teeja

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121.
by teeja 13y ago
Sure. In any equation containing e^iπ, you can simplify by substituting -1.
122.
by teeja 13y ago
That one's bad enough, but my favorite is the $420M "Glory" satellite that fell into the Pacific ... after the payload faring separation failed ... just like it did for the previous, Orbiting Carbon Observatory launch. https://en.wikipedia
123.
by teeja 13y ago
That's a really good question. The phrase is sometimes called [John] Gilmore's Law. http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/internet-article.h... It has certainly been said many times that DARPA was "researching a decentralized system t
124.
by teeja 13y ago
But... but ... I thought the Internet was supposed to route around damage.
125.
by teeja 13y ago
All told, there are over 500 solder points or connector crimps... Meh. The H-8 backplane alone took 500 solders.
126.
by teeja 13y ago
Huh. I think what Mark is saying is: it's never going to happen, and we might as well get over it.
127.
by teeja 13y ago
"a throttle measure built in" It's my understanding that bittorrent sync uses the latency of the network for such a throttle. Wild hair: a cyclotron-style router roundabout could hold millions of packets "in suspension" for n seconds.
128.
by teeja 13y ago
Either he's a complete fool, or he hadn't heard about the massive RE fraud the FBI had begun reporting taking place all over the country, or he knew damn well what and why. Take your choice. Small wonder that prices were rising like crazy (
129.
by teeja 13y ago
I use ad-blocking, tracker-blocking and cookie-blocking. Some sites won't even let you see whether their flash is worth viewing without turning those all off. (I'm looking at you, BusinessInsider.) I have a tool for them too, called "Block
130.
by teeja 13y ago
In the US it -used- to be that kids who didn't have all the money they needed for school could -fairly easily- find a job or two to help themselves get through. That was helped by the fact that public-school tuition was CHEAP. In the 60s at
131.
by teeja 13y ago
One of the advantages of being young is that you are unencumbered enough to nurse a dream castle. If you put foundations under it, it might come down to Earth. If not, you can always let someone else underpay you to help them with their dre
132.
by teeja 13y ago
Ted's impression of a Sherlock, Watson conversation alone is worth the price of admission.
133.
by teeja 13y ago
And when you do deliver the product, don't chase away half the people who show up with stupid, arbitrary, exclusionary restrictions and rules. Because smart people won't dance on your little strings.
134.
by teeja 13y ago
No kidding. Shoot an 8-foot 2x4 at the Earth at 100km/sec and guess how fast the carbon-fluff will be going when it hits. The pieces of anything that breaks up as it descends will quickly slow to their terminal velocity at that height. NASA
135.
by teeja 13y ago
Interesting speculation in light of the article I read earlier that the universe may have started out with one time and one space dimension. No "sound" then ... and no gravity. http://www.space.com/11470-universe-birth-1-dimension-physic..
136.
by teeja 13y ago
Still orbiting the Sun ... though probably noone knows where any more. For example Apollo 8's S-IVB-503N went into a 0.99-by-0.92-astronomical-unit (148 by 138 Gm) solar orbit with a period of 340.80 days. Humor: Apollo 12's S-IVB-507 was
137.
by teeja 13y ago
They're making money out of thin air. Useful to, you know, people who haven't been able to do that before. Meanwhile, considering the accuracy of NOAA's WX machines via-a-vis the Europeans. Useful? How about all that nano-trading on Wall St
138.
by teeja 13y ago
It is enjoyable. Most "history of programming..." stuff is a snoozathon. More teachers should learn from the popularity of the "for Idiots" books. (The most-talked-about teacher in my HS acted out parts of the Civil War with costumes et. al
139.
by teeja 13y ago
OK just for you: "His 4th album was the second best-selling of the 2000s." The subject of the sentence is "his". Point remains. Without a context you're lost.
140.
by teeja 13y ago
Thank you for elaborating my point. But a machine don't need an enormous library of facts to find the topic, just a small one. The words 'he', 'band', 'Liverpool' and '1958' are enough to get very precise ... but not because of their gramm
141.
by teeja 13y ago
Exactly. If you'd like to try it yourself without devoting MANY hours to Supercollider, try [ChucK]( http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ ). Unlike DJing there are no samples or external gear, but "real-time synthesis, composition, and performanc
142.
by teeja 13y ago
Instead of the word "sound" I should have made clear that I was referring to professional audio, not PC-speaker quality sound. Unless you could afford a full-time technician, the hard- and software hurdles were formidable.
143.
by teeja 13y ago
The tradition in science publishing has been to leave out the nitty-gritty details. Most specialists will know (or quickly deduce) most available methods (unless the results are a radical improvement). As for the details, that's what confer
144.
by teeja 13y ago
The sentence subject is one thing, the sentence <i>topic</i> might be quite another. Consider sentences like: "He joined the not-yet-famous Liverpool band in early 1958." To many human beings the topic is quickly obvious. Pa
145.
by teeja 13y ago
The answer is short: the policies are in charge. Follow a few discussions and the (crowdsourced) rules are continually umpiring them. Do all editors follow them, no. But when other (more experienced) editors come along - eventually - the ha
146.
by teeja 13y ago
Really. I just installed LM LXDE 11 on an ancient PC the other day that had a Soundblaster card covered in dust. Started up an MP3 and started plugging a 1/8" plug into holes on the back. When I got to the SB card, bingo. No install, no pre
147.
by teeja 13y ago
Sound setup bad? Not compared to 5 or 10 years ago, no. During that period (I can guarantee!) both Win and OSX were ALSO -miserable- experiences. Swim 10 yards, gain a foot bad. Make music for 5 minutes, debug the system for 2 hours bad. Hm
148.
by teeja 13y ago
Lest we of the US be inclined to scoff, most of what we burn is garbage - coal, oil, gas, dead wood, all remnants of dead life. The world has abundant natural energies, but for a century we've feasted on the easiest. Now the bill is due.
149.
by teeja 13y ago
Agreed, though enabling searches of such depth might create a considerable computing overhead. For example, there are lists of cities by population for most countries; if you could manually select a subgroup for -a- country and submit that
150.
by teeja 13y ago
Wow. If we can't maintain ways for the cream to rise to the top in the US, we'll continue to become increasingly mediocre.

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