As an example a state university in florida will have 20-30000 students and a student government budget in the millions. A budget bigger than some small cities.
Holy fuck, that's a huge variance! I wish I was one of the twenty, though. Unless there were only twenty because global warming flooded Florida.
A lot of universities already do something similar anyways.
The University Of Alabama in Huntsville teaches all math courses below Calculus in a computer lab. I'm pretty sure grad students teach those courses too. All they need to do is tape the lectures, and boom instant online course.
I know it's not really that easy, but quite a few universities really think that way. They have these (horrible) online homework systems for huge classes. So why not just post the videos as well. If the student has a question he or she will just mail the teacher. Right?
The switching is so dense and so fast, that the 7200km of cable has *in flight* 146 gigabytes of information at any given time. You can back up your typical "150GB" (143GB actual) OS hard drive and user data, and be done sending it before it starts reaching the other end (if you could buffer it to send that fast, naturally). Is that some crazy shit or what?
Now that. That is impressive. It reminds me of those old mercury delay lines.
There's http://sparkleshare.org/ if you don't mind using git to track changes. The only problem is git needs a bare repository to push and pull from, so you're still tied to a central server.
I don't mind using a central server to coordinate everything, but I don't want to store my data on it. VPS disk space is really expensive compared to dropbox after all.
Of course, the fun part is the subtitle site being illegal in the first place.
When you talk about derivatives of something being illegal then you're getting into murky moral ground.
The facts are that the "illegal" subtitles on that site were created by the community. There are no official subtitles, and the site didn't have the movies on it.
It's worse than pirating vs buying. It's a community serving a completely untapped market. If anything they got more sales. I get that it's all about control, but history tells us that too much control ends with a rebellion.
Since these things are really accellerometers,either the sensor or the computer needs to ajust for local gravity to give accurate velocity measurements.
In this case, the reading should have been around -9.8m/s2 * 2 = -19.6m/s2 when the rocket was sitting on the pad.
Maybe, but I like the idea for the same reason why I like police having cameras.
As long as it's not "Lost" when a lawsuit turns up. Hell, you could and probably should, have it automatically deleted two years later. Pilots have their last 30 minutes of communication recorded in the black box. In case anything goes wrong we have an amazing amount of data to analyze. Why can't I have that if there's a problem during surgery.
Insurance would probably go down too. I mean have you seen all those commercials about OBD trackers for cars?
As much as I hate to say it, Microsoft One Note is probably the best there is.
I ended up mainly using it as a tabbed graphics program. Since it remembers individual pen strokes, it's possible to copy a circuit diagram, remove the part the professor changed, and then draw the new changes.* Combine that with engineering paper grids, handwriting conversion, drag and drop picture embedding for annotations, and an intuitive navigation system for changing between courses and it's a necessity.
If you're talking Linux, then you're, sadly, out of luck. I haven't found anything that even comes close. One Note doesn't run in wine, and the license file is a pita to fix if something goes wrong in Windows. For all those faults, it's an amazing piece of software, and I can't find anything better. I'm currently trying to get it to work in an XP VM on Kubuntu.
*Note to professors: When you modify a circuit, give your students time to copy it from scratch, instead of immediately going on. I bought a tablet PC just for this reason.
It's actually pretty common. At my university it was participate in three experiments or write a paper. I actually tried, but It does make me wonder about the accuracy of these type of experiments. I mean, If students are forced to do a task where performance doesn't matter, why should they do their best. Especially if they're paying to be forced to do it.
Because it's not the octane rating that's the problem.
Airplane engines use it to prevent their valves from dying. Read further down on that link where it talks about NASCAR engines having trouble in early tests. These are engines that get rebuilt between races. If you think just changing the valves will solve the issue then I have some bad news for you. Most of the time it wont. Even if it does fix the issue, you're talking around $10,000 per engine to have a certified mechanic work on it and sign off on the changes. Oh, and those fixes had better be FAA approved for that particular type of engine in that aircraft.
It's a great idea, but the first step should be requiring all new aircraft to work with unleaded gasoline. They could mandate a switch, but I would expect the number of plane crashes and forced landings to quadruple afterward. On the bright side, planes are about to get really cheap.
I mean I'm a big proponent of embedded Linux, but I just can't understand why every big company or government that deals with embedded devices wants Java on there. I understand the need for high level APIs and using common systems, but still. Android is a monster designed for tablets and phones. If you stripped out the UI you wouldn't really have android any more. You'd just have an embedded Linux platform with a few Java APIs on top.
That isn't to say Android is useless. It's designed for tables, phones, and mobile devices. So, use it for those things. There's just no need for a headless sensor to be running so much unused crap.
