A better idea, perhaps, would be a massive cascade of these things, angle slightly downwards, so that rain would hit, drip off, fall for about a second, hit another, drip off, etc. That distance is about 9/19.6=.45m. So for approximately each additional half meter, you are gaining another unit area.
Problem: not all of the GPE will get converted to kinetic. A raindrop is pretty small so it will, I think, have a low terminal velocity. Hence after a relatively speaking short distance, it will lose GPE to friction rather than increasing its speed.
Good point, but if you're getting significant amounts of negative feedback, plus didn't-send-item reports, then, as long as the system works properly, you should still get hauled up. 60 days is probably far too long though.
The ratio of the circumference to the diameter? Pfft. A real mathematician would surely tell you that pi is four times the infinite sum 1/1-1/3+1/5-...+(-1)^n/(2n+1)
Numerology wins you no points. If you translate "No God" by a=1, b=2 etc then you get the string of numbers 14157154, which is actually found in pi at the about the 142 thousandth digit. What does this mean? Nothing.
How is it dishonest to incorporate and integrate a new technology into the distro? It's just the same as using ALSA, or Jack, or whatever. Someone else developed it, Ubuntu incorporates it.
It should be pretty difficult to read an RFID passport from any distance away, since it includes a thin faraday-cage anyway. Some black-hat researches showed it was possible to read from a couple of feet away if it was opened a bit, so it's only if you take it out that it's really a risk.
As my high school deputy-head said at the time, "Here in England, we just get a big black crayon and mark a big black X," with a neanderthalic demonstration. Keep it simple, stupid!
I don't see how this is offtopic to be honest. The problem is that huge lines of text aren't practical to read - after some experimentally verifiable length, it's too far for your eye to follow down back to the start of the next line. That's why I didn't bother buying a widescreen monitor - mostly I'm reading or writing, with some gaming and TV watching. For reading, the vertical pixels are much more useful, since they let you see more on the screen at a time. Perhaps if we begun to see webbrowsers which displayed two consecutive pages side-by-side then we'd be on to something, but 1440 pixels divided into two page widths is a measly 720 pixels each, minus borders and scroll bars. Even a midrange 1600 pixel widescreen sets you back to the days of 800x600.
No, it has a 0.02ms "refresh rate" which doesn't even make sense because a "ms" is a unit of time not of rate. You'd think "nerds" would at least know their units.
Facebook, at least in the UK, is practically a must-have for a university student, since so much is organised through it. If the situation is similar in the US, I guess there'll be lots of university-age voters on facebook, maybe other networks as well. That said they're probably also thoroughly disillusioned.
What if I told you that there is a 25% chance of getting pounded (unwilling) in the ass? I'll bet dollars to a dough nut that you'll think 'don't ass fuck me', and maybe even say it when presented unexpectedly with an event associated with it.
If you associate opening a door with being raped then that's not the fault of the door-opener. The wallet example is a good one. If you pick up someone's wallet (or other important/valuable item) and hand it to them, you would surely be justifiably offended if they yelled 'Thief!' snatched it from your hands and ran away. You would be even more offended if they incorporated some prejudiced slur into their justification for calling you a thief - be it a reference to your gender, race or something else. Whatever experiences that person has had, they are still a jerk, or at least perhaps paranoid to the point of illness, if they associate a helpful action with malicious intent.
Personally I prefer Spivak pronouns. However, I still agree with the gist of the GP - using 'he' to refer a person of unknown gender is an acceptable use of the word in English. Making an issue out of it is petty and confers some of that pettiness by association to any other ideals you might put under the same banner.
If anyone actually went to the patent (I know, I know, I must be new here...) they would find that the patent itself has several claims that are clearly patenting an implementation of a keyboard like the Optimus - something which is, as far as I know, explicitly what a patent is allowed to do. For example, the patent has claims related to displaying large images across several keys, relating to the way in which data is transferred from computer to keyboard and manufacturing the keys.
Now, it may still be that the Optimus is prior art, or that the patent is obvious when you look at the Optimus, but it's not nearly as clear cut as "Optimus is a similar keyboard, prior art, case closed."
That's the point - just as a web developer should write his web app to treat all input as potentially dangerous, the reader designer should write the reader's software treat the stuff it reads as potentially dangerous and falsified.
Well, if you're under threat of injury then "reasonable force" must obviously extend to means suitable for disabling your attacker. Those are likely to cause injury. And if your attacker is threatening death, then well, we'd rather have him dead than you, being a presumably law-abiding citizen, dead. The general idea of the law, though, is that you kick him until he's down, but then stop. (Or more likely, step on his bollocks if no-one's watching...)
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The difference is obvious - the second one is louder!
That buzzing sound in your ears is the alarms from millions of irony detectors, all over the world.
