The internet is a different beast than the book. In the internet, information is copied ALL THE TIME. Every time somebody reads a web page, they aren't accessing the original content, but a COPY of the content, cached on the user's computer. Every bit of information passes through many nodes and is temporarily stored as a copy in memory, or in wires, or airwaves.
The content of the internet was designed to be copied. This doesn't mean it's ok to steal a work and present it as your own. But providing a mirror of content while providing citation is simply part of the flow of things. There's hardly a difference between being a mirror of a site, and being a proxy server that will communicate with the site and pass it to the user. And if the proxy caches a copy, there's no difference.
Whose idea was it to implement a slide show that decides how long YOU get to have to read the text? As if the standard next button wouldn't have sufficed.
There's no such thing as asynchronous programming in C#, or microprocessors for that matter. Real asynchronous programming is done without a global clock and without nigh any flip-flops. You could implement such a program using VHDL or Verilog or some lower level language on an FPGA.
As for debugging asynchronous logic? You'll probably have best luck with a divining rod. These things can have sensitivities to supply voltages, temperature, humidity, EMI, and other things.
You are probably better off writing a stub into a book with information on how to access the true contents which are digitally burned into some read only memory disk.
Why stop at science? I'm sure the monkey-people will want to know about human history and arts as well.
The whole signature-based antivirus approach is fundamentally flawed.
It seems to me that a signature-based antivirus system (that needs to be updated continuously via subscription) is a more steady and lucrative form of business model than a final solution to all computer security.
1. Pick some cool impossible technology from sci-fi (such as warp engines, antigrav, free energy, transporters).
2. Invoke dark energy
3. Convince venture capitalists/military to buy into your technology
???
4. Profit
yeah but you might get caught and end up in pound-you-in-the-ass penitentiary
you seem to be missing the point
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It sounds like you are saying, instead of rounding to the nearest unit, round to the nearest half unit. If you had read the article you would know that there is no theoretical difference what place value you decide to round to.
You think you can just eliminate the 1/2 bias like that? Ok, now you know what to do with the number 3.5. Now what do you round 3.75 and 3.25 to? You are just shifting the rounding down one binary digit.
You say to not round until the end? You miss the point of rounding, which is necessary due to efficiency, memory, or hardware concerns. Nobody makes 10000 bit ADCs, and even if they did, you'd still need to round the 10001st bit.
As somebody who uses Dell computers at work, I have to say that Dell doesn't deserve the reputation of being pieces of shit. This is evident upon opening the case. The components are all clean and laid out nicely; the connectors are neatly folded and not at all tangled. The cases don't require any screwdrivers to open or to make modifications; very nice when swapping out PCI boards and such. Every component is accessible from the open case; not like some cases where it is just completely impossible to access, say, the CPU, without removing PCI cards, hard drives, etc.
As for the software, who cares about that? You are just going to reimage the drive anyways.
Interesting story. What I don't get is why anybody would do something like that? What does the reverse defrauder get out of his screwed up purchase?
The only thing I can think of is to back out of a done deal.
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I'll have to hurry to the registrar before www.goatse.cx.xxx gets taken!
http://www.jjsoftgames.com/english/battlepainters/
even with a nine stone handicap, an expert can probably beat a newbie
School isn't court.
The internet is a different beast than the book. In the internet, information is copied ALL THE TIME. Every time somebody reads a web page, they aren't accessing the original content, but a COPY of the content, cached on the user's computer. Every bit of information passes through many nodes and is temporarily stored as a copy in memory, or in wires, or airwaves.
The content of the internet was designed to be copied. This doesn't mean it's ok to steal a work and present it as your own. But providing a mirror of content while providing citation is simply part of the flow of things. There's hardly a difference between being a mirror of a site, and being a proxy server that will communicate with the site and pass it to the user. And if the proxy caches a copy, there's no difference.
Bah, we will evolve also, to become resistant to the super-antibiotic-resistant germs.
Of course, some people will die in the process. I wouldn't say we're all doomed though.
Whose idea was it to implement a slide show that decides how long YOU get to have to read the text? As if the standard next button wouldn't have sufficed.
The cheap box sounds more useful as a home pc.
I put my office computer through far greater processing punishment than my home computer.
Oh, that explains the time I saw a cute toddler running around saying, "OMFG PWNT!!1!"
Perhaps the war on despotism can be fought not with soldiers but with corporations and money.
There's no such thing as asynchronous programming in C#, or microprocessors for that matter. Real asynchronous programming is done without a global clock and without nigh any flip-flops. You could implement such a program using VHDL or Verilog or some lower level language on an FPGA.
As for debugging asynchronous logic? You'll probably have best luck with a divining rod. These things can have sensitivities to supply voltages, temperature, humidity, EMI, and other things.
In GR, the direction of the time axis depends also on the gravity or stress-energy distribution around the observer.
What's new about this theory is that the direction of the time axis also depends on the position of the observer relative to the origin.
I think it is compatible with GR. Most our ideas about cosmology would have to be thrown away, but not relativity.
my favorite:
Rowenta Iron
Warning: Never iron clothes on the body.
runners up:
Chainsaw
Do not attempt to stop chain with hands.
Novelty rock garden set called "Popcorn Rock"
Eating rocks may lead to broken teeth.
use Gold.
oh wait...
That must be the amount of time for popups to open up.
You are probably better off writing a stub into a book with information on how to access the true contents which are digitally burned into some read only memory disk.
Why stop at science? I'm sure the monkey-people will want to know about human history and arts as well.
What if they are playing a digital track off a CD that is inserted in a computer?
One has to wonder where all these investors come from.
There's a sucker born every minute.
All your data are belong to us.
You'll have to pay the MS tax if you want to read it.
Ha Ha Ha Ha
It seems to me that a signature-based antivirus system (that needs to be updated continuously via subscription) is a more steady and lucrative form of business model than a final solution to all computer security.
1. Pick some cool impossible technology from sci-fi (such as warp engines, antigrav, free energy, transporters). 2. Invoke dark energy 3. Convince venture capitalists/military to buy into your technology ??? 4. Profit
yeah but you might get caught and end up in pound-you-in-the-ass penitentiary
It sounds like you are saying, instead of rounding to the nearest unit, round to the nearest half unit. If you had read the article you would know that there is no theoretical difference what place value you decide to round to.
You think you can just eliminate the 1/2 bias like that? Ok, now you know what to do with the number 3.5. Now what do you round 3.75 and 3.25 to? You are just shifting the rounding down one binary digit.
You say to not round until the end? You miss the point of rounding, which is necessary due to efficiency, memory, or hardware concerns. Nobody makes 10000 bit ADCs, and even if they did, you'd still need to round the 10001st bit.
As somebody who uses Dell computers at work, I have to say that Dell doesn't deserve the reputation of being pieces of shit. This is evident upon opening the case. The components are all clean and laid out nicely; the connectors are neatly folded and not at all tangled. The cases don't require any screwdrivers to open or to make modifications; very nice when swapping out PCI boards and such. Every component is accessible from the open case; not like some cases where it is just completely impossible to access, say, the CPU, without removing PCI cards, hard drives, etc.
As for the software, who cares about that? You are just going to reimage the drive anyways.
Interesting story. What I don't get is why anybody would do something like that? What does the reverse defrauder get out of his screwed up purchase? The only thing I can think of is to back out of a done deal.