Surely you need not wait until your imminent untimely death to give your trusted wife said password. Is there really a problem with her being to manage your mutual finances now?
Having two lines on escalators, people standing on the right and walking on the left, has been the de facto standard everywhere I have been (so most of Europe), and I'd assume most of the civilised world does similarly. In the UK and central/western Europe where I've dealt with them most often, this courtesy is often pointed out by signs, and people standing in the way will be asked (politely or not) to move across, or sometimes if not just shoved out the way.
As for lack of escalators on England railways, it's simply not possible to put escalators everywhere, due to both cost and spacial issues (particularly as most of the rail infrastructure in the UK was built by the Victorians, who didn't really do escalators, and liked stairs). That said newly built lines/stations tend to be quite accessible.
Ya, price fixing sucks. But let's be real honest shall we?
Lets
Sorry, but "let's" is correct, "lets" is not. It is an abbreviation of "let us".
I think concluding that this ruling will cause prices to fall due to increased competitiveness is being a bit optimistic. It simply isn't in their best interest to be competitive or seek to outprice each other, seeing as they are essentially all selling the same thing and profit margins need to be maintained.
Office 97 had a few bugs to do with table layout, amongst other things (I forget exactly what, but it annoyed me at the time). This was especially noticeable when loading files created with newer versions of office (ie. your document now looks like something out of geocities rendered in IE 5). Nested tables behaved especially badly, some of the defaults were a bit silly and when things went wrong they tended to do so rather gracelessly. Also there were a fair few text layout mechanisms it didn't or only half-heartedly supported, which subsequent versions dealt with nicely (once again, they annoyed me back in the day, but damned if I can remember exactly which they were...)
If you changed that to say Office 2000, I'd be more inclined to agree.
(Personally I use Office 2003, and see no reason whatsoever to upgrade to 2010...)
I hate to disappoint you but solar output isn't measured in degrees Celsius. Trying to argue that 2.5 times solar output means 40C x 2.5 = enough to produce steam, just makes you look like you haven't a clue what you are talking about. The output is generally measured in Wm^-2 (1000 on a sunny equatorial day more or less), and as frankly the vast majority of microwave radiation would go straight through a human obstacle and out the other side anyway, if you are worried about being being caught in the beam being boiled alive or whatever, you've missed the point a little. If they were just using a solar collector and focusing device (ie. a big mirror) in orbit à la shitty films like Die Another Die then yes, it would be an issue (the temperature to output power per area ratio would still be in absolutely no way linear though).
Mostly, you seem to have forgotten in general that the Celsius temperature scale has an arbitrary zero point, so doing any kind of multiplication on it will almost always give you a rubbish answer.
As for using other kinds of liquids/thermal solar collection, people do that already in deserts (on a medium scale) and there's absolutely no need for having orbiting mechanisms to increase throughput. Just use focusing mirrors on the ground.
Frankly the idea is a bit of a waste of time in my eyes. There's plenty of empty sunny desert where solar collection systems can be set up. Cheaper to create a 10km^2 grid on the ground that produces much more, than to try and put a 0.1km^2 array in orbit and try to beam power down somehow...
The topic in question is blindingly obvious to anyone who has heard of this newfangled "Internet" thing, and frankly is not worth an article in the first place. Furthermore, such a blatant error in the headline and summary is simply ridiculous. Do the submitters or editors not reread text prior to submission? This is sloppy/. reporting at it's finest... For shame.
While I support the course of action which BluWiki have taken, it is not at all surprising that apple will act in their usual reprehensible manner.
Reverse engineering/cracking/technical discussion/anything-your-corporate-overlords-raise-their-eyebrows-at groups, would do better to simply speak outside of the legal reach of such entities. Either by not having discussions in public, using channels not often trawled by our overlords (IRC, etc.) or locating the server/parent corporation in safer waters, so to speak.
If no-one could read their discussion without registering or without being added to the group/whatever, apple probably would not have found it or bothered to cause a fuss. This is by no means ideal though. Probably more practical, if they had just bought some web space in South Korea or something, instead of using unsafe webspace based in the US, they'd be home free and probably get better service to boot...
