Ummmm, don't buy iPods? Seriously, there are *lots* of perfectly good alternatives and Apple will quickly drop such schemes if they see sales going down.
Hasn't the film industry been doing pretty much the same thing to generate 3D models of objects and people? I know the idea of projecting a grid onto an object and reconstructing the 3d data from images taken at different vantage points was thought of long ago.
Awwwww cmon, you mean you didn't laugh at that scene where the mad genius father is dripping some fluid onto a slug or worm or something and his son asks him if he is dosing the thing with LSD and the mad genius gets this look.... priceless! Or the single virus, "grown" to the size of a salami, racing around a lecture theatre?
The summary says the unlocked phone is popular in countries where pre-paid sims are the norm. Anybody know if it will work in Canada with the pre-paid sims for the Fido/Rogers network? If it does are the features crippled by the network provider?
In US law a witness can't say he heard someone say something. The person who spoke what the witness heard should be called as a witness instead.
Well IANAL either (phew!) but that doesn't seem to make sense... as in:
Lawyer: Why did you hit Mr. X?
Mr. Y: Because he said my mother was a whore.
Would that not be admissible? When does it become admissible?
Mr. Y: Because he said something that upset me.
Mr. Y: Because he said something.
Mr. Y: Because he upset me.
But what was being suggested was a server at home and a netbook for development... if you're hooking the netbook up to a big screen to develop you may as well be on the server with a nice full size keyboard. As for development on the road - yes perfectly possible and I've done it myself on a notebook but I don't see it happening on a 10" screen - it's just too limiting for much development work beyond simple text editing. If someone is really going to be doing development on the road I think they'd be better off getting a traditional notebook with a 13" or bigger screen and reasonably large keyboard etc. Just my two cents...
You must develop in a completely different style than I do. I have dual 22" monitors and am thinking of going to 4. I cannot imagine developing anything even moderately complex using a single 10" screen.
Well the language might have been a little harsh but it does seem to me that if one has a good case to make - for global warming or anything else - then one doesn't need to exaggerate things. One doesn't, for example, need to claim NYC will be underwater.
And one doesn't need to claim, as did a recent NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090215.html article did, that melting the Ross ice shelf would raise global sea-levels by 5m - aside from the fact this has nothing to do with astronomy and so is clearly politically motivated - all one needs do is divide the volume of ice not already displacing water by the surface area of the oceans and one can see it doesn't come even close to the claim.
When scientists, government agencies and politicians start making stuff up it's legitimate to question their motivations. It also means one has to be at least a little careful about the claims of their fellow travellers.
And why would a group of scientists want to continue using flawed instrumentation just because it's what they have always used? It doesn't make sense. As another post said just get the better tech, develop a mapping from the old to the new and then keep using the superior instrumentation. But to just go on using equipment you know is providing faulty data...
As for your comment on "insightful" I agree it's poorly used on/. both in being the wrong description (frequently "informative" would have been reasonable) and being so easily awarded. Or maybe/. readers just aren't very insightful themselves and are easily impressed when they encounter a small display of it.
My gf runs an atom powered notebook and grumbles about how slow Firefox is... You may not notice speed problems on a desktop or powerful laptop but things get noticeably slow when you get to a netbook. And in the case of netbooks browsing is a significant part of their use. People usually start to get irritated with a process if it takes more than 3 seconds from the time they press a button until the desired action occurs.
I put Ubuntu netbook remix (actually Linux4One) on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One which had 1GB and the 8GB SSD. I've got to say it is surprisingly slow. Then I went to the local store and tried out XP on the same machine, with 160GB drive instead of the SSD, and it felt much faster. Even Firefox seemed to come up faster on the XP machine. I don't know why, not happy about it, but that's the way it seems.
Very interesting! That's pretty good pay if the health problems aren't too bad. Why the increase in the north - having to work in cold weather? On an ocean trip about 25 years ago I met a diesel mechanic from the Yukon and even back then he was making $150/hour in the winter - but it sounded like pretty miserable work. I once thought about switching over to being an electrician since I already know most of the code for residential work, and it's relatively easy work at good pay, but it takes years of school and apprenticing to get your ticket here - much harder than getting a P.Eng. in electrical engineering! lol
Yeah I tried to do a little project a year or so ago using VMWARE and it just wouldn't seem to do what I wanted. I looked for help on the net and along the way someone suggested VirtualBox. I wasn't getting any answers that helped with VMWARE so I tried VBox and it did the trick. Not as polished a product at the time but it did the job for me.
The actual time dilation factor, known as the Lorentz factor, is a simple 1/sqrt(1 - v^2)
By your formula if v==1 you have an infinite factor....
