You just have to wait long enough, there'll be a question, eventually. Unless the Vogons hack the server and wipe the disks before Earth Alpha runs to completion, of course.
drinking an entire tritium rifle sight is a two years dose
Who in his/her right mind would do such a thing? Even if it happened by accident it seems to me a far try. If you're desperate for a drink and not caring much about your health, you could just as well gulp down the contents of your car's radiator. If the antifreeze is anything like ethylene glycol, you might at least get a nice buzz out of that.
According to my Google, the answer is: Property. Oh well, the Universe must have changed into something entirely different or Google doesn't like capitalized sentences... See for yourself.
Sony has just confirmed that it will release the immensely popular game of Pong for the PSP.
After working strenuously for many months trying to match the demands of Pong to the capabilities of the PSP hardware, engineers at Sony are eager to show off the ability of the platform to run even the most demanding games.
The porting of Pong to the PSP was by no means an easy task, as was confirmed by one of the developers. "The communication of game data between two devices in Two-Player Pong puts an immense strain on the available bandwidth and processing power. We had to use the most advanced data compression methods combined with new patent-pending move prediction algorithms to reduce the amount of data that needs to be transfered between the devices," he admitted.
That seems to be a software solution. I doubt that any serious crook worth his salt would just take his freshly stolen laptop, hook it up to the 'net and start surfing about. For a solution to be anything worth mentioning, it should be a hardware solution. And I don't mean just some PC Card or USB dongle, it should be right there in the silicon of the NIC(s). Have the network device periodically send out packets with identifying info to tracking servers (details of which are stored on on-chip PROM) and there will be a reasonable chance of getting back your treasured gadget.
Both the parent and the grandparent post are using an essentially wrong definition of N in the Drake Equation. N is defined as the number of communicating civilizations, not the number of civilizations that we can communicate with. To see how this is different, you can use the probability estimate in the Birthday Paradox. Just substitute communicating civilizations for people sharing the same birthday. You will find that the probability of N communicating civilizations will always be higher than the probability of us being able to communicate with them. I have always wondered why the Drake Equation was not stated as an inequality i.e. the left hand side could always be less than or equal but never greater than the right hand side. Consider for instance the possibility that some civilisation X has heard civilisation Y but simply never bothered to reply...
He did mention going for a jet, so no props. As for the "catching" part, just use a large catchnet like those used for catching butterflies, possibly with a reinforced net so it stays open. Hold it outside the car, have the plane zero in on it, kill the engine and have the plane fly in like a slam dunk. Easy as pie (or should I say SDI?...).
Yep, linked site now thoroughly Slashdotted. When will someone finally invent self (load-)balancing Web servers? I wonder if you could do with less than two per site...
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You just have to wait long enough, there'll be a question, eventually.
Unless the Vogons hack the server and wipe the disks before Earth Alpha runs to completion, of course.
Would a dyslexic write a sentence like this?
drinking an entire tritium rifle sight is a two years dose
Who in his/her right mind would do such a thing? Even if it happened by accident it seems to me a far try.
If you're desperate for a drink and not caring much about your health, you could just as well gulp down the contents of your car's radiator. If the antifreeze is anything like ethylene glycol, you might at least get a nice buzz out of that.
Not to be confused with transgendered.
$ cat parentpost | sed -e "s/E//g" -e "s/N//g"
Yes, I mean the green stuff. Super-green.
We have English mustard!
Yeah, and guess where that word comes from?
According to my Google, the answer is: Property.
Oh well, the Universe must have changed into something entirely different or Google doesn't like capitalized sentences...
See for yourself.
Sony has just confirmed that it will release the immensely popular game of Pong for the PSP.
After working strenuously for many months trying to match the demands of Pong to the capabilities of the PSP hardware, engineers at Sony are eager to show off the ability of the platform to run even the most demanding games.
The porting of Pong to the PSP was by no means an easy task, as was confirmed by one of the developers. "The communication of game data between two devices in Two-Player Pong puts an immense strain on the available bandwidth and processing power. We had to use the most advanced data compression methods combined with new patent-pending move prediction algorithms to reduce the amount of data that needs to be transfered between the devices," he admitted.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of
Hmm, Next time I should try this 'Preview' button thingie. It must have some useful function I think...
Ha! The link you gave exposes a bug in Mozilla Firefox (tested with version 2.0.2). Just try to open it in a new tab or a new window: it doesn't work.
How is 23.7 many times 15?
.;
(In Mathematica)
In[1]:= times = 1;
In[2]:= many =
In[3]:= Solve[23.7 == many times 15, many]
Out[3]= {{many -> 1.58}}
That seems to be a software solution. I doubt that any serious crook worth his salt would just take his freshly stolen laptop, hook it up to the 'net and start surfing about.
For a solution to be anything worth mentioning, it should be a hardware solution. And I don't mean just some PC Card or USB dongle, it should be right there in the silicon of the NIC(s).
Have the network device periodically send out packets with identifying info to tracking servers (details of which are stored on on-chip PROM) and there will be a reasonable chance of getting back your treasured gadget.
I'm pretty sure that the application would reject the images here, even though they are among the 'safest' you can get...
#include "everythingbutthekitchensink.h"
void main(void)
{
MakeItSo();
}
That's it, 6 lines. Everyone can write short programs, if all you do is include some doitall libraries...
Wouldn't a browser with Javascript disabled just ignore the parameter and method call and handle the href like any regular link?
His name is Ramanujan. More info here.
Both the parent and the grandparent post are using an essentially wrong definition of N in the Drake Equation. N is defined as the number of communicating civilizations, not the number of civilizations that we can communicate with.
To see how this is different, you can use the probability estimate in the Birthday Paradox. Just substitute communicating civilizations for people sharing the same birthday. You will find that the probability of N communicating civilizations will always be higher than the probability of us being able to communicate with them.
I have always wondered why the Drake Equation was not stated as an inequality i.e. the left hand side could always be less than or equal but never greater than the right hand side. Consider for instance the possibility that some civilisation X has heard civilisation Y but simply never bothered to reply...
Given enough processing power and enough time, any key can be cracked.
Except for OTP (one-time pad) encryption, which has been proven impossible to crack when implemented and used correctly.
Better beware, for soon they will be selling you SHA-1 Crack Chips instead of SHArk Fin Soup.
Nah, cat will just dump core and move on...
...getting your fingers trimmed by a propeller.
He did mention going for a jet, so no props. As for the "catching" part, just use a large catchnet like those used for catching butterflies, possibly with a reinforced net so it stays open. Hold it outside the car, have the plane zero in on it, kill the engine and have the plane fly in like a slam dunk.
Easy as pie (or should I say SDI?...).
Just as a reference point, at 9:50 AM (EST) it was up to 32,687.
I hope the counter doesn't use a signed 16 bit integer. Just imagine the counter wrapping to -32768... The horror!
Moreover once your fingerprint is compromised it is difficult to change. Doh!!!
Well, technically, an average person would have 9 changes left.
Yep, linked site now thoroughly Slashdotted.
When will someone finally invent self (load-)balancing Web servers?
I wonder if you could do with less than two per site...