There's no such thing as 'Peak Stupid'. Every time someone gets to the top of the current peak, the fog clears and another mountain of stupid looms in front of them.
I don't fully understand this term "Peak Stupid"...
It's the name of the mountain under which the most secure mail server complex exists. After decades of trying to get past the defenses, the password gropers have finally hit Peak Stupid.
Missing comma and the "because" definition of "for": With 5 children, my mother in law (a retired Catholic School Teacher) told us to Home School, for public and some Christian Schools were not good anymore.
Wow! Rosetta must be in a really peculiar part of space indeed if noise can be mis-interpreted as signal, flipping bits in such a way as to fool the the error correction coding, finding only those pieces of the data stream that are part of the image telemetry, working its way backwards through the compression algorithm (which has its own error detection protocols) so as to affect only the specific pixels required to blur the image.
No, it only affects available bandwidth - the bytes per second and the bytes per watt (or maybe watts per bit?).
Exactly! So all that stuff about antenna size and signal power is irrelevant nonsense. A weak or noisy signal is not going to give them a grainy or blurry picture. It's going to give them a "Signal Lost" error message, and if it's important, the team will request a retransmission at a better bit rate. The image quality is solely dependent on the camera and optics (which are quite good, judging from the images I've seen. They are neither grainy nor blurry, but are crisp and sharp).
What grainy/blurry images? All of the images I've seen have been crystal clear, apart from the one where the comet is outgassing. Your guess about bandwidth limitations and video is probably correct.
There are severe limits on sending antenna size and power use on the craft. They use a 2.2 meters diameter dish (seven feet), with 850W electric power from solar panels to transmit from a distance about one hundred thousand times greater than geostationary TV satellites.
It's like the difference between whispering at someone's ear (half and inch away) and shouting for someone a mile away. I can't think of a car analogy on five orders of magnitude, but I'm sure someone will be more inspired
... and it's a digital signal from a digital camera, so none of that should affect image quality.
Can't. CNN has been removed from basic cable around here. We're down to less than a dozen real channels (about half of which are alternate language channels), and a dozen "infotainment" channels (Weather, Business, local news, and infomercial channels). There is literally almost nothing worth watching unless you get a digital set-top box.
It's not about finding out why 239 people drowned. It's about finding and fixing the hole in the supposedly foolproof safety surveillance net that is big enough to let a multi-million dollar plane vanish without a trace.
I think one thing we learned from this disaster is that black box recorders are not good enough on their own. We need flight data and cockpit recordings to be sent to satellites in realtime.
Maybe they used, as part of the repairs, a telegram authorizing the use of funds to secure the release of a person from custody. That would be a bailing wire, would it not?
Power plants are not civilian infrastructure. Hitting power plants has long been a key tactic in war because it cripples the enemy's capability to continue to fight. No power means no factories making bombs. No power means no communications.
I thought Slashdot was the best place to ask. Many times I've seen pieces of news about Amigas and usually they're warmly received (are they not outdated?).
That's nostalga kicking in. The Amiga was an amazing piece of technology back in the day; a powerful, multimedia capable, grown-up computer for those who cut their teeth on the Commodore 64 and Vic-20 computers. A last generation, PalmOS 5 based PDA is not going to tug at the nostalga heartstrings. Furthermore, the warmly received stories are about people who have accomplished something with the old hardware, who have gotten their machines to do something above and beyond what people thought they were capable of; not stories about noobs who dug their dad's old computer out of the attic and are trying to get it going again.
I'm wondering why so many people are saying stuff like "let it go", "it's useless", "learn a language." Other people are linking me to LMGTFY as if I haven't spent hours looking for working links.
I think there is a parallel phenomenon to XKCD's Today's Ten Thousand. It is a lot easier to say "You're doing it the wrong way", than to try to understand what you might be trying to actually do, and provide guidance accordingly. Sadly, when people do that, both you and they miss out on a little piece of life.
Consider why you are doing what you want to do. I know it can be exciting to get a free whatever, and spend lots of time trying to get that whatever running. It can seem like a golden opportunity, but it can be a really easy way to waste a boatload of time. If you are not locked in to getting the Tungsten E2 going; if it is just an excuse to get into programming something, perhaps you should consider something like the Raspberry Pi, the Arduino, or the BASIC Stamp. These systems are meant for hacking, have active user and developer communities, boast loads of open source software, and are relatively cheap, as opposed to the closed source, unhackable Tungsten E2.
Having said that, I don't have any concrete advice to give you. I have never done any programming for portable devices, although I used a Handspring Visor regularly up until a few years ago when the case fell apart. PalmOS was already considered dead before that point. Perhaps you could try the Wayback Machine for some leads.
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Whereas Amazon has ample table space, quiet study areas, and you can browse through every part of every book in stock.
There's no such thing as 'Peak Stupid'. Every time someone gets to the top of the current peak, the fog clears and another mountain of stupid looms in front of them.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean the have to climb it.
I don't fully understand this term "Peak Stupid"...
It's the name of the mountain under which the most secure mail server complex exists. After decades of trying to get past the defenses, the password gropers have finally hit Peak Stupid.
One could argue that Peak Stupidity might correlate with Peak Population
So is trying so hard to coin a phrase like "peak stupid".
