Wow... I guess that just goes to show how good my adblock is working... the only ads I still see are google's text based ones (and I could block those too since they're in an iFrame).
I left the google ads because they're less obtrusive. Though really I don't pay much attention to them since I'm rarely in the market for anything they're advertising, the ads aren't as targeted as they could be, and besides I don't have any money...
Congress was not voted out of office. The opposition got together and forced the government to resign (a vote of non-confidence). This is extremely democratic - moreso than in the US where you are essentially stuck with the guy for four years, unless you actually manage to impeach the guy for something criminal.
And we all know how well that worked out for the Galactic republic senate! Just make sure the people you're replacing them with aren't part of some evil cult...
I guess that would count me in, I can hear TVs squeel (squeel tivvy squeel!!). An interesting side note: for some reason a TV sounds different depending on what's on the screen, if it's just the static fuzz then it's one tone, pure white is another, etc. Theoretically you should be able to recreate what's on the screen simply by listening to the sounds it makes... or perhaps just figure out what the mean color is (no, mean as in average, not as in nasty...).
There's one flaw in that guy's reasoning: listening to loud bass will reduce one's ears' ability to hear high pitched sounds. Yes age will do that too, but don't most teenagers that they'd want to repel listen to loud bass?
The idea is that the layout changes to suit the viewer. If I view a page on a 200 inch screen at a resolution of 102400x76800 I expect that it's not going to look the same as when I view it on a 6 inch screen at 400x400. The point is not to write the page so that it forces the client to show it in one particular way, it's to design a layout that can stand to be streched and skewed and still be readable.
There is no right way to view a standards compliant web page, however viewing it in a non-standards compliant browser is a wrong way to do it.
How is a browser supposed to know what size you want to scale images to if you resize the window? 60% of what? 60% of your screen size? 60% of the size the window was when you first loaded the page? 60% of 800x600? 60% of the smallest screen that's phisically possible? 60% of the largest screen? what if I projected a web page onto the moon? how big should the images scale to then?
So... uh, what's the big deal? It's a radio... a proprietary radio at that... why not just tune in to Alice, KISS, or whatever else you've got in your area. How is this even remotely useful unless I get to choose what songs I want to hear when?
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Alright, speak up, what moron modded this up as informative? That's worse than posting it!
Ahh, I see, so, while you could get your GPU to handle compiling something it's much better at rendering things. It'd be like using your hands to walk...
How would something like that do with processing (rendering?) audio effects and such?
Yeah, actually I do get it. I was simply asking what the differences between GPUs and CPUs are, not saying there was none.
What I don't get is this need for people on the internet to insult people or treat them in a gruff manner.
I'm sure there must be some, otherwise they wouldn't have them... How are GPU's specifically optimised for graphics work? Do they have built in de/compression algorithms? Wouldn't it just be easier to have multiple CPUs?
Since all the domain name does is resolve to a number what are they going to be policing? Would they be checking only mysite.mobi or would they be going further and doing www.mysite.mobi? what about donkeyballs.mysite.mobi? or ilick.donkeyballs.mysite.mobi? or even just mysite.mobi:8080?
Couldn't I just set up a basic page with just the word "hello" on whatever page they check and then use a different subdomain for some other bunch of pages?
Don't get me wrong, I think making sure that it's standards compliant is a damn good idea, as long as that's as far as they go with it (saying that you can't have porn is going too far, next thing you know they're going to say you can't have anything that critisizes the government), I just don't see how they're going to do it very well...
BTW: why didn't they use.mobl,.mbl or just write out the whole thing.mobile? I mean, as long as you're going with letters that aren't really easy to type in on a phone you might as well just go the full word... perhaps they should have gone with.dmw while not pronouncable it's really easy to type in on any phone (just go down the right side of the pad... by the same token they could have gone with.ajt.gjm or.ptw
It's true what you say, but 'real' (sorry;)) mathematicians say 0/0 is undefined.
Say what you will, my Calculus professor is a retired physics professor from UC Berkeley, he basically said the same thing (actually he's the one who gave me the term indefinate, I had been saying it was anything...)
Actually, I'd say it's indefinate, not undefined...
just as 0/0 is indefinate, it could be every number (0*n=0, thus 0/0=n for any n)
n/0 for any non-zero n is undefined (there's no real number you could multiply zero by to get n)
0^0 is either 1 or 0 depending on how you want to look at it: n^0 = 1 or 0^n = 0, so it has a finite result set (which is a bit easier to deal with than 0/0's infinately infinate result set...)
Ok, here's a mind bender: you say that there are infinately many integers, and there are infinately many non-integers between each pair of integers, does this mean that there are more non-integers than there are integers? infinity * infinity is still infinity...
My answer would be that, yes, it is still infinity, it's just an infinately larger infinity...
