You nailed it it's big, it's ugly, and it's noisy.
You're going to have to remove all the moving parts especially the fans, put it in a slimline That's capable of hiding inside some other piece of furniture while still providing cable access for your display/TV and mouse, headset, keyboard.
There are several websites that address building silent PCs. You'll have to look them over.
Being big is solvable provided you don't have too many add-on card's. You need a motherboard, and a graphics processing unit. Other than that your ethernet, Wi-Fi, sound should all be built-in on the motherboard.
Storage: get rid of your hard drives and switch to solid-state storage. Not only is it quieter it's also cooler. Cooling is going to be a very major issue.
The noisy this issue is mostly because of fans. Cooling a high-powered system without fans is difficult. You stated you don't want to deal with water cooling which would be one obvious way to go, and that probably leaves out oil cooling as well. This leaves you with a combination of passive cooling systems, very very very quiet fans, and a lot of soundproofing.
The quiet PC websites have products for all of these.
My solutions in the past have included placing the tower inside the bottom of a TV platform, on top of rubberized mounts with lots of acoustic foam and replacing all of the fans with models designed to be extra quiet.
The larger the piece of furniture you can place the tower inside of, the more acoustic soundproofing you can place around. You still need to be careful to designing your path because you will still need cooling.
Doing this well, in a way that still allows your unit to be adequately cooled, and provides good cable access which is part of the performance no lag issue is going to require some fun in improvisation.
No, I've seen code like that and it is HARMFUL to have it in your project.
This person is going to slow down or hurt the project. When do you do something about it? At the very earliest point that you can. If they won't change their coding style, give them a task that doesn't involve coding.
True confession: I've written code like that and included it in a project -
Why - Standard reason, there's never time to do it right. There's only time to do it over.
It starts out when you want to quickly test out some bit of code so you put it inline within another function instead of doing the overhead work of adding another file to a project, compile - repeat.. etc until you end up with a giant monoglob of crap.
require each student to turn on their undo to a bazillion undo's. have them turn in the finished photoshop project, the entire thing then the teacher should be able to undo all the way back to the original step by step and then replay all the steps (using redo) to get to the final again.
This is about Science Fiction. Most depressing SCIENCE FICTION books/stories you've read.Yet, most of you idiots are going on about non science fiction books.There is a difference between science fiction and non science fiction, yet most of you do NOT understand that.This is depressing because I came here to hopefully learn about some new books that would be good to read, and I get stupid peeps talking about normal fiction books.seriously peeps, science fiction. not fucking fiction.
Yes, the difference is that pure fiction takes place in the cosmos the author lives in.
Fantasy takes place in cosmos that have magic active in them.
Science fiction is fiction that explores the implications of different possible worlds of humanity based on the way we use technology, or what technology can allow us to do. Sometimes this means space westerns (Serenity! EESmith etc) and sometimes its deeply profound sociological exegesis. (LeGuin).
It does not have to have rockets or space lasers in it. In fact the best SF I have ever read didn't (and yes, despite that, I loved EE Doc Smith's Lensman series,:)
Responding to your inside reference; I am not a number. I am a free man. Hah, we wish. Which was the entire point of the conclusion of that series.
You have kids? You Damn well better make sure they know how to swim. You're the parent, that's your job!
You have a pool? All the places I've lived in, here in the US, local laws required you to have a fence around the pool.
TEN people die from drowning everyday (USA). Many times that number are rescued, BUT - require further care for severe brain damage that result in long-term disabilities and permanent loss of basic functioning (e.g., permanent vegetative state).
Even if the local laws don't require a fence, having one lowers your liability against lawsuits when a drunk neighbor (teenager?) decides to go swimming one night while you're away. (Concept of "attractive nuisance?, maybe)
Anyone ever heard of the Wegmans grocery store chain? Based in upstate New York? Family owned, Great store's, great family, great people. How many companies provide health care and child care for cashiers?
Wanna see the family compound that holds the pool they lost one of their kids in? Nevermind. The water in a pool, lake, stream, river or ocean doesn't care how rich, smart, or pretty you are. once you go in, you better know how to get yourself out.
Water safety: Make sure your kids know how to swim. Make sure the pool is fenced, If above ground, keep the outside ladder off, and the inside ladder, in. (Just in case a kid does get in, so they have a chance to get out).
Think of the children. Really.
(someday I will tell y'all the story of how my brother used Wegman's Stores to intimidate the commies back in the 1970's. Also, the 'garbage plate')
(I listened to a noise outside one night, had no idea what it was, next morning, found a squirrel floating in the pool. Ever since then, inside ladder stays in. )
[[ Squirrel's are the tiny terminators of wildlife, nothing stops them. I had one chew through a 1/8 in steel cable once, to take a bird feeder down! If they ever get organized, human life in suburbia will be over! ]] .
> Everyone fears what is different from themselves,
No, not everyone. As the prior commentor stated; Stupid people fear what they don't understand. Many of us have learned to look at the things we don't understand as an opportunity to learn something new.
The policy of the French McDonalds is simply stupid beyond belief. There is no way that they can ever hope to prevent people from taking photos, videotaping or recording anything and everything that goes on in a public restaurant, especially a fast food restaurant like le McD's.
The more important question is why are they trying to?
My guess is that the restaurant is breaking some local Law and they don't any photographic proof of that act captured.
Given the prevalence of cell phones today, even the idea of having such a policy is foolishness.
hmm, I'm not sure that your recitation matches my memory of what happened and what the timing around each event was. I believe that Assange was headed to the UK before the charges were placed.
If I'm not mistaken, the charges are "sexual misconduct" and there seems to be some confusion about exactly what happened that caused the charge, as to if a condom was used and it broke or if no condom was used at all.
As to the timing of supposedly traveling back and forth between the women.... hadn't heard that at all.
What is clear, iirc he did sleep with two different women. he did use a condom the first time with each one, but when making love for the second time that night,{ here it gets unclear what happened} the partner was not fully awake and no condom was used, or it slipped off?
You have a skill that is highly desired in China, You speak english like an American native.
