*eyebrow* This is additive not subtractive mixing. So, yes, the G in RGB. When you develop a laser that subtracts light, let me know, I want to invest.
One concept: destructive interference.
I've only done college level physics so my knowledge on this could be sketchy. But when two beams of light interact they get brighter at some points and dimmer at other points. However, it might just be that both of these interactions are absolute. So either no light, or double light... don't really know from the top of my head *shrug*
Not to sound dense or anything, but accessing wikipedia on my default blackberry browser was rather... well it worked very well. The thing I've found especially nice is that for whatever reason the content always came first and the menus and crap last so you didn't even have to scroll past all the cruft like on most websites out there to get to the content.
What's the point of these mobile sites again? Why are they different? Isn't this what's supposed to be solved by different stylesheets for different viewing devices anyway? Far as I know support for this is even already built into most browsers mobile and otherwise.
A few years ago I had four hard drives fail within two weeks of each other resulting in near complete data loss. Luckily I went and bought a big HDD right after the first died so I saved something like 30% of the data because I had somewhere to put it... but anyway
The thing is, those drives were never abused, never hurt in any way, they just simply died because they were about 5 years old. Clicking noises. Crashy computer. Bad sectors. Death.
What I'm trying to say is that yes, storage itself should work almost indefinitely on a hard drive, but if wear&tear occurs on the bearings or the arm the drive WILL kill itself and most commercial hard drives simply aren't made to last more than about five years of regular use.
What about any decent issue tracking system? Sounds pretty much like it would solve exactly the problem you're having.
At worst you'd have to use a plugin or spend a day configuring stuff to get all the fields and thingies you need... trac seems like a good place to start.
Documentation should be separate from code. If they're reading the comments, they're already in the code, might as well make the code readable enough to serve as its own comment.
Ideally though the documentation should be so good an API user doesn't need to even open the source files.
That's what I meant to say, we're not really living in a democracy and it's time we stopped pretending we do because I don't think that word means what our collective self thinks it does.
Wait, you mean to say there are people out there who think our flavour of democracy actually works? Nutjobs!
Everyone with a bit of knowledge knows that democracy only works in populations up to about 6500 people. After that it stops working and it was the inventors of democracy who figured that out... the ancient greeks. Anyone who thinks democracy works with millions of people, or is in any sense of the term a real democracy if it even hints at working, is an idiot.
Well that depends on how good your lawyers are. You could defend that it's a body of written text (albeit very short text) and someone copying it is infringing upon your copyright.
Of course since this is the DMCA, you don't actually have to prove they were infringing or anything.
As an aside though I'm not sure what you mean about XBox live marketplace content being slow to come down - I've always had it come down at 240k/s which is the fastest my connection can download at. If you're having issues downloading from there the bottleneck is almost certainly your connection so may be worth checking. The same goes for other download services like Steam, Direct2Drive etc. - download speeds have just never been an issue as far as they max out my connection. I just wish I had a faster connection!
You'd be surprised how very incredibly slow download services start seeming when you live in a country with affordable 20/20 FTTH. The only thing that ever maxed out my connection were incredibly popular torrents.
While this is mostly true it ignore the fact that someone will notice a password change next time they log on.
So they've noticed a breach post facto when anything the hacker wanted to do was already done. Like I dunno, send a bunch of bad things in your name, steal your sensitive data and so on. Yeah, knowing they might have done this really helps preventing it from happening.
Are you certain you want to be emotionally attached to the kind of person who cannot even form their own opinion and, what's worse, won't let you form it, but would rather have a large corporation's brainwashing machine form it?
On the other hand, even if they aren't allowed to trivially follow people around it's very easy to say "Oh I thought he seemed familiar from a robbery scene last week, so I followed him around to make sure"
When I was in London I never waited more than 5 minutes for a train to arrive and take me somewhere. At home it never takes more than about 5 minutes for the right bus to come and the stations are a 2min walk apart. Parking, also, is hell.