All we need now is a big parade of furries, kin, "recreational livestock farmers" and medical researchers to protest against such an evil bill.... *cough*, yeah...
I frankly don't see that what's so bad about hybrids, it's not like animals in the US have any rights whatsoever anyway, and any hybrid actually formed would likely get a better deal in life than most animals...
If it can be used to save/improve/whatever human (or other) life, then, surely that's a good thing...
Probably done by the same bunch of narrow-minded old religious interfering asshats who think abortion, stem cells and the teaching of science are the scourge of the earth.
"Provided that the thermal memory is well insulated", that basically means putting it on a different piece of silicon/on something else entirely, which kind of defeats the object as I see it.
While I haven't looked at this in great detail, it strikes me that achieving anything near useful density is going to very difficult due to entropy, and the simple fact that putting very small volumes at slightly different temperatures right next to each others quickly leads to a relatively uniform temperature distribution.
This sounds somewhat improbable/unfeasible to me...
On the contrary, the birth date you supplied quite definitively indicates that Google is a young company. It's only been around for 3 weeks after all...;)
For heavens sake we're talking about lawyers! I'm fairly sure that they don't classify as alive in the usual sense. Some say after all they're all re-animated forms of recycled law, sliminess and pedantry...
Whereas the average adult has control over politics... Nope, didn't think so.
Whether or not a person can vote is frankly irrelevant to the issue. In general: Knowledge is Power. Kids will grow up and later be able to vote, and are directly affected by various issues under the control of politicians.
I am frankly surprised that anybody is worried that kids are taking interest in their surrounding environment and it's social mechanisms, I personally am more concerned about kids *not* taking an interest in politics, but then again I'm from the UK and currently living in France, where things are done differently to the US (which I assume is where you're referring to). Children are not illiterate and incompetent sheep up until the age of majority, whereupon they suddenly become intelligent voters who know all about politics.
Worrying about things which you have no control of is often justified if those things have significant and pervasive control over you. Although the leap from "interested in" to "worried about" is somewhat tenuous IMO.
Given the current political climate and pre-election/leadership issues publicity in many parts of the world including the US and the UK, a child would inevitably be exposed to significant quantities of information on the subject (in a easily digestible and hype-enhanced format most likely, too).
Disclaimer: I am 18 and about to commence university studies in the UK.
I watched it live on BBC, and I didn't hear a single boo during the entire ceremony...
Iraq just got an "ordinary" cheer as they emerged (AFAIR).
Russia certainly got a big cheer when they emerged, and while I don't recall Putin coming up on the big screen, I'm pretty sure that he would get a big cheer as you said.
North Korea doesn't even have public internet yet, google would not be allowed to step over the border never mind take pictures of streets.
As for China, they'd run into so many hurdles with uncooperative police and corrupt/unhelpful officials that it would not be worth the bother (IMO), unless things change drastically over there...
Good news at last! Common sense prevails. Hopefully patent trolls will not be able to lobby against such changes; as for once, I daresay that certain major corporations are likely to be somewhat supportive, the current patent mess is as much a pain for them as for everyone else.
These restrictions bring patents back in line with their original intention, and hopefully will help reduce the excessive (patent) litigation so prevalent in the US...
Better late than never, this guy has been either bullshitting or been genuinely incompetent for years. When I first heard about his whole ultrasonic bubble excitation fusion experiment, I honestly thought: WTF? This was quite a while ago, and all the evidence was against him then as well.
It is people like these who give research scientists a bad name...
The Daily (Hate) Mail is fucking ridiculous. A tabloid which tries to pretend that it is a broadsheet.
No surprise that most of the images show young gals. (some of the images I would not expect to be published by a self-respecting newspaper under any circumstances.) And where is the visual evidence for this supposed damage, that *is* what the article was about after all, no?
Since when did reporting mean trawling myspace/bebo/facebook/whatever for pics of half-dressed girls at parties where stuff got broken? The state of supposedly quality media in the UK (and in many other places AFAIK) is shambolic, and shameful.
