[Dr. Joachim] envisions a wall in which tissues, skin and bones replace insulation, siding, and studs respectively. For fenestration, or openings of windows and doors, he envisions sphincter muscles that can open and close.
First thoughts that come to mind:
1) Newlywed Couples. "First thing I'm doing once we're married is picking you up and carrying you through the sphincter!"
2) Invasions of privacy. "My neighbors are really starting to get nosy. I was standing in the kitchen cooking dinner, and there's my next-door neighbor looking straight into my sphincter!"
3) Medical issues. "Doctor, can you tell me why once a month, my walls start bleeding?"
Mentioning all of the above at least once will guarantee submission of your story to Slashdot and/or rampant circulation among hobbyists who think tacking a few wires to an already-built PCB while following a "how-to" guide makes them a "hacker". Even if your design doesn't incorporate any of the above, it's still good to mention them for street cred.
...a piece of highly-specific software capable of keeping inventory of all my electronic components. It needs to be able to track resistance of my resistors, capacitance of my capacitors, and I want it to remind me when my wife's birthday is.
Certain qualifications that I'd be looking for personally are that it has to run on Linux/OSX, specifically kernel series 2.6.27, versions 32 through 43 non-inclusive, but only the odd numbered releases. If it's OSX, then it must support the 64-bit XNU kernels on PowerPC hardware. Or it can be web-based, in which case I need it to run on Apache2, specifically PHP4 so it's compatible with Worker-MPM. I'd also prefer that it prefers Informix servers over MySQL or PostgreSQL. Lighttpd and nginx are completely out of the question, even though they all do the same goddamn thing.
Oh, and for legal reasons it has to be licensed under the Death and Repudiation License (DPL)!
Bad marketing may not have been the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back, but it still played a part.
Ads demonstrated nothing about the phone short of "Take pictures, upload them instantly." Furthermore, the way that feature was demonstrated was in the context of "Stalk your ex-girlfriend, upload her pictures to your studio. Stare at them later." Either that, or "Take risque pictures, sext your girlfriend."
The Kin and Kin Two were two terribly-thought-out products, I agree with you there. But the phones were also the victims of terrible marketing from the "me-too" corporation that wanted to look young and edgy. Midlife crisis for Microsoft? Just about.
It doesn't matter if he had malicious intent or not. The police had no way of knowing for sure what his real goals were. He appeared to be gearing up to do something naughty, and they caught on and stopped him.
All they knew was that some lone wolf out there not associated with the government was trying to crack through G20 security, for *whatever* reason.
Oblig. car analogy: If I was arrested trying to break into someone's car, would the police let me go if I told them I was just moving it so the nice chap who owns it doesn't get towed for parking in a fire lane?
Do these people seriously think we're going to see 40Gbps servers any time soon?
I can't wait to see the list prices on the ensuing flood of modules.
Cisco 40Gbps SFP: $50,000/unit Cisco switch equipped to handle them: $300,000+/chassis Intel 40Gbps Server NIC: $10,000/unit Server with a completely new bus technology built to handle them: If you have to ask...
Thank you for proving to all of us that you have no clue how public education funding actually works.
1) The US government provides technology funding to public school districts. 2) The prerequisites for funding include a filtering platform to reduce abuse of the government-funded network connection. 3) Without filtering, there is no funding. Without funding, there are NO COMPUTERS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
I have a dream, that one day our children can use unfiltered internet connections in their school computer labs which actually contain no computers whatsoever.
It's that these "engineers" aren't focusing in on the right frequency.
Sure, if you're using Twitter on the index page where EVERYBODY'S public tweets show up, you're going to have a lot of shit you don't care about popping up.
However, I use Twitter on my own personalized home page. I see only posts from people I care about. My boss posts his current location on Twitter, it's immensely useful for tracking him down (he's all over the place). I subscribe to local people I know, from LUGs and so on. They occasionally post links to interesting articles or reminders about the next meeting. I subscribe to my web host's twitter feeds for network status updates.
If you don't know what the hell you're doing on Twitter and you just go around following EVERYONE like it's MySpace 2.0, of course you're going to find shit you could care less about. That's why you SUBSCRIBE to people, because you only want to hear what THEY have to say.
I thought the MIPS architecture was a licensed design... surely you can't call something 100% open source if even one component has to be licensed, can you?
In the good old US of A. I spent fifteen minutes sitting in a privacy screen waiting on a TSA agent to come pat me down (not their fault, it was very busy), and six minutes getting thoroughly wanded and having my "airport-friendly" laptop bag consensually searched.
Some people are just natural-born troublemakers, going to great lengths to make a big deal out of every possible scenario. I'd like to see how he acted as a child.
But in all seriousness, 15 minutes? And he's crying and blowing his whistle? I've been detained longer for having a penny stuck in my shoe.
Anyone who's used MATLAB in academia should know this by now.
