So you would object to using your organs for transplantation after your death, as that's not dignified?
And you would never accept an organ transplant?
Is the history of your IM discussions archived? Can you forward them?
Definitely. With many IM systems, it is even archived on the server.
Broadcast to multiple people? BCC?
BCC is possible with most sane IM clients. If you want to discuss something with a group (CC/Reply All), you can set up a conference, or just add more people to chat in some systems.
We use IM all the time at work. I usually prefer it to calls as it is archived, and people get somewhat more focused when discussing stuff in written form. On the other hand, you can expect more or less immediate response.
... probably more ways to say the same thing than in any other language (I mean proper Russian, not "Na huja zhe tebe eto nado blad'"..
In fact, Russian mat is an excellent example for richness of Russian grammar. Mat is a language without roots (or, more precisely, just a few obscene roots which are used randomly). Due to rich inflection, you still get a sizeable vocabulary and you can explain whatever you want (more or less).
An ABX test can only show there is (or isn't) a perceptible difference between A and B. It cannot show if one of these is perceptually of "higher quality".
Consider medium bitrate MP3. In double-blind tests the listeners were often able to hear the difference between the original and compressed versions, but were unable to detect which one is compressed and which one is the original.
Speaker cables DO NOT require shielding. If you think otherwise, plug a few feet of unshielded wire into your speaker and try to find a setup when you will be able to hear any interference.
Think for yourself - your power amplifier puts, say, 10W of output into the speaker. Or even 50W. How much interference do you think you can pick up? Would it compare somehow to the amplifier output?
Interconnect cables, however, must be shielded.
A friend of my cousin works in a homeopathic pharmacy (in Russia). She told a story that once in a while a client appears in the pharmacy with a prescription which literally says: "Placebo" (yes, an average Ivan is probably even less likely to be able to read a prescription than an average Joe, as Latin is not Cyrillic). The client gets the prescribed drug and pays a hefty sum for it. Supposedly, the more they pay, the more likely it is to work.
bad (i.e. incapable of doing any real production development) but talented programmers can easily disguise as good ones. That's what I do all the time.
Have you tried just turning the brightness down? Normally I cannot work with white backgrounds as well, but it is rather comfortable at reasonable brightness levels (20-25% or so).
In a camera, you cannot convert CMY to RGB by just inverting the components. Even in ideal model like (C,M,Y)=(G+B,R+B,R+G) you have to convert like R=(M+Y-C)/2, increasing noise level by 50%. Absorption spectra of the cones overlap a lot, so this model is obviously unreachable, requiring complex color correction which would probably give imperfect results. However, these are all color-related problems, and the dynamic range of luminance should still be improved.
Sure I did, though it looks I've already got infected with this spelling/rate/etc Nazi Slashdot Imperialist virus. Those rates I remember pretty well. Also, I remeber that stupid idea of a "hard currencly rouble" - "invalutny rubl'", which you could use to buy some imported goods you could not buy for regular rubles.
Probably I was younger than you at those times, so I'm not sure about the longstanding tradition of tipping with vodka... I was only 7 in 1985. However, what I remember pretty well is traveling in the Arkhangelsk region countryside in 1996. Alcohol still remained hard currency there, even though it was easily accessible in cities. Almost 100% of those who lived in the countryside were alcoholics. Whatever alcohol you could buy there was extremely low-quality and toxic, and even that was still hard to get. Whenever you offered money to people (for their services or for some produce you bought from farmers, etc), they suggested that you'd better go and try buying some vodka instead. That was terrible... And I'm not sure anything has changed.
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/konek (that's one of the latest ones; however, most of them were mechanical or semi-mechanical so there's no option of mame emulation).
Your rates are severely overestimated. Official was.62rub/dollar (not sure about precision... something like that, not.25) and black market rate was more like 2-3rub/dollar. Nevertheless, a factor of about 4 makes some serious difference.
A Russian equivalent of a crack whore was a plumber/electrician/any-person-who-provided-any-se rvice-to-you, tending to prefer vodka as a hard currency (due to 1980s semi-prohibition).
Yeah, you know, there are dangers all around us. Until recently, everyone thought water is safe, but it was shown that ingestion of as little as a gallon or two of water may cause death, and in case of inhalation, the lethal dose is much lower...
Btw, the book doesn't have much to do with the film. Boris Strugatsky (who took part in writing both the book and the script based on the book) said it was extremely hard to work with Tarkovsky. He declined a dozen variants of a script or so. He has even filmed the one which was rather close to the book, with a 'tough guy Stalker', he filmed it completely, then decided to put it down the drain. In a coincidence, the footage was destroyed in a processing lab, Strugatsky brothers wrote a new script with 'God's fool Stalker', and Tarkovsky shot everything from scratch with a new script, creating the masterpiece we all know today.
If you're telling me that it is a crime to connect to an open AP, this means that the companies manufacturing devices which connect to open APs by default just commit those crimes in unprecedented scales. Fine them 500 pounds per device and put all the company owners in jail. Now.
Using an open AP is just as fair as accessing an open website, or a public restroom.
Using a public website is unfair e.g. in case you make a DDOS attack, or if you deface the website.
