Slashdot Mirror

I hope they had the same reasons that most intelligent engineers have; X Sucks.

Quote from book: Steve Jobs told the USENIX audience in Phoenix, in June 1987, "that x was brain-damaged"

Source: http://books.google.de/books?id=CpAlTYwJJgAC&lpg=PA54&dq=%22Steve%20Jobs%20told%20the%20USENIX%20audience%20in%20Phoenix%2C%20in%20June%201987%2C%20%22that%20x%20was%20brain-damaged%22%22&hl=de&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q=%22Steve%20Jobs%20told%20the%20USENIX%20audience%20in%20Phoenix,%20in%20June%201987,%20%22that%20x%20was%20brain-damaged%22%22&f=false

Why the hell ELSE would you post a question on slashdot?

I think the point of the parent is that the question has this nice, fuzzy "I didn't do my research, please do it for me." feel, which will get you into trouble on any serious forum. One can even see it in the question. It asks: "Any fun, off-beat party apps this middle-aged suburban dad hasn't heard of?" But never lists which apps he has heard of.

The OP also asks for a ROM but never tells us the modell of tablet (except that it is 7'' and from MID, hope they have only one of those). Basically it asks at least two questions where IMHO the only answer a self-respecting nerd seeing the lack of research can give is LMGTFY:

1. What custom ROMs are there for my device - Google leads in its first entry to xda-developers the ROM source.
2. What MP3 player apps are there - (ignoring the play store) Google finds quite some

Mentioning Gentoo in a negative conotation doesn't help either (and no I am not using any beta ROMs either but neither do I compare them to Gentoo).

Why the hell ELSE would you post a question on slashdot?

I think the point of the parent is that the question has this nice, fuzzy "I didn't do my research, please do it for me." feel, which will get you into trouble on any serious forum. One can even see it in the question. It asks: "Any fun, off-beat party apps this middle-aged suburban dad hasn't heard of?" But never lists which apps he has heard of.

The OP also asks for a ROM but never tells us the modell of tablet (except that it is 7'' and from MID, hope they have only one of those). Basically it asks at least two questions where IMHO the only answer a self-respecting nerd seeing the lack of research can give is LMGTFY:

1. What custom ROMs are there for my device - Google leads in its first entry to xda-developers the ROM source.
2. What MP3 player apps are there - (ignoring the play store) Google finds quite some

Mentioning Gentoo in a negative conotation doesn't help either (and no I am not using any beta ROMs either but neither do I compare them to Gentoo).

Why the hell ELSE would you post a question on slashdot?

I think the point of the parent is that the question has this nice, fuzzy "I didn't do my research, please do it for me." feel, which will get you into trouble on any serious forum. One can even see it in the question. It asks: "Any fun, off-beat party apps this middle-aged suburban dad hasn't heard of?" But never lists which apps he has heard of.

The OP also asks for a ROM but never tells us the modell of tablet (except that it is 7'' and from MID, hope they have only one of those). Basically it asks at least two questions where IMHO the only answer a self-respecting nerd seeing the lack of research can give is LMGTFY:

1. What custom ROMs are there for my device - Google leads in its first entry to xda-developers the ROM source.
2. What MP3 player apps are there - (ignoring the play store) Google finds quite some

Mentioning Gentoo in a negative conotation doesn't help either (and no I am not using any beta ROMs either but neither do I compare them to Gentoo).

There seem to be quite some studies lately showing that temperate increase "had leveld off". E.g. German Sueddeutsche Zeitung recently cited an English Institute with such a study.

Criticism of other climate scientist seems to be that the used intervall is too short to make any statements on speed of change, especially since 1998 had been an extremely hot year globally due to El Nino (see second page of above article). Longer term trends seem to be steady at 0.16 C per decade. So don't get your hopes too high on being able to continue driving SUVs along the coastline.

intitle:index.of used to work better too, though it kinda works today; I'm surprised.

Yes, fireable offence. But easily done, if not repeated. The analysis of our consumer organisation: http://translate.google.de/translate?twu=1?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A//www.test.de/Burger-McDonalds-ist-der-Burger-King-1234826-2234826/

Google for your local one. That said it is also stated that the quality of the chicken burgers is not as good, because there are too many suppliers, some of them with a bad reputation.

