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To me, this looks more like a form of accounting.
Each mark represents something owed or something paid: In effect, it's a "chit".
(Was unsure of the exact meaning of chit, so I googled it:
Chit: A short official note, memorandum, or voucher, typically recording a sum owed.)

Capuchin monkeys can be taught the concept of money. They understand debt:
http://scholar.google.com/scho...

I haven't seen any studies where they spontaneously create art, though, which leads me to believe that accounting could appear earlier.
"Deliberate Markings", yes, which is significant and amazing, but undoubtedly some fool is going to claim that it is "unmistakeable proof that the ancients worshiped the ocean waves" or that it was carved by a shaman as a form of divination.

From the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority this october: http://www.nrpa.no/nyheter/920... Didnt find an english version on their site. Heres the output from translate: https://translate.google.com/t... "NRPA does not discourage people from picking mushrooms in the woods or be afraid to eat meat and drink milk. As long as you eat picked mushrooms in moderation, it goes well. When it comes to meat, mushrooms and milk going to shop, the limits apply." So, they generally advise people to not consume too much mushroom...and thats in Norway. I expect the cesium 137 levels in the area around Chernobyl to be higher, so at least bring a giegercounter :p

[VHS] won because of p0rn

This is oft-quoted as fact, but I've seen it disputed often enough that I wouldn't take it at face value. From as early as 1996, this thread commented that:-

Um, my family was the first on the block, getting a Sony Betamax in September, 1977, and porn films were readily available as quickly in Beta as in VHS (faster actually, because at the start of sales/rental of pre-recorded video, there were far more Beta titles available than VHS). Trust me. I was a horny little 12 year old at just about the time they became available. I know.

Even if Sony prohibited porn from being copied in their own commercial duplications facilities (which, I assume, would have had much- if not most- of the capacity in the early days), this doesn't mean the lack of commercial porn would have been the reason for Beta's failure.

Maybe Betamax *did* fail because of a lack of porn. But I suspect the shorter running time in the early machines would have been a bigger problem.

Let's be honest, from what I've heard the picture quality was a *bit* better, and yeah, the cassettes were a bit smaller than the annoying bulky VHS ones. But if they couldn't record more than an hour, then that's a severe limitation for timeshifting films, longer dramas and sports games.

I know the story's meant to be that people went for quantity over quality with VHS, but if the improved quality meant it wasn't actually useful for a lot of what most people wanted then IMHO, it's a perfectly reasonable decision that doesn't make you a philistine. Video recorders were a means to an end, and I'm sure a lot of people knew Beta was better quality but preferred to be able to record a whole film and went for VHS.

There's also the Beta licensing/manufacturing issue, but this wasn't really meant as a "*why* VHS beat Beta" post. Point is that the "porn won the war for VHS" thing probably took the (supposed) lack of porn on Beta, assumed it *was* the reason Beta failed and the argument gained currency because it was "obvious" and catchy... not because it had been proven.

https://www.google.com/search?...

http://www.google.com/webhp?no...

uh huh you think DOT or FAA is going to allow drones to fly over traffic? at any altitude? as for the other stuff I'm not talking about main transit. I'm talking last mile. Last mile where the drone is dealing with say this https://www.google.com/maps/pl... Or waiting at the security door at one of these zillion places in culver city (or the rest of LA.) or flying lower over house. Or how does it deliver to an apartment building? Block the door or just land and wait? (and be crushed by people pissed off that there is a drone blocking their apartment entrance. I would love to see this in Brooklyn any major downtown area. I would love to be the first person who has a drone fail over my car on the road or my property.

If you are using google for work email, I hope you have read the ToS: http://www.google.com/intl/en/...

Hilarious. Reminds me of a usenet discussion we had back in 2003, but I never thought about playing this game to claim factorization of absurdly large numbers.

sort the email into categories such as Misc., Forums, Purchases, Bills etc while not assigning a different label to them

Think about what you wrote. All you're doing is changing the word "label" to "category".

"Label" has a specific meaning in gmail, it is similar to folders in other email services

I too, am a big fan of Piet. Loved programming in Paint, the RIGHT way!

Is it really an easy laugh?

