Depends on what you trust it for... Evolution's motto is "live fast and die young (right after you procreate and get your kids kicked out of the house)". Optimizing longevity could very well run counter to the forces that have driven evolution in the past.
The story is incorrectly tagged miniusb. It's actually micro USB (which is an inferior connector, in my opinion) which is slightly smaller and lacks the "ears" of mini USB, which is what the Blackberry uses. (in my opinion)
-Peter
Fixed that for ya. New BlackBerry devices will use the micro-usb connection (some, like the Storm, already do).
Will burp-free cows be as tasty? Produce as much milk?
And then the question has to be asked, why not just breed them to only make big burps, fit their stomach with a methane extraction tube, and collect it for later use?
The iPhone 3G S has 4,000 times the RAM (256MB) for one-third the price (with an AT&T contract)
Your price comparison is not really good. You should compare an uncontracted iphone price (500 or 600) to that of a c64. The contract lock is worth money - especially considering how much you buy to maintain your service. THen again you get more from the contract (phone service, access to the internet, etc). So a better comparison is the straight phone price to the c64 price.
Don't forget to correct for 27 years of inflation! Incidentally, this brings the C64 price to $1,318.59. Beat that, Apple Elitists.
After watching the intro to the video on the product page which I will simply title "Mr. Joybee: Surfing Vampire" I have to say that I hope it makes more sense to those with speakers attached to their PC. Seriously, stick figures?
100 years old? Pics or it didn't happen. Freeze/thaw cycles (especially deep ones as seen in northern Michigan) take a huge toll on any kind of road surface. Concrete has to be placed VERY VERY deep to be effective, and that means a very expensive excavation process. Conversely, a lot of municipalities expect to have to widen/divert all but the most central of roads on a 15/20 year basis anyhow, which means that money spent on expensive concrete gets thrown away when the next round of expansion comes.
So, from TFA, what crimes were committed in the course of the vigilantism (besides petty vandalism and/or some fairly nebulous harassment)? Furthermore, who is to say that vigilantism is explicitly the committing of crimes in the course of a 'lawless' quest for justice? You make a good point that there is an awful fuzzy line between ipso facto 'lawless retribution' by vigilantes who feel the justice system has failed, and true lawless behavior in the absence of any justice system. I prefer to cling to the belief that there exist enough decent people and enough gaping loopholes in the democratically appointed justice system that there is room for vigilantism that is not in itself lawless. That being said, I would still much prefer the traditional justice system.
Those stories are nothing more than a return to anarchy and lawlessness dressed up as something noble by the article.
Vigilantism is the backlash against lawlessness; in this case the lack of a justice system capable of convicting and punishing sadistic animal abusers has been corrected by a band of on-line judge/jury/executioners. To say that it's the height of civility is a stretch, but 'lawless' it certainly is not either.
If you don't read TFA
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This says about all there is to say about Twitter:
In at least one instance, two orphan tweets appear to have been in conversation.
marcbresseel getting ready for cannes - printing latest briefing - I hate folding my shirts 8:36 AM Jun 14th, 2008
Kolcott @Marcbresseel You fold your shirts?
9:13 AM Jul 10th, 2008
A lone call followed by a lone response; a social network of two.
The best and worst of this new media, done and done. We can all move along now.
Or, more simply, query something you know doesn't exist (like asdfdsafdsafhdsds.com) against your server (which is presumably above any such hijacking) and see if the request gets hijacked. Isn't that the point of this outrage? Getting typojacked when you try to go to a genuinely invalid URL?
Direct to consumer is a bit of a misnomer, with Amway it will be more like direct to reseller to reseller to reseller to reseller to drug dealer's wife to drug dealer's wife's kid (from another daddy) to another reseller to YOU.
With efficiency like that, the price will be GREAT!
Getting paid is the difference between saving someone today and saving 365 people in the next year-- after all, the hospital wasn't free to build and the doctors aren't free to keep on hand. Accurate and reliable billing means staying in business, which means saving lives. While it seems cold that we have to boil it down like this, just think about how great health care was in Soviet Russia (jokes aside) and you will understand the benefits to the capitalist way of doing things.
"Hang on, let me get my computer out of suspend...
And put my headset on...
Ok, I am dialing...
Hello, yes, emergency-- What? You are the 9-1-1 dispatch center where? Tulsa?"
