Not all in jest, may I suggest just using a big magnet in the form of a hammer with which a 5 year old kid will smash the drive to dust? Combining the physical damage/destruction with the repeated strong magnetic influence, this should be enough for anyone. 8-)
I have personal experience with Super Memo (for Palm, but that shouldn't matter much) and what makes it really great is the scheduling algorithm - it shows you the cards as often as you need to see them in order to remember them.
In learning languages, some things are just easy - for example words similar in the new language and in the language(s) you already know, and some things are plain hard, for example words that look/sound similar, but mean different things (like arena meaning sand in Spanish), or similar words with significantly different conotations (phrase verbs in English coming to mind here - make vs. make out).
In Super Memo (and I don't know about the other programs, but the article mentions the scheduling algorithm as one of the advantages of Super Memo) you'll be shown the easy stuff once a year and the hard stuff once a week, if necessary, and it's all on a personal basis, so hard stuff for me can be easy for somebody else and the program will reflect that.
My experience with Super Memo was a very positive one and it would have continued, had my Palm not broken. 8-)
Well, that intricately carved rock at Smithsonian, if it was put deliberately in the right place at Hirshorn, would become art, wouldn't it? Just like photography is often just taking a snapshot from the right place at the right time, putting the right rock in the right place would also qualify. 8-)
There must be more to art than just intelligence, though - there is a line between art and manifacture, and it might have to do with uniqueness. Intelligence creates many chairs, but only some can be called art, for example.
But tcdk, you should take into account that *sounding* clever goes a long way. A rose by any other name would still smell the same, but nobody will buy roses from you if you call them hoarts.
If the author creates a truly sad painting but I consider it funny, is it still art? I mean there may be meaning in the painting but I interpret it differently. The picture is still art.
With the computer generated, random works, one can still be emotionally moved by some of the pieces. Then it's art, isn't it?
Have you ever stopped to think if the intricacies of a Pollock are not in fact random, but some people see more in it? Do I have to agree with your interpretation of a work for it to be art? Oh forget it. 8-)
Also take photography. A tree is not art. But a picture of that tree, taken at the right time from the right angle, is art. Or fractals - portions of Mandelbrot set are certainly art. Therefore you can select a randomly generated picture from TypoGenerator and call it art. The act of you selecting it (for some reason known possibly only to you) makes it art, doesn't it?
These specs (XOP and MTOM) were created becase Web Services people wanted to be able to add binary attachments to XML messages (in SOAP). Initially the attachment technologies (like SOAP with Attachments) worked by just slapping the binary data alongside the XML message, without a clearly defined processing model for the receiver. Now with XOP attachments are logically in the XML document, but physically transported outside without the bloat of base64 or other XML-safe encodings. It's important to notice that XOP is just an optimization of the situation where binary data is put inside an XML document.
Re:In defense of...
on
Firefox In Print
·
· Score: 2, Informative
If you've ever tried to read through the W3C recommendations, you'll find them pretty dry and occasionally confusing. You can understand how browsers don't conform completely all the time.
Have you tried to write them about the places where the specs are confusing? I've cooperated on several W3C specs (none of HTML/CSS, though) and I find the W3C people and working groups to be pretty responsive. A clarification can easily be added to errata and eventually folded into a "second edition". For example XML 1.0 http://w3.org/tr/rec-xml/ is currently in its third edition.
Medical Recuperation: SciFi hit on this a long time ago. The movie CONTACT did so, even. The zero-gravity environment would be much easier on a heart patient.
Cool, and the starting few Gs will help eliminate those patients who wouldn't survive anyway.
IOW, not such a good idea with the current way of sitting on a rocket to get up there. A patient in a space elevator would be much better off getting to the zero G level.
I guess the Oz-version battery life is so much better, you can in fact fly from Sydney to Singapore, continue to Paris (or Las Vegas, I guess?) and still have hours of listening time left. 8-)
I understand the parent suggestion as a dynamic list of current mirrors at every site (or page).
IMO peer-to-peer caching/mirroring would work for big chunks of data where the overhead of finding a cache (guesstimate a few to a few tens of round-trips among peers and the original site) would be insignificant compared to the actual download time. For short pages it would be better just to return the page as opposed to the current list of mirrors.