Well, it's a bit of dark humor, but yeah that heaven's gate suicide pact had all sorts of one-shot jokes made about them. And jesus riding a dinosaur? Come on. Yeah, that's an easy laugh. If you consider comedy to be a sport, you've got your hard cases like the terminally ill and the depressed. The risky maneuvers like joking about ebola or the sectarian violence in Iraq. Making a joke that has faith healers as the butt of the joke? Easy and safe. The only people you'll offend are nutcases anyway.

And that was just as good as any other explanation because no one really had a way to actually prove or disprove that

Right. The unknowable. I think I covered that. Today's scientists make claims about things that are falsifiable. And there is significant incentive for other scientists to prove that other's claims are false. Back in the day of religious claims, ANYTHING could be said to violate some part of whatever scripture, and the result was either a schism or an excommunication. That's a significant difference. You're trying to say the two scenarios are the same, when they're really not.

Now... things like this primordial gravity wave are honestly above my head and I don't pretend to understand what they're talking about. I vaguely have an impression of what the big-bang was and a collection of tidbits about it. But I'm not going to particularly care because it doesn't impact me much. (It's actually pretty exciting if we can glimpse past the big bang though.) But I dole out my tax money, and vote in the people pushing money to things like the NSF which helped fund the BICEP2. I do this and, yeah, somewhat blindly trust that the people the NSF employ to vouch for and approve grants for this sort of thing. A lot like I trust my mechanic to replace the wheel bearing. I trust that dude with my life, I can trust the NSF guy to read up on background radiation.

Today scientists say: "The Earth is this way because.... I know this because I did all these experiments and they were peer reviewed. Unfortunately, these experiments cost millions of dollars to do and require a PhD in that specific field to even understand what the experiments do.

Luckily for us we have enough PhDs in that specific field to call bullshit. Just like (some) open source projects have enough developers to keep everything running.

Most people aren't even at the level of technological savvy that is represented on this board, let alone actual PhDs. That means that people have to accept what another person tells them is true without being able to personally verify it.

Not quite. Even people that aren't the most well read or brightest can question things, and if they happen to have access to a smart enough accomplice can have the thing explained to them in a matter they can understand. And they can pick apart any section of it they feel like and see if it jives with everything else. Honestly, that's the basis for the technologically savviness of most people around here.

I'd agree that it's a practical sort of faith. But the system has a large number of self-correcting actors and occasional reality-checks that was severely lacking with the religions of old. If you REALLY boil it down, all of mathematics is based on a number of axioms that you simply have to accept as true, dare I say, "on faith". Have you ever really questioned the null set axiom? But of course, 2+2=4, due to an overwhelming amount of evidence.

Science is more like math than religion in that regard.

Well, after the Lollipop update, my 2012 Nexus was all but bricked. Booted up fine, but the minute I went into Chrome it just froze up. It might become somewhat usable after a few minutes, and it was during one of those moments that I managed to do a factory reset. It is working better, but Chrome can still seize up on script-heavy pages. Go to the Google Nexus 7 Product Forums and you will see plenty of tales of woe.

It isn't universal, but there are a helluva lot of Nexus 7 users, both 2012 and 2013, who have had serious problems with Lollipop.

Hi - Try this therapy named 'Insulin Potentiation Therapy' - in one study, it magnified the anti-tumour effect of chemo 10000 times.
See research paper linked to on the last page of this link:
  https://docs.google.com/file/d...

Its a sort of research paper I did on behalf of a family friend - start on the second page.

The area is dangerous. The radiation is about the least of the concerns.

First is the abundant wildlife, with rabies affecting a large part of the population. Wolves, foxes, wild boars, cats, stray dogs, lots of rodents. It's a very serious problem and it will be difficult to contain.
Next, the old infrastructure, in major part stripped of metal parts. Open manholes hidden by vegetation, barbed wire fences hidden under layer of weeds, buildings that stood with missing windows without renovation for nearly three decades, about to crumble.
Chemical contamination - abandoned communal farms where pesticides were left in rusting containers. Laboratories in hospitals and institutions, assorted abandoned factories.
Huge forested areas with big risk of fire.
Unmaintained drainage/sewer systems causing risk of flood.

