-Variable scroll speed with arrow keys
-Double-map function keys to get through F24
-Pressure patterns can be analyzed to suggest how to improve ergonomics on a per-user basis. Combine with some sort of flexible/customizable keyboard that can produce a variety of shapes and you can adjust it in seconds. It would be sweet to have a keyboard that changes how it is raised or curved automatically in response to how you are typing.
-Apply this to cell phones so texting on a standard num-pad requires only 1 press per letter (would require a toggle switch or button as the learning curve would be frustrating)
Every mention of LHC coincides with how they're trying to find the Higgs. Say they find it within a year, what happens then? I understand the LHC is designed for hadrons and for lead nuclei, so that would indicate more experiments down the pipe, but could someone explain what they plan to do, or will they just party for 10 years after the Higgs is found and then shut the thing down?
I realize I could go try to search for the answer, but if the average/.'er won't even read TFA, how many do you expect to do some light research?
I just realized my argument about considering value not cost implies that it makes no sense to boycott a company for using child labor or some other moral reason. The morals behind it affects your value of the product, but has no affect on the cost (i.e. the cost doesn't change if you decide child labor is a good thing). To you DRM may put the value of a product at $0 (if you insist on a negative number you must be opposed to demos, trailers and free samples). In the end my point is that accepting DRM can be a logical decision. I will agree that ignoring DRM when judging whether you value a product the same or more than the price makes no sense.
...maybe because releasing something that has so few protections that it screams "copy me and forward to everyone you know" would require an absurd price to be economcially viable to release. DRM the way EA does it I can oppose 100%, but DRM the way Steam does it I'll warily accept*. Any realistic company would set the price of their product based on projected REAL sales, taking into account the rate it gets copied/shared. I can see a problem when DRM-laden games are the same price as less-restrictive ones, but if a game with 3 installs was $15 I would consider buying it.
I agree with the notion that games should be playable indefinitely, but the reasonable part of me knows that I recently paid for concert tickets, and that certainly isn't indefinite entertainment. I realize a longer concert directly costs the producer, while you playing Zelda 20 years after buying it doesn't cost Nintendo anything directly, but my willingness to pay should be based on how I value the product, not the cost to make it. If copyright was fixed so media enters public domain in a reasonable time, restrictive DRM would make perfect sense, as it makes ownership during copyright more exclusive. Yes, unbroken copyright is an ideal that I don't expect to see any time soon, but same goes for elimination of DRM.
*We've seen the Steam DRM debate dozens of times and I don't mean to trigger another. I hope we can agree it is one of the better DRM setups out there, if only as a lesser evil.
Eh, this is relevant, not redundant. There are plenty of NSFW sites that could have been referenced in that post, so many people can't safely check for themselves where that IP goes.
The Daily Herald, the local-focused Chicago newspaper, recently ran a series on red light cameras to expose how they are used as money makers and do nothing for safety. While I was already aware of the situation, it was a very informative series and I'm sure many of their readers had no clue how their towns were abusing "safety" for profit.
The Chicago Tribune published a series of articles about clout-induced admissions at University of Illinois, and now both the entire Illinois university sytem and Chicago school system are under federal investigation. The Chicago Tribune constantly publishes stories about public corruption and pulls politicans' secrets into the sunlight. You know they do things right when one of the charges against Blagojevich is he tried to get a number of people at the Tribune fired. Not to mention one of the most famous muckracker journalists ever, Mike Royko, wrote for the Tribune. He moved to the Tribune to avoid Murdoch.
If you don't see useful reporting from newspapers either you aren't looking or you read the wrong papers. Yes, they all have some bias and infotainment filler, but there is still such a thing as a professional reporter.
Flint-lock manufacturers lost out to Smith+Wesson, monks lost out to Gutenburg, buggy makers lost to Ford. Technologies get replaced and updated, not just thrown out.
