Encyclopedias in general are not allowed to be cited in essays and research papers. They're starting points, providing cursory information on a subject and, at best, giving terms and vocabulary to begin a search into the real meat of the subject.
The chances depend on the desired outcome. The chance of any individual ticket hitting the win is still 50/50. The chance of having a win on either ticket can be demonstrated by this table of outcomes:
Win Win Win Lose Lose Win Lose Lose
So, yes, you have a better chance of winning once with two tickets, assuming the odds are still 50/50.
Actually, 1G isn't very comfortable. You'll experience it the next time you fall to your doom. For the rest of us, we're typically at some very small acceleration rate, as the floor prevents us from accelerating in the "down" direction.
Good thing about the 1G acceleration rate is that it provides for a comfortable flight experience for the passengers. Having to turn the ship at the halfway point and decelerate seems like too delicate of an operation. Wouldn't it be better to just build a second engine at the "front" of the ship and tell everyone to get in their seats during the switch over? In fact, the design of such a personnel carring vessel would probably place the nuclear reactor at the center between the two engines with the passenger areas arranged in a cylinder and connected by some spokes. It'd probably look like a crazy space bicycle wheel.
This reminds me of that old 1995 email joke about having a scanner in your screen, and you could hold your face up to it and it would take your picture. Of course, all it did was load a picture of a monkey and said this was you.
Same here. Logitech Marble Mouse. Mine is an older one though, and only a two button. But damn if this thing won't survive forever. I've only had to open it up a couple of times to clean out built up lint and gunk, and it was practically good as new.
The only downside I've ever noticed to trackballs is that the ball has to be just a little oily. When I clean all of my stuff, the ball becomes too tactile and loses it's ease of spin. WD40 is too much, so I end up having to hold the ball in my hand for a little while, just to get some skin-oils on it and get that smooth glide.
I'm a big fan of Psi ( http://psi-im.org/ ). It's not a multi-service client in the strict sense, but if you find yourself a good jabber server with the right transports installed, it's just as good, if not better, than a multi-service client.
The google TechTalk on this and StubMail implementation actually doesn't even use the Subject, they use a UDP notification packet, which only contains the sender's id and a retrieve URI. Their solution is to say that only packets coming from known contacts (address book and public/provate keyed) should be automatically downloaded.
The name is crappy, but the concept is a really good start. It's a shame this never caught on. Basically, Email's Subjects and Bodies are split, and the Subject is sent to the Receiver, and the Body is stored at the Sender's server. When the Receiver gets the Subject notification, they connect to the Sender's server and download the Body.
The point of this strange scheme would be to crush spammers under the weight of their own To list, by having millions of incoming connections. The burden of storage goes to the Sender, not the Receiver.
That should be one of the technologies Web 11.0 should implement. Somebody call up Al Gore and tell him this.
My only disagreement with you is on the case where we bar immigrants from coming to America. I have no problem with the immigrants becoming naturalized Americans. The issue with me is the legal status they come here under, namely H1-B. No effort is made to turn them into citizens.
The problem, as I see it, isn't that the government has been doing to little, but rather, doing too much. In classic economics, when there aren't enough workers to fill the roles, salaries and working conditions increase for the valued few. People see how well they're treated and desire these jobs, and go to college to learn how to do it.
In the current state, the government fills far too many of those jobs with foreign born workers, offering them no chance to become American citizens and forcing them to work for a fifth of what American workers cost. These foreigners are abused with long hours, and then sent back to where ever they came from either when they show discontent, or what citizenship is in their sights.
The solution is to make efforts to make these foreign workers into American workers, so they can compete the same way we do. Until that happens, the wage gap will continue to be wide, and the abuses will continue.
I think the politically correct term in Multi-Level Management. The term Pyramid Scheme might offend someone.:P
On a more serious note, I thought the best way to get more money out of a customer than the advertised price of the product was to put it on a lease with an interest rate.