In one of my undergraduate courses we were tasked with creating a new method to find pi. In the final stages, our accuracy was severely crippled by MATLAB's failure to handle some extremely long numbers.
Okay, so let's cut all government funding of NASA because you don't want to support "intellectual curiosity". While we're at it, let's cut all government grants to US higher education institutions. After all, that's intellectual curiosity, too!~
And let's stop giving out government-awarded scholarships to promising students. Why the hell should we all pay because they want to learn more, do some research and solve our problems?~
And none of this publicly-funded disease research shit. Let the big pharma corporations handle it, we all know they're open and willing when it comes to sharing their discoveries and creations.~
"What's happens to US citizens when they criticize the US government?'
Major media outlets and the incumbent party leaders refer to them as "teabaggers" and insist that they are just acting under the direction of the evil news conglomerate Fox News and that Dick Cheney is controlling them all via satellite from his Fortress of Doom in Halliburton's headquarters while eating kittens by the litter.
In one of the propaganda videos off to the right side of the Cisco press release, it was stated that Cisco saw the CRS1 as having a potential market of 50 units, and to date they've moved approximately 5000.
They're probably pushing the CRS3 at $90k because: 1) They learned from the CRS1 that these units will sell like hot cakes, thus they can slim the price tag and still get sizable returns. 2) The slim price tag will actually encourage further sales.
The low entry price is shocking, no doubt. With $90k in the same store you could buy 9 Cisco 10GbE XENPAK modules. I'm betting any CRS3 you can get for $90k would have either no line cards, or perhaps one or two line cards with one or two 10Gb ports each, and if anything breaks you're screwed because that $90k certainly won't get you SMARTNET included.
You're a university math professor (meaning you either have your Masters or PhD depending on the institution)......and you still somehow believe that correlation implies causation? And on top of that you're going to take one single point of data, and use it to build yourself a graph?
http://xkcd.com/605/
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By that time somebody will have created shoes made out of meat.
First thoughts that come to mind:
1) Newlywed Couples. "First thing I'm doing once we're married is picking you up and carrying you through the sphincter!"
2) Invasions of privacy. "My neighbors are really starting to get nosy. I was standing in the kitchen cooking dinner, and there's my next-door neighbor looking straight into my sphincter!"
3) Medical issues. "Doctor, can you tell me why once a month, my walls start bleeding?"
Pixel Qi + Cortex + Android + MeeGo + Open-Source Hardware + XO Laptop + Arduino
Mentioning all of the above at least once will guarantee submission of your story to Slashdot and/or rampant circulation among hobbyists who think tacking a few wires to an already-built PCB while following a "how-to" guide makes them a "hacker". Even if your design doesn't incorporate any of the above, it's still good to mention them for street cred.
...Because hook-and-loop fasteners aren't good enough at grabbing and holding things in relative zero-G?
If you want to put a vacuum cleaner in space, good luck. I'll be down here nailing Jello to a tree when you need me.
...a piece of highly-specific software capable of keeping inventory of all my electronic components. It needs to be able to track resistance of my resistors, capacitance of my capacitors, and I want it to remind me when my wife's birthday is.
Certain qualifications that I'd be looking for personally are that it has to run on Linux/OSX, specifically kernel series 2.6.27, versions 32 through 43 non-inclusive, but only the odd numbered releases. If it's OSX, then it must support the 64-bit XNU kernels on PowerPC hardware. Or it can be web-based, in which case I need it to run on Apache2, specifically PHP4 so it's compatible with Worker-MPM. I'd also prefer that it prefers Informix servers over MySQL or PostgreSQL. Lighttpd and nginx are completely out of the question, even though they all do the same goddamn thing.
Oh, and for legal reasons it has to be licensed under the Death and Repudiation License (DPL)!
And they're doing nothing more than ripping off the Mythbusters.
"Bang goes the theory"? Really? Why don't they just call it "Rumorbreakers"?
"please for help with homework, i give problems below. for all grade, please showing steps. due tomorrow."
1) P=NP?
2) List and explain three one-way functions.
3) List five rhymes for the word "orange".
who finished the story still thinking "What the fuck is Zoho?"
Bad marketing may not have been the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back, but it still played a part.
Ads demonstrated nothing about the phone short of "Take pictures, upload them instantly." Furthermore, the way that feature was demonstrated was in the context of "Stalk your ex-girlfriend, upload her pictures to your studio. Stare at them later." Either that, or "Take risque pictures, sext your girlfriend."
The Kin and Kin Two were two terribly-thought-out products, I agree with you there. But the phones were also the victims of terrible marketing from the "me-too" corporation that wanted to look young and edgy. Midlife crisis for Microsoft? Just about.
0 0 1 * * root /usr/bin/new-post.pl --subject="Oh Noes, Government Internet Killswitch!" --content=/dev/urandom --tags="privacy,yro,censorship,ohnoes,gov,evil,papersplease"
It doesn't matter if he had malicious intent or not. The police had no way of knowing for sure what his real goals were. He appeared to be gearing up to do something naughty, and they caught on and stopped him.
