The intent of the (mostly) joke was in fact to put read heads under multiple sectors, cutting the rotation time in half (or more if you were to add more heads).
So... sink a steel pipe half a mile into the ground, it isn't that hard to create a heat gradient. That's of course, if it's possible to hit anywhere near decent efficiencies with standard materials, which is something I'll have to see in production before I fully believe.
More than 56% of developers should be millionaires before they hit retirement age, that is about what you need to comfortably retire today at age 60, in 20 years it won't be enough. To quote Number Two: A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days.
The Sears Tower (sorry... the Willis tower) was even designed to be modular. Its 9 stacks built into a single building, more stacks could be added to the edges, the shorter stacks could be expanded vertically at least to the height of the taller (and probably somewhat taller, not sure on that though).
The most concerning part comes at the end "Here's a 4 year old bug report showing the issue, and another, and another". OpenSLL is supposed to be security software... shouldn't happen.
You seem to be under the impression that because prisons are overcrowded we have stopped putting people in them. In reality we just pack a few more in; the violence, drug abuse, sexual assault, and gang membership this inevitably makes even worse is simply ignored.
There is nothing specifically wrong with America's education system.
You're making some assumptions there. Perhaps part of the problem with America's education system is that certain demographics are undeserved. I grew up in a small and poor town, attended public school and got an education that, while certainly not the best money could buy, was more than enough to prepare me for college and eventually the workforce. Meanwhile, school districts with comparable wealth in the inner city schools of the same state are underfunded trash.
Why the disparity? Part of it is cost, it simply costs more to operate a school in an inner city environment. Part of it is teachers, once inner city schools got the reputation they have many good teachers fled. Part of it is, undoubtedly, cultural. Inner city cultures (completely irrespective of race IMO) don't tend to value education as much so the school gets less support from the parents of students and has a much harder time fundraising even though wealth levels are about the same. The point is that the end result is lower quality schools, which in turn leads to poorer outcomes.
Of course it's built in, it's part of the "ok google" keyword that Google Now (recently added to the Chrome browser) uses to detect an incoming command. The flaw is that transcript is kept for any length of time and that it's available to websites being viewed.
You're going to get some weird inflections there, chopping up sentences. Nothing too obvious but if your movie is filled with them it'll get annoying. Better would be to have the narrator quoting other people, then just drop the framing quote.
Script: People used to say "The Earth is the center of the universe" (to be read with the passion of a true believer).
She is an actor after all, even as a narrator you can have her playing a character for the important lines resulting in a more believable performance.
Somewhere in history there was the first mutant ape that was classified as some form of human.
This is unlikely and even if true meaningless. Speciation is a human concept, it has very little reality in the actual real world. Change happens so gradually and across such a large population (even a population of a few hundred is "large" in this context) that you can't put a line in the sand and say human on this side, non-human on the other.
"Flame" is nothing but superheated gases. You can have a flame without combustion if you raise the temperature some other way. In this case it's electrical heating, ram air pressure, and simple air friction.
To make it fair, have a checklist before they roll out the door that includes verifying that the transmitter and receiver and present and functional. Failure to follow the checklist and report non-functional equipment results in the above. This way legitimate breakages aren't punished (and therefor hidden) and you also shift it from a "we don't trust you" to a "you didn't follow procedure". While the fact is that you don't trust them, morale will suffer less from the latter than the former.
You don't understand, every time you dilute the mixture further the power of your money increases! By the third or fourth dilution the water is the essence of wealth and is priceless.
Why should that follow? Maybe the prevention of evil is a larger evil than would be prevented? Like a tumor that a surgeon could only remove by killing you, maybe cutting free will out of the human experience would render the human experience meaningless? Of course, there are flaws to be found in that argument too. Like a poster above I'm not a believer, I just don't like weak arguments.
He was first out of the plane but one of only 2 in a wing suit, by the time he opened his chute and the rock fell past the other divers were well below him and you can see where the other wingsuited diver was in the video. Even the plane was below him by this point of the flight. If it came from his chute you'll have to explain to me how it's moving at a few hundred miles per hour relative to him (easily calculated based on frame to frame movement).
To be fair, $450 per coin is about... $449.50 more than I ever thought they would be. It'll be interesting to see what happens when the hype dies down and the speculation starts to dry up. Until then I'll watch from the sidelines, happy enough even if I could have bought in when it was pennies per coin.
Designing a fission nuke isn't as hard as people like to make it out to be. With a couple of math and physics students and access to unclassified materials and you can have a working, though perhaps not efficient, design in less than a year. We know this to be true because someone paid a couple of graduate students to do it and they came up with a design that, according to analysis by experts, would have worked. He might have helped them along by a few months, but the real bottle neck in any nuclear program is the enrichment process.
Fusion bombs are a bit trickier, but Fuchs left the US program before the difficult parts of the problem were fully understood. Again, he might have saved the Soviets some time, but would 6 months or a year really have made that much of a difference in history?