I think the actual formula for the factor is 1/sqrt(1-(v**2/c**2)) where v is velocity and c is the speed of light, both measured in the same units. It's also the same for the relativistic mass of an object: Mv = M0/sqrt(1-(v**2/c**2))
where Mv is mass at velocity v and M0 is rest mass; meaning your mass goes to infinity as your velocity approaches c. Another way of looking at that is that the energy required to accelerate a mass, any mass, to velocity v goes to infinity as v->c.
But I haven't looked at this stuff in ages so I could be misremembering.
I think the appropriate saying here is "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."
A good 25 years ago some of the cs students at University of Waterloo found it hard to complete programming assignments with the very limited storage allocation each unix account was given. So they took to emailing themselves files in order to use the mbox as temporary file storage. The department finally did something to prevent it but I can't recall what at the moment.
You may be right. My (British) Dad could speak Hindi, French and English as well as read and write Latin (and he never got past the English equivalent of high school btw). I don't know the breakdown of languages in India and I suppose it depends on whether you consider different dialects to be different languages. OTOH Mandarin is the official language of China, Taiwan and Singapore (one 4 there) and one of the handful of official languages of the UN.
I think you are probably right that there will be a blending over time, and of course language will always continue to evolve. According to Wikipedia Mandarin is the first language of 885 million people. I'd say that gives it a pretty good chance of having a dominant influence on whatever comes out of all this. For example in Vancouvers the languages you are most likely to hear after English are Chinese, then Indian. I think English is now the first language of a minority of people and French barely registers. This in a country where English and French are supposed to be the official languages.
No it's nothing like that at all. I don't know about east to west but we already have a power grid that distributes power from Western Canada to Southern California and back. If there isn't one able to distribute East/West yet (and I don't know that it doesn't already exist) it's only a matter of engineering and desire - not dependent on physically impossible phenomena as you suggest in your faulty analogy.
And I don't recall deriding coal and nuclear industries... in fact I never mentioned them at all. Why do you seem to feel so threatened by my asking some straightforward questions?
Yeah I would expect one of the languages from China or India to end up being the dominant global language sooner or later. Although no one has mentioned Lisp yet....
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Ummmm, don't buy iPods? Seriously, there are *lots* of perfectly good alternatives and Apple will quickly drop such schemes if they see sales going down.
Hasn't the film industry been doing pretty much the same thing to generate 3D models of objects and people? I know the idea of projecting a grid onto an object and reconstructing the 3d data from images taken at different vantage points was thought of long ago.
Awwwww cmon, you mean you didn't laugh at that scene where the mad genius father is dripping some fluid onto a slug or worm or something and his son asks him if he is dosing the thing with LSD and the mad genius gets this look.... priceless! Or the single virus, "grown" to the size of a salami, racing around a lecture theatre?
The summary says the unlocked phone is popular in countries where pre-paid sims are the norm. Anybody know if it will work in Canada with the pre-paid sims for the Fido/Rogers network? If it does are the features crippled by the network provider?
but trying to live there and get employment, or even someday fit into Japanese society as a gaijin?
Wow. So you mean hot, young, blond, American girls can't find work in Japan???? Whoda thunk it?
it is in society's best interest for parents to spend a lot of time with their newborns.
There, fixed that for you.
In US law a witness can't say he heard someone say something. The person who spoke what the witness heard should be called as a witness instead.
Well IANAL either (phew!) but that doesn't seem to make sense... as in:
Lawyer: Why did you hit Mr. X?
Mr. Y: Because he said my mother was a whore.
Would that not be admissible? When does it become admissible?
Mr. Y: Because he said something that upset me.
Mr. Y: Because he said something.
Mr. Y: Because he upset me.
But what was being suggested was a server at home and a netbook for development... if you're hooking the netbook up to a big screen to develop you may as well be on the server with a nice full size keyboard. As for development on the road - yes perfectly possible and I've done it myself on a notebook but I don't see it happening on a 10" screen - it's just too limiting for much development work beyond simple text editing. If someone is really going to be doing development on the road I think they'd be better off getting a traditional notebook with a 13" or bigger screen and reasonably large keyboard etc. Just my two cents...
You must develop in a completely different style than I do. I have dual 22" monitors and am thinking of going to 4. I cannot imagine developing anything even moderately complex using a single 10" screen.
Well the language might have been a little harsh but it does seem to me that if one has a good case to make - for global warming or anything else - then one doesn't need to exaggerate things. One doesn't, for example, need to claim NYC will be underwater.
And one doesn't need to claim, as did a recent NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090215.html article did, that melting the Ross ice shelf would raise global sea-levels by 5m - aside from the fact this has nothing to do with astronomy and so is clearly politically motivated - all one needs do is divide the volume of ice not already displacing water by the surface area of the oceans and one can see it doesn't come even close to the claim.
When scientists, government agencies and politicians start making stuff up it's legitimate to question their motivations. It also means one has to be at least a little careful about the claims of their fellow travellers.