Re:That is not real, is cynical and unprofessional
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The OP makes a good argument because of the very way this "Ask Slashdot" started out. Let me rephrase the question and then you tell me if the OP is still overly cynical:
"When I started at this job, the network was a complete mess (compared to the way I would have set it up) and there was no documentation (not that I bothered to ask my predecessor) so I have spent the past X years straightening it out and making it run perfectly (according to my standards). Now, if I were to have to explain what I spent the past X years getting paid for, how do I write something that my successor will understand (since the only standards I followed, I made up as I went)?"
Honestly, there are plenty of logical, self-documenting proceses you can (and should) do if you are a remotely competent admin, that will result in a network that doesn't NEED a phonebook-thick document to understand. The first is a physical map of the building with connections annotated, and follow that up with a list of the critical pieces of hardware and the access passwords. This is something that makes the job easier whether you are starting or finishing at a site, and you should have little else to worry about so long as the rest of your network follows some sane technological standard (found in the first chapter of "blank networking For Dummies" where blank is Microsoft, Linux, Novell, etc.
However, if you fail to learn from history (as this Ask Slashdot poster has) you will certainly be doomed to reinvent it.
The Slocum Glider is a uniquely mobile network component capable of moving to specific locations and depths and occupying controlled spatial and temporal grids. Driven in a sawtooth vertical profile by variable buoyancy, the glider moves both horizontally and vertically.
Network component... spatial and temporal grid... sawtooth profile...
Is this some kind of boat, or a time-travelling Skynet overlord ready to kill us all?
No problem, take two Radeon 4770 cards ($100 each) on a crossfire motherboard and they will run circles around cards in the $200 range. Together they will use less power than the $200-$300 cards, too. See this for more info.
Sure, now you're paying $12.50 instead of $10.00 but at least my retired grandfather isn't paying for your Slashdot habit.
Say, that gives me an idea. Since as we all know (we being slashdot users) that those of us on Slashdot are the most informed of all internet-goers on the planet... Why not just mandate Slashdot readership for all internet users? Hell, maybe even subsidize subscriptions. If more people read Slashdot and knew the things WE know... Well, no problem can hide from one hundred million pairs of eyes.
Parsing the questions in natural language, which is the goal here, is however very much *not* trivial.
That and the fact that they don't lead with questions on Jeopardy!, they challenge with the *answer*, the proper question is then required in order to score. Or, am I the only one here who has seen the show?
If you think that happened by accident, you don't read The Economist regularly. That's exactly the sort of dry wit their writers use.
Some years ago, The Simpsons had Homer traveling by air in first class, and he says "Look at me, I'm reading The Economist. Did you know Indonesia is at a crossroads?" The Economist published an article titled "Indonesia at a Crossroads" that week.
Theres nothing like a timely satirical cartoon about a timely magazine... Incidentally, I actually started a subscription to The Economist just recently, as I have been impressed with their writing from what I have read so far. I will have to keep an eye out for more subtleties hidden in their stories, my typical magazine reading consists of Car and Driver so it's not quite what I am used to.
A torrent of innovative start-ups, not seen since the dot-com mania of a decade ago, is flooding the market with technology for supplying internet television to the living room."
Torrent was EXACTLY the word I was looking for. Thank you, The Economist!
You may be sarcastic, but it does beg the question: Isn't that what we pay those people for? Isn't it their damn job to investigate what to do and what laws to pass? Isn't that basically their only reason to exist, to find out what's "best" for what is considered the common good and act in this manner?
If they cannot act that way, fire them. Yes, fire them. Out of a cannon if necessary, but they are essentially our employees. If I'm not satisfied with the performance of an employee, I send him packing and hire someone who can do his job.
You have a chance every 1, 2, 4, or 6 years (depending on the position) to do just that. Fire them! Get a new guy! Of course, you can't make the decision by yourself and need to get the agreement of a plurality of your peers... but hey how hard could that be? It's funny how we really do get just the system of government which we deserve. Except by funny, I mean heartbreaking.
How does Redmond make an 80% gain in netbook market share without the sales numbers reflecting that gain?
That's easy, netbooks aren't sold in a comparable quantity, so a staggering increase of 80% reflects a tiny shift in the overall license count. Got any other braindead statistics questions for me?
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Depends on what you trust it for... Evolution's motto is "live fast and die young (right after you procreate and get your kids kicked out of the house)". Optimizing longevity could very well run counter to the forces that have driven evolution in the past.
