As a matter of fact, Hawaii is scheduled to switch in exactly one week. That's five days before Obama is inaugurated, so he probably can't change that anyway!
I have two different converter boxes, a Zenith and an RCA, that I've hooked to two different VCRs. In every case, the picture looks much better with the digital converter. Pictures also seem to transfer better from VCR to VCR (i.e. less tracking needed when recorded at low speed).
Of course, the RCA was $50 at Wal-Mart and the Zenith was $60 at Radio Shack, before coupons, so maybe a $30 one is just too cheap?
Introduction to Algorithms was a textbook in one of my college classes. I never use it.
The book I always use instead is one I got before college, Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick. Sedgewick presents algorithms with straightforward English, diagrams, and code examples. It also manages to pack many more algorithms, including more advanced topics, into fewer, smaller pages than Intro to Algorithms. My edition has examples in Pascal, a language I never use; but it's still clearer than Intro to Algorithms. There are newer editions for C, C++, and Java.
I don't believe there is a single proof in Algorithms, which I think is good. When looking up an algorithm, I don't want to prove why it works; I just want to know how it works, and how to implement it.
By the way, do not confuse Algorithms with An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms by Sedgewick and Flajolet. Another of my college textbooks, this one has more proofs, not less!
OK, this is an off-the-wall idea, but hear me out...
The HP48 is a slightly old HP scientific, graphing calculator (more like a small computer). It so happens that you can download an emulator for it, and a ROM for said emulator legally, and for free. I believe its processor was 4MHz, so any computer being built today will have no trouble.
Now, why did I mention this in a question about games? Because there are hundreds of free games available for the calculator. Some of them might even be worth installing the emulator for. Not to mention the fact that the kids get a free scientific/graphing calculator program in the process.
You can mass-produce ICs. If you've found a way to mass-produce large parabolic or hyperbolic wavelength-accurate mirrors, well, you should definitely submit that one to Slashdot, OK?
Well, come to think of it, you probably could take a silicon wafer and etch it into a Fresnel mirror. Of course, this would be a very expensive mirror, and only about 12 inches in diameter maximum.
When a technical improvement becomes available, everyone is used to things the way they were before. When electricity was first commercially available, many people said they didn't want or need it. This doesn't mean that the people who said "you should get electricity so you can get a refrigerator" were wrong.
Researching around, it looks like electricity began around 1900-1910; but refrigerators weren't invented until 1915, and didn't become popular until 1930. So assuming people said what you quote, refrigerators were a killer app for electricity.
The problem with HDTV, at least for me, is that I don't see a killer app for it. What is so much better seen in HD than in SD that it's worth shelling out $500+ for a new TV?
And no one quite knows what it means to a generation of 2-year-olds to have slightly pixelated versions of their grandparents as regular fixtures in their lives.
Sure they do. It means their grandparents are getting Alzheimer's.
Pixelated: bewildered, confused; slightly insane; also called pixilated
It would probably help if you're in one of the following states, and can write to a senator who represents you: Alabama Arizona California Delaware Illinois Iowa Kansas Maryland Massachusetts New York Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Texas Utah Vermont Wisconsin
P.S. @theodicey Political correctness always looked painfully idiotic.
IANA Lawyer, but I think there still might be a case to be made against MediaSentry for entrapment. On the other hand, that seems to be a much more difficult case to make.
And the next problem is...what do you do when you get to the top? How do you move away from the elevator without pushing against it and causing all sorts of problems with keeping it balanced?
Rockets!
No, seriously! A rocket pushes only against its own reaction mass (its exhaust), so assuming that exhaust doesn't hit the elevator, it doesn't push against the elevator.
Unlike these ground-launched rocket jokes, it only takes a very tiny rocket to move away from the elevator. You move very slowly, but there's nothing to stop the movement.
during hurricanes as we are so prone to getting, we rely on our portable televisions to watch information about the storm when we lose power. ... what will we do?
Well, you can get a good (2.4GHz+) laptop, if you don't have one already; and then get one of these for less than $100.
I'm actually using this Hauppauge on a 1.5GHz Celeron M, and most of the time, it works at least OK, with a good antenna.
There are some channels that one can get on digital broadcast but not on analog cable, such as the PBS subchannels. The ATSC tuner box also costs much less ($20 after coupon) than the first three years of the upgrade from analog cable to digital cable ($359.64) or the upgrade from satellite TV without local networks to satellite TV with local networks.
As a matter of fact, the local PBS station here is not even broadcasting their analog programming on digital! Some of the same programs show up, but usually not at the same times. I'm hoping the analog channel becomes a subchannel at some point.
Actually, the number is being kept secret while verification is underway. If the number were revealed, and someone with a faster computer verified it first, they could claim to have discovered it first. This time, not only would they steal the credit, but $1,000,000 as well!
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As a matter of fact, Hawaii is scheduled to switch in exactly one week. That's five days before Obama is inaugurated, so he probably can't change that anyway!
I have two different converter boxes, a Zenith and an RCA, that I've hooked to two different VCRs. In every case, the picture looks much better with the digital converter. Pictures also seem to transfer better from VCR to VCR (i.e. less tracking needed when recorded at low speed).
Of course, the RCA was $50 at Wal-Mart and the Zenith was $60 at Radio Shack, before coupons, so maybe a $30 one is just too cheap?
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Now, just type that in every hour, and the eruption won't happen.
This would relate to the viruses section.
