My department got one of these as a "Free gift" from one of our vendors. I opened the box, had no idea what it was... it actually took me a good 10min to figure it out on the internet. Then I saw the price was $200 or so... My coworkers and I sat around staring at it wondering why on earth anyone would want one. It's NOT a camcorder, doesn't record video nearly as well, but costs about the same. It's not a smartphone... or even a PDA. The USB plug "Flipped" out giving the device its name... but it was part of the hardware. When you plugged it into the computer you had this giant device hanging off your USB port. If you had any sort of mass-produced workstation like we all had at work, it was nearly impossible to actually plug the stupid thing in because the plug wasn't flexible and our USB ports were about an 1/8" off our desks.
I'm not sure why CISCO bought them, I'm hoping for some codec or patent rights or something. Otherwise that product was a total failure.
Just like music, classification of a style allows artists to peruse that style within a set of guidelines to refine and perfect that style. When blues was first introduced, it was very much flapping in the wind with little form. Over the years it has become very ridged and an perfected.
There is still plenty of room for experimentation and much like music there are indy artists trying to push the boundaries. Most sounds/plays like crap. But eventually something new and interesting will pop up... Which will again get defined as a style... perfected... it's all part of a cycle. Genres/Styles and independent work are all good and all part of the same process.
I'd have bought one... given that I rooted mine 20min after taking it out of the box. This discount version would have saved me $25 I could have spend on a case. Oh wait, i hacked up an old pocket organizer and velcro'd the kindle in... I guess amazon just can't win with me.
The scale is not based on Chernobyl. 7 is just the highest number on the scale. Chernobyl was several orders of magnitude worse than Fukushima. The radiation output during the initial even was equal to a 50 kiloton bomb going off. The fuel itself was ignited and thrown into the atmosphere to rain down on the populace. It wasn't Radioactive Iodine with a halflife of 8hrs falling, it was actual refined uranium.
It would be impossible for the Fukushima plant to have that kind of failure. Its design wouldn't let it happen without something really crazy happening, like a meteor hitting the site.
I don't think we wonder, we know why you appose it. You don't understand it and you fear what you don't understand. You're assuming this accident is far worse than it really is. More people die mining coal on a yearly basis than are killed in all the nuclear accidents (not including bombs of course) throughout the history of nuclear power. This accident in Japan hasn't even killed a single person yet, if you don't include the people killed by the actual earthquake/tsunami.
It's much like the Air travel is safer than driving situation. Lots more people die in car accidents, it's just more spectacular when it happens in a commercial jet.
Teachers are lazy. They expect students to come up with original un-plagiarized answers to test questions the teacher/professor hasn't updated in 20 years and probably copied wholesale from a textbook somewhere. If you really want original answers, come up with some original questions.
FISMA is a guideline. You hire someone to certify you in it. Much like you can get a fire inspector to come to your business and rate the place as "Safe" and then some other inspector could find fault. Per googles site, "Google Apps has received an authority to operate at the FISMA-Moderate level; an independent auditor assessed the level of operational risk as Low." Also, you can request their documentation: "Google's FISMA documentation is available for review by interested agencies.This enables agencies to compare the security of Google Apps to that of existing systems."
This is just more evidence that the Government and Microsoft were in collusion to exclude Google. Google has interdependent certification that they are FISMA compliant and the government says they are not. How many times does Google need to get certified?
no. The article very poorly described the way relative velocity works.
While moving relative to another object/person, time slows for you relative to that object/person, not relative to all of space/time. When you return, you are in their future. Time dilation relating to the Sun/Earth/Galactic center are all different depending on your velocity in relation to those objects. So, for example, if there are 3 people, 1 remains at rest on earth, the 2nd travels away at 25% the speed of light, and a 3rd travels in the same direction at 50% of the speed of light, if both the travels turn around and come back, all 3 people, the person at rest and the 2 travelers will all have aged at different rates. Even the 2 travelers have aged differently from each other.
At that point you start asking questions that will take a lot more space than Slashdot allows for a post to answer.
We will NEVER travel faster than the speed of light. We will NEVER create a wormhole a human can pass through. We will NEVER create teleportation that works on a human. Traveling at a very signifigant fraction of the speed of light, say 90%, would be very difficult but maybe not impossible. That's yet to be seen.
Does this mean space travel is impossible? No... it will just take a very very long time. The laws of physics as we understand them do not prevent the invention of a technology that would be like the classic SciFi Hypersleep. We could also colonize an asteroid and let the crews great grandchildren be the ones to visit the new solar system. It's all possible, we just wont be zipping around like StarTrek.
While I agree with you that the military budget should be cut... an ammo-less weapon is probably going to be something that saves money in the end. The normal way the navy would conduct such an operation would be with a $100k+ missile.
No, tidal forces literally do rip the star apart as it approaches the black hole. It would be torn to its constituent atoms long before it ever got near the event horizon.
