But then, to a large extent they helped popularize the PC which became ubiquitous and hence became worthy of attack. The PC also became a reasonably standard platform upon which Linux etc. could be developed and cheap enough that we can all afford to own one and join in the fun. It is by no means certain that this would have happened otherwise because I don't believe security is the enemy of profit, in fact I think we'll see a future where security tightens to the point where hardware will be locked to only run a certain OS - where will Linux be then ?
Lets hope it has the necessary 7 bits of memory to store those game states. Let's also hope that nothing electrostatic happens to the machine on the way to being tested after its 'glitch'.
To my mind the whole process needs a re-think. Contemporaneous note-taking in a lecture (or a business meeting or a deposition etc.) is a vastly different task from research reading. I don't see how a single device should be bound to be good at both tasks. For notetaking, I want to be able to create links to various pieces of information quickly (photos, soundbites, manual notes, text clips etc.) and then be able to make sense of it afterwards, eg. follow the text clipped from a book back into the book to read some more if I want to. It's not like court stenography, although at least the stenographers have put some thought into their profession and come up with the tools to do their jobs. The whole thing needs a rethink and it needs infrastructure to support it too. Things like a video feed of the lecture being wirelessly broadcast live and sound on an inductive loop and links to background material being sent out in real time during the lecturer's presentation. Something that allows the student to create, on the fly, whatever mash-up passes for notes in his imagination. The real test will be if the technology facilitates a change in the way lectures are presented.
Actually I can write notes on my laptop screen. A sharpie works very well.
On a more serious note, I often used to write in pencil on the silver-colored palm rest area of my old compaq laptop. It was good for telephone numbers etc.
I'm sure that playing this every night on the news would prevent this measure from becoming law. Cameras are either good or bad, the police can't have it both ways.
The Indian community does not go into spelling because there are many other successful Indian spellers as role models, nor because their parents value the exercise or because there is a supportive community of Indian spellers. It is Nature not Nurture at play here. this is not about the evolution of a culture through positive feedback, it is all about the Creator's wish. This is intelligent Spelling Design in action.
It's important to attack something that people generally understand but find wondrous in some way. If they had chosen something that most people think they understand and is within most people's direct experience (like Gravity) the attack would be dismissed as lunatic too easily. Likewise if they had chosen something more incredible, but of which many people have not heard (like Quantum Electro-Dynamics) the attack would be seen as irrelevant, and besides; usually Children are not usually taught QED at an impressionable age. Hence they simply attack Darwinian evolution because it is a good fit in many people's world-view, not too geeky, not too well understood and part of the curriculum taught to children. It's our children they want, most of all.
It seems to me that many practitioners of religion feel that they are being discriminated against in any circumstance where their religion of choice is not actively being rammed down everyone's throat.
why people don't believe demonstrable facts, and instead concentrate on how we can exploit that. The churches figured this all out centuries ago, surely the scientific community can too.
Now maybe we can bring in Kevin Costner to clean up the water. To be fair to Costner, I don't see why at least some significant portion of the oil could not be centrifuged out of the water if one had a big enough cream separator and access to the 30,000HP engine that they used for the top kill pumping.
it is $2200, anything that costs that amount of money needs more cossetting that I'm prepared to give it on a trip
I don't want "all day computing", I want damn near "all week computing" (always on, but used for processing only for sporadic sessions sessions) on a charge
I want to be able to recharge the device through a USB mini conector just like my cellphone, so that I only need to carry one charger or can borrow one while on the road
I want something smaller, cheaper, similar in ruggedness to a cellphone and more lightweight in every sense than the le17, that to me epitomizes the tablet idea
Truth is, I'm not looking for a replacement to my Laptop. I want something robust and minimal that I can take on the road from time to time. Maybe watch a movie or read pdfs on the plane, use to deliver my pre-prepared powerpoint, maybe touch up the powerpoint a little the day before the presentation when I find out I have mis-spelled someone's name. Allow me to keep some notes perhaps. Let me ssh into the servers at work if one of them needs attention while I'm travelling, maybe let me skype home from the hotel. My needs are quite modest and, frankly, are tied to the application stack and the standard list of PC ports (VGA, USB etc.) I'm not looking for a new computing paradigm, just something to fill a niche. Hell - I'm not so pure that I can't plug a wireless mouse into the thing if it helps. Something a little slicker than my netbook would be nice.