Parent was modded funny for a simply true statement. Spreading FUD does not help when you try to figure out the real problems. There is so much gossip going on with some really stupid conspiracys. For instance, for decades it has been an urban legend that beef for german McD-Burgers came from South America, destroying the environment there. Funny idea, but as the burger does not sell for 5 EUR, simple bullshit, far too expensive.

email in google :

https://www.google.de/search?q=email&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

first result :
Gmail: Email from Google
mail.google.com/ - Cached
10+ GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access. Gmail is email that's intuitive, efficient, and useful. And maybe even fun. âZGmail - âZSign up - âZWelcome to Gmail - âZMobile
second link: Email - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

definitively an ads for google email

web browser give me wiki first , opera second chrome 3rd. then a shitload of web laden site like cnet, then at the second page firefox. How comes the popular browser is so far behind ?

maps google maps appear first twice wiki third only :
Google Maps maps.google.de/ - Cached - Similar Karten anzeigen und lokale Firmen im Internet suchen. Google Maps maps.google.com/ - Cached - Similar Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. âZStreet View - âZMaps for mobile - âZGoogle Maps API - âZMaps Help Map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I call that preferential treatment.

woooosh? :-)

then just make it Plastic all the way down

This has happened before:
Original in German | Google Translate (English)

18,000 men were asked to give samples, ~80% did - among them the perpetrator. Apparently some relatives went and he couldn't come up with a good excuse to skip.

Not only did Google provide us with the aforementioned book about microscopes, they also made the young mans book of amusements public to the adventurous reader.

http://books.google.de/books?id=X2FLAAAAYAAJ

How about Germany (link to translated actual law)?

We can thank the US occupying forces (back then) and the Nazis for that. (There are way too many old Nazi laws that still aren't gone because nobody cared enough.)

This situation could EASILY be solved by interviewing Assange in the UK according to Sven-Erik, and according to evidence on the public record. Why the insistance on extradition in this case?

So they question him in London ... and then what happens if they want to charge him following this interview? You assume that the situation can be "solved" by adopting procedures that would mean Assange is immune from the possibility of being charged and tried. However if Assange can't, as a matter of practical facts, be extradited to Sweden or face trial, what would be the point of investigating the case any further? Assange is either subject to Swedish law in respect of his actions in Sweden, or everyone may as well go home.

Are brain cells somehow becoming an endangered species even here on Slashdot?

Swedish legal protocol has been compromised so badly in this case it's hard to imagine a trial happening even if the guy IS guilty, but don't believe me, here's the considered opinion of a retired Swedish prosecutor. Read it... it's informative. This situation could EASILY be solved by interviewing Assange in the UK according to Sven-Erik, and according to evidence on the public record. Why the insistance on extradition in this case? The guy might be an asshat sometimes, but that doesn't deserve a ticket to gitmo... and this whole thing feels very bad. I think the average citizen in the west has been lied to enough that some healthy skepticism is long overdue, and frankly I'd be happier to see it err on the side of paranoia than apathy.

Rhetorical question: do they have to interview murder suspects before filing charges?

You may have intended it to be rhetorical, but yes, they do.

In Sweden, the police cannot just read someone their rights and lock them up indefinitely... they can hold them for questioning, after which they are required to either release them or arrest them. Being held for questioning does not go on the record, as you could be held for questioning for any number of reasons... one of which being suspected of committing a crime.

Truly, this is an actual demonstration of "innocent until proven guilty". People suspected of murder are innocent of murder until it is proved -- and in Sweden, they are treated like innocent people until there is some proof to do elsewise.

Swedish prosecutors once traveled to Serbia to interview a suspected murderer.

March 22nd of *this year*

You can of course pester them on these telephone numbers. German laws require everyone doing business there to publish this type of information. Oh and it has to be correct and functional.

They will probably send you to hell anyway, of course.

Peh.

http://books.google.de/books?id=KpWg1DYxRTwC&pg=PA393&lpg=PA393&dq=%22which+might+endanger+the+security+of+the+whole+society%22&source=bl&ots=lgv2nV70Sn&sig=mTG24fPbAC2muIXtBEVrlGapc5U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DuoMUJSgKYe2hAfKwKSBCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22which%20might%20endanger%20the%20security%20of%20the%20whole%20society%22&f=false

and I'm kind of proud to be an European. This was the first time were I recognized some "we, the people" feeling - the EU is mostly a bureaucratic umbrella and we have many democratic deficits.

But take a look at this, protests all over the continent, finally some pan-European atmosphere.

Neither top-to-bottom nor some organized spectacle (e.g. Euro2012 [football championship]) - great!

Well the theory would hold true for gasoline powered models or electric fans powered by a diesel generator in the same (closed) room.

But that very same strength is gonna weigh MSFT down like a boat anchor because you can't run Windows x86 programs on ARM and at least for now neither Intel nor AMD is pushing x86 smartphones.