The mother has every right to sue, and she should disconnect her daughter from the internet and bash some sense into her head while she's at it. Incompetence and stupidity galore from every angle.
Sci-fi series that I always liked (and still do), are the Dunes, all of Douglas Adam's stuff, and much of what Tom Holt wrote (although it is part fantasy/parody/comedy). More generally, the works of Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts are excellent (they are more fantasy genre). The doctor who and star trek novels seem to be aimed at/suitable for early/pre-teen age groups AFAICT. I think that kids should read classics like George Orwell, and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 as well, but that's just my opinion...
In general kids these days do not seem to be reading much, due to the increasing dominance of TV/cinema/internet... TV in particular is full of crap, and if you don't watch it (except for specific things worth watching), you'll be better off. Just watching any old crap TV is just a waste of your time and brainpower. These days all of my "TV" comes off the internet in torrent form. But in general, you can read almost anything, and you will gain something from it, the same can't honestly be said for most other forms of media...
Why should India waste their time, money and resources, and degrade themselves in the eyes of their people and other countries by supporting US/Western (I'm assuming that's what us refers to) foreign policy on Iraq, Iran and China?
The USA started the Iraq war, they can finish it themselves, it was a fucking disaster from day 1, and should never have been allowed to happen, India would be be imbeciles to join the US's failure. Tibet is (currently) past of China, not part of India, not India's problem. The linked article is frankly irrelevant, few genuinely care if a handful of folks get in trouble over a minor march before the Olympic one, and the march or lack of it makes 0 impact overall. Iran has nothing to do with India whatsoever, and saying that the fact that they are not especially bothered about a military solution to Iran is indicative of undemocratic tendencies is laughable. The story linked states that they prefer diplomacy to useless handwaving in the UN security council/US military interference, which is eminently sensible. Pacifism and discussion is better than killing of innocents, even if you don't personally approve of their government or society, etc.
Furthermore if you really think that Iran is going to make nuclear bombs and start trying to toss them at the US, then you need to turn the TV off. The leaders of Iran are *not* idiots.
From what I've seen of the transport tycoon deluxe code dumps, it was written entirely in not particularly efficient assembly... (I am a TTDPatch developer)
Writting code in assembly does not equal significant speed or efficiency increase unless you *really* know what you are doing, and are prepared to put a lot of effort into very implementation/processor specific/obscure optimisations (it probably does mean a reduction in code size though, but hardly anyone cares about that these days:( )
Just using a better algorithm and not using bloat libraries or redundant/overdone code will generally improve efficiency more than writing anything in assembly (assuming you write it in C or something along those lines and not a bloat/GC/excessively-OOP language) Plus assembly is very nonportable, which is generally frowned upon these days for many projects.
Heck, entire domains have been set up to hold this sort of content. I even stumbled onto one once, but fortunately for me I do not suffer from epilepsy. www. & seizure & robots &.com (avoid if epileptic)
It is inevitable that there will be some obnoxious clownhat somewhere that would enjoy such attacks on people who suffer from photosensitive epilepsy. I personally fail to understand how anybody could correlate this AT ALL with the Anonymous group debunking scientology. Completely different. It is almost as bizarre as trying to suggest that there is only one anonymous group on the whole internet, which is patently false. Any correlation is most likely created by Co$ themselves, and hopefully will backfire on them. For if scientologists *are* found to be responsible, law enforcement will frown upon such behaviour, and their (already shaky) reputation will be further tarnished, (hopefully along with their laughable religious status, and leaders). If not, then it's probably just kids from some backwards forum...
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Surely you need not wait until your imminent untimely death to give your trusted wife said password. Is there really a problem with her being to manage your mutual finances now?
Having two lines on escalators, people standing on the right and walking on the left, has been the de facto standard everywhere I have been (so most of Europe), and I'd assume most of the civilised world does similarly.
In the UK and central/western Europe where I've dealt with them most often, this courtesy is often pointed out by signs, and people standing in the way will be asked (politely or not) to move across, or sometimes if not just shoved out the way.
