Apache's job is not to be political in this sense. They should simply implement the standard and let other people argue over how much statutory weight it should have.
That's basically how Karl Marx described how capitalism would evolve. And how Mussolini claimed Italian Fascism worked. And now it's 2012 and the Western world is re-adopting Fascism (in which corporations assume the role of Government).
Yet there are lots of posters on Slashdot that will tell you they trust unelected, opaque corporations more than they go the US Government, even though their grandfathers fought WW2 to destroy Fascism.
Until the Manhattan project politicians didn't see the need for fundamental physics research. (Winston Churchill being a notable exception). As the nuclear industry becomes, basically, about as exciting as the coal mining industry, the perception of the need recedes. We are back to trying to invent military uses for pure research. But if the monkeys hold the keys to the banana plantation, I think we are justified in pulling wool over the eyes of the monkeys.
No, that too is incorrect. Radioactive decay is random. With a very slow rate of decay ( averaging one event per hour) the time between events will, I think, follow a Poisson distribution. The probability that the cat is dead does indeed increase with time, but it is not 1 at 1 hour, or even 2.
My dog suggests that this should be tested with a very large number of cats, and a big lump of polonium in each box.
In fact the BB10 OS, based on QNX, is looking very interesting indeed. RIM should not be written off yet; in 2013 they will have arguably the most capable phone OS. (disclaimer: written on a PB with OS 2.1)
Well, that'e being polite. Wide angle lenses are of course more prone to flare, and so part of the design expertise is minimising it. I do rather tend to suspect the alumina cover, though. A Leica owner once told me how he went to an agricultural show with a 28mm lens on his M6, and the guy on the Leitz stall (selling binoculars) told him he should not have a UV filter on his lens because "it can cause flare and distortion, and Leica wouldn't like people to see a picture affected like that and think it was the lens". The effect is due to internal reflection and would be worse with alumina because it has such a high refractive index.
The only reason I would buy an iPhone is if I could run a nuclear power plant with it. My compost heap already makes the biological weapons, they're called "flies".
Aluminium oxide (note IUPAC spelling!) has a very high refractive index (over 1.7) and moderate dispersion. Put an alumina window over a wide angle camera lens and I would expect interesting effects from high-angle bright light, because of that high index. So my guess it is a design feature rather than batch related.
I haven't got the source, but I remember a study of road behaviour in the UK that concluded that the system works because, in effect, the 50% of drivers who are reasonably thoughtful, considerate and drive sensibly compensate for the 50% who are anything from careless to dangerous.
But, also, there is the effect of childhood bullying. I think that most people who post regularly on Slashdot are aware of this: academic children are more likely to be bullied owing to the general social attitudes of the English speaking world. And that means that when they grow up they have quite a lot of suppressed anger aimed at the stupid people who bullied them. This could be one reason why "jock" attitudes expressed on/. tend to produce such strong negative responses; the other, of course, is that in the real world far too often fools are allowed to persist in their folly and nobody stops them. Blake said that "if the fool persists in his folly he will become wise", but actually it's more likely to be "he will cause immense trouble for other people". On line, it is easier to call a dickhead a dickhead.
Have you considered what would have happened had they kept on making low end phones, and phones that the carriers didn't like? Sales are down by volume in the US, but up by revenue. Doing that is usually an uphill struggle knowing the brand-obsession of the US market.
Slashdot is full of armchair CEOs, but I do wonder how many of them could succeed running a market stall.
Nobody but Samsung really makes money out of Android. The bar for making a phone which is competitive in the market is now almost incredibly high. You are up against two huge companies with vast resources, one of whom admittedly only wants to occupy the top and middle ground, but the other makes a lot of cheap phones as well. Arguably Samsung overlaps Apple at the top end as well with the Note 2.
There really isn't any room for me-too products. RIM is trying to make the perfect business portable communications device - and I hope they succeed - and Nokia is trying to make a stand-out product for people who travel light: good mapping, good cameras, and an OS which isn't iOS, for when iOS becomes meh with the youth market. I hope they succeed too.An iOS/Android world would be pretty gray.
