I convinced one of my teachers to wear a mic and train my speech software, in exchange I gave him paper copies of all his lectures. Also, in the same class a few of my mates and I made a morse code buzzer where the key was in the toe of a shoe and the buzzer was a (heavily) modified pager on vibrate. The collision detection was by human brain, but it worked very very well. We showed our prof (no one in my group needed to cheat to ace the class anyway) and he though it was so creative that we all got a full grade's worth of bonus. Found out later that the prof had previously shown a proof of concept roulette cheater that worked in a similar principle. pick an arbitrary point on the rim of the wheel, and tap your left toe every time the ball went round and your right foot every time 0 went round the other way. computer could predict with ~60% accuracy whether the result would be red or black. -nB
If I could get my MS keyboard to mate with my IBM Model-M I would be very happy with the offspring (except the retarded one with mushy keys and a non-bent layout). -nB
I mostly agree with you, but two points of correction: 802.11b/g is 2.5GHz, most PCS cells are 2.2/2.3GHz. TDMA and the ilk phones are equally eavesdroppable as analog phones, except the need to include a DSP. Obviously a barrier to a wannabie "Private-Eye" but to a upper end signal geek this is approaching trivial. The data is encoded, but not encrypted. This is why police tactical radios employ scrambling and frequency hopping. -nB
I raise three major breeds of parrots*. I also have a pair of grays that are "special needs". Beckett (Congo Gray) plucks himself incessently and is perfectly healthy. I won't sell him, because of this. He is a charity case (and still very lovable, if funny looking). Sammy (Timna Gray) is "needy". If I found someone who was really good with birds and would give him the vast amounts of attention that he needs I would likely sell him, after he decided he liked them. -nB
Flash devices have a small microcontroller already embedded in them to control programming and erase voltages. It also is responsible for wear leveling (at least in NOR devices).
Flash is rated in erase cycles, not write cycles. Erase is the most damaging event to the tunnel oxide layer in the device, which is why they fail. Flash Cell stackup (same for NOR and NAND, the interconnection of cells determines what type of array it is):
G - gate (metal) ONO - Oxide/Nitride/Oxide layer FG - Floating Gate (Poly) tOx - Tunnel Oxide (very thin) Si - wafer (NPN/PNP wells) -nB
Nah. You vote for who you least want in office. Like golf, the lowest score wins. Make the bar to get on the ballet high enough to discourage lunatics (say 100K for a non-incumbent, 20K for past office holders of same level (state/federal/etc.), 10K for incumbents). -nB
I personally have a religion. What it is, is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
To the case of God and scientific proof/disproof of his existence: Obviously there are those who believe that God exists, there are those who believe he doesn't exist. (IMHO *both* are right BTW). Once the entire universe is explored (technically possible), if no life other than that found on (sourced from) Earth is found then that would be a pretty darn convincing argument that God does, in fact, exist. If, however, life is found elsewhere, especially if it is sentient and different from us**, then I would postulate that probability of God is as follows: 1/((number of planets with life) * (diversity of sentient life forms)), thus if the only sentient life form is human and life is only ever found on earth you have probability of god approaching or at 1/(1*1). If the universe is teaming with highly diverse life on many planets then you have 1/(10000*999) as an example.
Just my hypothesis. -nB
** Due to the statement in the Bible that we were created in God's own image, thus one would expect that if we encountered "humans" on another planet far away the diversity score would be a 1, whereas talking crabs ala Zoidberg may score an 8
I agree, that was one of the better reconciliations I've read. I too have a question for the GP: Inverse Lattice Space. Damn that makes my head hurt. -nB
And even then, Scotty often had little actual screen time. As beloved as he is, especially here at the dot, he was really a second-tier character. Heresy! Recant your wicked words less you be burnt at the^W^W^W obliterated with a veron-T disruptor.