But, to be honest, I still use a car a lot because it _feels_ quicker. Not that it actually is quicker, because I'm certain it's not, but I don't feel like I"m waiting and that's the big difference. Spending 10 minutes finding a place to park doesn't feel like time wasted, whereas waiting 2 minutes for a bus seems like a horrible waste.
If only we had a way to develop a mechanism to counteract the variations in relative distance between the rider's center of gravity and a perfectly flat horizontal surface. I think if I ever invent such a system I'll file a patent under "suspension". That's bound to make me rich.
Exactly: time is money. My commute is 25-30 minutes each way, every day (about 25 miles). But by bus, I'm probably looking at 2-4 hours each way. No matter how much I make, a bus ride is really out of the question.
That's very interesting, my daily commute is 10 minutes by foot, whereas by car it's 10 minutes+10 minutes for finding a place to park. Guess the difference is I live in the city and you're suburbia?
For most people time is money and if it takes longer to get somewhere by car, find a place to put said car, take the car for maintenance once in a while, get it fixed for scratches and other damage magically appearing on parking lots, the cost in time alone can amount to something quite high.
Think about it, if you're paid $20 an hour and your car needs to be taken in for repairs, which let's say loses you a whole day of work, that's $160 right there. Money wasted just through time, then there's also the time needed for the repairs themselves and...
Also don't forget to take into account the money lost through the car's devaluement over time. With trains the operator takes all of that cost, with cars the owner - you, does.
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*eyebrow* This is additive not subtractive mixing. So, yes, the G in RGB. When you develop a laser that subtracts light, let me know, I want to invest.
One concept: destructive interference.
... don't really know from the top of my head *shrug*
I've only done college level physics so my knowledge on this could be sketchy. But when two beams of light interact they get brighter at some points and dimmer at other points. However, it might just be that both of these interactions are absolute. So either no light, or double light
Well with red lasers, for instance, it's really difficult to put the G in RGB ... (or more likely the C in CMYK)
Not to sound dense or anything, but accessing wikipedia on my default blackberry browser was rather ... well it worked very well. The thing I've found especially nice is that for whatever reason the content always came first and the menus and crap last so you didn't even have to scroll past all the cruft like on most websites out there to get to the content.
What's the point of these mobile sites again? Why are they different? Isn't this what's supposed to be solved by different stylesheets for different viewing devices anyway? Far as I know support for this is even already built into most browsers mobile and otherwise.
A few years ago I had four hard drives fail within two weeks of each other resulting in near complete data loss. Luckily I went and bought a big HDD right after the first died so I saved something like 30% of the data because I had somewhere to put it ... but anyway
The thing is, those drives were never abused, never hurt in any way, they just simply died because they were about 5 years old. Clicking noises. Crashy computer. Bad sectors. Death.
What I'm trying to say is that yes, storage itself should work almost indefinitely on a hard drive, but if wear&tear occurs on the bearings or the arm the drive WILL kill itself and most commercial hard drives simply aren't made to last more than about five years of regular use.
What about any decent issue tracking system? Sounds pretty much like it would solve exactly the problem you're having.
... trac seems like a good place to start.
At worst you'd have to use a plugin or spend a day configuring stuff to get all the fields and thingies you need
Documentation should be separate from code. If they're reading the comments, they're already in the code, might as well make the code readable enough to serve as its own comment.
Ideally though the documentation should be so good an API user doesn't need to even open the source files.
UAV has been a buzzword for the past 10 years. You could've learned it by now even without leaving your mother's basement.
That's what I meant to say, we're not really living in a democracy and it's time we stopped pretending we do because I don't think that word means what our collective self thinks it does.
Wait, you mean to say there are people out there who think our flavour of democracy actually works? Nutjobs!
... the ancient greeks. Anyone who thinks democracy works with millions of people, or is in any sense of the term a real democracy if it even hints at working, is an idiot.