On the other hand if the page contained (in the HTTP metadata) the list(s) of mirrors for the subsequent (linked) pages and for the images, the browser could just contact the mirrors first for the images and/or clicked links and that could speed things up.
This also raises a number of abuse issues, but I don't feel like investigating them at the moment.
In any case, all this could be achieved with a very simple HTTP extension. Hmmm, remind me later to sketch it. 8-)
Comment: If physical records are mandatorily kept and a process is established whereby recounts are requested for the physical records, I expect every election to be challenged and recounted, ending up being worse than the status quo (adding the first electronic step) and driving the public opinion against the usefulness of such electronical systems. I'd rather see great redundancy in where the results are sent electronically and independent automatic (fast) counts for the potential of electronic voting to be realized.
I mean with the exception of some movie heroes and people with very determined girlfriends shouting "You can't give up now!", people normally go to morgues after deadly accidents, right? 8-)
One idea I've had, inspired largely by the "full disclosure" ethos of the software security community, is to write a text file explaining the very simple way to make credit card payments for services over the Internet without (1) ever having to pay for the service, or (b) breaking the law in a way that can be prosecuted.
So, how about only telling us here at Slashdot? Oh, and which is your business? 8-)
Weeeelll, it's one thing to standardize on measurements units, but standardization of a language is quite a different beast. Measurement units don't evolve, you see. 8-)
Personally, I prefer liter to litre because the latter looks so French. 8-)
Well I thought the glass of water was to freshen your breath and clean up your mouth, not because they care about the electrolyte concentration which a cup of coffee cannot hurt much.
Just my 2c: I used to own a machine with limited RAM but with two HDDs. I split swap on dedicated partitions on both drives with the same priority (in Linux, I don't know if Windows can do this) and when I needed to swap, the performance increase was huge.
Similar to the parent, I wonder that the newly observed galaxy must have been pretty close to the center of the universe when the observed light was emitted, and if I expect we aren't at the edge of the universe here, therefore the universe can be around, lessay, 15-25 billion light years in radius (30-50 in diameter). Can it have grown so much in the 13+ billion years?
The operator-provided selection of phones is also usually locked and subsidized, but one can unlock most phones in any independent store in five minutes and the equivalent of ten bucks, voiding the warranty in the process of course, which doesn't matter as you'll want a new phone in a year or two anyhow.
The reason for the flourishing independent (unlocked and not subsidized) GSM phone market is simple - fashion. The operators' selections are rather limited, if I want a shiny fancy new phone, I'll go to independents. A shiny fancy new phone is a must among the teenagers, the yuppies and the managers, of course.
Another reason is the fact that prepaid service with no contracts is very popular here, for which no subsidized phones are available or the subsidy is too small to really matter. Therefore you choose to differentiate by buying an uncommon phone.
Slashdot Mirror
Not all in jest, may I suggest just using a big magnet in the form of a hammer with which a 5 year old kid will smash the drive to dust? Combining the physical damage/destruction with the repeated strong magnetic influence, this should be enough for anyone. 8-)
In learning languages, some things are just easy - for example words similar in the new language and in the language(s) you already know, and some things are plain hard, for example words that look/sound similar, but mean different things (like arena meaning sand in Spanish), or similar words with significantly different conotations (phrase verbs in English coming to mind here - make vs. make out).
In Super Memo (and I don't know about the other programs, but the article mentions the scheduling algorithm as one of the advantages of Super Memo) you'll be shown the easy stuff once a year and the hard stuff once a week, if necessary, and it's all on a personal basis, so hard stuff for me can be easy for somebody else and the program will reflect that.
My experience with Super Memo was a very positive one and it would have continued, had my Palm not broken. 8-)
There must be more to art than just intelligence, though - there is a line between art and manifacture, and it might have to do with uniqueness. Intelligence creates many chairs, but only some can be called art, for example.
But tcdk, you should take into account that *sounding* clever goes a long way. A rose by any other name would still smell the same, but nobody will buy roses from you if you call them hoarts.
Remember, words have power.
With the computer generated, random works, one can still be emotionally moved by some of the pieces. Then it's art, isn't it?