At my job we ship literally tens to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment and product every year. We never pay for insurance, as we are our own risk pool. I've since "self insured" on all my e-bay sales. I offer insurance (5% of the final bid price) and if something goes wrong in shipping I pony up for the replacement. So far I'm ahead. -nB
Not everyone that catches the flu shows symptoms, nor do they miss work. Instead, they just infect those that they work with, True. In the case of a pandemic flu my employer has a policy in place that admittance to the workplace will be on a need-only basis. In other words, if you are HR, finance, marketing, engineering, etc. you don't come in. You work from home till the pandemic is passed. In my case I do machine maintenance and code development. I would work from home unless something was broken, then I would go in. -nB
My health care program (while it has its failings) covers psychiatric care. If you feel "not right" and ask for help you will be given a priority appointment for your first session and evaluation*. After that until your shrink (LCSW or psychiatrist, as appropriate to the help you need) determine you are good to go your care is covered. There is no limit on how long or the number of sessions. I'm sure the staff gets some pressure on long term patients, but the impression I got was push back by the care giver was accepted at nearly face value. Also covered without limit are group sessions, which can be immensely helpful, at least they were to me.
Ultimately I left that job (gee, I wonder why...) but the personal tools I gained from the experience where vastly helpful. My openness about needing help in the past has had some interesting results though; at my current job one of my co-workers came to me for help with a personal issue, because their impression was I'd "been there". The best advice I could give them was to get professional help, and that if they were concerned/afraid/uneasy/whatever I would hold their hand and go to the first session till dismissed by them or the shrink. Ended up attending nearly the entire first session as a silent witness, and was asked to return after they left. Shrink both chewed me out and thanked me at the same time. I should not have been there because of the whole doctor/patient privilege issue, but at the same time, they needed help and I got them in. -nB
*They seem to understand that in the case of psychological issues immediate intervention is not optional as the person asking for help may not do so very forcefully, but still be in dire straits, either of suicide, or "going postal".
Yes, they did. The normal way things are supposed to work is that all parties to the vote debate prior to voting. This allows various opinions to be heard and concerns addressed. In this case the whores were ex-parte to the debate then overran the vote nearly 2:1. -nB
depending on the era, a Y-MP comes to mind, as one example. For quite some time Tektronix scopes were controlled technology as the IF filters were the same as used on submarines. MerCad detectors are still controlled technology, even though they are at least 10 year old tech. I used to work with ASICs that handily were barred from export to *any* country.
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PERL image manipulation library.
ImageMagik would be another alternative perhaps?
-nB
GD and matlab for teh win!
I convinced one of my teachers to wear a mic and train my speech software, in exchange I gave him paper copies of all his lectures.
Also, in the same class a few of my mates and I made a morse code buzzer where the key was in the toe of a shoe and the buzzer was a (heavily) modified pager on vibrate. The collision detection was by human brain, but it worked very very well. We showed our prof (no one in my group needed to cheat to ace the class anyway) and he though it was so creative that we all got a full grade's worth of bonus.
Found out later that the prof had previously shown a proof of concept roulette cheater that worked in a similar principle. pick an arbitrary point on the rim of the wheel, and tap your left toe every time the ball went round and your right foot every time 0 went round the other way. computer could predict with ~60% accuracy whether the result would be red or black.
-nB
That was my single favorite segment of the movie.
All I could think was the phrase:
"I see someone has been drinking from the fountain of stupid again."
If I could get my MS keyboard to mate with my IBM Model-M I would be very happy with the offspring (except the retarded one with mushy keys and a non-bent layout).
-nB
I mostly agree with you, but two points of correction:
802.11b/g is 2.5GHz, most PCS cells are 2.2/2.3GHz.
TDMA and the ilk phones are equally eavesdroppable as analog phones, except the need to include a DSP. Obviously a barrier to a wannabie "Private-Eye" but to a upper end signal geek this is approaching trivial. The data is encoded, but not encrypted. This is why police tactical radios employ scrambling and frequency hopping.
-nB
You seem to have overlooked symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria in your list.
I raise three major breeds of parrots*. I also have a pair of grays that are "special needs". Beckett (Congo Gray) plucks himself incessently and is perfectly healthy. I won't sell him, because of this. He is a charity case (and still very lovable, if funny looking). Sammy (Timna Gray) is "needy". If I found someone who was really good with birds and would give him the vast amounts of attention that he needs I would likely sell him, after he decided he liked them.
-nB
* Macaws, Cockatoos, Lovebirds.
I'm using neolithic lead you insensitive clod :-)
Flash devices have a small microcontroller already embedded in them to control programming and erase voltages. It also is responsible for wear leveling (at least in NOR devices).
