Small detail: Apple does not make a tablet. There are third-party hackup of Apple laptops, and theoretically I could ignore the legalities and install MacOS on my Motion tablet (now there's a non-trivial project!). But these are both evil kludges that are not supported by Apple. No thanks.
I already knew this but I still find it very surprising. You think with all the artsy types that Apple caters to, they would come out with an iTablet or something. You know, as a laptop PC?
Tablet laptops (the ones where you can write on the screen and whatnot) have generally been wonky and undersupported (not to mention expensive). Considering Apples experience with touch screens (see iPhone, iPod Touch) this seems like a natural move to them.
In politics and law, you can turn any statement to your favor. Simply remove any information that may be useless or damaging to your cause and use The Power of Punctuation and Brackets (TM) to show what the original writer "really" meant. Here's an example using your short post:
"I... [am] amazed... with regards to your [sexual] prowess."
See? It's easy. It's like Bob the Builder. "Can we fix it?!"
The asteroid wouldn't change direction under its own power. Such an assumption would be absolutely ludicrous on my part. I was talking more about gravitational forces of things bigger than the asteroid affecting its trajectory.
Because NewYorkCountryLawyer has yet to induct his children as acolytes in the dark arts of Lawyering (they're too young, and the paperwork is a bitch). Give 'em a few years to reach the Age of Ascension (some limitations apply, consult your grand ArchJudge for details), and then soon we'll have a veritable army of lawyers on Slashdot.
Has nobody on Slashdot ever heard of harpoons or grappling hooks?
IANAA (I Am Not An Astrophysicist), but let's say hypothetically that this asteroid is 1 km in diameter. We send up a probe with a 1.1km tether. The probe releases the tether into the path of the asteroid, and the end of the tether has hooks. When the asteroid smacks into the tether, the probe hooks into it.
At this crucial moment, the probe must begin accelerating to match as much of the speed of the asteroid as possible without overtaking it. Eventually the tether will go taut. The probe then reels it in, plops down on the asteroid, and attaches itself to the thing with struts.
I've read plenty of "Why attach to an asteroid when we can just match its speed, it's the same thing, blah blah". No. It's not the same thing.
1) The asteroid acts as a huge shield. It can protect the probe from various things we wouldn't want it to be exposed to.
2) Yes, we can propel to x speed as the asteroid, but every time we want to change direction fuel must be spent. If the asteroid changes direction ever, that's quite literally a free ride.
3) Depending on where it lands, we could get some pretty cool pictures. What if it heads towards some planet a few light years away and smacks into it? Imagine the awesome telemetry we could get from the probe.
A fair way to run a company would be to determine executive's salary by the combined salary of a lower class of workers.
Here's an example. A small company has 28 people: 1 owner/CEO at the top, 3 managers, and 24 workers of an equal pay grade. 8 workers per manager.
The owner doesn't want the managers dinking with salary and screwing over the employees, so he says that the managers salsary is twice that of the base salary of the workers. If you cut the workers' salary, you cut your own as well.
"Books provide sensory/sentimental/sensual experiences that e-books can't match." True! Cars just can't match the experience of caring for and riding a horse: the smells, the textures, the sensations, the companionship with another living being.
I daresay the smells are one of the many advantages of using a car over using a horse.
It's also amazing how broke some of this shit is. Hulu's movie selection is abysmal at best and they rarely add new things. Television shows are rotated, so you could see, say, Monk Season 4 episodes 5, 6, and 7. If you wanted to watch 8, 9, and 10, you'd have to wait for them to rotate them in.
Are we in some sort of bandwidth or storage crisis that they can't put the whole series online? No. Someone in the background is pulling strings and saying shit like, "If you put the whole series online people won't buy DVDs anymore".
Streaming shows don't have the special features. Steaming shows have advertisements, which means you have eyeballs watching ads no matter what they're watching - even movies. Streaming shows will give you far more accurate metrics as to who's watching what rather than the Nielsen system.
Hulu is at best a half-assed compromise and it can't stand up to the commercial-free options - BitTorrent, downloading, Tudou, YouTube, etc. If they'd just, as you've said, stop shooting themselves in the foot, they'd be doing just fine.