Ahem, your entire point disintegrates with a single Google search:

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=intel+medfield

Intel is pushing HARD into the direction of getting x86 handsets, smartphones and tablets out into the open; that's pretty much one of the main reasons they bought Infineon Wireless for 1.4 Billion USD; the second biggest RF-chip producer in the world after Qualcomm. Intel wasn't in the smartphone/handset market and they wanted (and still want) to get into it.

And as soon as you have x86 on your smartphone, and Win8 on top of it, suddenly you can run ~95% of all Windows applications unmodified on your smartphone or tablet. That is a sales argument, if I've ever seen one.

Until they make a law that http://google.de/ has to point to an actual search engine, Google is safe. :)

German article taking apart some of that "hard, unfiltered truth": http://t3n.de/news/google-geisterstadt-371000/

Google Translate: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ft3n.de%2Fnews%2Fgoogle-geisterstadt-371000%2F

From the page you linked to: Google Maps

Not just about Apple rumors, but most notably there. http://www.google.de/search?q=digitimes+track+record+apple+rumors

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Google-Wir-unterstuetzen-Firefox-weiter-1390401.html (google translate http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2FGoogle-Wir-unterstuetzen-Firefox-weiter-1390401.html)

Basically, Google denied all rumors.

I'll just quickly link to the German news site Spiegel Online where they've summarized the clues of a number of experts. Google translation here.

Yea, it's absurd, but I think many of you got it wrong. The TOS does not BECOME law, it's a crime to violate it. I guess it's proposed for the following scenario: Some guy posts a link on a forum that points to Noodie Boobie Fun (TM). Just in case it is some sort of Noodie Boobie Fun that's still legal, he sure violated the TOS. Gotcha!

As an example to what this can lead: In Germany there is a law the other way round: If you're a business with a website, and your Website is missing some texts (like VAT number, or a phone number), it's a violation of some law. If a lawyer (and only a lawyer) spots this, they can make money from you: "I see what u did there (harhar). Gimme 1000euro or I will prosecute you". It's a fucking million euro industry, just milking mom and pop sites that try to sell pot holders. All automated (crawlers looking for websites, sending mass mails).

Well, obviously milking the consumer is far more efficient than only milking the producer. And this is what this new law is about, from my POV anyway.
Post scriptum: I hereby invoke Rule #34: Nothing real, so far...

actually the more interesting part of the deal is that Apple has to pay Moto damages dating back to april 2003. http://www.scribd.com/doc/71622154/11-11-04-Default-Judgment-for-MMI-Against-Apple

Not if the patents belong to the GSM standard, and instead Google gets slapped for patent abuse like Samsung is about to. http://www.google.de/search?q=samsung+eu+patent+abuse&hl=de&client=firefox-a&hs=nrP&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=nws&ei=zNa3Tr0HyYniBM6hpd8D&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=5&ved=0CBoQ_AUoBA&biw=1560&bih=1304

Try Google Scholar:

http://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=Containment+Hydrogen+Control+and+Filtered+Venting+Design+and+Implementation&hl=de&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

You will find that the first page contains only results between 1979 and 2003. This has nothing to do with hindsight. In fact, lots of people had the foresight to implement such measures. TEPCO was not among them.

its spread is a function of distance, population density and commercial exchanges.

Tor the most part, yes. The map I linked, however, says that Milan was relatively unaffected, as was Warsaw, or Brugues. Which were important cities (apart from warsaw, okay ^^)

But, alas, that wikipedia map is most certainly wrong in that those green areas were not unaffected, but only *relatively* less affected areas. Milan had its share of pest deaths, but not as bad as in other cities Also, east Germany and Poland actually *were* affected

A "Kraken" is not necessarily large. Even if it is just the size of my fist it is a Kraken. And you parent is not correct either, Octopus is an ordinary word to describe a Kraken, the other thing is a Calamar. Yes, those names likely are not "scientific", but this are the names comonly used by *germans* and I guess in other languages as well. So the most logical conclusion is: the original author is a non native english speaker and used words from his own language and "enlified" them.
Just google: http://www.google.de/search?q=picture+Krake+Paul

I don't get how intelligent people can be so dumb.

Yes there is ocean acidification.

And for that to realize you don't need any scientific numbers about the ocean. You only need to use your useless brain.

Ocean = Water
Atmosphere = N2, O2, CO2 etc.

Last time I checked the ocean and the air was in direct contact. In other words there is no magic shield preventing O2, N2 and CO2 exchange between the air and the ocean.

If you really believe that increasing the CO2 concentratoin in the air does not result in an increased CO2 concentration in the ocean, you must be stupid as hell.