You could even say that it's a significantly larger value of infinity...
What's infinity divided by infinity?:)
You know, it's better to have it all spread around in places EVERYONE goes, and hidden where some unsuspecting kid or, god forbid, a self respecting politition (do those still exist?) might stumble accross it...
Perhaps it's just that Bush want's to be able to blame his porn surfing on accidental circumstances.
G: "Dubya, Dubya, Dubya, dot, whitehouse, dot, com" (ok, so I know it's no longer around, but you get the idea, wouldn't very well work for.xxx now would it?)
L: "George, what are you doing?!?"
G: "Er, uh... Reasearching something for my speach-- my god, what is this evil stuff?!"
Hilf's answers sound quite reasonable, something that most of us don't associate with Microsoft.
I know what you mean, reading that I almost tossed out my PowerBook and ran and got an HP... Then I realized that, despite what this guy says, Windows (and programs) still bugs the crap out of me...
my fireplace is matter-antimatter with a bit of holograms thrown in for color, the main problem is that it's a bit touchy, turn it too far down and you get nothing, too far up and you blow a giant hole in the side of the planet...
...it comes in an anatomically correct female form?
I mean, isn't all technology for the sake of sex or sex-like sensations? That's what the internet's for after all... All this web board/blog/research stuff that people do is just a side effect...
I think Nemesis had the potential for being good but they just cut all the good parts out and turned it into a bland story with flat characters. Instead of being about the crew it was about four 'people' two of which were played by the same actor. They could have just about eliminated everyone but Data, B4, Shinzon, and Picard and you would have not lost any of the story. They didn't like the wedding scene so they took most of it out, I'd say that what they left in made no sense being there, if you're going to cut out all the meat then cut out the fat too, remove the whole wedding scene (though I would have rather had the whole thing).
And why is there a big empty shaft in a starship? It doesn't make any sense... (I also have a beef with how they make gravity inside the turboshaft (not the lift, but the shaft), wouldn't it be easier to just leave it in zero-g? then you wouldn't waste power to create the gravity and then fight the gravity to raise the lift...)
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Wow... I guess that just goes to show how good my adblock is working... the only ads I still see are google's text based ones (and I could block those too since they're in an iFrame).
I left the google ads because they're less obtrusive. Though really I don't pay much attention to them since I'm rarely in the market for anything they're advertising, the ads aren't as targeted as they could be, and besides I don't have any money...
And we all know how well that worked out for the Galactic republic senate! Just make sure the people you're replacing them with aren't part of some evil cult...
I guess that would count me in, I can hear TVs squeel (squeel tivvy squeel!!). An interesting side note: for some reason a TV sounds different depending on what's on the screen, if it's just the static fuzz then it's one tone, pure white is another, etc. Theoretically you should be able to recreate what's on the screen simply by listening to the sounds it makes... or perhaps just figure out what the mean color is (no, mean as in average, not as in nasty...).
There's one flaw in that guy's reasoning: listening to loud bass will reduce one's ears' ability to hear high pitched sounds. Yes age will do that too, but don't most teenagers that they'd want to repel listen to loud bass?
60% of what?
The idea is that the layout changes to suit the viewer. If I view a page on a 200 inch screen at a resolution of 102400x76800 I expect that it's not going to look the same as when I view it on a 6 inch screen at 400x400. The point is not to write the page so that it forces the client to show it in one particular way, it's to design a layout that can stand to be streched and skewed and still be readable.
There is no right way to view a standards compliant web page, however viewing it in a non-standards compliant browser is a wrong way to do it.
How is a browser supposed to know what size you want to scale images to if you resize the window? 60% of what? 60% of your screen size? 60% of the size the window was when you first loaded the page? 60% of 800x600? 60% of the smallest screen that's phisically possible? 60% of the largest screen? what if I projected a web page onto the moon? how big should the images scale to then?
Isn't that the opposite of what usually happens?
"I swear it's usually bigger!"
Or, because I've been watching too much Lord Of The Rings: "We swears, our preacious is bigger, we swears!!"
So... uh, what's the big deal? It's a radio... a proprietary radio at that... why not just tune in to Alice, KISS, or whatever else you've got in your area. How is this even remotely useful unless I get to choose what songs I want to hear when?
Alright, speak up, what moron modded this up as informative? That's worse than posting it!
Ahh, I see, so, while you could get your GPU to handle compiling something it's much better at rendering things. It'd be like using your hands to walk... How would something like that do with processing (rendering?) audio effects and such?
Yeah, actually I do get it. I was simply asking what the differences between GPUs and CPUs are, not saying there was none. What I don't get is this need for people on the internet to insult people or treat them in a gruff manner.
