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You can get it (Calculus Made Easy) for free: http://books.google.com/books?id=BrhBAAAAYAAJ

Well damn, the Cyrillic won't post into Slashdot so go here to see Zontar's post in Russian. ;-)

The ideal phone would be one so controllable that some hardcore dude would instantly cobble together a complete command line interface to the phone

GTalkSMS (for Android) can already do most of what you ask for, via XMPP.

Android will be more than happy to have it. The same thing happened with Tawkon Apple didn't want it, but Android is open to anyone - (and even Google Play is much more open than Apple's appstore). Mind you, Tawkon requires true parallel multitasking to work the best (i.e. must run while the call is ongoing) which is not the case with iOS: on iOS Tawkon would only monitor the radiation emission at the very beginning of the call - on Android it does this during the call duration).

Doesn't sound like a game I want but I checked anyways to see if Google had it or not, if it was rejected, etc. Nope they didn't reject it and it's available on android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gamethenews.syriaendgame

Right. Because if we had just let the banks fail, then people wouldn't be able to borrow money. whoops.

Is called PYPL (PopularitY of Programming Languages), and it ranked C# as #1 and C down in #5 based on a different methadology. Honestly, they both sound pretty silly to me.

https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY-of-Programming-Language

What if the originals become corrupted and I back up files which are useless because I didn't notice?

This is a solid question.

I have been burned by a crappy controller subtly corrupting many of my photos to the extent that I wanted to implement a version control system in my offsite backup uploading scheme. If no corruption occurs, version control does nothing. If it does occur, very little extra data is stored.

I ran into problems with larger (binary) files (the target offsite system is just a NAS) using SVN and switched back to a basic rsync setup. Perhaps it is time to check again for a version control style backup solution. ...
Apparently, such a thing has come into existence: http://code.google.com/p/boar/wiki/Rationale (have no experience with it, but it sounds like it is worth a try)

American speedometers already have both scales - mph and km/hr.

Not to mention having been invented by the Godless Communist Papist Socialist Cheese-Eating French.

If we are going to adopt a decimal system of weights and measures at least we should go with an American one.

no one is willing to really improve the language or add another language that does a better job for larger tasks.

http://code.google.com/p/dart/

The problem isn't "no one is willing..."
The problem is every vendor needs to support the new language/features or it is effectively useless.

You will find that the right side of the keyboard contains a wide variety of layouts, not only in different regions of the world but also within a single country. Referring to key by its location is pretty risky, whereas referring to it by name seems to work for most people.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw7LQposDT4DM2ZpbXMtX1BSWk9HWkNtMGFlUW0zdw/edit?pli=1 if anyone is interested.

This is the effects of RTC fatigue and acute onset is evident for users where any form of continuous movement is required but can be minimized by allowing the elbow to bear the strain rather than the shoulder. Rather simple ergonomic principles really...

The Cloud IDE app and ShiftEdit app seem to be the most highly rated for developing online. If you don't want to develop in the cloud, I think you would have to follow the Chrome OS wiki instructions for installing and dual-booting into Ubuntu: https://sites.google.com/site/chromeoswikisite/home/what-s-new-in-dev-and-beta/developer-mode

I got a fantastic deal on a Motorola Xoom (10" screen), now running
Android 4.1 and I've rooted it myself.

When my computer went down I used the Xoom to surf and search for
a new mother board. I use a used bluetooth keyboard that
cost $10 at Goodwill; it's very nice, small in size yet large keys.

I got tired of it quick, not sure why, miss a mouse (?). I put a spare
computer together to used until the motherboard showed up.
I hope I never have to rely solely on a tablet again.

If one is going to use a tablet and it's locked or doesn't allow
say a HOSTS file to be installed, It really needs to be rooted.

