Just use a bunch of AWS instances (or the equivalent cloud system) and enjoy your own supercomputer from the "privacy" of your own internet connection.
So I'd better hope the one that's headed for a near miss is black, so it doesn't curve and land on my house. It is senseless to worry about something with such infinitesimal odds, though. We should worry about the baggage retrieval system at Heathrow instead.
I will pay attention to Amazon's view on patents after they give up their one-click patent, one of the most intuitively obvious and abused patents ever issued.
If control to the nation's power grid is accessible over the internet, then we have problems far more serious than hackers. It's almost like the head of Homeland Security doesn't even know how to use email.
Differential GPS can reduce that error of "tens of meters" to a few inches, even in a solar storm. A ground station at known location calculates the error and transmits it to the mobile GPS receiver, which adds the error into its location calculations.
The difficulty is allowing Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, and Samsung to operate freely, yet still use SPLs (Stupid Patent Lawsuits) to keep smaller companies from eroding their well-earned oligopoly.
Maybe that explains why Microsoft upgrades are consistently more cumbersome, restrictive, and difficult to use. I think I liked them better as a software company.
A benefit of free academic journals is that the "real" science articles will be available to the masses, and not just those with biased content. With the advent of cheap electronic publishing, there has been a proliferation of free "peer-reviewed" journals whose purpose is to promote one ideology or another, often confusing science with faith or politics. These journals are rarely read but often cited by those who agree with their ideology.
"Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has called Windows 8 'puzzling' and 'confusing initially,' but assured users that they would eventually learn to like the new OS."
Microsoft seems to design their software not to give customers what customers want, but to change customer behavior into what Microsoft wants. As a result, many users have a much harder time using new releases, whether it is Windows, Office, or.Net. The Start button in Windows 7 is a big time saver for many. For whatever reason, probably to wean us from the keyboard, Microsoft has ditched, or at least crippled it in Windows 8.
Maybe desktop users prefer not to be limited to a tablet operating system. Maybe users would like a functional help system in Office and.net. Maybe users prefer not like to be pressured into using confusing libraries in Windows Explorer. Maybe the philosophy of "If we build it, they'll have to come" is why Microsoft is so far behind in operating systems for tablets and smartphones.
In 1974, GE loaned a Telex terminal to our small-town high school. In advanced math class I got to write Basic programs on paper tape. Made a long distance phone call to run the program on a mainframe, usually once a day. Made me quite careful about syntax errors. I was hooked -- in a few years I had a couple of CS degrees.
Now the high school kids use tiny tablets with more storage, memory, and speed than the mainframes of the '70s. They control undersea submersible vehicles via satellite, real time, from the classroom. It's great! Can't way to see what happens in the next 20 or 40 years.
A spreadsheet application is a tool designed to be used by non-programmers. Someone can lose millions with a paper spreadsheet -- it's just easier using a computer.
How many people have carried on bombs to airplanes in the past 20 years? Far fewer than were struck by lightning.
This seems to be just another way for a large corporation to make money off the infinite budget of Homeland Security. We would save many more lives using this money on cancer research or to fight drunk driving.
It's interesting that this article didn't make the front page of latimes.com, washingtonpost.com, or nytimes.com. In 1987, when Toshiba sold milling machines to Russia for submarine propeller manufacture, it was a huge controversy. I believe we are living in a safer world.
The New Scientist frequently makes quantum leaps in logic. Or was that logic leaps in quantum physics? I GET SO CONFUSED! At any rate, the real article is a bit less sensational.
I hope Congress is unable to pass cybersecurity legislation until its members understand the internet. The control systems for dams and power distribution can be disconnected from the internet; yet that's the prime scenario for scare stories about Chinese and Iranian hackers. After sufficient hype and scary publicity, laws are proposed to impose greater penalties on copyright violations and limit P2P file transfers in the name of cybersecurity. This happens OVER and OVER!
Political parties have been paying consultants to write and maintain positive Wikipedia entries on their minor politicians for years. [citation needed]
Tablets, phones, etc. are a lot slower to enter and read information. Fast, reliable two-way voice communications will remedy this. It would be acceptable even with a modified language that's more acceptable to the computer and less ambiguous.
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Just use a bunch of AWS instances (or the equivalent cloud system) and enjoy your own supercomputer from the "privacy" of your own internet connection.
So I'd better hope the one that's headed for a near miss is black, so it doesn't curve and land on my house. It is senseless to worry about something with such infinitesimal odds, though. We should worry about the baggage retrieval system at Heathrow instead.