Radiation is not entirely non-issue either. Yes, the land is mostly fine. There are few open areas where restrictions are still important(like that concrete-covered peninsula, where the levels under the crumbling layer of concrete are still dangerous), but you could safely farm most of the land that was farmland before the disaster. There are also "pockets" of radiation in places where trash from the power plant area was dumped. Old rotten clothes in the basement of the hospital clock good 2mSv/s. Soil of the Kopachi area will produce plants actively harmful to health. Supposedly the bottom of the Pripyat lake is badly contaminated; if water levels fell, wind would carry contaminated dust.

It's a place where responsible adults could live. It's not a place where you could let kids loose though.

Eating lots of mushroom from a radiactive area is something i definitely would not do. Here in norway, you should not eat much meat from animals forraging in the highlands(sheep, raindeer...etc) every "shroom-year". Mushrooms absorb much cesium 137 from the soil. This could build up to dangerous levels in the animal meat. https://translate.google.com/t...

Torque is an app

To many scientists his gravest offense was not crediting Rosalind Franklin with helping him deduce the structure of DNA.

That seems to be a silly accusation. In his 1968 book "The Double Helix", the following is said on page 4:

Chiefly it was a matter of five people: Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling, Francis Crick, and me.

Heck, he writes about Rosie a bit. She was supposedly a hot chick, if she only knew how to dress. Yeah, that's a stereotypical male view of women, but hey, at least we learn that much about her.

Citations, please.

I found the following related to the above quotes. The first one I couldn't find anything in context, only that Bush supposedly said it, and the second one is part of the the Constitution being just a piece of paper quote which was false. As to the rest. . .

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." George W. Bush - Link

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George W. Bush - Link

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." - George W. Bush - Link

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." - George W. Bush - Link

I've been using a Chromebook for a while. I am a web developer. This particular machine does not have Crouton or a standard Linux distribution on it, just the stock OS. I would probably have opted for one of those, but this machine has a broken power button, which prevents it from being put into developer mode. So far I have not run into any insurmountable problems, and I think overall that it has been an improvement in my workflow.

Chrome OS has a number of useful features. The longest part of rebooting or updating the machine is waiting for your browser tabs to reload. You may say that this is uncommon and that you don't care how long it takes, but on the other hand no one will miss that wait time either. Having files backed up automatically is quite pleasant. If and when you are in the unfortunate position of having a machine die on you, sitting down to any Chromebook and typing in your password will restore your files, bookmarks, browser history, desktop background, and all installed programs in a couple minutes. The biggest downside is printing; it's possible if you have another computer or a Cloud Print ready printer (yeah right), but it's not fun under any circumstances.

Tips:

• Install Gmail Offline
• Enable offline editing of Docs
• Enable tap to drag
• These are kinda useful too.

Either Google Docs or Office Online do a pretty good job of handling office tasks, with one exception: neither will open a password-protected excel spreadsheet. For that I have been using RollApp, which does exactly what it says on the tin but is a bit slow. For web development, Chrome OS includes an SSH client. You don't need more than a VPS and vim, do you? You do? Well, in that case, you should be more than happy with Cloud9 Web-based IDE (Chrome Store link). You get your own little linux environment for each workspace, already set up for various development tasks. The editor is pretty similar to Sublime Text, and cloning projects from GitHub is fast and easy. You can also connect to a private VPS and do whatever crazy things you like there. Loading up a workspace restores all opened files and terminal windows, including any terminal programs/output. Run your tests, close the window, come back a week later, and the test output is still there. If you happened to be exploring something using a CLI interactive interpreter, that will still be running when you get back to it. Also, the workspaces are separate instances: developing locally I would always have to set up a new user, add it to the www-data group, set up its own fcgi pool, add an entry in /etc/hosts, and so on and so forth. Setting up lxc or nspawn containers makes this marginally easier. Letting your IDE handle it for you is brilliant.

Using a Chromebook does not mean giving up your ability to use (or create) complex software, but you will have to change your workflow. There is probably a fair amount of software that is not available on the web or even via SSH, but I think that most people's needs would be satisfied. I left my other Chromebook lying around the house for the roomies to use, and I don't think any of them noticed that it wasn't running Windows -- probably never used it for anything but web browsing. Your IT professional may need a XAMP stack, but he doesn't necessarily need it on a local machine, and there are some real advantages to not doing so, even if you skip the cloud-based IDE and just do a VM.

I have no connection to any company listed above except as a satisfied user.