This is one of the two reasons why I admire Steve Wozniak as a person. He's a tinkerer at heart. He'll sit down at a table with various parts and put together something that's cool. Engineering is like lego for geniuses.
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(The other reason I admire Woz is for his sweet, pimped-out Segway.)
i.e. a license where you don't necessarily have to include the CC info and copyright but you can use it as freely as you want so long as it is non-commercial.
1) Find a way to make more money off of a long-existing format (blue-ray CDs). Now you can charge more for something that has been around for 20 years with negligble benefits!
2) Watch as every audiophile news site lauds the wonderful improvements in quality - especially when you have it hooked up to your 8.1 system lined with gold-plated, lead-shielded cables.
3) Start a new advertising campaign about Blu-Ray burners stating that they can in fact burn Blu-Ray CDs. Include quotes from the aforementioned magazines about how awesome they are. Make a cheaper Blu-Ray CD Burner for the suckers who don't have a lot of cash.
4) Profit.
He's basically saying, in Japanese, that this picture was sponsored by JAXA (the Japanese space agency) and NHK (a Japanese television station). It's a joke.
shashin = picture
suponsaa = sponser
okurishimasu = i'll send you, i'll forward to you
This is the Japanese version of "brought to you by $SPONSORS" that any anime or Japanese television fan would recognize as they say it after the credits of nearly every show.
Slashdot Mirror
Small detail: Apple does not make a tablet. There are third-party hackup of Apple laptops, and theoretically I could ignore the legalities and install MacOS on my Motion tablet (now there's a non-trivial project!). But these are both evil kludges that are not supported by Apple. No thanks.
I already knew this but I still find it very surprising. You think with all the artsy types that Apple caters to, they would come out with an iTablet or something. You know, as a laptop PC?
Tablet laptops (the ones where you can write on the screen and whatnot) have generally been wonky and undersupported (not to mention expensive). Considering Apples experience with touch screens (see iPhone, iPod Touch) this seems like a natural move to them.
In politics and law, you can turn any statement to your favor. Simply remove any information that may be useless or damaging to your cause and use The Power of Punctuation and Brackets (TM) to show what the original writer "really" meant. Here's an example using your short post:
"I... [am] amazed... with regards to your [sexual] prowess."
See? It's easy. It's like Bob the Builder. "Can we fix it?!"
Courts work sloooow. Keepin' logs around for maybe a few weeks at most is enough. After that, "Well, we auto-purge logs. Sorry!"
The asteroid wouldn't change direction under its own power. Such an assumption would be absolutely ludicrous on my part. I was talking more about gravitational forces of things bigger than the asteroid affecting its trajectory.
Because NewYorkCountryLawyer has yet to induct his children as acolytes in the dark arts of Lawyering (they're too young, and the paperwork is a bitch). Give 'em a few years to reach the Age of Ascension (some limitations apply, consult your grand ArchJudge for details), and then soon we'll have a veritable army of lawyers on Slashdot.
Has nobody on Slashdot ever heard of harpoons or grappling hooks?
IANAA (I Am Not An Astrophysicist), but let's say hypothetically that this asteroid is 1 km in diameter. We send up a probe with a 1.1km tether. The probe releases the tether into the path of the asteroid, and the end of the tether has hooks. When the asteroid smacks into the tether, the probe hooks into it.
At this crucial moment, the probe must begin accelerating to match as much of the speed of the asteroid as possible without overtaking it. Eventually the tether will go taut. The probe then reels it in, plops down on the asteroid, and attaches itself to the thing with struts.
I've read plenty of "Why attach to an asteroid when we can just match its speed, it's the same thing, blah blah". No. It's not the same thing.
1) The asteroid acts as a huge shield. It can protect the probe from various things we wouldn't want it to be exposed to.
2) Yes, we can propel to x speed as the asteroid, but every time we want to change direction fuel must be spent. If the asteroid changes direction ever, that's quite literally a free ride.
3) Depending on where it lands, we could get some pretty cool pictures. What if it heads towards some planet a few light years away and smacks into it? Imagine the awesome telemetry we could get from the probe.
A fair way to run a company would be to determine executive's salary by the combined salary of a lower class of workers.
Here's an example. A small company has 28 people: 1 owner/CEO at the top, 3 managers, and 24 workers of an equal pay grade. 8 workers per manager.