As for Elop, well, my view may be different from the Slashdot norm. Microsoft wants to sell Windows phones and, if they buy Nokia, the other second tier manufacturers may well take fright. If Elop genuinely saw the need for partnering, faced with the two elephants in the room, and pursued that as a strategy, then he deserves some credit.
Nokia needs to differentiate itself to survive, and it seems to have found a workable niche just as Apple stumbles.By getting Oracle and Microsoft as partners, they also get a degree of protection from American protectionism, that kept them out of the US market in the past. It pains me to write it, but we may have to re-evaluate Elop.
The effort I had to put in at school in the 1950s learning to add, multiple and divide pounds, shillings and pence was totally wasted. We actually had a maths teacher who thought metrication was a Bad Thing because it would reduce the ability to do mental arithmetic. What he didn't see was that you only really need the ability to do mental arithmetic if you have to use a dysfunctional system of weights and measures.
I moved 110 miles away and the loudest noise was the surf on the beach. But most of the neighbors were near death...Too quiet. I now live a mere 120 miles from that apartment on the A41, in a village, and the loudest noise is the sparrows in the hedge that separates our drive from our neighbors. One day I might shoot the noisy little bastards.
Back OT, however, the answer is triple glazing and lining the outside wall with Noisekiller - which is a polymer foam/lead/foam composite which can silence the sound of a marine Diesel engine in a steel enclosure.
Occasionally English juries do decide to ignore the advice of the judge. It usually helps if the defendant is white, middle class and a "nice" person, but sometimes it happens.
Try to go before a judge if you're innocent, a jury if you're guilty. And if you didn't do it and go before magistrates, try and get the trial committed to go before a judge.
British juries are about as intelligent as American juries, however British judges are not political appointments and so don't have to grandstand to keep their jobs.
we would have to think that 99% of website designers are fscking morons, and the other 1% is either in academia or unemployed.
Microsoft's greatest success was to ensure that the typesetting got done by the document creator and not the document viewer, thus preserving the market for the world's most unnecessary program - Word - forever. Raging against it is a bit too late now.
Driving through a small town in Wiltshire, England yesterday, while waiting at lights I saw a young black woman wearing a red dress and coat and red shoes. She was quite stunningly beautiful. I'm surprised there wasn't a multiple pile up. Distraction can take many forms. Fortunately by the time the lights changed I had finished thinking about art history and trying to remember which painting it was that was nagging at the back of my mind. But it doesn't take boobs to create distractions.
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Apache's job is not to be political in this sense. They should simply implement the standard and let other people argue over how much statutory weight it should have.
Yet there are lots of posters on Slashdot that will tell you they trust unelected, opaque corporations more than they go the US Government, even though their grandfathers fought WW2 to destroy Fascism.
"You're against the industry effort to create Do Not Track standard that doesn't change the status quo.
Until the Manhattan project politicians didn't see the need for fundamental physics research. (Winston Churchill being a notable exception). As the nuclear industry becomes, basically, about as exciting as the coal mining industry, the perception of the need recedes. We are back to trying to invent military uses for pure research. But if the monkeys hold the keys to the banana plantation, I think we are justified in pulling wool over the eyes of the monkeys.
My dog suggests that this should be tested with a very large number of cats, and a big lump of polonium in each box.
From a security point of view you're right, from a practical point of view a teenager with good diving skils might try it. Once.
In fact the BB10 OS, based on QNX, is looking very interesting indeed. RIM should not be written off yet; in 2013 they will have arguably the most capable phone OS. (disclaimer: written on a PB with OS 2.1)
And then have no chance of getting other phone makers on board.
HP printer firmware seems to get flakier every year. 2100 model variants? Do you really need more than 20?
