It's not just the layout that can be replaced on android, you can use wildly different text input choices. Swiftkey has insanely good error correction and word prediction by a combination of an analysis of what you've written into your phone before and a heat map that invisibly adjusts the key position to be more consistent with where you actually hit it (if you always hit the area between 'e' and 'r' when you mean to hit 'e' it will begin register that area as 'e'). Swipe works by dragging from one letter to the next. Various voice recognition apps (including Google's) works through the same interface. And those are just the relatively obvious keyboard styles, there are other text input choices that are really trying new things. This is wildly out of date but still provide a glimpse of the kinds of things you can try out on Android.
This is what I don't understand. Cooperating with each other explicitly or implicitly is a positive sum game. Some might win more than others, but everyone wins. Traditional corporate warfare is at least approximately zero sum, one company buys out the other, they lose control but they still get the money. But this patent war crap? It's massively and obviously negative sum. Who was the guy sitting in his office that thought this was a good idea and why does it keep going on? Even the winners are spending as much in court costs, lawyer bills, and PR losses as they could possibly hope to gain.
Because there is absolutely no way that a military drone should be using a single navigation source as it's be all end all, especially not GPS which can be jammed trivially and spoofed with a bit more effort. If your GPS signal is hundreds of Km off from where your dead reconning (using air speed and compass), says you should be the GPS signal should be ignored entirely. This is what airliner flight management systems do, in fact it's what any idiot hiking through the forest would do. The idea that the people coding software for military grade drones can't figure it out is more concerning than the idea that someone can spoof GPS signals.
If you took the money you are spending on health insurance and put it into safe long term investments, you'd have no trouble affording health care and you'd be far better off.
This actually made me laugh. Yes, that's true in a statistical sense, on average you'll come out ahead (how else are the insurance companies making money?). Reality is that you'd be living your life one car accident, heart attack, or cancer diagnosis away from being financially ruined for life, and screwing over the rest of us when you fail to pay your multi-hundred thousand dollar bill to the hospital.
No problem, they'll just block the proxy sites as 'adult content' too then. And the download sites. And torrents and other P2P protocols. And direct browsing by IP address. And chat rooms, email, IM software, and photo sharing sites (including Facebook). And any page with the words "circumvent" and "filter" appearing anywhere on them. And search engines. See, it's easy!
And all that ignores the kid who goes to Google to search for "I think my friend might hurt themselves, what should I do?" or "breast cancer" or "how to use a condom" or "anorexia support group". The whole thing is ridiculous.
Yes, 3 frames of latency will the be the doom of all user experience. Why, the latency will sky rocket from.06s (double buffered) to.09s (triple buffered). Oh the humanity!
I've always wondered, what stops the scorpion killing the frog before or after they start to cross? Most businesses won't destroy a deal that is mutually beneficial, but the minute they think they can get an advantage you'll be stung. The parable would be more applicable to modern businesses if the scorpion stung the frog as they neared the far bank, when he thought he could probably make the rest of the distance on his own; only to have the frog grab him and pull him down into the depths.
Hiding the source code is not an effective way to prevent hacking, if it were my Windows box wouldn't need a hardware firewall, a software firewall, 3rd party antivirus software, and regular sweeps initiated from a different OS.
Hardware can fail for a much wider variety of reasons; poor maintenance, overuse, physical abuse, one off manufacturing defects, etc. Software failures are caused by an error in design or implementation; they are almost guaranteed to be present in every single instance of the device even if it takes an oddball corner case to set it off.
GPS used to have a 1km fudge factor inserted into it to prevent people using it for terrorist activities.
Not that I'm entirely sure how I feel about Google using drones to improve Google Earth. If I have a privacy fence up... well, it's to protect my privacy. Taking pictures from a low flying drone isn't much different than leaning a ladder against the fence and climbing up to peer over. On the other hand, it's a one time thing (or at least rare) and the same viewing angle can be achieved any number of ways that people don't have a problem with (if nothing else manned aircraft). I think I'm actually going to have to think about this one a bit...
Native Americans didn't consider land to be 'property' either.
