a world where once you leave your local shopping store a man follows you around all day, recording where you go, what you look at, what you buy, the music you listen to, the tv shows you watch, which commercials you pay attention to, which ones you don't. There's no law against this, and if you tell him to leave you alone he ignores you. You file an opt out form and he still follows you, but now he hides in the bushes. This is what is happening, but to all of your online life. Thanks for reading.
AdBlock. It's like being able to bash that man with a baseball bat.
Street lights:
LED (should) last longer than Sodium for about the same number of lumens per watt
Sodium draws less power than Mercury vapor
Mercury draws lots less power than incandescent (which no one uses any more)
Traffic lights:
A good quality (many of the early ones weren't) LED signal will last far longer than an incandescent bulb
I've never seen the "snow obscures signal and doesn't melt" problem here in Boston, but it seems plausible
With distribution and reproduction costs approaching zero (bits are bits, and they travel at 0.7c), I'd expect to see the artists getting about half the selling price. Of course, that's not going to happen in our lifetime, but it would be a nice goal.
Why, when there's a file in my home directory called.gconf (and another called.gnome), do the Gnome developers feel the need to *remove a feature*, instead of just defaulting it to "disabled"? It's almost like they are missing the point of Linux/Unix entirely...
...it pretty much removes God from the whole picture. His place is then relegated to the creation of life in it's absolutely fundamental form, where evolution takes over.
If you believe in an omnipotent, omniscient creator Deity, what's wrong with believeing that the entire framework, "life, the universe and everything", as Douglas Admas would have said, was created by that Deity? Evolution then becomes just another cog in the marvelous machine. The Bible description of the creation of the world, may be based on "the literal word of God", but it was transcribed and reproduced by Man, and as such, is by definition, imperfect. It makes much more sense to me to believe that a Deity created the universe and the laws by which it functions, and then sat back to watch chemistry, biology and physics do the rest.
Of course, common sense has no place in this debate...
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when a couple of dark-suited guys in shades asked Linus to insert a back door in Linux. I'm sure there's a classified report of the attempt filed somewhere at NSA.
Of course he is psychologically fit, the pasta strainer will shield his brain from the orbital mind control lasers.
...providing, of course, that the diameter of the holes in the strainer is less than 0.5 of the wavelength of the mind control rays.
Other research (http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/) suggests that the strainer could actually magnify the effect of the mind control rays.
They had a story on this. Apparently, the exact amount TW pays CBS per subscriber per month is a closely guarded secret, but I'm willing to bet TW won't be adjusting subscribers' bills to deduct that amount during the lockout. So TW will actually make *more* profit during the blackout (as long as subscribers don't drop cable altogether)
The media companies don't realize that they're in competition with the torrent sites. People will pay for content, but only if it's easily avalable, int the format they need, at a reaonable cost, when they want it. Torrent sites meet that need, the media companies are all about subscriptions, bundles, "not released in your area yet" and a raft of convoluted and constantly changing access mechanisms. Is it any wonder people choose torrents?
We ordered a cake for our guys (and their "Jen"), then called the m to our conference room, one by one. Judging from the silence and lack of leftovers, it was well received!
The pool is plenty big, it's the employers not wanting to hire and train EEs that's the problem. They'll all say there aren't enough US engineers, but that's a crock. What they really mean is, as one of the posters above said, it's easier to "maximize shareholder value" by hiring H1Bs, who work long hours because they have to go home if they're laid off. Employers love this situation.
I've been doing EE for over 30 years, and my secret (aside from loving what I do) is to keep learning and try not to get pigeonholed. If I had taken a well-paying job in the 90s doing gate array verification, I'd probably be out of work right now. Instead, I worked for a networking company, designing intelligent controllers, knowledge I could use when I was laid off and hired by a consulting firm to do embedded design.
