Have you ever been involved in a large project? It's not just the government, its an issue of scale.
It's hardly even that. Ever had a contractor finish working on your house on time? Big projects, small projects, government projects, private projects, they all usually run late.
I assume it's because when someone comes up with the original schedule, they never include a bunch of time labeled, "This is for all the shit that will go wrong unexpectedly."
That provides order, and order = no entropy = no randomness.
In general, you want to be sampling the lowest bit or two of the audio signal, which should be at the level of amplifier noise in the sound hardware. The actual sounds of the room will be irrelevant if the scheme is properly implemented.
Similarly, CCDs will have at least a few electrons of read noise, so the least-significant bit will be pure amplifier noise, independent of how much light is falling on the pixel.
As a port maintainer and committer, I can confirm what you say. The recorded md5 signatures are for the distributed source archive (e.g. from ftp.gnu.org, or Sourceforge, or whatever). They are there to ensure that the source has not been tampered with.
BSD-specific patches are then applied to the downloaded source, but have no implications for the md5 signature that's on file.
Yes, things like this have happened before. A few weeks ago, it was widely reported that the RIAA complained to the Penn State astronomy department about what they thought were mp3's of young, black R&B star Usher.
In fact, they were mp3's of original a capella music about astronomy. On the same web page, there were references to Prof. Emeritus Peter Usher, an elderly, white, generally unhip astronomer whose recent contributions to the field include an analysis of the astronomical context of Hamlet.
The good folks of the department were kind enough to issue widely-distributed press releases mocking the RIAA, who later apologized for the error.
Low signal/noise ratio - Apple don't have (in my limited searching) specs for SNR for the iPod listed anywhere, so I can't compare, but from what I hear, the ZenNX has it there.
Uh, a low signal-to-noise ratio is considered an advantage these days?
Numerous women also were evidently among Amazing Internet's customers
That reminds me. A couple of years ago, I was wondering how easy it was to get prescription drugs on the Internet without seeing a doctor. I went to a web site that sold birth control pills.
To get the pills, I had to fill out a questionnaire with my medical history.
No, there was no possibility that I was pregnant.
No, I had no history of reproductive illness.
No, I am not a smoker.
Yes, I understand that the pill does not prevent the transmission of STDs.
And so forth.
I submitted my answers, and it proudly announced that I met their criteria and could go on the pill. They were all set to send them to me. I didn't go through with it, though, because of one little thing they didn't bother to ask about... I'm male.
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The signer may, however, be able to adapt to the limitations of the device, just as I simplify my English when speaking to someone who does not understand the language well.
So, let me get this straight: There is cracking info on the web. And Google can be used to search the web.
So, let me get this straight: You didn't read the article. It's not about using google to find pages that talk about cracking, it's about using google to find sensitive information that shouldn't be on the web, but is (presumably by accident).
When it comes to grammar and spelling, there really shouldn't be any points of view.
I'll offer a third point of view. It was an error of diction.
``Diction is a general term applicable alike to a single sentence or a connected composition. Errors in grammar, false construction, a confused disposition of words, or an improper application of them, constitute bad diction; but the niceties, the elegancies, the peculiarities, and the beauties of composition, which mark the genius and talent of the writer, are what is comprehended under the name of style.'' --Crabb.
I think you just need an ordinary chroot, and there's no need for separate NTP daemons. In each chroot, you have a separate/var/cron/tabs to store the crontabs for that TZ, and a separate/etc/localtime to specify the TZ. Then you run a cron in each chroot.
This approach assumes that the tasks you want to perform are practical inside a chroot or jail.
could anyone explain to me how the above post could possibly be considered "offtopic"?
Sure. The topic is a single box that serves users in many timezones. The offtopic suggestion assumed that there was a separate box in each timezone, so that the boxes' clocks could each be set to local time.
My guess would be the credit card swipe machines used in bars, restaurants, convenience stores, gas stations, hardware stores, movie theatres, tourist traps,...[thousands of examples snipped]... and of course, miniature golf courses.