Ah well, and for your interest: http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Bi-Ca/Carbon-Dioxide-in-the-Ocean-and-Atmosphere.html or perhaps simply google: http://www.google.de/search?q=CO2+increase+in+ocean

Oh I was insulting and arrogant again, wtf ... go off my lawn.

IIRC, that was used for DS9 also.

But it had a bit more power under the hood than your A500 back then. In a nutshell, an A2000 was used to control the rendering hardware. But still, back in that time it was quite a lot of Bang, even if you're ignoring the little buck needed.

http://www.google.de/search?rlz=1C1GPCK_enDE415DE415&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=video+toaster

Towson, MD, 21286-7840 (is that a real zip code?).

Apparently, yes

When I searched for "firefox turn on warning about invalid certificates", I found this sad state: http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=firefox%20turn%20on%20warning%20about%20invalid%20certificates&meta=

So I call bullshit on your "recent evaluation" (of your pubes or what?).

Got some proof? Not "reliable sources". PR-FUCKIN-OOF! As in: Observations that confirm your statement and canâ(TM)t be explained otherwise, and lack of observations that contradict it and canâ(TM)t be explained otherwise.

There's always BitTorrent and Gnutella.
Done, and done!
Do I get a trophy? ;)

There's always BitTorrent and Gnutella.
Done, and done!
Do I get a trophy? ;)

I've been using the term "app" as a short version for "application" long before Apple came up with its "App Store" or the term "app" for those applications.

And as I'm a non-native English speaker, I didn't come up with it myself, but learned it from others, who must have used it before.

Here's a Google search for just one single domain (a programming language's forum), showing the usage of the term "app".

The so-called "study", however, did claim that a coal plant *emits* radiation like a dirty bomb. Now it is staying in the bottom ash and gets deposited? What is it now? Here are real data. So, we are seeing 3.5-4.5 pCi/g in bottom ash and 5.8 pCi/g in fly ash. As a comparison - let's look at a banana then 3.5 pCi/g. Coal ash is at average twice is active as a banana. God, yeah, hellish technology. Average soil according to the same site: about 14 pCi/g. It is less bloody radioactive than soil. So, these are the data. Also: Mercury retention in fabric filters is greater than 80%.

Google has a local presence in Italy (called, not surprisingly, Google Italy). As such, it is fair that they should be expected to comply with Italian law, ne? And Italian judges can't well be expected to ignore Italian law, anyway, can they?

But of course, Italy is the new China, everybody knows that Italy sucks, Italy should be cut off and ignored and punished. Hey, how about invading Italy for messing with US business interests? It worked for oil companies, after all.

The site looks almost identical to Fukushima: google earth link

... on heise.de when it was posted there some week or two ago. The stupid plugin costs money, too! 10 Euros per month, if you can believe that.

Link to Heise article (google translation)

To be fair, there aren't many sources for that story. It's some regional news with only coincidental relevance for some fringe group of society after all..
http://news.google.de/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Greeneville,+Tennessee&ncl=dm5qbkfTcoN9UCMSJMUI6rFVH6iCM&channel=suggest

Actually he does drink beer sometimes

Eating grains is what allowed our population to explode.

Please provide a link.

I think you'll find that it's not humans eating grains which has allowed our population to explode but grain production, most of which is fed to livestock. People that eat meat are the bread and butter of the monocrop sector.

To reiterate, In the U.S., animals are fed more than 80 percent of the corn and 95 percent of the oats grown. The world's cattle alone consume a quantity of food estimated to be equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people, more than the entire human population on Earth. Agriculture, as it is now is the source of tthe monocrop problem and its impact on bbiodiversity.

I, as a longtime vegetarian, fund the tiniest proportion of monocrop grain compared to meat eaters like yourself. In fact on analysis, the only real crop of that genre that I do dip into is soy, of which I consume around a gram a day when averaged over a week. Most of this is in the form of soymilk (just 2.5g soy protein/litre!). People that eat biscuits, breakfast cereals, chocolate and even non-meat fast-food consume much more than that a day, lest of all all the soy that the animals they eat consume. I think you have weird ideas about where monocrop grain actually ends up.. It's not in vegetarians, for the most part!

I wish you the best in your efforts to find a way to make farming sustainable at today's level of meat consumption. Sadly I think it's an absolute pipe dream, given the research I've read and observing how the non-industrialised farming community I grew up in is collapsing under industrial competition from elsewhere, competition which meets demand.

A sustainable farming mandate == much less meat for everyone. The research is out there..

More than 70 % of all corn and 85 % of all oats grown in America are fed to cattle. Researchers Gold and Porrit found that all the grains used in agriculture worldwide are enough to satisfy the caloric needs of 8.7 Billion people, more than all the people on earth.

