here in Paris, you can legally rent apartments that are as small as 9 sq. m.
And you can leave them whenever you want. In fact, the basic expectation when renting an apartment like that is that you won't be spending any significant amounts of time in it beyond sleeping (which is actually an incredibly expensive way to live).
Trapping someone in an environment that confined with no outside contact is torture, plain and simple. The human mind isn't evolved to look at a flat grey wall for 23 hours a day.
I think you hit closer to the truth than most people.
Using spell check will help someone who is poor at spelling or typing put words to paper faster, but it's not going to make (or break) a great novelist. Similarly, using an IDE will help someone with incomplete (but really given the size and scope of modern languages that is everyone) programming knowledge, but it's not going to make or break a great software designer/engineer.
Look at it this way: would you give a toddler a pair of crutches in order to teach him to walk?
That is an astonishingly bad analogy given the popularity of toddler walkers and the fact that every child while learning to walk starts buy pulling themselves up next to something and scooting along it's length.
Here's what you don't understand: Cogent (on behalf of Netlix) wants to send packets to the ISP. The ISP (on behalf of their customers!) wants to receive those packets. No one is getting shafted. Both sides of the agreement are already getting what they should be wanting. Now the ISPs are coming along and saying that the peering agreements are only about upstream bandwidth? Why? The ISP's customers are the ones who requested the packets that Cogent is trying to deliver to them.
You cannot have entanglement without interaction, you cannot have interaction between two things that lie outside of each other's light cones.
To be fair, you can't have interaction outside of your light cone without also having faster than light communication. But you can't have faster than light communication without also having the possibility of sending messages back in time. And you can't have the possibility of sending messages back in time without breaking causality. So, on the one side you have the assumption that causality doesn't exist and faster than light communication is possible (both of which are contradicted on scales from pico-meters to billions of lightyears), on the other side you have the assumption that information can't travel faster than light (which again, seems to be supported by every experiment and observation made in human history).
There is nothing preventing a good Android manufacturer to provide patch longevity, and some phones have been well supported by some manufacturers.
Yes there is, the carriers. They charge for testing and integration of any OTA patches. They charge to push the update out. They probably charge you for toilet paper you use if you stop by to talk to them about it.
Small fluctuations in local weather are much, much, much, much more chaotic than large fluctuations in global climate. This is hardly unique to atmospheric sciences.
Lets us an IT analogy, lets say you manage a large data center and your head of IT comes up and says something like this: "Over the next 5 years, 15% of the hard drives in this data center will fail. We need to take these basic precautions."
Your response would be like: "Why on earth should I trust your estimate for 5 years from today when you can't tell me exactly which servers will fail within the next 6 months!?"
And then you'd get angry at him 5 years down the road when only 14% of the drives failed and be all like: "See! I told you there was nothing to worry about!"
I think you underestimate the number of people who don't have appropriate internet connections to make that work. Some people (more than you probably think) simply don't have consistent access to the internet. Then there's the fact that a single game can run 10s of gigabytes, for many people that is days of download time. Even for people with fast connections it can represent a significant piece of the monthly cap, Mediacom's standard package starts at 100 Gigs last time I checked but even at 200 or 300 that's still a significant chunk of the pie, especially when you consider the holiday season where Microsoft would like to see people buying multiple titles. Finally, I highly, highly doubt MS is paying $100 per blu-ray drive, I'd be shocked if they were paying $40, then you'd have to increase the HDD size to boot which is going to cost you another $10-15 (unless you only want a handful of titles installed at a time, which given the size of the games makes re-downloading a painful experience). So they could have maybe saved $30 per console... not enough to be worth all the headaches.
This is, to put it bluntly, precisely opposite of the philosophy of the US constitution. In US law, individual rights are enumerated, they are not granted. That's what "inalienable rights" means. It is not up for debate, it's supposed to be the fundamental bedrock that makes western style democracies work. It's possible for society to impinge upon those rights, but doing so can only be described as violating the central tenet of what modern western society is founded upon.
