If NASA had used a 3D scanner to scan in an existing wrench, instead of designing a new one, then they could claim, in some rudimentary way, to have deployed the first instance of a star-trek style transporter. They still can.
Because it weighs 7oz as opposed to 33oz, is a fraction of the size, and has the same power output (2W at 5V, continuous). True, the BioLite is also a stove and this isn't, but there are many high efficiency light weight stoves that should work with FlameStower, or apparently an open campfire if you're in a place where that is permitted.
If you're car camping or day hiking you may not think saving over a pound in pack weight is important, but then again you probably don't need a USB recharger either. For multi-day back country hiking lots of people pay attention to this level of weight difference (not just the ultra-light types).
I have no connection to the FlameStower people, other than considering getting one.
The reason for newline-tab being syntactically significant in makefiles is because by the time make's author, Stuart Feldman, realized the problems with this choice there were already about a dozen users of make and he didn't want to break any of their makefiles with an incompatible change. See _The Art of Unix Programming_ by Eric S. Raymond.
The lesson is the time to fix a bad design decision is as soon as possible, because it's not going to get any easier later; unless or until your program becomes irrelevant, at which point there's little reason to fix it at all.
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You're blaming Woodrow Wilson and the isolationist Congress/Senate of 1912 for everything that's happened in our country since?
He's referencing the Dec 23, 1913 Federal Reserve Act, creating "The Fed" and letting it print money. I don't think this had much to do with isolationism.
Congratulations on having spotted a statistical trend armed with whopping total of 2 data points.
I learned in college that a mathematician requires 2 points to determine a straight line, an engineer prefers at least 3, a statistician 4 or more, but a sociologist only needs 1.
Lafferty specialized in science fiction that was more folk-tale like, or as I see Wikipedia puts it "shaggy characters and tall tales". His short stories, in such collections as Lafferty In Orbit or Nine Hundred Grandmothers, are more approachable than his novels, especially for someone new to his style.
Disch wrote both horror and science fiction. If you're literate you owe it to yourself to read Camp Concentration. His first novel, The Genocides is an easier read, if a bit heavy-handed in its message.
If you're deeply religious you might want to avoid Disch, especially The Genocides.
Since the summary didn't say, ECPA is The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, an updated version of the 1968 Federal Wiretap Act.
FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the FISA court (technically the FISC, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) generally rubber stamps wiretapping warrants, even after the fact.
Fuck Mozilla's fucking releases every fucking other fucking week. Want me to pay attention to a new release? then don't bombard me with requests to update, or call versions barely worth an increment to the patch level a fucking release. Buy a clue and stop ruining what was a pretty decent browser. As ColdWetDog already joked, only for real, you're actually making IE look good again. The level of fuckitude necessary to reach that level of fuckedupness is almost unfuckingbeliveable.
Name another company that size that is as friendly to open source software.
Sun Microsystems, in its day. In addition to Java: NFS, ZFS, D-Trace, virtual box, StrongTalk, GlassFish, OpenSolaris, NetBeans; after buying them but keeping them open: MySQL, OpenOffice, BlueQuartz (former Cobalt stack); and in the realm of open hardware, OpenSparc T1. (No question, Sun botched some of the companies it bought.)
At its largest Sun was never as big as Google today, but proportionally Google has done far less.
Oracle is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Sun Microsystems. (For one, they make money.)
TFA says the delay is for hardware in the loop testing, not code tweaking.
One hopes normal end-to-end testing was done long before this, but given the costs and logistics of assembling the actual hardware this final phase of testing pretty much has to wait until shortly before launch.
I'm a developer and am pretty much in the camp of "if it complies and boots, ship it", but I appreciate the need for QA. When you're shooting a missile at a fragile target keeping a crew alive 200 miles above earth just maybe before you sign off on the launch you want to finish testing. It's the low delta-v docking code they're testing apparently, but docking coupling damage has happened in the past, and that or just a failure to dock would be kind of a big deal.