Keep learning, and if you're young with no experience, look for small companies who are trying to make it. Ask for a job as an intern and work your way up. To some extent, you're paying (by taking a lower salary) the experience you get, but that experience will get you your next job. If you really love engineering, you'll have a workshop at home and play with stuff on your own as well. It's all grist for the mill. A small company loves multi talented employees, a huge corporation could care less. I wish I had been brave enough to start small when I got my first job.
Sadly, you do require the copyright holder's permission to create one...which is sad if the creator of the original work chooses not to authorize it in your language.
I can see both sides of this, but there should be a loophole for non-commercial works. There's no way the studio can show economic losses, and the derivative work is valueless in and of itself (without the original film).
He's a moron. He doesn't understand the business AT ALL. Plus, he's obnoxious as hell.
Normally, I would object to ad hominem attacks. But you're right. And, he may be obnoxious, but he's way richer than you or any of us. So, I guess that proves you can be wrong, clueless and obnoxious, but still make pantloads of money. TANJ.
Why not just insert something at the compiler level. Perhaps they have compromised GCC itself or something at a different, less obvious point in the process of development?
Well, yes, that could be interesting...http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
I had to take a semester of assembly language at college. The choice was a PDP-11 in the CS lab (sign up, lowest priority for time => late nights and weekends) or one section that would learn CDC6600 (Cyber 74) assembly. Guess which one I picked?:-) I have totally forgotten all I learned, but it sure was fun while I was doing it!
// eyes, lunar lander and baseball game on the dual vector displays
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Hmm...on one hand, Facebook, on the other, AdBlock.
:-)
I know which one *I* would choose
a world where once you leave your local shopping store a man follows you around all day, recording where you go, what you look at, what you buy, the music you listen to, the tv shows you watch, which commercials you pay attention to, which ones you don't. There's no law against this, and if you tell him to leave you alone he ignores you. You file an opt out form and he still follows you, but now he hides in the bushes. This is what is happening, but to all of your online life. Thanks for reading.
AdBlock. It's like being able to bash that man with a baseball bat.
Street lights:
LED (should) last longer than Sodium for about the same number of lumens per watt
Sodium draws less power than Mercury vapor
Mercury draws lots less power than incandescent (which no one uses any more)
Traffic lights:
A good quality (many of the early ones weren't) LED signal will last far longer than an incandescent bulb
I've never seen the "snow obscures signal and doesn't melt" problem here in Boston, but it seems plausible
And the "rat" that tripped the braker in the previous incident is a 6 ft tall, glowing green rat with three eyes and a forked tail...
[3-eyed fish knowingly blinks its eyes (sequentially)]
With distribution and reproduction costs approaching zero (bits are bits, and they travel at 0.7c), I'd expect to see the artists getting about half the selling price. Of course, that's not going to happen in our lifetime, but it would be a nice goal.
So these people are Barney Fife.
More Inspector Clouseau than Barney Fife...
This is news for nerds because of Twitter! Twitter is all technical and stuff, with the computers and the social media buzz.
Seriously, WTF? What's next? Baseball scores?
Dude, it's football season.
...unless you're in the playoffs, like the RED SOX!!!!
Why, when there's a file in my home directory called .gconf (and another called .gnome), do the Gnome developers feel the need to *remove a feature*, instead of just defaulting it to "disabled"? It's almost like they are missing the point of Linux/Unix entirely...
...it pretty much removes God from the whole picture. His place is then relegated to the creation of life in it's absolutely fundamental form, where evolution takes over.
If you believe in an omnipotent, omniscient creator Deity, what's wrong with believeing that the entire framework, "life, the universe and everything", as Douglas Admas would have said, was created by that Deity? Evolution then becomes just another cog in the marvelous machine. The Bible description of the creation of the world, may be based on "the literal word of God", but it was transcribed and reproduced by Man, and as such, is by definition, imperfect. It makes much more sense to me to believe that a Deity created the universe and the laws by which it functions, and then sat back to watch chemistry, biology and physics do the rest.
Of course, common sense has no place in this debate...
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when a couple of dark-suited guys in shades asked Linus to insert a back door in Linux. I'm sure there's a classified report of the attempt filed somewhere at NSA.
