you may easily reduce radiation overall but you might be allowing standing waves in certain locations
All he needs to do is line the entire floor with chocolate bars to detect the hot spots. And also measure the speed of light while he's at it. Double prizes!
so basically rather than create a random sort, they just created a broken sort, and the result would then be dependant on the actual sorting algorithm used by the language.
And more importantly as the author points out, the specific implementation of the sort algorithm is not guaranteed by any standard, so a broken sort could theoretically end up as an infinite loop.
History doesn't begin at the VCR, and I think your definition of timershifter is off. I would argue that if you're going to consider a VCR a timeshifter, then you should also consider the phonograph and the human memory cortex timeshifters as well. I'm pretty sure that "recording device" is not the same thing as "timeshifter". A timeshifter allows you to view a stream of data at a point in time other than what it is also simultaneously chronicling. View and Chronicle are separate timelines. This is impossible with a VCR. It could probably be achieved with a complicated array of VCRs, but that invention does not exist.
Using more RAM doesn't use more energy. Either your RAM is powered on, or it's not. And if it's powered on it maintains its contents, no matter whether the OS has actually written anything useful to it.
RAM has to be constantly refreshed or else it will lose state, so I can see how it could consume more energy to maintain a larger capacity. That's not to say that modern memory controllers don't just refresh all the RAM all the time, in which case you're always operating at the worst case, but I'd like to hope that they don't do that...
I think that his stories were very complex and if one filmmaker were to try and present half the stories from I, Robot in the form they were presented in the book, nobody would like the film.
When this situation happens, MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T MAKE THE MOVIE! Not every book needs to be made into a movie. Not every book can be made into a movie. I still can't understand why they choose I, Robot out of all the great sci fi books available to make an action movie out of. Instead of taking a book that really has no purpose being an action movie, just find a great story that DOES and use that instead. There's plenty out there. All that time they spent mangling that story to fit their formula could have been spent polishing to perfection a different story that almost already fit.
Not only have you missed the point, but I'm also not sure you know what "moot" means. The point isn't the fraud, it's the fact that in your logic scheme nobody is ever a victim because at some level, everything you do is voluntary.
(if you voluntarily take part in something, by definition you cannot be a victim).
That's an absurd statement. If I voluntarily play a game of poker in some guy's garage, and he cheats, am I not a victim? If I buy stock in a company that falsified their bookkeeping, am I not a victim? If you voluntarily take part in a game that's called "You Are Guaranteed To Lose Your Money. And We Really Mean That. You Will Not Win." then maybe you would be correct, but that is never the case. By your logic if I voluntarily went outside and got murdered I wouldn't be a victim, because everyone knows there is some small chance that you can get murdered whenever you go outside.
I'm gonna call BS on this. This lady was watching a webcam of a coastal area at nighttime? Why would you do that? And saw a flash 100+ miles away, and based on this decides to call the police? The local police then scour the ice and find this guy who is 100+ miles away? There is either a piece of information missing here, or this is not a completely honest story. Or I'm just horribly cynical.
Did you really just equate My child's DOCTOR with some TSA (or what ever they call them in England) screener?
The fact that you implicitly trust your child's doctor is all the more reason for pedophiles to become doctors. Why do you think they become priests? "Did you just equate my child's PRIEST with some TSA screener?" Does that sound any worse than what you said?
His "3D" visualization of a 2D graph would be more useful if you could zoom in.
If you look closely you can see a 3rd vertical dimension for the data, looks like load data maybe. If you had control of the program I think you would find it zooms.
But we cannot have free and open dissemination of information and literature unless the use of written material continues to be controlled by those who write it
I don't see how it's free and open if it's being controlled by those who write it... She is in complete contradiction of herself here.
I don't see the big news here. At close range it's easy to kill. Even something like a $5 potato cannon can kill people at close range. Being in close proximity to exploding things has never really been good for your health..
Except that it costs them 40-50% of that revenue to run their operation, so they really only profit $500m. Not that that's chump change, but it's a far cry from $1billion
I suspect no exclusivity at all. Xbox needs an app to run Netflix, so it's not a feature "out of the box". Also considering the number of other platforms that support Netflix. I'm guessing there is a technical reason for needing the disc...
I don't understand how a $40,000 police cruiser is more commonly available than a $3000 thermal imaging camera. It's not like you need a special permit to buy the camera. Anyone can buy them anytime they want. Hundreds of thousands of people spend more than $3000 on their LCD HDTV, so don't tell me they're out of the range of normal people. I say if Amazon.com sells it, then it's commonplace and valid for police use, and everyone knows that what I say matters quite a lot.
Are you serious? XBMC has the worst, most retarded, most un-intuitive UI of any program I have used in a long time. I installed it and ran it and I thought, "Well here's a decent looking program." and then about 10 seconds later I started smashing things. And then about 2 hours later I figured it out with the help of a bunch of web HOWTOs. And it's not like I'm a moron. And it's not like there's just one little tiny annoying thing, the entire setup is wrong. From the system settings, to the library interface, it's just plain wrong. This isn't a case of different strokes, it's wrong on an absolute scale. I think the backend engine is probably decent -- it has some nice features, but whoever designed that interface has their head screwed on sideways or something.
Mocking aside, $300m is really improbable and probably wrongly quoted by someone that had a stressed day and therefore hit one unimportant zero too much.
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you may easily reduce radiation overall but you might be allowing standing waves in certain locations
All he needs to do is line the entire floor with chocolate bars to detect the hot spots. And also measure the speed of light while he's at it. Double prizes!
so basically rather than create a random sort, they just created a broken sort, and the result would then be dependant on the actual sorting algorithm used by the language.
