The best part of MiniDisc ATRAC players, for me, was that they ran on a single AA battery and lasted forever. The disc spins up and about a minute or more of music data is buffered into memory. Then the disc spun down.
It was a true masterpiece of clever engineering. Too bad Sony hobbled it with SCMS copy protection and not getting into the computer data storage segment until it was far too late to make any difference.
Is that really what the 'Hand of God' in chess means? In chess, this refers to players breaking the rules,
e.g. repositioning pieces after a move is completed.
So, is this article saying that the iPod Shuffle was breaking the rules of pure shuffling and nobody was noticing? Or is the author referring to some kind of magical intuition?
Yes, and coax can be an abnormally low-value scrap partially because scrappers assume all coax is copper-clad steel instead of pure copper.
There's no real performance value in having pure copper coaxial cable, even for satellite television, so nearly everything is installed with copper-clad steel cable, which is cheap steel with an electroplated copper coating. The very rare exception are the satellite internet providers WildBlue, Exede, and HughesNet Jupiter, who have an abnormal fixation on pure copper RG-6 cabling even when copper-clad steel is superior. You find these in mostly rural markets.
The cheaper copper-clad steel cable has the same RF performance and has superior power-carrying performance than pure copper because satellite TV requires the LNB to be powered with 13/19 volts at 500 mA, and satellite internet requires even higher current. Copper-clad steel is a much stiffer cable and can be easily identified due to its stiffness and the silvery-white colored center you can see when you cut the cable.
Even the cutting-edge Verizon FiOS uses RG-59 for the service entry if it exists, or RG-6 for new installations. This cable's capacity is more than double the Verizon FiOS maximum physical speed. Not bad for the 40-year-old dusty cable in your house.
RG-59 cable is also perfectly capable of carrying more than 1 GB data everywhere in your house via the MOCA standard. No need to pull new Cat5e or Cat6 cable for gigabit internet throughout your house. The MOCA/HomePlug adapters are cheaper than pulling new cable.
There is literally no good reason to remove even obsolete RG-59 from your home. The sole exception is when you wish to deliver satellite television inside your home. That requires RG-6 cable, but only for the drop from your satellite dish and its switch to your satellite receiver. For multi-room satellite service you might not even need more than that first drop. Read on.
Even if you use satellite television, the multi-room DVR of satellite TV and most cable companies (including FiOS) uses MOCA to transmit the video, and it works perfectly fine over ancient RG-59 cable.
That's an interesting point. I have an eight-core FX-8320 processor and with its huge compute performance and massive on-chip cache for each core I can't really justify upgrading until the computer it's on burns itself out.
Trouble is these 5-year-old Vishera FX parts are so good they're still very valuable and expensive, like those amazing AMD Opterons produced more than 7 years ago.
Yes, VMware does use shared memory on Windows hosts.
in VMware, the VM balloon driver tells all its "guest" VMs that it has all its allocated memory available even when it isn't (when it is shared).
Hyper-V, though, tells its "guest" VMs that the true amount of memory is exactly what is available right now. This means that Linux VMs on Hyper-V invoke the out-of-memory-killer since these so-called "8 GB" VMs are actually getting "1 GB" on an over-subscribed host.
Straw man argument depends on the breaking of the WiFi network. Of course if you're on the network you can monitor activity. However, breaking WiFi remains a serious challenge for over a decade.
This is why we have huge bridges ending at stoplights, emptying into neighborhoods with no street capacity, and having sharp, hairpin turn approaches.
The Holland tunnel ends at a traffic circle. A traffic circle. And an intensely dense neighborhood.
The Triborough Bridge Manhattan approach abrubtly stops at an abrubt 90-degree angle to the northwest and a 45-degree angle to the northeast.
At least we have I-95, after leaving the George Washington Bridge, lets us reach the Bronx, practically the only Interstate in Manhattan (they call part of this route "under the apartments").
And it's a funny amusement park where the Long Island Expressway just kind of oozes out of the Queens Midtown Tunnel.
And those are less than half of the results of the anti-Moses movement.
Yeah, none of it makes sense. But back to the topic. Nobody seems to remember how bad and seedy lower Manhattan used to be before gentrification transformed it into a museum piece today.
One fun thing to know and tell about about Mario Cuomo, though, is that he did make an off-handed comment about the impossibly ridiculous traffic problems in the City. He suggested banning personal automobiles as a solution. Really.
In another posting, people were complaining how hard it is to write skills for the Amazon Echo by trying to write the skill so it can catch every possible phrase spoken. They concluded, "this is not A.I." Well, technically, A.I. is a massively complex decision tree, so, yes, it is A.I.
