I've got it! Cover your roof with used, color-changing Coors Light cans! White roofs in the summer, blue in the winter, and recycling at the same time!
I once worked at a company where Internet access was strictly limited to legitimate business uses only. I heard they fired several people for just random browsing! But I could bring in my own laptop. I was also on dial-up for awhile after college.
Anyway, I couldn't go to the Internet all the time, but I could and did use wget to set up regular things to download to read while I was offline. Things like Slashdot, my favorite forums, my RSS feeds, etc. The biggest problem with this setup for me was that I could read stuff, but couldn't respond (like this) before someone else did. The biggest problem with this setup for you could be understanding how to script wget downloads.
TFA has an image of the Wikipedia edit. I found it, and they removed a link from a list of Plates-formes, whatever that is.
I don't know about the French Wikipedia, but on the English one, "Links to individual web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services...", as these appear to be, are "normally to be avoided". And in fact, the current article has only a list of internal links.
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Yes, but e^(i*Pi)+1=0 Overrules pretty much everything.
On the contrary, when you do e^(i*Pi)=-1, everything's upside down and backwards. Any point on the complex plane times e^(i*Pi) is rotated through a half-turn.
It's only when we do e^(i*Tau)=1 that everything comes full circle. I never really understood Euler's identity until I saw that.
I find this story very surprising. I have thousands of Wikipedia edits, and have had an edit with a valid link reverted only once. The reason was not that the link was invalid, but that linking to song lyrics is apparently "contributory copyright infringement".
90% of the time, if you provide a good reference (e.g. from an online news article), your edit can't be challenged, and if changed will be reverted to your version. 9% of the time a different, contrasting view may be added, with a different link; but your version should still be there as well.
The other reason it won't pass constitutional muster is the "limited Times" clause. Suppose I form a broadcaster to broadcast all out-of-copyright work, all the time. The company then gets broadcast license for 50 years, assuming the clearly illegal "in perpetuity" isn't enacted. Then, as that 50-year window ends, I (or my children) can create a new company that gets a new broadcast license as the old company's broadcast license falls away, ad nauseum.
Recall that the only reason the Supreme Court allowed copyright extensions in the past was because they were time-limited.
Based on "would rather spend my time editing my web site rather than code it", I agree with the parent's suggestion. Drupal comes to mind too.
If you want your site to look a little more original than what a CMS offers by itself, all you need to do is edit the CSS. To do that, I suggest Firefox, Stylish, and It's All Text to give you a nice editing environment (e.g. Vim). Put together, they let you change any or all of your CSS and see results with a single click (well, two clicks if you use It's All Text).
I've developed applications (for PrimeGrid.com) for both nVIDIA CUDA and AMD OpenCL. The thing about GPGPU is that you have to write very close to the hardware to get any reasonable speed increases. CUDA lets you do that. But OpenCL is practically CUDA running on AMD; not close to the hardware at all.
By all rights, my application should be faster on AMD cards. It's embarassingly parallel and has a fairly simple inner loop - albeit doing 64-bit math. If I could write it on AMD's close-to-metal language, Stream, I'm sure it would be. But while nVIDIA offered nice documentation and an emulator for CUDA, AMD didn't for Stream, and only recently did for OpenCL. nVIDIA's since removed their emulator, and since they (shrewdly) don't let one machine run both brands of cards together, I'm mainly aiming at CUDA now.
If AMD had come up with a C-like, close-to-metal language, with good documentation and preferably an emulator, they could have run circles around CUDA. Maybe they still can; but I doubt it.
Quick Test Pro really is a good product, but it's really expensive too. If you want a free (if not Free) alternative, look into AutoIt [autoitscript.com]. It has a SciTe editor that comes with it, which can help with setting up automation by recording. (Never use recording, on any GUI automation system, without at least looking over the script; but it gives you a nice baseline to work from.)
This is the biggest problem I have with the redesign. There's enough CSS in here that I can fix it with Stylish - and have to some degree. But now if I leave a Slashdot tab up, especially if I go work in another tab and forget it, it will still be eating a large chunk of my CPU.