And why would a group of scientists want to continue using flawed instrumentation just because it's what they have always used? It doesn't make sense. As another post said just get the better tech, develop a mapping from the old to the new and then keep using the superior instrumentation. But to just go on using equipment you know is providing faulty data...
As for your comment on "insightful" I agree it's poorly used on /. both in being the wrong description (frequently "informative" would have been reasonable) and being so easily awarded. Or maybe /. readers just aren't very insightful themselves and are easily impressed when they encounter a small display of it.
Don't you think 2 is being a little overly optimistic?
My gf runs an atom powered notebook and grumbles about how slow Firefox is... You may not notice speed problems on a desktop or powerful laptop but things get noticeably slow when you get to a netbook. And in the case of netbooks browsing is a significant part of their use. People usually start to get irritated with a process if it takes more than 3 seconds from the time they press a button until the desired action occurs.
I think that mostly says something about the age of the people promoting those ageist attitudes.
I put Ubuntu netbook remix (actually Linux4One) on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One which had 1GB and the 8GB SSD. I've got to say it is surprisingly slow. Then I went to the local store and tried out XP on the same machine, with 160GB drive instead of the SSD, and it felt much faster. Even Firefox seemed to come up faster on the XP machine. I don't know why, not happy about it, but that's the way it seems.
Very interesting! That's pretty good pay if the health problems aren't too bad. Why the increase in the north - having to work in cold weather? On an ocean trip about 25 years ago I met a diesel mechanic from the Yukon and even back then he was making $150/hour in the winter - but it sounded like pretty miserable work. I once thought about switching over to being an electrician since I already know most of the code for residential work, and it's relatively easy work at good pay, but it takes years of school and apprenticing to get your ticket here - much harder than getting a P.Eng. in electrical engineering! lol
PLUS with no cell phone people can't call and bug you all the time!
I'm curious, what's the pay like if you're standing on terra firma instead of hanging from a crane? The trades do get paid pretty well where I live.
Yeah I tried to do a little project a year or so ago using VMWARE and it just wouldn't seem to do what I wanted. I looked for help on the net and along the way someone suggested VirtualBox. I wasn't getting any answers that helped with VMWARE so I tried VBox and it did the trick. Not as polished a product at the time but it did the job for me.
mod parent up past 5... what? 5 is the limit? I don't give rat's ass mod him up past 5 anyway!
The actual time dilation factor, known as the Lorentz factor, is a simple 1/sqrt(1 - v^2)
By your formula if v==1 you have an infinite factor....
I think the actual formula for the factor is 1/sqrt(1-(v**2/c**2)) where v is velocity and c is the speed of light, both measured in the same units. It's also the same for the relativistic mass of an object: Mv = M0/sqrt(1-(v**2/c**2)) where Mv is mass at velocity v and M0 is rest mass; meaning your mass goes to infinity as your velocity approaches c. Another way of looking at that is that the energy required to accelerate a mass, any mass, to velocity v goes to infinity as v->c.
But I haven't looked at this stuff in ages so I could be misremembering.
I think the appropriate saying here is "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."
A good 25 years ago some of the cs students at University of Waterloo found it hard to complete programming assignments with the very limited storage allocation each unix account was given. So they took to emailing themselves files in order to use the mbox as temporary file storage. The department finally did something to prevent it but I can't recall what at the moment.
You may be right. My (British) Dad could speak Hindi, French and English as well as read and write Latin (and he never got past the English equivalent of high school btw). I don't know the breakdown of languages in India and I suppose it depends on whether you consider different dialects to be different languages. OTOH Mandarin is the official language of China, Taiwan and Singapore (one 4 there) and one of the handful of official languages of the UN.
I think you are probably right that there will be a blending over time, and of course language will always continue to evolve. According to Wikipedia Mandarin is the first language of 885 million people. I'd say that gives it a pretty good chance of having a dominant influence on whatever comes out of all this. For example in Vancouvers the languages you are most likely to hear after English are Chinese, then Indian. I think English is now the first language of a minority of people and French barely registers. This in a country where English and French are supposed to be the official languages.
No it's nothing like that at all. I don't know about east to west but we already have a power grid that distributes power from Western Canada to Southern California and back. If there isn't one able to distribute East/West yet (and I don't know that it doesn't already exist) it's only a matter of engineering and desire - not dependent on physically impossible phenomena as you suggest in your faulty analogy.
And I don't recall deriding coal and nuclear industries... in fact I never mentioned them at all. Why do you seem to feel so threatened by my asking some straightforward questions?
Like China, authoritarianism works on a population accustomed to it and enjoying a rapidly rising standard of living.
You mean it didn't work for China for the 5,000 years before that when there wasn't a rapidly rising standard of living?
Yeah I would expect one of the languages from China or India to end up being the dominant global language sooner or later. Although no one has mentioned Lisp yet....