The only conceivable way I can imagine it changing history is if the US, emboldened by being the only power in the world with the H-bomb, had used them almost immediately after the outbreak of hostilities on the Korean peninsula. Not as far fetched as it may sound, there were voices in the US military who were calling for the nukes to be dropped even with a thermonuclear capable Russia right next door. Without that threat they may have gotten there way.
The only way for Germany to win was to make some low-odds gambles, the "more rational" Germans wern't willing to do this.
Maybe the winning move was not to play? I realize the world had given Germany the shaft after WWI, and yes, I realize Germany in general realized the world was so sick of war that they could get away with a lot without any real repercussions. But you say it yourself, the only way Germany was going to win the wider war was with many low-odds plays coming out in their favor. Maybe the best solution was to avoid the wider conflict in the first place.
It's not about the individual conflicts. The world has seen what modern wars of conquest look like, last time we had one tens of millions of people were killed. Wars like Iraq and Afghanistan, while undeniably terrible, don't escalate to the world stage the way wars of conquest do. The fact that relations are currently described as being as poor as they have been since the cold war is a bad thing, we were supposed to have gotten paste the specter of world powers directly clashing against each other. I understand that we did it by proxy anyway for the past 30 years, but proxy is a lot less messy than outright conflict which has become a serious possibility over the past couple of months.
As for Crimea being "part of Russia for 200 years prior to 1964", I bet one could find numerous areas where the same would hold true, I'd rather not have everyone running around annexing land simply because they held it half a century ago.
Sorry dude, it's not 2008 any more, people can and do have quality productions on YouTube with tens of thousands of regular viewers. Day9 caters almost exclusively to the niche Starcraft 2 crowd and pulls in 8k views for his daily one our program. Something slightly more mainstream like "Nerdy Nummies" regularly gets more than a quarter of a million views. It's not numbers that a major broadcast network would be proud of, but it's often enough to make a living.
Opting out of specific tests will be like not wanting X-Rays to see if a bone is broken.
That's not what the article is really talking about though, they're talking more about whole genome sequencing. Besides that, I imagine there are already people who decline X-Rays for one reason or another, just like there are people who decline blood transfusions or major surgeries.
Back in the days, Google was still seen as a benevolent company that innovated for the sake of innovation - and not to sell your data to the highest biddest and monetize your entire life, as everybody now knows.
This might be nitpicking, but Google does not sell your data, they sell access to you based on the data. Google selling your data would be like selling a gold mine, making a quick buck but totally unsustainable. They're far better off to keep the data in house and be able to sell ads targeted based upon it.
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The intent of the (mostly) joke was in fact to put read heads under multiple sectors, cutting the rotation time in half (or more if you were to add more heads).
Multiple read heads! Cut seek time in half! (or quarter, or eighth depending on how crazy you want to go).
So... sink a steel pipe half a mile into the ground, it isn't that hard to create a heat gradient. That's of course, if it's possible to hit anywhere near decent efficiencies with standard materials, which is something I'll have to see in production before I fully believe.
More than 56% of developers should be millionaires before they hit retirement age, that is about what you need to comfortably retire today at age 60, in 20 years it won't be enough. To quote Number Two: A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days.
The Sears Tower (sorry... the Willis tower) was even designed to be modular. Its 9 stacks built into a single building, more stacks could be added to the edges, the shorter stacks could be expanded vertically at least to the height of the taller (and probably somewhat taller, not sure on that though).
Bullying is frequently battery, virtually almost always assault, and practically by definition criminal harassment.
The most concerning part comes at the end "Here's a 4 year old bug report showing the issue, and another, and another". OpenSLL is supposed to be security software... shouldn't happen.
You seem to be under the impression that because prisons are overcrowded we have stopped putting people in them. In reality we just pack a few more in; the violence, drug abuse, sexual assault, and gang membership this inevitably makes even worse is simply ignored.
There is nothing specifically wrong with America's education system.
You're making some assumptions there. Perhaps part of the problem with America's education system is that certain demographics are undeserved. I grew up in a small and poor town, attended public school and got an education that, while certainly not the best money could buy, was more than enough to prepare me for college and eventually the workforce. Meanwhile, school districts with comparable wealth in the inner city schools of the same state are underfunded trash.
Why the disparity? Part of it is cost, it simply costs more to operate a school in an inner city environment. Part of it is teachers, once inner city schools got the reputation they have many good teachers fled. Part of it is, undoubtedly, cultural. Inner city cultures (completely irrespective of race IMO) don't tend to value education as much so the school gets less support from the parents of students and has a much harder time fundraising even though wealth levels are about the same. The point is that the end result is lower quality schools, which in turn leads to poorer outcomes.
Of course it's built in, it's part of the "ok google" keyword that Google Now (recently added to the Chrome browser) uses to detect an incoming command. The flaw is that transcript is kept for any length of time and that it's available to websites being viewed.
You're going to get some weird inflections there, chopping up sentences. Nothing too obvious but if your movie is filled with them it'll get annoying. Better would be to have the narrator quoting other people, then just drop the framing quote.
Script: People used to say "The Earth is the center of the universe" (to be read with the passion of a true believer).
She is an actor after all, even as a narrator you can have her playing a character for the important lines resulting in a more believable performance.