You wanted inspiration; hopefully this inspires you. I presume these kids know how to program *something*. If not, this is going to be a painful experience anyway.
First of all, the shell (bash, let's say) is an immediate prompt for the bash programming language. If any of them have used Python, they'll know what you're talking about.
It would be nice to have a couple of things set up: Man pages on a website, and some.bashrc macros matching dos, like "dir".
Second, the shell has very easy access to the filesystem, with , >>, and cat. Let's summarize that you can read files with cat (file) or cat >> (file). cat (file) creates what I'll call a "list argument". Note that when "properly" used, "cat" is practically never necessary in bash, but it can make things clearer here.
Third, all commands are functions, but you only get one list argument input and one list argument output per command. And they're backwards from most programming languages. In Python you'd say print(sort(list)) or something, but in bash you say cat list | sort | cat (where the first cat reads the list and the second prints it.
Fourth, grep and cut. Treat any file like a database table. Grep is like the Where clause, and cut is like the Select clause.
Fifth, maybe functional programming for bash. You've already seen filter - it's called grep. Map is called "xargs". Sorry, there is no "reduce" that I know of.
It is lose not loose. Why is it that so many people mix up these words?
In this case, it might well be accurate. If I loose (let loose, free from restraints, or even release my grip on) my smartphone, just like if I did the same with my wallet, I might very well be "forked".
Hopefully, thieves won't start grabbing phones out of our hands, but it's possible!
While it's obvious that the Parent Child Test product isn't real, some or all of the others probably are!
First of all, you really can buy uranium ore. If nowhere else, you can go on ebay and get a revigator. Lots of countries can and do dig up uranium ore; but it takes a lot of processing to do anything nuclear-chain-reaction-related with it.
I'm pretty sure the rabbit is real, probably sent packed in ice or something. Rabbit meat is sold; I once ate rabbit bought at a local grocery store.
The only thing suspicious about the milk is its price. I'm sure milk can be easily bought online.
So some or all of these products are real products that have been the unfair butt of too many jokes.
This is why I'm skeptical of this result. Models are only as good as the assumptions put into them. And I've seen other data, some from experiments, suggesting that CO2 may not be as helpful to plant growth as this study assumes.
Plus, if we keep chopping down rainforests, this effect will hardly help at all!
These cards don't have nearly the computational ability I'd hoped for. Even the 5800 series is faster! Fermis are definitely faster for my applications, especially for 32-bit integer multiplication.
I'd like to see fuel efficiency defined as the total input energy consumed over a driving test. I would define fuel input energy as the heat released by burning the used amount of fuel, and electrical input energy as the heat released by running the amount of electricity used (by the charger, not the motor) through a resistance heater. I'd use a 20-mile city driving test for city, and a 200-mile highway driving test for highway. Then I'd display the results as energy/mile.
Newtons is force. Joules is energy. Although those bastard units, kWh, calories, and BTU, are also energy.
With my definitions, I'd prefer a unit of heat energy to one that looks like electrical energy. Joules kind of look like electrical energy to me (even though they're technically not just that). kWh are the standard of electrical energy, so that's out.
That leaves calories and BTU. calories have Calories (kilocalories), so that could be confusing, but BTU is British. Overall, I think if we could standardize on Calories per mile, that's the best solution. It would also let people see how much energy cars are using compared to themselves, e.g. if they bike or walk. Miles per burned-gallon-of-gasoline-Calorie-equivalent could still be displayed below the big numbers.
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I've got it! Cover your roof with used, color-changing Coors Light cans! White roofs in the summer, blue in the winter, and recycling at the same time!
I once worked at a company where Internet access was strictly limited to legitimate business uses only. I heard they fired several people for just random browsing! But I could bring in my own laptop. I was also on dial-up for awhile after college.
Anyway, I couldn't go to the Internet all the time, but I could and did use wget to set up regular things to download to read while I was offline. Things like Slashdot, my favorite forums, my RSS feeds, etc. The biggest problem with this setup for me was that I could read stuff, but couldn't respond (like this) before someone else did. The biggest problem with this setup for you could be understanding how to script wget downloads.