As for lack of escalators on England railways, it's simply not possible to put escalators everywhere, due to both cost and spacial issues (particularly as most of the rail infrastructure in the UK was built by the Victorians, who didn't really do escalators, and liked stairs).
That said newly built lines/stations tend to be quite accessible.
Am I the only one whose first thought at this headline was the flying party building from the Hitchhiker's Guide?
I can't imagine that this new venture will be significantly more productive...
Ya, price fixing sucks. But let's be real honest shall we?
Lets
Sorry, but "let's" is correct, "lets" is not.
It is an abbreviation of "let us".
I think concluding that this ruling will cause prices to fall due to increased competitiveness is being a bit optimistic. It simply isn't in their best interest to be competitive or seek to outprice each other, seeing as they are essentially all selling the same thing and profit margins need to be maintained.
Office 97 had a few bugs to do with table layout, amongst other things (I forget exactly what, but it annoyed me at the time). This was especially noticeable when loading files created with newer versions of office (ie. your document now looks like something out of geocities rendered in IE 5).
Nested tables behaved especially badly, some of the defaults were a bit silly and when things went wrong they tended to do so rather gracelessly.
Also there were a fair few text layout mechanisms it didn't or only half-heartedly supported, which subsequent versions dealt with nicely (once again, they annoyed me back in the day, but damned if I can remember exactly which they were...)
If you changed that to say Office 2000, I'd be more inclined to agree.
(Personally I use Office 2003, and see no reason whatsoever to upgrade to 2010...)
I hate to disappoint you but solar output isn't measured in degrees Celsius.
Trying to argue that 2.5 times solar output means 40C x 2.5 = enough to produce steam, just makes you look like you haven't a clue what you are talking about.
The output is generally measured in Wm^-2 (1000 on a sunny equatorial day more or less), and as frankly the vast majority of microwave radiation would go straight through a human obstacle and out the other side anyway, if you are worried about being being caught in the beam being boiled alive or whatever, you've missed the point a little.
If they were just using a solar collector and focusing device (ie. a big mirror) in orbit à la shitty films like Die Another Die then yes, it would be an issue (the temperature to output power per area ratio would still be in absolutely no way linear though).
Mostly, you seem to have forgotten in general that the Celsius temperature scale has an arbitrary zero point, so doing any kind of multiplication on it will almost always give you a rubbish answer.
As for using other kinds of liquids/thermal solar collection, people do that already in deserts (on a medium scale) and there's absolutely no need for having orbiting mechanisms to increase throughput. Just use focusing mirrors on the ground.
Frankly the idea is a bit of a waste of time in my eyes. There's plenty of empty sunny desert where solar collection systems can be set up. Cheaper to create a 10km^2 grid on the ground that produces much more, than to try and put a 0.1km^2 array in orbit and try to beam power down somehow...
I'm seriously not convinced that plants turn carbon dioxide and water into methanal (formaldehyde) and oxygen...
A more typical overall reaction is:
6CO2 + 6H20 --> C6H12O6 (glucose) + 6O2
(which is endothermic)
And plants do use oxygen, when the sun isn't shining...
Slow news day alert!
The topic in question is blindingly obvious to anyone who has heard of this newfangled "Internet" thing, and frankly is not worth an article in the first place. /. reporting at it's finest... For shame.
Furthermore, such a blatant error in the headline and summary is simply ridiculous. Do the submitters or editors not reread text prior to submission? This is sloppy
While I support the course of action which BluWiki have taken, it is not at all surprising that apple will act in their usual reprehensible manner.
Reverse engineering/cracking/technical discussion/anything-your-corporate-overlords-raise-their-eyebrows-at groups, would do better to simply speak outside of the legal reach of such entities. Either by not having discussions in public, using channels not often trawled by our overlords (IRC, etc.) or locating the server/parent corporation in safer waters, so to speak.
If no-one could read their discussion without registering or without being added to the group/whatever, apple probably would not have found it or bothered to cause a fuss. This is by no means ideal though.
