I have a car that runs on air, fire and refined parts of the earth. If I found out how to add water*, I'd have the most powerful engine ever conceived!
*Actually, if you spray a fine mist of water into the air before it goes into the intake then it can help to lower the temperature, and therefore increase the volume of air that can go into the air intake, I read about a drag racer rerouting his windscreen washers to do that:p
Yeah, I have a pretty good idea of how engines work (maybe not by american standards, but a lot of people in the UK wouldn't have a clue). I was trying to be facetious:p I'd even forgotten about Spaceballs until after I posted the comment!
Of course this method won't deplete air reserves, it just uses the energy stored as pressure in the air tank, and presumably it uses air rather than any other gas because it's quite readily available.
Meh, she maybe doesn't need the password to be secure from her parents, but it's good to teach everyone good security principles even at a young age. The more people that learn decent security now, the better the future will be for everyone. Teaching her how to create good passwords will stop others from being able to gain easy access to her email, myspace, forums, whatever, which will all help to keep her safer. That's just one element of safety and security, but half the people at work here would rather just tell you their password than come over and type it in (yeah I'm part of IT, but I still tell people that I don't need or want to know their password)
Only if the forces involved are powerful enough. Tikka Masala and Millers just ain't going to cut it - we're talking Jalfrezi and Guinness strength here.
You only really need electricity to run a compressor though, and we already have networks in place for that. You need trucks to get gas to a gas station. If we replaced all cars with compressed air or electric only models for example, we'd end up with a lot less pollution, especially if the electricity is being generated through renewable means.
All very idealistic I know, but you have to consider the current infrastructure before bashing any ideas for an infrastructure that could very well be more efficient and less polluting.
If that were the case then we wouldn't be able to get any new members. For most people, the first time they ever plugged in a USB cable was quite a special moment. It takes a little while for the memes to totally eradicate any manly primal urges and associations that were once within.
I think as far as neural networks are concerned, pathways are only reinforced if the results they give are 'good' ones with regards to the result you were hoping for. In more general AI terms you'd have to code in something similar that made the computer disregard behaviours that equated with whatever you have specified as 'bad'. ie your robot chops someone's head off with a chainsaw, it would mark that as 'bad', and try to be more careful around humans in the future while wielding a chainsaw.
It's time for a new breed of man. One who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty, but can also wash them when it's time to meet the management. Someone who can make time to shower and shave every morning. Someone who's novelty geek mug will be understood by even those who think that having spyware makes them a secret agent. Ladies and - oh wait, scratch that. *ahem* Gentlemen! Today I introduce a new template class - the Geexecutive! Get implementing!
Actually, as a reply to one of the comics that someone posted, I was like hey, that's a funny ass-comic.:) But that wasn't original, that was me copying that XKCD comic. Don't tell anyone.
It's as if the company paid no attention to existing standards, and decided to implement a PHR system however they damn well pleased Surely not.. this is Microsoft we're talking about here? You know, the famous one - not the toilet paper manufacturer - Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, BOB, Clippy? I refuse to believe that they would follow the path you have laid out, and humbly request to see some evidence that they could ever do something so moronic.
That's like the third time someone's posted an XKCD comic in reply to one of my comments in the last few days. I guess I should be flattered. Either that or I'll forever be in the shadow of that guy and his damned stickmen. His damned, awesome, sexy stickmen._.
I wonted to point that out two. It's so dafty cult trying to police every in-edu catered person on the internets throw. While I'd lie cthu pick every one of their dirty malaproprism-ing asses into bolivian, I'm war heed that one of them mite act tooly be burger then me and I'll get my ass picked in-spread. Be carefool, it's a doggy-dog world out there pee-poll.
Probably ill informed, I don't watch the news very often. Say, did they ever find all of those WMDs I used to keep hearing about, (and which you seem to be offering as an excuse for the invasion)?
Yes, maths is how we say it in the UK. I did mean 'math in general' - they only study logic, which is a subset of maths - philosophers dont need to study maths in general, just logic.
XP won't let me kill certain tasks even while I'm an admin (actually I should try killing stuff after using that hack to get system privileges). I hate how the damn system idle task is always sucking up my CPU usage. No wonder I can't run HL2 at 1900x1200 at a decent framerate:(
Why would they be talking to each other rather than just a single controller? Or one of several controllers. IANAbotnetwriter, but I don't really see the need for them to communicate with each other, unless it's through an attempt to obfuscate the original source of a command sent to the network. The internet has several million machines in a network and it seems to do okay for itself.