TFA has an image of the Wikipedia edit. I found it, and they removed a link from a list of Plates-formes, whatever that is.
I don't know about the French Wikipedia, but on the English one, "Links to individual web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services...", as these appear to be, are "normally to be avoided". And in fact, the current article has only a list of internal links.
Yes, but e^(i*Pi)+1=0
Overrules pretty much everything.
On the contrary, when you do e^(i*Pi)=-1, everything's upside down and backwards. Any point on the complex plane times e^(i*Pi) is rotated through a half-turn.
It's only when we do e^(i*Tau)=1 that everything comes full circle. I never really understood Euler's identity until I saw that.
I find this story very surprising. I have thousands of Wikipedia edits, and have had an edit with a valid link reverted only once. The reason was not that the link was invalid, but that linking to song lyrics is apparently "contributory copyright infringement".
90% of the time, if you provide a good reference (e.g. from an online news article), your edit can't be challenged, and if changed will be reverted to your version. 9% of the time a different, contrasting view may be added, with a different link; but your version should still be there as well.
The other reason it won't pass constitutional muster is the "limited Times" clause. Suppose I form a broadcaster to broadcast all out-of-copyright work, all the time. The company then gets broadcast license for 50 years, assuming the clearly illegal "in perpetuity" isn't enacted. Then, as that 50-year window ends, I (or my children) can create a new company that gets a new broadcast license as the old company's broadcast license falls away, ad nauseum.
Recall that the only reason the Supreme Court allowed copyright extensions in the past was because they were time-limited.
Based on "would rather spend my time editing my web site rather than code it", I agree with the parent's suggestion. Drupal comes to mind too.
If you want your site to look a little more original than what a CMS offers by itself, all you need to do is edit the CSS. To do that, I suggest Firefox, Stylish, and It's All Text to give you a nice editing environment (e.g. Vim). Put together, they let you change any or all of your CSS and see results with a single click (well, two clicks if you use It's All Text).
I've developed applications (for PrimeGrid.com) for both nVIDIA CUDA and AMD OpenCL. The thing about GPGPU is that you have to write very close to the hardware to get any reasonable speed increases. CUDA lets you do that. But OpenCL is practically CUDA running on AMD; not close to the hardware at all.
By all rights, my application should be faster on AMD cards. It's embarassingly parallel and has a fairly simple inner loop - albeit doing 64-bit math. If I could write it on AMD's close-to-metal language, Stream, I'm sure it would be. But while nVIDIA offered nice documentation and an emulator for CUDA, AMD didn't for Stream, and only recently did for OpenCL. nVIDIA's since removed their emulator, and since they (shrewdly) don't let one machine run both brands of cards together, I'm mainly aiming at CUDA now.
If AMD had come up with a C-like, close-to-metal language, with good documentation and preferably an emulator, they could have run circles around CUDA. Maybe they still can; but I doubt it.
Me too, and I notice two confusingly similar things:
While you can blame the same guy for both of them, I don't think they're otherwise related.
Bitsavers has mirrors.
Web
bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
computer-refuge.org/bitsavers
minus-zero.net
www.bighole.nl
University of Kent
textfiles.com
FTP
bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
University of Kent
You're being tortured, you just don't know it.
Actually, Sergey is a bit behind the times, linguistically. He should have said that Windows is conducting enhanced interrogations on users.
Obviously, he shouldn't say that, because that's what Google's doing! (With targeted ad sales and all.)
Quick Test Pro really is a good product, but it's really expensive too. If you want a free (if not Free) alternative, look into AutoIt [autoitscript.com]. It has a SciTe editor that comes with it, which can help with setting up automation by recording. (Never use recording, on any GUI automation system, without at least looking over the script; but it gives you a nice baseline to work from.)
I've long wanted to set up a router that's open, but by default sends all connections through TOR. One port would have SSH for my own tunneling.
Problem is I don't have the time, knowledge, or currently the equipment to set this up.
For much more detail and depth about these kinds of topics, see the free OSSTMM. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page.)