Have you ever stopped to think if the intricacies of a Pollock are not in fact random, but some people see more in it? Do I have to agree with your interpretation of a work for it to be art? Oh forget it. 8-)
Also take photography. A tree is not art. But a picture of that tree, taken at the right time from the right angle, is art. Or fractals - portions of Mandelbrot set are certainly art. Therefore you can select a randomly generated picture from TypoGenerator and call it art. The act of you selecting it (for some reason known possibly only to you) makes it art, doesn't it?
Or alternatively there's no art. 8-)
These specs (XOP and MTOM) were created becase Web Services people wanted to be able to add binary attachments to XML messages (in SOAP). Initially the attachment technologies (like SOAP with Attachments) worked by just slapping the binary data alongside the XML message, without a clearly defined processing model for the receiver. Now with XOP attachments are logically in the XML document, but physically transported outside without the bloat of base64 or other XML-safe encodings. It's important to notice that XOP is just an optimization of the situation where binary data is put inside an XML document.
Cool, and the starting few Gs will help eliminate those patients who wouldn't survive anyway.
IOW, not such a good idea with the current way of sitting on a rocket to get up there. A patient in a space elevator would be much better off getting to the zero G level.
I guess the Oz-version battery life is so much better, you can in fact fly from Sydney to Singapore, continue to Paris (or Las Vegas, I guess?) and still have hours of listening time left. 8-)
IMO peer-to-peer caching/mirroring would work for big chunks of data where the overhead of finding a cache (guesstimate a few to a few tens of round-trips among peers and the original site) would be insignificant compared to the actual download time. For short pages it would be better just to return the page as opposed to the current list of mirrors.
On the other hand if the page contained (in the HTTP metadata) the list(s) of mirrors for the subsequent (linked) pages and for the images, the browser could just contact the mirrors first for the images and/or clicked links and that could speed things up.
This also raises a number of abuse issues, but I don't feel like investigating them at the moment.
In any case, all this could be achieved with a very simple HTTP extension. Hmmm, remind me later to sketch it. 8-)
perhaps pushing useful asteroid matter down whenever a piece of cargo goes up would be the solution? 8-)
Comment: If physical records are mandatorily kept and a process is established whereby recounts are requested for the physical records, I expect every election to be challenged and recounted, ending up being worse than the status quo (adding the first electronic step) and driving the public opinion against the usefulness of such electronical systems. I'd rather see great redundancy in where the results are sent electronically and independent automatic (fast) counts for the potential of electronic voting to be realized.
I mean with the exception of some movie heroes and people with very determined girlfriends shouting "You can't give up now!", people normally go to morgues after deadly accidents, right? 8-)
So, how about only telling us here at Slashdot? Oh, and which is your business? 8-)
Personally, I prefer liter to litre because the latter looks so French. 8-)
Sorry about the self-reply, just have to add that the simple formula is: x mpg = 235/x l/100km, and of course x l/100km = 235/x mpg.
20 miles per US gallon = 11.8 l/100km
And anyway, this wouldn't really work in the USofA because everybody has to have an ID, so a credit card isn't such a burden when added to an ID card.
Well I thought the glass of water was to freshen your breath and clean up your mouth, not because they care about the electrolyte concentration which a cup of coffee cannot hurt much.
What precisely happens if the spacecraft carries us? 8-) Anyhow, the comments on this topic seem to be mostly pointless, including this one. 8-)
Just my 2c: I used to own a machine with limited RAM but with two HDDs. I split swap on dedicated partitions on both drives with the same priority (in Linux, I don't know if Windows can do this) and when I needed to swap, the performance increase was huge.
Why can't I load the article?
Hell yeah!
Similar to the parent, I wonder that the newly observed galaxy must have been pretty close to the center of the universe when the observed light was emitted, and if I expect we aren't at the edge of the universe here, therefore the universe can be around, lessay, 15-25 billion light years in radius (30-50 in diameter). Can it have grown so much in the 13+ billion years?
The reason for the flourishing independent (unlocked and not subsidized) GSM phone market is simple - fashion. The operators' selections are rather limited, if I want a shiny fancy new phone, I'll go to independents. A shiny fancy new phone is a must among the teenagers, the yuppies and the managers, of course.
Another reason is the fact that prepaid service with no contracts is very popular here, for which no subsidized phones are available or the subsidy is too small to really matter. Therefore you choose to differentiate by buying an uncommon phone.