Interesting logic. You don't pay for downloaded media or software, either?
Actually, I don't think I ever have. I only get Free (as in speech) software, free (as in beer) software, Free media, and free media (as in YouTube or what I get with my TV tuner card.)
It looks like there are almost exactly 11 football field lengths in a kilometer. So that's an 11-football-field-length-deep, 33-football-field-length-long trench, with walls separated by roughly the average length of a rushing play. (Or 1/3 of a first down.)
From TFA, it's looked at as a binary problem. IMHO, it should be looked at as an optimization problem.
1. Take each skill required for a job, and assign a dollar value to the training. 2. Get all applicants to honestly answer which things they have or haven't been trained in. 3. Select the 10 or 20 applicants whose training requirements cost the least to be interviewed. 4. Profit!
Besides, even if they do put things into orbit, they will only be able to put very small things into orbit. The concept of dropping a rocket from a plane doesn't scale well. SpaceX is making things to go to space and stay there. Scaled Composites is making interesting airplanes, with one that can go to space briefly.
You say you can learn the syntax and basics of a language in a weekend. You're probably right. What you can't learn in a weekend is the standard API that comes with each language, defining all the standard objects and methods you'll want to use. That's probably the biggest change in the last 10 years. What you want to look for in a language is one that makes it easy to do stuff. What you want to look for in an API is good, usable documentation.
Javascript, for one, is a pretty bad language with hardly any standard API (aside from the browser's DOM). Fortunately, there are free add-ons, like jQuery, that add both language features and an API.
Java was one of the first languages with a large standard API. It has nice documentation, but the language is barely better than C/C++. An ecosystem has developed around Java bytecode, however: languages like JRuby and JPython can run like Java and interface with Java code. There's also "groovy", a "modern" language built entirely around Java bytecode.
The major competing bytecode standard is.NET, from Microsoft. They offer free-with-certain-restrictions.NET compilers for C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, and more. All of them can use the.NET API which is documented on the MSDN site. I never found the documentation quite as nice as Java's; but it's usable. Again, other languages have been made to run.NET bytecode: IronRuby and IronPython.
Python and Ruby outside the bytecode versions have their own APIs. If you liked Perl and like object-oriented programming you'll love Ruby.
Finally, if you find you can't stand all this object-oriented programming, try PHP. It's used widely for making dynamic web sites, and has a nice, large API with documentation; but it rarely uses user-defined objects.
After switching all my lights to LED bulbs, its a bit cold in my office. A new, hotter CPU could be just what I need.
You're confusing temperature and heat. A candle burns hotter than a person, but a person puts out more heat (100W) than a candle (80W). Likewise, Ivy Bridge puts out less heat than Sandy Bridge, even though it's hotter.
We also have to pay money for the "right" to eat, and not go hungry, to heat and light our homes - even to own the property a home is on. I expect we'll have to pay for internet service too.
Although, if food was so available that we didn't have to pay for it, that would solve a lot of problems.
What if somebody else hacks your car? E.g. so that it won't drive slower than 80MPH, and if you try the batteries explode? Yeah, that particular scenario is probably impossible, but the point is that the electric car version of cutting the brake lines or making the throttle sticky, though harder to do, could also be harder to detect, and harder to stop.
I have no problem with an NDA in this case. But at college I had one kid ask me to promise to work with him on his idea, before he'd tell me what it was! I said no. I still have no idea what it was, but it was probably stupid.
Recall that more recent missions have analyzed the soil of Mars, and have found "interesting" chemicals like perchlorates. Chemicals which might mimic the signature of life in this experiment. We need to run a test, on Earth, using the best lifeless analogue to Martian soil we can come up with, including perchlorates, and see if the results match.
TFS isn't tied up well because it's missing a "not".
"Second-degree murder is typically brought in cases when there is a fight or other confrontation that results in death and but does not involve a premeditated plan to kill."
If you must hype your product, at least be honest enough to let people know you're an employee.
This isn't just a good idea. It's the law!
The revised Guides specify that while decisions will be reached on a case-by-case basis, the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service.
Most of the current crop of non-plugin hybrids have battery packs that are too big. All you really need for a mild hybrid is an alternator/starter combination motor, a small battery pack, an engine that can shut off the gas to its cylinders while running (preferably a few at a time) and the electronics to control it all. This really shouldn't cost very much at all above a non-hybrid version, but should help with occasional acceleration and city driving.