But I don't live in a convenience store, gas station, or any of those other places. How to people with credit cards use TRON in their home? That was his question.
I agree about the NSX not having much widespread influence, and would say the same about the A8 (since it's a $70k car). That the NSX still costs as much as it does, with so little improvement since its debut, is a shame. It should sell for $70k or less as well these days.
But the aluminum A2 is an interesting development, and hopefully will lead to more widespread use of aluminum. I see from your link that Honda use an aluminum unibody on the Insight, which is still fairly low production and has high manufacturing costs, but is at least an improvement over the NSX in that regard.
My car's got an aluminum roof, but it didn't make the list...
No, What it *Should* be is that there all cars are identical and provided by the race authorities which are assigned to the drivers at random on race day.
No. That's how you would run a racing formula that's designed as a driver-vs-driver competition. Formula 1 is the pinnacle of automotive technology; it's as much an engineering competition as a driving competition. That's not a flaw, but rather (to a great degree) its purpose, and one that should appeal to geeks! Within the formula (which specifies engine displacement, general form of the chassis, fuel, etc.), who can build the fastest car?
There are other racing formulae that require more nearly identical cars, and that's great. There should be pure driver-vs-driver competition in motorsport. But there should also be engineer-vs-engineer competition as well, and this is what Formula 1 provides (albeit imperfectly).
While some of your criticisms have merit (such as superimposing the image on a separate starfield), some are off base.
The image is created through "observations" from Hubble, the important part being the fact that they use plural form. So the colour portion of the pic is a composite from two or more pictures. The colours are so vibrant you have to assume they're retouched,
No professional telescope uses color detectors. They use monochromatic CCDs behind various filters. These filters are chosen for scientific purposes and are not designed with human color response in mind. They may even be narrowband filters that only pass a single emission line, e.g. from hydrogen. Thus, any color image you see from a professional observatory will be combined from multiple exposures, and will be subject to artistic interpretation. Trying to mimic "what it would really look like" is, to a great extent, a lost cause; most things you look at through a telescope appear pretty washed out, but part of that is that the image is faint, and we're using our color-insensitive rods to see. And the filter set used may not be amenable to recreating human visual response. And the interesting detail may be in the infrared, or the near ultraviolet, which we cannot see. Or the detail may be in emission lines; where the emission from hydrogen is vs. the emission from oxygen.
People need to understand that HST isn't a big Canon digital camera. There is a lot of work involved in "reducing" astronomical data into a usable form, whether for science or PR. It makes no sense to use terms like "retouched." Raw data, as read out directly from the camera, is pretty much useless for any purpose. If I have an imaging run of a couple of nights at Palomar, for example, it generally takes at least two weeks (of long days) to get that data into a scientifically useful shape, at which point we use it to select objects for further spectroscopic study. After obtaining spectra, it takes more weeks to get the spectra into useful shape. Then we can start the long process of measuring scientifically useful things and learn something.
In addition many of the stars have lens flares which would destroy any scientific value they had which means the lens flares were Photoshopped in afterward!
I think you're referring to the cross-shaped diffraction spikes around stars, not lens flares. These are real. They are caused by the diffraction of light from the stars by the cross-shaped secondary mirror supports.
Don't worry about "destroying any scientific value." Telescope time is precious, whether on HST or any top observatory on the ground. You get diffraction spikes around bright objects (at least "bright" by the standards of the telescope). There's no way that the bright, spikey stars were the scientific target of that image. There's no way you would waste telescope time by exposing so long that your science object saturates or is surrounded by big diffraction spikes.
Technically you need a radio license with similar expensive fees to run most of the newer model "two-way radios" (read: Walkie Talkies) here in the US.
I wouldn't call 15 bucks a year expensive. In any case, the radios are combined FRS/GMRS; if you stick to the FRS channels, you don't need a license.