Read this Privacy Policy http://www.rovio.com/Privacy this is the
norm for unrooted cell phones, tablets, and future UEFI protected OS's.
It's for Angry Birds, one would think they would make it a free program
seeing how much personal information is collected and the tracking they do.

http://www.rovio.com/Privacy is a favorite example of mine, I've mentioned it
on many occasions as most don't read nor care about ToS's. This ToS is
the same for most programs now. A direct quote from that link "Please note
that certain features of the Services may be able to connect to your social
networking sites to obtain additional information about you."

My HOSTS file for my PC is almost 600K and I thought that was huge
The HOSTS file for a rooted device is over 900K (Adaway).

Root the device or at the very least download and run Android_ID
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bzgames.androidid&feature=search_result
Get your number and paste it here http://www.flurry.com/user-opt-out.html
-Android assumed

Actually, it's about 2.715 times more frequently than that.

E-mails can be pretty long. Sometimes they include attachments.
Web browsing often means entering passwords and other intformation. And print receipts for filing.
And what when she wants to do her taxes? That's a simple task that is beyond most tablets.

By all means, get her a tablet - after you replace her PC.

Nonsense.

With any random bluetooth keyboard even book length emails are not a problem.
Browsers remember passwords, enter it once, and done.
Printing receipts (or anything else) is simply NOT a problem. My tablet prints over wifi. Hell it will print from anywhere on the planet with an internet connection. Even cheap printers these days support CloudPrint.
Emails? Attachments? Seriously, you must be joking, either that or you've never actually used a tablet.
Taxes. No problem. Intuit/Turbo tax have BOTH web based tax programs and install-able APPS that will work just fine, or you could use H&R Block's apps for Android or ipad. Many seniors have their taxes done professionally anyway.

Obviously you've never used a modern tablet. so I respectfully suggest you weight in on the subject.

Where can you buy a decent RPN device today? Nowhere.

Well, nowhere except Amazon I guess. Or TigerDirect, or Best Buy, or whatever ... I have one of these and it works great. I don't have cause to do a lot of number-crunching most days anymore, though, and the AAA batteries on it tend to run out even after I haven't been using it, so more often than not I end up using an HP48 emulator on my Android phone. I do like the real buttons on the standalone calculator, though, so if I had more cause to calculate I'd use that.

Last time I read about this ball drone the estimated battery life was around 15 minutes, making it useful for a very limited range. Also, this ball "drone" is still remote-controlled, putting it definitely outside of the drone category, although similar devices have been adapted to autonomous fly even by hobbyists.

Unless someone can get a power source with better weight/stored energy ratio than the batteries usualy found at these devices, those drones will still be toys. Maybe a buoyant/quadcopter hybrid could overcome this, using far less energy to stay flying and depending on volume, a useful payload capacity.

Don't be silly, it's all a hoax created by the Germans in WW2.

I'm not sure what your deal is, or why you're making this claim, but emulators like Frodo 64 on Android works great for me and it's free. I first installed it on my Nexus One, then my Transformer, and now my Galaxy Note 10.1 and it works for the programs I like to keep handy when I'm feeling nostalgic; so all of the programs I've tried.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.c64&hl=en

Screening by airline personnel was the standard prior to 9/11. It wasn't clearly better.

I know the Internet helps to spread stories around a lot more today than they would've been pre-9/11, but I don't remember horror stories about airport screening being the everyday sort of thing that they are today. I never remember hearing a story about rape victims being sent to the ER after going through airport screening or security agents helping to disperse the ashes of dead relatives all over the security checkpoint. I find it utterly sad that I am in no way surprised that there are currently over 9000 (humor not intended) results in Google for "colostomy bag tsa", with a good number of them reporting on unique incidents spread out across a number of years. In fact, if anything, I'm surprised there are only that many.

And yet you think that the old screening wasn't clearly better than what we have today? I'll take a little more risk if it means getting my dignity back.

I choose to believe publically available bandwidth charts showing an exponential curve

Here are some charts. Hardly a success story.

http://www.labs.lacnic.net/stats/

http://www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.html

You also have to remember that total traffic is growing exponentially, so merely exponential IPv6 growth is not enough to close the gap unless the base is bigger than IPv4's.