It sounds to me that we're approaching a problem that reliance on Moore's Law won't fix, and it'll be the domain of Software Engineers to find better ways to manage the data. This may also include development of a new class of even more specialized video compression technologies.
Great idea... the ultimate water park. The path down the massive water slide would be controlled by the very calculations going on. People could be used as math symbols!
Poor Sammy had his 1st Ammendment Rights violated. The publication of a worm that was never deployed is just a publication, and by constitutional right, Congress can make no law banning it (free press), and the Judicial system can cite no law that convicts him.
If I knew Sammy personally, I'd say he should call one of those constitutional legal groups and ask them to help him make an appeal.
As long as you place/home in it's own partition, and make a partition for each distro, you can try out as many as you want. Well, in theory. But, the practice in trying to get several distros to cooperate would teach you tons about linux.
Oh man would that be sweet. Of course, the experienced sh user would tell you that the way you typed it is roughly the way it already works. I need to read up on the man page behind find, but yeah.
Incidentally, I have my browser's homepage point to the bookmarks html file in my profile, so, say I type in slashdot, autofind goes straight to the link.
Actually, if you stopped for a moment to think about what's actually *your* data, in terms of original creation, a gigabyte is overkill. Individual people have a My Documents directory, containing text files and word documents, their program profiles, bookmarks, and emails (received and sent). I'm sure some extremophiles would contest me on the size, but for the average person, I don't think there is that much there.
This isn't that new of a concept, Spamhole has been doing this for years now. Though, some of the major server-side spam blockers will filter out spamhole before it ever reaches your inbox.
XML exists so that the "version" field in binary files doesn't spill over to the next byte, making it impossible for old software to interpret new features.
But hey, lets give a round of applause for XML. It makes manual corrections a lot easier than wipping out a reference file and a hex editor.
Slashdot Mirror
Encyclopedias in general are not allowed to be cited in essays and research papers. They're starting points, providing cursory information on a subject and, at best, giving terms and vocabulary to begin a search into the real meat of the subject.
The chances depend on the desired outcome. The chance of any individual ticket hitting the win is still 50/50. The chance of having a win on either ticket can be demonstrated by this table of outcomes:
Win Win
Win Lose
Lose Win
Lose Lose
So, yes, you have a better chance of winning once with two tickets, assuming the odds are still 50/50.
Actually, 1G isn't very comfortable. You'll experience it the next time you fall to your doom. For the rest of us, we're typically at some very small acceleration rate, as the floor prevents us from accelerating in the "down" direction.
Good thing about the 1G acceleration rate is that it provides for a comfortable flight experience for the passengers. Having to turn the ship at the halfway point and decelerate seems like too delicate of an operation. Wouldn't it be better to just build a second engine at the "front" of the ship and tell everyone to get in their seats during the switch over? In fact, the design of such a personnel carring vessel would probably place the nuclear reactor at the center between the two engines with the passenger areas arranged in a cylinder and connected by some spokes. It'd probably look like a crazy space bicycle wheel.
This reminds me of that old 1995 email joke about having a scanner in your screen, and you could hold your face up to it and it would take your picture. Of course, all it did was load a picture of a monkey and said this was you.
Same here. Logitech Marble Mouse. Mine is an older one though, and only a two button. But damn if this thing won't survive forever. I've only had to open it up a couple of times to clean out built up lint and gunk, and it was practically good as new.
The only downside I've ever noticed to trackballs is that the ball has to be just a little oily. When I clean all of my stuff, the ball becomes too tactile and loses it's ease of spin. WD40 is too much, so I end up having to hold the ball in my hand for a little while, just to get some skin-oils on it and get that smooth glide.
I'm a big fan of Psi ( http://psi-im.org/ ). It's not a multi-service client in the strict sense, but if you find yourself a good jabber server with the right transports installed, it's just as good, if not better, than a multi-service client.
make me a sandwich.
