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amplifier using inductive resonance

Scientifically Illiterate, indeed. Go ask an expert before you start bragging about what you don't know.

harmonic resonance
amplifier using inductive resonance

Scientifically Illiterate, indeed. Go ask an expert before you start bragging about what you don't know.

AFAIK he was working on the Python part of Google App Engine, in particular the NDB API.

He has also developed Mondrian, a code review tool that was partially open sourced as Rietveld.

(Not a Google employee, so just going by public knowledge here)

AFAIK he was working on the Python part of Google App Engine, in particular the NDB API.

He has also developed Mondrian, a code review tool that was partially open sourced as Rietveld.

(Not a Google employee, so just going by public knowledge here)

To be fair to Windows RT, it's sold through an excessively limited distributed channel (Microsoft kiosks and Microsoft Stores). To then expect overnight miracles for a game that, admittedly, I have never heard of is a little astounding. Granted, 52 pounds is probably a bit of a shock, but having never heard of it (as an admitted iPad and Surface owner), I can't really say I am stunned.

This game sells 100k+ copies/day at $3 a piece on android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubicon.dev.gbwg&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5ydWJpY29uLmRldi5nYndnIl0. It peaked at 500k/day within the past 30 days. Even if it had a massive refund rate (which it likely doesn't with a 4.5/5 rating) it probably made over a million dollars on other platforms within the same time frame. We're not talking about a tetris clone someone knocked out over the weekend from their mom's basement.

It appears that he expected it be promoted by Microsoft because of their 10,000 pound investment, even though his company apparently refused to recompile and support x86, which sounds like an obvious no brainer. I cannot imagine that a game like theirs has many ARM-specific code blocks, and if it does, then I fully expect they are easily swappable for something in x86-land (if not just the high level language equivalent that would run faster on x86).

They expected Microsoft to promote it because it is really popular game that has sold over 2.5 million copies on other platforms. They didn't "refuse" to port to x86. From his blog comments, it seems they have contractual obligations to not publish on x86 because they have a publisher (Viacom) that limits their ability to release on x86 since there is a PC version (through steam).

Straight from Google on the play store, whenever they get more stock in.

Google takes the same size cut of the pie as Apple.

http://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=112622

I had an awful tl;dr reply but it hit me this morning what was driving my insistence: I'm arguing above that the crimes your policy will enable are worse than anything it prevents. Yes, it sucks, and yes, it's "no practical alternative", and I'm not sure what the nerd view you're referring to is but whatever: the existence of slackwitted supporters or detractors doesn't have anything to do with a policy's real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good..

The page currently has a cryptic entry "Google Applications for Personal Use" without any "learn more" which the business and educational versions have. Since many individuals use google apps for their email for a personal domain (for example with WordPress) I hope that a free perosnal version will be available.

Many Android games have native Bluetooth game-pad support, for though that don't you can use something like: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishstix.gameboard

You can already get hundreds of far cheaper Bluetooth game-pads, many designed to also mount your phone.

Google Apps Free Edition

Starting on December 6, 2012, Google will no longer offer new accounts for the free edition of Google Apps. Google Apps free edition is sometimes referred to as "Standard Edition."
If you already have the free edition, you can continue to use it for free. This change has no impact on existing users of the free edition.

Please see the Google Enterprise Blog for additional details.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com.au/
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?answer=2855120

end of story

Blame him if you like, but it's most of the NIMBYs. For years the Dept of Energy performed nuclear tests in the Nevada desert, pockmarking the landscape. Now traces of radiation have been found in ground water hundreds of miles from the sites, due to the nature of faults in the Basin and Ridge region and movement of underground water. Tends to scare people and they tend to make their will known to their representatives in the capitol.

Meanwhile, the Hanford site is in dire need (and has been) of shutting down, with no new disposal location in sight. A friend worked at Hanford for a couple years and explained to me how it was never meant to house as much waste as it does and the long-term storage wasn't in the original plans. Old vaults of waste have been found to be developing cracks and been reinforced.

