Main Entry: terrorism Pronunciation: \ter-r-i-zm Function: noun Date: 1795 : the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion
You can call yourself a revolutionary if you go after military targets, but if you are deliberately launching attacks on civilian targets to affect change in government, then you are the very definition of a terrorist.
Google needs to understand that a constantly evolving 'beta' product doesn't cut it
You mean like Gmail, Chrome, and a ton of other products that people use while in beta?
There is big difference between these end user apps and an OS. Nobody cares if the code base for an end user app changes drastically from release to release, as long as the user interface evolves more gradually. In an OS, however, you heavily rely on apps from third party developers. That means your APIs should better be reasonably stable, because a lot of these developers will not be able or willing to support 10 different versions fo their software for 10 different OS versions.
It makes sense; let the lesser-bugs go, kill with dumber, more-trusted ways that kill ALL the bugs or none at all, and the superbugs have to mate with lesser-bugs.
I agree with the general sentiment of you posting, but bacteria and viruses don't mate.
Huh? So Apple basically says "we follow whatever retail model you want, but if you give somebody else a discount, you have to give it to us as well".
How the hell is that strongarming? Of course anybody would always fight for getting a deal that at least matches what competitors get. Those have got to be the weakest demands any company with some market power has ever negotiated.
There is a difference, you know. Prediction: the "idiots" in suits will be doing extremely well for themselves and their shareholders, at least over the short to medium time scale.
Also, I imagine the 1D heat conductivity has got to be useful for something. It really sounds more like a solid block of heat pipe than a generic heat sink.
i would like you to tell me how the rulers of cuba, iran, north korea, or china came to power
If you consider regimes (not individuals), then the answer in all four cases is that the people rose up against an abusive and tyrannical government. There is no doubt that at the time of regime change there was substantial support for these revolutions from the general population.
A much better question is how these regimes have managed to STAY in power. It is pretty clear that whatever popular support they had initially has waned away over the years and decades. Essentially, every single one of these regimes has become what they originally set out to fight - an abusive, tyrannical government.
Everybody working on local disks, manually transferring copies between different computers, THAT is the wrong thing to do. But that is not the kid's fault; it's the fault of whoever is responsible for their computer systems (I don't want to speak of "architecture" in this case, because they clearly don't have one).
The kid is working on a share because it is more convenient than copying stuff around and worrying about a gazillion different copies on different computers. I think he has a point. Provide a centralized file server, and he can continue to work as he has, without inflicting undue loads on other peoples workstations.
Yeah, but is that really what we want? At least if they include markings, they let you know that they think this product is covered by a patent. That is much better than a submarine patent that is hidden somewhere in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet.
Since you have the relevant patent numbers, any semi-competent competitor can go online, look up the patent, and see what exactly is covered by it. If the patent is expired, or simply doesn't apply to your competing product, you'll be able to see it right there. Basically, there is no harm done, so I don't see how you could ask for millions or billions of damage.
Actually, different color spaces are OK, so long as they are just linear transformations from cone space. That is the case for (linear) RGB, (linear) HSV, XYZ, and a few others. As long as the transformation is linear (i.e. just a matrix times the color vector to give you a color vector in the cone space), you can apply any linear operation (such as scaling, blurring, and other weighted sums), and the order of transformation is exchangeable.
For example, say LMS = M * RGB and you want to average two pixels. Then you have
Note how the US is just slliiiiiiiightly less than half of that pie chart, and the United states spent 5.8 times what China did in 2008. Let's also not forget who is embroiled in two wars- Iraq and Afghanistan.
And just how much longer do you think the US will be able to afford that? What happens when China stops financing the US deficit by buying up all the US bonds? US citizens are too much in the hole themselves to be able to afford buying those bonds.
This is the crucial mistake the US has made: it has blown its wealth on two wars that mean nothing. Those made a few people with Haliburton shares filthy rich, but the country is in real trouble for it now.
1) the A4 runs iPhone apps (i.e. binaries) unmodified 2) the battery capacity is 25Wh 3) the expected battery life time is 10h
From 1) we can conclude with virtual certainty that the processor is ARM based. From 2) and 3) we can calculate that the device consumes 2.5W. That leaves between 1 and 1.5 W for the processor/GPU combo (i.e. at least 1W for the display and other components).
That gives you a pretty clear picture about the performance.
I think it is you who doesn't get it. In principle China can just redirect all access to external CAs to their own servers. They can provide "local" keys that protect the end users from each other, but not from government snooping. They can then have a router infrastructure that decodes the packages with the local codes, performs the filtering, and then re-codes the remaining packages with the true codes before they are passed on to the appropriate servers.
I don't know if China is actually doing something like that, but it is definitely feasible, IF they control all all network infrastructure.
There doesn't seem to be a great deal of control over the actual transparency. It seems that fully white pixels are as opaque as can be whilst fully black are transparent.
