I agree that he should cite a source, but you say that as though manufacturing plastic bricks within tolerances the size of a single bacterium is so much less accurate than doing so within tolerances of half a bacterium. Either way it's amazing (at least to me, with no knowledge of plastic molding, let alone the different methods).
The Arabic pronunciation is [?\i"4A:q], and the most similar English pronunciation is [I"rA:k]. However, region, dialect, and accent can introduce variations of both, like you said.
If you're unfamiliar with X-SAMPA: I = English bit " = stress marker, before stressed syllable r = Spanish perro, or alternatively English red A: = English father k = English kiss
Actually, about half of a store's shrinkage (losses) is due to employee theft, while only about a third is due to shoplifters. And retail stores on average lost 1.57% of their inventories in 2006. So I'm not sure where you get this "one in ten customers is a shoplifter" idea.
I noticed that when my tower is on my desk, I can hear the clicks just over the sound of the fans, yet when it is below the desk on the carpet, I can't hear it at all. This is with a sort of old Maxtor (Western Digital) 60 GB with the Acoustic Management flag (which controls RPM throttling or head speed or something) set to Performance*. And it's sitting in a corner which would increase the sound that I hear. I'm guessing that the carpet it's sitting on absorbs most of the sound.
* You'd think that setting it to Off for no acoustic management would result in better performance, but evidently that's not so.
I think they were going for something similar to the One Laptop per Child project, but instead it was three TouchSmarts per sentence. A laudable goal in all respects. They even threw in a "touch-friendly".
Unfortunately they only reached 2.25 TouchSmarts per sentence.
It just goes to show you that all it takes to break encryption is to produce an obscure PDF of a badly scanned document from another country filled with seemingly made up words of increasing length like Staatsanwaltschaft, Ermittlungsverfahrens, and Telekommunikationsüberwachungsmaßnahme.
+1 Informative for nLite mention. You can slim vanilla Windows XP down to around 200 MB or so with it by removing unused and non-essential services, features, and bloat. Even 150 MB or so if you want to be truly compact with it. It's maybe 50 to 100 MB more if you include service packs and.NET versions. This equates to faster boot times, better responsiveness, and less memory usage.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who noticed that. And yes, there is a space between a number and its symbol.
I'm in the United States, and personally I've been using metric units in everyday use for a while now, and I actually sometimes get confused with US customary units. There's no reason that I should have to deal with that crap.
There are quite a few q's, c's, and 7's in there. Smashing keys like that isn't quite as random as (pseudo-)random characters considering that most people's fingers lay in a certain area of the keyboard and certain keys are more likely to be pressed.
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I agree that he should cite a source, but you say that as though manufacturing plastic bricks within tolerances the size of a single bacterium is so much less accurate than doing so within tolerances of half a bacterium. Either way it's amazing (at least to me, with no knowledge of plastic molding, let alone the different methods).
The Arabic pronunciation is [?\i"4A:q], and the most similar English pronunciation is [I"rA:k]. However, region, dialect, and accent can introduce variations of both, like you said.
If you're unfamiliar with X-SAMPA:
I = English bit
" = stress marker, before stressed syllable
r = Spanish perro, or alternatively English red
A: = English father
k = English kiss
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Heh, I've always loved that quote.
Well, say I have this car...
Actually, about half of a store's shrinkage (losses) is due to employee theft, while only about a third is due to shoplifters. And retail stores on average lost 1.57% of their inventories in 2006. So I'm not sure where you get this "one in ten customers is a shoplifter" idea.
I'll rephrase that a bit:
Most people have a good understanding of the science of whichever side they're on, ignoring the other.
I was about to say the same. :-P
I noticed that when my tower is on my desk, I can hear the clicks just over the sound of the fans, yet when it is below the desk on the carpet, I can't hear it at all. This is with a sort of old Maxtor (Western Digital) 60 GB with the Acoustic Management flag (which controls RPM throttling or head speed or something) set to Performance*. And it's sitting in a corner which would increase the sound that I hear. I'm guessing that the carpet it's sitting on absorbs most of the sound.
* You'd think that setting it to Off for no acoustic management would result in better performance, but evidently that's not so.
I think they were going for something similar to the One Laptop per Child project, but instead it was three TouchSmarts per sentence. A laudable goal in all respects. They even threw in a "touch-friendly".
Unfortunately they only reached 2.25 TouchSmarts per sentence.
Citmedialaw.org has some info about it.
It just goes to show you that all it takes to break encryption is to produce an obscure PDF of a badly scanned document from another country filled with seemingly made up words of increasing length like Staatsanwaltschaft, Ermittlungsverfahrens, and Telekommunikationsüberwachungsmaßnahme.
There's no 7 in 56... Or am I missing something?
+1 Informative for nLite mention. You can slim vanilla Windows XP down to around 200 MB or so with it by removing unused and non-essential services, features, and bloat. Even 150 MB or so if you want to be truly compact with it. It's maybe 50 to 100 MB more if you include service packs and .NET versions. This equates to faster boot times, better responsiveness, and less memory usage.
It's great to run off USB flash drives also.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or what, but I put the reference so people wouldn't think it was some random statement.
I steal LCDs while my code is compiling.
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I'm glad that I'm not the only one who noticed that. And yes, there is a space between a number and its symbol.
I'm in the United States, and personally I've been using metric units in everyday use for a while now, and I actually sometimes get confused with US customary units. There's no reason that I should have to deal with that crap.
It was partly because of your journal too.
Unfortunately I'm not a subscriber, so I can only view your past 24 posts.
Pretty off-topic, but did you just start posting again? I don't think I've seen any posts from you in a while... Not that I'm keeping track :-P
The caviar that I buy is branded "WD" also. Hmm...
"With WD, I know that when I need both a dromaeosaurid and some salted fish eggs, they're the place to go. It's so convenient." — Customer
USB porn already exists.
I use foobar2000 to put music on my iPod.
There are quite a few q's, c's, and 7's in there. Smashing keys like that isn't quite as random as (pseudo-)random characters considering that most people's fingers lay in a certain area of the keyboard and certain keys are more likely to be pressed.