Speaking english is a -highly- desired skill in China, so the need for people who can teach is correctly is paramount. It won't be programming, but you should be able to get a job teaching english, even though you can't speak any of the chinese languages.[Yes it is possible to teach english to people even if you don't speak their language. Formal grammar instruction would be out, but vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation would be in.
If not teaching at a formal school, then tutoring small groups of students who already have some english skills, on "native english" could be a sellable skill as well. Perhaps even more than teaching at a school.
In the meantime, start learning some Mandarin. Its not that hard.
Zài jiàn for now. http://mandarin.about.com/library/audio/voc_bye/voc_bye_1.mp3.
> "under the wait of repeated malicious" > "under the weight of repeated malicious " > > "It takes a determined idiot to make a spelling mistake when copying and pasting from a website."
No, All it takes is someone using a Speech Recognition (SR) system. "wait" and "weight" are pronounced exactly the same way and so identifying the actual word intended by the speaker is harder for the software. The software converts speech to text so quickly these days that most people cant keep up with it and hence miss the chance to proof read whats been produced. Yes, they could make the time to do so after each utterance, but that destroys the flow of how people use SR so it falls by the wayside.
As the price of NaturallySpeaking (From DragonSystems, now owned by Nuance) has dropped to a very low levels (especially around holidays), many more people are using it (and saving themselves from carpal tunnel problems, and/or being able to type a lot faster. 100+ wpm ). Add to that the inclusion of Microsoft's Speech Recognition with Windows, and you have a situation where you are going to have tons of these "speako"s . (Speako is the term which SR users created to label situations where the SR software has generated the wrong text in response to an utterance.)
So something in ewe may want to criticize other peoples work on Slashdot. Eye believe that comes from the lesser part in ewe and ewe should ignore that impulse. It only adds to the noise and generates no extra value or information.
If ewe want to attack this problem, I suggest ewe work on redesigning English as its inconsistencies and lack of word uniqueness are the core of the problem. A long time ago Germany actually past sum loss two fix sum of the tissues with the German language and those changes were successful. The English speaking population of the world could make changes that wood (OK, I'll stop doing that now:-) improve the usability of English. First and foremost would be to normalize spelling around the phonetics of words. Now that we have speech recognizing computers, phonetic drift will slow down and may even stop, just as spelling drift (mostly) stopped when enough of the people in a given population learned to read and write. So a fixed phonetic spelling could become stable and (mostly) unchanging.
Item number two would be simplifying and standardizing punctuation. Each punctuation symbol should have only 1 use, and the use should be a standard and formal one. Example an apostrophe should only be used to show ownership. Contractions dont need an apostrophe so they are simply dropped from cant, dont, its, wont etc.. (So how did "will not" become the contraction "won't" anyway? Thats not a contraction. If it were a contraction it would be "wil'nt" or "willn't". )
Then consider the problem of words that sound the same but have different meanings. These have to be fixed. examples: read, reed, and to two and too. And red and read.
Then there are words that are spelled the same and sound different, examples read and read: "I will read the book." "I have read the book." etc.. Also normalizing verbs. Add "ed" to all verbs for past tense: climbing - climbed is the standard pattern so how about: reading - readed, sleeping - sleeped, sweeping - sweeped, etc..
OK, Thats the basic idea. Go tuit.:) Sincerely yours, George Humphrey, founder of the Society for Apostrophe Conservation Solutions. ( SAPS ).
(send any corrections to 1uehr, 'cause I dont char.:) )
We don't need a new government. We need the old government. You know, the one of the people, by the people, and FOR the people? The one that had a constitution that said no torturing would ever be allowed. Where the constitution said the government could never arrest anyone without just cause and a warrant issued by a judge. Where no one could be searched (or wiretapped) without just cause and a warrant issued by a judge. The one where if the government did arrest anyone they could not be held incognito (disappeared) and had to be allowed access to their lawyers, visitors and family?
You know, the one that used to be THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
As for the parents comment that a revolution only puts extremist nutcases in power (what he really meant):
Yep, Just like, oh, I don't know... THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ??
Its time to save ourselves people. We need a new political party that doesn't follow the examples of any of the existing political parties. Not the republicans, or the democrats, or the libertarians or the greens.
No government is ever perfect. The USA's older government had its problems too, corruption, discrimination and the like, but the current government has completely abandoned even the pretense of following the constitution and is becoming a totalitarian state. And it happened (is happening) under both the Bush and Obama administrations
We need a political party that represents the original intent of the constitution: THAT ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL, AND THAT THIS DEMOCRACY SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THIS EARTH.
The initial goals of this party would be:
Step 1 - pass laws declaring that no company has the same rights as a human Step 2 - make lobbying by businesses illegal step 3 - make taking any gifts, no matter how small, even lunch, a felony for any law making representative, local, state, or federal. step 4 - make it illegal to pass any law that exempts any law making representatives,( local, state, or federal) from laws the rest of the population has to follow. step 5 - pass a law that says that any laws passed by any law making representative, (local, state, or federal) which increase the benefits (pay, health ins etc..) will not be applied to any of the reps in office at the time the law is passed. It will only be applied to the next rep to take that same office. So if a rep is in office at the time a salary increase is passed, they do not get that increase, Ever. Their pay and benefits are stuck at the level they were at when they entered office, except for any increase that wew passed before they got elected or appointed. Note that says "before elected or appointed" not "before taking office" Step 6 - pass a law which makes it illegal for anyone who gives or attempts to give a rep a gift or a bribe to ever own or run or manage a business or part of a business again in their lifetime. Step 7 - make quid pro quo exchanges a felony with a lifetime sentence. step 8 - form an auditing corp branch of government. These individuals must be willing to have every moment of their life recorded, be well paid, and will have the power to investigate anyone, or anything at anytime for any kind of corruption. They will have the power to ask for and immediately receive any information they ask for. And if they do not receive it, they have the power to bring in any branch of the military they need to enforce their requests. Step 9 - Remove all judges who cannot separate themselves from any childhood religious indoctrination from the Supreme court. Indeed, any Judge who cannot, should be immediately replaced by an Atheist (satan worshipping, baby eating etc.. ). Note - the vast majority of the US population is Protestant Christian. Why then does the the Supreme Court of all the land consist of 6 catholics and 3 jews? These people were all raised in religious cultures which indoctrinate them to polarized, extremeist, fantasy based views of reality. Examples - "God gave the country to us for our exclusive use! Even though most of us lef
To revive STEM graduates here in the USA, Tell American Businesses to stop fucking around and re-hire all the 35 to 55 year old engineers they have been laying off.