Turnspit dog wheels are no longer used, because the turnspit dog that was used to turn them is extinct.
This is the biggest problem I have with the redesign. There's enough CSS in here that I can fix it with Stylish - and have to some degree. But now if I leave a Slashdot tab up, especially if I go work in another tab and forget it, it will still be eating a large chunk of my CPU.
You wanted inspiration; hopefully this inspires you. I presume these kids know how to program *something*. If not, this is going to be a painful experience anyway.
First of all, the shell (bash, let's say) is an immediate prompt for the bash programming language. If any of them have used Python, they'll know what you're talking about.
It would be nice to have a couple of things set up: Man pages on a website, and some .bashrc macros matching dos, like "dir".
Second, the shell has very easy access to the filesystem, with , >>, and cat. Let's summarize that you can read files with cat (file) or cat >> (file). cat (file) creates what I'll call a "list argument". Note that when "properly" used, "cat" is practically never necessary in bash, but it can make things clearer here.
Third, all commands are functions, but you only get one list argument input and one list argument output per command. And they're backwards from most programming languages. In Python you'd say print(sort(list)) or something, but in bash you say cat list | sort | cat (where the first cat reads the list and the second prints it.
Fourth, grep and cut. Treat any file like a database table. Grep is like the Where clause, and cut is like the Select clause.
Fifth, maybe functional programming for bash. You've already seen filter - it's called grep. Map is called "xargs". Sorry, there is no "reduce" that I know of.
It is lose not loose. Why is it that so many people mix up these words?
In this case, it might well be accurate. If I loose (let loose, free from restraints, or even release my grip on) my smartphone, just like if I did the same with my wallet, I might very well be "forked".
Hopefully, thieves won't start grabbing phones out of our hands, but it's possible!
While it's obvious that the Parent Child Test product isn't real, some or all of the others probably are!
First of all, you really can buy uranium ore. If nowhere else, you can go on ebay and get a revigator. Lots of countries can and do dig up uranium ore; but it takes a lot of processing to do anything nuclear-chain-reaction-related with it.
I'm pretty sure the rabbit is real, probably sent packed in ice or something. Rabbit meat is sold; I once ate rabbit bought at a local grocery store.
The only thing suspicious about the milk is its price. I'm sure milk can be easily bought online.
So some or all of these products are real products that have been the unfair butt of too many jokes.
This is why I'm skeptical of this result. Models are only as good as the assumptions put into them. And I've seen other data, some from experiments, suggesting that CO2 may not be as helpful to plant growth as this study assumes.
Plus, if we keep chopping down rainforests, this effect will hardly help at all!
From TFA:
They typically feature a bell or alarm that alerts the driver if an object is within the camera's field of view.
..."luxury" train travel in the US appears to be something descended from Torquemada's collection of techniques.
Sorry, you lost me here. And there are too many Torquemadas for me to figure it out with Wikipedia.
These cards don't have nearly the computational ability I'd hoped for. Even the 5800 series is faster! Fermis are definitely faster for my applications, especially for 32-bit integer multiplication.
I'd like to see fuel efficiency defined as the total input energy consumed over a driving test. I would define fuel input energy as the heat released by burning the used amount of fuel, and electrical input energy as the heat released by running the amount of electricity used (by the charger, not the motor) through a resistance heater. I'd use a 20-mile city driving test for city, and a 200-mile highway driving test for highway. Then I'd display the results as energy/mile.
Newtons is force. Joules is energy. Although those bastard units, kWh, calories, and BTU, are also energy.
With my definitions, I'd prefer a unit of heat energy to one that looks like electrical energy. Joules kind of look like electrical energy to me (even though they're technically not just that). kWh are the standard of electrical energy, so that's out.
That leaves calories and BTU. calories have Calories (kilocalories), so that could be confusing, but BTU is British. Overall, I think if we could standardize on Calories per mile, that's the best solution. It would also let people see how much energy cars are using compared to themselves, e.g. if they bike or walk. Miles per burned-gallon-of-gasoline-Calorie-equivalent could still be displayed below the big numbers.
I heard that the African elephant population has tripled in the past six months.