I think Lierre Keith hasn't done her homework ;)

As a meat eater you indirectly consume vast amounts of soy, far more than a vegan. See for yourself, straight from an agricultural statistics source (end of page especially).

I'm an American, I might choose Westminster Abbey as my password, but I'm not going to select a random flat in London.

Really? How about if you were told - like with passwords today - not to pick famous places. You might pick a random flat in London. One that isn't random for you. Maybe the one where you laid that gorgeous black girl on your first business trip there?

And besides, even if you do pick famous places, you may have to be a bit more specific than that. You might pick Westminster Abbey, but not the whole building, but, for example the roof of the tower. That's a lot more difficult to guess.

This rivals one of the worst-ever schemes security schemes I've seen. A credit union I used to use would let you select a "secret question" from a drop-down list.

And there's the massive difference and everyone who ever did any work in security could've told them that. They arbitrarily reduced the keyspace dramatically.

Taking the whole world is still a huge keyspace, if you are specific enough (i.e. no taking of entire countries or cities or famous landmarks). Whatever place you pick will have meaning to you, but to everyone else it could well be totally random. And that's what the strength is. A list of sports teams, even if it weren't as pre-determined as your example, has meaning to everyone, not just the person that picked it.

I know this is /., but - http://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=intuition+and+emotions&hl=de&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart - that takes ten seconds to do, less than writing a reply.

There appear to be links between all our systems. Even "purely rational" decisions are, on close inspection, often prompted by emotions and then justified by rational thinking after the fact.

We're not isolated beings. There is little on this planet that is as much inter-connected as a human brain. Quite frankly, anyone who claims that two brain functions are not linked should be the one to show it.

we just have to respectfully disagree.

the mandelbrot set is a red herring because it is fractal.

on the other hand, even if the genetic code is fractal, we know its granularity: its final granularity is not on the level of atoms. Nowhere even close.

Its final granularity is on the level of cells.

We know, for a fact, that the genetic code describes a way to produce the cells in the human body.

What we do not know, as you point out, is the atomic interactions that produce proteins and so on. But those atomic interactions are simply not important.

You know, we are getting to where we can just arbitrarily change the source code and see what happens (ie genetically modified organism).

I don't care what you say, when for the next ten years we have teams of researchers working with a compiler and 600 megabytes of binary code, and they can move anything and get the result (ie they can breed a new mouse with whatever changes to its genetic code they want) you cannot pretend that we won't have things figured out.

Going back to reality, as opposed to your red herring of the mandelbrot set, the number of transistors in a quad-core Nahalem Intel i7 processor is 731M and costs $287. When you compare the physical atoms of the brain to the physical atoms of the i7, you will not find as large a difference between the number that constitute an atomic computing element as you would have us believe.

I want you to imagine the brain squished down into a 2D matrix that is 1 neuron tall. How much area does it take up? You are pretending that the answer is "a larger area than the Solar System".

But it obviously isn't a larger area than a solar system. If you take 2-3 pounds of stuff (the human brain) and use it to put a 1-neuron thick coat on as large an area as you can, you're still not talking about many square kilometers.

How many neurons are in the human brain? 100 billion.

What is the density of neurons in the human brain? 1200 cubic centimeters.

You divide the two, you get 83,333,333 neurons per cubic centimeter. The cube root of that gives you the fact that there are 436 neurons per centimeter in each dimension. So, how much larger is it if you need the same 83 million neurons but you are working with with square metal? The square root of 83 million is 9,128. So each cubic centimeter of the brain is 9128 square centimeters at the same density. Therefore, the 1200 cubic centimeters of the whole brain in three dimensions represents 25,123 square centimeters at the same density.

ie we are talking about 158.5 centimeters by 158.5 centimeters of silicon (sqrt of above number). Remember my i7 link? It says the die size is 263 square mm. So, if we just divide 25122 square centimeters by 263 square millimeters, we get the fact that 9552 processors, at a cost of $287 each, will represent the same area as the human brain, squashed.
Call it $400 per processing unit (along with motherboard, interconnects, but also bulk pricing on the chip itself), and you get 9552 * $400 = $3,820,800 of hardware.

I guarantee you an i7 can simulate 436 neurons by 437 neurons in a square centimeter of metal. But let's say it can't. Let's say it takes 100 square centimeters of metal just to simulate the 437 by 437 neurons found in a "square centimeter worth" of human brain. You multiply the figure of 3.8 million by a hundred, you get 380 million.

Honestly, simulating two to three pounds of stuff, when you have the source code, can play with it until you discover how it works, is not that hard.

I would be downright surprised if within my lifetime this was not done (and for well under fi