How about we take the CEO of each company that is complaining about not having enough engineering talent, stake them out spread eagled on the ground, and for every engineering position they have open, or for every engineering position they filled with an H1-B hire, we have an un-employed USA engineer who could have filled that position get a pair of steel toed boots and one free shot at that CEO's nuts?
I realize that the unemployed engineers are getting the bad end of this deal, but it's the best I could do.
You see, at the end of this the CEO may be terribly injured, but he's still rich. All the unemployed engineers will have is - still nothing. You want people to take the STEM path in college here in the USA? Show them that they will have a career path longer than 13 years!
I deal with this very simply: Each 'Project' or "work effort" has an estimated number of work (in man weeks) associated with it and each one has an estimated delivery date, a desired delivery date.
Any worker who is working on more than one thing at a time has their time multiplied by a "task switching co-efficient" which is
1.2 - ( 0.20 * number of projects they are doing simultaneously).
So a worker doing only 1 project is fully productive, 2 projects, they are only 80% productive, 3 projects, they are 60% productive, etc...
Each "customer" (manager) gets shown what their calculated delivery date is, and what it would be if their project was deferred until it could have only dedicated workers on it. They also get shown predictions of what the delivery dates are if more resources are added to the development group.
It blows the minds of the customer(Managers) when they see deliveries get later when resources are added! Each worker has a familiarity co-efficient that is calculated by multiplying the inverse of the project complexity rank by the number of weeks they have been on the project. How valid is all this stuff? per individual - not very valid, but overall it forces the other managers to understand the impacts of resources and changes on the amount of time it will take their project to get done. By making it mathematical, and more realistic than simply (Manweeks of work / # of workers) It forces them to look more realistically at the problem.
I have an internal web page that lets other customer/managers tweak the schedule to see what happens when they make changes. I encourage them to use it during meetings so each customer/manager can see what the other customer/manager thinks each others project should be delayed by. (They fight each other, not development.)
I also use Individual co-efficients for each worker: productivity, affinity, flexibility, robustness as well as each worker having a different calendar. These measures are kept private. Only I see them, but they are used to calculate the time it takes to produce each project. They are kept private for 2 reasons, #1 - the managers waiting for delivery will try to force the development department to put the engineers they perceive as best, on 'their' project. #2 - to protect the privacy of the engineers. These rankings are arbitrary and , being produced by a human, are also fallible. I refuse to let these "labels" become public, there is to much potential for harm.
Affinity- a ranking of that person's Project domain knowledge and how expert they are with the languages and tools being used on that project (and how much they like/dislike the tools or the domain). Used as part of their productivity rating, which - note this: is different for each project!
flelxibility- People multi-task differently. some folks are 140% productive when working on just 1 project and drop to 50% productive when they have to work on more than one project at a time. So each person gets their own co-efficient on this as well. Some people are best used by dedicating them to one thing at a time. Forcing the "140% on 1 and 50% on 2 " people to multi-task is incredibly stupid.
robustness: This a measure of 2 things - First - how "strong" is their code algorithmicly? eg - does their code do the work by being well thought out and therefore have a 'simple' flow? Or is it a long running chain that handles each condition as a special case instead of having the solution fall out by design. Second, What is the defect rate in their code? (includes mechanical/transcriptional defects as well as algorithmic and domain defects)
Many people in software development are naturally "single threaded" and I laugh whenever I see the job ads that include "Must be a good multi-tasker" for software developers. Forcing developers to multi-task is always a bad idea in that it usually slows down all the work being down. In IT
You don't have to take the code private to sell the product.
Under the GPL (2)
#1 You can make your own changes to the product source code #2 You can build that product #3 You can sell that product for any price you want. #4 You -do not- have to publish the src code on the web.
If your customer requests a copy of the GPL source code, you give them a copy. You can charge a reasonable fee for making the copy. You can provide the copy as regular text source, or a paper printout, or a pdf file etc..
#5 If you use GPL(2) code in a product you build, you don't have to share the code you yourself created - IF IT MEETS EITHER ONE OF THESE TWO REQUIREMENTS: #1 The GPL code you use is LGPL and all you do is link to it. OR #2 you structure your code so that it is only dynamically linked to the GPL(2) code. I need to double check on this one and i dont have time right now. I'll try to get back to y'all on this.
Hiya troll! First of all, always start with an ad hominem. It really bolsters your own argument, doesn't it?
Sorry, I thought you were a Fox news zombie-ite. Your total swallowing of the story, hook line and sinker, makes you look no smarter than Rezwan Ferdaus. So I was looking for the right word to describe the level of insipidness you displayed when you said: "This guy was defeated by the groundwork done by the FBI in tracking him, contacting him and then catching him red handed while he was planning the operation."
See let me see if I understand this - You want to give the FBI credit for good work done on "catching a terrorist" when all they did was seduce one socially isolated, depressed, unemployed 26 year kid who still lives with his parents??????
They caught nothing. They created a security theatre event in order to make news.
They would have been smarter to monitor him and see if he went and contacted an actual terrorist group. Then they could have used him for a stalking horse to actually find some real terrorists. Instead they are pretending for the news cameras complete with, yes really, Stage Props! They did a full-on, totally armored up, SWAT team deployed and helicopters overhead "ARREST ZE TERRORISTS!" when they "stormed" the "u-store-it". And they did all that when they KNEW the kid had nothing but stage props that they had supplied him with.
Fake C-4, tricked-up non-functional guns, WooHoo! thing going to be 'sploding now!
To be absolutely clear, the FBI did NOT CATCH A TERRORIST. They fooled a naive, possibly slightly mentally ill kid, into doing the things the FBI needed done in order for them to create a big news event.
How do you know that everything that he did wasn't suggested to him BY THE FBI? Because the odds are that's exactly what happened. Go look at the news reports and you'll see that he was "recruited", they came to him.