Many newspapers fund reliable reporters, while blogs so far are rather hit-and-miss. Tech sites are easier to maintain for little or no cost as anyone can try out some software or hardware and post a story about it. As for real-world events, there are many accounts and there is little one can do to sift through them or even just find them. Information out of Iran has been largely biased, unreliable and scant- we had plenty of blogs and twitter accounts, but thanks to a lack of professional reporters on site, we had to rely on a few people deemed more trustworthy and capable of sorting out more of the facts, and I still don't really know what happened. Not to mention it took a while for information to get organized in a useful way- and that was for a major event affecting an entire country.
Being from Chicago, I am familiar with how important investigative reporters can be when they have the weight of a big newspaper behind them. We won't have another Mike Royko if we don't have newspapers that can support them. We won't even have the helpful Problem Solver column, where one of the reporters uses the newspaper's weight to get businesses to stop dragging their feet when a customer was wronged. Sure, there may be an occasional blogger with that kind of influence, but I have yet to learn of a blog the average person could recognize as well as the New York Times or Chicago Tribune. Until you have that big of a name, you don't have enough influence to scare businesses or politicians into action.
Maybe newspapers will die out eventually, but unless a reliable system of reporters* can remain - reporters that can dig up the secrets corrupt politicians are hiding and seek out the truth in much debated events- we will be at a great loss when they do go away. The Chicago Tribune loves to rail against corruption, and currently has a countdown to the election to draw attention to the people's chance to oust some politicians widely seen to have gone too far. I know as long as the Tribune is in business our politicians are being watched. It isn't a perfect system, but I would want nothing to do with Chicago if there were nothing but a few bloggers to try and keep the pols in line.
*Yes, there are plenty of reporters as bad or worse than your typical blogger, but on average the quality is better than the blogs, and at their best I've never seen a blog approach what newspapers can do.
Push for urbandictionary to add an obscene alternate definition for "Apple". Someone above mentioned words like "screw" were removed from this app so I'd like to see what happens then...
Parent has a valid point- not a troll. I won't buy more Blizzard games because in general they've repeatedly shown they don't trust the user. I'd complain to them excecpt I want to spend my time buying and playing games from companies (such as Stardock) that are more praiseworthy. It makes no sense for me to tell Blizzard "Fix your games, they suck for reason X, and I won't buy them anyways". Parent seems a bit more forgiving- I don't call that a trollish quality.
Once my laptop was running low on battery so I told it to shut down. I come back five minutes later and it didn't shut down because I had to hit 'OK' on the dialogue helpfully suggesting I should shut down because of low battery.
I'll second that book reccommendation. It is entertainingly written and very informative. I've read it twice and listened to the book on tape. Not only do you learn how we came to know what we know, but you learn more about the people invovled. For example, few people know Newton performed an experiment where he simply stared into the sun as long as he possibly could. Science textbooks rarely do justice to how interesting science really can be.
it is a joke since we all want free beer but never expect there to be any
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or if you're taking it too seriously- no one means there is such a thing as free beer. There is no such thing as true freedom for all practical purposes but the concept is accepted to allow useful conversation. Same idea here but with a tongue-in-cheek addition. You can nitpick in some conversations but for the most part when the phrases free speech/free beer are used you'll have to take them for their intended meaning or you'll be just like the grammar nazis that miss out on the insight in the post because of a split infinitive. I don't disagree with your point but you seem to miss the big picture.
Sorry to drag this out but if you make this argument every time the phrase is used on this site you'll have time for little else.
I appreciate the karma but tbh I'd rather people just mod me funny. I don't know if a +5 insightful will take mod points from people trying to shift it to funny (thus wasting mod points), but at the very least it is an unnecessary practice. Yes, I have had my fair share of jokes modded troll, but funny could be modified to "pardon" negative karma without giving positive karma. If there is a problem funny should be changed, not avoided. Most of my +5 comments are jokes, but I don't mind earning my karma the hard way.
The Tevatron is currently shut down for repairs and upgrades (a three-month process). Starting up the LHC does not mean they are done building it. I think it is a great idea to start some basic tests and begin some experiments to become familiar with how the machine is operating before going through a lot of expensive fixes and upgrades. Not to mention CERN has little experience operating the machine, so it will take a while to get it up to full power even if they finished working on it right now.