How the hell do you have an egg substitute with no protein? I certainly hope that's just the recipe for the mayo product... if their egg replacement brings no protein then what is the point?
Did they fix the download master killing ping times? One of the selling points of the router for me and ended up being worthless since it drove latency to 2+ seconds whenever it was enabled.
I find your example of Salon.com to be frankly hilarious. The only thing the new site does that's a significant improvement is it's use of horizontal space. It's funny to me that the biggest problem the 10 year old Salon.com has the same issue as the brand new and improved beta. Of course, the new version of Salon looks significantly nicer, but it's information density is painfully low in comparison. So the Beta's got the worst of both worlds somehow.
I vote for "I don't care how it looks as long as it has feature parity."
I tentatively agree; assuming you include things like "information density", keeping the comments the core of the site, loading speed, responsiveness, etc in your feature list. In the beta at the moment, comments taking up 40% of the page (which is just incredibly, stupidly broken), comments are subtly de-emphasized, and the site takes 2-4 times longer to load and feels like it's running on the PC I built when I was 13. And that's ignoring the features that are just plain missing or bugged.
Every single time they change even a single goddamned thing on the website, these crybabies come out of the woodwork to do what they do best (read: do the only thing they know how to do), and that's cry.
Previous revisions were awkward but usable, the Beta simply isn't. It's missing features, other features are broken, it wastes literally 50% of the horizontal space, and by far the worst of all it makes comments an afterthought.
They know nobody's going to leave.
I think you'll be surprised.
Slashdot outlived the former, and given nobody's actually leaving the site over this in lieu of keeping up a constant whiny din of comments, it will most likely outlive the latter
Right now it's optional with it being required on the horizon so people speak up and say the future is not acceptable. When it becomes the only way to view the site, people will leave. I can only hope a single viable alternative pops up rather than a half dozen that destroys the commenting community completely.
Agreed, the classic system is IMO the best comment board on the web today. Why not focus on incremental improvements, getting mobile to work properly, etc? Look, I understand that the beta site has been someone's baby for the past couple years but it's just not a step forward from what exists today. Pushing it to all users would be a mistake.
If it were up to me, I'd abolish all lanes and have the flying cars communicate between each other directly to negotiate right of way if a conflict is detected. Come up with simple rules, not far from present airline rules, that would be used for determining who goes where. An organized chaos would work best. If that starts to get overly congested, then I'd separate them out by speed. Why are cars going bumper-to-bumper in air-lanes? Go faster, go up. There's no need to go out of your way to follow roads, if you are in a flying car. There are already well defined rules for aircraft, but they work mainly in low-congestion. Around airports, where congestion happens, a 3-rd party manages congestion.
You'd end up with swarming behavior. Which is fine, and probably the most efficient way to handle it, but that's what you'd get. Stay no less than X meters from the nearest vehicle, maintain within 5 degrees of the target heading, maintain speed unless required by one of the other rules to slow down. Those three simple rules will create systems that look shockingly like animal swarming behavior and would be a "good enough" first step to what you are suggesting.
With semi-silvered glass, bright lights on the prisoners and very dim lights on the watchers. Which is how "one way glass" works in the real world today.
All the research today shows at the very least no increase in risk of allergies by starting common allergens earlier, and several studies show improvement with it. If you don't have a family history of food allergies, there is basically nothing you cannot feed to your child as soon as they are able to safely chew and swallow it. The only exceptions are corn syrup and honey (which can cause infant botulism) and diary milk (mostly because it doesn't have enough iron and they should be on formula or breast milk).
Keep a bottle of infant benedryl around and pay attention to their reaction when trying out new things.
Well, they created a magnetic monopole but they didn't create a magnetic monopole.:) They created a magnetic field without it's corresponding opposite field (or actually the opposing field was separated by enough physical distance that they behaved independently), but they didn't create or detect the particle which in theory generates that field.
