I think the point was that commonly used features are already commonly used. Making them larger and more obvious doesn't make them any more useful because people already knew where they were and were using them.
Also, the ribbon often requires two clicks, not one. The first to get to the tab that has tool you want and a second on the actual tool. This isn't any better than the old interface where the tool you want might be available with a single click on the quick access tool bar or you might have to click on a menu and select it with a second click.
You may prefer the ribbon, but that's just your preference. Claiming that it's more efficient is just silly when keyboard commands (which are even less friendly) are almost always faster. In Excel, I can guarantee that I can type Alt-i-r to insert a row faster than you can go to the insert tab, look through all the icons and realize that some dipshit didn't think that was a commonly used command and put insert signature on that bar instead, edit the bar and try to add it only to be told that you have to add a new group to the bar, add a new group to the bar, add the tool to the group, close the preferences and finally click on insert to get the dropdown that lets you click a a fourteenth time to actually insert the row.
I know that not reading TFA is a/. tradition, but it's in the second freakin' sentence: "the daughter secretly put her friend's prescription sleeping medicine into her parents' milkshakes"
I would even go so far as having the same meal everyday of the year. Oatmeal for breakfast, Bologna Sammich for lunch, Spam and Mac & Cheese for dinner.
The menu you just described is so deficient in vitamins and minerals that the prisoners would soon be suffering from scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, rickets and pretty much every other form of nutritional deficiency known to mankind.
Having prepared and eaten a batch out of curiosity (you can find recipes on the web), I can tell you that it is every bit as bland as they say. It's like eating dry, crumbly tofu flavored with cheap vegetable stock.
The article says prescription sleep medicine, so it was probably Ambien, Lunesta or something similar. They don't give you a hangover, but some people do feel groggy for quite a while the next day. The kids most likely used it because one of them takes it anyway and would know that the drug isn't particularly harmful or dangerous.
The Android platform has some fragmentation problems and there's been endless bitching about them on Slashdot. This change is part of a number of changes made to limit the problem. The section following the summary's quote spells it out:
"3.4 You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK."
In a sense, yes. Viruses have been created which "evolve" by changing their code around in order to prevent signature based detection. Viruses that do that are referred to as polymorphic viruses.
Polymorphic viruses are doing basically the same thing as a biological species that evolves into a different coloring that helps it hide from predators. The ones that don't evolve better camouflage get eaten by predators/cleaned by virus scanners. The ones that do evolve better camouflage spread.
I have to wonder whether most people today understand that the alchemists had it right all the way, that elements can indeed be made into other elements.
Alchemists also believed the philosopher's stone (which was the thing they believed would turn base metals into silver and gold) could also heal all forms of illness, prolong life, create perpetually burning lamps, transmute common crystals into precious gems, revive dead plants, create flexible glass and create golems.
One of the extremely long list of stupid things they believed in turning out to be possible through means that they'd never envisioned does not make alchemists "right all the way."
First off, every animal reproduces via sex by definition. There are a very few that can also do it without.
Either every animal reproduces via sex or some animals do not reproduce via sex. Both cannot be true.
One of your sentences is obviously a lie. If you're going to lie to try and make your point, at least put a little effort into it and try to not highlight the fact that you just told a lie.
Indeed. Who cares if 99.9% of the 3D films are absolute rubbish? There's a small handful of educational documentaries that use it well, so we should STFU and appreciate the fact that Hollywood is converting movies shot in 2D into 3D regardless of how shitty that conversion is!
You say that as if Disney acquiring Star Wars makes some sort of difference in how the copyright on Star Wars is handled. If Disney hadn't acquired Star Wars, the copyright on Star Wars would still be extended every time Disney successfully lobby for laws to extend copyright term.
I don't think it will matter anyway. Currently the copyright on the first Star Wars movie won't run out until 2072. Most of the people who grew up with the original three films as part of their childhood will either be dead or too old to care by that point. The audience of 2072 will look on the sci-fi of 1970s the same way that we look at the sci fi of 1910s. There will be a niche audience that enjoys it, but the majority won't be interested.
Context is everything. Pulling that one line out misses the point that I was making. The publisher requires the DRM, not Steam. Bitching about Steam is stupid when it's the publisher who is at fault.
If it wasn't Steamworks, it would be SecureROM, Origin, Games for Windows Live or some other DRM scheme. Steamworks DRM isn't as good as DRM free, but it sucks less than virtually every other DRM scheme out there.
The reason Civilization V comes with DRM is that the publisher refuses to distribute the game without it. If you want a better answer than that, ask 2K Games. They'll give you the usual BS about piracy, I'm sure, but it still comes down to the same answer; they demand that it include DRM.