On that note, Amazon Lex is one of the services that you should be looking for if you want to know more about A.I. on AWS to create artificial conversations without writing every possible phrase.
The Palm Treo, Centro, and Pre keyboards were better. They were hard, tacky rubber domes. This made it easy to hit the correct key with your thumb. Flat keys are hard to hit accurately.
It surprises me they use RG-6 when RG-56 was typical the last time I looked (but that was a few years ago). No doubt it's copper-clad steel and not pure copper. Pure copper is expensive stuff. I know because I have a spool of it.
I studied A.I. in the 1990s. The preferred platform was a Lisp interpreter. The algorithms trees of possible outputs with weighted scores based on the parsed input.
Later on, a field called Expert Computing branched off this work.
Around the same time, neural networks, which are inspired by how we thought the brain worked, was starting to come into fashion.
However, fundamentally, A.I. is a decision system. Much of the brain was thought (and some still think) to be enormous decision systems with references to other systems kind of like foreign keys in a database. The problem of intuition and epiphany were a paradox here. Emotion was a show-stopper. Imagination was hard to envision.
Then I turned to more practical fields in computer science that couldn't ultimately become self-aware and decide our fate in a microsecond.
I don't know how much longer i can hold this thing.
That's not what monotone means. Alexa is anything *but* monotone and the author would know this if they ever actually used the service. The voice is moderatly "sing-song" cadence like a radio news reader.
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The best part of MiniDisc ATRAC players, for me, was that they ran on a single AA battery and lasted forever. The disc spins up and about a minute or more of music data is buffered into memory. Then the disc spun down.
It was a true masterpiece of clever engineering. Too bad Sony hobbled it with SCMS copy protection and not getting into the computer data storage segment until it was far too late to make any difference.
Is that really what the 'Hand of God' in chess means? In chess, this refers to players breaking the rules,
e.g. repositioning pieces after a move is completed.
So, is this article saying that the iPod Shuffle was breaking the rules of pure shuffling and nobody was noticing? Or is the author referring to some kind of magical intuition?
If you're in the mood for a $5 burger patty, it's not a bad deal. The clothing is unexpectedly good, too.
Yes, and coax can be an abnormally low-value scrap partially because scrappers assume all coax is copper-clad steel instead of pure copper.
There's no real performance value in having pure copper coaxial cable, even for satellite television, so nearly everything is installed with copper-clad steel cable, which is cheap steel with an electroplated copper coating. The very rare exception are the satellite internet providers WildBlue, Exede, and HughesNet Jupiter, who have an abnormal fixation on pure copper RG-6 cabling even when copper-clad steel is superior. You find these in mostly rural markets.
The cheaper copper-clad steel cable has the same RF performance and has superior power-carrying performance than pure copper because satellite TV requires the LNB to be powered with 13/19 volts at 500 mA, and satellite internet requires even higher current. Copper-clad steel is a much stiffer cable and can be easily identified due to its stiffness and the silvery-white colored center you can see when you cut the cable.
Even the cutting-edge Verizon FiOS uses RG-59 for the service entry if it exists, or RG-6 for new installations. This cable's capacity is more than double the Verizon FiOS maximum physical speed. Not bad for the 40-year-old dusty cable in your house.
RG-59 cable is also perfectly capable of carrying more than 1 GB data everywhere in your house via the MOCA standard. No need to pull new Cat5e or Cat6 cable for gigabit internet throughout your house. The MOCA/HomePlug adapters are cheaper than pulling new cable.
There is literally no good reason to remove even obsolete RG-59 from your home. The sole exception is when you wish to deliver satellite television inside your home. That requires RG-6 cable, but only for the drop from your satellite dish and its switch to your satellite receiver. For multi-room satellite service you might not even need more than that first drop. Read on.
Even if you use satellite television, the multi-room DVR of satellite TV and most cable companies (including FiOS) uses MOCA to transmit the video, and it works perfectly fine over ancient RG-59 cable.
That's an interesting point. I have an eight-core FX-8320 processor and with its huge compute performance and massive on-chip cache for each core I can't really justify upgrading until the computer it's on burns itself out.
Trouble is these 5-year-old Vishera FX parts are so good they're still very valuable and expensive, like those amazing AMD Opterons produced more than 7 years ago.
When using Emacs, the tabs/spaces argument is moot.
When spaces are used, Emacs handles that automatically.
When tabs are used, Emacs also handles that automatically and elegantly.
