but it is rather an anachronism in this day and age.
not to mention a pain in the ass. Every time I open a text file and I see those damn ^M's it makes me want to run outside and kick every puppy I can find. Then I just figured out that you can replace them all.
Yes, yes, yes - and which congressmember do you think would step forward to introduce such legislation? Keeping in mind that they're only sent there on the financial graces of their corporate lobbyists (which are just as well invested in China's terrible practices)?
You just can't compete with places where they put environment and worker protection at such low places in their priorities.
And we essentially circumvent our own priorities by accepting theirs; we ourselves are placing those priorities at the same low that they do by investing in their goods. If we really did stand behind placing such a high priority on these protections, then we'd enforce it by actually investing in and supporting it ourselves, rather than relying on those that don't to do it for us.
The principle doesn't change based on who's committing the action - if we can accept that others are showing such disregard for environmental and worker protections, we might as well accept that we're doing it ourselves. Not that I'm gonna bother waiting for the executives in Congress to grow the balls to do something about it.
And my acer aspire one (which is about 2 years old) does all of those things perfectly fine, possibly with a few accessories. I could upgrade to a 9-cell battery to bump up to 6 hours of charge and they're only about $40. In fact, I can buy as many batteries as I want and have essentially limitless battery life (can't do that with an ipad). The screen is about an inch smaller (8.9), it weighs about 1kg (2.2 pounds - not at all hard to hold) and I estimate about.8" thick - keep in mind that your ipad will need a case which brings these form factors closer unless you want to risk damaging it.
Not to mention that the netbook has a mousepad and full keyboard (which is good for typing), greater storage infinite storage (and expandable via USB if the 100GB HDD isn't enough), certainly functions as an ipod - it fills all those same requirements. All that starting at $250. So I don't really see what's revolutionary about the ipad's form factor. There are other products around that certainly do the same thing - and did long before there were ipads and for cheaper. No... there's nothing innately good about the ipad - just apple's magical sales tactics which raise hype and bring users around to pay a premium for nothing really new.
I'm not a programmer in any sense of the term - not even that of a hobbyist, outside of simple bash/python scripts I use to aid my research. I've learned quite a few languages though, and I think learning C++ (university class) was the most painful. The syntax was a nightmare to learn (and this is from when I already knew C and Java) and all the complicated rules made it seem more like a cultural festivity than some tool used to accomplish a task. Not only that, but the C course was just 3 weeks whereas the C++ course was a full semester (and I still feel like I learned nothing).
I'm sure it's useful once you learn all of it, but it's quite arcane and difficult to get used to on first pass. Then again, maybe my course wasn't taught as well as it should have been, or I didn't approach it the right way. Of course, I certainly understand that it's a very powerful language if you use it more often than I did. But probably my least favorite language of those that I've learned.
I'd given up on using linux as my main work machine a few years ago.
I just don't understand why any informed Linux user bothers with these 'few years ago' comparisons. Tremendous progress has been made over these past few years. Linux hardware support today is nothing like what it used to be years ago. Look at all the hardware that's now being supported natively in Linux - ATI cards are being actively developed and open sourced, and even Broadcomm has opened their drivers to name a few. And support gets better and better with every new release (Ubuntu or otherwise). There's just no reason to complain if things were bad 'a few years ago.'
Interesting. And I bet it uses javascript too, no? So in all likelihood it doesn't take into account users that are running NoScript (like myself). So maybe it could also be biased back the other way.
Unfortunately, my university posts various things like apartment availabilities on Facebook. I imagine that there are other institutions that do much more critical stuff through it.
Which sucks for me, because basically anything they do there is not really accessible to me (by my choice).
Where are you getting this 12% efficiency factor from? That may be a decent figure for thin-film solar cells, but single-crystal silicon solar cells (the highest manufacturable efficiency) are well past 20% right now. And I don't believe the article at all when it says 40% power efficiency. Even the most advanced multijunction cells barely eek past 40% efficiency (and I think that's only due to the light being highly concentrated - >100x).
What they probably meant is that the quantum efficiency is 40%, especially since it's impossible for any solar cell to exceed 86% within the detailed balance limit. 40% is nothing special compared to existing technology, though it's surprisingly high for a novel technology like this.
I don't understand how this comment is in the least bit Insightful. It's incredibly poor and short-sighted.
Sometimes it's useful to know what it's like understanding the Linux experience in fresh eyes. There are things that pop out that you wouldn't really consider if you're too used to Linux or too unfamiliar with Windows. Say, for example, what popped out at me was when they mentioned that they had a hard time because they couldn't maximize windows by dragging them to the top of the screen (which must be some new-fangled Win7 functionality and is completely foreign to me as I haven't touched Windows since XP SP2). They went so far as to take off major points for this at the end when they would easily have adapted away if they bothered using it for more than a month but is still important in the first impressions of a complete newbie. Or how they actually were impressed with Rhythmbox and the fuctionality which surprised me. Or how they said it was impressive how easy it was to install, which is definitely worth a few bonus points for Ubuntu. Or how Ubuntu provides some nice features (Ubuntu One, Software Center) which new users seem to like and don't have alternatives for on Windows. Or how they easily adapted to new software alternatives (like Evolution vs. Outlook or Rhythmbox vs. WMP).