Steam does distribute some DRM free games which you can launch from a shortcut without ever opening the client. They have no requirement that games include their or any other company's DRM. The only reason the DRM goes in is because the publisher insists that it go in.
The inverters test for grid presence. If it is gone, they don't sense it (not sure of how) and they shut down.
Not all inverters work that way. The better ones disconnect from the grid when the grid goes down, but they continue providing power to the house. The better ones are more expensive, however, so they aren't the most common ones.
if you don't use up all the juice they are making, they'll probably turn your nice generator in the wrong direction and it will fail spectacularly. So I am told.
Please smack whoever told you that. Hard.
If you don't use all the current that the panels are capable of providing, absolutely nothing happens. It's no different than not using the maximum available current coming from a backup generator. A 1500 watt generator won't suddenly explode or start turning backwards or fail spectacularly if you only connect a 500 watt load to it.
You're wrong. Those devices do produce electrical frequencies.
Virtually all small motors, for example, are non-synchronous (e.g.. they do not run at line frequency). The motor's running frequency is easy to see in a spectrum generated from the power waveform because motors generate electrical noise at their running speed and low level harmonics of their running speed.
The reason people aren't aware of this is that it isn't visible without a rather expensive analyzer and it generally doesn't matter enough to justify spending thousands of dollars on an analyzer that will do them no good. The company I work for happens to make those analyzers, however, so I'm just a teensy bit familiar with this stuff.
Every one of those devices I listed is one that was responsible for noise in data acquired by our customers with our equipment at one time or another. Customers don't bother grounding shield wires properly, cobble together own shitty cables out of unshielded telephone wiring because the right one is too expensive, lay the sensor wiring across conduits carrying line voltage and generally screw up their readings in every possible way. I'm surprised they don't play jump rope with the cables while taking data. Of course they blame the equipment and someone like me has to figure out what they did wrong and get them sorted out.
So yeah... you're wrong. That hum is not just line frequency. Electrical equipment can and usually does create noise that isn't in phase with or at the same frequency as line frequency.
A trivial form of analysis would simply check the phase (times between zero crossings) of the background noise. Any sudden shift would signify missing time from the recording.
Unfortunately no. Electrical equipment in the vicinity that adds to the hum can turn on and off. You would see a large, sudden shift simply because someone turned the lights off in the next room and the light's power wiring happens to run in the wall behind the device that took the audio that you're analyzing. The shift in amplitude doesn't mean that it was edited.
That hum isn't just line voltage. Motors of all sorts, florescent lights, switching power supplies, transformers... the list of things that can generate electrical noise at frequencies close to line frequency is huge. There's no way to reliably separate the noise components when the frequencies are close, so you could never be certain which frequency was the line frequency at any given moment. Without being able to differentiate between the noise sources, you'd never be able to match a recording to the researcher's database.
The loran system -though not as precise as GPS- was in many respects much more difficult to jam.
If you'd read the article, you'd have realized that it wasn't about jamming the GPS signal. It's about sending false data to GPS units in order to attack them directly and cause crashes, brick the receivers, etc. Loran being more difficult to jam does not mean that Loran systems would be any less vulnerable to the types of attacks discussed in the article.
Short of insulting the guy, that is the least helpful answer you could have possibly provided. Even RTFM is more helpful since it at least implies that the answer is in the manual.
For orcas, that is demonstrably not true. Unlike humans, orcas travel in pods and the entire pod takes care of the children, not just the parents and grandparents. The presence of a grandparent benefits the entire pod, not just the grandparent's direct genetic descendants, so the survival rate isn't due to the grandparent helping to raise the child. Having grandparents does suggest that the orca may have a better set of genes, however, which would translate to a better chance of survival.
10k votes out of millions of people isn't even 1%, another out-dated law in our system
You do realize that this is just to get a response on the whitehouse.gov web site, right? The number of signatures required is just an arbitrary threshold (currently 25k signatures within 30 days) to determine whether there's enough interest in the question to warrant a response. There are no laws involved, much less out-dated ones, and nobody can force a state to secede this way. No laws are being passed or changed.
First you track manslaughter down. That will probably be the hardest point since he/she has never posted anything. Once you've done that, you should be able to figure the rest out.
That might be relevant if the guy getting the 15 year jail sentence was in either Ireland or Hungary, but he's not. Have you ever heard the phrase "comparing apples to oranges?"
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I think the point was that commonly used features are already commonly used. Making them larger and more obvious doesn't make them any more useful because people already knew where they were and were using them.
Also, the ribbon often requires two clicks, not one. The first to get to the tab that has tool you want and a second on the actual tool. This isn't any better than the old interface where the tool you want might be available with a single click on the quick access tool bar or you might have to click on a menu and select it with a second click.
