I think Robin Hanson's commentary on the movie's lack of internal consistency is valid.
I don't think Slashdot supports spoiler-hiding, so I'll just leave a link rather than quoting plot-relevant sections of the post.
But his conclusion is:
This is somewhat like a story of a world where kids can buy nukes for $1 each at drug stores, and then a few kids use nukes to dig a fun cave to explore, after which all the world’s nukes are accidentally misplaced, end of story. Might make an interesting story, but bizarre as a projection of a world with $1 nukes sold at drug stores.
Fourth: Tabs under the address bar please. I don't care about your ideas about how it's illogical, I am more likely to want to change tabs than to click on the address bar, and if I need to get to the address bar I can use ctrl-L or alt-D.
I agree that I'm more likely to want to switch tabs. But that's the exact reason why tabs on top is better. When the top of the tab bar is flush with the top of the desktop (with your browser maximised or aligned to the top of the desktop), all the tab buttons are effectively infinitely tall because you can just smash the mouse vertically upwards and only need to precisely navigate in the horizontal axis. This (by Fitz's Law of GUI design) makes it faster to switch between tabs by mouse.
This is the design principle which led to the Mac's use of a fixed menu bar at the top of the desktop for all applications.
Because the test course is a fixed length and profile, and they're comparing the number of gallons consumed between vehicles to complete the standardised course.
M/g with fixed M and varying g means that the denominator is changing.
It would be difficult to test the cars on a fair yet realistic basis if you had to drive along some kind of (varying) course until you have consumed exactly one gallon and then measure the distance you have travelled.
Volume / distance is a better metric anyway because it's easier to correctly compare the performance of two vehicles. Your fuel savings suffer from diminishing returns from increasing MPG. An improvement from 10 MPG to 20 MPG (halving your fuel consumption) is much, much, much bigger than an improvement from 40 MPG to 50 MPG (cutting your fuel consumption by only 20%). But an improvement of 1 GPM, or 1 L/100 km, is always going to yield the same amount of savings no matter what your baseline is.
This is particularly relevant when you consider that for most use cases, the amount of travel a particular person needs to do is a fixed variable and the type of vehicle they drive (and hence fuel efficiency) is the independent variable. People choose a car based on their needs; they don't select their commuting route based on the kind of car they drive.
Busybox may well be the most deployed Linux distribution.
But, in terms of actual person-hours of interactive use (as opposed to quiet background service provision), Android would curb-stomp Busybox as the most popular distribution.
Same would apply for most-popular on a brand recognition & loyalty basis. Everyone knows what Android is and it has a lot of actual fans (and fanboys); only a few software and hardware engineers have heard of Busybox.
If you could target Windows RT with win32 desktop code, I'm sure many of the proprietary vendors would happily release arm versions of their products. But the need to target a whole new set of platform APIs (Metro/Modern) for apps on the Windows Store / WinRT makes the barriers to entry significantly higher for the proprietary vendors.
Access to the source code is only required if the end users need to do the build themselves. Obviously a big advantage of FLOODS is that you're not as dependant on a vendor's business case to target a new platform, but I don't think there's much enthusiasm for targeting metro amongst OSS enthusiasts.
Sounds like raising the minimum wage would help more than education about budgeting and loan structures. Although I won't deny the education would help at least a bit.
How much you'll have to pay Google for the royalty-free license, or whether Google will subsidize the cost for all VP8 users has not yet been announced, as far as I can tell from TFA.
Am I fundamentally misunderstanding some terminology here? It seems to me that a royalty-free licence is, by definition, free as in beer. Isn't that what royalty-free means?
That day 0 DLC was a preorder bonus. They just gave people the option of paying for it later if they didn't preorder. Seems like a reasonable promotional stratagem to me.
Sadly it looks like you're not completely wrong. Word is that the solar panels haven't deployed. It seems that they're trying to figure out if the module has enough battery power to attempt an ISS docking anyway. I don't know if the spacecraft has an ability to charge from the ISS, or if they would conceivably attempt a spacewalk to deploy the panels, but I'm sure they wouldn't risk stranding a capsule with flat batteries on one of the ISS's docking rings.