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I have a car that runs on air, fire and refined parts of the earth. If I found out how to add water*, I'd have the most powerful engine ever conceived!
:p
*Actually, if you spray a fine mist of water into the air before it goes into the intake then it can help to lower the temperature, and therefore increase the volume of air that can go into the air intake, I read about a drag racer rerouting his windscreen washers to do that
Yeah, I have a pretty good idea of how engines work (maybe not by american standards, but a lot of people in the UK wouldn't have a clue). I was trying to be facetious :p I'd even forgotten about Spaceballs until after I posted the comment!
Of course this method won't deplete air reserves, it just uses the energy stored as pressure in the air tank, and presumably it uses air rather than any other gas because it's quite readily available.
Meh, she maybe doesn't need the password to be secure from her parents, but it's good to teach everyone good security principles even at a young age. The more people that learn decent security now, the better the future will be for everyone. Teaching her how to create good passwords will stop others from being able to gain easy access to her email, myspace, forums, whatever, which will all help to keep her safer. That's just one element of safety and security, but half the people at work here would rather just tell you their password than come over and type it in (yeah I'm part of IT, but I still tell people that I don't need or want to know their password)
Only if the forces involved are powerful enough. Tikka Masala and Millers just ain't going to cut it - we're talking Jalfrezi and Guinness strength here.
You only really need electricity to run a compressor though, and we already have networks in place for that. You need trucks to get gas to a gas station. If we replaced all cars with compressed air or electric only models for example, we'd end up with a lot less pollution, especially if the electricity is being generated through renewable means.
All very idealistic I know, but you have to consider the current infrastructure before bashing any ideas for an infrastructure that could very well be more efficient and less polluting.
You think that's expensive? Perri-air is like $15 a tin!
If that were the case then we wouldn't be able to get any new members. For most people, the first time they ever plugged in a USB cable was quite a special moment. It takes a little while for the memes to totally eradicate any manly primal urges and associations that were once within.
What happens when we run out of air!??!??
You must be new here. Most /.ers soon forget everything they ever learned about penetration within a couple of months of joining.
*googles "define:underarm deoderant"*
I think as far as neural networks are concerned, pathways are only reinforced if the results they give are 'good' ones with regards to the result you were hoping for. In more general AI terms you'd have to code in something similar that made the computer disregard behaviours that equated with whatever you have specified as 'bad'. ie your robot chops someone's head off with a chainsaw, it would mark that as 'bad', and try to be more careful around humans in the future while wielding a chainsaw.
It's time for a new breed of man. One who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty, but can also wash them when it's time to meet the management. Someone who can make time to shower and shave every morning. Someone who's novelty geek mug will be understood by even those who think that having spyware makes them a secret agent. Ladies and - oh wait, scratch that. *ahem* Gentlemen! Today I introduce a new template class - the Geexecutive! Get implementing!
Actually, as a reply to one of the comics that someone posted, I was like hey, that's a funny ass-comic. :) But that wasn't original, that was me copying that XKCD comic. Don't tell anyone.
That's like the third time someone's posted an XKCD comic in reply to one of my comments in the last few days. I guess I should be flattered. Either that or I'll forever be in the shadow of that guy and his damned stickmen. His damned, awesome, sexy stickmen ._.
*gives you your dried frog pills*
There were inspectors in there for ages. WTF?
I wonted to point that out two. It's so dafty cult trying to police every in-edu catered person on the internets throw. While I'd lie cthu pick every one of their dirty malaproprism-ing asses into bolivian, I'm war heed that one of them mite act tooly be burger then me and I'll get my ass picked in-spread. Be carefool, it's a doggy-dog world out there pee-poll.
Too slow ;)
Probably ill informed, I don't watch the news very often. Say, did they ever find all of those WMDs I used to keep hearing about, (and which you seem to be offering as an excuse for the invasion)?
Yes, maths is how we say it in the UK. I did mean 'math in general' - they only study logic, which is a subset of maths - philosophers dont need to study maths in general, just logic.
XP won't let me kill certain tasks even while I'm an admin (actually I should try killing stuff after using that hack to get system privileges). I hate how the damn system idle task is always sucking up my CPU usage. No wonder I can't run HL2 at 1900x1200 at a decent framerate :(
Why would they be talking to each other rather than just a single controller? Or one of several controllers. IANAbotnetwriter, but I don't really see the need for them to communicate with each other, unless it's through an attempt to obfuscate the original source of a command sent to the network. The internet has several million machines in a network and it seems to do okay for itself.