Yes, I'm pissed off - The FBI is supposed to work on security. Not making sure their department gets a good place in line at awards time or insuring they get a good chunk of the next budget go-round. They're wasting time, manpower and money that should have been much better used.
The guy was 'defeated' because he wasn't a terrorist at all. He was stupid dupe of the FBI.
And how did the FBI get to know of his plans in the first place?
"The FBI got to know of his plans in the first place" because AFTER they recruited him into their organization, they made it clear to him what he should do next. Its no different than what the Church of Scientology does when it gets a new vic.. err member, or for that matter not much different than what a terrorist recruiting cell does when they convince someone to join their cause. The FBI was giving him plans and/or nudging him in one direction or another and discussing it with him on an ongoing basis. Remember he didn't even bring a camera along when he went scope out the pentagon, so they gave him one to use!... LOL I can see it now. A big white panel van roaming around DC just stuffed full of everything your basic terrorist needs, all dolled out to them by the FBI.
I don't know how you missed it, because its required reading in almost every junior high school in america
I'm not an American, so sue me.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult you that deeply.:-) ( btw , the author's British, the book has been incorporated into the educational curricula of many places around the world, but you're right. I shouldn't have assumed you were from the US. )
Here's a fellow who given a chance, would actually go and get hold of an RC plane with explosives. It is moot whether the people supplying him were undercover FBI agents or terrorists themselves. He absoF
The guy was 'defeated' because he wasn't a terrorist at all. He was stupid dupe of the FBI.
#1- He was recruited by the FBI so he was working for who....?
The FBI
#2 He received Fake weapons from who......?
The FBI
#3 He received funding from who.....?
The FBI
So - he never had any contact with the what.....?
Terrorists
So this whole thing was a hoax done by who.... ?
The FBI...........
Dear dipsxit
I don't know how you missed it, because its required reading in almost every
junior high school in america: What the FBI did here, was a rip-off of the plot of the book "1984" , with a twist of lemon.
Now dipsxit, Who said "Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America..... That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship....voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Was it Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, or Hermann Goring?
And where is this type of political campaign being practiced today?
If reading is too much of a bother, how about watching "Wag the Dog", or "Brazil", or even the movie, "1984".
He was caught "Red Handed"...... ahem - planning ? planning is not doing. so "Red Handed" is not quite accurate. Especially since all the things he was planning were fomented by who.....? Yes, once again "The FBI"
I'm sorry I called you a dipshit. You're nothing but a tool. A tool with a dull finish.
I love the thinking behind this, technology ubiquitously deployed so that it's everywhere: available, literally, instantaneously. The article mentions that we, and I'm assuming we means the average American in the USA, spend an hour in the bathroom every day. And the New York Times intends for us to use some part of that time to read their newspaper. hmmm... People spending that hour in the bathroom are busy doing their daily grooming which pretty much ties up their active eyesight and participation.
The very first thing I thought about the product was, a mirror that lets you surf the web while you're grooming? The idea is good geeky fun, but is it really useful and usable?
Now that I have read the article and watched the first video, I can see that some good thought has been put into how people may want to use it.
Yes, people's hands are busy while they're in the bathroom, (and they should wash their hands before they touch anything...), So a mouse interface is not a good idea. The innards of the mouse would soon be gunked up, rendering it useless. Between hairspray, steamy water vapor, and makeup powder, even an optical mouse would be inoperable. And a women's bathroom would be just as bad.:-)
The way to make this product successful is to put a much better voice response interface on it. The user should be able to have a conversation with the product and have it act as their agent. In the demo the system is responding by changing what it displays on the screen. You should be able to "chat" with it. If you're shaving, or if your putting on false eyelashes, you should be able to ask the system a question, and have it respond to you by voice rather than forcing you to go look at something. Any time you're waving a sharp blade near your face, or gluing anything on your eye, you don't want to take your eyes off what you're doing....
And the read back voice has to be natural and pleasant sounding, and naturally, customized to the user's preferences. Of course the Kinect system should recognize each individual it has been set up with and switch to their user profile as soon as they recognize them.
For example, if the user says "where is the movie the way you were showing today?" Notice that the user doesn't put the movie title in quotes or specially delineate it in any way verbally. The user has to be able to rely on the system to successfully parse the verbal utterance when it is the normal and natural way people speak.
The system needs to respond with "that movie is showing at 4 different theaters that are near you" (if the movie was only showing at one or perhaps 2 theaters, then the system would immediately say the names of those theaters, as in "that movie is showing at the Strand, and the Cinemax".
The system will need to know what theaters the user is already familiar with. That is the kind of information it learns over time from interacting with the user. As further training for the system, as the system interacts with users from all over, it should tokenize the interaction sequences, remove all the personal identifying information, and upload the tokenized interaction sequence to a central repository. That way the central repository can learn all the different ways users have of interacting with different named things and improve the number of things the agent side know how to do. For example, an object named "movie" has its own name, [title], and each movie can be associated with one or more theaters. Each theater is associated with a physical address, and a phone number, and of course its own name. And the relationship between movie and theater has associations with multiple show time/sub-theater pairs. The show time/theater pair that is associated with the movie-theater relationship has 2 properties associated with it, the 1st is the time the movie will be shown, and the 2nd one is which sub-theater at that theater the movie will be shown in at that time. Since the system understands all these relationships, when the user asks "what t
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Buy an outside bark breaker from Petsafe of some other source.
These devices detect barking and emit ultrasonic pulses that train the dog to not bark.
here's one that looks like a birdhouse:
http://www.guardianpet.net/getdoc/7efcd598-8acf-4b2d-8dd5-7cd1395f1a38/Outdoor-Bark-Control.aspx
Replace the 9volt battery with a wall wart.
Most large commercial device makers do exactly this same thing.
Routers, Credit Card terminals, Coke machines.
Not only do they all do this, the default passwords and the correct menus to select are all well documented online.
You can walk up to most digital Coke machines and reboot them, and reconfigure their settings to do all kinds of things.
You nailed it it's big, it's ugly, and it's noisy.
You're going to have to remove all the moving parts especially the fans, put
it in a slimline That's capable of hiding inside some other piece of
furniture while still providing cable access for your display/TV and mouse,
headset, keyboard.
There are several websites that address building silent PCs. You'll have to
look them over.