The primary use case for my tablet is reading documents. For that, the 4:3 retina screen is better than the 16:9 and 16:10 screens on all the Android tablets I'm aware of.
If there's an Android tablet with a 4:3 high DPI screen (1024x768 does not cut it for US Letter or A4 typeset documents in single page full screen mode), I'd be interested to hear about it, because I like Android better than iOS for a variety of reasons.
Also, can anyone recommend a great PDF app for Android? I use GoodReader on my iPad and it renders complex PDFs very sharply and extremely fast. I haven't found anything with that kind of rendering speed on Android yet, and I want a better reader app for my Galaxy Note 2. I don't actually care about all the annotation features of GoodReader - I don't need a feature-complete replacement - I just want something that's blazingly fast, high resolution, and at least supports bookmarks & outlines.
Now that the non-Nintendo consoles ship with 8GB of RAM and x64 CPUs, I expect all the console SDKs are going to be pure x64 for the next generation - to use the extra registers, if nothing else! The PC ports won't be switching back to 32 bit mode for no reason. The days of 32 bit AAA games are coming to a close.
But we also have "platinum". My understanding is that in the early days, some people wanted the name to align with "platinum", and called it "aluminum". Later on, other people decided that the name should align with all the "ium" metals, but the American custom never changed from the older spelling.
In my opinion, it's no big deal. The one Americanism that really grates on me spelling "borough" as "boro".
Well, I kind of assume that some of the dot point revisions are due to security fixes. Sometimes I wonder if having the older ones installed exposes me to risk.
If Sony sells the hardware with little or no profit (or even as a loss leader) with the intention of making the money back from game licencing, then emulated PS4's wouldn't hurt them at all _as long as the games still sell_.
So if they've got effective anti-copying mechanisms (which "totally coincidentally" also ruin the secondary market for used games), then they'd be in gravy.
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I intend no offense to you personally feugo451, but taking a few of your words out of context:
strikes me as a rather good recursive definition of elderly in its own right. :)
I agree that I'm more likely to want to switch tabs. But that's the exact reason why tabs on top is better. When the top of the tab bar is flush with the top of the desktop (with your browser maximised or aligned to the top of the desktop), all the tab buttons are effectively infinitely tall because you can just smash the mouse vertically upwards and only need to precisely navigate in the horizontal axis. This (by Fitz's Law of GUI design) makes it faster to switch between tabs by mouse.
This is the design principle which led to the Mac's use of a fixed menu bar at the top of the desktop for all applications.
In English, at least, there's only one s in resonant & resonance.
Because the test course is a fixed length and profile, and they're comparing the number of gallons consumed between vehicles to complete the standardised course.
M/g with fixed M and varying g means that the denominator is changing.
It would be difficult to test the cars on a fair yet realistic basis if you had to drive along some kind of (varying) course until you have consumed exactly one gallon and then measure the distance you have travelled.
Volume / distance is a better metric anyway because it's easier to correctly compare the performance of two vehicles. Your fuel savings suffer from diminishing returns from increasing MPG. An improvement from 10 MPG to 20 MPG (halving your fuel consumption) is much, much, much bigger than an improvement from 40 MPG to 50 MPG (cutting your fuel consumption by only 20%). But an improvement of 1 GPM, or 1 L/100 km, is always going to yield the same amount of savings no matter what your baseline is.
This is particularly relevant when you consider that for most use cases, the amount of travel a particular person needs to do is a fixed variable and the type of vehicle they drive (and hence fuel efficiency) is the independent variable. People choose a car based on their needs; they don't select their commuting route based on the kind of car they drive.
Have you written a detailed HOWTO article? That would be more helpful than just helping your immediate acquaintances.
Busybox may well be the most deployed Linux distribution.
But, in terms of actual person-hours of interactive use (as opposed to quiet background service provision), Android would curb-stomp Busybox as the most popular distribution.
Same would apply for most-popular on a brand recognition & loyalty basis. Everyone knows what Android is and it has a lot of actual fans (and fanboys); only a few software and hardware engineers have heard of Busybox.
Maybe they've been leaked again, via a different channel this time?
If they were leaked once, it's entirely possible the original source would leak again.