The google TechTalk on this and StubMail implementation actually doesn't even use the Subject, they use a UDP notification packet, which only contains the sender's id and a retrieve URI. Their solution is to say that only packets coming from known contacts (address book and public/provate keyed) should be automatically downloaded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Mail_2000
The name is crappy, but the concept is a really good start. It's a shame this never caught on. Basically, Email's Subjects and Bodies are split, and the Subject is sent to the Receiver, and the Body is stored at the Sender's server. When the Receiver gets the Subject notification, they connect to the Sender's server and download the Body.
The point of this strange scheme would be to crush spammers under the weight of their own To list, by having millions of incoming connections. The burden of storage goes to the Sender, not the Receiver.
That should be one of the technologies Web 11.0 should implement. Somebody call up Al Gore and tell him this.
My only disagreement with you is on the case where we bar immigrants from coming to America. I have no problem with the immigrants becoming naturalized Americans. The issue with me is the legal status they come here under, namely H1-B. No effort is made to turn them into citizens.
The problem, as I see it, isn't that the government has been doing to little, but rather, doing too much. In classic economics, when there aren't enough workers to fill the roles, salaries and working conditions increase for the valued few. People see how well they're treated and desire these jobs, and go to college to learn how to do it.
In the current state, the government fills far too many of those jobs with foreign born workers, offering them no chance to become American citizens and forcing them to work for a fifth of what American workers cost. These foreigners are abused with long hours, and then sent back to where ever they came from either when they show discontent, or what citizenship is in their sights.
The solution is to make efforts to make these foreign workers into American workers, so they can compete the same way we do. Until that happens, the wage gap will continue to be wide, and the abuses will continue.
I think the politically correct term in Multi-Level Management. The term Pyramid Scheme might offend someone. :P
On a more serious note, I thought the best way to get more money out of a customer than the advertised price of the product was to put it on a lease with an interest rate.
It sounds to me that we're approaching a problem that reliance on Moore's Law won't fix, and it'll be the domain of Software Engineers to find better ways to manage the data. This may also include development of a new class of even more specialized video compression technologies.
Great idea... the ultimate water park. The path down the massive water slide would be controlled by the very calculations going on. People could be used as math symbols!
Poor Sammy had his 1st Ammendment Rights violated. The publication of a worm that was never deployed is just a publication, and by constitutional right, Congress can make no law banning it (free press), and the Judicial system can cite no law that convicts him.
If I knew Sammy personally, I'd say he should call one of those constitutional legal groups and ask them to help him make an appeal.
I love it how most of the drugs I see on TV, most of the rare side effects include severe heart attack requiring hospitalization.
mod up, I hadn't thought of ANSI and he does make the point that it's a much better solution. To be helpful, here's the wiki link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
This should get me modded down and/or knocked unconscious from repeated canings to the face or something.
Conio!
Isn't there a linux port of that?
As long as you place /home in it's own partition, and make a partition for each distro, you can try out as many as you want. Well, in theory. But, the practice in trying to get several distros to cooperate would teach you tons about linux.
User Driven Search Engine?
Is that anything like ytmnd's voting system? Because if it is, Wiki will have it's own class of Downvoters.
Oh man would that be sweet. Of course, the experienced sh user would tell you that the way you typed it is roughly the way it already works. I need to read up on the man page behind find, but yeah.
Incidentally, I have my browser's homepage point to the bookmarks html file in my profile, so, say I type in slashdot, autofind goes straight to the link.
Actually, if you stopped for a moment to think about what's actually *your* data, in terms of original creation, a gigabyte is overkill. Individual people have a My Documents directory, containing text files and word documents, their program profiles, bookmarks, and emails (received and sent). I'm sure some extremophiles would contest me on the size, but for the average person, I don't think there is that much there.
MP3s is an entirely different subject.
This isn't that new of a concept, Spamhole has been doing this for years now. Though, some of the major server-side spam blockers will filter out spamhole before it ever reaches your inbox.
XML exists so that the "version" field in binary files doesn't spill over to the next byte, making it impossible for old software to interpret new features. But hey, lets give a round of applause for XML. It makes manual corrections a lot easier than wipping out a reference file and a hex editor.