I've been using a Chromebook for a while. I am a web developer. This particular machine does not have Crouton or a standard Linux distribution on it, just the stock OS. I would probably have opted for one of those, but this machine has a broken power button, which prevents it from being put into developer mode. So far I have not run into any insurmountable problems, and I think overall that it has been an improvement in my workflow.

Chrome OS has a number of useful features. The longest part of rebooting or updating the machine is waiting for your browser tabs to reload. You may say that this is uncommon and that you don't care how long it takes, but on the other hand no one will miss that wait time either. Having files backed up automatically is quite pleasant. If and when you are in the unfortunate position of having a machine die on you, sitting down to any Chromebook and typing in your password will restore your files, bookmarks, browser history, desktop background, and all installed programs in a couple minutes. The biggest downside is printing; it's possible if you have another computer or a Cloud Print ready printer (yeah right), but it's not fun under any circumstances.

Tips:

• Install Gmail Offline
• Enable offline editing of Docs
• Enable tap to drag
• These are kinda useful too.

Either Google Docs or Office Online do a pretty good job of handling office tasks, with one exception: neither will open a password-protected excel spreadsheet. For that I have been using RollApp, which does exactly what it says on the tin but is a bit slow. For web development, Chrome OS includes an SSH client. You don't need more than a VPS and vim, do you? You do? Well, in that case, you should be more than happy with Cloud9 Web-based IDE (Chrome Store link). You get your own little linux environment for each workspace, already set up for various development tasks. The editor is pretty similar to Sublime Text, and cloning projects from GitHub is fast and easy. You can also connect to a private VPS and do whatever crazy things you like there. Loading up a workspace restores all opened files and terminal windows, including any terminal programs/output. Run your tests, close the window, come back a week later, and the test output is still there. If you happened to be exploring something using a CLI interactive interpreter, that will still be running when you get back to it. Also, the workspaces are separate instances: developing locally I would always have to set up a new user, add it to the www-data group, set up its own fcgi pool, add an entry in /etc/hosts, and so on and so forth. Setting up lxc or nspawn containers makes this marginally easier. Letting your IDE handle it for you is brilliant.

Using a Chromebook does not mean giving up your ability to use (or create) complex software, but you will have to change your workflow. There is probably a fair amount of software that is not available on the web or even via SSH, but I think that most people's needs would be satisfied. I left my other Chromebook lying around the house for the roomies to use, and I don't think any of them noticed that it wasn't running Windows -- probably never used it for anything but web browsing. Your IT professional may need a XAMP stack, but he doesn't necessarily need it on a local machine, and there are some real advantages to not doing so, even if you skip the cloud-based IDE and just do a VM.

I have no connection to any company listed above except as a satisfied user.

I've been using a Chromebook for a while. I am a web developer. This particular machine does not have Crouton or a standard Linux distribution on it, just the stock OS. I would probably have opted for one of those, but this machine has a broken power button, which prevents it from being put into developer mode. So far I have not run into any insurmountable problems, and I think overall that it has been an improvement in my workflow.

Chrome OS has a number of useful features. The longest part of rebooting or updating the machine is waiting for your browser tabs to reload. You may say that this is uncommon and that you don't care how long it takes, but on the other hand no one will miss that wait time either. Having files backed up automatically is quite pleasant. If and when you are in the unfortunate position of having a machine die on you, sitting down to any Chromebook and typing in your password will restore your files, bookmarks, browser history, desktop background, and all installed programs in a couple minutes. The biggest downside is printing; it's possible if you have another computer or a Cloud Print ready printer (yeah right), but it's not fun under any circumstances.

Tips:

• Install Gmail Offline
• Enable offline editing of Docs
• Enable tap to drag
• These are kinda useful too.

Either Google Docs or Office Online do a pretty good job of handling office tasks, with one exception: neither will open a password-protected excel spreadsheet. For that I have been using RollApp, which does exactly what it says on the tin but is a bit slow. For web development, Chrome OS includes an SSH client. You don't need more than a VPS and vim, do you? You do? Well, in that case, you should be more than happy with Cloud9 Web-based IDE (Chrome Store link). You get your own little linux environment for each workspace, already set up for various development tasks. The editor is pretty similar to Sublime Text, and cloning projects from GitHub is fast and easy. You can also connect to a private VPS and do whatever crazy things you like there. Loading up a workspace restores all opened files and terminal windows, including any terminal programs/output. Run your tests, close the window, come back a week later, and the test output is still there. If you happened to be exploring something using a CLI interactive interpreter, that will still be running when you get back to it. Also, the workspaces are separate instances: developing locally I would always have to set up a new user, add it to the www-data group, set up its own fcgi pool, add an entry in /etc/hosts, and so on and so forth. Setting up lxc or nspawn containers makes this marginally easier. Letting your IDE handle it for you is brilliant.