Sorry.... I recalled reading about this browser issue not too long ago, but can't locate the original article anymore.

I suspect it had to do with Chrome though, and was apparently a bug/issue they corrected in a more recent build.

The link below indicates problems with build 22, for example:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/Ul7_1HM6-PM

however it is kinda foolish to think anything you put online is "private"

Exactly.

Sure, whatever you say, bro.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C5CHFA_enBR505BR505&ion=1&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&rlz=1C5CHFA_enBR505BR505&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=there%20is%20no%20nobel%20prize%20for%20economics&oq=&gs_l=&pbx=1&fp=ca4c450a0550195d&bpcl=39650382&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1920&bih=1062 Sorry dude, but a *bitcoin bank* has just been licenced in Europe, so I don't have the time nor the interest to keep educating zombies. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/14e048/bitcoincentral_first_exchange_licensed_to_operate/

I use the version of Opera Mobile labs with extensions enabled.. It supports adblock and noscript, although noscript slowed down browsing to such an extent that I have disabled it. Ad-away is a very effective alternative if you have a rooted device

Meh, their stock keeps falling

Oh really?

Still time to buy in cheap before the Cook interview gets wider coverage, and people realize once again the stock P/E is far lower than other tech stocks...

I mean sure a recession is just another word for deflation (it really is)

Facts disagree. There were multiple periods during the gold standard when deflation was coupled with real growth in output.

See Good versus Bad Deflation: Lessons from the Gold Standard Era.

As far as verifying the claims goes, try Glassdoor. Of course, it's still a matter of trust, but it'd have to be a pretty huge conspiracy to skew the results there. In practice, comparing what I've seen there to anecdotal evidence from coworkers and friends in several big companies, it seems to be pretty accurate.

It's hard to say what the best venue is for someone fresh out of college, but beyond that it's mostly networking. I found that LinkedIn helps a lot, too. And, of course, the good old fashioned writing letters to any prospective employers and asking if they have open positions. For big guys (which is where you usually want to be if you want a stable 6-figure salary), they generally have their own public listings online, where you can find something of interest and apply right away:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs
http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/index.html
http://www.google.com/about/jobs/
https://careers.microsoft.com/search.aspx ...

Cost of living in Puget Sound is relatively high, though probably not as high as SF, from what I've heard. I'm paying $1300 in rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in Redmond, but it's literally 10 minutes walking distance from my office, so they charge some premium for that. Also don't forget that there's no state income tax in WA, which comes up to a hefty difference at the end of the year.

(By the way, Google also has an office in Kirkland, WA these days, and they seem to be growing it rapidly and are constantly seeking to hire more people.)

Taking the points one by one:

They're too fragile

Lived with one for years. So far, no breakage. My laptop, on the other hand... Bzzzt!

they don't have a DVD drive

You still use them? I haven't used or missed mine in years... Bzzzt!

they're harder to type on

Agree with you there.

the screen is tiny

Tablets come in various sizes. I don't like the 10", preferring the 7" size myself. Bzzzt!

they get dirty with fingerprints

Never noticed this as a problem. I typically just rub against my shirt every so often. Bzzzt!

they don't run 99% of software ever written

If you want MS Office, buy a PC. They run enough stuff that it's rare for me to think "Geez I wish it had that". I'm more likely to experience the opposite - the tablet/phone doing stuff I didn't think was even possible. Point your phone at a plane going by and get an instant read out of what flight it is? Really?!?!? (Bzzzt!)

the browsers don't display pages correctly

Some pages, perhaps. It was worse a few years ago. Nowadays, not so much. Bzzzt!

the battery life is a lie

My 7" Android tablet comfortably gets about 6 hours in continuous use, the iPad typically lasts a few days between charges. Neither is annoying. Bzzzt!

most don't have USB flash drive capabilities

Depends on the model you buy. My tablet has room for a micro flash card which fits nicely into a USB adapter. (Bzzzt!)

they don't work with the majority of printers

Strange that I haven't noticed, being as cloud printing works fine... (ahem... Bzzzt!)

it's difficult to do meaningful work on them in any way shape or form

Here is the point of tablets. I don't *do meaningful work* on a tablet. It's a consumer device, it's a replacement for the newspaper or magazine. Don't view them as a replacement for a "full on computer" because they aren't. But as they get refined, expect them to creep up the food chain as their clear advantages overwhelm the PC.