A better idea, perhaps, would be a massive cascade of these things, angle slightly downwards, so that rain would hit, drip off, fall for about a second, hit another, drip off, etc. That distance is about 9/19.6=.45m. So for approximately each additional half meter, you are gaining another unit area.
Problem: not all of the GPE will get converted to kinetic. A raindrop is pretty small so it will, I think, have a low terminal velocity. Hence after a relatively speaking short distance, it will lose GPE to friction rather than increasing its speed.
Good point, but if you're getting significant amounts of negative feedback, plus didn't-send-item reports, then, as long as the system works properly, you should still get hauled up. 60 days is probably far too long though.
The ratio of the circumference to the diameter? Pfft. A real mathematician would surely tell you that pi is four times the infinite sum 1/1-1/3+1/5-...+(-1)^n/(2n+1)
Numerology wins you no points. If you translate "No God" by a=1, b=2 etc then you get the string of numbers 14157154, which is actually found in pi at the about the 142 thousandth digit. What does this mean? Nothing.
How is it dishonest to incorporate and integrate a new technology into the distro? It's just the same as using ALSA, or Jack, or whatever. Someone else developed it, Ubuntu incorporates it.
However faster the laser burst is you'll be limited by how fast you can manipulate the laser and how wide the beam is.
It should be pretty difficult to read an RFID passport from any distance away, since it includes a thin faraday-cage anyway. Some black-hat researches showed it was possible to read from a couple of feet away if it was opened a bit, so it's only if you take it out that it's really a risk.
I'm sure a double Einstein ring should be called a Zweistein.
Yep, just remember it's entertainment - it's really not supposed to be taken seriously.
Hey, we had the language first; we get the flag! ;-)
As my high school deputy-head said at the time, "Here in England, we just get a big black crayon and mark a big black X," with a neanderthalic demonstration. Keep it simple, stupid!
I don't see how this is offtopic to be honest. The problem is that huge lines of text aren't practical to read - after some experimentally verifiable length, it's too far for your eye to follow down back to the start of the next line. That's why I didn't bother buying a widescreen monitor - mostly I'm reading or writing, with some gaming and TV watching. For reading, the vertical pixels are much more useful, since they let you see more on the screen at a time. Perhaps if we begun to see webbrowsers which displayed two consecutive pages side-by-side then we'd be on to something, but 1440 pixels divided into two page widths is a measly 720 pixels each, minus borders and scroll bars. Even a midrange 1600 pixel widescreen sets you back to the days of 800x600.
No, it has a 0.02ms "refresh rate" which doesn't even make sense because a "ms" is a unit of time not of rate. You'd think "nerds" would at least know their units.
Facebook, at least in the UK, is practically a must-have for a university student, since so much is organised through it. If the situation is similar in the US, I guess there'll be lots of university-age voters on facebook, maybe other networks as well. That said they're probably also thoroughly disillusioned.
If you associate opening a door with being raped then that's not the fault of the door-opener. The wallet example is a good one. If you pick up someone's wallet (or other important/valuable item) and hand it to them, you would surely be justifiably offended if they yelled 'Thief!' snatched it from your hands and ran away. You would be even more offended if they incorporated some prejudiced slur into their justification for calling you a thief - be it a reference to your gender, race or something else. Whatever experiences that person has had, they are still a jerk, or at least perhaps paranoid to the point of illness, if they associate a helpful action with malicious intent.
They have to be an expert in some field - sufficiently such that they can testify based on technical evidence.
Personally I prefer Spivak pronouns. However, I still agree with the gist of the GP - using 'he' to refer a person of unknown gender is an acceptable use of the word in English. Making an issue out of it is petty and confers some of that pettiness by association to any other ideals you might put under the same banner.
If anyone actually went to the patent (I know, I know, I must be new here...) they would find that the patent itself has several claims that are clearly patenting an implementation of a keyboard like the Optimus - something which is, as far as I know, explicitly what a patent is allowed to do. For example, the patent has claims related to displaying large images across several keys, relating to the way in which data is transferred from computer to keyboard and manufacturing the keys.
Now, it may still be that the Optimus is prior art, or that the patent is obvious when you look at the Optimus, but it's not nearly as clear cut as "Optimus is a similar keyboard, prior art, case closed."
A better one is resolving not to keep a new years resolution.
That's the point - just as a web developer should write his web app to treat all input as potentially dangerous, the reader designer should write the reader's software treat the stuff it reads as potentially dangerous and falsified.
Well, if you're under threat of injury then "reasonable force" must obviously extend to means suitable for disabling your attacker. Those are likely to cause injury. And if your attacker is threatening death, then well, we'd rather have him dead than you, being a presumably law-abiding citizen, dead. The general idea of the law, though, is that you kick him until he's down, but then stop. (Or more likely, step on his bollocks if no-one's watching...)
I use google text ads if I'm looking to buy something. I don't click on them otherwise, though.