There's only been about 300 of them, but the author seems to be very much in tune with the/. crowd. There are only so many popular nerdy themes! I thoroughly recommend you browse through his archive - it's a very fun hour or so. Now, off to the String theory video thread to see if anyone's posted this yet.
In an unrelated note, posters warning of possible raptor entry points have appeared in my building recently. (It's not my doing.)
*cough* an audio CD is sampled at 44.1 kHz, not 32 kHz Ah, so I was wrong about the number. It only contains frequencies up to ~22kHz, which is sensible in light of the human auditory range I mentioned in my earlier post.
This is why I don't read/. so much any more. Lots of people know the numbers, but too few know what they mean.
I would love to see the National Institute for Standards and Technology establish the standard "reference cockroach". Bah! They'd only over-specify it. Kernighan & Richie's cockroaches are entirely good enough for most uses.
160kbps is, I think, good for perfect reconstruction up to 20kHz. A typical person can hear up to 16kHz-22kHz, with the upper end of that range relatively rare. I approve of the redundancy of a CD (32kHz) but I really don't think it matters very much.
if you accept there claim without substantiation, you have failed to apply scientific priciples yourself. I refuse to listen to scientific criticism from someone who doesn't distinguish between the homophones of 'their'.
You know, words do evolve in meaning over time. Trying to win an argument through etymological fallacy only proves your level of desperation. I tend to agree. The Orwellian practice of labelling something in a particular way to make it more or less palatable to the public is pathetic. We should subject anyone who does something like that to rendition, regime change, piracy, liberation... whatever means are necessary to stamp it out. It's our patriotic duty.
All I can say is, after his performance in 'Hulk', hearing about Eric Bana being cast in anything makes me cringe. Unless he's being cast in to a pit of boiling lava. Carbonite. I'd like to see him cast in carbonite.
british(pants,trousers) <=> american(underwear,pants) Yeah, I've never really gotten this. When I was growing up, it was irish(underpants, pants), which seems like a far more consistent system than either of those.
Both are employed pretty heavily by advanced "Amateur" astronomers. I put amateur in quotes because people at the high end of the hobby may have setups costing $50,000-$100,000+ dollars, going up to as much as people are willing to spend. There are several companies (http://www.sbig.com/ for example) that specialize in producing imaging equipment and software for these setups. It's pretty amazing what these people are able to do. I attended a lecture a year or two ago by a respected academic in adaptive optics (Chris Dainty, for the curious). He described efforts to put together an AO kit for amateur astronomers. I think he said that he wasn't able to get it under a few thousand Euro. It's not a cheap science, for sure.
No problem. He just need to wait until a reply gets modded up +5 Informative. That's a sure way to guarantee that anything posted on Slashdot will be accurate, with correct precision, and not be filled with crackpot theories, right? The badgers told him not to.
More to the point, J&J were established in 1886; the American Red Cross have been around five years longer. How the hell J&J claim any rights over a symbol used before they were established? And if yes, why the hell hasn't that law been changed yet?
In Ireland, no one pays for incoming calls - the caller pays for everything.
This kind of reminds me of what people describe early cable TV as being like - you paid a fee so there were no ads. Then, after a while, you still paid, but you also got ads. I don't want to see the reverse happening here - first free phone with ads, then paid phone with ads. Still, maybe competition can keep that possibility away.
From TFA:
Methodology:
Firefox's use rate corresponds to the totality of Firefox visits during the period in relation to the entirety of visits, all browsers taken together. They don't explain what "visits" means. Does it mean visits to *their* site? Did they poll a random number of site owners? I'm sorry, but unless they can provide some supporting information, then these statistics are meaningless. From TFA: "Perimeter of 95,827 websites".
I don't buy it. This is the FBI. These guys can barely tie their own shoelaces but you think they can hack computers? I laugh. How hard is it to pay someone who can?
And, um, exactly when has this stopped them (or any other tech company *cough*Amazon*cough*) from obtaining a patent before? That's going to intimidate Google how? That trick only works when the other guy doesn't have the money and resources to fight.
Photonic crystals is a respectable field of research, though it's still fairly theoretical. Am I the only one who isn't at all impressed when some piece of actual technology sounds like some made up thing from some fantasy novel or elderly sci-fi series?
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The New York Times quotes it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/25jacobson.html?ex=1351051200&en=e4cb25d3a3117e03&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss as coming from http://evolution-facts.org/
There's only been about 300 of them, but the author seems to be very much in tune with the /. crowd. There are only so many popular nerdy themes! I thoroughly recommend you browse through his archive - it's a very fun hour or so. Now, off to the String theory video thread to see if anyone's posted this yet.
In an unrelated note, posters warning of possible raptor entry points have appeared in my building recently. (It's not my doing.)
Imagine the Slashdot posts on the "Man invents fire" story.
Requires fuel. Less light than the daytime. Lame.
But does it run Linux?Two words for you: reconstruction filter. And, for the record, I am an electronic engineer.
This is why I don't read
160kbps is, I think, good for perfect reconstruction up to 20kHz. A typical person can hear up to 16kHz-22kHz, with the upper end of that range relatively rare. I approve of the redundancy of a CD (32kHz) but I really don't think it matters very much.
No, wait, wrong franchise...
I'd be more inclined to drop it to them from a great height.
More to the point, J&J were established in 1886; the American Red Cross have been around five years longer. How the hell J&J claim any rights over a symbol used before they were established? And if yes, why the hell hasn't that law been changed yet?
In Ireland, no one pays for incoming calls - the caller pays for everything.
This kind of reminds me of what people describe early cable TV as being like - you paid a fee so there were no ads. Then, after a while, you still paid, but you also got ads. I don't want to see the reverse happening here - first free phone with ads, then paid phone with ads. Still, maybe competition can keep that possibility away.
Relative to what?
That second one isn't truly random. It correlates with certain financial measures.
You forgot 'forensics'-heavy cop shows.
There are more than that even. They track down crackers. I'm sure they put some of them to use afterwards.
Photonic crystals is a respectable field of research, though it's still fairly theoretical. Am I the only one who isn't at all impressed when some piece of actual technology sounds like some made up thing from some fantasy novel or elderly sci-fi series?