You may prefer the ribbon, but that's just your preference. Claiming that it's more efficient is just silly when keyboard commands (which are even less friendly) are almost always faster. In Excel, I can guarantee that I can type Alt-i-r to insert a row faster than you can go to the insert tab, look through all the icons and realize that some dipshit didn't think that was a commonly used command and put insert signature on that bar instead, edit the bar and try to add it only to be told that you have to add a new group to the bar, add a new group to the bar, add the tool to the group, close the preferences and finally click on insert to get the dropdown that lets you click a a fourteenth time to actually insert the row.
I know that not reading TFA is a /. tradition, but it's in the second freakin' sentence:
"the daughter secretly put her friend's prescription sleeping medicine into her parents' milkshakes"
I would even go so far as having the same meal everyday of the year. Oatmeal for breakfast, Bologna Sammich for lunch, Spam and Mac & Cheese for dinner.
The menu you just described is so deficient in vitamins and minerals that the prisoners would soon be suffering from scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, rickets and pretty much every other form of nutritional deficiency known to mankind.
There is a solution, however... Nutraloaf!
Having prepared and eaten a batch out of curiosity (you can find recipes on the web), I can tell you that it is every bit as bland as they say. It's like eating dry, crumbly tofu flavored with cheap vegetable stock.
The article says prescription sleep medicine, so it was probably Ambien, Lunesta or something similar. They don't give you a hangover, but some people do feel groggy for quite a while the next day. The kids most likely used it because one of them takes it anyway and would know that the drug isn't particularly harmful or dangerous.
The Android platform has some fragmentation problems and there's been endless bitching about them on Slashdot. This change is part of a number of changes made to limit the problem. The section following the summary's quote spells it out:
"3.4 You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK."
tl;dr - you got what you asked for.
Virus writers make their viruses evolve?
In a sense, yes. Viruses have been created which "evolve" by changing their code around in order to prevent signature based detection. Viruses that do that are referred to as polymorphic viruses.
Polymorphic viruses are doing basically the same thing as a biological species that evolves into a different coloring that helps it hide from predators. The ones that don't evolve better camouflage get eaten by predators/cleaned by virus scanners. The ones that do evolve better camouflage spread.
I have to wonder whether most people today understand that the alchemists had it right all the way, that elements can indeed be made into other elements.
Alchemists also believed the philosopher's stone (which was the thing they believed would turn base metals into silver and gold) could also heal all forms of illness, prolong life, create perpetually burning lamps, transmute common crystals into precious gems, revive dead plants, create flexible glass and create golems.
One of the extremely long list of stupid things they believed in turning out to be possible through means that they'd never envisioned does not make alchemists "right all the way."
First off, every animal reproduces via sex by definition. There are a very few that can also do it without.
Either every animal reproduces via sex or some animals do not reproduce via sex. Both cannot be true.
One of your sentences is obviously a lie. If you're going to lie to try and make your point, at least put a little effort into it and try to not highlight the fact that you just told a lie.
Indeed. Who cares if 99.9% of the 3D films are absolute rubbish? There's a small handful of educational documentaries that use it well, so we should STFU and appreciate the fact that Hollywood is converting movies shot in 2D into 3D regardless of how shitty that conversion is!
You say that as if Disney acquiring Star Wars makes some sort of difference in how the copyright on Star Wars is handled. If Disney hadn't acquired Star Wars, the copyright on Star Wars would still be extended every time Disney successfully lobby for laws to extend copyright term.
I don't think it will matter anyway. Currently the copyright on the first Star Wars movie won't run out until 2072. Most of the people who grew up with the original three films as part of their childhood will either be dead or too old to care by that point. The audience of 2072 will look on the sci-fi of 1970s the same way that we look at the sci fi of 1910s. There will be a niche audience that enjoys it, but the majority won't be interested.
Context is everything. Pulling that one line out misses the point that I was making. The publisher requires the DRM, not Steam. Bitching about Steam is stupid when it's the publisher who is at fault.
If it wasn't Steamworks, it would be SecureROM, Origin, Games for Windows Live or some other DRM scheme. Steamworks DRM isn't as good as DRM free, but it sucks less than virtually every other DRM scheme out there.
The reason Civilization V comes with DRM is that the publisher refuses to distribute the game without it. If you want a better answer than that, ask 2K Games. They'll give you the usual BS about piracy, I'm sure, but it still comes down to the same answer; they demand that it include DRM.
Steam does distribute some DRM free games which you can launch from a shortcut without ever opening the client. They have no requirement that games include their or any other company's DRM. The only reason the DRM goes in is because the publisher insists that it go in.