Somewhere in history there was the first mutant ape that was classified as some form of human.
This is unlikely and even if true meaningless. Speciation is a human concept, it has very little reality in the actual real world. Change happens so gradually and across such a large population (even a population of a few hundred is "large" in this context) that you can't put a line in the sand and say human on this side, non-human on the other.
"Flame" is nothing but superheated gases. You can have a flame without combustion if you raise the temperature some other way. In this case it's electrical heating, ram air pressure, and simple air friction.
To make it fair, have a checklist before they roll out the door that includes verifying that the transmitter and receiver and present and functional. Failure to follow the checklist and report non-functional equipment results in the above. This way legitimate breakages aren't punished (and therefor hidden) and you also shift it from a "we don't trust you" to a "you didn't follow procedure". While the fact is that you don't trust them, morale will suffer less from the latter than the former.
You don't understand, every time you dilute the mixture further the power of your money increases! By the third or fourth dilution the water is the essence of wealth and is priceless.
Did they fix the bug where tabbing out of a full screen video exits full screen mode? Drives me nuts.
Why should that follow? Maybe the prevention of evil is a larger evil than would be prevented? Like a tumor that a surgeon could only remove by killing you, maybe cutting free will out of the human experience would render the human experience meaningless? Of course, there are flaws to be found in that argument too. Like a poster above I'm not a believer, I just don't like weak arguments.
He was first out of the plane but one of only 2 in a wing suit, by the time he opened his chute and the rock fell past the other divers were well below him and you can see where the other wingsuited diver was in the video. Even the plane was below him by this point of the flight. If it came from his chute you'll have to explain to me how it's moving at a few hundred miles per hour relative to him (easily calculated based on frame to frame movement).
To be fair, $450 per coin is about... $449.50 more than I ever thought they would be. It'll be interesting to see what happens when the hype dies down and the speculation starts to dry up. Until then I'll watch from the sidelines, happy enough even if I could have bought in when it was pennies per coin.
Designing a fission nuke isn't as hard as people like to make it out to be. With a couple of math and physics students and access to unclassified materials and you can have a working, though perhaps not efficient, design in less than a year. We know this to be true because someone paid a couple of graduate students to do it and they came up with a design that, according to analysis by experts, would have worked. He might have helped them along by a few months, but the real bottle neck in any nuclear program is the enrichment process.
Fusion bombs are a bit trickier, but Fuchs left the US program before the difficult parts of the problem were fully understood. Again, he might have saved the Soviets some time, but would 6 months or a year really have made that much of a difference in history?
The only conceivable way I can imagine it changing history is if the US, emboldened by being the only power in the world with the H-bomb, had used them almost immediately after the outbreak of hostilities on the Korean peninsula. Not as far fetched as it may sound, there were voices in the US military who were calling for the nukes to be dropped even with a thermonuclear capable Russia right next door. Without that threat they may have gotten there way.
The only way for Germany to win was to make some low-odds gambles, the "more rational" Germans wern't willing to do this.
Maybe the winning move was not to play? I realize the world had given Germany the shaft after WWI, and yes, I realize Germany in general realized the world was so sick of war that they could get away with a lot without any real repercussions. But you say it yourself, the only way Germany was going to win the wider war was with many low-odds plays coming out in their favor. Maybe the best solution was to avoid the wider conflict in the first place.
It's not about the individual conflicts. The world has seen what modern wars of conquest look like, last time we had one tens of millions of people were killed. Wars like Iraq and Afghanistan, while undeniably terrible, don't escalate to the world stage the way wars of conquest do. The fact that relations are currently described as being as poor as they have been since the cold war is a bad thing, we were supposed to have gotten paste the specter of world powers directly clashing against each other. I understand that we did it by proxy anyway for the past 30 years, but proxy is a lot less messy than outright conflict which has become a serious possibility over the past couple of months.
As for Crimea being "part of Russia for 200 years prior to 1964", I bet one could find numerous areas where the same would hold true, I'd rather not have everyone running around annexing land simply because they held it half a century ago.
Sorry dude, it's not 2008 any more, people can and do have quality productions on YouTube with tens of thousands of regular viewers. Day9 caters almost exclusively to the niche Starcraft 2 crowd and pulls in 8k views for his daily one our program. Something slightly more mainstream like "Nerdy Nummies" regularly gets more than a quarter of a million views. It's not numbers that a major broadcast network would be proud of, but it's often enough to make a living.
Opting out of specific tests will be like not wanting X-Rays to see if a bone is broken.
That's not what the article is really talking about though, they're talking more about whole genome sequencing. Besides that, I imagine there are already people who decline X-Rays for one reason or another, just like there are people who decline blood transfusions or major surgeries.
Back in the days, Google was still seen as a benevolent company that innovated for the sake of innovation - and not to sell your data to the highest biddest and monetize your entire life, as everybody now knows.
This might be nitpicking, but Google does not sell your data, they sell access to you based on the data. Google selling your data would be like selling a gold mine, making a quick buck but totally unsustainable. They're far better off to keep the data in house and be able to sell ads targeted based upon it.