Did you read even the summary or just Wikipedia? 12kWh/kg, the projected max energy density of these batteries, and what they were calling "comparable", is about 43 MJ/kg (1 kWh = 3.6 MJ). That's only10% less than gasoline and "comparable" seems apt. Open question how close actual batteries ever get to that max, but that's not what you were complaining about.
And then there is effective density, when you consider the amount of energy that can be used for productive work. A gas engine typically wastes 70% to 80% of it's energy while electric motors over 100hp waste less than 8%. So lets see, using the best efficiency for gas,.3 * 47 = 14MJ/kg and for electric the NEMA minimum,.92 * 43 = 40MJ/kg, and we have electric motors with li-air batteries at 3 times the effective density of ICE with gasoline. There are other real-world considerations for true effective density, but it seems you were right after all, "comparable" isn't fair -- to a li-air car, which you seemingly would be willing to pay $60,000 for.
"It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine."
-- Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL
The first versions of emacs were written in TECO, inspired in part by tmacs -- TECO macros.
Or try APL. Uses a special character set, permits composed characters, assumes you know linear algebra, and reads right to left -- the epitome of a write-only language.
I don't really game much anymore and so don't follow gaming news., but Deus Ex was an old favorite and I've thought about getting the new iteration. Good job Gamestop, your tactics made it made it to slashdot and my radar, introducing me to OnLive, something I hadn't heard of (or had and mistook it for a branding of Microsoft Live). Although I wonder how well it will actually work for me it seemed worthwhile enough to at least download the free client and watch some games in progress -- on a Mac where Deus Ex sn't otherwise available at that.
Not quite the Streisand Effect, but mostly because few here are as clueless about OnLive as I was. Gamestop, you don't yet seem to understand that every company memo is a public document these days.
AFAIK Apple doesn't have a bad rep for not supporting Flash on the iPhone. It's Xerox who has all the blame since Macs and all Apple's products are really copied from Xerox systems. They didn't support Flash either. Also Microsoft Windows is really a DEC VMS system so blame Digital if you have problems with Windows.
For those that don't know, David Cutler, who designed VMS while at DEC, went on to Microsoft where he designed Windows NT. Now, although Mr. Cutler attributes it to coincidence, W N T = V+1 M+1 S+1
Not unlike how it happens that HAL of HAL 9000 fame happens to be I-1 B-1 M-1.
1. You have a choice of buying an i5 for $200, or an i7 for $300.
2. You have a choice of buying an i7 that pretends to be an i5 for $200, or an i7 for $300.
3. You have a choice of buying an i7 that pretends to be an i5 for $200, or an i7 for $300. If you pay $200, you can later for a payment of $100 turn it into an i7.
For me, choices (1) and (2) are identical, but choice (3) is without any doubt better. There is no situation where I am worse off than with choice 1 or 2, and in some situations I'm better off.
You left out one significant scenario:
4. You have a choice of buying an i7, that acts like an i7, for $200.
Choice (4) is clearly best for me as a customer.
For Intel, (4) isn't any worse than (2), as clearly they think they can make a profit selling i7s at $200. For (3) it's only worse to the extent of their conversion rate, probably well under 10%, minus the cost to lock the chip, or less than $10. For (1), they are apparently just overcharging by $90 - $100.
The problem isn't that the company collects the data, it is that they then sell it to third parties to make a profit.
No, the problem isn't limited to selling. Data gets lost or stolen with alarming frequency: someone leaves a laptop on a train, with the data unencrypted; a web site permits SQL injection hacks; an employee walks away with with a flash drive; a National Security Letter arrives. You're lucky if you ever hear of any of these happening.
So even if the company has the best intentions and never sells or misuses the data, if they do not or can not secure it I'd rather they not have it.
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If NASA had used a 3D scanner to scan in an existing wrench, instead of designing a new one, then they could claim, in some rudimentary way, to have deployed the first instance of a star-trek style transporter. They still can.
Because you can't get a new patent on that.
You could I suppose at least trademark a new name, say USB360(tm).
to /. about inane flash-based articles when I should be working.
Because it weighs 7oz as opposed to 33oz, is a fraction of the size, and has the same power output (2W at 5V, continuous). True, the BioLite is also a stove and this isn't, but there are many high efficiency light weight stoves that should work with FlameStower, or apparently an open campfire if you're in a place where that is permitted.