There's actually a ton of useful information for understanding what it's like for new users. In fact, they never even once lamented that they couldn't run games on it, which just goes to show that it's not the end-all-be-all for every user as you suggest. Try opening your mind a little.
When you consider that Google offers so many other things - calendar, email, etc. (which arguably, Facebook can also provide in its own way) besides search, I guess it means you spend more time on a Google site. I wonder if Youtube was also considered in Google's minutes, but I didn't RTA.
plus, who uses google to procrastinate? I'd think 90% of people would choose facebook over google if they had to go somewhere to procrastinate. That probably counts for the majority of facebook's time.
Except it's noteworthy because, as mentioned in TFA, that he "previously appeared to accept the role of God in the creation of the universe." So he's changing his position basically. Contrary to what you claim, it's not trivial that he would make such a claim based on his previous statements. Maybe that's the surprising bit.
I too feel that it's pointlessly pedantic to distinguish such groups. But if it isn't, why don't we just call it EMASER, where the EM stands for electromagnetic.
Less power. Optical interconnects can operate at much lower power than their semiconductor counterparts. Other benefits include potentially using multiplexing (sending additional information along the same cable, differentiated by some property of the signal such as the wavelength of the light used) to enhance the signal bandwidth. And higher-frequency switching: light could, in theory, be modulated in ~10^-15 seconds, the optical frequency whereas electronic frequency is hard to get smaller ~10^-9 seconds (my figures may be off). Of course, no one has actually implemented anything practical at these higher switching frequencies yet, so who knows if this will pan out.
Hm. Not that this should be allowed, but if a student is willing to go the extra mile like that to prepare for a test, don't you think that it demonstrates some resourcefulness which could be useful in the real word? No excuse for cheating, but I'd still look somewhat favorably on someone that actually knows how to get the most out of the tools he's given.
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but it is rather an anachronism in this day and age.
not to mention a pain in the ass. Every time I open a text file and I see those damn ^M's it makes me want to run outside and kick every puppy I can find. Then I just figured out that you can replace them all.
I think we have have to resort to something simpler here.
businesses individuals
Yes, yes, yes - and which congressmember do you think would step forward to introduce such legislation? Keeping in mind that they're only sent there on the financial graces of their corporate lobbyists (which are just as well invested in China's terrible practices)?
You just can't compete with places where they put environment and worker protection at such low places in their priorities.
And we essentially circumvent our own priorities by accepting theirs; we ourselves are placing those priorities at the same low that they do by investing in their goods. If we really did stand behind placing such a high priority on these protections, then we'd enforce it by actually investing in and supporting it ourselves, rather than relying on those that don't to do it for us.
The principle doesn't change based on who's committing the action - if we can accept that others are showing such disregard for environmental and worker protections, we might as well accept that we're doing it ourselves. Not that I'm gonna bother waiting for the executives in Congress to grow the balls to do something about it.
And my acer aspire one (which is about 2 years old) does all of those things perfectly fine, possibly with a few accessories. I could upgrade to a 9-cell battery to bump up to 6 hours of charge and they're only about $40. In fact, I can buy as many batteries as I want and have essentially limitless battery life (can't do that with an ipad). The screen is about an inch smaller (8.9), it weighs about 1kg (2.2 pounds - not at all hard to hold) and I estimate about .8" thick - keep in mind that your ipad will need a case which brings these form factors closer unless you want to risk damaging it.
Not to mention that the netbook has a mousepad and full keyboard (which is good for typing), greater storage infinite storage (and expandable via USB if the 100GB HDD isn't enough), certainly functions as an ipod - it fills all those same requirements. All that starting at $250. So I don't really see what's revolutionary about the ipad's form factor. There are other products around that certainly do the same thing - and did long before there were ipads and for cheaper. No... there's nothing innately good about the ipad - just apple's magical sales tactics which raise hype and bring users around to pay a premium for nothing really new.
I'm not a programmer in any sense of the term - not even that of a hobbyist, outside of simple bash/python scripts I use to aid my research. I've learned quite a few languages though, and I think learning C++ (university class) was the most painful. The syntax was a nightmare to learn (and this is from when I already knew C and Java) and all the complicated rules made it seem more like a cultural festivity than some tool used to accomplish a task. Not only that, but the C course was just 3 weeks whereas the C++ course was a full semester (and I still feel like I learned nothing).
I'm sure it's useful once you learn all of it, but it's quite arcane and difficult to get used to on first pass. Then again, maybe my course wasn't taught as well as it should have been, or I didn't approach it the right way. Of course, I certainly understand that it's a very powerful language if you use it more often than I did. But probably my least favorite language of those that I've learned.
No, no, no - the value is clearly complex (to avoid singularities at zero of course).