Well, that'e being polite. Wide angle lenses are of course more prone to flare, and so part of the design expertise is minimising it. I do rather tend to suspect the alumina cover, though. A Leica owner once told me how he went to an agricultural show with a 28mm lens on his M6, and the guy on the Leitz stall (selling binoculars) told him he should not have a UV filter on his lens because "it can cause flare and distortion, and Leica wouldn't like people to see a picture affected like that and think it was the lens". The effect is due to internal reflection and would be worse with alumina because it has such a high refractive index.
The only reason I would buy an iPhone is if I could run a nuclear power plant with it. My compost heap already makes the biological weapons, they're called "flies".
If we're channelling sir TP, let me remind you that only wizards can see octarine. Perhaps that's it! Apple didn't employ any wizard testers.
Aluminium oxide (note IUPAC spelling!) has a very high refractive index (over 1.7) and moderate dispersion. Put an alumina window over a wide angle camera lens and I would expect interesting effects from high-angle bright light, because of that high index. So my guess it is a design feature rather than batch related.
But, also, there is the effect of childhood bullying. I think that most people who post regularly on Slashdot are aware of this: academic children are more likely to be bullied owing to the general social attitudes of the English speaking world. And that means that when they grow up they have quite a lot of suppressed anger aimed at the stupid people who bullied them. This could be one reason why "jock" attitudes expressed on /. tend to produce such strong negative responses; the other, of course, is that in the real world far too often fools are allowed to persist in their folly and nobody stops them. Blake said that "if the fool persists in his folly he will become wise", but actually it's more likely to be "he will cause immense trouble for other people". On line, it is easier to call a dickhead a dickhead.
Someone mods me down but is unable to come up with a counter argument. Whose little foot did I tread on?
Slashdot is full of armchair CEOs, but I do wonder how many of them could succeed running a market stall.
There really isn't any room for me-too products. RIM is trying to make the perfect business portable communications device - and I hope they succeed - and Nokia is trying to make a stand-out product for people who travel light: good mapping, good cameras, and an OS which isn't iOS, for when iOS becomes meh with the youth market. I hope they succeed too.An iOS/Android world would be pretty gray.
As for Elop, well, my view may be different from the Slashdot norm. Microsoft wants to sell Windows phones and, if they buy Nokia, the other second tier manufacturers may well take fright. If Elop genuinely saw the need for partnering, faced with the two elephants in the room, and pursued that as a strategy, then he deserves some credit.
Nokia needs to differentiate itself to survive, and it seems to have found a workable niche just as Apple stumbles.By getting Oracle and Microsoft as partners, they also get a degree of protection from American protectionism, that kept them out of the US market in the past. It pains me to write it, but we may have to re-evaluate Elop.
The effort I had to put in at school in the 1950s learning to add, multiple and divide pounds, shillings and pence was totally wasted. We actually had a maths teacher who thought metrication was a Bad Thing because it would reduce the ability to do mental arithmetic. What he didn't see was that you only really need the ability to do mental arithmetic if you have to use a dysfunctional system of weights and measures.
Back OT, however, the answer is triple glazing and lining the outside wall with Noisekiller - which is a polymer foam/lead/foam composite which can silence the sound of a marine Diesel engine in a steel enclosure.
Occasionally English juries do decide to ignore the advice of the judge. It usually helps if the defendant is white, middle class and a "nice" person, but sometimes it happens.
British juries are about as intelligent as American juries, however British judges are not political appointments and so don't have to grandstand to keep their jobs.
Brazilian GNP - as sourced by Google.
Microsoft's greatest success was to ensure that the typesetting got done by the document creator and not the document viewer, thus preserving the market for the world's most unnecessary program - Word - forever. Raging against it is a bit too late now.
Driving through a small town in Wiltshire, England yesterday, while waiting at lights I saw a young black woman wearing a red dress and coat and red shoes. She was quite stunningly beautiful. I'm surprised there wasn't a multiple pile up. Distraction can take many forms. Fortunately by the time the lights changed I had finished thinking about art history and trying to remember which painting it was that was nagging at the back of my mind. But it doesn't take boobs to create distractions.