In recent upgrades to the LHC, the collider has been equipped to smash large amounts of money together and observe its annihilation:
"We start with a 50 Euro note and a 50 USD note," Dr. Grotzy explained. "We accelerate them to near the speed of light- interesting things can happen when the velocity of money gets this high. When the beams of Euros and USDs collide - thousands of notes per minute- we get some interesting reactions.
"This is a photograph of one such collision- an annihilation as you can see," Grotzy said, pointing at the annotated diagram. "The buck stops here."
"Out of it you can see these spiraling particles. Given the $50 is one of the ingredient particles, we call this 'Grant money going down the drain'.
"The experiment is actually quite easy to run. If the beams start to wane you just go up to the generator and throw more money at it.
"To keep busy we'll be adding more projects. With with a little more funding from the Brits, we can test out a heating system powered by burning cash. Convert a pound's mass into energy.
"Some people are concerned this collider will produce economic black holes that will destroy the worldwide economy. I can assure you this is nothing but uninformed rumor.
Setting the legal limit at 0.08 affects everyone equally enough. It is set low enough that you catch (mostly) everyone before they pose a significant risk. Wait until they're swerving and you've wated too long. By making the determination using BAC you can enforce before you have a problem.
...and when the corporations see these percentages they'll know to push the law to 20 years to satisfy how everyone is so furious that this guy modified consoles...
Penetration: 130 ft (40 m) of moderately hard rock
They can only get it within 40m of the stage? And only for moderately hard rock? If they just had some Floyd fans deliver the payload they could save themselves a lot of trouble.
Slashdot Mirror
Translation: they canceled my favorite show so I swore to never watch TV again.
-Variable scroll speed with arrow keys
-Double-map function keys to get through F24
-Pressure patterns can be analyzed to suggest how to improve ergonomics on a per-user basis. Combine with some sort of flexible/customizable keyboard that can produce a variety of shapes and you can adjust it in seconds. It would be sweet to have a keyboard that changes how it is raised or curved automatically in response to how you are typing.
-Apply this to cell phones so texting on a standard num-pad requires only 1 press per letter (would require a toggle switch or button as the learning curve would be frustrating)
Every mention of LHC coincides with how they're trying to find the Higgs. Say they find it within a year, what happens then? I understand the LHC is designed for hadrons and for lead nuclei, so that would indicate more experiments down the pipe, but could someone explain what they plan to do, or will they just party for 10 years after the Higgs is found and then shut the thing down?
/.'er won't even read TFA, how many do you expect to do some light research?
I realize I could go try to search for the answer, but if the average
I'd feel safer if he had a noticeable case of Blackberry thumb.
I just realized my argument about considering value not cost implies that it makes no sense to boycott a company for using child labor or some other moral reason. The morals behind it affects your value of the product, but has no affect on the cost (i.e. the cost doesn't change if you decide child labor is a good thing). To you DRM may put the value of a product at $0 (if you insist on a negative number you must be opposed to demos, trailers and free samples). In the end my point is that accepting DRM can be a logical decision. I will agree that ignoring DRM when judging whether you value a product the same or more than the price makes no sense.
...maybe because releasing something that has so few protections that it screams "copy me and forward to everyone you know" would require an absurd price to be economcially viable to release. DRM the way EA does it I can oppose 100%, but DRM the way Steam does it I'll warily accept*. Any realistic company would set the price of their product based on projected REAL sales, taking into account the rate it gets copied/shared. I can see a problem when DRM-laden games are the same price as less-restrictive ones, but if a game with 3 installs was $15 I would consider buying it.
I agree with the notion that games should be playable indefinitely, but the reasonable part of me knows that I recently paid for concert tickets, and that certainly isn't indefinite entertainment. I realize a longer concert directly costs the producer, while you playing Zelda 20 years after buying it doesn't cost Nintendo anything directly, but my willingness to pay should be based on how I value the product, not the cost to make it. If copyright was fixed so media enters public domain in a reasonable time, restrictive DRM would make perfect sense, as it makes ownership during copyright more exclusive. Yes, unbroken copyright is an ideal that I don't expect to see any time soon, but same goes for elimination of DRM.