Being big is solvable provided you don't have too many add-on card's. You
need a motherboard, and a graphics processing unit. Other than that your
ethernet, Wi-Fi, sound should all be built-in on the motherboard.
Storage: get rid of your hard drives and switch to solid-state storage. Not
only is it quieter it's also cooler. Cooling is going to be a very major
issue.
The noisy this issue is mostly because of fans. Cooling a high-powered
system without fans is difficult. You stated you don't want to deal with
water cooling which would be one obvious way to go, and that probably leaves
out oil cooling as well. This leaves you with a combination of passive
cooling systems, very very very quiet fans, and a lot of soundproofing.
The quiet PC websites have products for all of these.
My solutions in the past have included placing the tower inside the bottom
of a TV platform, on top of rubberized mounts with lots of acoustic foam and
replacing all of the fans with models designed to be extra quiet.
The larger the piece of furniture you can place the tower inside of, the
more acoustic soundproofing you can place around. You still need to be
careful to designing your path because you will still need cooling.
Doing this well, in a way that still allows your unit to be adequately
cooled, and provides good cable access which is part of the performance no
lag issue is going to require some fun in improvisation.
Good luck
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No, I've seen code like that and it is HARMFUL to have it in your project.
This person is going to slow down or hurt the project. When do you do something about it? At the very earliest point that you can. If they won't change their coding style, give them a task that doesn't involve coding.
True confession: I've written code like that and included it in a project -
Why - Standard reason, there's never time to do it right. There's only time to do it over.
It starts out when you want to quickly test out some bit of code so you put it inline within another function instead of doing the overhead work of adding another file to a project, compile - repeat.. etc until you end up with a giant monoglob of crap.
require each student to turn on their undo to a bazillion undo's .
have them turn in the finished photoshop project, the entire thing
then the teacher should be able to undo all the way back to the original step by step and then replay all the steps (using redo) to get to the final again.
Just hold down ctrl-Z and watch
Works in GIMP anyway.
Sorry, didn't mean to be taken seriously. Just couldn't resist trolling on this, just this one time. Here is a better explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPZ5boriRtE&feature=player_detailpage#t=362s
Wonderful idea.
Won't catch on
Too many men identify themselves as men through their ability to father children.
Yes, the difference is that pure fiction takes place in the cosmos the author lives in.
Fantasy takes place in cosmos that have magic active in them.
Science fiction is fiction that explores the implications of different possible worlds of humanity based on the way we use technology, or what technology can allow us to do. Sometimes this means space westerns (Serenity! EESmith etc) and sometimes its deeply profound sociological exegesis. (LeGuin). :)
It does not have to have rockets or space lasers in it. In fact the best SF I have ever read didn't (and yes, despite that, I loved EE Doc Smith's Lensman series,
Responding to your inside reference; I am not a number. I am a free man. Hah, we wish. Which was the entire point of the conclusion of that series.
No. You won't.
J. hand me that flashy thingey.
Pull out sunglasses.
two things to say about this:
You have kids? You Damn well better make sure they know how to swim. You're the parent, that's your job!
You have a pool? All the places I've lived in, here in the US, local laws required you to have a fence around the pool.
TEN people die from drowning everyday (USA). Many times that number are rescued, BUT - require further care for severe brain damage that result in long-term disabilities and permanent loss of basic functioning (e.g., permanent vegetative state).
1 IN 5 who die from drowning are CHILDREN. For every child who dies from drowning, another five receive emergency department care for nonfatal submersion injuries.1 (from http://www.cdc.gov/HomeAndRecreationalSafety/Water-Safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.html )
Even if the local laws don't require a fence, having one lowers your liability against lawsuits when a drunk neighbor (teenager?) decides to go swimming one night while you're away. (Concept of "attractive nuisance?, maybe)
Anyone ever heard of the Wegmans grocery store chain? Based in upstate New York? Family owned, Great store's, great family, great people. How many companies provide health care and child care for cashiers?
Wanna see the family compound that holds the pool they lost one of their kids in? Nevermind. The water in a pool, lake, stream, river or ocean doesn't care how rich, smart, or pretty you are. once you go in, you better know how to get yourself out.
Water safety: Make sure your kids know how to swim. Make sure the pool is fenced, If above ground, keep the outside ladder off, and the inside ladder, in. (Just in case a kid does get in, so they have a chance to get out).
Think of the children. Really.
(someday I will tell y'all the story of how my brother used Wegman's Stores to intimidate the commies back in the 1970's. Also, the 'garbage plate')
(I listened to a noise outside one night, had no idea what it was, next morning, found a squirrel floating in the pool. Ever since then, inside ladder stays in. )
[[ Squirrel's are the tiny terminators of wildlife, nothing stops them. I had one chew through a 1/8 in steel cable once, to take a bird feeder down! If they ever get organized, human life in suburbia will be over! ]] .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_(1971_film) >
Also - for your perusal:
https://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=child+drowning+pool
> Everyone fears what is different from themselves,
No, not everyone.
As the prior commentor stated; Stupid people fear what they don't understand.
Many of us have learned to look at the things we don't understand as an opportunity to learn something new.
The policy of the French McDonalds is simply stupid beyond belief. There is no way that they can ever hope to prevent people from taking photos, videotaping or recording anything and everything that goes on in a public restaurant, especially a fast food restaurant like le McD's.
The more important question is why are they trying to?
My guess is that the restaurant is breaking some local Law and they don't any photographic proof of that act captured.
Given the prevalence of cell phones today, even the idea of having such a policy is foolishness.
Go Jim and Janet, Go!
Don't forget legal fees and damages!
Former Dragon Employee, wishing you well.
hmm, I'm not sure that your recitation matches my memory of what happened and what the timing around each event was.
I believe that Assange was headed to the UK before the charges were placed.
If I'm not mistaken, the charges are "sexual misconduct" and there seems to be some confusion about exactly what happened that caused the charge, as to if a condom was used and it broke or if no condom was used at all.
As to the timing of supposedly traveling back and forth between the women.... hadn't heard that at all.
What is clear, iirc he did sleep with two different women. he did use a condom the first time with each one, but when making love for the second time that night,{ here it gets unclear what happened} the partner was not fully awake and no condom was used, or it slipped off?