For example, many (most?) tablets support bluetooth, and [bluetooth keyboards have long been available](http://www.amazon.com/s/?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Abluetooth+tablet+keyboard&keywords=bluetooth+tablet+keyboard&ie=UTF8&psrk=bluetooth+tablet+keyboard) at prices that compare roughly to "normal" keyboards.

So even here, it's a draw, depending on what you call "meaningful work". They aren't a desktop replacement. I don't write software on a tablet, I do it on a Fedora laptop. But it's silly to suggest that simply because it's not a desktop, that they are worthless.

They aren't. (Bzzzt!)

Oh, BTW, your score appears to be about 1:10 against.

It's a trend right now, and for good reasons. This is an example of politicians responding to what people are interested in, mainly in a symbolic way, since there's nothing particularly concrete these people can do right now.

Why is Lobster still so expensive?

Originally, lobster was originally poor-people's food. In the USA New-England area in both pre-colonial times, they were so plentiful that native americans and early colonists could simply catch them from tidal pools along the shoreline. This made lobsters cheap food to serve toe prisoners and indentured servant (those that bartered for passage to the "new-world" with labor contracts). With the Cod populations crashing, it sounds like we are going back to those times...

The reason lobster got expensive was that transportation costs used to be a large part of the price. Also over time, with most profitible businesses, often the infrastructure determines the price more than the supply. People that own parts of the infrastructure (fishing territories, relay-holding ponds, lobster gangs, etc) demand a price level to keep their profit margin the same even when the underlying commodity supply goes up which would nominally send the price down.

I assume you are talking about Sony.

No, Zenith, which had true flat-screen CRTs from the mid-1980s.

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

"Pyrit allows to create massive databases, pre-computing part of the IEEE 802.11 WPA/WPA2-PSK authentication phase in a space-time-tradeoff. Exploiting the computational power of Many-Core- and other platforms through ATI-Stream, Nvidia CUDA and OpenCL, it is currently by far the most powerful attack against one of the world's most used security-protocols. "

I'd suggest a long key.

Here you go: http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/

I used it a few years ago for testing the security of my Bebox WiFi router (with default "random" key). Be are a UK ISP , and they were very nice when I contacted them, and since then the new Beboxes no longer have this weakness.

Article here if you want a read: http://www.ziva-vatra.com/index.php?aid=53&id=R2VuZXJhbCBJbmZv

As for crime rates being down - https://www.google.com/search?q=us+crime+rates+down&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

As for crime rates being down - https://www.google.com/search?q=us+crime+rates+down&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

In the novel, the protagonist Winston Smith's television watched him just as he was watching it.

Interestingly, Apple has three relevant patents. The first involves concealing the camera behind a panel. These cameras could still be detected by disassembling the device and inspecting its contents, and as such will appear in any disassembly article. The second involves actually hiding the camera behind the display itself, requiring a specially-modified display panel and backlight. And finally, the real piece de resistance, and actually not the latest of these patents: A display whose image sensing elements are distributed throughout. And of course, through gaming, Microsoft has gotten in on the action too. (I didn't want anyone to think I was going to leave them out, or single Apple out...)

How about Kalingrad, Russia?

the Romani are a race as defined by the European Commission on Human Rights

An ethnic Romani who does not have Romanipen is not considered to be Romani.

That's why I stressed the difference between romanipen (xenophobic ideology) and ethnicity.

Main article: Romanipen

The "romanipen" article in english wikipedia is a politically correct stub. If you want to stick to wikipedia, try for example the polish one -- still a stub but a bit longer.