The story is incorrectly tagged miniusb. It's actually micro USB (which is an inferior connector, in my opinion) which is slightly smaller and lacks the "ears" of mini USB, which is what the Blackberry uses. (in my opinion)
-Peter
Fixed that for ya. New BlackBerry devices will use the micro-usb connection (some, like the Storm, already do).
Will burp-free cows be as tasty? Produce as much milk?
And then the question has to be asked, why not just breed them to only make big burps, fit their stomach with a methane extraction tube, and collect it for later use?
Odds are that you have more mercury than 1000 CFLs in your face.
In your face, face!
Wait, what? Citation needed.
The iPhone 3G S has 4,000 times the RAM (256MB) for one-third the price (with an AT&T contract)
Your price comparison is not really good. You should compare an uncontracted iphone price (500 or 600) to that of a c64. The contract lock is worth money - especially considering how much you buy to maintain your service. THen again you get more from the contract (phone service, access to the internet, etc). So a better comparison is the straight phone price to the c64 price.
Don't forget to correct for 27 years of inflation! Incidentally, this brings the C64 price to $1,318.59. Beat that, Apple Elitists.
After watching the intro to the video on the product page which I will simply title "Mr. Joybee: Surfing Vampire" I have to say that I hope it makes more sense to those with speakers attached to their PC. Seriously, stick figures?
100 years old? Pics or it didn't happen. Freeze/thaw cycles (especially deep ones as seen in northern Michigan) take a huge toll on any kind of road surface. Concrete has to be placed VERY VERY deep to be effective, and that means a very expensive excavation process. Conversely, a lot of municipalities expect to have to widen/divert all but the most central of roads on a 15/20 year basis anyhow, which means that money spent on expensive concrete gets thrown away when the next round of expansion comes.
So, from TFA, what crimes were committed in the course of the vigilantism (besides petty vandalism and/or some fairly nebulous harassment)? Furthermore, who is to say that vigilantism is explicitly the committing of crimes in the course of a 'lawless' quest for justice? You make a good point that there is an awful fuzzy line between ipso facto 'lawless retribution' by vigilantes who feel the justice system has failed, and true lawless behavior in the absence of any justice system. I prefer to cling to the belief that there exist enough decent people and enough gaping loopholes in the democratically appointed justice system that there is room for vigilantism that is not in itself lawless. That being said, I would still much prefer the traditional justice system.
Those stories are nothing more than a return to anarchy and lawlessness dressed up as something noble by the article.
Vigilantism is the backlash against lawlessness; in this case the lack of a justice system capable of convicting and punishing sadistic animal abusers has been corrected by a band of on-line judge/jury/executioners. To say that it's the height of civility is a stretch, but 'lawless' it certainly is not either.
In at least one instance, two orphan tweets appear to have been in conversation.
marcbresseel getting ready for cannes - printing latest briefing - I hate folding my shirts
8:36 AM Jun 14th, 2008
Kolcott @Marcbresseel You fold your shirts?
9:13 AM Jul 10th, 2008
A lone call followed by a lone response; a social network of two.
The best and worst of this new media, done and done. We can all move along now.
Or, more simply, query something you know doesn't exist (like asdfdsafdsafhdsds.com) against your server (which is presumably above any such hijacking) and see if the request gets hijacked. Isn't that the point of this outrage? Getting typojacked when you try to go to a genuinely invalid URL?
Direct to consumer is a bit of a misnomer, with Amway it will be more like direct to reseller to reseller to reseller to reseller to drug dealer's wife to drug dealer's wife's kid (from another daddy) to another reseller to YOU. With efficiency like that, the price will be GREAT!
No time to change your mind ...since it will all be over in 30 seconds.
Thats... What she said?
Getting paid is the difference between saving someone today and saving 365 people in the next year-- after all, the hospital wasn't free to build and the doctors aren't free to keep on hand. Accurate and reliable billing means staying in business, which means saving lives. While it seems cold that we have to boil it down like this, just think about how great health care was in Soviet Russia (jokes aside) and you will understand the benefits to the capitalist way of doing things.
Are there any obvious problems you would foresee?
"Oh my god, someone call 9-1-1!"
"Hang on, let me get my computer out of suspend...
And put my headset on...
Ok, I am dialing...
Hello, yes, emergency-- What? You are the 9-1-1 dispatch center where? Tulsa?"