Cheap games and a company that gets their servers back up in less than half an hour on Christmas day? Oh the agony.
People get used to having lost an eye and forget about all the problems too. That doesn't mean we should all pay pay Microsoft to poke out our eyes.
Has this actually been determined for certain? I've heard it as speculation and rumor, but I haven't seen any evidence that it was actually true.
The inverters test for grid presence. If it is gone, they don't sense it (not sure of how) and they shut down.
Not all inverters work that way. The better ones disconnect from the grid when the grid goes down, but they continue providing power to the house. The better ones are more expensive, however, so they aren't the most common ones.
if you don't use up all the juice they are making, they'll probably turn your nice generator in the wrong direction and it will fail spectacularly. So I am told.
Please smack whoever told you that. Hard.
If you don't use all the current that the panels are capable of providing, absolutely nothing happens. It's no different than not using the maximum available current coming from a backup generator. A 1500 watt generator won't suddenly explode or start turning backwards or fail spectacularly if you only connect a 500 watt load to it.
You're wrong. Those devices do produce electrical frequencies.
Virtually all small motors, for example, are non-synchronous (e.g.. they do not run at line frequency). The motor's running frequency is easy to see in a spectrum generated from the power waveform because motors generate electrical noise at their running speed and low level harmonics of their running speed.
The reason people aren't aware of this is that it isn't visible without a rather expensive analyzer and it generally doesn't matter enough to justify spending thousands of dollars on an analyzer that will do them no good. The company I work for happens to make those analyzers, however, so I'm just a teensy bit familiar with this stuff.
Every one of those devices I listed is one that was responsible for noise in data acquired by our customers with our equipment at one time or another. Customers don't bother grounding shield wires properly, cobble together own shitty cables out of unshielded telephone wiring because the right one is too expensive, lay the sensor wiring across conduits carrying line voltage and generally screw up their readings in every possible way. I'm surprised they don't play jump rope with the cables while taking data. Of course they blame the equipment and someone like me has to figure out what they did wrong and get them sorted out.
So yeah... you're wrong. That hum is not just line frequency. Electrical equipment can and usually does create noise that isn't in phase with or at the same frequency as line frequency.
A trivial form of analysis would simply check the phase (times between zero crossings) of the background noise. Any sudden shift would signify missing time from the recording.
Unfortunately no. Electrical equipment in the vicinity that adds to the hum can turn on and off. You would see a large, sudden shift simply because someone turned the lights off in the next room and the light's power wiring happens to run in the wall behind the device that took the audio that you're analyzing. The shift in amplitude doesn't mean that it was edited.
That hum isn't just line voltage. Motors of all sorts, florescent lights, switching power supplies, transformers... the list of things that can generate electrical noise at frequencies close to line frequency is huge. There's no way to reliably separate the noise components when the frequencies are close, so you could never be certain which frequency was the line frequency at any given moment. Without being able to differentiate between the noise sources, you'd never be able to match a recording to the researcher's database.
I think you just offered yourself to Cthulu for sexual favors.
The loran system -though not as precise as GPS- was in many respects much more difficult to jam.
If you'd read the article, you'd have realized that it wasn't about jamming the GPS signal. It's about sending false data to GPS units in order to attack them directly and cause crashes, brick the receivers, etc. Loran being more difficult to jam does not mean that Loran systems would be any less vulnerable to the types of attacks discussed in the article.
Short of insulting the guy, that is the least helpful answer you could have possibly provided. Even RTFM is more helpful since it at least implies that the answer is in the manual.
For orcas, that is demonstrably not true. Unlike humans, orcas travel in pods and the entire pod takes care of the children, not just the parents and grandparents. The presence of a grandparent benefits the entire pod, not just the grandparent's direct genetic descendants, so the survival rate isn't due to the grandparent helping to raise the child. Having grandparents does suggest that the orca may have a better set of genes, however, which would translate to a better chance of survival.
10k votes out of millions of people isn't even 1%, another out-dated law in our system
You do realize that this is just to get a response on the whitehouse.gov web site, right? The number of signatures required is just an arbitrary threshold (currently 25k signatures within 30 days) to determine whether there's enough interest in the question to warrant a response. There are no laws involved, much less out-dated ones, and nobody can force a state to secede this way. No laws are being passed or changed.
First you track manslaughter down. That will probably be the hardest point since he/she has never posted anything. Once you've done that, you should be able to figure the rest out.
That might be relevant if the guy getting the 15 year jail sentence was in either Ireland or Hungary, but he's not. Have you ever heard the phrase "comparing apples to oranges?"