I recall one luxury car company actually did this - don't remember which one - and I think they got a small but respectable MPG increase. But I haven't heard of anything like this recently. I have heard, around here on Slashdot, that government tax breaks may be related to battery pack size, which if true might explain that.
I realize this is mainly intended as an april fool's joke, but I notice the quest maps load much faster than normal maps. It would be nice if Google kept around some kind of low-bandwidth version of their maps like this, for people on slow connections and throttled cell phones.
drive=/backup/drive bpaths=/some/paths/to/backup for d in $bpaths ; do
dout=`echo $d|sed -e "s/^.*\///"`
echo Backing up $d as $dout
ionice -c3 rm -f "$drive/bkup/$dout.*z"
ionice -c3 tar -c "$d" | gzip -c | ionice -c3 openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -out "$drive/bkup/$dout.tgz.aes" -pass pass:"WouldntYouLikeToKnow" done
I then copy the data to my USB drive on my keychain if it's plugged in. (Hence the encryption.) I also have a scheduled task on my laptop to copy the data from my desktop the next day.
Here's a random video of cheetahs running. Notice how the cheetah extends it spine when pushing off with its back legs, and contracts it when landing on its front legs? It seems like this would be a simple improvement for a robot "spine", which doesn't have a spinal cord in it: Just add a piston in the middle to expand and contract.
I tried this. However, being a Luddite, I prefer to hang on to my old, unsupported version of Ubuntu (9.04, Jaunty Jackalope). Chrome now says that my operating system is not supported anymore, and refuses to auto-update.
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Interesting logic. You don't pay for downloaded media or software, either?
Actually, I don't think I ever have. I only get Free (as in speech) software, free (as in beer) software, Free media, and free media (as in YouTube or what I get with my TV tuner card.)
But, then, I don't have any Apple devices.
It looks like there are almost exactly 11 football field lengths in a kilometer. So that's an 11-football-field-length-deep, 33-football-field-length-long trench, with walls separated by roughly the average length of a rushing play. (Or 1/3 of a first down.)
It's clearly a surface boat. From TFA:
It “flies” through the water more or less the way it was designed to—like a high-tech torpedo, except part of the craft is above water...
From TFA, it's looked at as a binary problem. IMHO, it should be looked at as an optimization problem.
1. Take each skill required for a job, and assign a dollar value to the training.
2. Get all applicants to honestly answer which things they have or haven't been trained in.
3. Select the 10 or 20 applicants whose training requirements cost the least to be interviewed.
4. Profit!
Besides, even if they do put things into orbit, they will only be able to put very small things into orbit. The concept of dropping a rocket from a plane doesn't scale well. SpaceX is making things to go to space and stay there. Scaled Composites is making interesting airplanes, with one that can go to space briefly.
Actually, it looks like a company called Stratolaunch Systems appears to be working with both SpaceX (for a vehicle called Falcon 9 Air) and with Scaled Composites (for the carrier aircraft.) "And once it is established as a reliable system, a human-rated version will also be explored."
Well, TinEye can find pictures on the internet that match ones you upload.
Imagine a hybrid diesel-like OPOC engine!
You say you can learn the syntax and basics of a language in a weekend. You're probably right. What you can't learn in a weekend is the standard API that comes with each language, defining all the standard objects and methods you'll want to use. That's probably the biggest change in the last 10 years. What you want to look for in a language is one that makes it easy to do stuff. What you want to look for in an API is good, usable documentation.
Javascript, for one, is a pretty bad language with hardly any standard API (aside from the browser's DOM). Fortunately, there are free add-ons, like jQuery, that add both language features and an API.
Java was one of the first languages with a large standard API. It has nice documentation, but the language is barely better than C/C++. An ecosystem has developed around Java bytecode, however: languages like JRuby and JPython can run like Java and interface with Java code. There's also "groovy", a "modern" language built entirely around Java bytecode.
The major competing bytecode standard is .NET, from Microsoft. They offer free-with-certain-restrictions .NET compilers for C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, and more. All of them can use the .NET API which is documented on the MSDN site. I never found the documentation quite as nice as Java's; but it's usable. Again, other languages have been made to run .NET bytecode: IronRuby and IronPython.