Flash Cell stackup (same for NOR and NAND, the interconnection of cells determines what type of array it is): G - gate (metal)
ONO - Oxide/Nitride/Oxide layer
FG - Floating Gate (Poly)
tOx - Tunnel Oxide (very thin)
Si - wafer (NPN/PNP wells) -nB
Oh so true.
It's the logic bombs that suck.
Nah.
You vote for who you least want in office. Like golf, the lowest score wins.
Make the bar to get on the ballet high enough to discourage lunatics (say 100K for a non-incumbent, 20K for past office holders of same level (state/federal/etc.), 10K for incumbents).
-nB
So it's a broken PLL then. A working PLL in beneficial as it can smooth a jittery clock or re-time the clock to a different frequency multiple.
I personally have a religion. What it is, is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
To the case of God and scientific proof/disproof of his existence:
Obviously there are those who believe that God exists, there are those who believe he doesn't exist. (IMHO *both* are right BTW).
Once the entire universe is explored (technically possible), if no life other than that found on (sourced from) Earth is found then that would be a pretty darn convincing argument that God does, in fact, exist. If, however, life is found elsewhere, especially if it is sentient and different from us**, then I would postulate that probability of God is as follows: 1/((number of planets with life) * (diversity of sentient life forms)), thus if the only sentient life form is human and life is only ever found on earth you have probability of god approaching or at 1/(1*1). If the universe is teaming with highly diverse life on many planets then you have 1/(10000*999) as an example.
Just my hypothesis.
-nB
** Due to the statement in the Bible that we were created in God's own image, thus one would expect that if we encountered "humans" on another planet far away the diversity score would be a 1, whereas talking crabs ala Zoidberg may score an 8
I agree, that was one of the better reconciliations I've read.
I too have a question for the GP: Inverse Lattice Space. Damn that makes my head hurt.
-nB
Recant your wicked words less you be burnt at the^W^W^W obliterated with a veron-T disruptor.
-nB
from holding my breath
At my job we ship literally tens to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment and product every year. We never pay for insurance, as we are our own risk pool. I've since "self insured" on all my e-bay sales. I offer insurance (5% of the final bid price) and if something goes wrong in shipping I pony up for the replacement. So far I'm ahead.
-nB
-nB
Amen
My health care program (while it has its failings) covers psychiatric care. If you feel "not right" and ask for help you will be given a priority appointment for your first session and evaluation*. After that until your shrink (LCSW or psychiatrist, as appropriate to the help you need) determine you are good to go your care is covered. There is no limit on how long or the number of sessions. I'm sure the staff gets some pressure on long term patients, but the impression I got was push back by the care giver was accepted at nearly face value.
Also covered without limit are group sessions, which can be immensely helpful, at least they were to me.
Ultimately I left that job (gee, I wonder why...) but the personal tools I gained from the experience where vastly helpful. My openness about needing help in the past has had some interesting results though; at my current job one of my co-workers came to me for help with a personal issue, because their impression was I'd "been there". The best advice I could give them was to get professional help, and that if they were concerned/afraid/uneasy/whatever I would hold their hand and go to the first session till dismissed by them or the shrink. Ended up attending nearly the entire first session as a silent witness, and was asked to return after they left. Shrink both chewed me out and thanked me at the same time. I should not have been there because of the whole doctor/patient privilege issue, but at the same time, they needed help and I got them in.
-nB
*They seem to understand that in the case of psychological issues immediate intervention is not optional as the person asking for help may not do so very forcefully, but still be in dire straits, either of suicide, or "going postal".
Yes, they did.
The normal way things are supposed to work is that all parties to the vote debate prior to voting. This allows various opinions to be heard and concerns addressed.
In this case the whores were ex-parte to the debate then overran the vote nearly 2:1.
-nB
+1 piss my pants funny.
I'll warn you though, I don't like my backdoor messed with.
depending on the era, a Y-MP comes to mind, as one example.
For quite some time Tektronix scopes were controlled technology as the IF filters were the same as used on submarines.
MerCad detectors are still controlled technology, even though they are at least 10 year old tech.
I used to work with ASICs that handily were barred from export to *any* country.
There's a few for you.
-nB