Actually, that's pretty much the context that the zombie plague answer is given in.
Floods = floss, by the way. Yay autocorrect.
If you could target Windows RT with win32 desktop code, I'm sure many of the proprietary vendors would happily release arm versions of their products. /Modern) for apps on the Windows Store / WinRT makes the barriers to entry significantly higher for the proprietary vendors.
But the need to target a whole new set of platform APIs (Metro
Access to the source code is only required if the end users need to do the build themselves. Obviously a big advantage of FLOODS is that you're not as dependant on a vendor's business case to target a new platform, but I don't think there's much enthusiasm for targeting metro amongst OSS enthusiasts.
Why would you want to search existing patents, especially in software?
Patents, particularly software patents, are written to be incredibly general and almost entirely devoid of anything that's actually useful.
All you would get from searching for patents would be wilful infringement liability and treble damages when the patent holder sues you.
Maybe patents for physical processes and inventions are more useful to someone doing novel work?
Sounds like raising the minimum wage would help more than education about budgeting and loan structures. Although I won't deny the education would help at least a bit.
Yes, you're quite right. DRM doesn't manage the user's rights. It "manages" the publisher's "rights", by infringing on those of the users.
How much you'll have to pay Google for the royalty-free license, or whether Google will subsidize the cost for all VP8 users has not yet been announced, as far as I can tell from TFA.
Am I fundamentally misunderstanding some terminology here? It seems to me that a royalty-free licence is, by definition, free as in beer. Isn't that what royalty-free means?
Funny?!
That day 0 DLC was a preorder bonus. They just gave people the option of paying for it later if they didn't preorder. Seems like a reasonable promotional stratagem to me.
Sadly it looks like you're not completely wrong. Word is that the solar panels haven't deployed. It seems that they're trying to figure out if the module has enough battery power to attempt an ISS docking anyway. I don't know if the spacecraft has an ability to charge from the ISS, or if they would conceivably attempt a spacewalk to deploy the panels, but I'm sure they wouldn't risk stranding a capsule with flat batteries on one of the ISS's docking rings.
I wish I had a mod point for you.
The primary use case for my tablet is reading documents. For that, the 4:3 retina screen is better than the 16:9 and 16:10 screens on all the Android tablets I'm aware of.
If there's an Android tablet with a 4:3 high DPI screen (1024x768 does not cut it for US Letter or A4 typeset documents in single page full screen mode), I'd be interested to hear about it, because I like Android better than iOS for a variety of reasons.
Also, can anyone recommend a great PDF app for Android? I use GoodReader on my iPad and it renders complex PDFs very sharply and extremely fast. I haven't found anything with that kind of rendering speed on Android yet, and I want a better reader app for my Galaxy Note 2. I don't actually care about all the annotation features of GoodReader - I don't need a feature-complete replacement - I just want something that's blazingly fast, high resolution, and at least supports bookmarks & outlines.
Now that the non-Nintendo consoles ship with 8GB of RAM and x64 CPUs, I expect all the console SDKs are going to be pure x64 for the next generation - to use the extra registers, if nothing else! The PC ports won't be switching back to 32 bit mode for no reason. The days of 32 bit AAA games are coming to a close.
Meanwhile, Microsoft would claim all the songs written in C#.
A major victory, or a minor inconvenience?
I'm not sure what your point is.
Yes, we have rubidium, iridium, tellurium etc.
But we also have "platinum". My understanding is that in the early days, some people wanted the name to align with "platinum", and called it "aluminum". Later on, other people decided that the name should align with all the "ium" metals, but the American custom never changed from the older spelling.
In my opinion, it's no big deal. The one Americanism that really grates on me spelling "borough" as "boro".
Well, I kind of assume that some of the dot point revisions are due to security fixes. Sometimes I wonder if having the older ones installed exposes me to risk.
If Sony sells the hardware with little or no profit (or even as a loss leader) with the intention of making the money back from game licencing, then emulated PS4's wouldn't hurt them at all _as long as the games still sell_.
So if they've got effective anti-copying mechanisms (which "totally coincidentally" also ruin the secondary market for used games), then they'd be in gravy.