Ahh well, welcome to the military industrial complex. A place where Agile development doesn't exist and the requirements docs for waterfall are changed every other month. That plus a little pork here and there show just why those cost plus contracts end up taking so much money.
I really don't understand this belief that fusion will be a panacea.
Yes, I'm excited about the prospect of commercial energy positive fusion plants, but that's as much because I love the idea of fusion drives for spaceships with easy refueling as anything else.
Fusion still produces radiation, it still contaminates the primary containment vessel, and it will probably contaminate the primary heat transfer loop's working fluid as well. The big thing is that when you hit the scram button, it should stop almost instantly. On the other hand, fusion plants will have hydrogen storage out the wazoo. If I'm remembering right, a hydrogen explosion was a big part of Fukushima. So, no Uranium or Plutonium, but you still have explosive gas, and radioactive steam. Also don't forget that when the plant closes from age it's still radioactive. So it'll cost just as much to dismantle as a regular fission plant.
Nope. Copyright belongs to whoever recorded it, unless it's a work for hire with a contract and everything. Every time you hand your camera to someone for them to take a picture of you, they own the copyright NOT you. I will agree that copyright is screwed up because of this, but nothing needs to be resolved as far as glass is concerned.
What is this free market that you speak of? Who would give the bribes, I mean campaign donations, in a free market. That's what regulation is for after all. A company first pays to not be regulated, then they pay to be regulated in a way that only hurts startups or their competitors. Don't you know how the system works?
The problem is they can afford to hire local lawyers to incorporate all of these subsidiaries in different countries. It's a pretty common strategy, but the setup costs are so high most people working abroad don't do it.
Then there's the lovely fact that if the IRS ever decides corporate non-compliance, they fine the company. If they decide a person is in non-compliance they threaten there entire family with poverty and jail time unless the person agrees to plead guilty. This actually happened to a friend of mine.
Huawei doesn't install backdoors in there equipment, because it's so badly coded that there are huge vulnerabilities all over the place. Who needs a backdoor, when good old 90's buffer overflows are everywhere.
That means if someone can ever prove that the investigation was started by an illegal wiretap, then everything is considered inadmissible.
The reality is the judges will tap dance around the issue because they want to put the person in jail. Hello, Mr. Enemy Combatant. What use is a lawyer if you never see a courtroom.
Right, because that's just what I want. Someone else who has all of my online purchase history.
Plus, it's not that simple. 99% of all retailers calculate total price as base plus tax. Almost all online shopping software supports doing state taxes, but retailers are going to want to charge you the tax at checkout time. This means you feed an XML file into your software, then write a different check to each government. You could have an organization write the individual checks, but you're still billing the customers at checkout time.
I have a few problems with the bill. First, this has the potential to turn into a privacy nightmare. To insure compliance, businesses will probably be forced to give names and dollar amounts straight to the government. Second, this heaps a significant amount of work on businesses. Not so much for ones employing thousands of people, but the cap is set so low it's easy for a three or four man company to trigger it.
Also, don't be surprised if this is used as an excuse to go after foreign businesses. Since most won't even have heard about this law, I doubt many will comply. Then, there's the fact that some countries have online retailers charge sales tax on all purchases. So, for those countries you would be taxed twice when you buy from them.
Yeah, teach me to double check that my links work. From the intro to the article: "The total amount of energy received at ground level from the sun at the zenith is 1004 watts per square meter, which is composed of 527 watts of infrared radiation, 445 watts of visible light, and 32 watts of ultraviolet radiation."
Of course, we're both quoting Wikipedia, so you have to take all the numbers with a huge grain of salt.
The problem is all of those technologies you listed rely on their own light source. You need something fundamentally different to read in bright ambient light. Something like E-Ink.
At 100% efficiency you'd need 445W/m^2 to be the same brightness as the sun (Sunlight/url). Or, you could just change the screen once, and not have to worry about it becoming washed out.
My prediction is that E-Ink will become higher resolution, cheaper, and faster. I think that most general purpose tablets will come with E-Ink screens in the near future. Mind you, first we will need color screens with a decent refresh rate. Hell, they're already perfect for military applications. Those guy's typically have static data like maps and need to be able to read them during high noon in the desert.
Here's a thought. In some cases Microsoft is now double dipping.
The device creators pay the M$ extortion fee, and now the manufacturer does as well. So, for every phone made M$ has potentially doubled there profits. Illegal? Probably not. Unethical? When has that ever gotten in the way of M$ profits?
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As an example a state university in florida will have 20-30000 students and a student government budget in the millions. A budget bigger than some small cities.
Holy fuck, that's a huge variance! I wish I was one of the twenty, though. Unless there were only twenty because global warming flooded Florida.
[I know he meant 20k-30k]
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A lot of universities already do something similar anyways.