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I'd given up on using linux as my main work machine a few years ago.
I just don't understand why any informed Linux user bothers with these 'few years ago' comparisons. Tremendous progress has been made over these past few years. Linux hardware support today is nothing like what it used to be years ago. Look at all the hardware that's now being supported natively in Linux - ATI cards are being actively developed and open sourced, and even Broadcomm has opened their drivers to name a few. And support gets better and better with every new release (Ubuntu or otherwise). There's just no reason to complain if things were bad 'a few years ago.'
Interesting. And I bet it uses javascript too, no? So in all likelihood it doesn't take into account users that are running NoScript (like myself). So maybe it could also be biased back the other way.
Unfortunately, my university posts various things like apartment availabilities on Facebook. I imagine that there are other institutions that do much more critical stuff through it.
Which sucks for me, because basically anything they do there is not really accessible to me (by my choice).
Where are you getting this 12% efficiency factor from? That may be a decent figure for thin-film solar cells, but single-crystal silicon solar cells (the highest manufacturable efficiency) are well past 20% right now. And I don't believe the article at all when it says 40% power efficiency. Even the most advanced multijunction cells barely eek past 40% efficiency (and I think that's only due to the light being highly concentrated - >100x).
What they probably meant is that the quantum efficiency is 40%, especially since it's impossible for any solar cell to exceed 86% within the detailed balance limit. 40% is nothing special compared to existing technology, though it's surprisingly high for a novel technology like this.
unlocking a mysterious region of the brain
It's no mystery, obviously it's the upper multiplier. Probably just needed a Bios upgrade.
I don't understand how this comment is in the least bit Insightful. It's incredibly poor and short-sighted.
Sometimes it's useful to know what it's like understanding the Linux experience in fresh eyes. There are things that pop out that you wouldn't really consider if you're too used to Linux or too unfamiliar with Windows. Say, for example, what popped out at me was when they mentioned that they had a hard time because they couldn't maximize windows by dragging them to the top of the screen (which must be some new-fangled Win7 functionality and is completely foreign to me as I haven't touched Windows since XP SP2). They went so far as to take off major points for this at the end when they would easily have adapted away if they bothered using it for more than a month but is still important in the first impressions of a complete newbie. Or how they actually were impressed with Rhythmbox and the fuctionality which surprised me. Or how they said it was impressive how easy it was to install, which is definitely worth a few bonus points for Ubuntu. Or how Ubuntu provides some nice features (Ubuntu One, Software Center) which new users seem to like and don't have alternatives for on Windows. Or how they easily adapted to new software alternatives (like Evolution vs. Outlook or Rhythmbox vs. WMP).
There's actually a ton of useful information for understanding what it's like for new users. In fact, they never even once lamented that they couldn't run games on it, which just goes to show that it's not the end-all-be-all for every user as you suggest. Try opening your mind a little.
Because you're reading it on /. ?
FTS: all of Google's sites combined.
When you consider that Google offers so many other things - calendar, email, etc. (which arguably, Facebook can also provide in its own way) besides search, I guess it means you spend more time on a Google site. I wonder if Youtube was also considered in Google's minutes, but I didn't RTA.
plus, who uses google to procrastinate? I'd think 90% of people would choose facebook over google if they had to go somewhere to procrastinate. That probably counts for the majority of facebook's time.
Not to mention that it's sucking their resources away from other important projects (like the 64-bit version).
Except it's noteworthy because, as mentioned in TFA, that he "previously appeared to accept the role of God in the creation of the universe." So he's changing his position basically. Contrary to what you claim, it's not trivial that he would make such a claim based on his previous statements. Maybe that's the surprising bit.
Give them the soil then if that's what they want. I find it hard to see why they need to settle for that in court anyways.
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I too feel that it's pointlessly pedantic to distinguish such groups. But if it isn't, why don't we just call it EMASER, where the EM stands for electromagnetic.
Less power. Optical interconnects can operate at much lower power than their semiconductor counterparts. Other benefits include potentially using multiplexing (sending additional information along the same cable, differentiated by some property of the signal such as the wavelength of the light used) to enhance the signal bandwidth. And higher-frequency switching: light could, in theory, be modulated in ~10^-15 seconds, the optical frequency whereas electronic frequency is hard to get smaller ~10^-9 seconds (my figures may be off). Of course, no one has actually implemented anything practical at these higher switching frequencies yet, so who knows if this will pan out.
Simon was sentenced to 285-months in prison -- 50 months more than the maximum under sentencing guidelines.
Is it just me, or does calling them guidelines mean that it's okay to break them?
It's like when people say please, that just makes it a request, not a command.
Hm. Not that this should be allowed, but if a student is willing to go the extra mile like that to prepare for a test, don't you think that it demonstrates some resourcefulness which could be useful in the real word? No excuse for cheating, but I'd still look somewhat favorably on someone that actually knows how to get the most out of the tools he's given.
Well, shouldn't there be a way to prove that the class-action suit didn't accurately represent the people (consumers) who brought the case forward?