It is more likely that all pixels are equally transparent, irrespective of their intensity. It is just that for bright pixels, the emitted ligth is much brighter than the background, so you see the display content, not the background image
If the emitted light is 0, you just see a dim version of the background. If the emitted light is really bright, it dominates the background to the point where you can't see the background at all.
It is too dim to have a purely reflective technology at the back. The OLED is only 40% transparent, any light bouncing off the e-ink has to pass through the OLED twice (once from the light source to the e-ink, and once form the e-ink to the viewer). At the end you only have 16% of the light being reflected, minus whatever the e-ink absorbs. The reflections of the top of the OLED will be brighter than the displayed information from the e-ink.
Head mounted displays (which is what you are proposing) are notorious for inducing sickness, since the image does not move in a natural way with your head movements. This pretty much kills it.
But I agree that the whole 3D hype is completely overblown. I just don't see me putting on stereo glasses in my living room, so that I can see a completely over the top parallax which makes everything look like miniatures (and a lot of people get sick from that, too - just not as many as with HMDs).
As much as I disagree with the "government is bad at everything" crowd, it doesn't really help to counter that sentiment with "business is bad at everything, too".
It is not unilateralism for a country to have its own laws. What *is* unilateralism is if one party tries to strongarm another into accepting different rules. So in this case, the EU is the party that is guilty of unilateralism, not Canada. And I say that as an EU citizen.
The reason the US often gets heat for unilateralism is *not* because the US has their own laws, it is because the US regularly uses their military and economic power to impose their own set of rules onto other countries.
Well, except that the recipient of the check has to run to the bank for the deposit instead of just verifying online that the money has arrived. Likewise, I have to hand-write a check for my rent every month, rather than just going online and clicking a button to transfer a pre-registered amount to a pre-determined destination account (or just setting up a completely automatic monthly transfer).
Banking in North America is so far behind Europe, it is not even funny. Quite an adaptation when I moved back to Canada.
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From Webster:
Main Entry: terrorism
Pronunciation: \ter-r-i-zm
Function: noun
Date: 1795
: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion
You can call yourself a revolutionary if you go after military targets, but if you are deliberately launching attacks on civilian targets to affect change in government, then you are the very definition of a terrorist.
Google needs to understand that a constantly evolving 'beta' product doesn't cut it
You mean like Gmail, Chrome, and a ton of other products that people use while in beta?
There is big difference between these end user apps and an OS. Nobody cares if the code base for an end user app changes drastically from release to release, as long as the user interface evolves more gradually. In an OS, however, you heavily rely on apps from third party developers. That means your APIs should better be reasonably stable, because a lot of these developers will not be able or willing to support 10 different versions fo their software for 10 different OS versions.
It makes sense; let the lesser-bugs go, kill with dumber, more-trusted ways that kill ALL the bugs or none at all, and the superbugs have to mate with lesser-bugs.
I agree with the general sentiment of you posting, but bacteria and viruses don't mate.
Huh? So Apple basically says "we follow whatever retail model you want, but if you give somebody else a discount, you have to give it to us as well".
How the hell is that strongarming? Of course anybody would always fight for getting a deal that at least matches what competitors get. Those have got to be the weakest demands any company with some market power has ever negotiated.
Micro economy, meet macro economy.
There is a difference, you know. Prediction: the "idiots" in suits will be doing extremely well for themselves and their shareholders, at least over the short to medium time scale.
Also, I imagine the 1D heat conductivity has got to be useful for something. It really sounds more like a solid block of heat pipe than a generic heat sink.
i would like you to tell me how the rulers of cuba, iran, north korea, or china came to power
If you consider regimes (not individuals), then the answer in all four cases is that the people rose up against an abusive and tyrannical government. There is no doubt that at the time of regime change there was substantial support for these revolutions from the general population.
A much better question is how these regimes have managed to STAY in power. It is pretty clear that whatever popular support they had initially has waned away over the years and decades. Essentially, every single one of these regimes has become what they originally set out to fight - an abusive, tyrannical government.
Everybody working on local disks, manually transferring copies between different computers, THAT is the wrong thing to do. But that is not the kid's fault; it's the fault of whoever is responsible for their computer systems (I don't want to speak of "architecture" in this case, because they clearly don't have one).
The kid is working on a share because it is more convenient than copying stuff around and worrying about a gazillion different copies on different computers. I think he has a point. Provide a centralized file server, and he can continue to work as he has, without inflicting undue loads on other peoples workstations.
A hedge fund taking a "hands-off approach"? Dream on.
Or don't mark (it isn't required).
Yeah, but is that really what we want? At least if they include markings, they let you know that they think this product is covered by a patent. That is much better than a submarine patent that is hidden somewhere in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet.
Since you have the relevant patent numbers, any semi-competent competitor can go online, look up the patent, and see what exactly is covered by it. If the patent is expired, or simply doesn't apply to your competing product, you'll be able to see it right there. Basically, there is no harm done, so I don't see how you could ask for millions or billions of damage.
