For all those people who thought I was crazy for waiting for DSL to be available, and for setting the dogs after any cable salesman who stepped on the property....
THIS is exactly why I won't do business with cable companies. They've got the monopoly, because once you're signed up it's hard to switch to someone else. Face it, when you've got some serious TV to watch and some web surfing to do, who has time to call up Dish Network to order a satellite dish? Who has time to get a DSL line?
My DSL line will be installed this month. I'll have the contractual ability to run my own mail server, and my own web server. My TV is through Dish Network. No cable companies get my dollars.
Between the US and the old USSR there have been over 2000 detonations of nukes on the planet. I think we've had plenty of time and data from actual explosions to devise a theory, implement a simulation, and check it against the recorded data.
So, to answer your question, they got their data to test the simulation by blowing up nukes.
Check out this NPR story on EHobbies. This is an example of what a company must do to become profitable. They need to get rid of their expensive digs and rent a corner of an abandoned warehouse.
I just looked up wireless keyboards and mice, and guess what, they still have wires. Short little ones, connecting to the transceiver that plugs into the keyboard or mouse port, but wires nonetheless.
When I think of cable clutter, I think of keyboard cables, mouse cables, monitor cables, and power cables. This doesn't seem to do anything for those cables at all.
And I still use it. What a great machine it is. I'll probably replace it someday with something that can run a Python interpreter, but for now it's what I need.
Linus hasn't done a damn thing in years anyway. The real person behind the kernel is actually Linux Thorvald. That's why something like the VM fiasco happened. Linus wouldn't have done something stupid like that, but Linux Thorvald does a hundred things dumber than that before he eats breakfast. And, rumor has it that he's also dating Natalee Portam on the side.
You've at least got the right sort of thinking about it. You picked a function implemented in neurons and used that to guess what kind of compute power lay within. That's what others have done too, but with the structure of the retina and optical nerve. That bunch of neurons does a lot of preprocessing before the brain receives the image, plus a lot of research has been done on it. That's one way that AI researchers have had to get at what kind of compute power a brain has.
I just read the Times yesterday, and this is what they said:
1) There WERE sprinklers throughout both buildings.
2) There were water tanks spread through the buildings, including above the fires.
3) When the planes hit, the water system was completely damaged.
4) People below the fires reported water cascading down stairwells. This was the water released from the broken sprinkler supplies.
5) Even if the sprinkler supplies were not severed, the system would have been useless anyway. That initial fireball was about 1/3 of the energy right there, and it would have activated every single sprinkler on the floor. The water pressure would not have been sufficient to do anything at all to the fire.
Nice that we can forsee a way to project holographic images, but is there a corresponding idea for recording holographic images? Maybe the old fashioned stereo camera images would need to be processed into a hologram by a computer.
I came to the same conclusion, so two days ago I set up pdrap.org for the purpose of giving me unlimited e-mail addresses without having to fill out a hotmail form for each one.
When my e-mail on this message starts getting too much spam, I'll just blackhole it and make a new random address. I've got different addresses for everyone, so I can tell where the spammers are harvesting.
I would like to go to space so much that I'd be willing to take the ride naked if I have to. This "serious pain in the ass to use" still seems like less of a pain than using a rocket.
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For all those people who thought I was crazy for waiting for DSL to be available, and for setting the dogs after any cable salesman who stepped on the property....
THIS is exactly why I won't do business with cable companies. They've got the monopoly, because once you're signed up it's hard to switch to someone else. Face it, when you've got some serious TV to watch and some web surfing to do, who has time to call up Dish Network to order a satellite dish? Who has time to get a DSL line?
My DSL line will be installed this month. I'll have the contractual ability to run my own mail server, and my own web server. My TV is through Dish Network. No cable companies get my dollars.
How about a fricking link?
Between the US and the old USSR there have been over 2000 detonations of nukes on the planet. I think we've had plenty of time and data from actual explosions to devise a theory, implement a simulation, and check it against the recorded data.
So, to answer your question, they got their data to test the simulation by blowing up nukes.
Who else thinks this is even stupider than building a monorail in your backyard? I mean, the train doesn't even GO anywhere.
I know it's ridiculous. I posted the original query for translations of the word fuck and it's been modded up and down all over.
Some people simply do not understand the moderations, hence I will give some examples:
flamebait: fuck you and the donkey you rode in on.
offtopic: (an article about telephones on a story about rockets)
troll: A controversial article designed to elicit lots of responses - these articles are usually from the "devil's advocate" position, but not always.
This sounds suspiciously like the idea that any unsolved computer science problem can be solved by adding another level of indirection.
Everyone translate the word "fuck" into your native language.
Check out this NPR story on EHobbies. This is an example of what a company must do to become profitable. They need to get rid of their expensive digs and rent a corner of an abandoned warehouse.
I just looked up wireless keyboards and mice, and guess what, they still have wires. Short little ones, connecting to the transceiver that plugs into the keyboard or mouse port, but wires nonetheless.
When I think of cable clutter, I think of keyboard cables, mouse cables, monitor cables, and power cables. This doesn't seem to do anything for those cables at all.
top - 3 characters
bottom - 6 characters
up - 2 characters
down - 4 characters
strange - 7 characters
charmed - 7 characters
So what are you worried about?
And I still use it. What a great machine it is. I'll probably replace it someday with something that can run a Python interpreter, but for now it's what I need.
Note to self: Remove the line about "loves devices with solenoids" from my resume.
Linus hasn't done a damn thing in years anyway. The real person behind the kernel is actually Linux Thorvald. That's why something like the VM fiasco happened. Linus wouldn't have done something stupid like that, but Linux Thorvald does a hundred things dumber than that before he eats breakfast. And, rumor has it that he's also dating Natalee Portam on the side.
I tried it too, but my subconscious can't read.
And for one strange day, stories about bullshit subliminal learning fit right in on /.
"What we have goes beyond friendship, beyond family." - Guinan, talking about Picard
OK, I see what she meant by that. I also see what Q said when he called her an Imp.
Would that be a European or African cow?
You've at least got the right sort of thinking about it. You picked a function implemented in neurons and used that to guess what kind of compute power lay within. That's what others have done too, but with the structure of the retina and optical nerve. That bunch of neurons does a lot of preprocessing before the brain receives the image, plus a lot of research has been done on it. That's one way that AI researchers have had to get at what kind of compute power a brain has.
I just read the Times yesterday, and this is what they said:
1) There WERE sprinklers throughout both buildings.
2) There were water tanks spread through the buildings, including above the fires.
3) When the planes hit, the water system was completely damaged.
4) People below the fires reported water cascading down stairwells. This was the water released from the broken sprinkler supplies.
5) Even if the sprinkler supplies were not severed, the system would have been useless anyway. That initial fireball was about 1/3 of the energy right there, and it would have activated every single sprinkler on the floor. The water pressure would not have been sufficient to do anything at all to the fire.
Nice that we can forsee a way to project holographic images, but is there a corresponding idea for recording holographic images? Maybe the old fashioned stereo camera images would need to be processed into a hologram by a computer.
So, did you get anything yet? I've been sending out $5000 invoices to spammers for a while now, and so far, nothing.
I came to the same conclusion, so two days ago I set up pdrap.org for the purpose of giving me unlimited e-mail addresses without having to fill out a hotmail form for each one.
When my e-mail on this message starts getting too much spam, I'll just blackhole it and make a new random address. I've got different addresses for everyone, so I can tell where the spammers are harvesting.
I would like to go to space so much that I'd be willing to take the ride naked if I have to. This "serious pain in the ass to use" still seems like less of a pain than using a rocket.
This cartoon is about Knuth