When being black leads to higher chances of being convicted on the same evidence, higher prison sentences for the same crime, lower employment for the same qualifications, lower socio-economic status from the same start point,

Care to elaborate about that? Because what I see is that the ghetto gangs work hard to maintain these statistics, while civilized blacks don't differ from their civilized neighbours. It's just that in the US you have a bigger percentage of blacks having a ghetto mentality than the percentage of whites being so-called "white trash".

" A group whose ideology urges them to hate their neighbours has no place in a civilized society."

I agree. I suggest you leave then, and stop persecuting your Romani neighbors because of who their parents are.

If you can't comprehend the difference between ethnicity (ie, who your parents are) and ideology (ie, what you believe and what you follow), then this discussion is quite pointless.

Let's say it in simple words: ethnicity good, (this) ideology bad. (four legs...)

During the Cold War, factual reports of typical American life did seem like propaganda to the Soviets. The gap in what American society provided versus what Soviet society provided, even to the fairly privileged, and at least into the mid 1970s, was rather startling. A Mig-25 pilot by the name of Victor Belenko defected to the United States in 1975 by flying his plane to Japan. His story is told in the book, "Mig Pilot.*" Reading of his experiences encountering American society is eye opening. His ultimate evaluation of American society then was that it had basically achieved in terms of economics and social services what the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had been promising would arrive under "true Communism" that was always 5-10 years away. His encounter with an ordinary supermarket is instructive. He thought it was a special showplace to fool visitors about the wealth of American society, a Potemkin village, as it were. You can read the an account of it in this selection from Mig Pilot, or the more muted account from an interview:

Belenko: First of all American super-market, my first visit was under CIA supervision, and I thought it was set-up; I did not believe super-market was real one. I thought well I was unusual guest; they probably kicked everyone out. It's such a nice, big place with incredible amount of produce, and no long lines! You're accustomed to long lines in Russia. But later, when I discovered super-market was real one, I had real fun exploring new products. I would buy, everyday, a new thing and try to figure out its function. In Russia at that time (and even today) it's hard to find canned food, good one. But everyday I would buy new cans with different food. Once I bought a can which said "dinner." I cooked it with potatoes, onions, and garlic-it was delicious. Next morning my friends ask me, "Viktor, did you buy a cat?" It was a can of chicken-based cat food. But it was delicious! It was better than canned food for people in Russia today. And I did test it. Last year I brought four people from Russia for commercial project, and I set them up. I bought nibble sized human food. I installed a pâté, and it was cat food. I put it on crackers. And they did consume it, and they liked it. So the taste has not changed. By the way, for those who are not familiar with American cat food. It's very safe; it's delicious, and sometimes it's better than human food, because of the Humane Society. -- Viktor BELENKO

The Communist party made a concerted effort at internal propaganda to shape the thoughts and behaviors of the Soviet people. They often distorted or outright lied about conditions in the US and the West, as well as exaggerated the accomplishments and performance of Soviet society, including the economy. It was these very exaggerations that prompted cynicism among the people. But even with that cynicism, the natural reaction for many of them was to act in accordance to some degree with the information they were given in propaganda.

Propaganda in the Soviet Union

Communist propaganda in the Soviet Union was extensively based on the Marxism-Leninism ideology to promote the Communist Party line. In societies with pervasive censorship, the propaganda was omnipresent and very efficient. It penetrated even social

I am quoting (below) from the link you provided; I have added italics to indicate the quoted text and boldface to emphasize some of it.

One may wonder: where did this false interpretation originate? Who is responsible for the translation that has sparked such worldwide controversy? The answer is surprising.

The inflammatory "wiped off the map" quote was first disseminated not by Iran's enemies, but by Iran itself. The Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official propaganda arm, used this phrasing in the English version of some of their news releases covering the World Without Zionism conference. International media including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Time magazine and countless others picked up the IRNA quote and made headlines out of it without verifying its accuracy, and rarely referring to the source. Iran's Foreign Minister soon attempted to clarify the statement, but the quote had a life of its own. Though the IRNA wording was inaccurate and misleading, the media assumed it was true, and besides, it made great copy.