This is probably off topic but what you say is factually incorrect. The reason that the Indians sold and gave away their land for a pittance is because the Indians the colonials were buying/taking from weren't the one's that owned the land. Like saying that guy you met on 1st avenue must not understand real estate very well since he was willing to sell you the Brooklyn bridge for just $500.
Well, I say that it's unethical to artificially create scarcity so that you can make a buck and even more unethical to destroy the lives of people who take steps to end your artificial scarcity. Of course creation costs, but we're not being asked to pay for creation, we're being asked to pay for a copy. Find a new business model or get out of the way and let someone else do so; passing laws and taking people to court in an effort to prop up your (recently) broken business plan.
I don't care if they're Chinese, American, German, or Japanese; 90 days for a construction project of this magnitude isn't just ambitious, it's ridiculous. It's either a false promise to get investors or it is a literal, earth shattering disaster waiting to happen, quite possibly both.
Maybe I'm just being silly, but if you also encrypt the message using standard means it will look identical to random noise, making it impossible to tell if you stumbled upon the correct current and voltage in the first place. Alternatively, Alice and Bob are able to detect your trying to intercept their communications, which means they can alter their behavior long before you stumble upon the correct settings.
Sorry but while some of that food certainly isn't great, even the worst of it is at least as good as what I remember eating and there's a lot of pictures on there (80%) that has food that actually looks quite good. Not to mention there's a wide variety, with a lot of fruit and vegetable options. Honestly, if that's what my kid was being served I'd probably be just fine with it, impressed actually.
The rate of change is important. Toss me a baseball and I'll catch it, whip it at my head and I probably won't.
We generally don't know the rate of change that previous global climate changes had, but the rates that we're seeing today would be equivilent to the ice age ending in a matter of decades or at most a couple centuries. 1.5 degrees so far might not sound like much but when look at the global scale that is a big change.
Personally, I feel it's a bit disingenuous to say that without adding something along the lines of "but the most widely accepted and scientifically supported explanation is man made CO2 emissions". The plain fact of the matter is that there isn't much discussion amongst scientists as to the cause and that there's virtually no debate amongst climate scientists. Solar variation isn't enough to explain the changes we've seen and CO2 from other sources is a tiny fraction of human output (despite what many people would tell you online). Having a group of laymen trotting out the same tired arguments again and again while the experts explain why they are wrong isn't a debate, if it were then evolution would be up for debate as well!
For 20 years everyone in, for example, the cell phone industry knew that stabbing your competitor in the back was a losing proposition. Perhaps if the pool gets large enough we can get everyone back to that state and have certain companies who shall remain nameless stop trying to beat the competition with bogus patents and idiot judges.
Most of the things they trash have userbases measured in the hundreds. It's just not worth it financially to put money into maintaining something that has a few thousand users even if it does cost them some goodwill to the project. Kill it, move on to the next thing and if its an area that you really want to make something happen in try again with a different approach. Staying static with what can only be described as a failed approach isn't going to win you any profit.
Not that it isn't progress but the 3-4% of votes being lost isn't really an accurate statement. It's 3-5% of people who would vote for him but didn't because he's black, not 3-5% of the general population. Presumably, that doesn't include any significant number of the opposing party, nor does it include those people who flat out said "no" to the polsters for racial reasons. All we know for sure is that 57% of the nation will vote for a black president.
There are absolutely creationists who don't understand the concepts of evolution. Either because they were never taught it or because they were taught a ludicrous straw man by people peddling FUD. We can't forget that! If we do, whenever a creationist asks a legitimate question about evolution we'll go off on them instead of providing an informative answer. The odds of an answer, no matter how informative, opening someone's eyes might be very slim but it is non-zero and every mind opened is a good thing. I know that I myself have answered questions from people who self describable "don't get evolution" and received back words of thanks and sometimes another, more informed and interesting question that keeps the discussion moving forward. It doesn't happen often but it does happen.
If someone is being a troll do what you will to them. But if someone merely asks a question we should try to give them an informed answer, even if it's a question that's been answered before.
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You realize that hospitals have special laundry equipment to sterilize the laundry.
You mean like... bleach? There are lots of reasons they should be in a hospital over a motel, this is a rather weak choice of argument.
