The cost is relevant, because we are getting ripped off by medical suppliers (even if indirectly). My girlfriend just broke her leg and here's what we saw at the medical supply store:
Exactly. And think about it, really. Why would you seek medical help and possibly go on prescription antidepressants if you weren't depressed? For fun? I don't think drugs like Welbutrin have much potential for abuse anyway.
I've been using the Mouse-Trak Professional for over ten years, daily use (coding and gaming). It looks awesome, it feels awesome, it IS awesome. I think they even make one with a USB interface nowadays.
It is not a myth. ICC kicks the crap out of GCC. I didn't believe it until I had access to a computing cluster (Intel processors) with ICC installed. My ANSI C code runs about twice as fast using ICC than with GCC. Would you really expect anything different?
As always, YMMV, but I suggest that anyone who doubts this to download Intel's compiler (it's free as in beer) and try it out.
It's not open source, which does suck. But it does consistently produce faster code.
What would the harm be in that? Would he have been somehow injured by speaking?
YES!
Remember, the TSA (and police in general) are NOT on your side. They have no right to any information from you beyond what's legally required. If he just told them what they wanted to hear, he'd be giving up his freedoms under the fourth amendment. THAT is the harm in this situation. Additionally, once you give up your freedoms, you usually have to fight pretty hard to get them back.
If, for example, you send photons of four different wavelengths, you can send two bits per photon instead of one. If you use 16 different wavelengths, you can send four bits per photon.
How about this: What if you used a monochromatic light source in a single mode, polarization-maintaining fiber and had your "bits" be the polarization phase? If you divided the phase (0-2*Pi) into 256 chunks, you could send a byte per photon! With more sensitive equipment, you could get even more.
Anyone heard of this?
I still don't see how that is. A heating element has a power factor very close to 1, so there's no reactive losses there. I can't imagine that the line transmission losses are greater than the energy it takes to drill, process, and transport (and fight for) oil.
Electric heat isn't virtually 100% efficient, it IS 100% efficient. I don't know why people are arguing with you on this, or why the parent states otherwise. Having ten 100W light bulbs is *exactly* the same as having a 1kW heater. (Well, I guess a small fraction of the energy could shine out your window FWIW.)
Come on, you don't blame her? I can understand if she has computer problems, but let's not pretend that this has anything to do with dropping out of school. She dropped out because she's an idiot, period.
What are you willing to bet that the school has a computer lab... oh wait!
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As I said, there is no excuse. The school has allocated resources to deal with exactly what her problem was, but she couldn't be bothered to lift a finger to educate herself.
If you don't have root access to modify/etc/hosts, you can always add a ip address/hostname pair to your ~/.bash_hostfile. The tab completion works as expected.
I think you misunderstand the scope and purpose of arXiv. arXiv is a repository for *preprints*.
By uploading the file to arXiv before submitting it, not only do you ensure that those that can't afford $10,000+ subscription fees can access the article, but you open up your findings to a much wider international audience.
The lack of peer review is not necessarily a liability in this situation
To build a machine that is intelligent, we need to understand how our own intelligence works. If our intelligence was simple enough to understand and decipher, we humans would be too simple to understand it or decipher it.
It is a fallacy to think that humans cannot create something more intelligent than ourselves. The creation of AI is analogous to the creation of another human: you don't give the being intelligence, rather you give it the ability to obtain intelligence from its experiences. You don't even need to know how it works!
That's the beauty of programs that can adapt/self modify.
Even better, what if this "18+" flag could somehow appear on the outside of the game box? That way, parents could avoid buying the game in the first place, instead of waiting until they get home to discover that their kids are below its target age range.
This gives me an idea. Let's devise a way so that parents could somehow know what video games their kids were playing. That way they could choose what they felt appropriate for their child.
This could work for other influences in the child's life, like friends, TV, movies, etc.
If only there were a way for a parent to get involved.
Just a FYI about emachineshop.com: First, they contract out to machinists in the US. Second, their quality is... so-so. Nothing compared to a scientific machine shop.
I like to remember temperature as 1/T=dS/dE (T=temperature, S=entropy, E=energy). So you can view absolute zero as a situation with no energy. Since the lowest energy state of a quantum system is always nonzero, this can't exist. Remember, electrons don't move around an atom. That doesn't make any sense.
As for absolute hot, if you use this temperature definition then it would exist as the maximum entropy available in a certain region.
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I don't know if anyone can help you. I'm not even 30 years old and I figured out all of that shit a long time ago.
The cost is relevant, because we are getting ripped off by medical suppliers (even if indirectly). My girlfriend just broke her leg and here's what we saw at the medical supply store:
It's completely a case of price fixing.