Everyone with a bit of knowledge knows that democracy only works in populations up to about 6500 people. After that it stops working and it was the inventors of democracy who figured that out
Well that depends on how good your lawyers are. You could defend that it's a body of written text (albeit very short text) and someone copying it is infringing upon your copyright.
Of course since this is the DMCA, you don't actually have to prove they were infringing or anything.
"rtmpdump" is so clearly similar to "RTMP" that it infringes on Adobe's copyright of the name.
As an aside though I'm not sure what you mean about XBox live marketplace content being slow to come down - I've always had it come down at 240k/s which is the fastest my connection can download at. If you're having issues downloading from there the bottleneck is almost certainly your connection so may be worth checking. The same goes for other download services like Steam, Direct2Drive etc. - download speeds have just never been an issue as far as they max out my connection. I just wish I had a faster connection!
You'd be surprised how very incredibly slow download services start seeming when you live in a country with affordable 20/20 FTTH. The only thing that ever maxed out my connection were incredibly popular torrents.
There ought to be a law against patents. They have never ever in the past been used for anything other than patent trolling and innovation stiffling.
While this is mostly true it ignore the fact that someone will notice a password change next time they log on.
So they've noticed a breach post facto when anything the hacker wanted to do was already done. Like I dunno, send a bunch of bad things in your name, steal your sensitive data and so on. Yeah, knowing they might have done this really helps preventing it from happening.
They are our bitches. Without readership they make no money. End of story.
You need to start perusing some real art, this pop culture crap seems to be rotting your brain away.
He made this promise or his manager/publisher made this promise? Crucial difference.
... if George R.R. Martin would just finish writing the damn series!!!
and artists would prefer if fans stopped thinking of them as their bitches.
But that's not very likely is it?
"Do you want to be around someone with a vagina or sit in the basement and wonder why people let large corporation's brainwash them?"
Actually the question was more along the lines of: "Do you want to be around someone with a vagina whom you cannot brainwash?"
Remember, we're geeks, if we can't brainwash them they'll leave.
Are you certain you want to be emotionally attached to the kind of person who cannot even form their own opinion and, what's worse, won't let you form it, but would rather have a large corporation's brainwashing machine form it?
On the other hand, even if they aren't allowed to trivially follow people around it's very easy to say "Oh I thought he seemed familiar from a robbery scene last week, so I followed him around to make sure"
When I was in London I never waited more than 5 minutes for a train to arrive and take me somewhere. At home it never takes more than about 5 minutes for the right bus to come and the stations are a 2min walk apart. Parking, also, is hell.
But, to be honest, I still use a car a lot because it _feels_ quicker. Not that it actually is quicker, because I'm certain it's not, but I don't feel like I"m waiting and that's the big difference. Spending 10 minutes finding a place to park doesn't feel like time wasted, whereas waiting 2 minutes for a bus seems like a horrible waste.
If only we had a way to develop a mechanism to counteract the variations in relative distance between the rider's center of gravity and a perfectly flat horizontal surface. I think if I ever invent such a system I'll file a patent under "suspension". That's bound to make me rich.
Exactly: time is money. My commute is 25-30 minutes each way, every day (about 25 miles). But by bus, I'm probably looking at 2-4 hours each way. No matter how much I make, a bus ride is really out of the question.
That's very interesting, my daily commute is 10 minutes by foot, whereas by car it's 10 minutes+10 minutes for finding a place to park. Guess the difference is I live in the city and you're suburbia?
And if I'm already paying for the train anyway, that's just one more reason to also use it!
For most people time is money and if it takes longer to get somewhere by car, find a place to put said car, take the car for maintenance once in a while, get it fixed for scratches and other damage magically appearing on parking lots, the cost in time alone can amount to something quite high.
...
Think about it, if you're paid $20 an hour and your car needs to be taken in for repairs, which let's say loses you a whole day of work, that's $160 right there. Money wasted just through time, then there's also the time needed for the repairs themselves and
Also don't forget to take into account the money lost through the car's devaluement over time. With trains the operator takes all of that cost, with cars the owner - you, does.