A deep link where they can buy a clue. URLs are in general neither copyrightable nor trademarkable, and if they wish to limit what visitors can see on their web pages, there are many ways to do so, such as having your web server check the REFERER value, which was designed for applications such as this, or having it check for appropriate cookies.

I seem to remember that one news site told Google to stop indexing their web server, so Google did. Traffic dropped off radically; I forget if they'd notified Google via robots.txt (so they could fix it themselves once they realized what a mistake they'd made), or it they'd used some kind of Stupid Lawyer Tricks, in which case they'd have had to ask Google nicely to start indexing them again.

He is not responsible for the way Manning was treated. You have to thank your beloved commander in chief for that.

Obama ordered Manning to be held in solitary? That seems extremely unlikely. Do you have any facts to point back that up? I did some searches and it seems James Averhart was responsible for that call. Obama isn't the source of all evil.

Smiles. :-) BTW the placebo effect is getting stronger as we continue into the singularity: http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all

Anyway, I guess I maybe only be wrong the first time I wrote about the this topic. :-) https://www.google.com/search?q=ancestor+simulation

Andy Rubin (Co-founder of Android before Google bought it, and current VP of Mobile) posted this a few months ago in relation to Aluyin OS. https://plus.google.com/112599748506977857728/posts/hRcCi5xgayg (which links to the official Android blog: http://officialandroid.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/the-benefits-importance-of-compatibility.html).

It sounds like this modification of the SDK might be another move toward Google defending against this Aluyin OS-style modification of Android. While Android is commonly cited as being "fragmented" due to the %'s of handsets that have older versions of Android on them (see the Development Dashboard); what these links talk about is a very serious, more dangerous style of fragmentation. Currently all Android apps are forward compatible with future versions and most are backward compatible (unless the develop chooses to use a new API and not include any graceful degradation in their app for older versions). But Google's flavor of Android is also sideways-compatible with the likes of Amazon such that if you write an app intended for the play store and later decide to distribute it to an Amazon-flavored device (via their app store or other various means), you can do this.

The implications of allowing such activities to continue are that Android could turn into a true wild-west of operating systems. From a technical standpoint, a budding Chinese developer modifies some core Android source code which work with the apps being developed by his company, but suddenly break every other app developed for their flavor of the Android OS -- and then suddenly developers for that hypothetical OS can no longer pick up their app and take it to Google's (/Amazon's) flavor of Android without resorting to hacks and workarounds. Suddenly that Android Development dashboard needs to represent that data in more than 2 dimensions - and Google's got a world of new problems to deal with.

See this Architecture Diagram for some further context. Basically the various Android OEM's and custom ROM developers such as Cyanogenmod should only really be modifying the blue bits and maybe some of the green (I'm sure ROM developers would argue on the red bits, but in a perfect world..). Seems like Google is trying to stop the messing with of the yellow "Android runtime" section.

They say they can't say anything about whether the gender of the teachers make a difference "because there just isn't enough male teachers".

There's a data point from Norway: A small group of schools have better results for boys than girls, and their commonality is more male teachers (translation).

Other research does not support this as a general trend; see e.g. http://www.ungdomsforskning.no/Download/2-2009/Bakkentrykk.pdf (there's further references in there). A translated summary of this is here. The original article is Anders Bakken 2009 Are male teachers important for boys' school achievement? Norwegian Journal of Youth Research 2009 (2) :25-44

They say they can't say anything about whether the gender of the teachers make a difference "because there just isn't enough male teachers".

There's a data point from Norway: A small group of schools have better results for boys than girls, and their commonality is more male teachers (translation).

