Lots of things are harmful to one organism and not another: Theobromine is deadly to dogs but fairly harmless to us except in extreme quantities because we have enzymes which can handle it.
Sorry to nitpick, but that's not really the best example. The LD50 for theobromine poisoning in dogs is 300mg/kg, around 1/3 that of humans. The TDLO (lowest amount required for symptoms) in dogs is 16mg/kg, about 2/3 that of humans. They really aren't that different from us.
A 3kg chihuahua could eat a standard-size (43g) Hershey's milk chocolate bar and be completely asymptomatic. To reach its LD50, that chihuahua would have to eat around 15 chocolate bars. Of course, most dogs are much heavier than 3kg and have a similarly higher tolerance for theobromine: If a dog weighed as much as a typical human (let's say 75kg), it could eat 25 chocolate bars without any harmful effect.
It's important to realize that dogs are opportunistic and will overeat if given the opportunity. Most breeds are also much smaller than humans. Stories of theobromine poisoning typically come from dogs who discovered a cache of chocolate candies and consumed an enormous amount compared to their body weight.
But as long as you maintain some level of portion control, there's really nothing wrong with giving them a normal amount of chocolate in their diet. Just be careful with purer forms of chocolate—dark chocolate can have three times and raw unsweetened chocolate can have ten times as much theobromine as normal chocolate candy.
Every Oracle employee will now be provided a retroactive subscription to a collection of technology blogs and news sites. Don't worry, all expenses will be paid for by the company.
The idea of adding a keyboard to a tablet is hardly Microsoft's invention; Apple released a keyboard dock alongside the first iPad, to say nothing of the old convertible tablet PCs.
30ms seems to be the most common figure cited. 50ms was an aggregate of other studies I found (from a simple google search) which were typically in the 40-60ms range.
Yes, and that's precisely the trouble. All the big names actually like and promote indie games now, and provide their own polish to the entire experience. Because of homebrew's terrible loss of obscurity, mediocrity, and hassle, hipster douchebags have precious few places to turn in these dark times.
Sub-orbital does not mean 'beneath space'. Hell, you could fly higher than the Moon on a 'sub-orbital' trajectory. The term 'sub-orbital' indicates you aren't in a closed orbit—at some point, you'll fall back to Earth.
So, Verizon—you're claiming ownership of all the data, er, 'speech' that travels over your network? You do realize that also makes you *liable* for all of it, right? Way to shoulder responsibility there, big guy.
Sorry, misunderstood the article on the first read. Still seems a rather silly comparison, as far fewer people are willing to fork over the cash for space tourism than donate to SETI.
SETI just doesn't seem that useful thanks to the inverse square law. Even with an antenna the size of Earth we couldn't pick up on background radio transmissions from neighboring star systems. For SETI to detect anything, all the following would have to happen:
* A reasonably advanced alien civilization would have to concurrently exist in our neighborhood. * They would have to consider radio to be the most practical form of interstellar communication. * They would have to construct a dish or array equivalent to Arecibo capable of sending a collimated multi-terawatt-equivalent radio beam into space. * They would have to assemble a signal complex enough for us to distinguish it from natural sources, but not so complex we can't recognize it. * They would have to transmit directly at Earth at the exact time (adjusting for travel delays) we are listening for signals from that precise direction on that specific frequency band.
I'll leave the odds on all that as an exercise to the reader.
What does "Getting on board a spacecraft" have to do with SETI? Are we going to nip on over to recently discovered exoplanets and yell "any intelligent lifeforms down there???"
My only issue (other than the inflammatory headline) is that these are lessons that were learned thirty years ago. Do we really have to remind developers that non-experts prefer point-and-click interfaces that elucidate the program's functions or that command lines are efficient and allow greater nuance?
A GUI is to a CLI as gesture is to speech. One is multidimensional, pictorial, concrete. The other is unidimensional, verbal, abstract. Each has an advantage at certain tasks: Using a computer that only works visually is like trying to convey War and Peace through mime. Conversely, to a user untrained in a particular application, accomplishing tasks via a command line is like trying to have a meaningful telephone conversation with an aborigine.
Which is better? I don't care—give me both, thank you very much. Visual interfaces are indispensable as they can display complex information in an intuitive and language-independent manner. But please give me an interface to talk to the application and string programs together with all the grammatical complexity of a command line.
