I saw a paper a while back that pointed out that the US largely operates on 2 defacto time zones: East and West and these time zones are one hour apart and have been driven by business needs and our TV addiction.
You got it wrong. The west coast is on Pacific Time. And the east coast is on Eastern Time. There are two time zone in between. So the west coast is 3 hours away from the east coast.
Though, many of the TV schedule are often given in eastern time and central time (one hour away from eastern time.) because Eastern Time and Central Time are accounting for about 75% of the US population.
Really dude. You have such a hard on for Trump that even when we finally get to read something interesting that doesn't involve politics you have to try and bring politics into it anyway.
Ah milennials... Can't tell the difference between a reality tv star and a policitician...
That problem does go both ways. But I do not think one-night-stands are the use case. Because one would be foolish to have unprotected sex with someone that is not your regular partner who you trust. Because you do not know the kind of STD your partner might be carrying, if any. It is not even a matter of trust, the partner might not know either. Get steady and trusted. Then both get tested.
No, women don't make better programmers than men (when taking the whole population into account, there is a bit of sampling bias).
But they make more programmers to pick from. So if you take the 10% best programmers, but you only started from a pool of randomly selected people (male), you get worse programmer, than if you start from the entire population.
And I do care about having the best computer scientist going in the field.
Well, awards are mostly there to reach a wider audience. Books with awards are often more prominently set in book stores, they are discussed in talk shows, and in radio shows.
Look at movies, I usually don't watch American comedies. I usually find them of too low quality to be of interest to me. But I usually will watch and enjoy action movies even if the typical quality is no better than the American comedies. But when I hear of an American comedy that won some kid of award, it indicates me that this one is better than average. So maybe I'll enjoy it.
that probably would not have made much of a difference. People would have assumed that this would never happen and would have made practical implementation assuming a fixed 32 bit space. By the time it became a practical problem, we would have had a creep of devices that does not follow the norm, and managing that would be a nightmare.
Just see the sorry state of utf-8. We still have so many code bases that are not utf-8 compliant despite we have seen the need for it over 15 years ago.
If these items were really at free shipping, then there would be no issue. The issue is that they rank it for free shipping. But if you add to cart less than $x (I think it is $35) or if you are not a prime customer, then you are charged shipping. So essentially, amazon is not representing fairly shipping cost across sellers. (Which is a hard problem to be honest.)
> Standard Innovation designed the We-Connect app to collect and record intimate and sensitive data on use of the vibrator, including the date and time of each use as well as vibration settings... > > Slashdot reader BarbaraHudson argues that "It kind of has to share that information if it's going to be remotely controlled by someone else."
Does it ?
First of all, collecting and recording the information does not seem necessary for the app to work.
Then, to enable an external user control over the device, you just need to connect the two smartphones together. You do not necessarilly need the data to transit to third parties. You probably can route all the information over tor and never have a clear message given to the company or anyone else than the two involved party.
Or am I missing something?
(BTW, this device give a new meaning to Avenue Q's "The internet is for porn")
But does anybody seriously type all those spaces? You don't just set the Tab key to expand to spaces?
or most likely, the editor enforces formatting with whatever parameters you configure it with. That's emacs default setting in C for instance: pressing tab indents this line consistently with the one above.
Oh, "above the tree" is what I missed. Depending on the tree it may not be that unreasonable.
I think that opens lots of questions. 75 feet is high enough for it to probably be harmless in term of privacy. But at the same time, it is low enough that I would feel uncomfortable about the drone. Depending on the size of the property and the distance to the house, there are weird angles through windows possible. The presence of drones change the "expectation of privacy".
I am no fan of shooting drones and no legal expert. But a 3 story house would be roughly of that height. It is a pretty good height to snap pictures through your last floor windows.
Re:How do you keep VLC sustainable? On a related note, where is the closest VLC developer? How do I buy him/her a beer? Where do we send the pizza? JBK: Where are you? I can travel the world for a good beer and pizza:D
That was me. If you happen to be in Charlote, NC. Otherwise, I am in Paris, France or Grenoble, France from time to time. If you are anywhere near this when I am, diner's on me!