Other research does not support this as a general trend; see e.g. http://www.ungdomsforskning.no/Download/2-2009/Bakkentrykk.pdf (there's further references in there). A translated summary of this is here. The original article is Anders Bakken 2009 Are male teachers important for boys' school achievement? Norwegian Journal of Youth Research 2009 (2) :25-44

No, it is a perfectly standard compound verb and you'll probably find it in whatever dictionary you have to hand. http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=projectile+vomit%2Cdwarf+planet&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=

I know Google aren't bound by these license terms, but it still seems hippocratic that they would choose to break them:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui

Frankly they should be sponsoring AIDE not trying to block them with legalise. You don't see Microsoft saying you are not allowed to run Visual Studio on Windows???

[...] Except to the extent required by applicable third party licenses, you may not: [...] (b)load any part of the SDK onto a mobile handset or any other hardware device except a personal computer, combine any part of the SDK with other software, or distribute any software or device incorporating a part of the SDK.

Hmm, seems like they are targeting on-device development with apps like AIDE.

Is google broken? Here's an example: In other words, in terms of country rankings, high incarceration rates tend to be associated with low levels of safety and "Quality of Life". Mob dynamics change the social contract. Your New York example only suggests correlation if you fail to control for this change.

I think the tractor trailer inspection stations have the option of testing the fuel. There are detection kits for that very purpose. They put so much dye in that it's visually detectable at dilutions of 100:1 with undyed diesel.

It implies that somebody (perhaps the submitter?) thought that the simulation is intended to be accurate.

As parent says - read TFA, it's meant to be a creative exercise.

Also read Kevin Gill's own explaination.

I've been (very slowly) doing something a bit similar with the moon --- see here --- although differently; I've been trying to render everything and producing ground-level views rather than producing a painted sphere like TFA. (His looks better from a distance. Mine looks better close up.) I've been trying to use procedural texturing and atmospheric effects. The pictures above are rather out of date; rendering your own from SVN will look better.

Unfortunately rendering things the size of planets from very close up runs into big problems with floating point precision. The only renderer I've found which will do it at all is Povray, and even then there are loads of bugs --- volumetric effects for things like clouds is well buggered at this sort of scale. See this picture for an example. Plus Povray's is really slow at procedural surfaces.

Right now I really need to start again from scratch using higher-resolution terrain and gravity data from some of the recent lunar probes, and I also probably want to switch to a different renderer which works at higher precision. Any suggestions of a fast raytracer that does procedural isosurfaces, volumetric effects and works at double precision will be gratefully appreciated...

I will also share this test render with you, which I think is delightfully surreal...

Start by reading this book.

This one is somewhat simpler and easier to read, but it still is a very good and useful introduction to the market.

There's no big deal in making money in the market, the simple fact is that, like in any other profession, you must learn the trade before you get in.

People like those "Occupy Wall Street" hipsters preaching about the market are like the pope preaching about sex. You must try to learn about things before you can have an opinion on them.

Funny that you can find a link to something that implies the claim is false... but that you can't be bothered to google on "martian meteorite"... and if you did do so, you'd see one of the related searches is "how do martian meteorites get to earth".

Skepticism is useful, but get off your dead ass and be an informed skeptic rather than an ignoramus.

Funny that you can find a link to something that implies the claim is false... but that you can't be bothered to google on "martian meteorite"... and if you did do so, you'd see one of the related searches is "how do martian meteorites get to earth".

Skepticism is useful, but get off your dead ass and be an informed skeptic rather than an ignoramus.

I could do it; I just worry about whether I'd be able to get hardware problems fixed under the manufacturer's warranty after having done it.

I suppose a manufacturer could go by different rules, but ChromeOS is specced to the manufacturers such that there's no way to brick it so bad you can't reimage back to the pristine signed-boot OS. (Unlike the OS, the bootloader isn't user-replaceable AIUI.) And the hardware is really not that different from a PC. It would be roughly equivalent to a PC maker refusing to honor your hardware warranty because you booted a Linux LiveCD once. Stranger things have happened, I suppose, but I would expect such a manufacturer to lose in court.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but not on ChromeOS, Chrome, or anything remotely related to that, so I have no particular insider knowledge of it. I am the owner of an Acer AC700 Chromebook, however, purchased of my own free will. (Principal complaint: the AC700 was sloooow. But it ran Netflix... so long as you weren't hoping to go fullscreen without stutter. Oh, and the built-in SSH terminal blew chunks; the new Secure Shell app is still rough but far better.)