Using a public restroom is unfair e.g. if you piss and shit all over the place, or if you occupy it for hours to read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy because you have no better place to do that.
As long as you're not a vandal and as long as you don't deprive others (possibly the resource owners) of normal use of the resource, everything is fine.
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So you would object to using your organs for transplantation after your death, as that's not dignified?
And you would never accept an organ transplant?
We use IM all the time at work. I usually prefer it to calls as it is archived, and people get somewhat more focused when discussing stuff in written form. On the other hand, you can expect more or less immediate response.
I'll just tase you, bro.
I was never able to make myself use a sans-serif font for coding.
Consider medium bitrate MP3. In double-blind tests the listeners were often able to hear the difference between the original and compressed versions, but were unable to detect which one is compressed and which one is the original.
Speaker cables DO NOT require shielding. If you think otherwise, plug a few feet of unshielded wire into your speaker and try to find a setup when you will be able to hear any interference.
Think for yourself - your power amplifier puts, say, 10W of output into the speaker. Or even 50W. How much interference do you think you can pick up? Would it compare somehow to the amplifier output?
Interconnect cables, however, must be shielded.
DSL only works over the last mile.
An audiophile will have to prove he/she can hear it in a double-blind test. He/she would not be able to do that.
Not only a Radiohead fans are irrational and unpredictable using game theory. It turns out even game theory professors are.
A friend of my cousin works in a homeopathic pharmacy (in Russia). She told a story that once in a while a client appears in the pharmacy with a prescription which literally says: "Placebo" (yes, an average Ivan is probably even less likely to be able to read a prescription than an average Joe, as Latin is not Cyrillic). The client gets the prescribed drug and pays a hefty sum for it. Supposedly, the more they pay, the more likely it is to work.
that was not about the parliament but about the government. Also, technically it was resignation, though you may call it whatever you want.
bad (i.e. incapable of doing any real production development) but talented programmers can easily disguise as good ones. That's what I do all the time.
Have you tried just turning the brightness down? Normally I cannot work with white backgrounds as well, but it is rather comfortable at reasonable brightness levels (20-25% or so).
In a camera, you cannot convert CMY to RGB by just inverting the components. Even in ideal model like (C,M,Y)=(G+B,R+B,R+G) you have to convert like R=(M+Y-C)/2, increasing noise level by 50%. Absorption spectra of the cones overlap a lot, so this model is obviously unreachable, requiring complex color correction which would probably give imperfect results. However, these are all color-related problems, and the dynamic range of luminance should still be improved.
Probably I was younger than you at those times, so I'm not sure about the longstanding tradition of tipping with vodka... I was only 7 in 1985. However, what I remember pretty well is traveling in the Arkhangelsk region countryside in 1996. Alcohol still remained hard currency there, even though it was easily accessible in cities. Almost 100% of those who lived in the countryside were alcoholics. Whatever alcohol you could buy there was extremely low-quality and toxic, and even that was still hard to get. Whenever you offered money to people (for their services or for some produce you bought from farmers, etc), they suggested that you'd better go and try buying some vodka instead. That was terrible... And I'm not sure anything has changed.
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/konek (that's one of the latest ones; however, most of them were mechanical or semi-mechanical so there's no option of mame emulation).
Your rates are severely overestimated. Official was .62rub/dollar (not sure about precision... something like that, not .25) and black market rate was more like 2-3rub/dollar. Nevertheless, a factor of about 4 makes some serious difference.
A Russian equivalent of a crack whore was a plumber/electrician/any-person-who-provided-any-se rvice-to-you, tending to prefer vodka as a hard currency (due to 1980s semi-prohibition).
Yeah, you know, there are dangers all around us. Until recently, everyone thought water is safe, but it was shown that ingestion of as little as a gallon or two of water may cause death, and in case of inhalation, the lethal dose is much lower...
False information? It looks like all the information on DHMO.org is true.
Yeah, that's until no one will be literate enough to read the labels. Then everyone will just switch to Brawndo.
Btw, the book doesn't have much to do with the film. Boris Strugatsky (who took part in writing both the book and the script based on the book) said it was extremely hard to work with Tarkovsky. He declined a dozen variants of a script or so. He has even filmed the one which was rather close to the book, with a 'tough guy Stalker', he filmed it completely, then decided to put it down the drain. In a coincidence, the footage was destroyed in a processing lab, Strugatsky brothers wrote a new script with 'God's fool Stalker', and Tarkovsky shot everything from scratch with a new script, creating the masterpiece we all know today.
If you're telling me that it is a crime to connect to an open AP, this means that the companies manufacturing devices which connect to open APs by default just commit those crimes in unprecedented scales. Fine them 500 pounds per device and put all the company owners in jail. Now.
Using an open AP is just as fair as accessing an open website, or a public restroom.
Using a public website is unfair e.g. in case you make a DDOS attack, or if you deface the website.
Using a public restroom is unfair e.g. if you piss and shit all over the place, or if you occupy it for hours to read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy because you have no better place to do that.
As long as you're not a vandal and as long as you don't deprive others (possibly the resource owners) of normal use of the resource, everything is fine.