While being jealous of a wide-body "party airplane" landing right across the street from their office, I think this might be a good thing for NASA and Moffett Field. NASA could certainly use the money.
I worked at the base a few years ago and the runway wasn't being used most of the time, except by the 129th rescue wing of the Air National Guard and the occasional astronaut trainer jet. The base doesn't really have any residential neighbors but that noise would carry a long distance I assume.
If you work there and fly a private plane you can already fly to work (at least that's what I heard when I was there).
But of course large commercial size jets is a different story entirely.
Text ads are harder to block with adblock and noscript. Videos, flash, and graphical banners will be trivial to block. I hope they get rid of text ads so I never have to see ads on google.
In terms of latency DSL is about 10% faster. I did tests with both Comcast cable and AT&T DSL. The response times had a much higher standard deviation and overall higher average (about 90ms vs 100ms) for Comcast vs DSL. If you want the extreme of high bandwidth
with high latency just use snail mail.
Yes of course Comcast offers 8Mb vs DSL's 6MB but it wasn't often that I was able to actually to achieve speeds over 6Mb (especially with bittorrent). Downloading large files from the local university did show the advantage of cable. However, I quickly got disconnected for "overusage".
I'm switching back to AT&T (with 3 months free for switching) and Comcast is refunding me for the month where they shut me off. I complained to the BBB and it was fairly effective. Someone from Comcast called me back to respond to my issue and refund my money.
The ability of users to submit stories for immediate display, digg them up, and bury all others is what made the revolt successful.
The actions of Kevin Rose certainly aren't heroic or laudable. He tried to remove the number from Digg but couldn't without completely shutting down the site.
It is important to realize that on/. such a revolt wouldn't be possible because users don't have the same freedoms. For better or worse that shapes what/. is.
They didn't revoke the key yet. Movies made after their date of May 23rd still work with the old processing key.
I assume they will revoke it or their empty threats will make them even more of a joke, but I haven't heard about a movie where the "09" key
doesn't work perfectly.
Coover (American Journal of Psychology, 1913) showed the percentage of people that could actually detect starting in a randomized trial to be 50.2% which is statistically indistinguishable from guessing, despite the fact that most people believe they can.
This result has been challenged numerous times in the Journal of Parasychology. The most notable proponent for staring detection is Rupert Sheldrake who has even created a kit for people to try this themselves. However, a closer inspection of his kit and methodology shows the sequences aren't truly random (2000, Colwell et al., British Journal of Psychology, 2000). Colwell shows that without feedback (or with feedback and truly random sequences of staring vs non-staring) there is no effect.
It is amazing to me how many people do not believe that we have a sixth sense, the ability to know someone is looking at you even though they are not in your field of vision. I have yet to see science explain this...
Experiments have shown exactly the opposite. Test subjects are unable to tell if someone was looking at them or not in a rigorous test. The real question is why people believe you can, which can be answered by psychology: you remember the hits and not the misses. When you turn and someone is looking you make note of that and forget when your are wrong.
The great thing about packet prioritization in general is that the usefulness of the link goes up since both bulk traffic and low latency traffic can coexist.
The usefulness of the internet goes down if you start doing packet prioritization. Who should decide what packets get the fast lane,
while the others have to wait? The inevitable result is the largest companies will have the fastest packets and my ssh session, webpage, or online gaming will lag.
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I worked at the base a few years ago and the runway wasn't being used most of the time, except by the 129th rescue wing of the Air National Guard and the occasional astronaut trainer jet. The base doesn't really have any residential neighbors but that noise would carry a long distance I assume.
If you work there and fly a private plane you can already fly to work (at least that's what I heard when I was there). But of course large commercial size jets is a different story entirely.
Text ads are harder to block with adblock and noscript. Videos, flash, and graphical banners will be trivial to block. I hope they get rid of text ads so I never have to see ads on google.
In terms of latency DSL is about 10% faster. I did tests with both Comcast cable and AT&T DSL. The response times had a much higher standard deviation and overall higher average (about 90ms vs 100ms) for Comcast vs DSL. If you want the extreme of high bandwidth with high latency just use snail mail. Yes of course Comcast offers 8Mb vs DSL's 6MB but it wasn't often that I was able to actually to achieve speeds over 6Mb (especially with bittorrent). Downloading large files from the local university did show the advantage of cable. However, I quickly got disconnected for "overusage". I'm switching back to AT&T (with 3 months free for switching) and Comcast is refunding me for the month where they shut me off. I complained to the BBB and it was fairly effective. Someone from Comcast called me back to respond to my issue and refund my money.
Quixotic is also a great Scrabble word, scoring 26 points plus a bonus for using all 7 letters with the one already on the board.
Bush's law is derived from the fact that George W. Bush has restored honor and integrity to the White House.
It is important to realize that on /. such a revolt wouldn't be possible because users don't have the same freedoms. For better or worse that shapes what /. is.
Here is the CmdrTaco post: http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/16/1256226.shtml /.c aves_in_to_scientology
And two articles describing the incident. Theregister is fairly critical of
http://www.skeptictank.org/gen3/gen02112.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/16/slashdot_
oops that should read "April 23rd" not May
They didn't revoke the key yet. Movies made after their date of May 23rd still work with the old processing key. I assume they will revoke it or their empty threats will make them even more of a joke, but I haven't heard about a movie where the "09" key doesn't work perfectly.
This result has been challenged numerous times in the Journal of Parasychology. The most notable proponent for staring detection is Rupert Sheldrake who has even created a kit for people to try this themselves. However, a closer inspection of his kit and methodology shows the sequences aren't truly random (2000, Colwell et al., British Journal of Psychology, 2000). Colwell shows that without feedback (or with feedback and truly random sequences of staring vs non-staring) there is no effect.
http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-09/staring.html