Probably more practical, if they had just bought some web space in South Korea or something, instead of using unsafe webspace based in the US, they'd be home free and probably get better service to boot...
All we need now is a big parade of furries, kin, "recreational livestock farmers" and medical researchers to protest against such an evil bill.... *cough*, yeah...
I frankly don't see that what's so bad about hybrids, it's not like animals in the US have any rights whatsoever anyway, and any hybrid actually formed would likely get a better deal in life than most animals...
If it can be used to save/improve/whatever human (or other) life, then, surely that's a good thing...
Probably done by the same bunch of narrow-minded old religious interfering asshats who think abortion, stem cells and the teaching of science are the scourge of the earth.
"Provided that the thermal memory is well insulated", that basically means putting it on a different piece of silicon/on something else entirely, which kind of defeats the object as I see it.
While I haven't looked at this in great detail, it strikes me that achieving anything near useful density is going to very difficult due to entropy, and the simple fact that putting very small volumes at slightly different temperatures right next to each others quickly leads to a relatively uniform temperature distribution.
This sounds somewhat improbable/unfeasible to me...
On the contrary, the birth date you supplied quite definitively indicates that Google is a young company. ;)
It's only been around for 3 weeks after all...
Hey, this is slashdot, it's called humour, and it doesn't have to be funny...
Not mortal doesn't always mean immortal...
For heavens sake we're talking about lawyers!
I'm fairly sure that they don't classify as alive in the usual sense.
Some say after all they're all re-animated forms of recycled law, sliminess and pedantry...
Whereas the average adult has control over politics...
Nope, didn't think so.
Whether or not a person can vote is frankly irrelevant to the issue.
In general: Knowledge is Power. Kids will grow up and later be able to vote, and are directly affected by various issues under the control of politicians.
I am frankly surprised that anybody is worried that kids are taking interest in their surrounding environment and it's social mechanisms, I personally am more concerned about kids *not* taking an interest in politics, but then again I'm from the UK and currently living in France, where things are done differently to the US (which I assume is where you're referring to).
Children are not illiterate and incompetent sheep up until the age of majority, whereupon they suddenly become intelligent voters who know all about politics.
Worrying about things which you have no control of is often justified if those things have significant and pervasive control over you.
Although the leap from "interested in" to "worried about" is somewhat tenuous IMO.
Given the current political climate and pre-election/leadership issues publicity in many parts of the world including the US and the UK, a child would inevitably be exposed to significant quantities of information on the subject (in a easily digestible and hype-enhanced format most likely, too).
Disclaimer: I am 18 and about to commence university studies in the UK.
I watched it live on BBC, and I didn't hear a single boo during the entire ceremony...
Iraq just got an "ordinary" cheer as they emerged (AFAIR).
Russia certainly got a big cheer when they emerged, and while I don't recall Putin coming up on the big screen, I'm pretty sure that he would get a big cheer as you said.
North Korea doesn't even have public internet yet, google would not be allowed to step over the border never mind take pictures of streets.
As for China, they'd run into so many hurdles with uncooperative police and corrupt/unhelpful officials that it would not be worth the bother (IMO), unless things change drastically over there...
Good news at last!
Common sense prevails.
Hopefully patent trolls will not be able to lobby against such changes; as for once, I daresay that certain major corporations are likely to be somewhat supportive, the current patent mess is as much a pain for them as for everyone else.
These restrictions bring patents back in line with their original intention, and hopefully will help reduce the excessive (patent) litigation so prevalent in the US...
Better late than never, this guy has been either bullshitting or been genuinely incompetent for years.
When I first heard about his whole ultrasonic bubble excitation fusion experiment, I honestly thought: WTF? This was quite a while ago, and all the evidence was against him then as well.
It is people like these who give research scientists a bad name...
Politicians of all colours are for the most part honest
bwa hahahaha, that's so funny :)
Don't be so naïve man, honest politicians in countries like the UK/US/whatever are the exception, not the norm.
The Daily (Hate) Mail is fucking ridiculous.
