Geeks tend to have the most difficulty with this "co-mingling", ironic given that geeks also tend to struggle with getting girlfriends; I wonder why that is... While exceptions abound, outside geekdom, women are far more likely to be treated with respect.
Perhaps it's time for a little introspection and a little growing beyond the juvenile tendencies toward girls. Who knows, maybe you'll find them better company on the other side of the computer screen. Might even find your forearms returning to the same size.
If this was purely motivated by serving his butt from home to office I'm pretty sure a helicopter would be more economical than boring tunnels up and down Californian metros.
I don't remember Intel being involved, but this is probably the more salient one. Being some 15+ years ago I'm probably remembering some of the specifics wrong. I don't recall now whether it was this one or, the former I cited. Perhaps even yet I different one.
Regardless, as far as I can tell this is still a patented tech.
It is possible that I quoted the wrong patent however. A little more digging turned up this one. This was quite some time ago. i.e. 15+ years ago. I don't remember Intel being the parent, just that it was a pair of guys, there was a blink and you missed it limited offering by a "never heard of" company.
In this particular case, it's a couple of guys trolling for licensing. I'm not aware of the particulars but it seems these a**wipes haven't been particularly interested in making it worth it for mouse manufacturers to pursue. I wonder if the trolls actually relented or if Logitech just being brazen?
About a decade ago this would have been a rather useful product for which I've long been frustrated to not see. However, between improvements in battery tech and power efficiency, it's kind of more a novelty anymore.
What you throw away, you cannot get back. Think of compression as a plastic bag filled with snow and maybe a little air at the top. Assume air represents '0' and water represents '1'. A snowflake can be said to be represented then by a sequential pattern of 0's and 1's. The more you squeeze the bag, the more air (0's) you throw away. Initially you're merely squeezing the air at the top out but as you continue to squeeze this bag, you start throwing away the 0's contained within the snowflakes themselves, in so doing the shape of the snowflakes becomes less and less defined. Squeeze all of the air out and you're left with water and absolutely no notion that the original defining shapes of the snowflakes.
Lossless compression in a sense only squeezes the air at the top out. Lossy compression continues on and erodes the actual pattern defining the snowflake. No matter how clever your algorithm is at deflating the bag, there are very real limits to how much you can squeeze before you stop being able to recognize the contents as the snow you once put into the bag. Procedural generation is a form lossy compression. Minecraft worlds are procedurally generated from small seed strings. These generated worlds are very impressive in their complexity and expansiveness. However, from those seed strings you have precious little control over what is generated. You cannot simply change the seed from "aaaaaa" to "aaabaa" and lower the height of a hill by 2 meters at coords 100,50 without very drastic changes propagated elsewhere throughout the entire world.
If someone killed Sloot it wasn't to suppress his invention, it was to save face for being conned by him.
Bean counter failure or not. The level of incompetency required of their IT guys to not notice a terabyte(s) of data being pulled from their servers, across the DMZ and onto the web is impressive.
If a myopic perspective is taken sure. However, a carbon tax is capturing the more complete cost of such pollution. Fossil fuels and their cousins throw the full cost far enough into the future that people don't have to pay attention to it. My children shouldn't be stuck with paying for what my parents used. Carbon tax brings it back to the generation responsible for it. That's not leakage, that's time-shifting. Then since it's more expensive to do the detrimental thing, the beneficial thing is economically incentivized and the detrimental thing is done less. That's value. It's not money being sent on a one-way into the sun.
We've had designs for colonies on the Moon and Mars for decades. How's that working out? There's better technology available certainly, however, what we actually have are 50 year old BWRs and little motivation to throw down the billions of dollars on one of the most expensive forms of power available.
I have a hunch given the sample size, the accounting changes dramatically every Fukushima, or Chernobyl. I'm certain it could be made safer given that most reactors out there are some permutation on 50 year old and very risky BWRs. However, it's an increasingly mute point given cost of nuclear power is rather high up on the list relative to other sources such as coal, solar, wind, and natural gas.
I didn't realize personal printers (in general) were really much of a thing any longer. I though for the most part paper was a concession to boomers at the office and the rare occasion where they invade our personal lives.
Expect the ALE to go down as access to healthcare falls off and the unhealthy lifestyles of boomers to catch up with them, e.g. pancreatic cancer, type II complications, heart disease, etc..
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Guess I'm missing it. Care to enlighten me on applicability?
Freedom of speech does not imply freedom from consequences.
Geeks tend to have the most difficulty with this "co-mingling", ironic given that geeks also tend to struggle with getting girlfriends; I wonder why that is... While exceptions abound, outside geekdom, women are far more likely to be treated with respect.
Perhaps it's time for a little introspection and a little growing beyond the juvenile tendencies toward girls. Who knows, maybe you'll find them better company on the other side of the computer screen. Might even find your forearms returning to the same size.
