hell you can probably even get a pixel entirely wrong for one frame and nobody will care (as long as it doesn't happen too often).
You must be new enough here to have never been fragged by a shock spell across a dark room. Flashes of light -- even small ones -- are important, at least in Oblivion.
How about this -- allow any nudity and adult content on Facebook and Myspace, no holds barred (pun intended) -- but only for accounts labeled as having "adult content." Others can opt-in if they wish to see this content (and can verify age); if they don't opt-in, it need not bother their sensitive eyes.
As for nursing in public, why not just allow it -- as long as you also allow people to stare, comment, take pictures, whatever. That should put a stop to most of it without the guv'mint encroaching on anyone's liberties, yes?
Some of the inherent inaccuracy has to do with using touchscreen devices while walking, driving (in-car controls), riding mass transit, etc. Under these conditions, even 1cm accuracy is pretty good. I think most users would prefer a larger interface that works every time, rather than a smaller one which can be frustrating to use on a regular basis.
I'm just finishing a rebuild of my system, going from an Athlon64X2 to a Core i7. 3DMark06 is downloading now; can't wait to see how well it does on that and Flight Simulator X.
...Now if they could only make some progress on coordinating RAID implementations across motherboards, so a MB swap doesn't have to mean that the path-of-least-resistance is a complete reinstall...
...which it can, from the description of resistance as (within limits) a constant times the integral of current through the memristor.
In other words, the more current that has flowed through the memristor, the higher the resistance. This suggests all sorts of applications, from timing devices (coupled with a cap or two), to the obvious memory application, to who knows what.
It's as if chemists had discovered another element -- a fourth one, thought to exist but never before seen, where previously there had only been three known.
Let's help them move it forward. Anyone else here think it would be worth $20 or so to get even one memristor to play with? How about cashing in on it a bit by making up a couple thousand simple units for us electronics geeks to drool over and pay them way too much for?
When someone asks me if I'll do something that I think is stupid or wrong-headed, I just shrug and say, "Hey, I get paid by the hour."
That's part of my approach. I'll usually point out my reasons if I think it's the wrong approach, but at some point it becomes counterproductive to argue the point. If I were to be a PHB myself (perish the thought), I'd want the same in return -- when I had a dumb idea, I'd want to be called on it in a professional manner, but I would also want employees to be willing to do it (unless, for instance, they had a real ethical problem with it.)
Even more interesting is the possibility for mass manufacture of antimatter. By using mass-produced gold targets, you could rotate the materials in and out of the machine every few seconds, creating previously unseen amounts of antimatter.
If true, this is the 1940s all over again -- only on a larger scale. A thimbleful of antimatter would make any H-bomb look like a popgun. (...and yeah, I know we're not yet talking about anywhere near that order of magnitude. Yet.)
It would certainly help with space exploration -- but we humans can't even be completely trusted with gunpowder and jet airplanes yet. *sigh*
The store had a deal on the band's full boxed set -- sweet! -- then he noticed the DRM tag. He took it to the till and asked the clerks if he'd be able to play the tunes on his iPod. Clerk 1: "I dunno." Clerk 2: "Probably not."
A box set of CDs? Rip 'em to mp3 using AudioGrabber. Even iPods will play mp3s if you can deal with the iTunes interface.
Personally, I'd go for a more standards-based audio player -- like any of the dozens of 'em that show up as a USB flash drive and let you copy folders of mp3/wav/ogg/whatever across, with no iTunes needed.
...Ford announces they are discontinuing production of Model-A parts. Wright Aircraft and Bicycle Company is also rumored to be considering scaling back licensing of its iconic Wright Flyer, citing loss of market share to "those new-fangled planes with landing gear and ailerons."
Here's a (still incomplete) list of other potential Terrorist Operation Tools:
Email
Telephones
Pagers, especially 2-way
Walkie-talkies
...and other than communications...
Microcontrollers
Model rockets / rocket engines
Gasoline
Model airplanes
Kites
String
Pocket knives
Tools of any kind
Books
Pens
Pencils
Paper
You guys had better get cracking; this is a lot of stuff to ban! Them terr'rists are out to git us, and Wal-Mart, Target, Office Depot, Radio Shack, and other seemingly American stores are helping them out!!
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hell you can probably even get a pixel entirely wrong for one frame and nobody will care (as long as it doesn't happen too often).
You must be new enough here to have never been fragged by a shock spell across a dark room. Flashes of light -- even small ones -- are important, at least in Oblivion.
I was thinking along the same lines.
Although considering they call this thing a probabilistic chip, maybe we'll soon have the Infinite Improbability Drive.
We're going to need a really hot cup of tea...