And a little further down in the article:

The inconsistency of the IRNA's translation should be evidence enough of the unreliability of the source, particularly when transcribing their news from Farsi into the English language.

So we have The Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official propaganda arm providing an "unreliable" translation of Ahmadinejad's quote of a statement formerly made by Khomeini. Right.

And we are to therefore conclude that "western media" is at fault for reporting this translated text to the rest of the world? Right.

Therefore I conclude:

In Iran we don't have unreliable translations like in your country. :-)

You try getting a Verizon signal from in hell. Then we'll see who's laughing.

I looked up the ZIP code for Hell, went to Verizon's coverage map, typed in ZIP code 48169, and I discovered that yes, Verizon has 3G coverage in Hell.

No, but I wish they could. Oprah and Jenny McCarthy should be sent to prison for mans laughter.

What's wrong with making guys laugh?

And I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss anything Denis Kucinich says, as he's obviously got somethings figured out.

IMHO, I think the real issue is gold. It may not seem like much for one CPU, but they'd save a ton of money by not having to gold plate the pins.

Not to mention, it's a limited resource and there are far better ways to use it: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=gold+grills&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ekG-UPXLBY7A9gSwroAI&sqi=2&ved=0CAQQ_AUoAA&biw=2560&bih=1382

Yes it is. Only pretty high end GPUs have 1GB Video RAM. Not sure, but I don't think consoles have that much

no, High End cards have 2gb or more video ram. I've seen some up to 4gb ram
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/3980372100714694271?q=video%20cards&hl=en&safe=off&sqi=2&bpcl=39580677&biw=1327&bih=874&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&sa=X&ei=PDi-UMaQKeaIiAKev4D4BQ&ved=0CLwBEOUNMAI

sorry for the long link, but that's what you get when I have to google for you.

Or use Google Chrome. It has an Google-built PDF reader and Google-managed Flash updates. You never have to touch an Adobe installer ever again.

But if you're anti-EULA, Foxit is no help. Point of comparison: The Foxit EULA is 3,683 words long. The Adobe section in Google Chrome's EULA (which covers Flash) is 2,476. Google Chrome's ToS in the EULA is 3,983 words.

I hear that, during that time, a small manufacturing city in Japan renamed itself Usa (UH-suh). Then some of their manufacturers stamped "MADE IN USA" on their products, to try to fool the consumers.

I hear that the sum of human knowledge has been placed on some kind of world-wide network of information retrieval machines, so that anyone can immediately determine which ideas are factual and which are just bogus.

I'm guessing you're just being cute with your post, but on the off chance that you're serious, you should check out www.google.com. It's pretty awesome.

Here's a demo of how you could have used it to educate yourself.

I'm sure there are lots of patents on wheels. With a little bit of thought, you could probably come up with a lot of ways to make wheels perform better in certain situations, such as having more strength for less mass. Just a quick search yielded a bicycle wheel patented in 2002. But that's OK, with me, because its' a specific way of arranging the spokes, more precisely, with spokes from each side meeting at the same place on the rim. Anybody else is free to use the old method of arranging the spokes. That's also why I'm fine with this Apple wireless charging patent. It describes a specific method of charging devices wirelessly. None of the old methods infringe because they don't use the same method. Anything you, or I can come up with that improves on their method is also not in violation of the patent. Sure Apple has some stupid patents, but this isn't one of them.

FDR obviously came to power in a much different place and circumstance than Hitler or Stalin, so his opportunities for tyranny were rather limited. Still, here's a brief summary of his resume:

Lying to get elected - he ran on a limited government platform. (Even Ayn Rand voted for him in 1932!)

Prolonging the "great depression" (which was caused by socialist policies in the first place).

Vastly expanding Federal power, particularly the Executive Branch.

Putting "undesirable minorities" in concentration camps.