You say "will" but the fact is, this has already happened. Ask a lawyer when the last time he hired an auditorium full of paralegals to do research?
That's the replacement of paralegals. Wrong question. The question was - When will lawyers be replaced? Please insert 3 quarters and try again. :-)
You have a skill that is highly desired in China, You speak english like an American native.
Speaking english is a -highly- desired skill in China, so the need for people who can teach is correctly is paramount. It won't be programming, but you should be able to get a job teaching english, even though you can't speak any of the chinese languages.[Yes it is possible to teach english to people even if you don't speak their language. Formal grammar instruction would be out, but vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation would be in.
If not teaching at a formal school, then tutoring small groups of students who already have some english skills, on "native english" could be a sellable skill as well. Perhaps even more than teaching at a school.
In the meantime, start learning some Mandarin. Its not that hard.
Zài jiàn for now.
http://mandarin.about.com/library/audio/voc_bye/voc_bye_1.mp3.
Dear Ms moon;
Yes this will be fine as soon as we can trust every single person in the government... for every government.
In other words, we will get to it during the reign of Queen Dick.
(Hey Spider, Thanks for everything. Beers on me, or Bushmills.:)
> "Your post started off good, but then you wrote the rest of it."
:)
MIB, 1997 "Eat me."
> "under the wait of repeated malicious"
> "under the weight of repeated malicious "
>
> "It takes a determined idiot to make a spelling mistake when copying and pasting from a website."
No, All it takes is someone using a Speech Recognition (SR) system.
"wait" and "weight" are pronounced exactly the same way and so identifying the actual word intended by the speaker is harder for the software. The software converts speech to text so quickly these days that most people cant keep up with it and hence miss the chance to proof read whats been produced. Yes, they could make the time to do so after each utterance, but that destroys the flow of how people use SR so it falls by the wayside.
As the price of NaturallySpeaking (From DragonSystems, now owned by Nuance) has dropped to a very low levels (especially around holidays), many more people are using it (and saving themselves from carpal tunnel problems, and/or being able to type a lot faster. 100+ wpm ). Add to that the inclusion of Microsoft's Speech Recognition with Windows, and you have a situation where you are going to have tons of these "speako"s . (Speako is the term which SR users created to label situations where the SR software has generated the wrong text in response to an utterance.)
So something in ewe may want to criticize other peoples work on Slashdot. Eye believe that comes from the lesser part in ewe and ewe should ignore that impulse. It only adds to the noise and generates no extra value or information.
If ewe want to attack this problem, I suggest ewe work on redesigning English as its inconsistencies and lack of word uniqueness are the core of the problem. A long time ago Germany actually past sum loss two fix sum of the tissues with the German language and those changes were successful. The English speaking population of the world could make changes that wood (OK, I'll stop doing that now :-) improve the usability of English. First and foremost would be to normalize spelling around the phonetics of words. Now that we have speech recognizing computers, phonetic drift will slow down and may even stop, just as spelling drift (mostly) stopped when enough of the people in a given population learned to read and write. So a fixed phonetic spelling could become stable and (mostly) unchanging.
Item number two would be simplifying and standardizing punctuation. Each punctuation symbol should have only 1 use, and the use should be a standard and formal one. Example an apostrophe should only be used to show ownership. Contractions dont need an apostrophe so they are simply dropped from cant, dont, its, wont etc.. (So how did "will not" become the contraction "won't" anyway? Thats not a contraction. If it were a contraction it would be "wil'nt" or "willn't". )
Then consider the problem of words that sound the same but have different meanings. These have to be fixed. examples: read, reed, and to two and too. And red and read.
Then there are words that are spelled the same and sound different, examples read and read: "I will read the book." "I have read the book." etc.. Also normalizing verbs. Add "ed" to all verbs for past tense: climbing - climbed is the standard pattern so how about: reading - readed, sleeping - sleeped, sweeping - sweeped, etc..
OK, Thats the basic idea. Go tuit. :)
Sincerely yours,
George Humphrey, founder of the Society for Apostrophe Conservation Solutions. ( SAPS ).
(send any corrections to 1uehr, 'cause I dont char. :) )
We don't need a new government. We need the old government. You know, the one of the people, by the people, and FOR the people? The one that had a constitution that said no torturing would ever be allowed. Where the constitution said the government could never arrest anyone without just cause and a warrant issued by a judge. Where no one could be searched (or wiretapped) without just cause and a warrant issued by a judge. The one where if the government did arrest anyone they could not be held incognito (disappeared) and had to be allowed access to their lawyers, visitors and family?
You know, the one that used to be THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
As for the parents comment that a revolution only puts extremist nutcases in power (what he really meant) :
Yep, Just like, oh, I don't know... THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ??
Its time to save ourselves people. We need a new political party that doesn't follow the examples of any of the existing political parties. Not the republicans, or the democrats, or the libertarians or the greens.
No government is ever perfect. The USA's older government had its problems too, corruption, discrimination and the like, but the current government has completely abandoned even the pretense of following the constitution and is becoming a totalitarian state. And it happened (is happening) under both the Bush and Obama administrations
We need a political party that represents the original intent of the constitution: THAT ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL, AND THAT THIS DEMOCRACY SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THIS EARTH.
The initial goals of this party would be:
Step 1 - pass laws declaring that no company has the same rights as a human
Step 2 - make lobbying by businesses illegal
step 3 - make taking any gifts, no matter how small, even lunch, a felony for any law making representative, local, state, or federal.
step 4 - make it illegal to pass any law that exempts any law making representatives,( local, state, or federal) from laws the rest of the population has to follow.
step 5 - pass a law that says that any laws passed by any law making representative, (local, state, or federal) which increase the benefits (pay, health ins etc..) will not be applied to any of the reps in office at the time the law is passed. It will only be applied to the next rep to take that same office. So if a rep is in office at the time a salary increase is passed, they do not get that increase, Ever. Their pay and benefits are stuck at the level they were at when they entered office, except for any increase that wew passed before they got elected or appointed. Note that says "before elected or appointed" not "before taking office"
Step 6 - pass a law which makes it illegal for anyone who gives or attempts to give a rep a gift or a bribe to ever own or run or manage a business or part of a business again in their lifetime.