Ok, this thing looks cool and I totally wanna try it out, but there's no way in hell I'm downloading an executable from DARPAs website and running it on my PC. I suspect what they are really testing has absolutely nothing to do with submarines.
Actually no, they will not be taking paper returns. And if you have already filed by paper but don't have your return yet, it's not likely you'll get it any time soon. The problems the IRS will have because of the shutdown will probably be the most disruptive to the government.
You make it sound like sales tax is some noble charity that they should be ashamed of themselves for jumping at the chance to pay. How about instead we end Sales tax for For both Online and Local Businesses?
Just read that article... it's just garbage. A splinter group of anonymous? How could they have a splinter group? 3 posts in an IRC channel that everyone in the world has access to mean they did it? I could ddos Sony and post it in that IRC channel. Next time there's a major earthquake I'm going to log into a channel called OpQuake claiming Anon is activating its earthquake machine... bet it makes CNN. People are stupid.
From their site: "Note: Commodore OS 1.0, along with emulation functionality and classic game package, will be mailed to purchasers when available. In the meantime, units come with the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating system on CD ready to install. "
So it's not a commodore... in any way shape or form... and they don't even have the licensing for the old OS emulator nailed down, and probably never will.
They never said it was "bullet proof" is was there to protect them from flying debris. When the show got enough money to start playing with high velocity stuff they had to change what they were using and one of the hosts decided to make light of it on the air.
Can we as a society agree to stop misusing words that have very serious connotations like "Addiction"? Addiction is a very serious disease and using it to describe something as silly as people spending too much time online socializing than doing actual work or study belittles those that have true addictions.
If you like to go out to the woods, cut down a tree, rip it into boards, plain and sand them, then build a chair, sand and finish it... that's great. But I just want to read a book... and buying a $10 chair at walmart will work fine. You can argue your chair is better than mine in almost every way conceivable. But what I wanted, was to sit... not have the best chair on earth. GUIs are about increasing productivity for routine simple tasks. You're right that they can really get in the way if you want to do something that's really detailed or complex. Heavily GUI ladend databases/CRM are a good example. But for the vast majority of computer users, GUIs are a God send.
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My department got one of these as a "Free gift" from one of our vendors. I opened the box, had no idea what it was... it actually took me a good 10min to figure it out on the internet. Then I saw the price was $200 or so... My coworkers and I sat around staring at it wondering why on earth anyone would want one. It's NOT a camcorder, doesn't record video nearly as well, but costs about the same. It's not a smartphone... or even a PDA. The USB plug "Flipped" out giving the device its name... but it was part of the hardware. When you plugged it into the computer you had this giant device hanging off your USB port. If you had any sort of mass-produced workstation like we all had at work, it was nearly impossible to actually plug the stupid thing in because the plug wasn't flexible and our USB ports were about an 1/8" off our desks.
I'm not sure why CISCO bought them, I'm hoping for some codec or patent rights or something. Otherwise that product was a total failure.
Just like music, classification of a style allows artists to peruse that style within a set of guidelines to refine and perfect that style. When blues was first introduced, it was very much flapping in the wind with little form. Over the years it has become very ridged and an perfected.
There is still plenty of room for experimentation and much like music there are indy artists trying to push the boundaries. Most sounds/plays like crap. But eventually something new and interesting will pop up... Which will again get defined as a style... perfected... it's all part of a cycle. Genres/Styles and independent work are all good and all part of the same process.
I'd have bought one... given that I rooted mine 20min after taking it out of the box. This discount version would have saved me $25 I could have spend on a case. Oh wait, i hacked up an old pocket organizer and velcro'd the kindle in... I guess amazon just can't win with me.
The scale is not based on Chernobyl. 7 is just the highest number on the scale. Chernobyl was several orders of magnitude worse than Fukushima. The radiation output during the initial even was equal to a 50 kiloton bomb going off. The fuel itself was ignited and thrown into the atmosphere to rain down on the populace. It wasn't Radioactive Iodine with a halflife of 8hrs falling, it was actual refined uranium.
It would be impossible for the Fukushima plant to have that kind of failure. Its design wouldn't let it happen without something really crazy happening, like a meteor hitting the site.
I don't think we wonder, we know why you appose it. You don't understand it and you fear what you don't understand. You're assuming this accident is far worse than it really is. More people die mining coal on a yearly basis than are killed in all the nuclear accidents (not including bombs of course) throughout the history of nuclear power. This accident in Japan hasn't even killed a single person yet, if you don't include the people killed by the actual earthquake/tsunami.
It's much like the Air travel is safer than driving situation. Lots more people die in car accidents, it's just more spectacular when it happens in a commercial jet.
Teachers are lazy. They expect students to come up with original un-plagiarized answers to test questions the teacher/professor hasn't updated in 20 years and probably copied wholesale from a textbook somewhere. If you really want original answers, come up with some original questions.