*We've seen the Steam DRM debate dozens of times and I don't mean to trigger another. I hope we can agree it is one of the better DRM setups out there, if only as a lesser evil.
I want to cancel my f*ing account
I've heard of bank accounts and credit card accounts but not f*ing accounts. You must have quite the long-term relationship with your hookers.
they shouldn't even have the authority to ruin their own life, forget the country.
FTFY
Eh, this is relevant, not redundant. There are plenty of NSFW sites that could have been referenced in that post, so many people can't safely check for themselves where that IP goes.
The Daily Herald, the local-focused Chicago newspaper, recently ran a series on red light cameras to expose how they are used as money makers and do nothing for safety. While I was already aware of the situation, it was a very informative series and I'm sure many of their readers had no clue how their towns were abusing "safety" for profit.
The Chicago Tribune published a series of articles about clout-induced admissions at University of Illinois, and now both the entire Illinois university sytem and Chicago school system are under federal investigation. The Chicago Tribune constantly publishes stories about public corruption and pulls politicans' secrets into the sunlight. You know they do things right when one of the charges against Blagojevich is he tried to get a number of people at the Tribune fired. Not to mention one of the most famous muckracker journalists ever, Mike Royko, wrote for the Tribune. He moved to the Tribune to avoid Murdoch.
If you don't see useful reporting from newspapers either you aren't looking or you read the wrong papers. Yes, they all have some bias and infotainment filler, but there is still such a thing as a professional reporter.
Flint-lock manufacturers lost out to Smith+Wesson, monks lost out to Gutenburg, buggy makers lost to Ford. Technologies get replaced and updated, not just thrown out.
Many newspapers fund reliable reporters, while blogs so far are rather hit-and-miss. Tech sites are easier to maintain for little or no cost as anyone can try out some software or hardware and post a story about it. As for real-world events, there are many accounts and there is little one can do to sift through them or even just find them. Information out of Iran has been largely biased, unreliable and scant- we had plenty of blogs and twitter accounts, but thanks to a lack of professional reporters on site, we had to rely on a few people deemed more trustworthy and capable of sorting out more of the facts, and I still don't really know what happened. Not to mention it took a while for information to get organized in a useful way- and that was for a major event affecting an entire country.
Being from Chicago, I am familiar with how important investigative reporters can be when they have the weight of a big newspaper behind them. We won't have another Mike Royko if we don't have newspapers that can support them. We won't even have the helpful Problem Solver column, where one of the reporters uses the newspaper's weight to get businesses to stop dragging their feet when a customer was wronged. Sure, there may be an occasional blogger with that kind of influence, but I have yet to learn of a blog the average person could recognize as well as the New York Times or Chicago Tribune. Until you have that big of a name, you don't have enough influence to scare businesses or politicians into action.
Maybe newspapers will die out eventually, but unless a reliable system of reporters* can remain - reporters that can dig up the secrets corrupt politicians are hiding and seek out the truth in much debated events- we will be at a great loss when they do go away. The Chicago Tribune loves to rail against corruption, and currently has a countdown to the election to draw attention to the people's chance to oust some politicians widely seen to have gone too far. I know as long as the Tribune is in business our politicians are being watched. It isn't a perfect system, but I would want nothing to do with Chicago if there were nothing but a few bloggers to try and keep the pols in line.
*Yes, there are plenty of reporters as bad or worse than your typical blogger, but on average the quality is better than the blogs, and at their best I've never seen a blog approach what newspapers can do.
Push for urbandictionary to add an obscene alternate definition for "Apple". Someone above mentioned words like "screw" were removed from this app so I'd like to see what happens then...