* FISA wiretaps peaked in 2007 at ~2400. The past few years have averaged ~1600, an increase of ~75% since before the WTC attack. * NSLs =/= wiretaps. From the site you linked:
What Types of Information Can Be Obtained by NSLs? Telephone and E-mail Records: "Toll records," a historical record of calls made and received from land lines, cell phones, and other sources, of a specified phone number, as well as billing records associated with that number. E-mail records, including e-mail addresses and screen names associated with the requested account and the e-mail addresses and screen names who have contacted that account. Also includes billing records and methods of payment for each account. Financial Records: Financial information, including open and closed checking and savings accounts, from banks, private bankers, credit unions, thrift institutions, brokers and dealers, investment bankers and companies, credit card companies, insurance companies, travel agencies, casinos, and others. For a full list, see 31 U.S.C. 5312(2). Credit Information: Full credit reports, names and addresses of all financial institutions at which the consumer has maintained an account, and identifying information of a consumer (limited to name, address, former addresses, and past and current employers).
* You're comparing the number of NSLs in a single year to the number of NSLs in three years put together. * Those three years are 2003-2005. According to more recent information:
The new Justice Department letter dated April 30, 2012 also notes that the FBI issued 16,511 National Security Letters (NSL) to obtain certain records and information in investigations. The letter asserts that the requests were for investigations relating to 7,201 different US persons. The number of National Security Letters declined dramatically from 2010 when the FBI had sought 24,287 NSLs.
You might want to adjust that tinfoil hat; it seems to be cutting off circulation to your brain.
Yep, Jobs was a dictator. Apple's dictator. Sad but true.
Imagine how successful Apple would be if they were managed like other companies, where, of course, the employees take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Naturally, all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting—by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major decisions.
Even after you switch off the blocking mode, the filter switches to "subtle innuendo and thinly-veiled disapproval" mode. And did they have to use Stephen Fry's voice?
In addition to the much-increased overhead of the cluster (all the mainboards, memory, storage, etc), the Ivy Bridge chip is on the brand-new 22nm process size while the Atom and ARM chips they tested are stuck on the old 45nm. They could have at least gone with 32nm Atoms and ARMs.
Slashdot Mirror
s/Pentium/Ivy Bridge
(...though it's not the first chip to have a hardware RNG.)
Lots of things are harmful to one organism and not another: Theobromine is deadly to dogs but fairly harmless to us except in extreme quantities because we have enzymes which can handle it.
Sorry to nitpick, but that's not really the best example. The LD50 for theobromine poisoning in dogs is 300mg/kg, around 1/3 that of humans. The TDLO (lowest amount required for symptoms) in dogs is 16mg/kg, about 2/3 that of humans. They really aren't that different from us.
A 3kg chihuahua could eat a standard-size (43g) Hershey's milk chocolate bar and be completely asymptomatic. To reach its LD50, that chihuahua would have to eat around 15 chocolate bars. Of course, most dogs are much heavier than 3kg and have a similarly higher tolerance for theobromine: If a dog weighed as much as a typical human (let's say 75kg), it could eat 25 chocolate bars without any harmful effect.
It's important to realize that dogs are opportunistic and will overeat if given the opportunity. Most breeds are also much smaller than humans. Stories of theobromine poisoning typically come from dogs who discovered a cache of chocolate candies and consumed an enormous amount compared to their body weight.
But as long as you maintain some level of portion control, there's really nothing wrong with giving them a normal amount of chocolate in their diet. Just be careful with purer forms of chocolate—dark chocolate can have three times and raw unsweetened chocolate can have ten times as much theobromine as normal chocolate candy.
In fact, it's a derailed ship which has been driven into a ditch, is now stuck in a nosedive, and is about to go over a cliff.
Every Oracle employee will now be provided a retroactive subscription to a collection of technology blogs and news sites. Don't worry, all expenses will be paid for by the company.
Or the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard cover, or...
The idea of adding a keyboard to a tablet is hardly Microsoft's invention; Apple released a keyboard dock alongside the first iPad, to say nothing of the old convertible tablet PCs.
I was wondering why the difficulty level increased with each version.
30ms seems to be the most common figure cited. 50ms was an aggregate of other studies I found (from a simple google search) which were typically in the 40-60ms range.
http://biae.clemson.edu/bpc/bp/Lab/110/reaction.htm
Because we typically react a bit faster to auditory stimuli.
(around 30-50 ms faster than visual stimuli)
UC Berkeley researchers, please: Stop now. No good can come from this, and we all know it.
We already have enough trouble getting laid, and yet you would put us on the path to anthropomorphic clydesdales?