Windows 7 with an SSD, I can go from pushing the power button to open and usable Firefox window in about 17 seconds... on a 4 year old laptop. SSDs make a huge difference in boot times, it's probably the single biggest performance improvement you can make on a PC.
I dunno, in this case it just doesn't seem like that big of deal. Single player requires a single, one time activation, after that you're good to go. The only caveat to that is that you can't play your online account's single player campaign on the offline account, which is a bit annoying (and probably even bypassable by copying over some files to the guest account folder structure) but if you know you're going to play offline just start the campaign that way from the beginning.
More importantly, SC2 is predominantly a multi-player game; single player, while fun, just isn't the main selling point. And the account login, and corresponding access to the ladder, is a big part of what makes the multi-player ecosystem work.
No, I don't think that necissarilly follows. It's about balance, you don't want people doing cautious taps and lobs all day, but you do want cautious taps and lobs to be a viable strategy some of the time. Knowing when to do a backspin dropshot, and having the skill and timing to do it well, is part of what makes the game exciting.
Think how boring an RTS game would be if the only viable strategy was to rush an attack in the first 5 minutes. Then think how boring the first five minutes would be if there were absolutely no possibility of a rush attack coming.
You know all the variables though, you can figure out when to change the color so that when it gets through the extruder to the head is exactly when you wanted to change colors anyway. You might have to eject a bit if you don't want any mixing, but the waste could be quite close to zero if they did things right. On the other hand, the pictures and videos they show do not make it look cheap, it's entirely possible that they just say "you're spending $50,000 on the printer and you're worried about $10 worth of plastic?"
That would be virtually impossible. Once the leaks started coming the NSA would have done a complete audit of... well, everything. It would be hard enough hiding public activity from the NSA, it would be impossible to hide suspicious activity on their own networks and servers.
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here in Paris, you can legally rent apartments that are as small as 9 sq. m.
And you can leave them whenever you want. In fact, the basic expectation when renting an apartment like that is that you won't be spending any significant amounts of time in it beyond sleeping (which is actually an incredibly expensive way to live).
Trapping someone in an environment that confined with no outside contact is torture, plain and simple. The human mind isn't evolved to look at a flat grey wall for 23 hours a day.
I think you hit closer to the truth than most people.
Using spell check will help someone who is poor at spelling or typing put words to paper faster, but it's not going to make (or break) a great novelist.
Similarly, using an IDE will help someone with incomplete (but really given the size and scope of modern languages that is everyone) programming knowledge, but it's not going to make or break a great software designer/engineer.
Look at it this way: would you give a toddler a pair of crutches in order to teach him to walk?
That is an astonishingly bad analogy given the popularity of toddler walkers and the fact that every child while learning to walk starts buy pulling themselves up next to something and scooting along it's length.
Netflix is breaking the long standing status quo.
Here's what you don't understand: Cogent (on behalf of Netlix) wants to send packets to the ISP. The ISP (on behalf of their customers!) wants to receive those packets. No one is getting shafted. Both sides of the agreement are already getting what they should be wanting. Now the ISPs are coming along and saying that the peering agreements are only about upstream bandwidth? Why? The ISP's customers are the ones who requested the packets that Cogent is trying to deliver to them.
You cannot have entanglement without interaction, you cannot have interaction between two things that lie outside of each other's light cones.
To be fair, you can't have interaction outside of your light cone without also having faster than light communication. But you can't have faster than light communication without also having the possibility of sending messages back in time. And you can't have the possibility of sending messages back in time without breaking causality. So, on the one side you have the assumption that causality doesn't exist and faster than light communication is possible (both of which are contradicted on scales from pico-meters to billions of lightyears), on the other side you have the assumption that information can't travel faster than light (which again, seems to be supported by every experiment and observation made in human history).