Gee, you're right. I bet it never occured to the NASA guys to coordinate with the missle guys. They just walked right into the missile range, launched the plane, and never gave it a second thought.
BSD/OS is not a version of FreeBSD. Both of them are BSD-derived operating systems. They have a common ancestor, but neither was derived from the other.
It's probably jargon (from the retail field). On shopping mall directories, the big anchors are usually labeled "Department Stores" while the other 100 stores are labeled "Specialty Stores."
The term probably means that the store specializes in music, not that the music they sell is special.
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I assume it's because when someone comes up with the original schedule, they never include a bunch of time labeled, "This is for all the shit that will go wrong unexpectedly."
Similarly, CCDs will have at least a few electrons of read noise, so the least-significant bit will be pure amplifier noise, independent of how much light is falling on the pixel.
BSD-specific patches are then applied to the downloaded source, but have no implications for the md5 signature that's on file.
In fact, they were mp3's of original a capella music about astronomy. On the same web page, there were references to Prof. Emeritus Peter Usher, an elderly, white, generally unhip astronomer whose recent contributions to the field include an analysis of the astronomical context of Hamlet .
The good folks of the department were kind enough to issue widely-distributed press releases mocking the RIAA, who later apologized for the error.
To get the pills, I had to fill out a questionnaire with my medical history.
No, there was no possibility that I was pregnant.
No, I had no history of reproductive illness.
No, I am not a smoker.
Yes, I understand that the pill does not prevent the transmission of STDs.
And so forth.
I submitted my answers, and it proudly announced that I met their criteria and could go on the pill. They were all set to send them to me. I didn't go through with it, though, because of one little thing they didn't bother to ask about... I'm male.
The signer may, however, be able to adapt to the limitations of the device, just as I simplify my English when speaking to someone who does not understand the language well.
Now somebody just has to implement IP over Morse, and we come full circle. I expect the RFC to come out sometime in April.
This approach assumes that the tasks you want to perform are practical inside a chroot or jail.
1) What's this got to do with ImageMagick?
2) How do you cat something to "stdio"?
But the aluminum A2 is an interesting development, and hopefully will lead to more widespread use of aluminum. I see from your link that Honda use an aluminum unibody on the Insight, which is still fairly low production and has high manufacturing costs, but is at least an improvement over the NSX in that regard.
My car's got an aluminum roof, but it didn't make the list...
There are other racing formulae that require more nearly identical cars, and that's great. There should be pure driver-vs-driver competition in motorsport. But there should also be engineer-vs-engineer competition as well, and this is what Formula 1 provides (albeit imperfectly).
People need to understand that HST isn't a big Canon digital camera. There is a lot of work involved in "reducing" astronomical data into a usable form, whether for science or PR. It makes no sense to use terms like "retouched." Raw data, as read out directly from the camera, is pretty much useless for any purpose. If I have an imaging run of a couple of nights at Palomar, for example, it generally takes at least two weeks (of long days) to get that data into a scientifically useful shape, at which point we use it to select objects for further spectroscopic study. After obtaining spectra, it takes more weeks to get the spectra into useful shape. Then we can start the long process of measuring scientifically useful things and learn something.
I think you're referring to the cross-shaped diffraction spikes around stars, not lens flares. These are real. They are caused by the diffraction of light from the stars by the cross-shaped secondary mirror supports.Don't worry about "destroying any scientific value." Telescope time is precious, whether on HST or any top observatory on the ground. You get diffraction spikes around bright objects (at least "bright" by the standards of the telescope). There's no way that the bright, spikey stars were the scientific target of that image. There's no way you would waste telescope time by exposing so long that your science object saturates or is surrounded by big diffraction spikes.
Gee, you're right. I bet it never occured to the NASA guys to coordinate with the missle guys. They just walked right into the missile range, launched the plane, and never gave it a second thought.
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The term probably means that the store specializes in music, not that the music they sell is special.