Apparently you are so young you were never forced to do research for a high school or College paper without the internet. You know those books and Encyclopedias 'older than 3 years are noise and rot that nobody has any use for' yet they were available and useful for a century before the internet appeared.
This does not address anything I wrote. Work on your reading comprehension!
Of course not, but the wast majority of information on the internet older then 3 years is essentially old and worthless.
Work on your reading comprehension. It will help a lot when you seek and process information.
Not true at all! Very often I'm looking for the answer to something and it was discussed in a forum back in 2007 or 2000 even... and now that human knowledge is forever passable to whoever needs it, when they need it. Humanities greatest achievement is inventing something that remembers for us. We're terrible at it.
But more commonly you end up wasting an hour trying to follow some outdated or obsolete advice.
Google is close to unusable unless you manually set it to show recent results. Old stuff on the internet is mostly noise and rot.
I bet more than 95% of everything older than 3 years is noise and rot that nobody has any use for.
That's interesting. With a little bit of testing different distances and some extrapolation it looks like 360 PPI would be good enough for me.
At which distance?
Well, when I use a 100 PPI screen the line looks perfectly straight from 160 cm and out. I'd like to be able to sit as close as 45 cm if I want to.
100 * 160/45 ~= 360 PPI
Forgot the factor there. By the way I'd like to be able to move in as close as 30 cm when I'm using a phone or tablet, so for those I suppose I would need more than 500 PPI for it to be good enough.
That's interesting. With a little bit of testing different distances and some extrapolation it looks like 360 PPI would be good enough for me.
At which distance?
Well, when I use a 100 PPI screen the line looks perfectly straight from 160 cm and out. I'd like to be able to sit as close as 45 cm if I want to.
160/45 ~= 360 PPI
Easy to verify: Display this at 1:1.
If you can see a step in the line, you don't have high enough resolution yet.
That's interesting. With a little bit of testing different distances and some extrapolation it looks like 360 PPI would be good enough for me.
Some open source projects would benefit from proper managers who can stop them from shooting themselves in the foot.
Or a bigger revenue stream that can help them stay motivated to burn hours on boring tasks. Of course it's going to take years if they average a tiny number of hours per month because the developer(s) are bored with it.
There are already several apps that do this. The way they work is you have to "arm" the app. Next, you trigger the emergency function in a preset way, for example by discreetly unplugging the headset from the headphone jack.
Having an always on emergency button would probably not work because it would lead to too many false alarms.
To be fair, I work in a bunch of languages and I know the modulo in c and c++, but have not come across it in others. If someone asked me for a python version, I would probably fail unless it was %.
The point is Modulo is not that commonly used in interpreted languages.
It is %, but the basic problem is that any employer that asks you to bang out a piece of code without access to documentation is asking you to do a ridiculously artificial thing. Who cares if the applicant knows that the modulo operator is % in Python? It takes less than 20 seconds to look up.
It would be better to hand applicants a small program that has one bug and several problematic things about it and have the applicant first debug it and then suggest improvements and refactorings.
It's sometimes compared to the Mig-21. Cheap to operate and maintain, sturdy enough to use roads as runways, at least the A/B/C/D versions. Brazilian engineers will get to co-design the Gripen E if they want to, so it's likely to be a compromise between Swedish, Brazilian and possibly Swiss needs.
Well, I don't know what his net worth is, but assuming it's an average middle class net worth he has just been sentenced to life in poverty. Personal bankruptcy is not a good option, because in Sweden that just means you keep all your debt and you are not allowed to buy anything but life's basic necessities until all of your debts are payed off.
Some interesting information about the case: The man was the most active uploaders on one of the biggest Swedish torrent trackers, SweBits. He went under the handle "Marcil". The police and the intellectual property industry private investigators got Marcil's IP address from an anonymous person who claimed to be part of the torrent community. The judgement speculates that Marcil was outed by someone who was jealous of his status in the torrent community.
The front man of the intellectual property industry in Sweden, Henrik Pontén was personally involved in the case and in the trial.
So then what is the point of the numbers? Well, I think the facts speak for themselves.
I hope the industry will forgive a large part of Marcil's debt after some time when they judge that the example has been properly made.
What really happened was that the norwegian IRS said that the bitcoin does currently not have any status as a currency in Norway and will be taxed as an asset.
They very clearly state that bitcoins have not been banned as a currency, only that it's status still has to be decided by Finanstilsynet (almost like SEC, but with a broader mandate).
The Norwegian IRS does not have the authority to claim it is a currency or not, only Finanstilsynet. All they do is tax what they see as an asset until Finanstilsynet gives other directions.
Nettvalutaen Bitcoins beskattes
Quite different heading than the
Translated it just means "Bitcoins are to be taxed".
Yup, this is basically good news for Bitcoin since it means it won't be regulated as a currency. And Norway is a tiny, tiny market so it's fairly inconsequential.
And yet the price of Bitcoin is falling on this news. Talk about a nervous market!
If someone makes a bunch of profit on Bitcoins, how is Norway going to know if the person doesn't self report?
Also, how are capital gains taxed there? In the US, capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than most normal income, so if the choice is between normal income and capital gains, I'll take the latter every time (since I'm in the US).
If someone sells Bitcoin for currency there is really nothing different about it from any other asset trading.
The tax authority will do research, create a list of Bitcoin exchanges and than request information from each exchange about any and all Norwegian citizens that trade and about any and all trades that they have made.
In case anyone cares, the first soft moon landing was on January 31, 1966 by the Soviet lander Lana-9. It still boggles my mind how they were able to achieve that without anything remotely resembling a modern computing device.
There were plenty of good analog designers available back then.
They probably basically used one or several analog control systems to control the descent based on signals from a radar and one or several gyros. The landing sequence could have been terminated on landing by a simple mechanical switch.
Come to think of it, the Moon is just about close enough that they could potentially have landed it by hand if the craft was sending back it's radar signal and gyro signals to Earth.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