I will pay attention to Amazon's view on patents after they give up their one-click patent, one of the most intuitively obvious and abused patents ever issued.
If control to the nation's power grid is accessible over the internet, then we have problems far more serious than hackers. It's almost like the head of Homeland Security doesn't even know how to use email.
Differential GPS can reduce that error of "tens of meters" to a few inches, even in a solar storm. A ground station at known location calculates the error and transmits it to the mobile GPS receiver, which adds the error into its location calculations.
The difficulty is allowing Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, and Samsung to operate freely, yet still use SPLs (Stupid Patent Lawsuits) to keep smaller companies from eroding their well-earned oligopoly.
I agree. It's nice to see competence and common sense in a large company.
Maybe that explains why Microsoft upgrades are consistently more cumbersome, restrictive, and difficult to use. I think I liked them better as a software company.
A benefit of free academic journals is that the "real" science articles will be available to the masses, and not just those with biased content. With the advent of cheap electronic publishing, there has been a proliferation of free "peer-reviewed" journals whose purpose is to promote one ideology or another, often confusing science with faith or politics. These journals are rarely read but often cited by those who agree with their ideology.
"Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has called Windows 8 'puzzling' and 'confusing initially,' but assured users that they would eventually learn to like the new OS."
Microsoft seems to design their software not to give customers what customers want, but to change customer behavior into what Microsoft wants. As a result, many users have a much harder time using new releases, whether it is Windows, Office, or .Net. The Start button in Windows 7 is a big time saver for many. For whatever reason, probably to wean us from the keyboard, Microsoft has ditched, or at least crippled it in Windows 8.
.net. Maybe users prefer not like to be pressured into using confusing libraries in Windows Explorer. Maybe the philosophy of "If we build it, they'll have to come" is why Microsoft is so far behind in operating systems for tablets and smartphones.
Maybe desktop users prefer not to be limited to a tablet operating system. Maybe users would like a functional help system in Office and
In 1974, GE loaned a Telex terminal to our small-town high school. In advanced math class I got to write Basic programs on paper tape. Made a long distance phone call to run the program on a mainframe, usually once a day. Made me quite careful about syntax errors. I was hooked -- in a few years I had a couple of CS degrees.
Now the high school kids use tiny tablets with more storage, memory, and speed than the mainframes of the '70s. They control undersea submersible vehicles via satellite, real time, from the classroom. It's great! Can't way to see what happens in the next 20 or 40 years.
Measure performance based on lines of code put online. That should help efficiency.
A spreadsheet application is a tool designed to be used by non-programmers. Someone can lose millions with a paper spreadsheet -- it's just easier using a computer.
mm wavelength scanners will prevent Logan Airport from being blown up by LED T-Shirts.
We need more scanners.
How many people have carried on bombs to airplanes in the past 20 years? Far fewer than were struck by lightning.
This seems to be just another way for a large corporation to make money off the infinite budget of Homeland Security. We would save many more lives using this money on cancer research or to fight drunk driving.
It's interesting that this article didn't make the front page of latimes.com, washingtonpost.com, or nytimes.com. In 1987, when Toshiba sold milling machines to Russia for submarine propeller manufacture, it was a huge controversy. I believe we are living in a safer world.
The New Scientist frequently makes quantum leaps in logic. Or was that logic leaps in quantum physics? I GET SO CONFUSED! At any rate, the real article is a bit less sensational.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v490/n7418/full/nature11505.html
Right. Even though in this instance the headline opinion is correct. In my opinion. Do non-sentences count if you use a period?
I hope Congress is unable to pass cybersecurity legislation until its members understand the internet. The control systems for dams and power distribution can be disconnected from the internet; yet that's the prime scenario for scare stories about Chinese and Iranian hackers. After sufficient hype and scary publicity, laws are proposed to impose greater penalties on copyright violations and limit P2P file transfers in the name of cybersecurity. This happens OVER and OVER!
We can get Helium from all the Hydrogen fusion power plants. It might just be a little too hot to handle. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/fusion-energy-breaking-even/
Political parties have been paying consultants to write and maintain positive Wikipedia entries on their minor politicians for years. [citation needed]
NK603 is as dangerous as cell phone radiation.
Tablets, phones, etc. are a lot slower to enter and read information. Fast, reliable two-way voice communications will remedy this. It would be acceptable even with a modified language that's more acceptable to the computer and less ambiguous.
It will make be a pain to re-do this every time a password is changed.