I'm sure there must be some, otherwise they wouldn't have them... How are GPU's specifically optimised for graphics work? Do they have built in de/compression algorithms? Wouldn't it just be easier to have multiple CPUs?
It's not the games and displays and booths and things (though they are perks), BLUE CHICKS!!!
Since all the domain name does is resolve to a number what are they going to be policing? Would they be checking only mysite.mobi or would they be going further and doing www.mysite.mobi? what about donkeyballs.mysite.mobi? or ilick.donkeyballs.mysite.mobi? or even just mysite.mobi:8080?
.mobl, .mbl or just write out the whole thing .mobile? I mean, as long as you're going with letters that aren't really easy to type in on a phone you might as well just go the full word... perhaps they should have gone with .dmw while not pronouncable it's really easy to type in on any phone (just go down the right side of the pad... by the same token they could have gone with .ajt .gjm or .ptw
Couldn't I just set up a basic page with just the word "hello" on whatever page they check and then use a different subdomain for some other bunch of pages?
Don't get me wrong, I think making sure that it's standards compliant is a damn good idea, as long as that's as far as they go with it (saying that you can't have porn is going too far, next thing you know they're going to say you can't have anything that critisizes the government), I just don't see how they're going to do it very well...
BTW: why didn't they use
Tell them it stands for 'Cam Der Taco' and any relation to some form of rank is purely coincidence...
in the same sentance without the words "destroy" or "useless" between them? Nevahr!
It's true what you say, but 'real' (sorry ;)) mathematicians say 0/0 is undefined.
Say what you will, my Calculus professor is a retired physics professor from UC Berkeley, he basically said the same thing (actually he's the one who gave me the term indefinate, I had been saying it was anything...)
Ack... sorry about the lack of line breaks... apparently I was too tired to be posting on slashdot...
Actually, I'd say it's indefinate, not undefined... just as 0/0 is indefinate, it could be every number (0*n=0, thus 0/0=n for any n) n/0 for any non-zero n is undefined (there's no real number you could multiply zero by to get n) 0^0 is either 1 or 0 depending on how you want to look at it: n^0 = 1 or 0^n = 0, so it has a finite result set (which is a bit easier to deal with than 0/0's infinately infinate result set...) Ok, here's a mind bender: you say that there are infinately many integers, and there are infinately many non-integers between each pair of integers, does this mean that there are more non-integers than there are integers? infinity * infinity is still infinity... My answer would be that, yes, it is still infinity, it's just an infinately larger infinity... You could even say that it's a significantly larger value of infinity... What's infinity divided by infinity? :)
I guess each generation reinvents the "we went deaf because..." story.
Yeah, before walkmen it was phonographs, and before that it was masturbation. Oh wait, that was blindness...
You know, it's better to have it all spread around in places EVERYONE goes, and hidden where some unsuspecting kid or, god forbid, a self respecting politition (do those still exist?) might stumble accross it... Perhaps it's just that Bush want's to be able to blame his porn surfing on accidental circumstances. G: "Dubya, Dubya, Dubya, dot, whitehouse, dot, com" (ok, so I know it's no longer around, but you get the idea, wouldn't very well work for .xxx now would it?)
L: "George, what are you doing?!?"
G: "Er, uh... Reasearching something for my speach-- my god, what is this evil stuff?!"
can it emulate an xbox?
if ms is serious about shutting down spam, they should spend less on lawyers and more on educating their end users.
Ahh, but then they'd never sell windows...
Hilf's answers sound quite reasonable, something that most of us don't associate with Microsoft.
I know what you mean, reading that I almost tossed out my PowerBook and ran and got an HP... Then I realized that, despite what this guy says, Windows (and programs) still bugs the crap out of me...
my fireplace is matter-antimatter with a bit of holograms thrown in for color, the main problem is that it's a bit touchy, turn it too far down and you get nothing, too far up and you blow a giant hole in the side of the planet...
...it comes in an anatomically correct female form? I mean, isn't all technology for the sake of sex or sex-like sensations? That's what the internet's for after all... All this web board/blog/research stuff that people do is just a side effect...
I think Nemesis had the potential for being good but they just cut all the good parts out and turned it into a bland story with flat characters. Instead of being about the crew it was about four 'people' two of which were played by the same actor. They could have just about eliminated everyone but Data, B4, Shinzon, and Picard and you would have not lost any of the story. They didn't like the wedding scene so they took most of it out, I'd say that what they left in made no sense being there, if you're going to cut out all the meat then cut out the fat too, remove the whole wedding scene (though I would have rather had the whole thing). And why is there a big empty shaft in a starship? It doesn't make any sense... (I also have a beef with how they make gravity inside the turboshaft (not the lift, but the shaft), wouldn't it be easier to just leave it in zero-g? then you wouldn't waste power to create the gravity and then fight the gravity to raise the lift...)