Using a Chromebook does not mean giving up your ability to use (or create) complex software, but you will have to change your workflow. There is probably a fair amount of software that is not available on the web or even via SSH, but I think that most people's needs would be satisfied. I left my other Chromebook lying around the house for the roomies to use, and I don't think any of them noticed that it wasn't running Windows -- probably never used it for anything but web browsing. Your IT professional may need a XAMP stack, but he doesn't necessarily need it on a local machine, and there are some real advantages to not doing so, even if you skip the cloud-based IDE and just do a VM.

I have no connection to any company listed above except as a satisfied user.

And Google Scholar will do it for you. It works great for anything in computer science or physics, but otherwise authors posting PDFs seems pretty rare.

My daughter is a teacher and her school just rolled out Chromebooks for all high school students. Google has a lot of nice education applications which allows her to administer her class, check assignments and assign work on the Chromebook.
Check out:
https://www.google.com/chrome/...

pieces of crap that break constantly due to horribly cheap parts

That is just as meaningless a statement about Chromebooks as it is about Android phones. . . What specific company hardware are you talking about (e.g. I have had a very good experience with Samsung and HP Chromebooks)?

Regarding your "featureless" statement, have you heard of Crouton? Also, were you aware that an increasing number of Android apps are coming to Chromebooks? Your post seems to represent the segment of /. that has not bothered to really look into chromebooks before hating them. . .

It was probably a weekly commute, not a daily commute, and you can punch it into Google Maps yourself if you want to check, since he said what his starting point (Bozeman, Montana) and destination (Bakken oil patch) were. Most of the work on the Bakken oil fields is in North Dakota, and 7.5 hours at 75mph from Bozeman would get you just across the border into North Dakota, while 8.5 hours would get you close to the far end of the oil fields. Increasing the speed to 85mph would shave 54 minutes and 60 minutes off the commute, respectively, either of which we'd colloquially refer to as "an hour".

So yes, that really was his commute, and it really does make sense.

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A few commercial NES games, such as Super Mario Bros., have been disassembled and commented on RomHacking.net. And of course, homebrew games for NES often come with source code.

There are much bigger problems with the physics in Interstellar, which Kip Thorne is not willing to address now that he has his name on a book claiming that the movie is unusually scientifically grounded. He should have run the plot past some colleagues.

Yeah, I'm with all of you. If he's seeing symptoms for a long cable run, it's not any kind of "lag", it's flat out signaling loss and interference problems.

We should also point out that the physical specifications for some protocols and the high signaling rates may make it such that over a certain length, no type of cable will work.

For example - networking protocols and gear are designed for "not short distance" runs, but even they top out around 100m.

http://www.google.com/search?q...

A quick similar google for hdmi shows that beyond the 15 meters (50 feet) distance you need very good quality cable, and that much longer than 30m (100 ft) is not doable.

Solution? Fiber. http://www.gefen.com/kvm/ext-h... Not cheap though, $1700.

See also http://http//www.google.com/ur...

Here's a bunch of wife-friendly consoles

Why yes, I am single. How could you tell?

I hate loud PCs as well. Who wants to listen to fans run?

1. Find a Thermaltake case DH101 DH202, remove the bracket that runs front to back, it just gets in the way. I found mine on Craigslist.
2. Put in a quiet/silent PSU.
3. Put a short Zallman heat sink on your CPU with heat pipes with a 120mm fan on top.
4. Replace all your drives with SSDs, put noisy drives on the network, get a Western Digital My Cloud 4TB and wire it to ethernet for your PLEX library.
5. If the fan on the GPU is loud, get a bigger fan 120mm.

Here are some photos of a DH101 case and how I have it configured to be quiet.
https://drive.google.com/folde...

I agree with your wife, your living room shouldn't sound like a datacenter. Women can hear better than men so it is louder to them.