Step 7 - make quid pro quo exchanges a felony with a lifetime sentence.
step 8 - form an auditing corp branch of government. These individuals must be willing to have every moment of their life recorded, be well paid, and will have the power to investigate anyone, or anything at anytime for any kind of corruption. They will have the power to ask for and immediately receive any information they ask for. And if they do not receive it, they have the power to bring in any branch of the military they need to enforce their requests.
Step 9 - Remove all judges who cannot separate themselves from any childhood religious indoctrination from the Supreme court. Indeed, any Judge who cannot, should be immediately replaced by an Atheist (satan worshipping, baby eating etc.. ). Note - the vast majority of the US population is Protestant Christian. Why then does the the Supreme Court of all the land consist of 6 catholics and 3 jews? These people were all raised in religious cultures which indoctrinate them to polarized, extremeist, fantasy based views of reality. Examples - "God gave the country to us for our exclusive use! Even though most of us lef
To revive STEM graduates here in the USA, Tell American Businesses to stop fucking around and re-hire all the 35 to 55 year old engineers they have been laying off.
How about we take the CEO of each company that is complaining about not having enough engineering talent, stake them out spread eagled on the ground, and for every engineering position they have open, or for every engineering position they filled with an H1-B hire, we have an un-employed USA engineer who could have filled that position get a pair of steel toed boots and one free shot at that CEO's nuts?
I realize that the unemployed engineers are getting the bad end of this deal, but it's the best I could do.
You see, at the end of this the CEO may be terribly injured, but he's still rich. All the unemployed engineers will have is - still nothing. You want people to take the STEM path in college here in the USA? Show them that they will have a career path longer than 13 years!
I deal with this very simply: Each 'Project' or "work effort" has an estimated number of work (in man weeks) associated with it and each one has an estimated delivery date, a desired delivery date.
Any worker who is working on more than one thing at a time has their time multiplied by a "task switching co-efficient" which is
1.2 - ( 0.20 * number of projects they are doing simultaneously).
So a worker doing only 1 project is fully productive, 2 projects, they are only 80% productive, 3 projects, they are 60% productive, etc...
Each "customer" (manager) gets shown what their calculated delivery date is, and what it would be if their project was deferred until it could have only dedicated workers on it. They also get shown predictions of what the delivery dates are if more resources are added to the development group.
It blows the minds of the customer(Managers) when they see deliveries get later when resources are added! Each worker has a familiarity co-efficient that is calculated by multiplying the inverse of the project complexity rank by the number of weeks they have been on the project. How valid is all this stuff? per individual - not very valid, but overall it forces the other managers to understand the impacts of resources and changes on the amount of time it will take their project to get done. By making it mathematical, and more realistic than simply (Manweeks of work / # of workers) It forces them to look more realistically at the problem.
I have an internal web page that lets other customer/managers tweak the schedule to see what happens when they make changes. I encourage them to use it during meetings so each customer/manager can see what the other customer/manager thinks each others project should be delayed by. (They fight each other, not development.)
I also use Individual co-efficients for each worker: productivity, affinity, flexibility, robustness as well as each worker having a different calendar. These measures are kept private. Only I see them, but they are used to calculate the time it takes to produce each project. They are kept private for 2 reasons, #1 - the managers waiting for delivery will try to force the development department to put the engineers they perceive as best, on 'their' project. #2 - to protect the privacy of the engineers. These rankings are arbitrary and , being produced by a human, are also fallible. I refuse to let these "labels" become public, there is to much potential for harm.
Affinity- a ranking of that person's Project domain knowledge and how expert they are with the languages and tools being used on that project (and how much they like/dislike the tools or the domain). Used as part of their productivity rating, which - note this: is different for each project!
flelxibility- People multi-task differently. some folks are 140% productive when working on just 1 project and drop to 50% productive when they have to work on more than one project at a time. So each person gets their own co-efficient on this as well. Some people are best used by dedicating them to one thing at a time. Forcing the "140% on 1 and 50% on 2 " people to multi-task is incredibly stupid.
robustness: This a measure of 2 things - First - how "strong" is their code algorithmicly? eg - does their code do the work by being well thought out and therefore have a 'simple' flow? Or is it a long running chain that handles each condition as a special case instead of having the solution fall out by design.
Second, What is the defect rate in their code? (includes mechanical/transcriptional defects as well as algorithmic and domain defects)
Many people in software development are naturally "single threaded" and I laugh whenever I see the job ads that include "Must be a good multi-tasker" for software developers. Forcing developers to multi-task is always a bad idea in that it usually slows down all the work being down. In IT
You don't have to take the code private to sell the product.
Under the GPL (2)
#1 You can make your own changes to the product source code
#2 You can build that product
#3 You can sell that product for any price you want.
#4 You -do not- have to publish the src code on the web.
If your customer requests a copy of the GPL source code, you give them a copy. You can charge a reasonable fee for making the copy. You can provide the copy as regular text source, or a paper printout, or a pdf file etc..
#5 If you use GPL(2) code in a product you build, you don't have to share the code you yourself created - IF IT MEETS EITHER ONE OF THESE TWO REQUIREMENTS:
#1 The GPL code you use is LGPL and all you do is link to it.
OR
#2 you structure your code so that it is only dynamically linked to the GPL(2) code. I need to double check on this one and i dont have time right now. I'll try to get back to y'all on this.
Slightly off topic, but you're a dipsxit(sic)
Hiya troll! First of all, always start with an ad hominem. It really bolsters your own argument, doesn't it?
Sorry, I thought you were a Fox news zombie-ite. Your total swallowing of the story, hook line and sinker, makes you look no smarter than Rezwan Ferdaus. So I was looking for the right word to describe the level of insipidness you displayed when you said: "This guy was defeated by the groundwork done by the FBI in tracking him, contacting him and then catching him red handed while he was planning the operation."
See let me see if I understand this - You want to give the FBI credit for good work done on "catching a terrorist" when all they did was seduce one socially isolated, depressed, unemployed 26 year kid who still lives with his parents??????
They caught nothing. They created a security theatre event in order to make news.