Parent has a valid point- not a troll. I won't buy more Blizzard games because in general they've repeatedly shown they don't trust the user. I'd complain to them excecpt I want to spend my time buying and playing games from companies (such as Stardock) that are more praiseworthy. It makes no sense for me to tell Blizzard "Fix your games, they suck for reason X, and I won't buy them anyways". Parent seems a bit more forgiving- I don't call that a trollish quality.
Once my laptop was running low on battery so I told it to shut down. I come back five minutes later and it didn't shut down because I had to hit 'OK' on the dialogue helpfully suggesting I should shut down because of low battery.
I'll second that book reccommendation. It is entertainingly written and very informative. I've read it twice and listened to the book on tape. Not only do you learn how we came to know what we know, but you learn more about the people invovled. For example, few people know Newton performed an experiment where he simply stared into the sun as long as he possibly could. Science textbooks rarely do justice to how interesting science really can be.
it is a joke since we all want free beer but never expect there to be any
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or if you're taking it too seriously- no one means there is such a thing as free beer. There is no such thing as true freedom for all practical purposes but the concept is accepted to allow useful conversation. Same idea here but with a tongue-in-cheek addition. You can nitpick in some conversations but for the most part when the phrases free speech/free beer are used you'll have to take them for their intended meaning or you'll be just like the grammar nazis that miss out on the insight in the post because of a split infinitive. I don't disagree with your point but you seem to miss the big picture.
Sorry to drag this out but if you make this argument every time the phrase is used on this site you'll have time for little else.
I appreciate the karma but tbh I'd rather people just mod me funny. I don't know if a +5 insightful will take mod points from people trying to shift it to funny (thus wasting mod points), but at the very least it is an unnecessary practice. Yes, I have had my fair share of jokes modded troll, but funny could be modified to "pardon" negative karma without giving positive karma. If there is a problem funny should be changed, not avoided. Most of my +5 comments are jokes, but I don't mind earning my karma the hard way.
Yet, somehow, we don't know the basic workings of our own bodies.
Proof that God is male- he ignores the concept of an instruction manual.
However, some studies have suggested an enhanced risk of early death for those who have undergone splenectomies
I don't see how this is a problem. This is a new discovery- those old spleens didn't have this functionality yet.
The Tevatron is currently shut down for repairs and upgrades (a three-month process). Starting up the LHC does not mean they are done building it. I think it is a great idea to start some basic tests and begin some experiments to become familiar with how the machine is operating before going through a lot of expensive fixes and upgrades. Not to mention CERN has little experience operating the machine, so it will take a while to get it up to full power even if they finished working on it right now.
In recent upgrades to the LHC, the collider has been equipped to smash large amounts of money together and observe its annihilation:
"We start with a 50 Euro note and a 50 USD note," Dr. Grotzy explained. "We accelerate them to near the speed of light- interesting things can happen when the velocity of money gets this high. When the beams of Euros and USDs collide - thousands of notes per minute- we get some interesting reactions.
"This is a photograph of one such collision- an annihilation as you can see," Grotzy said, pointing at the annotated diagram. "The buck stops here."
"Out of it you can see these spiraling particles. Given the $50 is one of the ingredient particles, we call this 'Grant money going down the drain'.
"The experiment is actually quite easy to run. If the beams start to wane you just go up to the generator and throw more money at it.
"To keep busy we'll be adding more projects. With with a little more funding from the Brits, we can test out a heating system powered by burning cash. Convert a pound's mass into energy.
"Some people are concerned this collider will produce economic black holes that will destroy the worldwide economy. I can assure you this is nothing but uninformed rumor.
Setting the legal limit at 0.08 affects everyone equally enough. It is set low enough that you catch (mostly) everyone before they pose a significant risk. Wait until they're swerving and you've wated too long. By making the determination using BAC you can enforce before you have a problem.
...and when the corporations see these percentages they'll know to push the law to 20 years to satisfy how everyone is so furious that this guy modified consoles...
Because your lectures are so dull they borderline violate the Geneva Conventions.
Penetration: 130 ft (40 m) of moderately hard rock
They can only get it within 40m of the stage? And only for moderately hard rock? If they just had some Floyd fans deliver the payload they could save themselves a lot of trouble.