Yes, but I doubt talking to Eliza is going to be much help. (Especially if the Eliza app was ported to Java.)
Heh. Apparently even Congress gets Rickrolled. (Yeah, yeah, wrong Rick -- but still. Maybe he can sing?)
How about this -- allow any nudity and adult content on Facebook and Myspace, no holds barred (pun intended) -- but only for accounts labeled as having "adult content." Others can opt-in if they wish to see this content (and can verify age); if they don't opt-in, it need not bother their sensitive eyes.
As for nursing in public, why not just allow it -- as long as you also allow people to stare, comment, take pictures, whatever. That should put a stop to most of it without the guv'mint encroaching on anyone's liberties, yes?
Some of the inherent inaccuracy has to do with using touchscreen devices while walking, driving (in-car controls), riding mass transit, etc. Under these conditions, even 1cm accuracy is pretty good. I think most users would prefer a larger interface that works every time, rather than a smaller one which can be frustrating to use on a regular basis.
I'm just finishing a rebuild of my system, going from an Athlon64X2 to a Core i7. 3DMark06 is downloading now; can't wait to see how well it does on that and Flight Simulator X.
...Now if they could only make some progress on coordinating RAID implementations across motherboards, so a MB swap doesn't have to mean that the path-of-least-resistance is a complete reinstall...
...which it can, from the description of resistance as (within limits) a constant times the integral of current through the memristor.
In other words, the more current that has flowed through the memristor, the higher the resistance. This suggests all sorts of applications, from timing devices (coupled with a cap or two), to the obvious memory application, to who knows what.
It's as if chemists had discovered another element -- a fourth one, thought to exist but never before seen, where previously there had only been three known.
Let's help them move it forward. Anyone else here think it would be worth $20 or so to get even one memristor to play with? How about cashing in on it a bit by making up a couple thousand simple units for us electronics geeks to drool over and pay them way too much for?
When someone asks me if I'll do something that I think is stupid or wrong-headed, I just shrug and say, "Hey, I get paid by the hour."
That's part of my approach. I'll usually point out my reasons if I think it's the wrong approach, but at some point it becomes counterproductive to argue the point. If I were to be a PHB myself (perish the thought), I'd want the same in return -- when I had a dumb idea, I'd want to be called on it in a professional manner, but I would also want employees to be willing to do it (unless, for instance, they had a real ethical problem with it.)
> How many is N^2?
A lot more than N; a lot more than even N log N, but not nearly so much as N^N or 2^N or N!
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You must be new here.
Even more interesting is the possibility for mass manufacture of antimatter. By using mass-produced gold targets, you could rotate the materials in and out of the machine every few seconds, creating previously unseen amounts of antimatter.
If true, this is the 1940s all over again -- only on a larger scale. A thimbleful of antimatter would make any H-bomb look like a popgun. (...and yeah, I know we're not yet talking about anywhere near that order of magnitude. Yet.) It would certainly help with space exploration -- but we humans can't even be completely trusted with gunpowder and jet airplanes yet. *sigh*
...I want to see it reconstructed as an Ayleid city add-on pack in TESIV:Oblivion!
Gives a whole new meaning to DIY devices from scratch!
"AMD Shanghai -- the perfect CPU for your newly-acquired botnet!"
(There's (a best) (part (of LISP)))?!?
"Books on how to repair computers" sounds like "A+ certification texts" to me. A good entry-level trade, and not too controversial.
The store had a deal on the band's full boxed set -- sweet! -- then he noticed the DRM tag. He took it to the till and asked the clerks if he'd be able to play the tunes on his iPod. Clerk 1: "I dunno." Clerk 2: "Probably not."
A box set of CDs? Rip 'em to mp3 using AudioGrabber. Even iPods will play mp3s if you can deal with the iTunes interface.
Personally, I'd go for a more standards-based audio player -- like any of the dozens of 'em that show up as a USB flash drive and let you copy folders of mp3/wav/ogg/whatever across, with no iTunes needed.
...Ford announces they are discontinuing production of Model-A parts. Wright Aircraft and Bicycle Company is also rumored to be considering scaling back licensing of its iconic Wright Flyer, citing loss of market share to "those new-fangled planes with landing gear and ailerons."
You're thinking of the Infinite Improbability Drive.
I don't think there's enough hot tea in the world, Nutri-Matics or no, to pull that off...
"Investigators should presuppose the existence of a fully functional quantum computer," huh?
...?
Does anyone else here read this as "NSA has a nifty, shiny new toy and are looking for ways to use it"
You guys had better get cracking; this is a lot of stuff to ban! Them terr'rists are out to git us, and Wal-Mart, Target, Office Depot, Radio Shack, and other seemingly American stores are helping them out!!