They would have been smarter to monitor him and see if he went and contacted an actual terrorist group. Then they could have used him for a stalking horse to actually find some real terrorists. Instead they are pretending for the news cameras complete with, yes really, Stage Props! They did a full-on, totally armored up, SWAT team deployed and helicopters overhead "ARREST ZE TERRORISTS!" when they "stormed" the "u-store-it". And they did all that when they KNEW the kid had nothing but stage props that they had supplied him with.
Fake C-4, tricked-up non-functional guns, WooHoo! thing going to be 'sploding now!
To be absolutely clear, the FBI did NOT CATCH A TERRORIST. They fooled a naive, possibly slightly mentally ill kid, into doing the things the FBI needed done in order for them to create a big news event.
How do you know that everything that he did wasn't suggested to him BY THE FBI? Because the odds are that's exactly what happened. Go look at the news reports and you'll see that he was "recruited", they came to him.
Yes, I'm pissed off - The FBI is supposed to work on security. Not making sure their department gets a good place in line at awards time or insuring they get a good chunk of the next budget go-round. They're wasting time, manpower and money that should have been much better used.
The guy was 'defeated' because he wasn't a terrorist at all. He was stupid dupe of the FBI.
And how did the FBI get to know of his plans in the first place?
"The FBI got to know of his plans in the first place" because AFTER they recruited him into their organization, they made it clear to him what he should do next. Its no different than what the Church of Scientology does when it gets a new vic.. err member, or for that matter not much different than what a terrorist recruiting cell does when they convince someone to join their cause. The FBI was giving him plans and/or nudging him in one direction or another and discussing it with him on an ongoing basis. Remember he didn't even bring a camera along when he went scope out the pentagon, so they gave him one to use!... LOL I can see it now. A big white panel van roaming around DC just stuffed full of everything your basic terrorist needs, all dolled out to them by the FBI.
I don't know how you missed it, because its required reading in almost every junior high school in america
I'm not an American, so sue me.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult you that deeply. :-) ( btw , the author's British, the book has been incorporated into the educational curricula of many places around the world, but you're right. I shouldn't have assumed you were from the US. )
Here's a fellow who given a chance, would actually go and get hold of an RC plane with explosives. It is moot whether the people supplying him were undercover FBI agents or terrorists themselves. He absoF
The guy was 'defeated' because he wasn't a terrorist at all. He was stupid dupe of the FBI.
...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
...... ahem - planning ? planning is not doing. so "Red Handed" is not quite accurate. Especially since all the things he was planning were fomented by who.....? Yes, once again "The FBI"
#1- He was recruited by the FBI so he was working for who....?
The FBI
#2 He received Fake weapons from who......?
The FBI
#3 He received funding from who.....?
The FBI
So - he never had any contact with the what.....?
Terrorists
So this whole thing was a hoax done by who.... ?
The FBI...........
Dear dipsxit I don't know how you missed it, because its required reading in almost every junior high school in america: What the FBI did here, was a rip-off of the plot of the book "1984" , with a twist of lemon.
Now dipsxit, Who said "Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America..... That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Was it Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, or Hermann Goring?
And where is this type of political campaign being practiced today?
If reading is too much of a bother, how about watching "Wag the Dog", or "Brazil", or even the movie, "1984".
He was caught "Red Handed"
I'm sorry I called you a dipshit. You're nothing but a tool. A tool with a dull finish.
I love the thinking behind this, technology ubiquitously deployed so that it's everywhere: available, literally, instantaneously. The article mentions that we, and I'm assuming we means the average American in the USA, spend an hour in the bathroom every day. And the New York Times intends for us to use some part of that time to read their newspaper. hmmm...
People spending that hour in the bathroom are busy doing their daily grooming which pretty much ties up their active eyesight and participation.
The very first thing I thought about the product was, a mirror that lets you surf the web while you're grooming? The idea is good geeky fun, but is it really useful and usable?
Now that I have read the article and watched the first video, I can see that some good thought has been put into how people may want to use it.
Yes, people's hands are busy while they're in the bathroom, (and they should wash their hands before they touch anything...), So a mouse interface is not a good idea. The innards of the mouse would soon be gunked up, rendering it useless. Between hairspray, steamy water vapor, and makeup powder, even an optical mouse would be inoperable. And a women's bathroom would be just as bad. :-)
The way to make this product successful is to put a much better voice response interface on it. The user should be able to have a conversation with the product and have it act as their agent. In the demo the system is responding by changing what it displays on the screen. You should be able to "chat" with it. If you're shaving, or if your putting on false eyelashes, you should be able to ask the system a question, and have it respond to you by voice rather than forcing you to go look at something. Any time you're waving a sharp blade near your face, or gluing anything on your eye, you don't want to take your eyes off what you're doing....
And the read back voice has to be natural and pleasant sounding, and naturally, customized to the user's preferences. Of course the Kinect system should recognize each individual it has been set up with and switch to their user profile as soon as they recognize them.
For example, if the user says "where is the movie the way you were showing today?" Notice that the user doesn't put the movie title in quotes or specially delineate it in any way verbally. The user has to be able to rely on the system to successfully parse the verbal utterance when it is the normal and natural way people speak.
The system needs to respond with "that movie is showing at 4 different theaters that are near you" (if the movie was only showing at one or perhaps 2 theaters, then the system would immediately say the names of those theaters, as in "that movie is showing at the Strand, and the Cinemax".
The system will need to know what theaters the user is already familiar with. That is the kind of information it learns over time from interacting with the user. As further training for the system, as the system interacts with users from all over, it should tokenize the interaction sequences, remove all the personal identifying information, and upload the tokenized interaction sequence to a central repository. That way the central repository can learn all the different ways users have of interacting with different named things and improve the number of things the agent side know how to do. For example, an object named "movie" has its own name, [title], and each movie can be associated with one or more theaters. Each theater is associated with a physical address, and a phone number, and of course its own name. And the relationship between movie and theater has associations with multiple show time/sub-theater pairs. The show time/theater pair that is associated with the movie-theater relationship has 2 properties associated with it, the 1st is the time the movie will be shown, and the 2nd one is which sub-theater at that theater the movie will be shown in at that time. Since the system understands all these relationships, when the user asks "what t