Perhaps being more than a century past might make it not so modern.
I'm told it's greening up quite nicely.
If this was purely motivated by serving his butt from home to office I'm pretty sure a helicopter would be more economical than boring tunnels up and down Californian metros.
A segment refers to the concrete liner rings. So actually, using Seattle's project with the world's largest boring machine as an upper limit seems more like a couple orders of magnitude less. The tunnel is lined with 2-ft thick by 6.5ft long concrete panels or segments.
I don't remember Intel being involved, but this is probably the more salient one. Being some 15+ years ago I'm probably remembering some of the specifics wrong. I don't recall now whether it was this one or, the former I cited. Perhaps even yet I different one.
Regardless, as far as I can tell this is still a patented tech.
It is possible that I quoted the wrong patent however. A little more digging turned up this one. This was quite some time ago. i.e. 15+ years ago. I don't remember Intel being the parent, just that it was a pair of guys, there was a blink and you missed it limited offering by a "never heard of" company.
The actual device that they bothered with was a VERY limited release with next to nothing availability.
In this particular case, it's a couple of guys trolling for licensing. I'm not aware of the particulars but it seems these a**wipes haven't been particularly interested in making it worth it for mouse manufacturers to pursue. I wonder if the trolls actually relented or if Logitech just being brazen?
About a decade ago this would have been a rather useful product for which I've long been frustrated to not see. However, between improvements in battery tech and power efficiency, it's kind of more a novelty anymore.
I wonder if Logitech forgot about the patent on this
What you throw away, you cannot get back. Think of compression as a plastic bag filled with snow and maybe a little air at the top. Assume air represents '0' and water represents '1'. A snowflake can be said to be represented then by a sequential pattern of 0's and 1's. The more you squeeze the bag, the more air (0's) you throw away. Initially you're merely squeezing the air at the top out but as you continue to squeeze this bag, you start throwing away the 0's contained within the snowflakes themselves, in so doing the shape of the snowflakes becomes less and less defined. Squeeze all of the air out and you're left with water and absolutely no notion that the original defining shapes of the snowflakes.
Lossless compression in a sense only squeezes the air at the top out. Lossy compression continues on and erodes the actual pattern defining the snowflake. No matter how clever your algorithm is at deflating the bag, there are very real limits to how much you can squeeze before you stop being able to recognize the contents as the snow you once put into the bag. Procedural generation is a form lossy compression. Minecraft worlds are procedurally generated from small seed strings. These generated worlds are very impressive in their complexity and expansiveness. However, from those seed strings you have precious little control over what is generated. You cannot simply change the seed from "aaaaaa" to "aaabaa" and lower the height of a hill by 2 meters at coords 100,50 without very drastic changes propagated elsewhere throughout the entire world.
If someone killed Sloot it wasn't to suppress his invention, it was to save face for being conned by him.
If you cannot identify a problem then how can anyone propose a solution?
(tech) Hey boss, the reactor is about 10 minutes away from melt-down. (boss) Unless you have a solution don't come whining to me with your problems.
Bean counter failure or not. The level of incompetency required of their IT guys to not notice a terabyte(s) of data being pulled from their servers, across the DMZ and onto the web is impressive.
If a myopic perspective is taken sure. However, a carbon tax is capturing the more complete cost of such pollution. Fossil fuels and their cousins throw the full cost far enough into the future that people don't have to pay attention to it. My children shouldn't be stuck with paying for what my parents used. Carbon tax brings it back to the generation responsible for it. That's not leakage, that's time-shifting. Then since it's more expensive to do the detrimental thing, the beneficial thing is economically incentivized and the detrimental thing is done less. That's value. It's not money being sent on a one-way into the sun.
We've had designs for colonies on the Moon and Mars for decades. How's that working out? There's better technology available certainly, however, what we actually have are 50 year old BWRs and little motivation to throw down the billions of dollars on one of the most expensive forms of power available.
I have a hunch given the sample size, the accounting changes dramatically every Fukushima, or Chernobyl. I'm certain it could be made safer given that most reactors out there are some permutation on 50 year old and very risky BWRs. However, it's an increasingly mute point given cost of nuclear power is rather high up on the list relative to other sources such as coal, solar, wind, and natural gas.
Now you know.
I didn't realize personal printers (in general) were really much of a thing any longer. I though for the most part paper was a concession to boomers at the office and the rare occasion where they invade our personal lives.
Expect the ALE to go down as access to healthcare falls off and the unhealthy lifestyles of boomers to catch up with them, e.g. pancreatic cancer, type II complications, heart disease, etc..
I have a suspicion that your Ford dealer isn't going to repair the faulty fuel system on your Pinto.
Speaking of which, anyone know if they've issued a patch for VAX/VMS? ULTRIX?
It could be worse. They could all be Hallmark movies.
I haven't seen the movie. But, to be honest the Japanese one made me more interested in seeing the film.