I think there's a limit to how much detailed knowledge of a homebrew furball we can expect a level1 tech to have ? We should give the guy a chance and connect something that he can help to get to working, and then when we replace it with our own system at least we can be sure that the broadband is working. The tech's job is to get the broadband to do what it says on the box, not to assist us with our inventions. Frankly I think it is good of them to help troubleshoot any CPE at all.
No - instead some idiot will think that it's fine to put ultrabright IR lights spraying light all over the road, because no-one can see it, right ! This system will be ruined by its own widespread adoption.
while walking around the streets when visiting Ecuador. I did not have my passport on me (a legal requirement), but my girlfriend had hers. The solution that Ecuador's finest came up with was to propose that they detain my girlfriend while I went back to the hotel alone to fetch my passport. Thankfully one of them saw what an idiotic suggestion that was and talked his colleagues out of it.
Unless someone thinks you're illegal. Really - how would you face that down in the street ? Do you think your Brooklyn accent and white face will get you off ? Think again buddy, these illegals are smart, they dye their skins and take voice lessons. wooooooo, scary aliens, wooooooo.
The one slide may not be as compelling as a well-crafted 5-page essay. But next time you want to get a point across at a meeting try handing out your essay ahead of time, see who reads the fucker. Then go crawling back to powerpoint.
It pisses me off that when anyone presents any information that requires some preparation or thought or analysis on behalf of the recipient, that the messenger is automatically to blame.
The diagram in TFA looked like it might be reasonable to me. I might have preferred to have clear large printed copies of just that diagram to hand out so that I could free up the projector to present supporting slides that explained it, but so far as I can tell, as an all-encompassing overview it may well be a very erudite, accurate and useful visualization.
It seems to me that what these people are bitching about most is that the war is complex and they don't like to be reminded of that by some upstart with a laser pointer.
A far greater sin, to my mind, would be putting up dozens of near-content-free slides and then reading the bullets to the audience for slide after slide after slide.
Last I heard, you can still trade stocks and futures. Maybe all they need to do to bring everything into line is to create a new kind of derivative that shows results and settles hourly. Then have wall street run it.
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But then, to a large extent they helped popularize the PC which became ubiquitous and hence became worthy of attack. The PC also became a reasonably standard platform upon which Linux etc. could be developed and cheap enough that we can all afford to own one and join in the fun. It is by no means certain that this would have happened otherwise because I don't believe security is the enemy of profit, in fact I think we'll see a future where security tightens to the point where hardware will be locked to only run a certain OS - where will Linux be then ?
Those life forms will be considered crude oil eventually. This just speeds up the classification process.
Looks like UEFI is pretty close to being a desktop OS.
Plus, if he has car insurance; he's probably going to pay more than $90 extra annually in jacked-up insurance rates.
Lets hope it has the necessary 7 bits of memory to store those game states.
Let's also hope that nothing electrostatic happens to the machine on the way to being tested after its 'glitch'.
To my mind the whole process needs a re-think. Contemporaneous note-taking in a lecture (or a business meeting or a deposition etc.) is a vastly different task from research reading. I don't see how a single device should be bound to be good at both tasks. For notetaking, I want to be able to create links to various pieces of information quickly (photos, soundbites, manual notes, text clips etc.) and then be able to make sense of it afterwards, eg. follow the text clipped from a book back into the book to read some more if I want to. It's not like court stenography, although at least the stenographers have put some thought into their profession and come up with the tools to do their jobs.
The whole thing needs a rethink and it needs infrastructure to support it too. Things like a video feed of the lecture being wirelessly broadcast live and sound on an inductive loop and links to background material being sent out in real time during the lecturer's presentation. Something that allows the student to create, on the fly, whatever mash-up passes for notes in his imagination.
The real test will be if the technology facilitates a change in the way lectures are presented.
Actually I can write notes on my laptop screen. A sharpie works very well.
On a more serious note, I often used to write in pencil on the silver-colored palm rest area of my old compaq laptop. It was good for telephone numbers etc.
Surely the copyright on crime stories belongs to the criminals.
I'm sure that playing this every night on the news would prevent this measure from becoming law. Cameras are either good or bad, the police can't have it both ways.
The Indian community does not go into spelling because there are many other successful Indian spellers as role models, nor because their parents value the exercise or because there is a supportive community of Indian spellers. It is Nature not Nurture at play here. this is not about the evolution of a culture through positive feedback, it is all about the Creator's wish. This is intelligent Spelling Design in action.