The University Of Alabama in Huntsville teaches all math courses below Calculus in a computer lab. I'm pretty sure grad students teach those courses too. All they need to do is tape the lectures, and boom instant online course.
I know it's not really that easy, but quite a few universities really think that way. They have these (horrible) online homework systems for huge classes. So why not just post the videos as well. If the student has a question he or she will just mail the teacher. Right?
The switching is so dense and so fast, that the 7200km of cable has *in flight* 146 gigabytes of information at any given time. You can back up your typical "150GB" (143GB actual) OS hard drive and user data, and be done sending it before it starts reaching the other end (if you could buffer it to send that fast, naturally). Is that some crazy shit or what?
Now that. That is impressive. It reminds me of those old mercury delay lines.
There's http://sparkleshare.org/ if you don't mind using git to track changes. The only problem is git needs a bare repository to push and pull from, so you're still tied to a central server.
I don't mind using a central server to coordinate everything, but I don't want to store my data on it. VPS disk space is really expensive compared to dropbox after all.
Of course, the fun part is the subtitle site being illegal in the first place.
When you talk about derivatives of something being illegal then you're getting into murky moral ground.
The facts are that the "illegal" subtitles on that site were created by the community. There are no official subtitles, and the site didn't have the movies on it.
It's worse than pirating vs buying. It's a community serving a completely untapped market. If anything they got more sales. I get that it's all about control, but history tells us that too much control ends with a rebellion.
Gravity.
Since these things are really accellerometers,either the sensor or the computer needs to ajust for local gravity to give accurate velocity measurements.
In this case, the reading should have been around -9.8m/s2 * 2 = -19.6m/s2 when the rocket was sitting on the pad.
Maybe, but I like the idea for the same reason why I like police having cameras.
As long as it's not "Lost" when a lawsuit turns up. Hell, you could and probably should, have it automatically deleted two years later. Pilots have their last 30 minutes of communication recorded in the black box. In case anything goes wrong we have an amazing amount of data to analyze. Why can't I have that if there's a problem during surgery.
Insurance would probably go down too. I mean have you seen all those commercials about OBD trackers for cars?
As much as I hate to say it, Microsoft One Note is probably the best there is.
I ended up mainly using it as a tabbed graphics program. Since it remembers individual pen strokes, it's possible to copy a circuit diagram, remove the part the professor changed, and then draw the new changes.* Combine that with engineering paper grids, handwriting conversion, drag and drop picture embedding for annotations, and an intuitive navigation system for changing between courses and it's a necessity.
If you're talking Linux, then you're, sadly, out of luck. I haven't found anything that even comes close. One Note doesn't run in wine, and the license file is a pita to fix if something goes wrong in Windows. For all those faults, it's an amazing piece of software, and I can't find anything better. I'm currently trying to get it to work in an XP VM on Kubuntu.
*Note to professors: When you modify a circuit, give your students time to copy it from scratch, instead of immediately going on. I bought a tablet PC just for this reason.
PS: Ehh, who needs mod points.
It's actually pretty common. At my university it was participate in three experiments or write a paper. I actually tried, but It does make me wonder about the accuracy of these type of experiments. I mean, If students are forced to do a task where performance doesn't matter, why should they do their best. Especially if they're paying to be forced to do it.
Because it's not the octane rating that's the problem.
Airplane engines use it to prevent their valves from dying. Read further down on that link where it talks about NASCAR engines having trouble in early tests. These are engines that get rebuilt between races. If you think just changing the valves will solve the issue then I have some bad news for you. Most of the time it wont. Even if it does fix the issue, you're talking around $10,000 per engine to have a certified mechanic work on it and sign off on the changes. Oh, and those fixes had better be FAA approved for that particular type of engine in that aircraft.
It's a great idea, but the first step should be requiring all new aircraft to work with unleaded gasoline. They could mandate a switch, but I would expect the number of plane crashes and forced landings to quadruple afterward. On the bright side, planes are about to get really cheap.
Why Android?
I mean I'm a big proponent of embedded Linux, but I just can't understand why every big company or government that deals with embedded devices wants Java on there. I understand the need for high level APIs and using common systems, but still. Android is a monster designed for tablets and phones. If you stripped out the UI you wouldn't really have android any more. You'd just have an embedded Linux platform with a few Java APIs on top.
That isn't to say Android is useless. It's designed for tables, phones, and mobile devices. So, use it for those things. There's just no need for a headless sensor to be running so much unused crap.
Ahh well, welcome to the military industrial complex. A place where Agile development doesn't exist and the requirements docs for waterfall are changed every other month. That plus a little pork here and there show just why those cost plus contracts end up taking so much money.
I really don't understand this belief that fusion will be a panacea.