It's not just the layout that can be replaced on android, you can use wildly different text input choices. Swiftkey has insanely good error correction and word prediction by a combination of an analysis of what you've written into your phone before and a heat map that invisibly adjusts the key position to be more consistent with where you actually hit it (if you always hit the area between 'e' and 'r' when you mean to hit 'e' it will begin register that area as 'e'). Swipe works by dragging from one letter to the next. Various voice recognition apps (including Google's) works through the same interface. And those are just the relatively obvious keyboard styles, there are other text input choices that are really trying new things. This is wildly out of date but still provide a glimpse of the kinds of things you can try out on Android.
This is what I don't understand. Cooperating with each other explicitly or implicitly is a positive sum game. Some might win more than others, but everyone wins. Traditional corporate warfare is at least approximately zero sum, one company buys out the other, they lose control but they still get the money. But this patent war crap? It's massively and obviously negative sum. Who was the guy sitting in his office that thought this was a good idea and why does it keep going on? Even the winners are spending as much in court costs, lawyer bills, and PR losses as they could possibly hope to gain.
And if you prefer engineering buzzwords, there's always this.
Because there is absolutely no way that a military drone should be using a single navigation source as it's be all end all, especially not GPS which can be jammed trivially and spoofed with a bit more effort. If your GPS signal is hundreds of Km off from where your dead reconning (using air speed and compass), says you should be the GPS signal should be ignored entirely. This is what airliner flight management systems do, in fact it's what any idiot hiking through the forest would do. The idea that the people coding software for military grade drones can't figure it out is more concerning than the idea that someone can spoof GPS signals.
Option 3: Virtual retina display.
If you took the money you are spending on health insurance and put it into safe long term investments, you'd have no trouble affording health care and you'd be far better off.
This actually made me laugh. Yes, that's true in a statistical sense, on average you'll come out ahead (how else are the insurance companies making money?). Reality is that you'd be living your life one car accident, heart attack, or cancer diagnosis away from being financially ruined for life, and screwing over the rest of us when you fail to pay your multi-hundred thousand dollar bill to the hospital.
No problem, they'll just block the proxy sites as 'adult content' too then. And the download sites. And torrents and other P2P protocols. And direct browsing by IP address. And chat rooms, email, IM software, and photo sharing sites (including Facebook). And any page with the words "circumvent" and "filter" appearing anywhere on them. And search engines. See, it's easy!
And all that ignores the kid who goes to Google to search for "I think my friend might hurt themselves, what should I do?" or "breast cancer" or "how to use a condom" or "anorexia support group". The whole thing is ridiculous.
Yes, 3 frames of latency will the be the doom of all user experience. Why, the latency will sky rocket from .06s (double buffered) to .09s (triple buffered). Oh the humanity!
I've always wondered, what stops the scorpion killing the frog before or after they start to cross? Most businesses won't destroy a deal that is mutually beneficial, but the minute they think they can get an advantage you'll be stung. The parable would be more applicable to modern businesses if the scorpion stung the frog as they neared the far bank, when he thought he could probably make the rest of the distance on his own; only to have the frog grab him and pull him down into the depths.
Hiding the source code is not an effective way to prevent hacking, if it were my Windows box wouldn't need a hardware firewall, a software firewall, 3rd party antivirus software, and regular sweeps initiated from a different OS.
Hardware can fail for a much wider variety of reasons; poor maintenance, overuse, physical abuse, one off manufacturing defects, etc. Software failures are caused by an error in design or implementation; they are almost guaranteed to be present in every single instance of the device even if it takes an oddball corner case to set it off.
GPS used to have a 1km fudge factor inserted into it to prevent people using it for terrorist activities.
Not that I'm entirely sure how I feel about Google using drones to improve Google Earth. If I have a privacy fence up... well, it's to protect my privacy. Taking pictures from a low flying drone isn't much different than leaning a ladder against the fence and climbing up to peer over. On the other hand, it's a one time thing (or at least rare) and the same viewing angle can be achieved any number of ways that people don't have a problem with (if nothing else manned aircraft). I think I'm actually going to have to think about this one a bit...
Native Americans didn't consider land to be 'property' either.
