"I have two children, one of whom is a boy. What's the probability that my other child is a boy?"
I must admit that English is not my native tongue but I fail to see how this gives that the FIRST child is a boy. Doesn't "one of whom" implies that it can be either the first or the second?
Although it has been suggested to add a fee to the ISP costs to compensate the labels for downloading (via Buma Stemra), this has not passed the dutch parliament yet, so we don't pay for it in other ways like we do with blanc media.
Even though it is not illegal to download in the Netherlands, you are still reproducing something without the proper authorization, which I believe is the usual meaning of the word.
It is impossible for me to download pirated media since it is legal to download movies and music here.
I'm afraid it doesn't work like that. Pirating doesn't cease to be pirating just because it is legal. Just as alcohol does not cease to be drugs just because it is legal.
Human rights activity? These girls are allowed to sleep during working hours ?! My employer would seriously kick my ass for that.
I've never heard of Foursquare and Gowalla until reading this.
Foursquare as over 2 million unique visitors per month. That is twice as much as
it wouldn't have been UNIX as you know it. The 8088 didn't have privilege levels, so essentially everything would run as root.
I don't think the two are related. Most modern operating systems use two processor privilege levels: one to run kernel level operations, and one two run userland operations. Processes running as root or processes running as any other user can use both processor privilege levels.
In other words, you can perfectly well distinguish between running as root or running as another user in a system without processor level privilege levels
On the other hand, processor level protection is required for preemptive multitasking, which is quite essential to implement the complexity of a modern OS
My iPad has correctly found me in all four locations I've tried by triangulating WIFI access points.
Apparently mobile users with GPS have tagged my access points.
That would be Skyhook that licenses their database to Apple. They claim not to use any user-generated wifi locations but only wifi locations found by driving special trucks and scan access points themselves. They claim that this results in better accuracy then user generated locations.
Rotate 90-degrees and it would be a filled-in rectangle.
Wouldn't the left and right side of this "rectangle" be half circles?
One of the earliest machines I learned programming on only had 256 bytes of memory.
You lucky bastard.
My parents could never afford such computer. I had to learn programming on a computer with only 1 bit of memory (Yes that's right: 1 B I T of memory!)
Those were the days. And you tell the kids these stories and they won't believe you...
20 times more random?
I don't get it either. First they claim it's a true random generator that generates "purely random" numbers.
Then they proceed to explain that
... The degree of randomness possible depends on the size of the array
Can anybody tell me how this works?
Stuffed into the nearest dumpster.
Same here. Or preferably composted. Here in the Netherlands we have seperate bio-trash. Why can't we just use those for our bodies. Who doesn't want to be recycled?
Wait... how large is
Depends, you mean compressed or uncompressed?
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