A tabloid which tries to pretend that it is a broadsheet.
No surprise that most of the images show young gals. (some of the images I would not expect to be published by a self-respecting newspaper under any circumstances.) And where is the visual evidence for this supposed damage, that *is* what the article was about after all, no?
Since when did reporting mean trawling myspace/bebo/facebook/whatever for pics of half-dressed girls at parties where stuff got broken?
The state of supposedly quality media in the UK (and in many other places AFAIK) is shambolic, and shameful.
The mother has every right to sue, and she should disconnect her daughter from the internet and bash some sense into her head while she's at it.
Incompetence and stupidity galore from every angle.
Sci-fi series that I always liked (and still do), are the Dunes, all of Douglas Adam's stuff, and much of what Tom Holt wrote (although it is part fantasy/parody/comedy).
More generally, the works of Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts are excellent (they are more fantasy genre).
The doctor who and star trek novels seem to be aimed at/suitable for early/pre-teen age groups AFAICT.
I think that kids should read classics like George Orwell, and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 as well, but that's just my opinion...
In general kids these days do not seem to be reading much, due to the increasing dominance of TV/cinema/internet...
TV in particular is full of crap, and if you don't watch it (except for specific things worth watching), you'll be better off. Just watching any old crap TV is just a waste of your time and brainpower. These days all of my "TV" comes off the internet in torrent form.
But in general, you can read almost anything, and you will gain something from it, the same can't honestly be said for most other forms of media...
Why should India waste their time, money and resources, and degrade themselves in the eyes of their people and other countries by supporting US/Western (I'm assuming that's what us refers to) foreign policy on Iraq, Iran and China?
The USA started the Iraq war, they can finish it themselves, it was a fucking disaster from day 1, and should never have been allowed to happen, India would be be imbeciles to join the US's failure.
Tibet is (currently) past of China, not part of India, not India's problem. The linked article is frankly irrelevant, few genuinely care if a handful of folks get in trouble over a minor march before the Olympic one, and the march or lack of it makes 0 impact overall.
Iran has nothing to do with India whatsoever, and saying that the fact that they are not especially bothered about a military solution to Iran is indicative of undemocratic tendencies is laughable. The story linked states that they prefer diplomacy to useless handwaving in the UN security council/US military interference, which is eminently sensible. Pacifism and discussion is better than killing of innocents, even if you don't personally approve of their government or society, etc.
Furthermore if you really think that Iran is going to make nuclear bombs and start trying to toss them at the US, then you need to turn the TV off. The leaders of Iran are *not* idiots.
From what I've seen of the transport tycoon deluxe code dumps, it was written entirely in not particularly efficient assembly...
:( )
(I am a TTDPatch developer)
Writting code in assembly does not equal significant speed or efficiency increase unless you *really* know what you are doing, and are prepared to put a lot of effort into very implementation/processor specific/obscure optimisations (it probably does mean a reduction in code size though, but hardly anyone cares about that these days
Just using a better algorithm and not using bloat libraries or redundant/overdone code will generally improve efficiency more than writing anything in assembly (assuming you write it in C or something along those lines and not a bloat/GC/excessively-OOP language)
Plus assembly is very nonportable, which is generally frowned upon these days for many projects.
Heck, entire domains have been set up to hold this sort of content. .com (avoid if epileptic)
I even stumbled onto one once, but fortunately for me I do not suffer from epilepsy.
www. & seizure & robots &
It is inevitable that there will be some obnoxious clownhat somewhere that would enjoy such attacks on people who suffer from photosensitive epilepsy.
I personally fail to understand how anybody could correlate this AT ALL with the Anonymous group debunking scientology. Completely different. It is almost as bizarre as trying to suggest that there is only one anonymous group on the whole internet, which is patently false.
Any correlation is most likely created by Co$ themselves, and hopefully will backfire on them.
For if scientologists *are* found to be responsible, law enforcement will frown upon such behaviour, and their (already shaky) reputation will be further tarnished, (hopefully along with their laughable religious status, and leaders).
If not, then it's probably just kids from some backwards forum...