Actually, different color spaces are OK, so long as they are just linear transformations from cone space. That is the case for (linear) RGB, (linear) HSV, XYZ, and a few others. As long as the transformation is linear (i.e. just a matrix times the color vector to give you a color vector in the cone space), you can apply any linear operation (such as scaling, blurring, and other weighted sums), and the order of transformation is exchangeable.
For example, say LMS = M * RGB and you want to average two pixels. Then you have
RGB_AVG = M^-1 * (1/2 * (M*RGB1 + M* RGB2)) = M^-1*M * 1/2 *(RGB1 + RGB2) = 1/2 (RGB1 + RGB2)
The US spends more money in total than the next dozen or so nations combined: http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending#InContextUSMilitarySpendingVersusRestoftheWorld
Note how the US is just slliiiiiiiightly less than half of that pie chart, and the United states spent 5.8 times what China did in 2008. Let's also not forget who is embroiled in two wars- Iraq and Afghanistan.
And just how much longer do you think the US will be able to afford that? What happens when China stops financing the US deficit by buying up all the US bonds? US citizens are too much in the hole themselves to be able to afford buying those bonds.
This is the crucial mistake the US has made: it has blown its wealth on two wars that mean nothing. Those made a few people with Haliburton shares filthy rich, but the country is in real trouble for it now.
OK, what about these facts:
1) the A4 runs iPhone apps (i.e. binaries) unmodified
2) the battery capacity is 25Wh
3) the expected battery life time is 10h
From 1) we can conclude with virtual certainty that the processor is ARM based. From 2) and 3) we can calculate that the device consumes 2.5W. That leaves between 1 and 1.5 W for the processor/GPU combo (i.e. at least 1W for the display and other components).
That gives you a pretty clear picture about the performance.
Aha. And who gets to decide what is and what isn't a right?
I say if enough people in a country get together and decide that education is a right, then it is.
Yes it is. In Germany. The US constitution is not universal, you know.
They better be if you are going to have to dish out up to $830 for the hardware!
I think it is you who doesn't get it. In principle China can just redirect all access to external CAs to their own servers. They can provide "local" keys that protect the end users from each other, but not from government snooping. They can then have a router infrastructure that decodes the packages with the local codes, performs the filtering, and then re-codes the remaining packages with the true codes before they are passed on to the appropriate servers.
I don't know if China is actually doing something like that, but it is definitely feasible, IF they control all all network infrastructure.
Are you kidding? Illegal immigration is one of their biggest problems (yes, I have actually been there).
There doesn't seem to be a great deal of control over the actual transparency. It seems that fully white pixels are as opaque as can be whilst fully black are transparent.
It is more likely that all pixels are equally transparent, irrespective of their intensity. It is just that for bright pixels, the emitted ligth is much brighter than the background, so you see the display content, not the background image
visible brightness = emitted light + 0.4 * background
If the emitted light is 0, you just see a dim version of the background. If the emitted light is really bright, it dominates the background to the point where you can't see the background at all.
It is too dim to have a purely reflective technology at the back. The OLED is only 40% transparent, any light bouncing off the e-ink has to pass through the OLED twice (once from the light source to the e-ink, and once form the e-ink to the viewer). At the end you only have 16% of the light being reflected, minus whatever the e-ink absorbs. The reflections of the top of the OLED will be brighter than the displayed information from the e-ink.
Two words: motion sickness.
Head mounted displays (which is what you are proposing) are notorious for inducing sickness, since the image does not move in a natural way with your head movements. This pretty much kills it.
But I agree that the whole 3D hype is completely overblown. I just don't see me putting on stereo glasses in my living room, so that I can see a completely over the top parallax which makes everything look like miniatures (and a lot of people get sick from that, too - just not as many as with HMDs).
The GP was asking for citations, not opinions.
As much as I disagree with the "government is bad at everything" crowd, it doesn't really help to counter that sentiment with "business is bad at everything, too".
OK, I'll bite.
It is not unilateralism for a country to have its own laws. What *is* unilateralism is if one party tries to strongarm another into accepting different rules. So in this case, the EU is the party that is guilty of unilateralism, not Canada. And I say that as an EU citizen.
The reason the US often gets heat for unilateralism is *not* because the US has their own laws, it is because the US regularly uses their military and economic power to impose their own set of rules onto other countries.
Well, except that the recipient of the check has to run to the bank for the deposit instead of just verifying online that the money has arrived. Likewise, I have to hand-write a check for my rent every month, rather than just going online and clicking a button to transfer a pre-registered amount to a pre-determined destination account (or just setting up a completely automatic monthly transfer).
Banking in North America is so far behind Europe, it is not even funny. Quite an adaptation when I moved back to Canada.
Bitter for not getting tenure?