Not entirely true. You must accept it for DEBTS. You do not have to accept it for products and services yet to be rendered. In this case, they are not obligated to accept it.
In another example, say you pump gas at a place that lets you pay after pumping (rare these days, but it used to be common). In that case, you can pay with whatever valid currency you want.
I tried Mojavi, and I liked it. However, it's not nearly as compelling as RoR, mostly because it's missing the *magic*. Mojavi is condensed best practices for PHP, and RoR is new, and borderline voodoo.
Mod parent insightful. We know very little about the early universe, but we sure have a lot of research articles that are being continually published and refuted.
My physics teacher let me borrow a 3x4ft Fresnel lens. It would focus that 12sq.ft. of incoming sunlight down to a about a square inch. It melted pennies into the concrete walkway.
Unfortunately, I did not get to use it twice, as I set a passer-by's shoe on fire, and she complained.
I wish I could get away from Flash to an open-source solution. Flash's strings and type-setting capabilities are atrocious. Oh, and if you do a detailed trace of any of their UI components, they throw warning messages all over the place (thousands). Buggy little things.
I've had macromedia tell me "Sorry, wait till version 8 for your bug fixes" twice this month. If Flash was open-source, I could patch it myself, or pay for someone else to.
But, other than that, I really like developing in Flash. Actionscript 2 is an excellent language, and I like the JSFL extensibility of the Flash Authoring software. Great features, a little shoddy on the implementation.
- Flex -- Enterprise Flash based on XML - Central -- A way for them to use Flash to develop consumer apps - Classic Flash
Classic Flash is completely hamstrung to prevent it from doing things like writing to your HD, communicating outside the basic arena of your own web site, etc. They are really paranoid about it becoming used for *other people's* spyware/malware.
Now, as far as Flash being spyware itself, they will go as far as the market lets them. If they, like any company, can make money through software add-ons like Yahoo!! toolbar, they will. But it seems unlikely that they will damage their reputation by overstepping, especially when the big money is potentially in Flex, etc.
If you pass a water wave through a wall with two slits in it, you will get interference. If you put another solid wall (no slits) beyond and parallel to the first wall, you will see that the water line on the 2nd wall looks like a sinewave with magnitude tapering off as you get further from the slits.
If you pass particles (electrons, photons, etc) at a wall with two slits, and place a "detecting wall" beyond the first wall, then the distribution of electrons hitting the detecting wall would be similar to the wave observed against the 2nd wall in the water example.
--New Experiment--
In the new example, two pulses of light can trigger an electron to be released. Think of these two pulses as pulling a trigger on a gun while playing russian roulette. The electron is the bullet and the detector is your head. If you pulled the trigger at 0 secs and 2 secs, you'd expect to see a person die at 0.01 seconds and/or/neither 2.01 seconds, assuming it took 0.01 seconds for the bullet to reach the person and kill him.
The detector, however sees an interference pattern. This is like seeing deaths at 1 second or 1.5 seconds. The interference pattern is measured as a function of time, and instead of seeing two blips in time, they saw a range.
Windows XP with... - Cygwin, with the bin directory in the windows path, so I can use the tools in my... - Command prompt, which I open with the CmdHere PowerTool - Tortoise CVS, CuteFTP, EditPlus, and Putty. - OpenOffice, FireFox and Thunderbird - Adobe and Macromedia Suites
is the Mersenne Twister (MT), a pseudorandom number generator.
Pseudorandom number generators are periodic, that is they start repeating the sequence of "random" numbers, after a while. This is bad. The period of the MT is as big as the Mersenne Prime that you choose to base the algorithm on. So, if you wanted a REALLY long period, you could use this new prime. In practice, however, very few people need this long of a period.
Assuming you don't break it, a solar cell (or even one of these collecters) should last for much longer than you need to recoup the initial energy of creation.
Solar cells, in particular, last for quite a while, well taken care of. No moving parts to break.
> They could be finding cures to cancer, or making > better space shuttles, or doing a ton of things > with applications that would be useful. How is > getting a 800 ghz computer with 500 gigs or ram > and a 40 gig video card going to change things?
Have you ever thought that making a more powerful computer might be a key component to finding the cure to cancer?
Powerful computing enables scientists to do things like model proteins and DNA strands, and their interactions, in more and more detail.
Improved simulation capabilities will help all branches of science.
I didn't see anything that hasn't already been proposed many times before. Also, the article was short, and the descriptions were very general and boring.
MPAA highers Snooper; MPAA gives Snooper the right to use files (including the act of uploading) as necessary to catch file sharers; Snooper then uses BT to snoop. In the process, some files may have been uploaded, but because the MPAA expressly allowed the uploads in the context of snooping, Snooper's hands are as clean as whistle.
1. Because of the nature of BT, the file that Snooper uploads is the same file that Pirate downloads.
2. This file has now been authorized for uploading.
3. Therefore, the downloaded file was authorized and no crime was committed.
Slashdot Mirror
> The government says YOU MUST ACCEPT IT.
Not entirely true. You must accept it for DEBTS. You do not have to accept it for products and services yet to be rendered. In this case, they are not obligated to accept it.
In another example, say you pump gas at a place that lets you pay after pumping (rare these days, but it used to be common). In that case, you can pay with whatever valid currency you want.
I asked Jeeves:
Try The New MSN Search
It's More Precise and More Powerful Find Just What You're After
I tried Mojavi, and I liked it. However, it's not nearly as compelling as RoR, mostly because it's missing the *magic*. Mojavi is condensed best practices for PHP, and RoR is new, and borderline voodoo.
Mod parent insightful. We know very little about the early universe, but we sure have a lot of research articles that are being continually published and refuted.