All they knew was that some lone wolf out there not associated with the government was trying to crack through G20 security, for *whatever* reason.
Oblig. car analogy: If I was arrested trying to break into someone's car, would the police let me go if I told them I was just moving it so the nice chap who owns it doesn't get towed for parking in a fire lane?
Do these people seriously think we're going to see 40Gbps servers any time soon?
I can't wait to see the list prices on the ensuing flood of modules.
Cisco 40Gbps SFP: $50,000/unit
Cisco switch equipped to handle them: $300,000+/chassis
Intel 40Gbps Server NIC: $10,000/unit
Server with a completely new bus technology built to handle them: If you have to ask...
Get your cost centers out, it's time to upgrade!
I dunno, unshielded Ethernet can be pretty sensitive, especially in high-EMI environments.
Easy there roid-rage. Did you get caught looking at boobies at school today?
Really Saeed, the "Post Anonymously" button isn't intended for use as a karma-shield.
Thank you for proving to all of us that you have no clue how public education funding actually works.
1) The US government provides technology funding to public school districts.
2) The prerequisites for funding include a filtering platform to reduce abuse of the government-funded network connection.
3) Without filtering, there is no funding. Without funding, there are NO COMPUTERS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
I have a dream, that one day our children can use unfiltered internet connections in their school computer labs which actually contain no computers whatsoever.
It's that these "engineers" aren't focusing in on the right frequency.
Sure, if you're using Twitter on the index page where EVERYBODY'S public tweets show up, you're going to have a lot of shit you don't care about popping up.
However, I use Twitter on my own personalized home page. I see only posts from people I care about. My boss posts his current location on Twitter, it's immensely useful for tracking him down (he's all over the place). I subscribe to local people I know, from LUGs and so on. They occasionally post links to interesting articles or reminders about the next meeting. I subscribe to my web host's twitter feeds for network status updates.
If you don't know what the hell you're doing on Twitter and you just go around following EVERYONE like it's MySpace 2.0, of course you're going to find shit you could care less about. That's why you SUBSCRIBE to people, because you only want to hear what THEY have to say.
For engineers, they sure are dumb.
I thought the MIPS architecture was a licensed design... surely you can't call something 100% open source if even one component has to be licensed, can you?
In the good old US of A. I spent fifteen minutes sitting in a privacy screen waiting on a TSA agent to come pat me down (not their fault, it was very busy), and six minutes getting thoroughly wanded and having my "airport-friendly" laptop bag consensually searched.
Some people are just natural-born troublemakers, going to great lengths to make a big deal out of every possible scenario. I'd like to see how he acted as a child.
But in all seriousness, 15 minutes? And he's crying and blowing his whistle? I've been detained longer for having a penny stuck in my shoe.
I wonder if he sleeps with a katana.
Exactly.
Anyone who's used MATLAB in academia should know this by now.
In one of my undergraduate courses we were tasked with creating a new method to find pi. In the final stages, our accuracy was severely crippled by MATLAB's failure to handle some extremely long numbers.
Ironically, Wolfram Alpha was our savior.
Okay, so let's cut all government funding of NASA because you don't want to support "intellectual curiosity". While we're at it, let's cut all government grants to US higher education institutions. After all, that's intellectual curiosity, too!~ And let's stop giving out government-awarded scholarships to promising students. Why the hell should we all pay because they want to learn more, do some research and solve our problems?~ And none of this publicly-funded disease research shit. Let the big pharma corporations handle it, we all know they're open and willing when it comes to sharing their discoveries and creations.~
Plane on a giant treadmill... in space!
"What's happens to US citizens when they criticize the US government?'
Major media outlets and the incumbent party leaders refer to them as "teabaggers" and insist that they are just acting under the direction of the evil news conglomerate Fox News and that Dick Cheney is controlling them all via satellite from his Fortress of Doom in Halliburton's headquarters while eating kittens by the litter.
In one of the propaganda videos off to the right side of the Cisco press release, it was stated that Cisco saw the CRS1 as having a potential market of 50 units, and to date they've moved approximately 5000.
They're probably pushing the CRS3 at $90k because:
1) They learned from the CRS1 that these units will sell like hot cakes, thus they can slim the price tag and still get sizable returns.
2) The slim price tag will actually encourage further sales.
The low entry price is shocking, no doubt. With $90k in the same store you could buy 9 Cisco 10GbE XENPAK modules. I'm betting any CRS3 you can get for $90k would have either no line cards, or perhaps one or two line cards with one or two 10Gb ports each, and if anything breaks you're screwed because that $90k certainly won't get you SMARTNET included.
You're a university math professor (meaning you either have your Masters or PhD depending on the institution)... ...and you still somehow believe that correlation implies causation? And on top of that you're going to take one single point of data, and use it to build yourself a graph?
http://xkcd.com/605/