Exactly. And think about it, really. Why would you seek medical help and possibly go on prescription antidepressants if you weren't depressed? For fun? I don't think drugs like Welbutrin have much potential for abuse anyway.
I've been using the Mouse-Trak Professional for over ten years, daily use (coding and gaming). It looks awesome, it feels awesome, it IS awesome. I think they even make one with a USB interface nowadays.
You are not in the shit. Secure communication can be established on an insecure channel using quantum cryptography. Look it up on Wikipedia.
It is not a myth. ICC kicks the crap out of GCC. I didn't believe it until I had access to a computing cluster (Intel processors) with ICC installed. My ANSI C code runs about twice as fast using ICC than with GCC. Would you really expect anything different?
As always, YMMV, but I suggest that anyone who doubts this to download Intel's compiler (it's free as in beer) and try it out.
It's not open source, which does suck. But it does consistently produce faster code.
What would the harm be in that? Would he have been somehow injured by speaking?
YES!
Remember, the TSA (and police in general) are NOT on your side. They have no right to any information from you beyond what's legally required. If he just told them what they wanted to hear, he'd be giving up his freedoms under the fourth amendment. THAT is the harm in this situation. Additionally, once you give up your freedoms, you usually have to fight pretty hard to get them back.
If, for example, you send photons of four different wavelengths, you can send two bits per photon instead of one. If you use 16 different wavelengths, you can send four bits per photon.
How about this: What if you used a monochromatic light source in a single mode, polarization-maintaining fiber and had your "bits" be the polarization phase? If you divided the phase (0-2*Pi) into 256 chunks, you could send a byte per photon! With more sensitive equipment, you could get even more. Anyone heard of this?
I still don't see how that is. A heating element has a power factor very close to 1, so there's no reactive losses there. I can't imagine that the line transmission losses are greater than the energy it takes to drill, process, and transport (and fight for) oil.
Electric heat isn't virtually 100% efficient, it IS 100% efficient. I don't know why people are arguing with you on this, or why the parent states otherwise. Having ten 100W light bulbs is *exactly* the same as having a 1kW heater. (Well, I guess a small fraction of the energy could shine out your window FWIW.)
I can now theoretically steal "the internet" with a flatbed truck and a lift.
Carmen Sandiego?
Check it out! http://atomoptics.uoregon.edu/~zoinks/
... fool me twice - can't get fooled again!
The Student Computer Help staff assist MATC students with questions about:
MATC student email accounts
the Microsoft Office suite,
installing the Wisconsin Integrated Software Catalog products,
Blackboard and various other curriculum-based software packages at MATC.
As I said, there is no excuse. The school has allocated resources to deal with exactly what her problem was, but she couldn't be bothered to lift a finger to educate herself.
Okay... so what's your query?
If you don't have root access to modify /etc/hosts, you can always add a ip address/hostname pair to your ~/.bash_hostfile. The tab completion works as expected.
465 transportation security officers have been terminated for theft since May 1, 2003
Does anyone find this a little extreme? That's a little over one firing for theft every 4 days!
Makes one wonder...
Together they cost less than one tenth of a per cent of world GDP. If the human race can not afford this, then it doesn't deserve the epithet 'human'.
I think you misunderstand the scope and purpose of arXiv. arXiv is a repository for *preprints*.
By uploading the file to arXiv before submitting it, not only do you ensure that those that can't afford $10,000+ subscription fees can access the article, but you open up your findings to a much wider international audience.
The lack of peer review is not necessarily a liability in this situation
It is a fallacy to think that humans cannot create something more intelligent than ourselves. The creation of AI is analogous to the creation of another human: you don't give the being intelligence, rather you give it the ability to obtain intelligence from its experiences. You don't even need to know how it works!
That's the beauty of programs that can adapt/self modify.
This gives me an idea. Let's devise a way so that parents could somehow know what video games their kids were playing. That way they could choose what they felt appropriate for their child.
This could work for other influences in the child's life, like friends, TV, movies, etc.
If only there were a way for a parent to get involved.
Just a FYI about emachineshop.com: First, they contract out to machinists in the US. Second, their quality is... so-so. Nothing compared to a scientific machine shop.
When an object is too bright for a CCD camera, it causes excess charge to "bloom" into adjacent pixels. It's a common artifact.
I agree. These "buttons" waste too much space compared to the text links.
I like to remember temperature as 1/T=dS/dE (T=temperature, S=entropy, E=energy). So you can view absolute zero as a situation with no energy. Since the lowest energy state of a quantum system is always nonzero, this can't exist. Remember, electrons don't move around an atom. That doesn't make any sense.
As for absolute hot, if you use this temperature definition then it would exist as the maximum entropy available in a certain region.