And more importantly as the author points out, the specific implementation of the sort algorithm is not guaranteed by any standard, so a broken sort could theoretically end up as an infinite loop.
one should learn about history
History doesn't begin at the VCR, and I think your definition of timershifter is off. I would argue that if you're going to consider a VCR a timeshifter, then you should also consider the phonograph and the human memory cortex timeshifters as well. I'm pretty sure that "recording device" is not the same thing as "timeshifter". A timeshifter allows you to view a stream of data at a point in time other than what it is also simultaneously chronicling. View and Chronicle are separate timelines. This is impossible with a VCR. It could probably be achieved with a complicated array of VCRs, but that invention does not exist.
I prefer the term turbocrutch
Gee, if only there were a legal way to get the opinions of others before you bought something. Nah, that'll never happen.
Except that other peoples' opinions have absolutely no correlation to my own.
Using more RAM doesn't use more energy. Either your RAM is powered on, or it's not. And if it's powered on it maintains its contents, no matter whether the OS has actually written anything useful to it.
RAM has to be constantly refreshed or else it will lose state, so I can see how it could consume more energy to maintain a larger capacity. That's not to say that modern memory controllers don't just refresh all the RAM all the time, in which case you're always operating at the worst case, but I'd like to hope that they don't do that...
You mean they'll go ape-shit?
I think that his stories were very complex and if one filmmaker were to try and present half the stories from I, Robot in the form they were presented in the book, nobody would like the film.
When this situation happens, MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T MAKE THE MOVIE! Not every book needs to be made into a movie. Not every book can be made into a movie. I still can't understand why they choose I, Robot out of all the great sci fi books available to make an action movie out of. Instead of taking a book that really has no purpose being an action movie, just find a great story that DOES and use that instead. There's plenty out there. All that time they spent mangling that story to fit their formula could have been spent polishing to perfection a different story that almost already fit.
Not only have you missed the point, but I'm also not sure you know what "moot" means. The point isn't the fraud, it's the fact that in your logic scheme nobody is ever a victim because at some level, everything you do is voluntary.
(if you voluntarily take part in something, by definition you cannot be a victim).
That's an absurd statement. If I voluntarily play a game of poker in some guy's garage, and he cheats, am I not a victim? If I buy stock in a company that falsified their bookkeeping, am I not a victim? If you voluntarily take part in a game that's called "You Are Guaranteed To Lose Your Money. And We Really Mean That. You Will Not Win." then maybe you would be correct, but that is never the case. By your logic if I voluntarily went outside and got murdered I wouldn't be a victim, because everyone knows there is some small chance that you can get murdered whenever you go outside.
I'm gonna call BS on this. This lady was watching a webcam of a coastal area at nighttime? Why would you do that? And saw a flash 100+ miles away, and based on this decides to call the police? The local police then scour the ice and find this guy who is 100+ miles away? There is either a piece of information missing here, or this is not a completely honest story. Or I'm just horribly cynical.
Did you really just equate My child's DOCTOR with some TSA (or what ever they call them in England) screener?
The fact that you implicitly trust your child's doctor is all the more reason for pedophiles to become doctors. Why do you think they become priests? "Did you just equate my child's PRIEST with some TSA screener?" Does that sound any worse than what you said?
His "3D" visualization of a 2D graph would be more useful if you could zoom in.
If you look closely you can see a 3rd vertical dimension for the data, looks like load data maybe. If you had control of the program I think you would find it zooms.
But we cannot have free and open dissemination of information and literature unless the use of written material continues to be controlled by those who write it
I don't see how it's free and open if it's being controlled by those who write it... She is in complete contradiction of herself here.
Man, talk about Buzzkill.
I don't see the big news here. At close range it's easy to kill. Even something like a $5 potato cannon can kill people at close range. Being in close proximity to exploding things has never really been good for your health..
Except that it costs them 40-50% of that revenue to run their operation, so they really only profit $500m. Not that that's chump change, but it's a far cry from $1billion
I'd rather nobody did, because it's an idea (a WIBNI), not an implementation.
How do you know they're not suing for a patent that is an implementation of photo preview?
But it doesn't need it's own special key. Any combination of keys could be programmed to send the PRTSCR keycode, without needing a dedicated key.
I suspect no exclusivity at all. Xbox needs an app to run Netflix, so it's not a feature "out of the box". Also considering the number of other platforms that support Netflix. I'm guessing there is a technical reason for needing the disc...
A single generation isn't going to do it.
So every year we have Peanut Day. Problem solved.
I don't understand how a $40,000 police cruiser is more commonly available than a $3000 thermal imaging camera. It's not like you need a special permit to buy the camera. Anyone can buy them anytime they want. Hundreds of thousands of people spend more than $3000 on their LCD HDTV, so don't tell me they're out of the range of normal people. I say if Amazon.com sells it, then it's commonplace and valid for police use, and everyone knows that what I say matters quite a lot.
Have you ever used XBMC
Are you serious? XBMC has the worst, most retarded, most un-intuitive UI of any program I have used in a long time. I installed it and ran it and I thought, "Well here's a decent looking program." and then about 10 seconds later I started smashing things. And then about 2 hours later I figured it out with the help of a bunch of web HOWTOs. And it's not like I'm a moron. And it's not like there's just one little tiny annoying thing, the entire setup is wrong. From the system settings, to the library interface, it's just plain wrong. This isn't a case of different strokes, it's wrong on an absolute scale. I think the backend engine is probably decent -- it has some nice features, but whoever designed that interface has their head screwed on sideways or something.
I look down on everyone, without bias or prejudice.
Mocking aside, $300m is really improbable and probably wrongly quoted by someone that had a stressed day and therefore hit one unimportant zero too much.
ZOMG!!@(* Unknow director get $300 bazollion movee deel!!!!!