The owner doesn't want the managers dinking with salary and screwing over the employees, so he says that the managers salsary is twice that of the base salary of the workers. If you cut the workers' salary, you cut your own as well.
Positively!
"Books provide sensory/sentimental/sensual experiences that e-books can't match." True! Cars just can't match the experience of caring for and riding a horse: the smells, the textures, the sensations, the companionship with another living being.
I daresay the smells are one of the many advantages of using a car over using a horse.
Excellent form of natural selection though, isn't it?
Regrettably, a lot of people don't have a choice but to live in those dangerous areas.
Man, have you seen the picture of his cat?
Many years from now, when you tell your grandkids that you know what an RSS feed is, you are going to blow their minds.
but the concept of storing medical info and data in something like Google Docs just leaves me cold and clammy.
Considering that as well as the other symptoms I read on your chart that I downloaded from Limewire, I really think you should see your doctor!
It's also amazing how broke some of this shit is. Hulu's movie selection is abysmal at best and they rarely add new things. Television shows are rotated, so you could see, say, Monk Season 4 episodes 5, 6, and 7. If you wanted to watch 8, 9, and 10, you'd have to wait for them to rotate them in.
Are we in some sort of bandwidth or storage crisis that they can't put the whole series online? No. Someone in the background is pulling strings and saying shit like, "If you put the whole series online people won't buy DVDs anymore".
Streaming shows don't have the special features. Steaming shows have advertisements, which means you have eyeballs watching ads no matter what they're watching - even movies. Streaming shows will give you far more accurate metrics as to who's watching what rather than the Nielsen system.
Hulu is at best a half-assed compromise and it can't stand up to the commercial-free options - BitTorrent, downloading, Tudou, YouTube, etc. If they'd just, as you've said, stop shooting themselves in the foot, they'd be doing just fine.
Trying to look for a girl to date, because I'm a guy. d:
I grew up watching Sailor Moon, alright? Sailor Mercury was cute. haha
Agreed. Pong was a game that sold a console. Shit, Pong WAS the console.
You think anyone but Tiger games could get away with selling a one-game console for a few hundred bucks these days?
Why is it that with China the first reflex is always "us vs them" like the parent post?
Because humanity thrives on conflict in all aspects of their lives. See: religion, politics, sports, romance, games, etc.
This is one of the two reasons why I admire Steve Wozniak as a person. He's a tinkerer at heart. He'll sit down at a table with various parts and put together something that's cool. Engineering is like lego for geniuses.
.
.
(The other reason I admire Woz is for his sweet, pimped-out Segway.)
I contest that fact on a personal note. I know how to do all of the critical stuff in Japanese:
1) Start fights
2) End fights
3) Hit on women
4) Ask where the bathroom is
5) Command words to transform into various magical girls
i.e. a license where you don't necessarily have to include the CC info and copyright but you can use it as freely as you want so long as it is non-commercial.
(Bah, I accidentally Submit button.)
Is there a CC0 for "You can use this for whatever you want, really, unless you plan to make money with it?
Can the courts force you to lead you to the body of someone you've allegedly killed?
Sony doesn't just sell media, they sell hardware.
FYI, there's no ???? in the following steps:
1) Find a way to make more money off of a long-existing format (blue-ray CDs). Now you can charge more for something that has been around for 20 years with negligble benefits!
2) Watch as every audiophile news site lauds the wonderful improvements in quality - especially when you have it hooked up to your 8.1 system lined with gold-plated, lead-shielded cables.
3) Start a new advertising campaign about Blu-Ray burners stating that they can in fact burn Blu-Ray CDs. Include quotes from the aforementioned magazines about how awesome they are. Make a cheaper Blu-Ray CD Burner for the suckers who don't have a lot of cash.
4) Profit.
There's a lot of costs in starting an ISP. Hardware, running the wire, buying politicians... the usual stuff.
He's basically saying, in Japanese, that this picture was sponsored by JAXA (the Japanese space agency) and NHK (a Japanese television station). It's a joke.
shashin = picture
suponsaa = sponser
okurishimasu = i'll send you, i'll forward to you
This is the Japanese version of "brought to you by $SPONSORS" that any anime or Japanese television fan would recognize as they say it after the credits of nearly every show.