Yes, and that's precisely the trouble. All the big names actually like and promote indie games now, and provide their own polish to the entire experience. Because of homebrew's terrible loss of obscurity, mediocrity, and hassle, hipster douchebags have precious few places to turn in these dark times.
Frontalot explains this better than I can.
Sub-orbital does not mean 'beneath space'. Hell, you could fly higher than the Moon on a 'sub-orbital' trajectory. The term 'sub-orbital' indicates you aren't in a closed orbit—at some point, you'll fall back to Earth.
Tell me about it. A friend of mine tried TCMS once and kept ranting about "monsters from the id!"
Then again, he was probably just traumatized by the gas explosion or whatever it was that flattened a neighboring city block.
So, Verizon—you're claiming ownership of all the data, er, 'speech' that travels over your network? You do realize that also makes you *liable* for all of it, right? Way to shoulder responsibility there, big guy.
Sorry, misunderstood the article on the first read. Still seems a rather silly comparison, as far fewer people are willing to fork over the cash for space tourism than donate to SETI.
SETI just doesn't seem that useful thanks to the inverse square law. Even with an antenna the size of Earth we couldn't pick up on background radio transmissions from neighboring star systems. For SETI to detect anything, all the following would have to happen:
* A reasonably advanced alien civilization would have to concurrently exist in our neighborhood.
* They would have to consider radio to be the most practical form of interstellar communication.
* They would have to construct a dish or array equivalent to Arecibo capable of sending a collimated multi-terawatt-equivalent radio beam into space.
* They would have to assemble a signal complex enough for us to distinguish it from natural sources, but not so complex we can't recognize it.
* They would have to transmit directly at Earth at the exact time (adjusting for travel delays) we are listening for signals from that precise direction on that specific frequency band.
I'll leave the odds on all that as an exercise to the reader.
What does "Getting on board a spacecraft" have to do with SETI? Are we going to nip on over to recently discovered exoplanets and yell "any intelligent lifeforms down there???"
My only issue (other than the inflammatory headline) is that these are lessons that were learned thirty years ago. Do we really have to remind developers that non-experts prefer point-and-click interfaces that elucidate the program's functions or that command lines are efficient and allow greater nuance?
A GUI is to a CLI as gesture is to speech. One is multidimensional, pictorial, concrete. The other is unidimensional, verbal, abstract. Each has an advantage at certain tasks: Using a computer that only works visually is like trying to convey War and Peace through mime. Conversely, to a user untrained in a particular application, accomplishing tasks via a command line is like trying to have a meaningful telephone conversation with an aborigine.
Which is better? I don't care—give me both, thank you very much. Visual interfaces are indispensable as they can display complex information in an intuitive and language-independent manner. But please give me an interface to talk to the application and string programs together with all the grammatical complexity of a command line.
Mod headline -1, flamebait.
(and the summary is silly, as well—how many popular software products today actually require the end user to run terminal commands?)
In a world where some professionals earn $5/day and some earn $500/day, it seems quite fair to price software accordingly.
Do you also get upset at child and senior discounts?
* FISA wiretaps peaked in 2007 at ~2400. The past few years have averaged ~1600, an increase of ~75% since before the WTC attack.
* NSLs =/= wiretaps. From the site you linked:
* You're comparing the number of NSLs in a single year to the number of NSLs in three years put together.
* Those three years are 2003-2005. According to more recent information:
The new Justice Department letter dated April 30, 2012 also notes that the FBI issued 16,511 National Security Letters (NSL) to obtain certain records and information in investigations. The letter asserts that the requests were for investigations relating to 7,201 different US persons. The number of National Security Letters declined dramatically from 2010 when the FBI had sought 24,287 NSLs.
You might want to adjust that tinfoil hat; it seems to be cutting off circulation to your brain.
Yep, Jobs was a dictator. Apple's dictator. Sad but true.
Imagine how successful Apple would be if they were managed like other companies, where, of course, the employees take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Naturally, all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting—by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major decisions.
This is the video you're looking for.
It's worse than that, though.
Even after you switch off the blocking mode, the filter switches to "subtle innuendo and thinly-veiled disapproval" mode. And did they have to use Stephen Fry's voice?
Stop anthropomorphizing programmers. We hate that.
My OCD says it should be http://org.slashdot.ask/story...
Or is that not what you meant?
In addition to the much-increased overhead of the cluster (all the mainboards, memory, storage, etc), the Ivy Bridge chip is on the brand-new 22nm process size while the Atom and ARM chips they tested are stuck on the old 45nm. They could have at least gone with 32nm Atoms and ARMs.