It's important to attack something that people generally understand but find wondrous in some way. If they had chosen something that most people think they understand and is within most people's direct experience (like Gravity) the attack would be dismissed as lunatic too easily. Likewise if they had chosen something more incredible, but of which many people have not heard (like Quantum Electro-Dynamics) the attack would be seen as irrelevant, and besides; usually Children are not usually taught QED at an impressionable age. Hence they simply attack Darwinian evolution because it is a good fit in many people's world-view, not too geeky, not too well understood and part of the curriculum taught to children. It's our children they want, most of all.
It seems to me that many practitioners of religion feel that they are being discriminated against in any circumstance where their religion of choice is not actively being rammed down everyone's throat.
why people don't believe demonstrable facts, and instead concentrate on how we can exploit that. The churches figured this all out centuries ago, surely the scientific community can too.
Now maybe we can bring in Kevin Costner to clean up the water. To be fair to Costner, I don't see why at least some significant portion of the oil could not be centrifuged out of the water if one had a big enough cream separator and access to the 30,000HP engine that they used for the top kill pumping.
Yeah, but...
I want something smaller, cheaper, similar in ruggedness to a cellphone and more lightweight in every sense than the le17, that to me epitomizes the tablet idea
Truth is, I'm not looking for a replacement to my Laptop. I want something robust and minimal that I can take on the road from time to time. Maybe watch a movie or read pdfs on the plane, use to deliver my pre-prepared powerpoint, maybe touch up the powerpoint a little the day before the presentation when I find out I have mis-spelled someone's name. Allow me to keep some notes perhaps. Let me ssh into the servers at work if one of them needs attention while I'm travelling, maybe let me skype home from the hotel.
My needs are quite modest and, frankly, are tied to the application stack and the standard list of PC ports (VGA, USB etc.)
I'm not looking for a new computing paradigm, just something to fill a niche. Hell - I'm not so pure that I can't plug a wireless mouse into the thing if it helps. Something a little slicker than my netbook would be nice.
I think there's a limit to how much detailed knowledge of a homebrew furball we can expect a level1 tech to have ? We should give the guy a chance and connect something that he can help to get to working, and then when we replace it with our own system at least we can be sure that the broadband is working. The tech's job is to get the broadband to do what it says on the box, not to assist us with our inventions.
Frankly I think it is good of them to help troubleshoot any CPE at all.
No - instead some idiot will think that it's fine to put ultrabright IR lights spraying light all over the road, because no-one can see it, right ! This system will be ruined by its own widespread adoption.
Only in Arizona
while walking around the streets when visiting Ecuador. I did not have my passport on me (a legal requirement), but my girlfriend had hers. The solution that Ecuador's finest came up with was to propose that they detain my girlfriend while I went back to the hotel alone to fetch my passport. Thankfully one of them saw what an idiotic suggestion that was and talked his colleagues out of it.
Unless someone thinks you're illegal. Really - how would you face that down in the street ? Do you think your Brooklyn accent and white face will get you off ? Think again buddy, these illegals are smart, they dye their skins and take voice lessons. wooooooo, scary aliens, wooooooo.
The one slide may not be as compelling as a well-crafted 5-page essay. But next time you want to get a point across at a meeting try handing out your essay ahead of time, see who reads the fucker. Then go crawling back to powerpoint.
It pisses me off that when anyone presents any information that requires some preparation or thought or analysis on behalf of the recipient, that the messenger is automatically to blame.
The diagram in TFA looked like it might be reasonable to me. I might have preferred to have clear large printed copies of just that diagram to hand out so that I could free up the projector to present supporting slides that explained it, but so far as I can tell, as an all-encompassing overview it may well be a very erudite, accurate and useful visualization.
It seems to me that what these people are bitching about most is that the war is complex and they don't like to be reminded of that by some upstart with a laser pointer.
A far greater sin, to my mind, would be putting up dozens of near-content-free slides and then reading the bullets to the audience for slide after slide after slide.
Last I heard, you can still trade stocks and futures. Maybe all they need to do to bring everything into line is to create a new kind of derivative that shows results and settles hourly. Then have wall street run it.
and it tells me that 3,489,122 votes are needed.
This looks like another great example - some years are 366 days long.