Vastly reducing economic freedom and civil liberties.

Forcing Japan into war through a blockade.

Preparing to nuke Japanese civilians.

Outlawing private ownership of gold.

Etc, etc, etc.

--libman

Oh, as for it not being a mineral, you fail again. It is not produced by an organic process, does not contain carbon, and forms natural crystalline associations in soils. Perchlorates are minerals.

Eg, did you know that rock salt is a mineral? Geologists call it "halite". ;) perchlorate complexes are indeed minerals my friend.

You should use Windows. One clipboard, Ctrl C/Ctrl V. On a Freetard OS things become much more confusing so you end up cut and pasting your filthy degenerate brony sex toys like this Marlin Fish Suit into your work emails or slashdot posts and that means a one way to trip to the glue factory.

And you can catch brony from Freetard OSs. E.g. look

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=brony+linux

They need to be more authentic, and go to Boring, Oregon: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Boring,+oregon&hl=en&ll=45.431226,-122.353363&spn=0.580164,1.231842&sll=39.531771,-76.822755&sspn=0.019926,0.038495&hnear=Boring,+Damascus,+Clackamas,+Oregon&t=m&z=10
I'll note that there is also a Boring, Maryland northwest of Baltimore (The City That Breeds). However, the proximity of DC means that something interesting could happen. For example, a hardcopy of ObamaCare could fall on you, causing injury.

Paste buffer fail.
THIS is the link I thought I was posting -- https://play.google.com/store/search?q=repligo+reader&c=apps

Sorry, all.

Yup, but Google will find scads of them for you.

Apparently, most of these are basically voip to pots gateways. You need an internet connection and a few trunks from the local phone company you want to serve.
Easy and cheap to set up and get into business.

He was asked if he had *ever* been involved in a lawsuit, and if so to expand on that. He is making erroneous claims that the question only pertained to the preceding 10 years now that he has been called out on that, despite all court transcripts never mentioning a 10 year limit.

Google and Groklaw are your friends.

Massive newsgroup floods by obviously mentally ill individuals.

Fuck you I know what a loop is!

The issue is not so much that 64-bit is dropped or deemed unimportant; the issue is that Mozilla as a corporation has limited resources to devote to 64-bit Windows builds.

Basically, the main blockers are:

- Plugins. 64-bit plugins on Windows are still not 100% and there currently isn't a way of loading 32-bit plugins in a 64-bit Firefox. Yes, ideally Firefox would have this, but again - resources.
- Testing. It'd add another column onto the test matrix which is a non-negligible cost overhead to the release engineering guys (who are already massively overworked as it is). For a feature that Mozilla as a corporation isn't prioritising, this burden on releng is unacceptable.
- Benefits. The benefits from switching to 64-bit code aren't actually as plentiful as you might think. Basically, the major one is that Firefox would be able to address more memory instead of limiting at 4GB. However, project memshrink (https://areweslimyet.com/) has been working pretty hard on reducing the memory footprint of Firefox, which is the correct fix in this case *except* in the case of those people who are using hundreds of tabs amongst several browser windows. Unfortunately, they're in a small enough niche that, again, Mozilla can't dedicate resources towards a black hole to accommodate them (yet).

The myths that building the browser in 64-bit results in somehow faster code, or more efficient execution are just that - myths. In fact, in a lot of cases, code that was written for x86 that's been recompiled in x86_64 results in slower code because your pointer sizes are twice as big and you start smashing through your CPU cache more quickly.

For a more detailed description on the cost supporting these has incurred, Ben Hearsum wrote a very good post on dev-platform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/UOn1iQetA5w/-DNzeCOMdrcJ

TL;DR - it's not a question of whether Mozilla wants to do this (they do); it's a question of whether the resource/benefit tradeoff makes sense at this time.

I would also like to remind people that software engineers aren't just assets that can be moved arbitrarily from project to project, so all those people saying "stop working on X feature and concentrate on 64-bit instead" - stop thinking like that. That's how bad managers are made.