When both tabs and spaces are used, Emacs also handles that automatically, elegantly, and beautifully.
The world might be a much better place if we all used Emacs.
Yes, VMware does use shared memory on Windows hosts.
in VMware, the VM balloon driver tells all its "guest" VMs that it has all its allocated memory available even when it isn't (when it is shared).
Hyper-V, though, tells its "guest" VMs that the true amount of memory is exactly what is available right now. This means that Linux VMs on Hyper-V invoke the out-of-memory-killer since these so-called "8 GB" VMs are actually getting "1 GB" on an over-subscribed host.
The only problem is that Hyper-V is really bad at sharing memory among VMs. You'd be wasting money compared to VMware, honestly.
We called it On-Premises-as-a-Service, or OPaaS.
I shih tsu you not.
Straw man argument depends on the breaking of the WiFi network. Of course if you're on the network you can monitor activity. However, breaking WiFi remains a serious challenge for over a decade.
Another non-story.
Sad but true.
There aren't 35 million npmjs developers. There are 35 million npmjs uploaders. That's all. This is a non-story.
This is why we have huge bridges ending at stoplights, emptying into neighborhoods with no street capacity, and having sharp, hairpin turn approaches.
The Holland tunnel ends at a traffic circle. A traffic circle. And an intensely dense neighborhood.
The Triborough Bridge Manhattan approach abrubtly stops at an abrubt 90-degree angle to the northwest and a 45-degree angle to the northeast.
At least we have I-95, after leaving the George Washington Bridge, lets us reach the Bronx, practically the only Interstate in Manhattan (they call part of this route "under the apartments").
And it's a funny amusement park where the Long Island Expressway just kind of oozes out of the Queens Midtown Tunnel.
And those are less than half of the results of the anti-Moses movement.
Yeah, none of it makes sense. But back to the topic. Nobody seems to remember how bad and seedy lower Manhattan used to be before gentrification transformed it into a museum piece today.
One fun thing to know and tell about about Mario Cuomo, though, is that he did make an off-handed comment about the impossibly ridiculous traffic problems in the City. He suggested banning personal automobiles as a solution. Really.
In another posting, people were complaining how hard it is to write skills for the Amazon Echo by trying to write the skill so it can catch every possible phrase spoken. They concluded, "this is not A.I." Well, technically, A.I. is a massively complex decision tree, so, yes, it is A.I.
On that note, Amazon Lex is one of the services that you should be looking for if you want to know more about A.I. on AWS to create artificial conversations without writing every possible phrase.
Well, nobody asked for Amazon Prime, either.
Jeff Bezos: Nobody asked for one of our most popular services
There's a real reason USB 3 can be a problem.
Don't we all remember this?
https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/LH4PPgVrKVN
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3robzo/google_spreadsheet_for_usbc_cables_with_benson/
The Palm Treo, Centro, and Pre keyboards were better. They were hard, tacky rubber domes. This made it easy to hit the correct key with your thumb. Flat keys are hard to hit accurately.
It surprises me they use RG-6 when RG-56 was typical the last time I looked (but that was a few years ago). No doubt it's copper-clad steel and not pure copper. Pure copper is expensive stuff. I know because I have a spool of it.
Well, at least I can still use my compression tool and RG/6 cable for installing new satellite dishes.
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
I studied A.I. in the 1990s. The preferred platform was a Lisp interpreter. The algorithms trees of possible outputs with weighted scores based on the parsed input.
Later on, a field called Expert Computing branched off this work.
Around the same time, neural networks, which are inspired by how we thought the brain worked, was starting to come into fashion.
However, fundamentally, A.I. is a decision system. Much of the brain was thought (and some still think) to be enormous decision systems with references to other systems kind of like foreign keys in a database. The problem of intuition and epiphany were a paradox here. Emotion was a show-stopper. Imagination was hard to envision.
Then I turned to more practical fields in computer science that couldn't ultimately become self-aware and decide our fate in a microsecond.
I don't know how much longer i can hold this thing.
I knew BitDefender were on to something good.
They offer a free version and even the full version has near-negligible impact on performance.
And it was one of only three that passed all tests.
Did you not look at Amazon Lex for the voice part?
https://aws.amazon.com/lex/
That's not what monotone means. Alexa is anything *but* monotone and the author would know this if they ever actually used the service. The voice is moderatly "sing-song" cadence like a radio news reader.
I'm not sure you can call it "cloud backup" but Amazon Cloud Drive does not have incremental versions. Nor does Microsoft OneDrive.
Yeah, it's from a couple of years ago. I'm sure it's lower now.