The OP makes a good argument because of the very way this "Ask Slashdot" started out. Let me rephrase the question and then you tell me if the OP is still overly cynical:
"When I started at this job, the network was a complete mess (compared to the way I would have set it up) and there was no documentation (not that I bothered to ask my predecessor) so I have spent the past X years straightening it out and making it run perfectly (according to my standards). Now, if I were to have to explain what I spent the past X years getting paid for, how do I write something that my successor will understand (since the only standards I followed, I made up as I went)?"
Honestly, there are plenty of logical, self-documenting proceses you can (and should) do if you are a remotely competent admin, that will result in a network that doesn't NEED a phonebook-thick document to understand. The first is a physical map of the building with connections annotated, and follow that up with a list of the critical pieces of hardware and the access passwords. This is something that makes the job easier whether you are starting or finishing at a site, and you should have little else to worry about so long as the rest of your network follows some sane technological standard (found in the first chapter of "blank networking For Dummies" where blank is Microsoft, Linux, Novell, etc.
However, if you fail to learn from history (as this Ask Slashdot poster has) you will certainly be doomed to reinvent it.
The Slocum Glider is a uniquely mobile network component capable of moving to specific locations and depths and occupying controlled spatial and temporal grids. Driven in a sawtooth vertical profile by variable buoyancy, the glider moves both horizontally and vertically.
Network component... spatial and temporal grid... sawtooth profile...
Is this some kind of boat, or a time-travelling Skynet overlord ready to kill us all?
No problem, take two Radeon 4770 cards ($100 each) on a crossfire motherboard and they will run circles around cards in the $200 range. Together they will use less power than the $200-$300 cards, too. See this for more info.
Sure, now you're paying $12.50 instead of $10.00 but at least my retired grandfather isn't paying for your Slashdot habit.
Say, that gives me an idea. Since as we all know (we being slashdot users) that those of us on Slashdot are the most informed of all internet-goers on the planet... Why not just mandate Slashdot readership for all internet users? Hell, maybe even subsidize subscriptions. If more people read Slashdot and knew the things WE know... Well, no problem can hide from one hundred million pairs of eyes.
Parsing the questions in natural language, which is the goal here, is however very much *not* trivial.
That and the fact that they don't lead with questions on Jeopardy!, they challenge with the *answer*, the proper question is then required in order to score. Or, am I the only one here who has seen the show?
If you think that happened by accident, you don't read The Economist regularly. That's exactly the sort of dry wit their writers use.
Some years ago, The Simpsons had Homer traveling by air in first class, and he says "Look at me, I'm reading The Economist. Did you know Indonesia is at a crossroads?" The Economist published an article titled "Indonesia at a Crossroads" that week.
Theres nothing like a timely satirical cartoon about a timely magazine... Incidentally, I actually started a subscription to The Economist just recently, as I have been impressed with their writing from what I have read so far. I will have to keep an eye out for more subtleties hidden in their stories, my typical magazine reading consists of Car and Driver so it's not quite what I am used to.
A torrent of innovative start-ups, not seen since the dot-com mania of a decade ago, is flooding the market with technology for supplying internet television to the living room."
Torrent was EXACTLY the word I was looking for. Thank you, The Economist!
You may be sarcastic, but it does beg the question: Isn't that what we pay those people for? Isn't it their damn job to investigate what to do and what laws to pass? Isn't that basically their only reason to exist, to find out what's "best" for what is considered the common good and act in this manner?
If they cannot act that way, fire them. Yes, fire them. Out of a cannon if necessary, but they are essentially our employees. If I'm not satisfied with the performance of an employee, I send him packing and hire someone who can do his job.
You have a chance every 1, 2, 4, or 6 years (depending on the position) to do just that. Fire them! Get a new guy! Of course, you can't make the decision by yourself and need to get the agreement of a plurality of your peers... but hey how hard could that be? It's funny how we really do get just the system of government which we deserve. Except by funny, I mean heartbreaking.
Kif Kroker: One beep for yes, two beeps for no. ... [Fry beeps twice]
[Fry beeps once]
Captain Zapp Brannigan: Double yes. Guilty.
How does Redmond make an 80% gain in netbook market share without the sales numbers reflecting that gain?
That's easy, netbooks aren't sold in a comparable quantity, so a staggering increase of 80% reflects a tiny shift in the overall license count. Got any other braindead statistics questions for me?