This is probably off topic but what you say is factually incorrect. The reason that the Indians sold and gave away their land for a pittance is because the Indians the colonials were buying/taking from weren't the one's that owned the land. Like saying that guy you met on 1st avenue must not understand real estate very well since he was willing to sell you the Brooklyn bridge for just $500.
Well, I say that it's unethical to artificially create scarcity so that you can make a buck and even more unethical to destroy the lives of people who take steps to end your artificial scarcity. Of course creation costs, but we're not being asked to pay for creation, we're being asked to pay for a copy. Find a new business model or get out of the way and let someone else do so; passing laws and taking people to court in an effort to prop up your (recently) broken business plan.
I don't care if they're Chinese, American, German, or Japanese; 90 days for a construction project of this magnitude isn't just ambitious, it's ridiculous. It's either a false promise to get investors or it is a literal, earth shattering disaster waiting to happen, quite possibly both.
Maybe I'm just being silly, but if you also encrypt the message using standard means it will look identical to random noise, making it impossible to tell if you stumbled upon the correct current and voltage in the first place. Alternatively, Alice and Bob are able to detect your trying to intercept their communications, which means they can alter their behavior long before you stumble upon the correct settings.
Sorry but while some of that food certainly isn't great, even the worst of it is at least as good as what I remember eating and there's a lot of pictures on there (80%) that has food that actually looks quite good. Not to mention there's a wide variety, with a lot of fruit and vegetable options. Honestly, if that's what my kid was being served I'd probably be just fine with it, impressed actually.
Define "radical" please.
The rate of change is important. Toss me a baseball and I'll catch it, whip it at my head and I probably won't.
We generally don't know the rate of change that previous global climate changes had, but the rates that we're seeing today would be equivilent to the ice age ending in a matter of decades or at most a couple centuries. 1.5 degrees so far might not sound like much but when look at the global scale that is a big change.
It's still up for discussion why it's happening
Personally, I feel it's a bit disingenuous to say that without adding something along the lines of "but the most widely accepted and scientifically supported explanation is man made CO2 emissions". The plain fact of the matter is that there isn't much discussion amongst scientists as to the cause and that there's virtually no debate amongst climate scientists. Solar variation isn't enough to explain the changes we've seen and CO2 from other sources is a tiny fraction of human output (despite what many people would tell you online). Having a group of laymen trotting out the same tired arguments again and again while the experts explain why they are wrong isn't a debate, if it were then evolution would be up for debate as well!
For 20 years everyone in, for example, the cell phone industry knew that stabbing your competitor in the back was a losing proposition. Perhaps if the pool gets large enough we can get everyone back to that state and have certain companies who shall remain nameless stop trying to beat the competition with bogus patents and idiot judges.
Most of the things they trash have userbases measured in the hundreds. It's just not worth it financially to put money into maintaining something that has a few thousand users even if it does cost them some goodwill to the project. Kill it, move on to the next thing and if its an area that you really want to make something happen in try again with a different approach. Staying static with what can only be described as a failed approach isn't going to win you any profit.
Not that it isn't progress but the 3-4% of votes being lost isn't really an accurate statement. It's 3-5% of people who would vote for him but didn't because he's black, not 3-5% of the general population. Presumably, that doesn't include any significant number of the opposing party, nor does it include those people who flat out said "no" to the polsters for racial reasons. All we know for sure is that 57% of the nation will vote for a black president.
There are absolutely creationists who don't understand the concepts of evolution. Either because they were never taught it or because they were taught a ludicrous straw man by people peddling FUD. We can't forget that! If we do, whenever a creationist asks a legitimate question about evolution we'll go off on them instead of providing an informative answer. The odds of an answer, no matter how informative, opening someone's eyes might be very slim but it is non-zero and every mind opened is a good thing. I know that I myself have answered questions from people who self describable "don't get evolution" and received back words of thanks and sometimes another, more informed and interesting question that keeps the discussion moving forward. It doesn't happen often but it does happen.
If someone is being a troll do what you will to them. But if someone merely asks a question we should try to give them an informed answer, even if it's a question that's been answered before.
Some are attracted, some are repulsed. It's like slashdot's gone bipolar.