There is nothing preventing a good Android manufacturer to provide patch longevity, and some phones have been well supported by some manufacturers.
Yes there is, the carriers. They charge for testing and integration of any OTA patches. They charge to push the update out. They probably charge you for toilet paper you use if you stop by to talk to them about it.
Small fluctuations in local weather are much, much, much, much more chaotic than large fluctuations in global climate. This is hardly unique to atmospheric sciences.
Lets us an IT analogy, lets say you manage a large data center and your head of IT comes up and says something like this:
"Over the next 5 years, 15% of the hard drives in this data center will fail. We need to take these basic precautions."
Your response would be like:
"Why on earth should I trust your estimate for 5 years from today when you can't tell me exactly which servers will fail within the next 6 months!?"
And then you'd get angry at him 5 years down the road when only 14% of the drives failed and be all like:
"See! I told you there was nothing to worry about!"
I think you underestimate the number of people who don't have appropriate internet connections to make that work. Some people (more than you probably think) simply don't have consistent access to the internet. Then there's the fact that a single game can run 10s of gigabytes, for many people that is days of download time. Even for people with fast connections it can represent a significant piece of the monthly cap, Mediacom's standard package starts at 100 Gigs last time I checked but even at 200 or 300 that's still a significant chunk of the pie, especially when you consider the holiday season where Microsoft would like to see people buying multiple titles. Finally, I highly, highly doubt MS is paying $100 per blu-ray drive, I'd be shocked if they were paying $40, then you'd have to increase the HDD size to boot which is going to cost you another $10-15 (unless you only want a handful of titles installed at a time, which given the size of the games makes re-downloading a painful experience). So they could have maybe saved $30 per console... not enough to be worth all the headaches.
This is, to put it bluntly, precisely opposite of the philosophy of the US constitution. In US law, individual rights are enumerated, they are not granted. That's what "inalienable rights" means. It is not up for debate, it's supposed to be the fundamental bedrock that makes western style democracies work. It's possible for society to impinge upon those rights, but doing so can only be described as violating the central tenet of what modern western society is founded upon.
How the hell do you have an egg substitute with no protein? I certainly hope that's just the recipe for the mayo product... if their egg replacement brings no protein then what is the point?
Did they fix the download master killing ping times? One of the selling points of the router for me and ended up being worthless since it drove latency to 2+ seconds whenever it was enabled.
I find your example of Salon.com to be frankly hilarious. The only thing the new site does that's a significant improvement is it's use of horizontal space. It's funny to me that the biggest problem the 10 year old Salon.com has the same issue as the brand new and improved beta. Of course, the new version of Salon looks significantly nicer, but it's information density is painfully low in comparison. So the Beta's got the worst of both worlds somehow.
I vote for "I don't care how it looks as long as it has feature parity."
I tentatively agree; assuming you include things like "information density", keeping the comments the core of the site, loading speed, responsiveness, etc in your feature list. In the beta at the moment, comments taking up 40% of the page (which is just incredibly, stupidly broken), comments are subtly de-emphasized, and the site takes 2-4 times longer to load and feels like it's running on the PC I built when I was 13. And that's ignoring the features that are just plain missing or bugged.
Every single time they change even a single goddamned thing on the website, these crybabies come out of the woodwork to do what they do best (read: do the only thing they know how to do), and that's cry.
Previous revisions were awkward but usable, the Beta simply isn't. It's missing features, other features are broken, it wastes literally 50% of the horizontal space, and by far the worst of all it makes comments an afterthought.
They know nobody's going to leave.
I think you'll be surprised.
Slashdot outlived the former, and given nobody's actually leaving the site over this in lieu of keeping up a constant whiny din of comments, it will most likely outlive the latter
Right now it's optional with it being required on the horizon so people speak up and say the future is not acceptable. When it becomes the only way to view the site, people will leave. I can only hope a single viable alternative pops up rather than a half dozen that destroys the commenting community completely.