I was going to comment that they would have an easier time trying to make "fetch" happen, but with stupidity always on the rise...
What's "peak stupid" here is the submitter not understanding how spamming works before posting on it.
Isn't it even more stupid to assume that stupidity has a peak in the first place?
Does Google actually even own satellites, or are they just buying imagery from someone?
Missing comma and the "because" definition of "for": With 5 children, my mother in law (a retired Catholic School Teacher) told us to Home School, for public and some Christian Schools were not good anymore.
Wow! Rosetta must be in a really peculiar part of space indeed if noise can be mis-interpreted as signal, flipping bits in such a way as to fool the the error correction coding, finding only those pieces of the data stream that are part of the image telemetry, working its way backwards through the compression algorithm (which has its own error detection protocols) so as to affect only the specific pixels required to blur the image.
No, it only affects available bandwidth - the bytes per second and the bytes per watt (or maybe watts per bit?).
Exactly! So all that stuff about antenna size and signal power is irrelevant nonsense. A weak or noisy signal is not going to give them a grainy or blurry picture. It's going to give them a "Signal Lost" error message, and if it's important, the team will request a retransmission at a better bit rate. The image quality is solely dependent on the camera and optics (which are quite good, judging from the images I've seen. They are neither grainy nor blurry, but are crisp and sharp).
What grainy/blurry images? All of the images I've seen have been crystal clear, apart from the one where the comet is outgassing. Your guess about bandwidth limitations and video is probably correct.
There are severe limits on sending antenna size and power use on the craft. They use a 2.2 meters diameter dish (seven feet), with 850W electric power from solar panels to transmit from a distance about one hundred thousand times greater than geostationary TV satellites. It's like the difference between whispering at someone's ear (half and inch away) and shouting for someone a mile away. I can't think of a car analogy on five orders of magnitude, but I'm sure someone will be more inspired
... and it's a digital signal from a digital camera, so none of that should affect image quality.
Wouldn't that be rolices?
Since you have to ask, you can't afford them.
Some episodes are available online legit at CBS.com if you're in the US.
Pirate bay blocked for you?
Exactly! He's not crazy. His mother had him tested.
Whatever you do, don't switch to CNN.
Can't. CNN has been removed from basic cable around here. We're down to less than a dozen real channels (about half of which are alternate language channels), and a dozen "infotainment" channels (Weather, Business, local news, and infomercial channels). There is literally almost nothing worth watching unless you get a digital set-top box.
It's not about finding out why 239 people drowned. It's about finding and fixing the hole in the supposedly foolproof safety surveillance net that is big enough to let a multi-million dollar plane vanish without a trace.
I think one thing we learned from this disaster is that black box recorders are not good enough on their own. We need flight data and cockpit recordings to be sent to satellites in realtime.
Or, at a minimum, real-time position telemetry.
Speaking of Outbreak, If it does break out of the CDC, it will be stopped at the border.
date_default_timezone_set(‘America/Los_Angeles’);
Since when is ‘America/Los_Angeles’ a time zone?
Maybe they used, as part of the repairs, a telegram authorizing the use of funds to secure the release of a person from custody. That would be a bailing wire, would it not?
Stripping "Smaller Than".
No. Stripping malformed HTML tags.
Isn't hitting civilian infrastructure terrorism?
Power plants are not civilian infrastructure. Hitting power plants has long been a key tactic in war because it cripples the enemy's capability to continue to fight. No power means no factories making bombs. No power means no communications.
I thought Slashdot was the best place to ask. Many times I've seen pieces of news about Amigas and usually they're warmly received (are they not outdated?).
That's nostalga kicking in. The Amiga was an amazing piece of technology back in the day; a powerful, multimedia capable, grown-up computer for those who cut their teeth on the Commodore 64 and Vic-20 computers. A last generation, PalmOS 5 based PDA is not going to tug at the nostalga heartstrings. Furthermore, the warmly received stories are about people who have accomplished something with the old hardware, who have gotten their machines to do something above and beyond what people thought they were capable of; not stories about noobs who dug their dad's old computer out of the attic and are trying to get it going again.
I'm wondering why so many people are saying stuff like "let it go", "it's useless", "learn a language." Other people are linking me to LMGTFY as if I haven't spent hours looking for working links.
I think there is a parallel phenomenon to XKCD's Today's Ten Thousand. It is a lot easier to say "You're doing it the wrong way", than to try to understand what you might be trying to actually do, and provide guidance accordingly. Sadly, when people do that, both you and they miss out on a little piece of life.
Consider why you are doing what you want to do. I know it can be exciting to get a free whatever, and spend lots of time trying to get that whatever running. It can seem like a golden opportunity, but it can be a really easy way to waste a boatload of time. If you are not locked in to getting the Tungsten E2 going; if it is just an excuse to get into programming something, perhaps you should consider something like the Raspberry Pi, the Arduino, or the BASIC Stamp. These systems are meant for hacking, have active user and developer communities, boast loads of open source software, and are relatively cheap, as opposed to the closed source, unhackable Tungsten E2.
Having said that, I don't have any concrete advice to give you. I have never done any programming for portable devices, although I used a Handspring Visor regularly up until a few years ago when the case fell apart. PalmOS was already considered dead before that point. Perhaps you could try the Wayback Machine for some leads.