FISMA is a guideline. You hire someone to certify you in it. Much like you can get a fire inspector to come to your business and rate the place as "Safe" and then some other inspector could find fault. Per googles site, "Google Apps has received an authority to operate at the FISMA-Moderate level; an independent auditor assessed the level of operational risk as Low."
Also, you can request their documentation:
"Google's FISMA documentation is available for review by interested agencies.This enables agencies to compare the security of Google Apps to that of existing systems."
This is just more evidence that the Government and Microsoft were in collusion to exclude Google. Google has interdependent certification that they are FISMA compliant and the government says they are not. How many times does Google need to get certified?
My Margarita has a thousand eyes! GAHHH!
no.
The article very poorly described the way relative velocity works.
While moving relative to another object/person, time slows for you relative to that object/person, not relative to all of space/time. When you return, you are in their future. Time dilation relating to the Sun/Earth/Galactic center are all different depending on your velocity in relation to those objects.
So, for example, if there are 3 people, 1 remains at rest on earth, the 2nd travels away at 25% the speed of light, and a 3rd travels in the same direction at 50% of the speed of light, if both the travels turn around and come back, all 3 people, the person at rest and the 2 travelers will all have aged at different rates. Even the 2 travelers have aged differently from each other.
At that point you start asking questions that will take a lot more space than Slashdot allows for a post to answer.
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Not sure how you're on slashdot and don't yet know about it.
But that doesn't get around the laws of physics.
We will NEVER travel faster than the speed of light.
We will NEVER create a wormhole a human can pass through.
We will NEVER create teleportation that works on a human.
Traveling at a very signifigant fraction of the speed of light, say 90%, would be very difficult but maybe not impossible. That's yet to be seen.
Does this mean space travel is impossible? No... it will just take a very very long time.
The laws of physics as we understand them do not prevent the invention of a technology that would be like the classic SciFi Hypersleep. We could also colonize an asteroid and let the crews great grandchildren be the ones to visit the new solar system. It's all possible, we just wont be zipping around like StarTrek.
You either have a lot more faith in VMware or a lot less faith in DARPA than I do.
While I agree with you that the military budget should be cut... an ammo-less weapon is probably going to be something that saves money in the end. The normal way the navy would conduct such an operation would be with a $100k+ missile.
No, tidal forces literally do rip the star apart as it approaches the black hole. It would be torn to its constituent atoms long before it ever got near the event horizon.
I agree, I think the markets really underestimated the publics desire to have something like this.
Who volunteered for that lab study?
Earn $1000 in one week and get free brain surgery to boot!!!
Ok, this thing looks cool and I totally wanna try it out, but there's no way in hell I'm downloading an executable from DARPAs website and running it on my PC. I suspect what they are really testing has absolutely nothing to do with submarines.
Actually no, they will not be taking paper returns. And if you have already filed by paper but don't have your return yet, it's not likely you'll get it any time soon. The problems the IRS will have because of the shutdown will probably be the most disruptive to the government.
You make it sound like sales tax is some noble charity that they should be ashamed of themselves for jumping at the chance to pay. How about instead we end Sales tax for For both Online and Local Businesses?
Just read that article... it's just garbage. A splinter group of anonymous? How could they have a splinter group? 3 posts in an IRC channel that everyone in the world has access to mean they did it? I could ddos Sony and post it in that IRC channel. Next time there's a major earthquake I'm going to log into a channel called OpQuake claiming Anon is activating its earthquake machine... bet it makes CNN. People are stupid.
From their site:
"Note: Commodore OS 1.0, along with emulation functionality and classic game package, will be mailed to purchasers when available. In the meantime, units come with the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating system on CD ready to install. "
So it's not a commodore... in any way shape or form... and they don't even have the licensing for the old OS emulator nailed down, and probably never will.
They never said it was "bullet proof" is was there to protect them from flying debris. When the show got enough money to start playing with high velocity stuff they had to change what they were using and one of the hosts decided to make light of it on the air.
Can we as a society agree to stop misusing words that have very serious connotations like "Addiction"? Addiction is a very serious disease and using it to describe something as silly as people spending too much time online socializing than doing actual work or study belittles those that have true addictions.
Again, I'm reading while you're spending the entire day bitching about the chair. As long as it's at ass height, I'm not going to complain much.
If you like to go out to the woods, cut down a tree, rip it into boards, plain and sand them, then build a chair, sand and finish it... that's great. But I just want to read a book... and buying a $10 chair at walmart will work fine. You can argue your chair is better than mine in almost every way conceivable. But what I wanted, was to sit... not have the best chair on earth. GUIs are about increasing productivity for routine simple tasks. You're right that they can really get in the way if you want to do something that's really detailed or complex. Heavily GUI ladend databases/CRM are a good example. But for the vast majority of computer users, GUIs are a God send.