You should check out the anti-sedition laws during WWI. Basically anything that could be construed as "damaging the morale of the armed forces" could land you in jail for years. Now, I know we currently have our problems with constitutional protections but they're not the worst we've seen, and in some respects we've come a long way. I don't hold much with people who whinge about how everything is worse than it has ever been: that's simply not true. We've gone from a country where only white landowners could vote to one where practically everyone can.
I vote trans-continental trench, with a very slight gradient east-west (and another in the opposite direction). All you need to do is put something on wheels and give it a shove. Use regenerative breaking to slow it down and partly power the lift to get it back up at the other end. Gravity does practically all the work, especially if you use tidal power to hoist the cargo up.
Stereo != 3D. These cameras would actually produce 3D data; with stereo, you have to do really complicated pattern matching to try to produce depth values. Most humans can do it instinctively. Except me, born with squiffy eyes and practically no depth perception.
Tor gave it out as an ebook a couple of weeks ago. Very good, I'm not sure how much like Childhood's End it is. I didn't like the sequel as much, but I enjoyed Spin a lot.
Damn terrorists, not playing by the rules. Oh, wait. They're terrorists, that's what they do.
All I see are innocent Israelis being killed on one side and innocent Palestinians being killed on the other, all for the sake of various stupid ideologies.
I get the opposite: I carry around a cheap Palm V from way back when, mostly for ebook reading. The screen is remarkably usable, and it's practically the cheapest "ebook reader" available. Screw a $400 Kindle. People ask me whether it's a phone, at which point I have to remind them that there was a time when not everything and its mother was a phone; I tend to say "It's like a Blackberry... from the 90s."
I just multiplied.9999 by itself however many times it was, treating each "99.99%" as a probability that each link is currently working. The chance that they are all working should be the product of all the probabilities, right?
Those hijackers weren't exactly concerned with being caught after bringing down the WTC.
Oh, sarcasm monitor flaring to life. You reckon someone else did 9/11. Jeez, if there was evidence then someone would put it on WikiLeaks or something. We would know.
In its original usage, most inmates of an asylum would be considered "idiots", as in "A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years" according to this site.
Gyroscopes actually detect orientation. Think ship's compasses: they'll always point- or trend to point- in the same direction. Accelerometers measure actual acceleration, which has to be (as somebody else pointed out) integrated twice to provide position information. Something like dead-reckoning. If you wanted to figure out your heading with an accelerometer, you would have to start from a known heading and measure- in excruciating accuracy- every single change in acceleration from then until now. On the other hand, a properly calibrated gyroscope will simply tell you, much like a magnetic compass (well, sort of).
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Awesome, with this method you could easily rickroll the NSA. Point it at a child porn honeypot link and you can set the FBI on them too.
You should check out the anti-sedition laws during WWI. Basically anything that could be construed as "damaging the morale of the armed forces" could land you in jail for years. Now, I know we currently have our problems with constitutional protections but they're not the worst we've seen, and in some respects we've come a long way. I don't hold much with people who whinge about how everything is worse than it has ever been: that's simply not true. We've gone from a country where only white landowners could vote to one where practically everyone can.
I thought Slashdot itself was a mental ward.
I vote trans-continental trench, with a very slight gradient east-west (and another in the opposite direction). All you need to do is put something on wheels and give it a shove. Use regenerative breaking to slow it down and partly power the lift to get it back up at the other end. Gravity does practically all the work, especially if you use tidal power to hoist the cargo up.
Sure, but we'd only have however time it takes for the strangelet/black hole to eat up the planet to think about it.
Hmm, this begs the question: Which is easier to get, unobtainium or girls? I can tell you which is easier to keep...
Stereo != 3D. These cameras would actually produce 3D data; with stereo, you have to do really complicated pattern matching to try to produce depth values. Most humans can do it instinctively. Except me, born with squiffy eyes and practically no depth perception.
*cough*2000election*cough*
Tor gave it out as an ebook a couple of weeks ago. Very good, I'm not sure how much like Childhood's End it is. I didn't like the sequel as much, but I enjoyed Spin a lot.
Damn terrorists, not playing by the rules. Oh, wait. They're terrorists, that's what they do.
All I see are innocent Israelis being killed on one side and innocent Palestinians being killed on the other, all for the sake of various stupid ideologies.
I am so using that excuse:
"Who drunk all the beer?"
"A virus pwned your computer and helped itself. I couldn't do a thing."
I get the opposite: I carry around a cheap Palm V from way back when, mostly for ebook reading. The screen is remarkably usable, and it's practically the cheapest "ebook reader" available. Screw a $400 Kindle. People ask me whether it's a phone, at which point I have to remind them that there was a time when not everything and its mother was a phone; I tend to say "It's like a Blackberry... from the 90s."
Mod "-1 no paragraphs, run-on sentences".
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Here, have a comma. And a period.
May they serve you well.
Hah, and my friends call me good at math. Good at math, bad at numbers.
I just multiplied .9999 by itself however many times it was, treating each "99.99%" as a probability that each link is currently working. The chance that they are all working should be the product of all the probabilities, right?
Everything else being equal, that should still result in 99.94% uptime, or .04% fail. The point is still valid, of course.
It's "invoked", Godwin's Law has an apostrophe, and you need to capitalize Nazi.
Those hijackers weren't exactly concerned with being caught after bringing down the WTC.
Oh, sarcasm monitor flaring to life. You reckon someone else did 9/11. Jeez, if there was evidence then someone would put it on WikiLeaks or something. We would know.
Stash a HD in a UPS
Iz in ur quantum box
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Dunno, ask the devs nicely and yeah, they probably will.
... but the pressure on Mars is about 6 millibars, or six one-thousandths of the air pressure on Earth. High pressure is not exactly an issue.
In its original usage, most inmates of an asylum would be considered "idiots", as in "A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years" according to this site.
1. Get a bunch of MPEGs
.txts
2. Convert each frame into an "ASCII image" version
3. Put them all online, as
4. Write a flash viewer
5. ASCIITube.com
6. Profit!
Gyroscopes actually detect orientation. Think ship's compasses: they'll always point- or trend to point- in the same direction. Accelerometers measure actual acceleration, which has to be (as somebody else pointed out) integrated twice to provide position information. Something like dead-reckoning. If you wanted to figure out your heading with an accelerometer, you would have to start from a known heading and measure- in excruciating accuracy- every single change in acceleration from then until now. On the other hand, a properly calibrated gyroscope will simply tell you, much like a magnetic compass (well, sort of).