That is not really true. Most workloads can be executed in parallel. Pretty much all the field of scientific computing (would that be physics, chemistry, or biology) are typically quite parallel. If you are looking at database and data analytics, they are very parallel as well, if you are building topic models of the web, or trying to find correlation in twitter post, these things are highly parallel.
Even on your machine, you are certainly using a fair amount of parallel computing, most likely video decompression is done in parallel (or it should be). It is the old argument that by decreasing frequency you can increase core count in the same power envelop while increasing performance.
For sure, some applications are not sequential. Most likely, they are not the one we really care about. Otherwise, hire me, and I'll write them in parallel:)
well, nothing will ever break amdahl's law. But that is rarely the issue. The parallelism is many scientific problem is pretty vast. We run lots of simulations on 100K and more cores. Often the interconnect is the issue, and not the sequential part.
There is a real problem today in build a exaflops machine, one of the biggest problem is managing communications because they are very power consuming. If that architecture can scale meaningful codes at 100K, it is interesting.
Pretty much the same here. I won't deal with it. I have been running Debian for over 10 years so that I don't have to deal with shit like that. I keep a Windows VM somewhere for the days where I absolutely need Word or Excel. I don't remember when is the last time that VM was updated.
Slashdot Mirror
They were certainly hoping that the client will negociate "no lawsuit, but I'll remove my review"
That takes dedication to bad English.
THIS. IS. SLASHDOT.
Why is this tagged funny? I am not laughing...
I saw a paper a while back that pointed out that the US largely operates on 2 defacto time zones: East and West and these time zones are one hour apart and have been driven by business needs and our TV addiction.
You got it wrong. The west coast is on Pacific Time. And the east coast is on Eastern Time. There are two time zone in between. So the west coast is 3 hours away from the east coast.
Though, many of the TV schedule are often given in eastern time and central time (one hour away from eastern time.) because Eastern Time and Central Time are accounting for about 75% of the US population.
Really dude. You have such a hard on for Trump that even when we finally get to read something interesting that doesn't involve politics you have to try and bring politics into it anyway.
Ah milennials... Can't tell the difference between a reality tv star and a policitician...
That problem does go both ways. But I do not think one-night-stands are the use case. Because one would be foolish to have unprotected sex with someone that is not your regular partner who you trust. Because you do not know the kind of STD your partner might be carrying, if any. It is not even a matter of trust, the partner might not know either.
Get steady and trusted. Then both get tested.
Note that with a UBI given to citizen and permanent resident, hiring locals now cost one UBI less than hiring a foreign worker.
Personnally, I see a UBI as a great way to sponsor the arts and community service.
Clearly I am not an economist so the numbers would have to be run (maybe they have been). But I think it is interesting enough to be considered.
But isn't it a parent job to make sure your kids are exposed to various fields, experiences and opportunities?
No, women don't make better programmers than men (when taking the whole population into account, there is a bit of sampling bias).
But they make more programmers to pick from. So if you take the 10% best programmers, but you only started from a pool of randomly selected people (male), you get worse programmer, than if you start from the entire population.
And I do care about having the best computer scientist going in the field.
Well, awards are mostly there to reach a wider audience. Books with awards are often more prominently set in book stores, they are discussed in talk shows, and in radio shows.
Look at movies, I usually don't watch American comedies. I usually find them of too low quality to be of interest to me. But I usually will watch and enjoy action movies even if the typical quality is no better than the American comedies. But when I hear of an American comedy that won some kid of award, it indicates me that this one is better than average. So maybe I'll enjoy it.
that probably would not have made much of a difference. People would have assumed that this would never happen and would have made practical implementation assuming a fixed 32 bit space. By the time it became a practical problem, we would have had a creep of devices that does not follow the norm, and managing that would be a nightmare.