Python and Ruby outside the bytecode versions have their own APIs. If you liked Perl and like object-oriented programming you'll love Ruby.
Finally, if you find you can't stand all this object-oriented programming, try PHP. It's used widely for making dynamic web sites, and has a nice, large API with documentation; but it rarely uses user-defined objects.
(In heat production) I stand between the candle and the star.
After switching all my lights to LED bulbs, its a bit cold in my office. A new, hotter CPU could be just what I need.
You're confusing temperature and heat. A candle burns hotter than a person, but a person puts out more heat (100W) than a candle (80W). Likewise, Ivy Bridge puts out less heat than Sandy Bridge, even though it's hotter.
We also have to pay money for the "right" to eat, and not go hungry, to heat and light our homes - even to own the property a home is on. I expect we'll have to pay for internet service too.
Although, if food was so available that we didn't have to pay for it, that would solve a lot of problems.
What if somebody else hacks your car? E.g. so that it won't drive slower than 80MPH, and if you try the batteries explode? Yeah, that particular scenario is probably impossible, but the point is that the electric car version of cutting the brake lines or making the throttle sticky, though harder to do, could also be harder to detect, and harder to stop.
I have no problem with an NDA in this case. But at college I had one kid ask me to promise to work with him on his idea, before he'd tell me what it was! I said no. I still have no idea what it was, but it was probably stupid.
Recall that more recent missions have analyzed the soil of Mars, and have found "interesting" chemicals like perchlorates. Chemicals which might mimic the signature of life in this experiment. We need to run a test, on Earth, using the best lifeless analogue to Martian soil we can come up with, including perchlorates, and see if the results match.
I'm surprised nobody's linked to Why's stuff yet. (Since it's a free online book and all.)
TFS isn't tied up well because it's missing a "not".
"Second-degree murder is typically brought in cases when there is a fight or other confrontation that results in death and but does not involve a premeditated plan to kill."
If you must hype your product, at least be honest enough to let people know you're an employee.
This isn't just a good idea. It's the law!
The revised Guides specify that while decisions will be reached on a case-by-case basis, the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service.
Imagine a spinning copper-graphene heat sink!
Most of the current crop of non-plugin hybrids have battery packs that are too big. All you really need for a mild hybrid is an alternator/starter combination motor, a small battery pack, an engine that can shut off the gas to its cylinders while running (preferably a few at a time) and the electronics to control it all. This really shouldn't cost very much at all above a non-hybrid version, but should help with occasional acceleration and city driving.
I recall one luxury car company actually did this - don't remember which one - and I think they got a small but respectable MPG increase. But I haven't heard of anything like this recently. I have heard, around here on Slashdot, that government tax breaks may be related to battery pack size, which if true might explain that.
Embrace? Check.
Extend? Check.
Extinguish? This part seems to be Stallmanned.
I realize this is mainly intended as an april fool's joke, but I notice the quest maps load much faster than normal maps. It would be nice if Google kept around some kind of low-bandwidth version of their maps like this, for people on slow connections and throttled cell phones.
I just noticed I needed quotes around the bpaths variable assignment. Furthermore, my backup script has been broken since January!
Thanks, Slashdot, for making my look at my script!
I basically use this shell script once a week:
drive=/backup/drive
bpaths=/some/paths
for d in $bpaths ; do
dout=`echo $d|sed -e "s/^.*\///"`
echo Backing up $d as $dout
ionice -c3 rm -f "$drive/bkup/$dout.*z"
ionice -c3 tar -c "$d" | gzip -c | ionice -c3 openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -out "$drive/bkup/$dout.tgz.aes" -pass pass:"WouldntYouLikeToKnow"
done
I then copy the data to my USB drive on my keychain if it's plugged in. (Hence the encryption.) I also have a scheduled task on my laptop to copy the data from my desktop the next day.
Here's a random video of cheetahs running. Notice how the cheetah extends it spine when pushing off with its back legs, and contracts it when landing on its front legs? It seems like this would be a simple improvement for a robot "spine", which doesn't have a spinal cord in it: Just add a piston in the middle to expand and contract.
I tried this. However, being a Luddite, I prefer to hang on to my old, unsupported version of Ubuntu (9.04, Jaunty Jackalope). Chrome now says that my operating system is not supported anymore, and refuses to auto-update.