Agreed, the classic system is IMO the best comment board on the web today. Why not focus on incremental improvements, getting mobile to work properly, etc? Look, I understand that the beta site has been someone's baby for the past couple years but it's just not a step forward from what exists today. Pushing it to all users would be a mistake.
If it were up to me, I'd abolish all lanes and have the flying cars communicate between each other directly to negotiate right of way if a conflict is detected. Come up with simple rules, not far from present airline rules, that would be used for determining who goes where. An organized chaos would work best. If that starts to get overly congested, then I'd separate them out by speed. Why are cars going bumper-to-bumper in air-lanes? Go faster, go up. There's no need to go out of your way to follow roads, if you are in a flying car. There are already well defined rules for aircraft, but they work mainly in low-congestion. Around airports, where congestion happens, a 3-rd party manages congestion.
You'd end up with swarming behavior. Which is fine, and probably the most efficient way to handle it, but that's what you'd get. Stay no less than X meters from the nearest vehicle, maintain within 5 degrees of the target heading, maintain speed unless required by one of the other rules to slow down. Those three simple rules will create systems that look shockingly like animal swarming behavior and would be a "good enough" first step to what you are suggesting.
With semi-silvered glass, bright lights on the prisoners and very dim lights on the watchers. Which is how "one way glass" works in the real world today.
All the research today shows at the very least no increase in risk of allergies by starting common allergens earlier, and several studies show improvement with it. If you don't have a family history of food allergies, there is basically nothing you cannot feed to your child as soon as they are able to safely chew and swallow it. The only exceptions are corn syrup and honey (which can cause infant botulism) and diary milk (mostly because it doesn't have enough iron and they should be on formula or breast milk).
Keep a bottle of infant benedryl around and pay attention to their reaction when trying out new things.
Well, they created a magnetic monopole but they didn't create a magnetic monopole. :) They created a magnetic field without it's corresponding opposite field (or actually the opposing field was separated by enough physical distance that they behaved independently), but they didn't create or detect the particle which in theory generates that field.
Windows 7 with an SSD, I can go from pushing the power button to open and usable Firefox window in about 17 seconds... on a 4 year old laptop. SSDs make a huge difference in boot times, it's probably the single biggest performance improvement you can make on a PC.
I dunno, in this case it just doesn't seem like that big of deal. Single player requires a single, one time activation, after that you're good to go. The only caveat to that is that you can't play your online account's single player campaign on the offline account, which is a bit annoying (and probably even bypassable by copying over some files to the guest account folder structure) but if you know you're going to play offline just start the campaign that way from the beginning.
More importantly, SC2 is predominantly a multi-player game; single player, while fun, just isn't the main selling point. And the account login, and corresponding access to the ladder, is a big part of what makes the multi-player ecosystem work.
No, I don't think that necissarilly follows. It's about balance, you don't want people doing cautious taps and lobs all day, but you do want cautious taps and lobs to be a viable strategy some of the time. Knowing when to do a backspin dropshot, and having the skill and timing to do it well, is part of what makes the game exciting.
Think how boring an RTS game would be if the only viable strategy was to rush an attack in the first 5 minutes. Then think how boring the first five minutes would be if there were absolutely no possibility of a rush attack coming.
A rep-rap is about 0.1% the cost... so I'm not sure the comparison is valid.
You know all the variables though, you can figure out when to change the color so that when it gets through the extruder to the head is exactly when you wanted to change colors anyway. You might have to eject a bit if you don't want any mixing, but the waste could be quite close to zero if they did things right. On the other hand, the pictures and videos they show do not make it look cheap, it's entirely possible that they just say "you're spending $50,000 on the printer and you're worried about $10 worth of plastic?"
That would be virtually impossible. Once the leaks started coming the NSA would have done a complete audit of... well, everything. It would be hard enough hiding public activity from the NSA, it would be impossible to hide suspicious activity on their own networks and servers.