Good on Linus for declining
Higher sample rate = more samples per second ~ more frames per second = slow motion. Shorter nerve lengths as well...
Of course he is psychologically fit, the pasta strainer will shield his brain from the orbital mind control lasers.
Other research (http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/) suggests that the strainer could actually magnify the effect of the mind control rays.
So, it's your choice, really...
Stealth moose already exist. And they can be more effective at taking out an unsuspecting vehicle than a Predator drone...
My money's on the stealth polar bears.
They had a story on this. Apparently, the exact amount TW pays CBS per subscriber per month is a closely guarded secret, but I'm willing to bet TW won't be adjusting subscribers' bills to deduct that amount during the lockout. So TW will actually make *more* profit during the blackout (as long as subscribers don't drop cable altogether)
The media companies don't realize that they're in competition with the torrent sites. People will pay for content, but only if it's easily avalable, int the format they need, at a reaonable cost, when they want it. Torrent sites meet that need, the media companies are all about subscriptions, bundles, "not released in your area yet" and a raft of convoluted and constantly changing access mechanisms. Is it any wonder people choose torrents?
We ordered a cake for our guys (and their "Jen"), then called the m to our conference room, one by one. Judging from the silence and lack of leftovers, it was well received!
The trademark in question is registered to Herr Freyer, not to the (dissolved) Malshandir Ltd. So he owns it and it hasn't expired.
$99 fire sale combined with availability of an Android build would really have them flying off the shelves...
So...does this mean that this is the "year of the Linux desktop"? :-)
The pool is plenty big, it's the employers not wanting to hire and train EEs that's the problem. They'll all say there aren't enough US engineers, but that's a crock. What they really mean is, as one of the posters above said, it's easier to "maximize shareholder value" by hiring H1Bs, who work long hours because they have to go home if they're laid off. Employers love this situation.
I've been doing EE for over 30 years, and my secret (aside from loving what I do) is to keep learning and try not to get pigeonholed. If I had taken a well-paying job in the 90s doing gate array verification, I'd probably be out of work right now. Instead, I worked for a networking company, designing intelligent controllers, knowledge I could use when I was laid off and hired by a consulting firm to do embedded design.
Keep learning, and if you're young with no experience, look for small companies who are trying to make it. Ask for a job as an intern and work your way up. To some extent, you're paying (by taking a lower salary) the experience you get, but that experience will get you your next job. If you really love engineering, you'll have a workshop at home and play with stuff on your own as well. It's all grist for the mill. A small company loves multi talented employees, a huge corporation could care less. I wish I had been brave enough to start small when I got my first job.
Sadly, you do require the copyright holder's permission to create one...which is sad if the creator of the original work chooses not to authorize it in your language. I can see both sides of this, but there should be a loophole for non-commercial works. There's no way the studio can show economic losses, and the derivative work is valueless in and of itself (without the original film).
"The main functionality of this is in the texting space,"
...where the cool kids already use the single character "d", as in:
u c d boyz yet?
He's a moron. He doesn't understand the business AT ALL. Plus, he's obnoxious as hell.
Normally, I would object to ad hominem attacks. But you're right. And, he may be obnoxious, but he's way richer than you or any of us. So, I guess that proves you can be wrong, clueless and obnoxious, but still make pantloads of money. TANJ.
Why not just insert something at the compiler level. Perhaps they have compromised GCC itself or something at a different, less obvious point in the process of development?
Well, yes, that could be interesting...http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Control Data 6000 series monsters from 1964 and its successors the Cybers, complete with screen shots of its then innovative console.
I had to take a semester of assembly language at college. The choice was a PDP-11 in the CS lab (sign up, lowest priority for time => late nights and weekends) or one section that would learn CDC6600 (Cyber 74) assembly. Guess which one I picked? :-) I have totally forgotten all I learned, but it sure was fun while I was doing it!
// eyes, lunar lander and baseball game on the dual vector displays