676 possible combinations of two letters (26)^2. But that doesn't include punctuation or capitals, or numbers. Including all the numbers (10), commas, quotes, periods, and colons and all the punction above the number keys yields 2*26+10+10+5 = 77, or about 6,000 possible two-glyph combinations. And that's just with most of the standard English glyphs.