Like Sweden did in the 70s, inventing a horrible new handwriting ("SÖ-stilen"); people of that generation can't read the old handwriting, and the new handwriting is really, really ugly. 10 years after forcing that handwriting they let other styles be taught as well, again.

I'm surprised Finland still did cursive handwriting. I'm sure you can add it as extra credit still, and not all schools give it up.

Maybe in the long term, but that's always a gamble. And even in the long term you're assuming satellite communications don't get cheaper which, with the accelerating pace of advances in satellite miniaturization and launch technology, seems like a risky bet.

And it's far from guaranteed to be cheaper anyway - take a look at the map:
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...
There's a few small communities at the nexuses of the surrounding ring of roads within 20-80 miles of the telescope that might be wireable at (long term) cost savings, but zoom in anywhere in that "empty" region and you find it's criss-crossed with dirt tracks. Now some of those might be animal tracks, but I'm guessing there's probably a lot of scattered households in the region, and those would almost certainly be prohibitively expensive to wire.

There's a reason Africa is leapfrogging wired communication infrastructure to go almost pure cellular: the continent is 22% larger than all of North America, with lots of low-density population areas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... indicates that the region around the telescope has an average population density of less than 1 person per square kilometer, lower even than most of the rural western US. Infrastructure is usually not cost effective in such regions, and must be subsidized by higher rates in urban areas, which wouldn't be an option here.

Moreover, note that whole "almost pure cellular" strategy - which means that there's probably no wired infrastructure in the region to tie in to. Yeah, they could theoretically piggyback on the telescope's fiber, but I really doubt the astronomers have any interest in playing the part of rural ISP - and the added administrative, maintenance, and support costs of such a thing might rapidly consume any theoretical savings. You could also just run fiber out far enough to tie in to the cellular network, but someone still has to do all the maintenance and support, and the cellular companies are unlikely to be any more interested in getting involved in such an unprofitable endeavor than the astronomers.

In short - there's not actually a lot of realistic options, and satellite uplinks may well be the most cost-effective solution.

Operator overloading is, IMO, almost inherently a mistake. And tuples are pure syntactic sugar.

  don't like operator overloading either but you can't just hand wave t away as syntax sugar because you don't like it.

Also tuples are way beyond what I consider syntax sugaring as they replace quite a lot of parameter nonsense and lots of extra method definitions because of elements being optional.

The entire networking stack has no Swift documentation except for a very trivial NSURLSession example.

NSURLConnection seems to have full Swift documentation (though it doesn't show up by default under all for some reason).

Or you could just use one of the countless online examples of networking with Swift, even the AlamoFire library written by the same guy that did AFNetworking...

The conceptual docs for pretty much every technology area, for starters. You can say all you want to that the language doesn't matter in conceptual docs, but IMO, that's not the case if you truly don't know any Objective-C

I still disagree with that but even if it were so you can find any conceptual based thing you want online now from other sources that is very Swift specific. In particular Ray Wenderlich and company have been really prolific in churning out Swift guides for all kinds of topics.

you have to admit that Apple has a long history of coming up with what seems like revolutionary improvements in technology, and then dropping them a couple of years laterâ"Objective-C Garbage Collection, for example.

GC on ObjC was never revolutionary, it was added on because everyone else had it - ARC was a much better idea, and they aren't dropping that. I don't see a history of Apple dropping much of anything as all other frameworks and technologies they've developed have pretty much stayed and evolved. Can you provide any other example, because I con't think of any that I was using that ever got dropped... hell, even iCloud document support which has historically had a ton of issues is still there, evolving and iterating...

I won't be using it for any nontrivial code until I'm sure it is going to stick..

The canaries on that one are already deep inside and chirping loudly still. Anyone who is not switching to Swift now as rapidly as they can is going to be behind the curve in terms of modern iOS development.

I'm selling [my taxi medallion] and buying something safe, like diamonds.

Especially because conflict-free cultured diamonds have no chance of threatening the De Beers cartel and the "diamonds and guns" that The Transplants sang about. "It's a wicked world that we live in. It's cruel and unforgiving."

</sarcasm>

People don't want "a party" to have seats

My meta-analysis laughs at your proposition.

I started with a Phantom 2 (non-Vision) and it was also easy to fly. What I was recommended to do was to use Quadcopter FX Simulator before purchase. It helped a lot to get oriented with the controls.