Introduction to Algorithms was a textbook in one of my college classes. I never use it.
The book I always use instead is one I got before college, Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick. Sedgewick presents algorithms with straightforward English, diagrams, and code examples. It also manages to pack many more algorithms, including more advanced topics, into fewer, smaller pages than Intro to Algorithms. My edition has examples in Pascal, a language I never use; but it's still clearer than Intro to Algorithms. There are newer editions for C, C++, and Java.
I don't believe there is a single proof in Algorithms, which I think is good. When looking up an algorithm, I don't want to prove why it works; I just want to know how it works, and how to implement it.
By the way, do not confuse Algorithms with An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms by Sedgewick and Flajolet. Another of my college textbooks, this one has more proofs, not less!
I heard the recession was costing us lots of Jobs, but this is ridiculous!
OK, this is an off-the-wall idea, but hear me out...
The HP48 is a slightly old HP scientific, graphing calculator (more like a small computer). It so happens that you can download an emulator for it, and a ROM for said emulator legally, and for free. I believe its processor was 4MHz, so any computer being built today will have no trouble.
Now, why did I mention this in a question about games? Because there are hundreds of free games available for the calculator. Some of them might even be worth installing the emulator for. Not to mention the fact that the kids get a free scientific/graphing calculator program in the process.
Are you posting from the past?
So that's what happens when you let your Slashdot subscription lapse!
You can mass-produce ICs. If you've found a way to mass-produce large parabolic or hyperbolic wavelength-accurate mirrors, well, you should definitely submit that one to Slashdot, OK?
Well, come to think of it, you probably could take a silicon wafer and etch it into a Fresnel mirror. Of course, this would be a very expensive mirror, and only about 12 inches in diameter maximum.
(Think map-reduce).
There's the rub. Thinking in terms of map-reduce is hard.
When a technical improvement becomes available, everyone is used to things the way they were before. When electricity was first commercially available, many people said they didn't want or need it. This doesn't mean that the people who said "you should get electricity so you can get a refrigerator" were wrong.
Researching around, it looks like electricity began around 1900-1910; but refrigerators weren't invented until 1915, and didn't become popular until 1930. So assuming people said what you quote, refrigerators were a killer app for electricity.
The problem with HDTV, at least for me, is that I don't see a killer app for it. What is so much better seen in HD than in SD that it's worth shelling out $500+ for a new TV?
And no one quite knows what it means to a generation of 2-year-olds to have slightly pixelated versions of their grandparents as regular fixtures in their lives.
Sure they do. It means their grandparents are getting Alzheimer's.
Pixelated: bewildered, confused; slightly insane; also called pixilated
Here's all the senators on the Judiciary Committee, which will hold hearings to confirm Holder: http://judiciary.senate.gov/about/members.cfm
It would probably help if you're in one of the following states, and can write to a senator who represents you:
Alabama
Arizona
California
Delaware
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Maryland
Massachusetts
New York
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Wisconsin
P.S. @theodicey Political correctness always looked painfully idiotic.
They'd better make real sure, before cloning from this DNA, that they don't get a smilodon instead!
How a federal body with an original mandate to regulate broadcast spectrum has any authority over IP law is another question.
I'm not sure about the FCC either; but the FTC has some authority over interstate commerce.
Clearly, today must be the Pastafarian version of All Hallow's Eve.
Now, where did I put that FSM mask?
Whatever happened to the naked singularities from a football theory?
IANA Lawyer, but I think there still might be a case to be made against MediaSentry for entrapment. On the other hand, that seems to be a much more difficult case to make.
And the next problem is...what do you do when you get to the top? How do you move away from the elevator without pushing against it and causing all sorts of problems with keeping it balanced?
Rockets!
No, seriously! A rocket pushes only against its own reaction mass (its exhaust), so assuming that exhaust doesn't hit the elevator, it doesn't push against the elevator.
Unlike these ground-launched rocket jokes, it only takes a very tiny rocket to move away from the elevator. You move very slowly, but there's nothing to stop the movement.
Seems like there is an opportunity to create a purely online stock exchange, where all subscribers trade on equal terms?
Seems like there's at least one purely online stock exchange. Though that may not mean internet, and I'm not sure about equal terms.
during hurricanes as we are so prone to getting, we rely on our portable televisions to watch information about the storm when we lose power.
...
what will we do?
Well, you can get a good (2.4GHz+) laptop, if you don't have one already; and then get one of these for less than $100.
I'm actually using this Hauppauge on a 1.5GHz Celeron M, and most of the time, it works at least OK, with a good antenna.
There are some channels that one can get on digital broadcast but not on analog cable, such as the PBS subchannels. The ATSC tuner box also costs much less ($20 after coupon) than the first three years of the upgrade from analog cable to digital cable ($359.64) or the upgrade from satellite TV without local networks to satellite TV with local networks.
As a matter of fact, the local PBS station here is not even broadcasting their analog programming on digital! Some of the same programs show up, but usually not at the same times. I'm hoping the analog channel becomes a subchannel at some point.
The SSD drives for this notebook in particular look awfully expensive to me. $50 to go from 4GB to 8GB?
You can get a full 16GB SSD (with USB interface) from NewEgg for just $35!
Actually, the number is being kept secret while verification is underway. If the number were revealed, and someone with a faster computer verified it first, they could claim to have discovered it first. This time, not only would they steal the credit, but $1,000,000 as well!
Way to go!