One example for java (there are others): http://code.google.com/p/windowlicker/

My experience is it would be better to provision a cluster of EC2 boxes to run the task than build a purpose-built super computer (with some exception). One disadvantage of clustered machines is longer communication latency, so tasks that require lots of process to process communication will run slower. Many problems can be tweaked with search spaces sliced so that this latency is not a big deal.

There are huge classes of problems were you can't tweak things like this. Basically any simulation where things are large distances interact or where there is a lot of communication can't really be shoved into a cluster. For example, computation fluid dynamics (e.g. anything looking at air or water moving over surfaces), weather simulations, molecular dynamics, simulating gravity, etc. All of these types of problems will run like crap if you try to use EC2 instances for them.

Also, have you really priced out what computation and data storage on EC2 costs? There's a few studies that show that EC2 on-demand instance will cost you 2-3 times more than purchasing a comparable server even with power, cooling, and maintenance/administration factored in. See, this or this for example. EC2 is great if you want to explore certain problems and need to temporarily scale up or want the ability to scale up on demand but if you have a base level of work that you'll be doing all the time, it's much more efficient to buy your own hardware. That is doubly true if your problems need any significant amount of storage space.

TURKTRUST's explanation is here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/aqn0Zm-KxQ0/x1hfTMGwE2AJ

Crony capitalism is different than capitalism. Crony capitalism means a company gets special favors from the government that give it an advantage over their competition. Crony capitalism is why, despite a 35% corporate tax rate, some corporations (like Whirlpool) paid no or negative taxes last year. Arguably one of the best things Reagan did was to simplify the tax code to get rid of a lot of crony capitalism (to be fair the idea was being heavily promoted by a democrat before being picked up by Reagan).

In general, crony capitalism==bad. Capitalism==good. This is something agreed on by both parties: both sides hate the crony capitalism of the other side, but tolerate it.

Well, I can't find an official number, but we can estimate using data from here and here:

From the first link, which says the max data rate is 250Mbps, and doubling that to account for HFR, we have a 500Mbps data rate. Multiply that by the 169 minute running time and you get

500e6 bit/sec x 1/8,589,934,592 GB/bit x 169 min x 3600 sec/min = 35,400 GB

(assuming the limit on precision is the running time at three significant digits).

Divide that by 1024 GB/TB and you have about 34.6 TB. Not impossible to set up, and probably far less expensive than the projector... but that's for the non-IMAX version, which probably explains why I could only find three theaters with the HFR IMAX version near my house in Pasadena CA.

I also expect that some theaters will not operate at the maximum data rate but use some other, more lossy compression. It's probably safe to assume a lot of theaters are showing distributed versions that are about 10 or 20 TB large.

It depends on what definition of enumerate he meant. By the second definition he is correct. He may just be conflating enumerate with establish.

...if I flash my sidearm...

You realize that brandishing a weapon is a crime in and of itself in many states? Here's an ironic twist - A DC-based reporter was investigated for allegedly 'brandishing' an illegal high capacity magazine while taping an episode of 'Meet The Press'.

Really? I would never have guessed that.

business copiers do the scan to email process too, and have been for at least that long.... the last one i set up had to be at least 20 years old.

and i've been scanning on device (all in one inkjet) and printing on another (b/w laser) through the drivers/utils provided by brother long before http://www.google.com/patents/US7986426 was filed for.

I believe they gave Acer shit and Acer weren't even calling their phone Android.

They were, actually. Or rather, Alibaba was claiming Android compatibility but was *NOT* actually fully compatible. Google offered to help bring them to full compatibility ( https://plus.google.com/112599748506977857728/posts/hRcCi5xgayg ), but afaik they opted to throw a hissy fit instead because it's easier.