Same issue all around the world. In Holland, landscape destroyed so so ugly.

This app just popped up on my wife's phone, wanting to update itself. I had no idea what it is, so Googled it... "SuperSU is a Superuser management tool for rooted devices". "SuperSU Brings Better SuperUser Root Permission Management to Android" I still don't have a clue as what I would actually do with such an app. Everything I read about it just leaves me more confused. I have two questions - what is it doing on my wife's phone, that I recently did a factory reset on, and 2.) Would this app somehow allow one to control permissions of apps after installation? http://www.addictivetips.com/m... https://plus.google.com/+Chain...

press release mirror here

and riecoin.org is back online

press release mirror here

I just went to the google play store page for Uber, and checked the permissions the app requires. It includes:

Read your Contacts, take pictures, status and identity, modify system settings, read google service configuration, and a host of others.

So, based on this (admittedly limited) information, it doesn't seem to be bypassing google security so much as utilizing the proper channels to claim superior access to the user's phone.

And in this, it is not alone. The majority of apps on the play store require all these permissions, and google will not give users explicit control over these permissions for two reasons:

1) Users will break their own apps and then google will take the heat for it (you KNOW this will happen, a LOT)
2) Vendors will hate the sandbox that users put them in, and google will take the heat for that (and lose a lot of free apps that represent a competitive advantage for google).

I am not saying this is right, but this is a natural response to the incentives google faces.

So, then, where can I purchase one of your 90% or better efficiency solar cells?

Quantum efficiency is not the same as energy conversion efficiency. A solar cell with 90% quantum efficiency isn't too hard to find. It's not going to have 90% energy conversion efficiency.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Transfer rate is proportional to areal density. If the areal density increases 10x, then for each rotation of the platter 10x as many bits pass under the read/write heads, and (sequential) transfer rate increases by 10x as well.

The problem for HDDs is and always has been random seek times - the time it takes to move the read/write heads to a new location and wait for the proper part of the platter to spin underneath. Look at this 7200 RPM HDD reivew from 2003. The sequential read/write speeds (45/27 MB/sec) are about a third what a modern drive gets. But the IOPS is exactly the same because it depends platter rotation speed.

Yeap, but I'll have to get back to you after thanksgiving. Stuff in the ado.net entity framework. I even bought the entity framework book.

Some more URLs I have in my collection (haven't checked some of these in awhile, though):

UPS tracking (after trigger enter your tracking number)
US Postal Service Tracking (after trigger enter your tracking number)
YouTube Video Search
E.gg Timer (type the length of the countdown in plain text after your trigger -- eg: "5 minutes" to make the timer run for five minutes, "2 hours 3 minutes" for two hours and three minutes, ect. You can even go do other browsing and background the tab, it will jump to the front when it goes off.
IMDB Search
Rotten Tomatoes
Google Translate (to English) -- just paste the URL of the foreign site after your trigger.
ZXing QR Code decoder -- paste a image URL after the trigger.
DownForEveryoneOrJustMe website check
NewEgg Product Search
FreshPorts Search

For sites without their own searches, you can always set up a Google search restricted to the site with "site%3Adomainofsite.tld+%s" as the string.

Once you have all the major search engines set up there's really no reason to waste toolbar space on Firefox with the actual Search Bar anymore.

It's getting close https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

Crops, fisheries, radioactive contamination, the whole system would lead to massive collapse after a decade. Sure, hardly anyone would die from the immediate impact of the annual nuclear meltdown, but once we start ticking off the body count of the millions dying to radiation poisoning and starvation, we might want to reconsider that path.

1. The total death impact from Chernobyl is roughly 4k people. There's some high end estimates like 985k, but those seem to assume that humans are snorting all the radioactive material.
2. The exclusion zone is 1k km, 1 a year would add up to 1M 'off limits', most of it indistinguishable from a natural park. About 2% of our land mass, assuming we don't smarten up and keep plants on previously 'disallowed' areas.
3. 1 Chernobyl/year is an absolute worst case scenario. Even if we multiplied our nuclear power 100 fold we wouldn't have that disaster rate, especially as we transition past the legacy plants the US uses now.
4. Estimates range from 4k to 93k deaths from the accident and resulting radiation. Meanwhile the death toll from coal in the USA alone is 10k..., and 170k world wide.