Just see the sorry state of utf-8. We still have so many code bases that are not utf-8 compliant despite we have seen the need for it over 15 years ago.
writes it on the wall.
If these items were really at free shipping, then there would be no issue.
The issue is that they rank it for free shipping. But if you add to cart less than $x (I think it is $35) or if you are not a prime customer, then you are charged shipping.
So essentially, amazon is not representing fairly shipping cost across sellers. (Which is a hard problem to be honest.)
> Standard Innovation designed the We-Connect app to collect and record intimate and sensitive data on use of the vibrator, including the date and time of each use as well as vibration settings...
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> Slashdot reader BarbaraHudson argues that "It kind of has to share that information if it's going to be remotely controlled by someone else."
Does it ?
First of all, collecting and recording the information does not seem necessary for the app to work.
Then, to enable an external user control over the device, you just need to connect the two smartphones together. You do not necessarilly need the data to transit to third parties. You probably can route all the information over tor and never have a clear message given to the company or anyone else than the two involved party.
Or am I missing something?
(BTW, this device give a new meaning to Avenue Q's "The internet is for porn")
a phone is not supposed to explode
Unless you are in a Michael Bay movie !
I don't know if they are number one. But that MS argument is phony.
For the longest time, google people were pushing to code.google.com. Also the kernel contributions do not go to github.
Also, claiming you have more contributors do not tell much. Did they only contribute one line?
But does anybody seriously type all those spaces? You don't just set the Tab key to expand to spaces?
or most likely, the editor enforces formatting with whatever parameters you configure it with. That's emacs default setting in C for instance: pressing tab indents this line consistently with the one above.
The best thing about Java 8 is that you only need 73 years' experience with it to land a great job.
Especially if you are under 25!
Oh, "above the tree" is what I missed. Depending on the tree it may not be that unreasonable.
I think that opens lots of questions. 75 feet is high enough for it to probably be harmless in term of privacy. But at the same time, it is low enough that I would feel uncomfortable about the drone. Depending on the size of the property and the distance to the house, there are weird angles through windows possible. The presence of drones change the "expectation of privacy".
I feel legislation is going to be necessary.
Uh no. Only flying houses are commonly located 25 to 30 feet above the trees.
hum. that is what I missed. Depending on the trees, it may not be that unreasonable.
I am no fan of shooting drones and no legal expert. But a 3 story house would be roughly of that height. It is a pretty good height to snap pictures through your last floor windows.
Re:How do you keep VLC sustainable? On a related note, where is the closest VLC developer? How do I buy him/her a beer? Where do we send the pizza? :D
JBK: Where are you? I can travel the world for a good beer and pizza
That was me. If you happen to be in Charlote, NC. Otherwise, I am in Paris, France or Grenoble, France from time to time. If you are anywhere near this when I am, diner's on me!
That is not really true. Most workloads can be executed in parallel. Pretty much all the field of scientific computing (would that be physics, chemistry, or biology) are typically quite parallel. If you are looking at database and data analytics, they are very parallel as well, if you are building topic models of the web, or trying to find correlation in twitter post, these things are highly parallel.
Even on your machine, you are certainly using a fair amount of parallel computing, most likely video decompression is done in parallel (or it should be). It is the old argument that by decreasing frequency you can increase core count in the same power envelop while increasing performance.
For sure, some applications are not sequential. Most likely, they are not the one we really care about. Otherwise, hire me, and I'll write them in parallel :)
well, nothing will ever break amdahl's law. But that is rarely the issue. The parallelism is many scientific problem is pretty vast. We run lots of simulations on 100K and more cores. Often the interconnect is the issue, and not the sequential part.
There is a real problem today in build a exaflops machine, one of the biggest problem is managing communications because they are very power consuming. If that architecture can scale meaningful codes at 100K, it is interesting.
Pretty much the same here. I won't deal with it. I have been running Debian for over 10 years so that I don't have to deal with shit like that.
I keep a Windows VM somewhere for the days where I absolutely need Word or Excel. I don't remember when is the last time that VM was updated.