If you're car camping or day hiking you may not think saving over a pound in pack weight is important, but then again you probably don't need a USB recharger either. For multi-day back country hiking lots of people pay attention to this level of weight difference (not just the ultra-light types).
I have no connection to the FlameStower people, other than considering getting one.
No, no, no, it should be the Tautsie Roll that replaces pie.
The reason for newline-tab being syntactically significant in makefiles is because by the time make's author, Stuart Feldman, realized the problems with this choice there were already about a dozen users of make and he didn't want to break any of their makefiles with an incompatible change. See _The Art of Unix Programming_ by Eric S. Raymond.
The lesson is the time to fix a bad design decision is as soon as possible, because it's not going to get any easier later; unless or until your program becomes irrelevant, at which point there's little reason to fix it at all.
James Gosling, of Java, Display Postscript, Gosling Emacs, and other fames is the chief software architect an Liquid Robotics.
... Tragically, of course, if you're a fifty year old geek, coding is as close as you're getting to sex for the rest of your life....
Boy, are YOU doing it wrong....
The coding or the sex?
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
-- US Constitution, Article VI
Why does the Texas AG not know this?
You're blaming Woodrow Wilson and the isolationist Congress/Senate of 1912 for everything that's happened in our country since?
He's referencing the Dec 23, 1913 Federal Reserve Act, creating "The Fed" and letting it print money. I don't think this had much to do with isolationism.
Congratulations on having spotted a statistical trend armed with whopping total of 2 data points.
I learned in college that a mathematician requires 2 points to determine a straight line, an engineer prefers at least 3, a statistician 4 or more, but a sociologist only needs 1.
Lafferty specialized in science fiction that was more folk-tale like, or as I see Wikipedia puts it "shaggy characters and tall tales". His short stories, in such collections as Lafferty In Orbit or Nine Hundred Grandmothers, are more approachable than his novels, especially for someone new to his style.
Disch wrote both horror and science fiction. If you're literate you owe it to yourself to read Camp Concentration. His first novel, The Genocides is an easier read, if a bit heavy-handed in its message.
If you're deeply religious you might want to avoid Disch, especially The Genocides.
Since the summary didn't say, ECPA is The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, an updated version of the 1968 Federal Wiretap Act.
FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the FISA court (technically the FISC, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) generally rubber stamps wiretapping warrants, even after the fact.
Fuck Mozilla's fucking releases every fucking other fucking week. Want me to pay attention to a new release? then don't bombard me with requests to update, or call versions barely worth an increment to the patch level a fucking release. Buy a clue and stop ruining what was a pretty decent browser. As ColdWetDog already joked, only for real, you're actually making IE look good again. The level of fuckitude necessary to reach that level of fuckedupness is almost unfuckingbeliveable.
Name another company that size that is as friendly to open source software.
Sun Microsystems, in its day. In addition to Java: NFS, ZFS, D-Trace, virtual box, StrongTalk, GlassFish, OpenSolaris, NetBeans; after buying them but keeping them open: MySQL, OpenOffice, BlueQuartz (former Cobalt stack); and in the realm of open hardware, OpenSparc T1. (No question, Sun botched some of the companies it bought.)
At its largest Sun was never as big as Google today, but proportionally Google has done far less.
Oracle is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Sun Microsystems. (For one, they make money.)
TFA says the delay is for hardware in the loop testing, not code tweaking.
One hopes normal end-to-end testing was done long before this, but given the costs and logistics of assembling the actual hardware this final phase of testing pretty much has to wait until shortly before launch.
I'm a developer and am pretty much in the camp of "if it complies and boots, ship it", but I appreciate the need for QA. When you're shooting a missile at a fragile target keeping a crew alive 200 miles above earth just maybe before you sign off on the launch you want to finish testing. It's the low delta-v docking code they're testing apparently, but docking coupling damage has happened in the past, and that or just a failure to dock would be kind of a big deal.