Yes, I'm excited about the prospect of commercial energy positive fusion plants, but that's as much because I love the idea of fusion drives for spaceships with easy refueling as anything else.
Fusion still produces radiation, it still contaminates the primary containment vessel, and it will probably contaminate the primary heat transfer loop's working fluid as well. The big thing is that when you hit the scram button, it should stop almost instantly. On the other hand, fusion plants will have hydrogen storage out the wazoo. If I'm remembering right, a hydrogen explosion was a big part of Fukushima. So, no Uranium or Plutonium, but you still have explosive gas, and radioactive steam. Also don't forget that when the plant closes from age it's still radioactive. So it'll cost just as much to dismantle as a regular fission plant.
One more thing I don't get - why are they reporting a 2011 paper today?
Ehh, It's Slashdot.
Nope.
Copyright belongs to whoever recorded it, unless it's a work for hire with a contract and everything.
Every time you hand your camera to someone for them to take a picture of you, they own the copyright NOT you. I will agree that copyright is screwed up because of this, but nothing needs to be resolved as far as glass is concerned.
What is this free market that you speak of? Who would give the bribes, I mean campaign donations, in a free market. That's what regulation is for after all. A company first pays to not be regulated, then they pay to be regulated in a way that only hurts startups or their competitors. Don't you know how the system works?
I know where he can get some good PR people. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/
If you aren't rich it's not "eccentric" it's crazy.
Still, better than a parents basement though...
You sir/madam/machine/thing have won several internets.
If you would like, I have a recently widowed Nigerian prince who will send them to you.
Actually, the US is pretty big on taxing all income. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_taxation
The problem is they can afford to hire local lawyers to incorporate all of these subsidiaries in different countries. It's a pretty common strategy, but the setup costs are so high most people working abroad don't do it.
Then there's the lovely fact that if the IRS ever decides corporate non-compliance, they fine the company. If they decide a person is in non-compliance they threaten there entire family with poverty and jail time unless the person agrees to plead guilty. This actually happened to a friend of mine.
It's worse than that.
This shows what I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ugdpbPW_k3g#t=1964s
Huawei doesn't install backdoors in there equipment, because it's so badly coded that there are huge vulnerabilities all over the place. Who needs a backdoor, when good old 90's buffer overflows are everywhere.
The fun part is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
That means if someone can ever prove that the investigation was started by an illegal wiretap, then everything is considered inadmissible.
The reality is the judges will tap dance around the issue because they want to put the person in jail. Hello, Mr. Enemy Combatant. What use is a lawyer if you never see a courtroom.
Right, because that's just what I want. Someone else who has all of my online purchase history.
Plus, it's not that simple. 99% of all retailers calculate total price as base plus tax. Almost all online shopping software supports doing state taxes, but retailers are going to want to charge you the tax at checkout time. This means you feed an XML file into your software, then write a different check to each government. You could have an organization write the individual checks, but you're still billing the customers at checkout time.
I have a few problems with the bill. First, this has the potential to turn into a privacy nightmare. To insure compliance, businesses will probably be forced to give names and dollar amounts straight to the government. Second, this heaps a significant amount of work on businesses. Not so much for ones employing thousands of people, but the cap is set so low it's easy for a three or four man company to trigger it.
Also, don't be surprised if this is used as an excuse to go after foreign businesses. Since most won't even have heard about this law, I doubt many will comply. Then, there's the fact that some countries have online retailers charge sales tax on all purchases. So, for those countries you would be taxed twice when you buy from them.
Yeah, teach me to double check that my links work. From the intro to the article: "The total amount of energy received at ground level from the sun at the zenith is 1004 watts per square meter, which is composed of 527 watts of infrared radiation, 445 watts of visible light, and 32 watts of ultraviolet radiation."
Of course, we're both quoting Wikipedia, so you have to take all the numbers with a huge grain of salt.
The problem is all of those technologies you listed rely on their own light source. You need something fundamentally different to read in bright ambient light. Something like E-Ink.
At 100% efficiency you'd need 445W/m^2 to be the same brightness as the sun (Sunlight/url). Or, you could just change the screen once, and not have to worry about it becoming washed out.
My prediction is that E-Ink will become higher resolution, cheaper, and faster. I think that most general purpose tablets will come with E-Ink screens in the near future. Mind you, first we will need color screens with a decent refresh rate. Hell, they're already perfect for military applications. Those guy's typically have static data like maps and need to be able to read them during high noon in the desert.
Here's a thought. In some cases Microsoft is now double dipping.
The device creators pay the M$ extortion fee, and now the manufacturer does as well. So, for every phone made M$ has potentially doubled there profits. Illegal? Probably not. Unethical? When has that ever gotten in the way of M$ profits?