My physics teacher let me borrow a 3x4ft Fresnel lens. It would focus that 12sq.ft. of incoming sunlight down to a about a square inch. It melted pennies into the concrete walkway.
Unfortunately, I did not get to use it twice, as I set a passer-by's shoe on fire, and she complained.
See this website for a similar story.
I've been watching since season 1 and I don't recall anyone in Homer's family named Nico.. oh, never mind.
Um...yeah
I prefer Flash to Java as a serious developer, because I like:
- Actionscript 2.0
- v2 GUI components (even if they're buggy)
Yes, you can do more with Java, but it sure takes a hell of a lot longer.
I wish I could get away from Flash to an open-source solution. Flash's strings and type-setting capabilities are atrocious. Oh, and if you do a detailed trace of any of their UI components, they throw warning messages all over the place (thousands). Buggy little things.
I've had macromedia tell me "Sorry, wait till version 8 for your bug fixes" twice this month. If Flash was open-source, I could patch it myself, or pay for someone else to.
But, other than that, I really like developing in Flash. Actionscript 2 is an excellent language, and I like the JSFL extensibility of the Flash Authoring software. Great features, a little shoddy on the implementation.
It seems Flash is going in three directions:
- Flex -- Enterprise Flash based on XML
- Central -- A way for them to use Flash to develop consumer apps
- Classic Flash
Classic Flash is completely hamstrung to prevent it from doing things like writing to your HD, communicating outside the basic arena of your own web site, etc. They are really paranoid about it becoming used for *other people's* spyware/malware.
Now, as far as Flash being spyware itself, they will go as far as the market lets them. If they, like any company, can make money through software add-ons like Yahoo!! toolbar, they will. But it seems unlikely that they will damage their reputation by overstepping, especially when the big money is potentially in Flex, etc.
Yes, although the probability decays quite rapidly.
It might be more accurate to say that the bullet's arrival time is statisticly related to, but NOT directly dependant upon, the time it was shot.
**Skip the first part if you know the basics.
If you pass a water wave through a wall with two slits in it, you will get interference. If you put another solid wall (no slits) beyond and parallel to the first wall, you will see that the water line on the 2nd wall looks like a sinewave with magnitude tapering off as you get further from the slits.
If you pass particles (electrons, photons, etc) at a wall with two slits, and place a "detecting wall" beyond the first wall, then the distribution of electrons hitting the detecting wall would be similar to the wave observed against the 2nd wall in the water example.
--New Experiment--
In the new example, two pulses of light can trigger an electron to be released. Think of these two pulses as pulling a trigger on a gun while playing russian roulette. The electron is the bullet and the detector is your head. If you pulled the trigger at 0 secs and 2 secs, you'd expect to see a person die at 0.01 seconds and/or/neither 2.01 seconds, assuming it took 0.01 seconds for the bullet to reach the person and kill him.
The detector, however sees an interference pattern. This is like seeing deaths at 1 second or 1.5 seconds. The interference pattern is measured as a function of time, and instead of seeing two blips in time, they saw a range.
Windows XP with...
- Cygwin, with the bin directory in the windows path, so I can use the tools in my...
- Command prompt, which I open with the CmdHere PowerTool
- Tortoise CVS, CuteFTP, EditPlus, and Putty.
- OpenOffice, FireFox and Thunderbird
- Adobe and Macromedia Suites
is the Mersenne Twister (MT), a pseudorandom number generator.
Pseudorandom number generators are periodic, that is they start repeating the sequence of "random" numbers, after a while. This is bad. The period of the MT is as big as the Mersenne Prime that you choose to base the algorithm on. So, if you wanted a REALLY long period, you could use this new prime. In practice, however, very few people need this long of a period.
Assuming you don't break it, a solar cell (or even one of these collecters) should last for much longer than you need to recoup the initial energy of creation.
Solar cells, in particular, last for quite a while, well taken care of. No moving parts to break.
who said "rectun" for rectangle, and "enitrate" for integrate, etc.
He tried to say:
"To integrate, you use small rectangles instead of large rectangles in your Riemann sum because they work better."
but ended up sounding like:
"To penetrate, you use small rectums instead of big rectums when your wiener's up because they work better."
True story
Just wondering, ya know.
has a hanging chad.
> They could be finding cures to cancer, or making
> better space shuttles, or doing a ton of things
> with applications that would be useful. How is
> getting a 800 ghz computer with 500 gigs or ram
> and a 40 gig video card going to change things?
Have you ever thought that making a more powerful computer might be a key component to finding the cure to cancer?
Powerful computing enables scientists to do things like model proteins and DNA strands, and their interactions, in more and more detail.
Improved simulation capabilities will help all branches of science.
1/2 liter per breath /minute
= 0.017657 cu. ft. / breath
= $3.5314 / breath
= $42.4 / person
= $22,273,246 person / year
= $1.56 * 10^17 / planet / year
Looks like you lost about 156 quadrillion dollars!
I didn't see anything that hasn't already been proposed many times before. Also, the article was short, and the descriptions were very general and boring.
**yawn**
In your situation, I'd use Flickr.
MPAA highers Snooper; MPAA gives Snooper the right to use files (including the act of uploading) as necessary to catch file sharers; Snooper then uses BT to snoop. In the process, some files may have been uploaded, but because the MPAA expressly allowed the uploads in the context of snooping, Snooper's hands are as clean as whistle.
1. Because of the nature of BT, the file that Snooper uploads is the same file that Pirate downloads.
2. This file has now been authorized for uploading.
3. Therefore, the downloaded file was authorized and no crime was committed.
As a hacker, I constitute a circumvention device.