Did you read even the summary or just Wikipedia? 12kWh/kg, the projected max energy density of these batteries, and what they were calling "comparable", is about 43 MJ/kg (1 kWh = 3.6 MJ). That's only10% less than gasoline and "comparable" seems apt. Open question how close actual batteries ever get to that max, but that's not what you were complaining about.
And then there is effective density, when you consider the amount of energy that can be used for productive work. A gas engine typically wastes 70% to 80% of it's energy while electric motors over 100hp waste less than 8%. So lets see, using the best efficiency for gas, .3 * 47 = 14MJ/kg and for electric the NEMA minimum, .92 * 43 = 40MJ/kg, and we have electric motors with li-air batteries at 3 times the effective density of ICE with gasoline. There are other real-world considerations for true effective density, but it seems you were right after all, "comparable" isn't fair -- to a li-air car, which you seemingly would be willing to pay $60,000 for.
Pah, kids these days. Try TECO
"It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine."
-- Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL
The first versions of emacs were written in TECO, inspired in part by tmacs -- TECO macros.
Or try APL. Uses a special character set, permits composed characters, assumes you know linear algebra, and reads right to left -- the epitome of a write-only language.
Now get off my lawn.
I don't really game much anymore and so don't follow gaming news., but Deus Ex was an old favorite and I've thought about getting the new iteration. Good job Gamestop, your tactics made it made it to slashdot and my radar, introducing me to OnLive, something I hadn't heard of (or had and mistook it for a branding of Microsoft Live). Although I wonder how well it will actually work for me it seemed worthwhile enough to at least download the free client and watch some games in progress -- on a Mac where Deus Ex sn't otherwise available at that.
Not quite the Streisand Effect, but mostly because few here are as clueless about OnLive as I was. Gamestop, you don't yet seem to understand that every company memo is a public document these days.
If only they had bid Tau they would have won.
Is that you, Eric Schmidt?
Thanks for adding to our already too-nerdy knowledge.
Well, excuse me.
There, a non-Monty Python reference! That should be worth a few non-nerd points.
I guess you could say that makes this post "MP incomplete." (doh!).
AFAIK Apple doesn't have a bad rep for not supporting Flash on the iPhone. It's Xerox who has all the blame since Macs and all Apple's products are really copied from Xerox systems. They didn't support Flash either. Also Microsoft Windows is really a DEC VMS system so blame Digital if you have problems with Windows.
For those that don't know, David Cutler, who designed VMS while at DEC, went on to Microsoft where he designed Windows NT. Now, although Mr. Cutler attributes it to coincidence, W N T = V+1 M+1 S+1
Not unlike how it happens that HAL of HAL 9000 fame happens to be I-1 B-1 M-1.
So here are three scenarios:
1. You have a choice of buying an i5 for $200, or an i7 for $300.
2. You have a choice of buying an i7 that pretends to be an i5 for $200, or an i7 for $300.
3. You have a choice of buying an i7 that pretends to be an i5 for $200, or an i7 for $300. If you pay $200, you can later for a payment of $100 turn it into an i7.
For me, choices (1) and (2) are identical, but choice (3) is without any doubt better. There is no situation where I am worse off than with choice 1 or 2, and in some situations I'm better off.
You left out one significant scenario:
4. You have a choice of buying an i7, that acts like an i7, for $200.
Choice (4) is clearly best for me as a customer.
For Intel, (4) isn't any worse than (2), as clearly they think they can make a profit selling i7s at $200. For (3) it's only worse to the extent of their conversion rate, probably well under 10%, minus the cost to lock the chip, or less than $10. For (1), they are apparently just overcharging by $90 - $100.
The problem isn't that the company collects the data, it is that they then sell it to third parties to make a profit.
No, the problem isn't limited to selling. Data gets lost or stolen with alarming frequency: someone leaves a laptop on a train, with the data unencrypted; a web site permits SQL injection hacks; an employee walks away with with a flash drive; a National Security Letter arrives. You're lucky if you ever hear of any of these happening.
So even if the company has the best intentions and never sells or misuses the data, if they do not or can not secure it I'd rather they not have it.